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Anchorwoman Nervously Tries To Wake Sleeping Harry Belafonte On Live Television

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On Friday’s KBAK-KBFX morning show, based in Bakerfield, California, legendary calypso singer Harry Belafonte dozed off before an interview, leaving anchor Leyla Santiago to awkwardly ask him to wake up repeatedly.

“Hey, good morning Harry!” Santiago said to silence as Belafonte rested unresponsive with his eyes closed and motionless.

“Harry, wake up! Harry?” Santiago exclaimed. “Wake up, wake up! This is your wake-up call! Okay, I’ll tell you what, he’s meditating. He’s taking a little nap.”

“Daylight hasn’t come yet,” joked an off-camera anchor. “DAY-O!” responded Santiago.

The Blaze’s Billy Hallowell noted, “Belafonte is 84-years-old and a hectic schedule of interviews and travel would be tough for anyone.”

Watch the incident below via KBAK-KBFX:

(h/t The Blaze)

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_57BJSLL54M5XSKW6575EO5TNYE Pablo

    no offense, guys – but it’s Harry B-E-L-A-F-O-N-T-E

  • Anonymous

    Come Mr. Tallyman, wake up Belafonte

    Daylight come and he wanna go home

  • http://www.storminsmorningjava.blogspot.com/ stormin1961

    and he never sounded more intelligent in his entire life.

  • Anonymous

    Shh, don’t wake Harry up.   He will only embarrass himself again.  

  • Anonymous

    The endless BS of the lunatic-left d-cRAT socialists is SOOOOOOO boring, it even puts them to sleep.

  • Anonymous

    The endless BS of the lunatic-left d-cRAT socialists is SOOOOOOO boring, it even puts them to sleep.

  • Anonymous

    Republicans finally found a way to win a debate.

  • Norbit

    He probably had images of Sugarplum RACISTS dancing in his head.

  • Texan

    He’s a fine spokesman for the OWS/SS “movement” ain’t he? ;)

  • Anonymous
  • http://www.scoamf.com/2011/08/hitler-realizes-obama-is-stuttering.html Unicon

    zzzzzzzz… racist..racist..racist…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

  • Anonymous

    He’s dreaming about who he will call racist when he wakes up.

  • Norbit

    Yes, tatboy, very good!
    lol

  • Norbit

    Why does Harry Belafonte hate white people?

  • Anonymous

    Why even bother having him on?  He is nothing but a racist pig.  Stop giving idiots like this anyair time.

  • Anonymous
  • JimR

    Be nice folks! After all the guy is 84 years old. Has been in Show Biz for about 80
    of those and LEARNT three songs he has to keep rehearsing so he don’t fergit the words!

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I shouldn’t be so harsh. People in Bakersfield tend to tire me out as well. Not very intelligent. Not at all articulate. Tedious. Repetitious. 

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Actually, he spoke very highly of you over the weekend. You are White?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Ms. Tampon: If idiots weren’t given airtime, FOX “News”, FOX Business “News” and FOX would go dark. Think before you screech, please.

  • Anonymous

    typical asshole comment from the royal asswipe.

  • Anonymous

    Do you think Harry is wearing Depends?

  • Anonymous

    MSNBC?

  • Wake up America

    Typical Lib, asleep on the job! I bet he’s union!

  • Anonymous

    Well, being a Bakersfield born Conservative, I will, in the future respond to you in a tedious and repetitious manner until you figure out that personal attacks are tedious and repetitiously sophomoric attempts at avoiding the facts.

  • Anonymous

    There you go again, “assuming”, more of that tedious repetition your so fond of.

  • JimR

    Who???
    Real Royal Doofus?

  • Anonymous

    What the hell would MSNBC do without Fox?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    As if to prove my point ….

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Many shows will not be aired, to be sure.

  • Texan

    Nary an original thought. Simply pathetic. You do know that right, teach?

  • Texan

    The phony emperor clearly didn’t take her own advice. Hence, the term, hypocrite.

