Comments on: Kanye West: Uncivil Rebel or Obnoxious Lover of Goats?

By: Elastic Planet

Elastic Planet — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:55:54 +0000

I know this is completely anecdotal, but I work in the music industry and know a few people that have worked directly with Kanye. Or at least they tried to. He has a reputation for being the biggest jackass in the business.

By: James

James — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:47:12 +0000

His interview on Leno was great follow-up. Leno mentioned that he’d met Kanye West’s mom before she died, and asked Kanye what his mom would have said about his thing at the MTV awards. That clearly was a wake-up call to Kanye that what he did was really, really stupid.

Video is here:

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1621529/20090914/west_kanye.jhtml

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:02:31 +0000

Pundit: Thanks, noted. It was like 3 in the AM.

By: The Science Pundit

The Science Pundit — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:58:17 +0000

Rather than reading the pablum provided by the cue cards, he launched a poorly done but heart-felt monologue about the plight of black people in New Orleans, and was finally cut off by the producers when he stated, quite plainly, “George Bush hates black people.”

Just to nitpick, he quite plainly stated “George Bush doesn’t care about black people.”

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:31:47 +0000

MadScientists: I have no doubt that he was right at the MTV awards. I mean, they WERE giving the award to a country western singer….

The problem here is not that he was right or wrong, the problem is that you can’t interrupt the awards ceremony and get invited to the next awards ceremony. Therefore, he is no longer a factor. He’s not going to get invited to a fundraiser anymore because he told the truth about the racial disparity in New Orleans. That was worth it. Now, he’s not going to get invited to an awards ceremony any more (and those are the BIGGEST audiences generally) because he dissed a country western singer to promote an already totally famous super-privileged buddy of his.

So, he has tactics but no strategy.

He is the award ceremony version of an internet troll.

By: Z

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:50:46 +0000

Maybe he was just jealous that someone came up with a video more creative than half-naked girls dancing around?

By: MadScientist

MadScientist — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:04:07 +0000

Oh, come on, he was right at the MTV awards. How can he be wrong? Just look at the picture on Rolling Stones – can’t you see Kanye is god? Or in the words of the catholic church, Kanye is god’s masochistic tortured and murdered son who isn’t really dead because he got better after a few days and isn’t really quite just a son because he’s really part of god – it’s all very kinky and confused and I’m pretty sure the bible mentions something about goats too, so Kanye fits in perfectly – which is lucky for the goat because that means the goat won’t really be that sore after all because the goat will fit just like a kid glove, and that’s why catholic priests love children so much, because they fit like goats.

By: Nelson Muntz

Nelson Muntz — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:06:23 +0000

I much prefer Kanye West as a character on South Park. His ensuing ‘humble’ rant, IN ALL CAPS, was hilarious, as was the trashing he got for SHOUTING.

By: Galen Evans

Galen Evans — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:14:21 +0000

“If you are going to operate in that territory between unquestioning civility and abject goat fucking, don’t be Kanye West.”

Priceless.