Take it from G.W. Being marked as a racist is a pretty mean thing to happen to you, apparently. The man who set into motion the war on Iraq, killing hundreds of thousands of people with a swift and uncaring action is saying that being called a racist by Kanye was very hurtful.
George Bush: "He called me a racist. And I didn't appreciate it then. I don't appreciate it now. It's one thing to say, 'I don't appreciate the way he's handled his business.' It's another thing to say, 'This man's a racist.' I resent it, it's not true."
Matt Lauer (quoting from Bush's book): "'Five years later I can barely write those words without feeling disgust.' You go on: 'I faced a lot of criticism as president. I didn't like hearing people claim that I lied about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction or cut taxes to benefit the rich. But the suggestion that I was racist because of the response to Katrina represented an all-time low.'"
GB: "Yeah. I still feel that way as you read those words. I felt 'em when I heard 'em, felt 'em when I wrote 'em, and I felt 'em when I'm listening to 'em."
ML: "I wonder if some people are going to read that, now that you've written it, and they might give you some heat for that. And the reason is this--"
GB [interrupting]: "Don't care."
ML: "Well, here's the reason. You're not saying that the worst moment in your presidency was watching the misery in Louisiana. You're saying it was when someone insulted you because of that."
GB: "No, and I also make it clear that the misery in Louisiana affected me deeply as well. There's a lot of tough moments in the book. And it was a disgusting moment, pure and simple."
I just have to say - People reacting poorly to being called a racist? Why I never! Now I hate Kanye as much as the next person, if not more. But you have to give it to the man. Kanye may be the worse piece of shit around, but he's irritated the hell out of two presidents and disrupted a white girl while she was on stage. You have to give him a little credit for doing all that.
Though fuck him for messing with a daft punk song.
I'm pretty sure G.W. should hold out on this whole "worse thing" happening. Given that after Clinton they got rid of the whole Body Guard for life deal, I'm pretty sure his worse moment will be getting punched in the face on the streets of some bumfuck town in Texas.
What gets me more is the other shit he's claiming.
"I didn't like hearing people claim that I lied about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction or cut taxes to benefit the rich"
On what fucking grounds could he possibly dispute that claim? I mean, how could he have no lied about the whole tax cuts benefiting the rich? The only way I can think that even makes sense if he legitimately believes that it would eventually help everyone out. I mean, he's not the brightest bulb and he may actually believe in the whole trickle down effect of cutting taxes creates jobs that benefit the lower class, but still, how stupid is he?
The whole notion of breaking a few eggs to make an omelet is great if you never actually have to be an egg. Though I guess I should be glad to live in a country where people are shamed more for calling others racist than for actually being a racist or utterly destroying the livelihood of countless others.
In the end all this really does is inflate Kanye's ego even more that what he said actually had an effect on the president. The douche bag has an ego that is entirely too big as it is. It's just a matter of when Kanye overloads twitter with more paranoid retort shit.
And this does go to show that Kanye West is officially more effectual than the entirety of the American left. Way to go democratic party. You might as well have Kanye on salary to piss of the republicans and shoot down their self esteem little by little.
I know, I know. How unlike me, what on my ivory tower above it all am I doing yet another blog post about Kanye's stupidity? Cause it just got political.. oooooh yeah! Let's get stupid with the TMZ!
Did you hear that? How DARE the PRESIDENT be using such crass language!? Didn't he just talk to the children of America (Oh, don't worry. I had my little billy pulled out of class that day so he wouldn't hear such socialist propaganda!
We should impeach this socialist NOW! I do not utter profanity and I expect the same of whatever Negro is posing as my president! He drinks bud lite. He watches the Video Music Awards. WHY, the fuck is he watching the video music awards?!?! Honestly I am disappointed. I voted for an Ivory-tower elitist white-hating socialist and here he is watching MTV.
I sure can't wait till the press ask him what he thinks about Spencer and Heidi. It has to be a pressing issue after all. Fuck health care, let's talk about what Pink wore and how it affects the white collar worker.
Though this is pretty funny when you think about it. The choice between supporting Obama or Kanye West is conservatism's own "Falling cat with buttered toast attached to its back" sort of thing. There's no way it could land on either of side and feel morally correct. Which pony do they back up in this race?
It just goes to show you how shitty our media outlets are these days. The press would never talk about how JFK fucked around behind Jackie's back or Eleanor Roosevelt's promiscuity. I'm sure that if ABC shut down its news division, no one would care.
But then again, This just shows that Obama is one of us. They claimed that Bush won that second term because he was someone the voters felt they could have a beer with. Someone they can hang out with. What's better? Someone to have a beer with or someone to watch and make fun of MTV with? Ok, how about we just get back to health care? I mean, don't you see those guys in that Jackass show? They sure can use the universal health care already. I bet that's why we haven't had a new season of that in a while.