  • Texan

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17pRDb0Hclw&feature=related

    For you my conservative, clear thinking friend!

  • Anonymous

    Ah,
    The right and their pleasant vocabulary

  • Jason

    YOU DON’T AGREE WITH ME! YOU STUPID! YOU RACIST! ME WANT BANANA!

  • Jason

    Obsess over CNN is my guess. I hear CNN actually has someone working for them now who laughed at the OWS hippies.. rightfully.  That’s enough for the entire evening lineup at MSDNC to assume they’re racists who love banks.

    It’s a sad day when I find myself defending CNN in any capacity. I’m going to take a long shower now.

  • Jason

    It’s gotta’ be exhausting being a senile, washed up, has-been sack-of-shit.

  • david r

    Doing the heavy lifting today, I see.

  • david r

    Oh, Mr. Sandman, Bring me a dream. Make her the cutest that I’ve ever seen.

  • Anonymous

    You’re right it is exhausting and Ronald Reagan mastered it.

  • Anon

    Harry Belafonte is a legend.

  • Redleaf

    It’s gotta be fun being so superior to everyone.
     

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_6C65YWGCC7P5C6CGMMBK7VMFXE JenniferL

    The old communist was so boring (as usual), he even put himself to sleep.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_6C65YWGCC7P5C6CGMMBK7VMFXE JenniferL

    Why on earth would anyone dig this demented old communist up from his moldy grave?

  • http://www.daddymojo.net/ Trey Burley

    I blame Bush.  Don’t fault him he stayed up late trying to minimize Herman Cain.

  • Anonymous

    In his own dreams.

  • Anonymous

    I hate to tell people this, but that is NOT Harry Belafonte.

    That is a store dummy made to look like Harry Belafonte.

    And sound like Harry Belafonte.

    Then again, maybe it is Harry Belafonte.

    Thus, by this extension, Harry Belafonte is a dummy.

    Voila!

  • Anonymous

    And Obama is really good at it.

    My question is, when he is sent back to Chicago starting in January 2013, what is he going to do in his pitiful life without his TelePrompTer?

  • Anonymous

    Same thing they do with Fox News.

    They have on a Socialist, a Marxist, a race pimp, and a Marxist.

    And Chrissy Matthews with the thrill up his genitals for Obama.

  • News Of The World

    My God – that anchorwoman has an extremely annoying voice. 

  • Anonymous

    Were you talking, Real Royal (pain in the…)?  I don’t think anyone was paying attention.

  • Anonymous

    He wears no clothes..!

  • Anonymous

    You are right…and it is hard to blame him for being a commie since nearly everyone in Hollyweird is a commie anyway.  They don’t let you use your brain for anything but repeating someone else’s lines there.

  • Anonymous

    Better to go senile than be a useless communist tool…

  • Anonymous

    Poor Harry… even though he is a commie, he used to be so nice looking.  Didn’t age well though.  I only wish he had kept his mouth shut unless he was singing.  I used to like the B-side of his 45 where he sang Hava Nagila!! LOL

  • Bob

    anyone who seriously uses the term ‘d-cRAT socialists’ isn’t in much position to call others lunatics.

  • Bob

    says the party that think Pat Boone is ‘hip and happenin”

  • Bob

    the 1950s John Birch Society called – they want their hysterical, deluded red-baiting back

  • Bob

    Any man who is responsible for the coolest segment ever on the Muppet Show gets a lifetime pass from me. Let the old guy enjoy a nap.

  • Anonymous

    Belafonte is a political tool but sheesh, let the old guy nap.

    They should have cut to commercial.

  • Joseph Bernard

    It’s the only phrase he knows.

  • Anonymous

    The poor old goat.

  • Anonymous

    Really no need, he self minimizes.

  • Anonymous

    I’d have been afraid that he was dead, not sleeping.

  • Anonymous

    He marched in the early civil rights movement.

  • Anonymous

    Thanks Bob, now I’m remembering his leather period.

