Banana Boat Hate Tour Comes to Duke

When someone has a history of making insidious remarks—such as opining that the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 were a result of “America’s hand of villainy,” calling President Bush “the greatest terrorist in the world,” and comparing Colin Powell to a house “slave” and the Bush administration to the “Third Reich”—normal people tend to distance themselves from the bearer of such animosity.

Not Duke University. Ranked fifth nationally for its undergraduate program by U.S. News & World Report, the school is all smiles after having Calypso’s king of hate pay tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jason Mattera

Harry Belfonte gives Pat Robertson some stiff competition for "Public Lunatic of the Decade." And, of course, the mainstream press is giving him a pass.