Not to be insensitive or anything, but is Kanye West borderline retarded or something? I swear he sounds just like that Eddie Murphy character on “SNL” who used to say, “They learned me real good. They can learn you real good, too.”
Hmmmm. And he sounds a lot like that guy in Office Spacewho was pretending to be retarded so he could sell more magazine subscriptions.
Anyone?
Has Mike Myers had “work” done? It looks like it. Tucker did a great look, truly, a fine actor.
I loved how (I forget what channel I saw it on) showed it, and then had a live shot of Jesse Jackson, whom they asked,“Does Bush not care about blacks?” Jesse paused, then said “If so, he doesn’t show it.” Good old Jesse.
La Llorona is that the version played on MTV? On the radio the call it “Diamonds from Sierra Leon” and it is the version I posted. Either way, Kanye West is still and always will be a giant douche in my book (a douche who just happens to make catchy songs).
Here is his quote (for those who can’t watch or listen):
And someone asked for shirts? Check out Ebay. Links keep going up and Ebay keeps taking them down, but- from what I’ve seen- the shirts are pretty funny (the photos they are using, etc.)
No, I didn’t. Reread my post.
Well, since you’ve completely misinterpreted what I said in order to pick a political fight, I’m not going to justify your right to question my opinion with an answer.
Try reading.
In context, my post was a response to Sam Stone’s, which I’ll again quote here for your benefit:
To which I replied:
I direct your attention to the second sentence; you know, the one you failed to read the first time around. Askia called me on my post, and I saw how the misuse of a certain preposition (when composing replies to posts, I sort of shotgun thoughts into a separate window, then Frankenpost them together, which occasionaly results in less-than-optimal communication of what I really wanted to say unless I preview and proofread a couple of times) was really not the best choice of words, and I amended. The second sentence should now read:
“But no amount of public jackassery on the networks would inhibit my giving a donation to the Katrina Relief Fund, and I’d really like to think that Americans are better people than to let one bad messenger put them off from what is so obviously a worthy cause.”
A slight, but significant change.
I consider the matter closed. If you want to talk about the target demographic of NBC (stated, and as perceived by me) some more, go for it. Just don’t do it with me, here, in this thread.
Read it and re-read it, thanks. You said NBC had nothing to say to you because you’re white, heterosexual male, middle class, conservative and you enjoy guns. I may have hyperbolized slightly in my response to your truly strange assertion that a major network has no interest in attracting and keeping people like you as viewers, but my point still stands that your acting like NBC programs its network in such a way as to “have nothing to say” to you because you’re squarely in the majority is, to be charitable, odd.
Fortunately for me I don’t need straight white middle class conservative gun owners to justify my right to call BS on a dumb statement like NBC isn’t interested in “saying anything” to you.
Try answering a fucking question and not being so goddamn sensitive about a little ribbing about a stupid comment.
I read your shorter second sentence along with your longer and primary first sentence. I do so love when people who say dumb things and get called out on them start claiming that what they said was somehoe “out of context.”
Oh, sorry, you don’t get to decide what I do or don’t say in this or any other thread. If you can’t or won’t back up your ridiculous assertion that NBC has abandoned poor little you and your ilk, that’s fine. You pretty much struck me as a drive-by kinda guy anyway.
In all honesty I have no idea, as I haven’t got a television and very seldom listen to the radio. Maybe someone else knows?
I should append to that statement that I do occasionally have access to a friend’s television (in case someone leaps on me for having said that I watched the MTV special about Kanye and the gay-people-lovin’).
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Otto and Ex Tank, personal insults have no place in this forum. This particular thread seems to be about Kanye West. If you’d like to start a thread about network targetted-demographics, that’s fine, go right ahead. If you’d like to take jabs at each other, go to the Pit.
I’m not going to waste time in figuring out “who started it” – I am going to say that it ends **now. ** OK?
In all seriousness, that sounds like he was on something. I have no basis for saying that exceot for the above-quoted remarks, but it sure does sound like he was speeding so hard, he couldn’t even complete a thought in his head, let alone out loud.
I wonder how many people dissing Mr. West would have said the same thing if he had deviated from the script with a “Give Bush some slack, people” tirade instead?
For that to really work, you’d need a comment that sounds as objectionable as “America and its President don’t care if black people die.” “Give Bush some slack” doesn’t do that.
It would be be interesting to see if a rant that could be boiled down to “Give Bush some slack” could be phrased in such a way as to be so thoroughly divisive, alienated, and alienating. If the “us and them” that he based it on was (in bizarro-world) republicans versus democrats, and he claimed that people were dragging their heels because Louisiana’s a red state, I don’t really see how anyone could defend it, either.
The guy was there to raise money for relief efforts, and he went off on a tangent that couldn’t be expected to help out there. It’s not like he has no access to the media, otherwise.
Crikey – even if he deviated from the script to say that he was a big fan of blueberry pie, it’s way out of line. “Stay on target, moron!”
Probably at least the same amount. He grabbed the spotlight which should have been shining on a way to help the victims, and turned it directly on himself, thinking that he and his ego would both fit.
He was an idiot for doing so, and I think he’s being called out for not so much what he said, but when he chose to say it. There’s a time and place, and that event was neither.