What a maroon!

I liked John Stewart’s take:

HB: “Mr. Chavez, millions of Americans support your socialist revolution!”

JS: “Mr. Belafonte, there aren’t millions of Americans who can find Venezuela on a map.”

But Belafonte’s hostility towards capitalism and America is understandable. Capitalism’s inherent injustice has been so cruel to Belafonte:

“Singer Harry Belafonte is selling the Manhattan co-op he bought in the 1950s. Or, to be more specific, he’s selling his residence in the co-op building he bought in the 1950s, after the landlord turned him down for an apartment. The asking price is $15 million, according to The New York Observer.

At the time, Belafonte had recently recorded the incredibly popular album Calypso, which sparked a music trend and sold more than a million copies, when he was denied the apartment. So, the Observer says, he bought the turn-of-the-century building on West End Avenue and converted it into a co-op. He has lived on the fifth floor ever since.

The 21-room apartment includes eight bedrooms, eight bathrooms, a pool room, library and four wood-burning fireplaces. There is a sauna in the master suite, and the kitchen is clad in Mexican tile. The owner had combined two apartments into one.

This isn’t Belafonte’s only current real estate listing. He recently put his oceanfront estate in St. Martin on the market for $2.9 million, according to the New York Post.”