Video: Beyonce parties for the Gaddafis

posted at 11:36 am on January 5, 2010 by Ed Morrissey

Which would be a bigger scandal for the entertainment industry? An A-list performer who takes big bucks to deliver a private-party performance for a regime that supports terrorism, or for a man who just got done busting his wife’s nose on Christmas Day? Rachel Sklar at Mediaite first reported on Beyoncé Knowles’ decision to take as much as $2 million to provide entertainment for Hannibal Gaddafi’s New Year’s Eve party, which was later confirmed by multiple media outlets:

On Sunday, Mediaite reported that singer Beyoncé Knowles had given a private New Year’s Eve performance for an exclusive crowd in St. Barth — and made the case that she had performed and been paid by relatives of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi (variously known as Khadafy, Qaddafi, Quadhafi and more). Atlanta-based blogger Necole Bitchie reported a $2 million fee; the UK Mirror reported a “six-figure sum” and yesterday Media Takeout made the same claim, repeating the $2 million number and confirming the Gaddafi-hosted party from a guest who was there (hip-hop impresario Russell Simmons also placed Beyoncé at a “Khadafy party.” Today Page Six confirms our original report, with one new piece of information: the party was thrown by Moutassim Gaddafi, known as Hannibal, son of the Libyan dictator who less than a week before made headlines for allegedly attacking his wife in a London hotel.

Page Six notes — as we did! — that Beyoncé’s sang five songs for a crowd that included her husband Jay-Z, Microsoft founder Paul Allen, Lindsay Lohan and Usher (who also did the New Year’s countdown); Jon Bon Jovi, Simmons, supermodels Miranda Kerr and Victoria Slivstedt and BET founder Bob Johnson. Page Six could not confirm the rumored $2 million sum cited elsewher, but did note (again as we did) Mariah Carey’s reported $1-million payday for the same gig last year.

Last year’s party, it should be noted, was thrown by Hannibal’s brother Saif Gaddafi, who this year was reportedly in New Zealand [see update II]. Page Six has a lovely rundown of Hannibal’s seemingly frequent bouts of violence and reckless behavior. Odds are Beyoncé probably didn’t see his halo.

The US now recognizes Libya, but we have an arms-length relationship with the dictator, and for good reason.  Nothing made that clearer than the machinations involving the release of the Lockerbie bomber, whom Gaddafi’s son Saif greeted as a returning hero.  The Gaddafis have long supported terrorism in the region, but have been wiser than to conduct it against the US after Lockerbie and especially after the capture of Saddam Hussein.

For the entertainment set, the bigger scandal will be the less-political issue of domestic violence.  Less than a week after sending his wife to the hospital, Hannibal Gaddafi got serenaded by a major figure in American entertainment, and all he had to do was open his wallet.  Will Beyoncé have to answer for that — or will it just be considered business as usual?

Update: The first comment says it best, by Lorien1973: “It’d be a bigger scandal if she went to Palin’s party.”

Update II: Mediaite posted a correction on their reporting about Saif Gaddafi and last year’s party:

****Update, Jan. 5, 2010: The reports and unconfirmed rumors in the post below have since been updated in this confirmed, updated report on Beyoncé’s performance. Earlier reports which suggested that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, one of the sons of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, had hosted the event were incorrect — according to the New York Post, this year’s party was hosted by his brother Hannibal Gaddafi. As noted below, Saif Gaddafi was in New Zealand over New Year’s. Reports cited below saying he hosted last year’s party, where Mariah Carey performed, were also incorrect; New York Daily News columnists Rush & Molloy subsequently reported that Saif Gaddafi was in Asia at the time of the event, and that the party was actually hosted by his brother, Moatessem-Billah Khadafy, which is not the brother who hosted this year’s event. The full, confirmed, updated version of this story may be found here; the rest of this post (below) has been left as it was published on Jan. 3, 2010 to keep the record intact.

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It’d be a bigger scandal if she went to Palin’s party. Therein lies the problem.

lorien1973 on January 5, 2010 at 11:38 AM

I’m sure the NFL would still allow her partial ownership of a team.

Doughboy on January 5, 2010 at 11:39 AM

lorien1973 on January 5, 2010 at 11:38 AM

Truer words were nevah spoked.