I'm seeing two reasons why Obama cares about this issue. Taylor Swift is also sexy as hell but I don't want to have sex with her because if we were ever in that kind of situation, that might ruin our friendship and frankly, she seems like a really cool person to be friends with and I want to hang on to that.. Taylor Swift, if you're reading.. Let's be friends.
As to not to be outdone on being the one to have a beer with, it's being revealed what Bush thinks about all these Political players in the field right now in this soon to be released book:
Former Bush speechwriter Matt Latimer has a new book coming out that promises to disclose what administration officials were saying behind the scenes. Not surprisingly, there’s a “growing nervousness” about the book amongst many prominent conservatives. GQ has some new excerpts of Latimer’s book, which reveal that President Bush liked to mock other politicians:
On Sarah Palin: “‘I’m trying to remember if I’ve met her before. I’m sure I must have.’ His eyes twinkled, then he asked, ‘What is she, the governor of Guam?‘ … ‘This woman is being put into a position she is not even remotely prepared for,’ he said. ‘She hasn’t spent one day on the national level. Neither has her family. Let’s wait and see how she looks five days out.’”
On Barack Obama: “He came in one day to rehearse a speech, fuming. ‘This is a dangerous world,’ he said for no apparent reason, ‘and this cat [Obama] isn’t remotely qualified to handle it. This guy has no clue, I promise you.’”
On Hillary Clinton: “Wait till her fat keister is sitting at this desk.
On Joe Biden: “If bull– was currency, Joe Biden would be a billionaire.”
In 2008, Bush also told Latimer to take out a reference to the “conservative movement” in a speech. “Let me tell you something,” the President said. “I whupped Gary Bauer’s ass in 2000. So take out all this movement stuff. There is no movement.” When Latimer was “perplexed,” Bush explained, “Look, I know this probably sounds arrogant to say,” the president said, “but I redefined the Republican Party.”
Ha. So Bush said that Hillary has a "Fatass". This whole Jackassgate is getting blown wide open today! In reality, it's not just today, it's been the enitre week. From Joe Wilson's "YOU LIE!" to Serena Williams being a total bitch and then to Kanye acting 'da fool', it's been an entire seven days of being a total douche bag. At least it's only another 12 hours till this week is over and we can move past the whole Douchebag Week ceremonies.
If Kanye Liked Beyonces Video So Much, He Shoulda Put A Ring On It
I'm still surprised that MTV has a video music award. Mainly because I don't recall the last time I've ever seen a music video on MTV. To be fair, I haven't tuned into MTV all that much anyway. So I can't really comment on it so much as to say that it's usually filled with mind numbing shows like The Hills.
I'm under the assumption that most people don't view music videos on MTV, but instead view them on Youtube linked to them by their many "friends". Well, that is in till Viacom or the respected record label takes it down. But let's go with the idea that MTV actually shows these videos enough to warrant the need of an awards show. These are, without doubt, a stage to simply highlight this years more-than-likely staged event that will be in the papers the next day. This year's stunt just showed that Kanye West is pretty much a douche bag we already knew he was....
West, who is known for his outspoken ways, jumped up on stage while the 19-year-old Swift was making an acceptance speech for best female video for her hit song You Belong With Me, beating out singers including Beyonce Knowles and Lady Gaga.
"I am really happy for you," West said. "But Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time."
MTV said West, who was spotted earlier on the red carpet drinking alcohol, was ejected from an awards show already known for its circus-like atmosphere.
West received loud boos from the crowd when his name was mentioned later in the show.
Since Viacom is pretty strict on youtube, can't link you to one that would be around for more than three seconds. So here's this very strange vpod format of the event:
Watching that video was really painful. Not only was it MTV on the screen, which is painful enough, but Taylor Swift looks devastated and all of this took place immediately after she said "I sing country music, so thanks for giving me a chance!" What an awful thing to do to someone, to completely ruin their moment for them like that.
The reaction on Beyonces and the other folks in the seats was pretty much dead on. Though.. like I said in the opening, the chances of this being an MTV staged event is a Vegas odds favorite. Anything on MTV in the last decade has been completely motivated by ratings and advertising. Let's face it. The joke's on all of us. It just has to be, right? Kanye West is the Soy bomb of the music awards world. Kanye West even parodied himself a long time ago.
But let's take a few seconds to think that this isn't some planned staged event by MTV to gather ratings to their shitty network. Clearly the integrity of MTV's programming has been...compromised. Oh wait, who gives a shit about this award? This is the MTV video awards after all, Nobody gives a fuck about who wins. It's not a Grammy or anything. It's a statue of a guy in a space suit holding a flag. Should Kanye really get upset that Beyonce didn't get every single award possible? Somewhere in America, Chris Brown is watching a video of this shit and planning his comeback tour with a smile on his face. Because after tonight, people won't give two fucks about what he did to Rihanna.