  • Anonymous

    Rachel Ray-ish

  • Anonymous

    Rachel Ray-ish

  • Anonymous

    Rachel Ray-ish

  • Anonymous

    Hi.  I’m Harry Belefonte, and I’m still bitter that Syney Pointier stole my career 50 years ago.

  • Claudia Higginbotham

    Was he in that room alone? Was there nobody there to gently wake him up? Embarrassing for everybody

  • Yukon Jack

    He does not have to.

    It all discharges where his brains used to be.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Swom-Smith/100002004503875 Swom Smith

    Watch Harry Belafonte Sleeps on Live TV, Harry Belafonte with KBAK TV Early Morning Interview Full Video: (October 17):

    http://tiny.cc/Harry-Belafonte-Asleep-TV

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FW7DSBQLP23N7SVCFY72ZWKOVE Iza Koon

    This MONKEY should have GONE to SLEEP PERMANENTLY 50 years ago!!!!!!!

    COMMIE BLAK RAT!!!!!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FFHAOT3J5TNR6W7AHYWOPG2FIQ iceman4444

    harry is the man; several dozen interviews and she handled it fine.  the other tool needs to show some respect

  • Anonymous

    Maybe he was bored with the anchor. . he’s 84. Give him a break.  He was on Colbert, and sang with him, one of his most beautiful songs. . .

  • Anonymous

    I’m not sure. . but I hear all conservatives wear them. . . .

  • Anonymous

    No, its probably exhausting being you.

  • Anonymous

    His “power nap”,
    “‘Power Nap’ Prevents Burnout; Morning Sleep Perfects a Skill” Evidence
    is mounting that sleep-even a nap-appears to enhance information
    processing and learning. New experiments by NIMH grantee Alan Hobson,
    M.D., Robert Stickgold, Ph.D., and colleagues at Harvard University
    show that a midday snooze reverses information overload and that a 20
    percent overnight improvement in learning a motor skill is largely
    traceable to a late stage of sleep that some early risers might be
    missing. Overall, their studies suggest that the brain uses a night’s
    sleep to consolidate the memories of habits, actions and skills learned
    during the day.

  • Anonymous

    His power nap was more likely induced by a sack of ganja packaged for 30 years and younger somethings. Harry always DID like the more potent ‘stuff’.

  • Anonymous

    The
    way News Media are always looking for controversy or disaster, in this case
    they could have generated it when a sound person seen Harry with his eyes
    closed and decided it would be a fun news story to leave the sound off and
    pretend they could not awaken him. This sounds to me something the News Media
    would probably do. Am I right? Everyone on the air may not have been in on the Joke, Harry may have just been the butt of the joke, only the sound man knows.

  • Anonymous

    Harry Belafonte, brain dead…body now in sync….

  • AliveStillkickin

    Belafonte IS a muppet.
     

  • AliveStillKickin

    Must be hell to defecate on a cop car if he does.

  • AliveStillkickin

    The Real Royal Pain-in-the-ass watches MSNBC.That speaks volumes

  • AliveStillKickin
  • Anonymous

    I used to love Harry, till I found out he was a Liberal!

  • Fuzzrow2

    I was hoping he was.

  • Anonymous

    actually not at all

    Are you saying you like it, or using the old
    Libs are hypocrites, we just do it since they did it first?

  • Anonymous

    wah, wah, wah. life must be so hard when you have first world problems like Jason here. 

  • Rodeo Randy

    Feel free to move out of the country then, racist twat aka Youza Douche.

  • Ktdenn2

     No, his description is accurate.  The truth is the truth, and the truth is that
    Harry Belafonte is an un-American, left wing radical, communist/marxist.

  • Ktdenn2

     I guess you didn’t understand that his comment was made to the previous poster that referred the poster as Ms. Tampon, but in the liberal mind it’s ok to do what you want.  But as soon as a conservative does it, for some reason it’s wrong.  Grow up.

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