TheSitRep on January 5, 2010 at 11:40 AM

Business as usual. Money trumps all.

Tim Zank on January 5, 2010 at 11:43 AM

… Beyoncé’s sang five songs for a crowd that included her husband Jay-Z, Microsoft founder Paul Allen, Lindsay Lohan and Usher (who also did the New Year’s countdown); Jon Bon Jovi, Simmons, supermodels Miranda Kerr and Victoria Slivstedt and BET founder Bob Johnson.

Wow, imagine that, a bunch of lefty libs whoring themselves out to Islamic dictators for money. Court jesters, dhimmis, playing for their master.

Tony737 on January 5, 2010 at 11:44 AM

Yes but would she play Sun City?

Rocks on January 5, 2010 at 11:44 AM

It’d be a bigger scandal if she went to Palin’s party. Therein lies the problem.

lorien1973 on January 5, 2010 at 11:38 AM

Perfect… and unfortunately, very true. Beyonce would be forever blacklisted if she went within 10 miles of Palin.

yogi41 on January 5, 2010 at 11:45 AM

Nothing to see people.. The Main Stream Media will be ramping up their attacks on Britt Hume and his advice for Tiger. Move along..move along

Dire Straits on January 5, 2010 at 11:45 AM

Blech. But what will be kind of funny is when she arrogantly assures us that “entertainers are above politics”. Unless they are entertaining “their President”.

anniekc on January 5, 2010 at 11:45 AM

But, didn’t you hear that Beyonce’ like had the “greatest video of like all time”…. she’s above all that and it’s cool… at least that’s what Kanye West told me..

ted c on January 5, 2010 at 11:45 AM

Gaddafi wasn’t there was he? Did she even know?

Apologetic California on January 5, 2010 at 11:45 AM

It’s o.k. to make big money as long as you’re not a CEO.

elderberry on January 5, 2010 at 11:46 AM

Scruples amongst this set of entertainers is like honor amongst thieves…. stop looking for it, it’s just not there.

ted c on January 5, 2010 at 11:47 AM

… Beyoncé’s sang five songs for a crowd that included her husband Jay-Z, Microsoft founder Paul Allen, Lindsay Lohan and Usher (who also did the New Year’s countdown); Jon Bon Jovi, Simmons, supermodels Miranda Kerr and Victoria Slivstedt and BET founder Bob Johnson.

Wow, imagine that, a bunch of lefty libs whoring themselves out to Islamic dictators for money. Court jesters, dhimmis, playing for their master.

Tony737 on January 5, 2010 at 11:44 AM

I see the biggest Lib whore of Islam is not on the list.. Where is Bill Clinton?

Dire Straits on January 5, 2010 at 11:47 AM

Who cares? It’s not if she was selling uranium to the guy. Let the poor girl make a buck.

madne0 on January 5, 2010 at 11:49 AM

Wow, enterainer who performed for a price, who would have expected that. Does Ms. Knowles run with the Chris Brown set? I don’t know why but his name being “Hannibal” (nickname?) tickled me.

Cindy Munford on January 5, 2010 at 11:50 AM

400k per song. How much did you donate to charity?

booter on January 5, 2010 at 11:51 AM

O/T:

http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/markets/industries/real-estate/home-sales-plunge–november/

Is anyone suprised by this “unexpected” development?

Johnnyreb on January 5, 2010 at 11:52 AM

She’s performed for obeyme and now this – sounds just right – solid B+

Ris4victory on January 5, 2010 at 11:53 AM

I’d be willing to bet this gal doesn’t know anything about the Gaddafis. She doesn’t strike me as the type who bones up on foreign affairs, and she probably couldn’t point to Libya on a map either. Besides, even if she did, what does she care? It’s 2 million bucks.

scalleywag on January 5, 2010 at 11:53 AM

So a performer agreed to received funds in exchange for goods and services, politics having nothing to do with a business exchange?

Hooray Capitalism.

Sgt Steve on January 5, 2010 at 11:54 AM

Who cares? It’s not if she was selling uranium to the guy. Let the poor girl make a buck.

madne0 on January 5, 2010 at 11:49 AM
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As long as she is paying somewhere around 80-90% of that $2 mil in taxes, I agree with you.

