DID ANYONE SEE KANYE WEST ON THE RED CROSS PRESENTATION ON NBC?

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― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 2 September 2005 23:47 (nineteen years ago)

(mike myers gives scripted speech)

(kanye rambles on about nothing for two minutes)

(mike raps it up)

and then, kanye:

"george bush doesn't care about black people"

(mike myers looks at kanye, shocked)

(quick emergency cut to chris tucker, who doesn't know what to say)

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 2 September 2005 23:48 (nineteen years ago)

Just heard about that. Good. Very good.

Someone post the audio/video ASAP.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 2 September 2005 23:53 (nineteen years ago)

Kanye, I will buy your albums as a thank-you.

― gear (gear), Friday, 2 September 2005 23:55 (nineteen years ago)

damn, i missed it.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 2 September 2005 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

just wait about an hour(if that).

Vid should be up at crooksandliars.com or wonkette or any of the usual places.

― kingfish 'doublescoop' moose tracks (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 3 September 2005 00:08 (nineteen years ago)

Saw it & hated everything that Kayne said before the George W. line because he sounded like an inarticulate dumbass. I LOVED the look on Myers face afterwards though.

― maria b (maria b), Saturday, 3 September 2005 00:10 (nineteen years ago)

yes, i'd pay to see video of this again.

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 3 September 2005 00:12 (nineteen years ago)

He seemed rather nervous....but fuckin' hats off to the man for the balls to flat out say: GEORGE W. BUSH DOESN'T CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 3 September 2005 00:13 (nineteen years ago)

I'm buyin' the man's album tomorrow for that (plus, y'know, fuckin' "Golddigger" does rock mightily!)

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 3 September 2005 00:14 (nineteen years ago)

Saw it & hated everything that Kayne said before the George W. line because he sounded like an inarticulate dumbass

Well, he was clearly nervous as fuck (which is odd, given the man's sizable ego....you'd think he'd relish speaking to such a massive audience). But his heart was in the right place, I think. He was just speaking off the cuff.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 3 September 2005 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

― PB, Saturday, 3 September 2005 00:17 (nineteen years ago)

http://img76.exs.cx/img76/9128/PWN3Dbush.jpg

― amon (eman), Saturday, 3 September 2005 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

video of this?

― astroblaster (astroblaster), Saturday, 3 September 2005 00:31 (nineteen years ago)

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― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 3 September 2005 00:36 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.hiphopmusic.com/archives/001133.html

― Candicissima (candicissima), Saturday, 3 September 2005 00:36 (nineteen years ago)

wow

― astroblaster (astroblaster), Saturday, 3 September 2005 00:39 (nineteen years ago)

dammit it keeps freezing halfway through

― amon (eman), Saturday, 3 September 2005 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

No one else noticed the "they've given him permission to go down and shoot us!" line?

― Candicissima (candicissima), Saturday, 3 September 2005 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

HOLY SHIT. that was bizarre and amazing and fucked-up and all that and more.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 3 September 2005 00:43 (nineteen years ago)

Yes it was.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 3 September 2005 00:44 (nineteen years ago)

but fuckin' hats off to the man for the balls to flat out say: GEORGE W. BUSH DOESN'T CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE.

What have you done for black people lately?

― Cunga (Cunga), Saturday, 3 September 2005 00:46 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not so sure George Bush cares about white people either...

― PB, Saturday, 3 September 2005 00:49 (nineteen years ago)

Larry King just asked Jesse Jackson about Kanye's quote.

What have you done for black people lately?

What are you trying to say, Cunga? That because I'm not the biggest Hip Hop fan that I must be a racist?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 3 September 2005 00:50 (nineteen years ago)

larry king asked jesse jackson about it and jackson said something like "well he did take a pretty long time to respond"

― astroblaster (astroblaster), Saturday, 3 September 2005 00:50 (nineteen years ago)

it's what he hasn't done, cunga. like starve them to death by the thousands.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 3 September 2005 00:50 (nineteen years ago)

WTF? Found this on Google News:

In a selfish and unprofessional move, Kanye West used a Red Cross benefit to benefit his own personal platform Friday night during the NBC Hurricane Katrina Relief program.

