omg this was too funny. That last comment came out of right field. LOLOLOL. Mike Myers was like wtf?!
And its true.
Kanye West is an idiot with a new CD and tickets for his tour to sell. What better way to stir up TONS of publicity than to interrupt a telethon (whose sole purpose is to help thousands of poor (not just black) people who are being neglected by their country), and insert some cliched attack at GWB… its good for a laugh, but couldn’t have been more inappropriate, if you ask me.
i have never seen this clip
incredible.
hahah dude
kanye west doesnt need publicity. do you think talking shit about george bush will get him publicity?? from who?? look what happened to the dixie chicks when they talked shit about bush.
he’s damn right about dubyah and its because he has balls, not because he wants pulicity.
It’s not just George Bush. White America doesn’t care about Black people.
From seeing the video, he didn’t look like someone that wants publicity, he seemed genuinely hurt by what happened in New Orleans and the media’s portrayal of black people. That’s just imo though.
why is he an idiot, he has freedom of speech, those idiots on cnn say everyday that iraq has wmd’s and everyone knows they dont, someone says something that doesnt agree with the rest of the networks view and hes an idiot? i think not, your the idiot for just listening to their garbage and accepting it as gold. Do you know that they have been shooting black people? they shot six people, what kind of shit is that, these people have nothing and to make it worst the police have orders to take no prisoners
Have you been in a cave since he said that? He was on every single news station, every website, every radio broadcast that you could turn on… I don’t disagree with what he said, however there are two things wrong with what he did. Most importantly, that telethon was not “The Kanye West Show”, it was a fundraiser for an awful tragedy. Furthermore, singling out black people as the ones being neglected is just silly… if he had to comment, why not make a more general statement about ALL of the people in that area, including whites, blacks, hispanics, and the list goes on. You tell me, what purpose did that comment serve… how did it help the cause they were fundraising for? The only effect his big mouth had was his name being splashed on every possible media source out there… personally I think it was a very selfish thing to say.
And to you RD_Man, freedom of speech is very important, but there is always a time and a place to make your opinions and feelings known. I am simply saying that his choice of a fundraising telethon as his personal soapbox was ignorant. And at what point did I say anything about “listening to their garbage” or any of the other crap in your reply? I don’t appreciate the personal attacks, I was only stating my opinion.
On that note, here is a recent article, with some interesting Cuban insight:
The Two Americas
By Marjorie Cohn
t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Saturday 03 September 2005Last September, a Category 5 hurricane battered the small island of Cuba with 160-mile-per-hour winds. More than 1.5 million Cubans were evacuated to higher ground ahead of the storm. Although the hurricane destroyed 20,000 houses, no one died. What is Cuban President Fidel Castro's secret? According to Dr. Nelson Valdes, a sociology professor at the University of New Mexico, and specialist in Latin America, "the whole civil defense is embedded in the community to begin with. People know ahead of time where they are to go." "Cuba's leaders go on TV and take charge," said Valdes. Contrast this with George W. Bush's reaction to Hurricane Katrina. The day after Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, Bush was playing golf. He waited three days to make a TV appearance and five days before visiting the disaster site. In a scathing editorial on Thursday, the New York Times said, "Nothing about the president's demeanor yesterday - which seemed casual to the point of carelessness - suggested that he understood the depth of the current crisis." "Merely sticking people in a stadium is unthinkable" in Cuba, Valdes said. "Shelters all have medical personnel, from the neighborhood. They have family doctors in Cuba, who evacuate together with the neighborhood, and already know, for example, who needs insulin." They also evacuate animals and veterinarians, TV sets and refrigerators, "so that people aren't reluctant to leave because people might steal their stuff," Valdes observed. After Hurricane Ivan, the United Nations International Secretariat for Disaster Reduction cited Cuba as a model for hurricane preparation. ISDR director Salvano Briceno said, "The Cuban way could easily be applied to other countries with similar economic conditions and even in countries with greater resources that do not manage to protect their population as well as Cuba does." Our federal and local governments had more than ample warning that hurricanes, which are growing in intensity thanks to global warming, could destroy New Orleans. Yet, instead of heeding those warnings, Bush set about to prevent states from controlling global warming, weaken FEMA, and cut the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for levee construction in New Orleans by $71.2 million, a 44 percent reduction. Bush sent nearly half our National Guard troops and high-water Humvees to fight in an unnecessary war in Iraq. Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Paris in New Orleans, noted a year ago, "It appears that the money has been moved in the president's budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq." An Editor and Publisher article Wednesday said the Army Corps of Engineers "never tried to hide the fact that the spending pressures of the war in Iraq, as well as homeland security - coming at the same time as federal tax cuts - was the reason for the strain," which caused a slowdown of work on flood control and sinking levees. "This storm was much greater than protection we were authorized to provide," said Alfred C. Naomi, a senior project manager in the New Orleans district of the corps. Unlike in Cuba, where homeland security means keeping the country secure from deadly natural disasters as well as foreign invasions, Bush has failed to keep our people safe. "On a fundamental level," Paul Krugman wrote in yesterday's New York Times, "our current leaders just aren't serious about some of the essential functions of government. They like waging war, but they don't like providing security, rescuing those in need or spending on prevention measures. And they never, ever ask for shared sacrifice." During the 2004 election campaign, vice presidential candidate John Edwards spoke of "the two Americas." It seems unfathomable how people can shoot at rescue workers. Yet, after the beating of Rodney King aired on televisions across the country, poor, desperate, hungry people in Watts took over their neighborhoods, burning and looting. Their anger, which had seethed below the surface for so long, erupted. That's what's happening now in New Orleans. And we, mostly white, people of privilege, rarely catch a glimpse of this other America. "I think a lot of it has to do with race and class," said Rev. Calvin O. Butts III, pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem. "The people affected were largely poor people. Poor, black people." New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin reached a breaking point Thursday night. "You mean to tell me that a place where you probably have thousands of people that have died and thousands more that are dying every day, that we can't figure out a way to authorize the resources we need? Come on, man!" Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff had boasted earlier in the day that FEMA and other federal agencies have done a "magnificent job" under the circumstances. But, said, Nagin, "They're feeding the people a line of bull, and they are spinning and people are dying. Get off your asses and let's do something!" When asked about the looting, the mayor said that except for a few "knuckleheads," it is the result of desperate people trying to find food and water to survive. Nagin blamed the outbreak of violence and crime on drug addicts who have been cut off from their drug supplies, wandering the city, "looking to take the edge off their jones." When Hurricane Ivan hit Cuba, no curfew was imposed; yet, no looting or violence took place. Everyone was in the same boat. Fidel Castro, who has compared his government's preparations for Hurricane Ivan to the island's long-standing preparations for an invasion by the United States, said, "We've been preparing for this for 45 years." On Thursday, Cuba's National Assembly sent a message of solidarity to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. It says the Cuban people have followed closely the news of the hurricane damage in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, and the news has caused pain and sadness. The message notes that the hardest hit are African-Americans, Latino workers, and the poor, who still wait to be rescued and taken to secure places, and who have suffered the most fatalities and homelessness. The message concludes by saying that the entire world must feel this tragedy as its own.
That last paragraph sums it up very nicely. A message of solidarity to everyone involved, in a respectful, thoughtful manner, delivered at an appropriate time. Props to the Cubans 
bush is a fucking monkey, refer to this post and you can see why http://www.son240sx.ca/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15829
bush is a racist, plain and fucking simple , he has single handedly made what was in mine and alot of other peoples opinion the most powerful financial and miltary country in the world and reduced it to at best a peice of crap, on the verge of bankruptcy needing to bailed out by China from financial ruin, since the bush administraition came into officethey have destroyed and took what the clinton adminstraition built back into a stable economy and reduced it to nothing
but they have taken an upwards direction, unemployment is up, thier federal defecit has gone up, so has crime, and casualtys of war
buch is a clown, a racist clown, and the only thing you guys cant see is his fucking kkk sheets in his closet, america is a joke and it just a matter of time before it will be what russia was when it collapsed…
all kingdoms fall, look to the past and you will se the future , every empire crumbles , decay from within, ameriaca is a cavity waiting to fall out of the mouth of the world and bush is the candy that started it all
the aftermath of hurricane Katrina was just the beggining
dirka dirka dirka
mr. jericho you are still not making sense.
the white people left before it got as bad as it is now… the only ones left are black. turn on the tv.
i was out of town when this happened, i got home and turned on the news and i thought it was happening in africa for the first couple of minutes.
edit by ON. No name calling, i will be cracking down on this.
Well I’m not sure which TV station you are watching, or how you could possibly think that the only people left in New Orleans are black people… but anyways, you have your opinion, I have mine.
BTW, it is possible to have a discussion about something without resorting to insults, you should try working on that
He’s generalizing. Just because the media shows primarily a lot of black folks, doesnt mean there arent any white ppl in Nawlins.
jericho is right"er" in that kanye cold have been alot smoother with his message, but i take kanye’s side here too.
you can clearly see that his demeanour was not one of a dude looking for publicity.
he had so much concern and anger for the situation that he couldnt even speak. he showed true emotion on camera… TRUE EMOTION…
for every sentence he fumbles you know exactly how he feels, he actually couldnt have said it better by saying everything so poorly.
his statement at the end was basically a result of his not feeling like he accomplished anything with the first ramblings and trying to make a last ditch effort to get his point across because he knew he would be cut off for not following the prompter.
it was a decision made in haste under pressure and nothing else could have been said that would have had any positive impact anyways.
it is after all just a telethon to get other poor (relatively) people to help other poorer people and absolve the wealthiest of people from feeling obliged to do anything. after all, the rich people own the network that provided the medium for the message to get out, isnt that enough?
Well we are all frustrated by the whole thing, but I’m saying that he didn’t show much respect for the program he was helping support. The telethon was designed like you said, to help poor people. Kanye’s comments did not add anything positive to the show, they only served to point out that his country is governed by an idiot… and how does that help? They all know that already. They’re dealing with his bumbling right now, and paying for it with their lives.
Like I said, there is a time and a place (ie on his album, his music video, his web site, or his press conference). I agree with Kanye, but just think his choice of venue and delivery was poor. No matter how frustrated you are, you gotta have some composure, especially being such a high profile person. I’m sure many of the other presenters and hosts were pretty upset about the whole thing too, but you didn’t see them saying things like that… :roll:
Anyways I don’t want to make the impression that I don’t get my Bush-hating on, as I’m as much of a hater as the rest… I was just really taken aback by Kanye at the telethon, just too inappropriate to leave it alone.
George Bush does care about black people, he did visit New Orleans and he even brought his father along see!
http://poststuff4.entensity.net/091205/image.php?pic=bush.jpg