Otherwise, cashing a check for $2 mil signed by a brutal dictator while wishing death on AIG execs for their contracted bonuses is laughable at the least.

uknowmorethanme on January 5, 2010 at 11:55 AM

Well, this changes my opinion of Beyonce.

becki51758 on January 5, 2010 at 11:55 AM

So a performer agreed to received funds in exchange for goods and services, politics having nothing to do with a business exchange?

Hooray Capitalism.

Sgt Steve on January 5, 2010 at 11:54 AM
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There is no capitalism in Libya.

uknowmorethanme on January 5, 2010 at 11:56 AM

Beyonce welcomes our new overlords (and gettin $2 mil makes sleepin’ at night that much easier).

How exactly did all the other celebs get invited to this party anyway? And how did this dirtbag even get into this country? Oh wait, the system worked. Truer words were never spoken, if you understand that to mean the terrorists used our system against us properly.

Neo on January 5, 2010 at 11:56 AM

Just a well paid whore. Hope she didn’t do any time in the rape room.

Alden Pyle on January 5, 2010 at 11:57 AM

I remember when Frank Sinatra performed in South Africa, and it was major news for three days. That was just a generic performance, and not a private gig for the powers of state.

Hening on January 5, 2010 at 11:57 AM

I’d be willing to bet this gal doesn’t know anything about the Gaddafis. She doesn’t strike me as the type who bones up on foreign affairs, and she probably couldn’t point to Libya on a map either. Besides, even if she did, what does she care? It’s 2 million bucks.

scalleywag on January 5, 2010 at 11:53 AM

For $2 million bucks, Beyonce would probably sing at a New Year’s Eve party for Hannibal Lecter, let alone Hannibal Gaddafi.

jon1979 on January 5, 2010 at 11:58 AM

$2million for a few songs….. BS….. that makes Eliot Spitzer a bargain hunter and Tiger Woods a chump…

ted c on January 5, 2010 at 11:59 AM

I’m gonna let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time!…

JetBoy on January 5, 2010 at 11:59 AM

Selling her soul for money,how sad.No values,no principles,and no integrity.

ohiobabe on January 5, 2010 at 12:01 PM

$10 says Mario Lopez won’t mention this.

drjohn on January 5, 2010 at 12:01 PM

I’m having a hard time getting my outrage meter very high over this. I suppose it points out some of the hypocrisy of the entertainment industry and its major players, but that is neither new nor unexpected.

jwolf on January 5, 2010 at 12:01 PM

Meh… look at the bright side. If they pay her, she will bring home some of that Muslim aid you try to bribe help Muslims with.

BL@KBIRD on January 5, 2010 at 12:03 PM

I don’t really care…

ninjapirate on January 5, 2010 at 12:04 PM

At least she’s extracting money from this country. As opposed to the dozens of US companies that are investing in the country and propping up the government and its policies.

ReaganRoxx on January 5, 2010 at 12:04 PM

More Hotair huffing over nothing.

Where is Hotair’s outrage over American companies that do business with Libya?

Where is it?

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Dave Rywall on January 5, 2010 at 12:05 PM

I don’t get what the problem is Beyonce went to The President’s brothers party.

Calling Jay-Z a lefty lib is probably unfair. I would imagine he doesn’t care one way or the other about “Being green” and Gitmo etc. To the extent that he supported Obama it was because he was the first black man with a real chance to win the general

wiseprince on January 5, 2010 at 12:06 PM

drjohn on January 5, 2010 at 12:01 PM

$10 for knowing who Mario Lopez is?

lorien1973 on January 5, 2010 at 12:07 PM

Who is Beyoncé Knowles???

OmahaConservative on January 5, 2010 at 12:07 PM

Where was Carter?

csdeven on January 5, 2010 at 12:07 PM

JetBoy on January 5, 2010 at 11:59 AM

Thanks for the giggle!

ladyingray on January 5, 2010 at 12:07 PM

Who is Dave Rywall?

ted c on January 5, 2010 at 12:10 PM

Who is Beyoncé Knowles???
OmahaConservative on January 5, 2010 at 12:07 PM

Remember the pretty young ’70′s soul singer in the third Austin Powers movie?

kingsjester on January 5, 2010 at 12:10 PM

Who cares? It’s not if she was selling uranium to the guy. Let the poor girl make a buck.

madne0 on January 5, 2010 at 11:49 AM

Beyonce fans who thinks she’s cool and hip. If she’s okay with him, the stories about the Lockerbie bomber must be more Bush propaganda.

csdeven on January 5, 2010 at 12:10 PM

Who is Beyoncé Knowles???