In a disgusting display, West strayed from his prepared script to offer an overflow of hatred from his mouth, taking the spotlight off of the matter at hand, turning the relief program into his own personal soapbox.

http://www.juiceenewsdaily.com/0605/news/west.html

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Saturday, 3 September 2005 00:52 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not sure I'd call it "an overflow of hatred".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 3 September 2005 00:53 (nineteen years ago)

"benefit to benefit his own personal platform"

Strangely, I didn't hear a "buy my album" plug? What platform would that be?

― Candicissima (candicissima), Saturday, 3 September 2005 00:55 (nineteen years ago)

His own personal soapbox? I think his comments were quite relevant to the matter at hand. Specifically spurred by the matter at hand, even.

― Jeff Reguilon (Talent Explosion), Saturday, 3 September 2005 00:57 (nineteen years ago)

I think he's right, BUT I think his clear nervousness and rambling did not help his case with anyone who didn't already agree.

I'm not sure whether I'm anticipating or dreading what the conservative media will say about it.

― Lyra Jane (Lyra Jane), Saturday, 3 September 2005 00:58 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not sure whether I'm anticipating or dreading what the conservative media will say about it.

He'll replace Ludacris as Bill O'Reilly's scapegoat.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 3 September 2005 00:59 (nineteen years ago)

YOU GO KANYE

― tricky (disco stu), Saturday, 3 September 2005 01:00 (nineteen years ago)

Apparently O'Reilly is being trashed by his own reporters on Fox right now, so maybe other things will be at play.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 3 September 2005 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

What are you trying to say, Cunga? That because I'm not the biggest Hip Hop fan that I must be a racist?

Not at all. I just think it's a little self-righteous to think the only thing keeping Bush from doing a better job is him being on a lower moral level than you or Kanye West.

― Cunga (Cunga), Saturday, 3 September 2005 01:05 (nineteen years ago)

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― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 3 September 2005 01:07 (nineteen years ago)

Newly posted transcript from the link above:

Mike Myers: [dutifully reads canned plea for charity on teleprompter]

Kanye: [abandons teleprompter] "I hate the way they portray us in the media. You see a black family and they say we are looting, you see a white family and they say they are looking for food. And, you know, its been five days because most of the people ARE black. And even for me to complain, I would be a hypocrite because I would turn away from the TV because it's too hard to watch. I've even been shopping before even giving a donation, so now I'm calling my business manager right to see what is the biggest amount I can give. And just to imagine, if I was down there and those are my people down there. If there is anybody out there that wants to do anything that we can help about the way America is set up the help the poor, the black people, the less well off as slow as possible. Red cross is doing as much as they can. We already realize a lot of the people that could help are at war right now, fighting another way. And now they've given them permission to go down and shoot us.

Mike Myers: [stands frozen in horror, decides to pretend nothing happened and stick with the teleprompter]

Kanye: GEORGE BUSH DOES NOT CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE.

Mike Myers: [descends into complete panic]

― Candicissima (candicissima), Saturday, 3 September 2005 01:08 (nineteen years ago)

Not at all. I just think it's a little self-righteous to think the only thing keeping Bush from doing a better job is him being on a lower moral level than you or Kanye West.

Who suggested that? There are plenty of elements preventing Bush from doing a better job.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 3 September 2005 01:14 (nineteen years ago)

WHERE IS JON MAYER TO HELP TO HELP KEEP THE PEACE BETWEEN WHITE AND BLACK AMERICA WITH HIS FINE BLEND OF COFFEE HOUSE ROCK AND KANYE WEST FRIENDSHIPPING!?!

― Cunga (Cunga), Saturday, 3 September 2005 01:15 (nineteen years ago)

Who suggested that? There are plenty of elements preventing Bush from doing a better job.

I agree with that, that's why I don't think we need to immediately make it an issue of morality and some people being more moral than others about caring for colored folk.

― Cunga (Cunga), Saturday, 3 September 2005 01:16 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/09/02.html#a4762

During the concert for Hurricane Relief, Kanye West and Mike Meyers were celebrity narrators during the segment, West said: (rush transcript)

...I hate the way they are portrayed in the media. Black families it says they are looting, white families it says the are looking for food....They've given them permission to go down there and shoot us"

"George Bush doesn't care about black people."

Mike Meyers was floored...

vid's up. get it now before the C&L servers are overwhelmed again.

