Gotta agree. I hate the dude, but if the story played out as reported, I would have held his coat while he thumped the dude. Then denied seeing a thing.
Maybe. Kim claimed the guy threatened to kill her. She is reportedly planning to file a police report. Presumably, her lawyers will convince the guy to take let it go with the help of a fairly small payday rather than get into an expensive, protracted, and public legal battle. Any lawyer representing this guy is gonna know that. Assuming that the story is accurate, he looks terrible, and his life will be negatively affected if he want to pretend he is a innocent, sympathetic victim here.
Honestly, does he really want his name out there just to get more money from Kanye? Does he want to deal with those same paparazzi following him, internet tough guys threatening to kill him or put his home and work address online? Someone will convince him it’s not worth it trying to take advantage of the situation.
The Kardashians aren’t helping either. Kanye is still an ass and she’s still an utterly unappealing, fame whoring, moron. They’re about as societally useful as the damned Duggars.
There’s not as many of them. That has to count for something, right?
True. So it says a lot about the paparazzi that they’ve ceded the moral high ground to the couple.
From the story, the guy was sitting in a chair when he was attacked. There was no self defense there and the guy was posing no threat.
Don’t know the guy so no idea. He could be one of these dopes who’s certain there’s a silent majority backing him. Or one of the “I don’t care what anyone else thinks” types. Or a racist who thinks that this is exposing another black thug. Or just someone with dollar signs in their eyes who figures anything else will be worth it – who cares about your work address going online when you’re gonna sue Kanye and be on easy street?
The guy was a dumbshit asshole and probably “deserved” it, but it was still a stupid and short-sighted move on Kanye’s part.
Are you serious? The most arrogant, self-centered person in the entire world hates attention from the paparazzi? I think he loves it just as much as Kim does. Being verbally assaulted by someone and then physically assaulting them in return is not a negative experience to everyone, some people love that shit.
Personally, I can’t take the scenario seriously enough to even say whether or not it was justified. They’re probably all going to come out winners as far as they’re concerned.
But didn’t she marry some Fox News guy or something? Because in that case, I could see them finding that some people in their circle of acquaintances were hostile. Or if it’s just some random celebrity trolls, well duh, of course they’ll go for the obvious.
Such a lazy declaration is surely a stronger symptom of the decline of civilization than a pair of asinine slang terms could ever be. Stop doomsaying; you’re bad at it.
1997 called, they want their outrage back.
In the unlikely event this happened as described, the correct response is to take the guy’s picture and tweet it to your bazillion fans. Public humiliation and opprobrium follow. The incorrect response is to wade in with your fists like a total douchebag.
The racist idiot will get money, no doubt. Kanye and Kim will get publicity. The marching morons will get all excited. It’s a win-win for everyone except those of us who are sick of hearing about these two.
I don’t defend Kanye or Kim much, but that guy had it coming. He deserved the beating
Also (around here at least) it has a very strong racial connotation. I’m not sure if that’s true elsewhere.
From everything I’ve ever read about Kanye West, I have to conclude that he’s one of those people that, like Don King, Bud Selig, Vince McMahon, and Michael Jordan, rarely if ever has to face the consequences of his actions and can hurt you far, far more than you could ever hurt him. If you have an ounce of sense, you will damn well stay on his good side. If you must be a douchebag, at least know who the acceptable targets are. Vanilla Ice is acceptable. So is Michael Bolton. And Justin Bieber, Fred Durst, and Rebecca Black. William Hung too, although he’s a bit dated by now. Kanye West, absolute hell no.
I do think he was out of line. Responding to words with a beating is overkill. If he is going to get physical, he should’ve showed some restraint…grab him, shove him against the wall, slap him in the face, twist his arm a bit, pull his hair, things that would make the jerk very uncomfortable but not cause any injury. That would get the message across quite nicely, and he’d be more sympathetic. And while he still could get charged with assault, that’s less serious than assault and battery. (Dunno what the attempted grand theft charge is about; I’m perfectly willing to wait for that to develop.)
The term/s seemed to be limited to junk newsertainment like TMV until recent years. Having them used in more mainstream press and at least nominally literate discussion is grating.
And, to think of it, so what… the measure of stupid collective social decline isn’t blunted by the passage of time anyway.
Wendy Williams (known to have a fairly good inside scoop on reporting celeb stuff) is claiming that the above reports are not at all an accurate representation of what happened. She’s generally pretty anti-Kimye, so I’m inclined to believe her representation of events, since it’d be odd for her to lie about something in their favor. According to Wendy:
Kim was going to meet Kanye at a furniture store (he was there waiting). The furniture store was on the second floor of a building, but somewhere on the first floor was the chiropractor’s office mentioned in the original reportings. Kim pulled up and there were tons of paps. The 18 year old kid was screaming at the paps, calling them niggers and faggots. Kim told the kid that was not cool and the kid turned on her, calling her a nigger loving slut, among other things. Kim walked over to the shared stairwell for the building to go upstairs, the kid followed her, calling her more names. At this point, she’s shaken up and starts crying. Her phone rings, it’s Kanye asking where she is, and Kanye hears the kid going in on Kim, threatening to kill her, etc. all while he can hear her crying. The kid then realizes it’s Kanye on the phone and starts yelling racist stuff at Kanye.
So, Kanye came down stairs and decked the kid.
Good. 100% team Kimye here, tbh.