Like I told my daughter, Caison, on election night--I'll help the president when he does something right. I echo his "off record" comment--Kanye West is a Jack-Ass. His disrepecting of Taylor Swift during her acceptance speech at the VMAs was nothing short of rude and may even be racist. But we shouldn't be surprised that someone the caliber of West would pull such a stunt. It would be interesting though to see how he would have reacted if Toby Keith would have done the same thing to him or another black entertainer. Even better, I would love to see him try to take the microphone from Toby--I wonder if Toby would have "put a boot in his [jack]-ass" since, like one of Toby's songs says, "it's the American way."
Just as much as Kanye showed he was a Jack-Ass, Beyonce showed she had class. She offered Taylor the remainder of her own acceptance time later in the show. Both of these young ladies show how celebrities should behave. Mr. West just showed his jack-ass.
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I agree 100%. Kanye's an attention hog (could use another word there, but...) and a sore loser, and deserves the scorn he's getting. And our POTUS's offhand remark was funny. Not very presidential, perhaps, but it's things like that to me that show the man has humanity.
And in case you don't know about it: full audio of the Pres's comment, and lots of other funny bits about the whole escapade, are here: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/kanye-interrupts-imma-let-you-finish
I agree with you 99%. Kanye was a jackass and rude. I don't know if it was racist. But it was certainly disrepectful. Whew! Finally something we can ALMOST completely agree on!
There's something else that I think we can totally agree on. I would never take a microphone away from you when you're being recognized for your accomplishments and I know that you'd never take it from me.
Why can't the rest of the world be like us?
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