CNN - The cushy gig probably sounded irresistible to singing sensations like Beyoncé, Usher and Mariah Carey: a private concert in the luxurious Caribbean island of St. Barts to ring in a new year before a group of dignitaries who were big fans...But that was before everything came to light, courtesy of WikiLeaks...Those artists and others, including Nelly Furtado and rapper 50 Cent, have recently faced sharp criticism for accepting payments for performances from the family of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
I thought these guys were muslims, no? What are they doing hiring American pop music and hip-hop acts, shouldn't that stuff be essentially at the core of their hatred for American culture? If you don't hate us for our annoying and incredibly poor taste in music (which you apparently share) what exactly do you hate us for? I mean if anyone embodies the arrogant and entitled American stereotype it's got to be our pop stars and divas. This just doesn't add up.
And to the people getting all over Nelly Furtado, Beyonce and 50 Cent, do you really expect them to keep up with which foreign dictators are slaughtering and oppressing their own people and which ones aren't? I think we'd be lucky to find these guys knew where Libya was on a map, nevermind what their governments stance on human rights is. They saw a paycheck and took it, nothing too outrageous.
Quite humorous that the common person is acting more outraged that these performers would take such huge pay days from these foreign dictators when conversley there was hardly any outrage when our very own government forked over millions in aid money for years and years. Do people really fail to see the hypocrisy here?
A couple of pop acts taking money from homicidal maniacs for performances is really nothing compared to our own government funding the homicidial maniacs for decades. Wake up people, focus on what's important for once.