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 3 September 2005 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

Mpg

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 3 September 2005 01:30 (nineteen years ago)

thx kingfish

mike myers nervous eye scratch after the "permission to shoot us" remark is funny. he even starts to rush his delivery of the teleprompted script, in an effort to get the fuck off camera asap ahahah

― amon (eman), Saturday, 3 September 2005 01:32 (nineteen years ago)

aahah i just noticed that when they cut to chris tucker, you can hear mike myers start to say "please call..." before they fade it out

― amon (eman), Saturday, 3 September 2005 01:34 (nineteen years ago)

I have the unpleasant feeling that Certain Parties are gonna ensure this winds up Kanye's Sinead-on-SNL moment.

― disco violence (disco violence), Saturday, 3 September 2005 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

As for the conservative media, here's what Drudge has up now:

KANYE WEST ON NBC FUNDRAISER: 'GEORGE BUSH DOESN'T CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE... They're saying black families are looting and white families are just looking for food...they're giving the (Army) permission to shoot us'... Actor Mike Myers asked people to donate... then Kanye West went on a tirade about Iraq...

Umm, could someone find me the "tirade about Iraq" in Kanye's comments kthxbye

― Taco Legend, Saturday, 3 September 2005 01:40 (nineteen years ago)

"We already realize a lot of the people that could help are at war right now, fighting another way"

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Saturday, 3 September 2005 01:42 (nineteen years ago)

Some tirade, innit?

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Saturday, 3 September 2005 01:43 (nineteen years ago)

I will now buy the new Kanye West album and I don't even care about the new Kanye West album.

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Saturday, 3 September 2005 01:44 (nineteen years ago)

As for the conservative media,

other conservative media, however, have been going on tirades against bush for a few days now. joe scarborough on msnbc, for example, who's pretty much turned his show into an anti-government soapbox.

this isn't a sinead-on-SNL moment. she attacked the pope. bush is not the pope. (yet.)

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Saturday, 3 September 2005 01:45 (nineteen years ago)

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Listen I resent the fact that when I was calling him a douchebag, it was intelligent debate, but when I point out the lack of Sea Pony action, suddenly this is a pointless conversation. Where is the justice!!!

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

OH WOW HOMELAND INEPTITUDE

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

A button w/ that on it wd go great w/ my FUCK BUSH shirt.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

I was almost too ashamed to buy a political t-shirt cos political photoshops and t-shirts and bumper stickers are usually about as clever as a dead turtle but the one I found is a fake radio station ad for "WSUX: The Sound of Freedom!" and I couldn't resist. Being a radio fag with an agenda.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

d-jones has gone off the internet because of you

― ken taylrr has gone off the internet because of you (ken taylrr), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

I never him.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

I remember one time two friends of mine who are former (current?) ILX posters and are also Asians, they told me this story about a woman insulting them by calling them crackers. I mean seriously, what?

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

say, which career options have "whoring" in their job description?

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

Er, that story isn't quite analogous to this situation in my case, Ally!

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

No I was just reminiscing, trying to explain what is up to Shakey. I gotta go breed like rabbits now.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

cutty why did you sign up for notification on this thread? I demand answers.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

I also liked how d "I am so smart; look how smart I am by not resorting to insults; watch me brush off your juvenilia; FUCK YOU, NIGGERS" rocked that final superfluous comma while glossing over the initial required comma in his show-yer-ass dénouement.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

I think it was meant to be performance art.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

cutty why did you sign up for notification on this thread? I demand answers.

Ha - I was about to say! Hope you appreciate the on-topic discourse, sir!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

After that post up there I now have no problem at all in believing that Jamie over on the Kill Whitey thread was real.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

Haha I'm not entirely convinced that d jones is real!

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

Round, round, round we go!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

Don't forget to visit my website, you bunch of low life, theiving, ignorant, uneducated, whoring, breeding like rabbits, niggers!

― d jones, Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

The real d jones would NEVER have used a comma after "website"!

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

Haha I should alert y'all that that site is NOT work-safe.

― deej.., Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

The bottom row of pictures explains much.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

No I'm pretty sure it raises far more questions than it answers.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

after Chris Walken :
http://www.kanyewestforpresident.com

― blunt (blunt), Thursday, 8 September 2005 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha

love the quote from "Bob Dobalina"!!!