OmahaConservative on January 5, 2010 at 12:07 PM
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1 I couldn’t possibly give less of a sh*t about Beyonce

2 Your ignorance of main stream culture does not in any way shape or form diminish the collossal size of her star power

Dave Rywall on January 5, 2010 at 12:11 PM

Dave Rywall on January 5, 2010 at 12:05 PM

So you compare selling stuff to the people of Libya to being paid $2 million by a guy who finances terrorism and recently beat his wife. That’s quite a comparison.

lorien1973 on January 5, 2010 at 12:11 PM

Who is Dave Rywall?

ted c on January 5, 2010 at 12:10 PM

That’s what they call defecating in Canada.

csdeven on January 5, 2010 at 12:11 PM

More Hotair huffing over nothing.

Where is Hotair’s outrage over American companies that do business with Libya?

Dave Rywall on January 5, 2010 at 12:05 PM

Wait, Rywall, are Hot Air people upset over nothing, or should they be more upset about the very same thing only in a different context?

Can you really have it both ways? I know you like to try.

Esthier on January 5, 2010 at 12:13 PM

Hmmmm. 2 Million.

What a girl needs . . .

BigAlSouth on January 5, 2010 at 12:13 PM

wonder if Jay-Z performed “99 Problems but a Bit$% ain’t one” as an encore

jp on January 5, 2010 at 12:15 PM

Better Beyonce taking money from Gaddafis, then Beyonce paying Gaddafis to come entertain at her New Years Eve party.

And with the rich getting socked with more taxes in 2010 (and onwards) just think of how much Gaddafi money went to pay US taxes.

albill on January 5, 2010 at 12:15 PM

Blood money.

cubachi on January 5, 2010 at 12:16 PM

Wow, imagine that, a bunch of lefty libs whoring themselves out to Islamic dictators for money. Court jesters, dhimmis, playing for their master.

Tony737 on January 5, 2010 at 11:44 AM

The irony is that if the Islamic fascists reach their goal of a world dominated by the Islamic death culture and misogyny, Beyonce and her ilk, as very public personages, will be the first to feel Islamic “justice”.

csdeven on January 5, 2010 at 12:16 PM

For $2 million bucks, Beyonce would probably sing at a New Year’s Eve party for Hannibal Lecter, let alone Hannibal Gaddafi.

jon1979 on January 5, 2010 at 11:58 AM

Probably, but I’m not touching the buffet…

Darksean on January 5, 2010 at 12:17 PM

Dave Rywall on January 5, 2010 at 12:05 PM

Beyonce was named, and her business defined…where are your names and the reason for doing business?…

Who are they?

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right2bright on January 5, 2010 at 12:17 PM

Who is Dave Rywall?

ted c on January 5, 2010 at 12:10 PM

D.Rywall?

(snicker)

alexwest on January 5, 2010 at 12:18 PM

So you compare selling stuff to the people of Libya to being paid $2 million by a guy who finances terrorism and recently beat his wife. That’s quite a comparison.

lorien1973 on January 5, 2010 at 12:11 PM
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Ohhhh, I get it now – so you only have a problem with the people at the top. But corporations profiting within the regime you’re so disgusted by are A OK by you.

So when are you starting to sell things to the people of Cuba? I can’t wait.

Dave Rywall on January 5, 2010 at 12:19 PM

Who is Dave Rywall?

ted c on January 5, 2010 at 12:10 PM

I think he has a hockey puck repair business.

fogw on January 5, 2010 at 12:19 PM

Wait, Rywall, are Hot Air people upset over nothing, or should they be more upset about the very same thing only in a different context?

Can you really have it both ways? I know you like to try.

Esthier on January 5, 2010 at 12:13 PM
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Your baffledness is noted.