Saying in the middle of a solid block of capitol letters that you are not crazy is pretty fucking futile. This is basically Kanye saying that he wants to have sex with Beyonce. Get in line, Kanye. Why was he so white knighting it in order to defend her honor anyway? Besides the fact that it seems like it had to be staged, there really wasn't a point to it. Maybe we should see what videos were choosen over Beyonce's in the best female video catagory? If you're so inclined to see female singers in some music videos, take a look at the nominated films HERE.
What was so great about the "Single Ladies" video? It's just her dancing and lip-syncing. Basically, her live performance. Beyonce's video is basically her shaking her ass for a few minutes and occasionally pointing to her robot hand. I can't even understand the simple lyrics she's running off about. All I hear is:
"I'm a thing o' lettuce, I'm a thing o' lettuce"
At least Taylor Swift kissed a dude in her video. You know, acting! Let's look at more of the lyrics from Single ladies:
If you cant pay my bills, my telephones bills if you cant then you and me are through etc
Wow. Seriously? At this point I'm thinking Beyonce is just a huge bitch. Thanks for prepetuating the stereotype of women as being money pits.
Times like this I'm so glad I'm going on 30 and officially "old" so that I now have no need to defend my complete lack of interest in these people and their music. Though for some odd reason I'm writing a blog about the whole instance? Much like other bloggers, I like the sound of my own voice.. or.. the look of my own typing... That and I think typing helps work my fingers out. NO PAIN, NO GAIN!!! WOOOOOOoooo!
Another question that should be asked is if these singers even have creative control over their music videos? I don't understand that aspect of it. Why they give the best video awards to the singer. Shouldn't it go to the director/firm that actually made the thing? I sure as hell would like to see future film directors up there instead of the band/singer accepting, what in essence is, a best actor award. Way to lip sing your song, buddy!
Though, this sort of thing happens often enough in the ratio of award ceremonies. Oh what? You don't remember the 1998 grammy's and Ol' Dirty Bastard?
No? I guess people just forget too easily.
I also can't believe there's a song called "My Life Would Suck Without You." Sure, it's upbeat and then it's a little addicting as in, it's stuck in my mind right now. But that's because I've actually met Kelly Clarkson (Oh snap, watch me drop names...) And if that doesn't take away any street cred I had in me, I suppose the next part will totally destroy all that built up edginess I had from those really crazy (but true) things I said on 9/11... Tayler Swift's video was sort of cute.
There. I said it. It was a cute. Cute enough that I'll embed it into my blog so that anyone can point at this blog post when I'm trying to be hard or mean and say "Look, you pussy, you enbedded a Tayler Swift video into your 'oh-so-edgy' blog"
It's not ground breaking at all. It's pretty forumalic. But it was sure as hell a lot better than some stupid black and white video of three women dancing around with some Michael Bay style camera movement. And I'll call anyone who believes it was all one shot a fucking moron. There's no way it could have been that. I see a few spots where it was edited so don't play that card with me.
But Ms. Swift's video at least told a story. Be it a generic one of nerd girl who is only contacts and some make up away from being a popular hot girl pinning over the high school jock who has a bitch for a girlfriend. It's not new and frankly, the formula has grown old on me in the last few years, but I still enjoyed that video and the concept.
She sure as hell didn't deserve to be upstaged like that. But hey, I guess that's what happens when you let him guzzle Hennessey before the show. At the very least Taylor Swift fans.. or just people who hate douche bags like Kanye, reacted back and acted out some revenge today.Look at what they did to Kanye's dead mother's site. I wonder what his PR people are doing to keep him at bay from that. He sure was really destroyed (as anyone would be, but just a little more) by her death.
Added to that, At least Taylor Swift has a sense of humor. I do give Taylor Swift more credit for at least having fun with her country music roots and mocking herself
See, now that's comedy. Ok, maybe I just like whitey over beyonce? The point is that Kanye West hasn't been doing a whole lot of things other than booasting his own ego and thinking that the world gives a shit about his opinions enough to force them down our throats. Where as in I, on the other hand, know people are only to read this if they want to.
But more than that, what has Kanye West done that has ever registered on my radar? I can't say I really like his music at all. In fact, the only positive thing I think he did was introduce a lot of main stream listeners of rap to Daft Punk with his Stronger Video.
Sadly, people just assumed he created that awesome beat and so, in a sense he leached off someone else's amazing creative content. Way to go Kanye. I'm not sure many people even know now that Daft Punk is a group that creates most every song that they hear in the club. Hell, Daft Punk should be getting MTV awards. At least the award sort of looks like the musicans who get it.
On that note, I'm going to end this on said awesome band. DAFT PUNK! Yo.
Once was a writer, tho, you see words to your left, so I guess I'm still that to some degree.
You can find my scribbles and mind ranting on this and various other places as a means to keep the creative, satirical and costco talk muscles worked out.
Was once apart of the tv industry, but I'm sure the NDA's are still in effect so let's move on from that. Now I spend my time slinging beer and keeping a building in one piece.
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