While speaking with Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez on a recent visit to that country, noted singer and political activist Harry Belafonte called President George W. Bush “the greatest terrorist in the world.” Belafonte went on to say, “Not hundreds, not thousands , but millions of the American people… support your revolution.”

Although many in the media have expressed skepticism over the purported “millions” of Americans that support Chavez’s socialist revolution, TNOYF did some checking and found Belafonte’s numbers to be fairly accurate if not slightly understated.

The breakdown in supporters is as follows:

• Ward Churchill, Cindy Sheehan, Michael Moore, Jesse Jackson
• University of California at Berkeley’s Womyn’s Herstory Club
• Vermont
• The New York Times
• 99.9 % of coffee house patrons nationwide
• Bay State Community College intramural Ultimate Frisbee Champions, The Wake & Bake’s
• The modern Democratic Party

The numbers were clearly skewed on the low side until Belafonte’s representative informed us that they had figured in several million assorted Cubans, Brazilians and Guatemalans et al, as Belafonte did not discern between Latin, South, North and Central “Americans”, as he thought this practice to be discriminatory.

Belafonte went on to say that the number of supporters would have been much higher, if tens of millions of them had not been “sent to their deaths in an unjust, illegal war in the peaceful country of Iraq.”

President Bush issued a statement saying that he is  “pleased to be recognized as the greatest anything by Mr. Belafonte, whose work I respect a great deal.”

Thanks to OTB, Mudville.

Technorati tags: Humor, Politics, Harry, Belafonte, Bush, Satire

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