Dave Rywall on January 5, 2010 at 12:20 PM

2 Your ignorance of main stream culture does not in any way shape or form diminish the collossal size of her star power

Dave Rywall on January 5, 2010 at 12:11 PM

but your ability to spell and weakly argue sure as hell reveals your ignorance and does not in any way diminish the colossal stupidity of your positions….

ted c on January 5, 2010 at 12:20 PM

1 I couldn’t possibly give less of a sh*t about Beyonce

2 Your ignorance of main stream culture does not in any way shape or form diminish the collossal size of her star power

Dave Rywall on January 5, 2010 at 12:11 PM

You don’t care anything about her…except her “collossal size of her star power”

You crack me up…what a great liberal you are, in the same post you argue and debate with yourself…you are both losers…

right2bright on January 5, 2010 at 12:21 PM

I think he has a hockey puck repair business.

fogw on January 5, 2010 at 12:19 PM

hehe

ted c on January 5, 2010 at 12:21 PM

Dave Rywall on January 5, 2010 at 12:05 PM

Beyonce was named, and her business defined…where are your names and the reason for doing business?…

Who are they?

cricket chirp

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right2bright on January 5, 2010 at 12:17 PM
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Are you currently boycotting US corporations who conduct business with Libya?

If not, why not?

Dave Rywall on January 5, 2010 at 12:22 PM

Dave Rywall on January 5, 2010 at 12:19 PM

Outrageous outrage is duly noted. Glad you could “care less” about this as you previously stated. Yep, I don’t really have a problem with companies selling stuff to the people. I don’t really care for the cuba embargo (it’s rather pointless and I think has lengthened the communist regime over there as well).

But, yeah, I do see quite the difference of being paid off by a terrorist financer who beats his wife and selling a coke or pants to someone who lives in the country.

Sad that you don’t, I suppose.

lorien1973 on January 5, 2010 at 12:23 PM

but your ability to spell and weakly argue sure as hell reveals your ignorance and does not in any way diminish the colossal stupidity of your positions….

ted c on January 5, 2010 at 12:20 PM
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typo/spelling poleece = inturnet bottom feedurs

Dave Rywall on January 5, 2010 at 12:23 PM

But corporations profiting within the regime…

Dave Rywall on January 5, 2010 at 12:19 PM

And the corporations are whom?
As you spend your time trying to find (Google) companies that you know nothing about…hurry and Google, you might be able to find one or two….
Keep posting, you are F’in brilliant…you can’t even name a company…

right2bright on January 5, 2010 at 12:23 PM

Outrageous outrage is duly noted. Glad you could “care less” about this as you previously stated. Yep, I don’t really have a problem with companies selling stuff to the people. I don’t really care for the cuba embargo (it’s rather pointless and I think has lengthened the communist regime over there as well).

But, yeah, I do see quite the difference of being paid off by a terrorist financer who beats his wife and selling a coke or pants to someone who lives in the country.

Sad that you don’t, I suppose.

lorien1973 on January 5, 2010 at 12:23 PM
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Ah, so somehow doing business in a country is not supporting the regime in power.

Righhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhht.

Dave Rywall on January 5, 2010 at 12:24 PM

a battle of wits with an unarmed adolescent…. weak sauce.

ted c on January 5, 2010 at 12:24 PM

Are you currently boycotting US corporations who conduct business with Libya?

If not, why not?

Dave Rywall on January 5, 2010 at 12:22 PM

List them…hurry and Google…hurry and Google, hurry, hurry, you might be able to back up your accusations…

right2bright on January 5, 2010 at 12:25 PM

Drywall says, “selling someone a $2 shirt is rougly equivalent to getting paid millions by a family who blew up a plane and killed hundreds.”

lorien1973 on January 5, 2010 at 12:25 PM

It’s no wonder drywall is simply something to hang pictures on and put furniture up against. Beyond that, its utterly useless….as we can readily see on display.

ted c on January 5, 2010 at 12:26 PM

Dave Rywall on January 5, 2010 at 12:24 PM

One -could- argue that allowing Western goods into the USSR hastened its decline by showing the people what they didn’t have. One could do that. Or you could say that it would have been better to keep people ignorant and destitute. With no knowledge of our crappy their lives were in comparison to others.

lorien1973 on January 5, 2010 at 12:27 PM

Moreover, drywall is something that needs to be screwed into “studs”…. pretty descriptive in this case, no?

ted c on January 5, 2010 at 12:27 PM

Gaddafi? Never heard of him.

