so if i'm a secular progressive and, look, harry belafonte coming out and i don't know whether harryding around or not. i mean, he wasn't smiling but maybe harry doesn't smile. >> is he a committed leftist. >> bill: but when he says hey, if you don't agree desire of the american people, you know, we have got a jail cell for you. you know, we're getting really now into a pretty interesting situation. >> it's like jeffrey immelt saying kind of praising china recently because they can make some good business decisions for themselves so the whole system might be somewhat add admirable. i think they are revealing what they in many ways really think. it wasn't too many years ago that we were talking about harry belafonte comments about condoleezza rice and even colin powell when he said they were living in the house of the master. he wasn't joking then. he may be overstated a little bit maybe for him. >> bill: is he emboldened. >> of course. >> bill: nobody cares about harry belafonte. >> that song is in my head ruining the christmas season banana boat. >> bill: sun goes down. i like that

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>> well, i think that harry belafonte was just saying what he said in jest.u knowfo he was joking. >> sean: in jest? >> he was joking around. he didn't mean it. >> sean: there's a whole list of things he said in jest. >> do you have the list of him criticizing president obama which he did and the right wing loved that. >> sean: he compared theea rosenberg's to political prisoners and compared the bush administration and the dhs so the gestapo. >> and he criticized obama, too. and jay-z and beyonce. >> sean: he supports a cop killer. i mean, how more extreme can you get? >> well, i think he -- > >> sean: you don't seem fazed at all. >> he was saying it in jest. he did not really mean that. >> sean: every dumb thing he says now is in jest? i say dumb things, people start campaigns to silence me. >> they do because they know you're not kidding. he's preparing for a role. this is a script that's unbelievable, the stuff he had to say. when he was creating president obama, it's because he wasn't chavez enough. he didn't go far enough in his socialist agenda. it was

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listen to this incredible sound bite from committed left wing guyng harry belafonte. he said people like me who oppose president obama and the lib ra agenda on some things should be dealt with. >> what fascinates me is that in the face of millions of americans expressing their desire, the whole political establishment defining its game that there should be this lingering infestation of really corrupt people who are still trying to dismantle the wishes of theof people, the mandate tht has beenth given to barack obam, and i don't know what more they want. the only thing left for barack obama to do is to organize the third world dictators and throw these guys in jail for violating the american desire. >> i guess violating the american desire is a felony now, right, harry? maybe the guy was just kidding. maybe. but believe me. anyone in this country who challenges the secular progressive agenda is going to get hammered. they want a country that emabrasions sociaembraces socia. that brings us to the christmas controversy which is symbolic, symbolic of the cul culture war.

that is the only hope i got. >> and the meaning of harry belafonte and pete seeger and about 1000 otherple who came out last night to this event and your honor questor >> i got to say this quickly. 10 seconds. thank you all very, very much. my time is of. i got to get off this phone. >> we love you, leonard. >> love you, letter. >> stay strong. >> that was leonard peltier. i was speaking to him at a news conference on saturday on the telephone. he is in prison at the has been to treat and coleman, florida. he has been imprisoned for 37 years from now asking president obama for clemency. on saturday, there was a concert here in his honor. go to d

>> i would like to perform with harry belafonte if i could. rnegie hall, and i asked harry if he would sing one of the songs that i grew up listening to of his, but he is pretty much decided he is not going to do that anymore. yeah, harry belafonte. >> what was the first song that you could truly play on your guitar? >> "keep on truckin', mama." [laughter] >> can you still play it? >> i still play it. you do not want to hear that. [laughter] this is where things go south. ♪ keep' on truckin', mama keeping on blues away ♪ etc. [applause] [laughter] >> did you take lessons or are you self-talk? >> i am self-taught, but a lot of people showed me stuff. they were not formal lessons, but that is how it worked. the great folks care of the 1960's. [laughter] we did. we would sort of share -- and everybody would walk around with a guitar, all the time. we thought that was normal. \[laughter] >> your playing style is relaxed. did you develop that style on your own or were you influenced by anyone? >> i was influenced by a guy named travis, merle travis,

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>> i would like to perform with harry belafonte if i could. ie hall, and i asked harry if he would sing one of the songs that i grew up listening to of his, but he is pretty much decided he is not going to do that anymore. yeah, harry belafonte. >> what was the first song that you could truly play on your guitar? >> "keep on truckin', mama. [laughter] >> can you still play it? >> i still play it. you do not want to hear that. [laughter] this is where things go south. ea, mama n truckin trucking my blues away keep on trucking mama ♪ etc. [applause] >> did you take lessons or are you self-taught on the guitar? >> i am self-taught, but a lot of people showed me stuff. they were not formal lessons, but that is how it worked. the great folk scare of the mid 1960's, as we now call it. [laughter] we did. we would share licks and everybody would walk around with a guitar, all the time. we thought that was normal. [laughter] >> your playing style is relaxed. using your thumb, forefinger and middle finger in your picking. did you develop that style on yo

a small american flag in his hand, baldwin marched next to harry belafonte, who had also happens to be a u.s. navy veteran of world war ii, white secretaries an upstairs office windows kept extending thumbs down signs to baldwin, to the marchers, until suddenly many of them saw the stunningly handsome, rain matinee idol, harry belafonte in the crowd. [laughter] when they saw that beautiful cat, says baldwin, these women demonstrated that america was the most desperately schizophrenic of republic. [laughter] baldwins storytelling pros and his insights were never in better form. this was vintage james baldwin. race, sex, and his country all on extraordinary display and subject to his scorching ironic and. those young women in the windows, baldwin declared, quote could only look forward to an alliance with one of those jeering businessmen. and they were, he says, female, a word which in the context of the colored curtain has suffered the same fate as the word mail. baldwin did not miss his chance. when those girls saw harry belafonte, he writes, a collision occurred in them so visible as