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 8 September 2005 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

get off kanye's nuts. if u were on that roof for 5 days cuz u didnt have no money to leave,u just paid ur rent or whatever; on the roof, in an attic like they were, w/no a/c, no food, no water, w/a 2 month old infant thats dehydrated, delirious, what would you say? "ah, the president did the best he could". bull@#$%. kanye been my nig from day 1, and always will be.

― mrs nubb, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

hey: http://www.boingboing.net/2005/09/08/katrina_kanye_remixe.html

woot!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 15 September 2005 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

bump. this looks cool.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 15 September 2005 10:16 (nineteen years ago)

Kanye West is a stupid [mod deletion] trying to start controversy. Rather than do a 3 minute spot on a telethon to be chartiable, he decides to use it to his own advantage to say something stupid. Selfish is the best way to describe Kanye's comment. What did he think was going to happen. Black America would finally rise up, overthrow the oppressionist white government, who pays welfare checks, started the NAACP and gives more opportunities to blacks in this country than whites could ever dream of, and crown him (Kanye) their new leader. Keep trying. As long as blacks in this country want to work against the system the longer their going to be uneducated, out of work ghetto rats.

― john denver, Sunday, 25 September 2005 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

Lounging with Tupac and Biggie has taught you nothing, then, eh, Mr. Denver?

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Sunday, 25 September 2005 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

their going to be uneducated

― login moron (eman), Sunday, 25 September 2005 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

he oppressionist white government, who pays welfare checks, started the NAACP

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 25 September 2005 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

x-post
I also enjoyed "as long as [...] the longer [...]"

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 25 September 2005 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

xxpost:

Yeah, annoying, racist, ill-informed, and dead. This thread needs an exorcism, stat.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Sunday, 25 September 2005 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 25 September 2005 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

seems like the noise dudes are bored again.

― Am I Right?, Sunday, 25 September 2005 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

what? noise dudes don't troll anon.

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 25 September 2005 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

sure they don't.

― Am I Right?, Sunday, 25 September 2005 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

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HOW WUDE!

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Sunday, 25 September 2005 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

you're confusing anon with amon

― kurt broder (dr g), Sunday, 25 September 2005 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

'anon' is in use by a registered user. If you are that user you can log in below, otherwise go back and enter a different name.

Am I Right? a.k.a. JustSaying

― amon (eman), Sunday, 25 September 2005 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

HAHAHA I didn't notice the irony until now. He's wearing a polo t-shirt with the U.N. logo on it while criticizing an American president for not caring about black people because he didn't come to intervene during a tragedy. Ironically it was the U.N. that wouldn't intervene in Rwanda ten years ago and stop blacks from being exterminated by their own black government. It's like condemning Hitler for racism while wearing a t-shirt with Stalin's face on it.

-- Cunga (Cunga), Friday, September 2, 2005 11:51 PM (1 year ago)

― and what, Thursday, 5 April 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

this may still be the coolest thing Kanye has ever done

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 5 April 2007 17:34 (eighteen years ago)

if only he'd then flown off the planet afterwards, right

― and what, Thursday, 5 April 2007 17:39 (eighteen years ago)

well he DOES have a spaceship

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 5 April 2007 17:41 (eighteen years ago)

cunga is such a pud.

― stevie, Thursday, 5 April 2007 23:32 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

lol kanye

― cutty, Monday, 14 September 2009 03:25 (fifteen years ago)

Yo, Katrina, I'm really happy for you, I'm a let you finish, but the Galveston Hurricane has one of the best hurricanes of all time!

― super-gay-crazy bitch-made devil-racist beast-mode swag (The Reverend), Monday, 14 September 2009 07:35 (fifteen years ago)

It was cool when ODB did it.

― Mike Crandle, Financial Analyst, Bear Stearns, New York, NY 10185 (res), Wednesday, 16 September 2009 03:00 (fifteen years ago)

http://board.mdc2.org/albums/mdc6/1252991788173.jpg

― am0n, Wednesday, 16 September 2009 03:44 (fifteen years ago)

lol @ ILXors in 2005 posting videos as MPGs via YouSendIt.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 16 September 2009 05:10 (fifteen years ago)

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