This reminds me of Winston Churchill’s quote, “We’ve already established what you are. Now we’re just haggling about the price.”

connertown on January 5, 2010 at 12:29 PM

General Electric is providing four hydroelectric generators to expand a dam on the Kurun River through a Canadian subsidiary called GE Hydro

Leave it to the Canadians to do business with Libya…

right2bright on January 5, 2010 at 12:29 PM

I can’t stand this woman and her husband.

BTW Beyonce……..you are Etta James!

Winebabe on January 5, 2010 at 12:29 PM

Beyonce puts on perfume. Kadaffi has a chemical weapons plant. Both the same. – Drywall.

lorien1973 on January 5, 2010 at 12:29 PM

Dave Rywall on January 5, 2010 at 12:22 PM

Your list please…

right2bright on January 5, 2010 at 12:29 PM

Leave it to the Canadians to do business with Libya…

right2bright on January 5, 2010 at 12:29 PM

those damn Canuck regime propper-uppers!! *outrage* *outrage* *gnashing teeth*

ted c on January 5, 2010 at 12:30 PM

And the corporations are whom?
As you spend your time trying to find (Google) companies that you know nothing about…hurry and Google, you might be able to find one or two….
Keep posting, you are F’in brilliant…you can’t even name a company…

right2bright on January 5, 2010 at 12:23 PM
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Which corporations? Take a wild guess, dumbas*:

“In 2006, U.S. exports to Libya totaled nearly $435 million, and U.S. imports — mainly oil — reached almost $2.5 billion.”

http://www.america.gov/st/washfile-english/2007/November/20071129144104cpataruk0.800152.html

Dave Rywall on January 5, 2010 at 12:31 PM

a crowd that included…Microsoft founder Paul Allen…BET founder Bob Johnson.

I find that more troubling…

oldleprechaun on January 5, 2010 at 12:32 PM

2 Your ignorance of main stream culture does not in any way shape or form diminish the collossal size of her star power ass.

Dave Rywall on January 5, 2010 at 12:11 PM

fixed it for ya !~

max1 on January 5, 2010 at 12:33 PM

Drywall says, “selling someone a $2 shirt is rougly equivalent to getting paid millions by a family who blew up a plane and killed hundreds.”

lorien1973 on January 5, 2010 at 12:25 PM
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No.

I’m saying

Being outraged at some pop star making 2 million from a bunch of Gaddaffi as*holes but not being outraged at American corporations making billions from the regime run by the same as*holes is amazingly hypocritical.

Dave Rywall on January 5, 2010 at 12:33 PM

Your list please…

right2bright on January 5, 2010 at 12:29 PM

Maybe because there are none….oooops, did you not know that Drywall?

right2bright on January 5, 2010 at 12:33 PM

Wonder how much Kanye got for “performing” for Kadafi Duck?

james23 on January 5, 2010 at 12:33 PM

I’m not sure what’s worse. This or her acting in Obsessed.

JammieWearingFool on January 5, 2010 at 12:36 PM

Dave Rywall on January 5, 2010 at 12:31 PM

Where are the company names?
You still have not produced any names…have you just forgotten them?
Or has your Googling not been deep enough…

right2bright on January 5, 2010 at 12:36 PM

whores, everyone of em who went.

effin whores.

reliapundit on January 5, 2010 at 12:36 PM

Dave Rywall on January 5, 2010 at 12:33 PM

No. It’s exactly what you are saying. People investing in the country, you know, helps people who, you know, live there and you are providing a service for them that they need.

Taking a pay off from a terrorist is quite another. I’m sorry if you can’t see the difference.

outraged at American corporations making billions from the regime run

As I said, the influx of American goods into the soviet union during the 80′s didn’t exactly help the regime.

Now, if we had some retard singers go over there and swoon for Khrushchev that’d be another matter entirely. Don’t you agree?

lorien1973 on January 5, 2010 at 12:38 PM

Being outraged at some pop star making 2 million from a bunch of Gaddaffi as*holes but not being outraged at American corporations making billions from the regime run by the same as*holes is amazingly hypocritical.

Dave Rywall on January 5, 2010 at 12:33 PM

We fundamentally reject your premise. Simply illuminating the deal, does not equate to “outrage.” If that is the case, then is every story that’s revealed here on HA result in outrage? No. Who’s surprised that this girl is shakin’ it for a little coin for some thug? Not I…you right2bright, you lorien? Ed? I don’t sense any “outrage” here. She sure is in a difficult position singing for a thug who sounds as if he just broke his wife’s nose, but that’s a position of her own making. I don’t fault the girl for making some coin, but she, like other “evil corporations–aahhh Bush, Cheney, hate, halliburton arrgh” that help Libya, should reconsider their positions as Americans.

Logic.

ted c on January 5, 2010 at 12:38 PM

Someone just drop her into a woodchipper. When she sings, she sounds like a hoarse hooker sitting on a dryer with a vibrator in her throat. I guess it’s appropriate, since that is what she is. Let her sing for President Obama and Libyan dictators, no-class jackasses who pal around with terrorists.

Oh, and you know Beyonce has Tyra Banks fivehead-sized fits behind closed doors that she married Joe Camel for the money (Crazy in Love my foot, Crazy in Love with Those Dollar Signs) while he screws around on her with his young female “musical ingenues.” *cough*

I hope that money keeps her warm at night. She is nasty, talentless and getting older and fatter every day.

chunderroad on January 5, 2010 at 12:41 PM

Lets see….hanging around with terrorist scum and getting paid is morally equivalent to selling products to citizens who may or may not be terrorist sympathizers.

Now we see why in Canada why defecating is called “taking a Dave Rywall”.

csdeven on January 5, 2010 at 12:42 PM

Dave Rywall on January 5, 2010 at 12:33 PM

No. It’s exactly what you are saying. People investing in the country, you know, helps people who, you know, live there and you are providing a service for them that they need.

Taking a pay off from a terrorist is quite another. I’m sorry if you can’t see the difference.

outraged at American corporations making billions from the regime run

As I said, the influx of American goods into the soviet union during the 80’s didn’t exactly help the regime.

Now, if we had some retard singers go over there and swoon for Khrushchev that’d be another matter entirely. Don’t you agree?

lorien1973 on January 5, 2010 at 12:38 PM
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If investing in the country, you know, helps people who, you know, live there and you are providing a service for them that they need, then why did your country implement economic sanctions in the first place?

Why did American companies have to pull out for all those years if staying was better for the people and a dollar could be made?

Interactions with as*holes are interactions with as*holes. It’s a transaction between an entity from one country and entities in another. Same bloody thing.

Dave Rywall on January 5, 2010 at 12:43 PM

If you liked it then you shoulda put a ring of C4 on it.

greggriffith on January 5, 2010 at 12:44 PM

Your baffledness is noted.

Dave Rywall on January 5, 2010 at 12:20 PM

No such word of course.

For the record, I actually don’t care about this except to note just how true lorein’s first comment is and how amazingly messed up that is.

That said, most people get a PR hit when they work with a known wife beater who has also been connected to murder. When they don’t work directly with a person like that, they are naturally, less likely to take any heat for their actions.

Esthier on January 5, 2010 at 12:44 PM

Why did American companies have to pull out for all those years if staying was better for the people and a dollar could be made?

Relations are trying to re-established since they abandoned their chemical weapon production. Did you not read the link you previously posted?

That doesn’t really change the fact that the guy you are being paid $2 million from, uh, blew up a plane and hundreds of people.

lorien1973 on January 5, 2010 at 12:44 PM

Interactions with as*holes are interactions with as*holes.
Dave Rywall on January 5, 2010 at 12:43 PM

Don’t sell yourself short sport!

daesleeper on January 5, 2010 at 12:45 PM

Now we see why in Canada why defecating is called “taking a Dave Rywall”.

csdeven on January 5, 2010 at 12:42 PM

+2

ted c on January 5, 2010 at 12:45 PM

I bet this is applauded by those same folks who condemn corporate executives for accepting bonuses of far less than 2 million. Beyonce is an “artist” after all, and lives by a golden standard.

tflst5 on January 5, 2010 at 12:46 PM

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