Kanye West and other performers at tonight’s multi-network telethon for hurricane relief have been warned to keep their political views to themselves.
“I think people understand that politicizing this will certainly not be a smart thing to do as far as inspiring people to call in and rally around this cause,” executive producer Joel Gallen said.
That may be true, but live television does seem to invite people to do stupid things. I wouldn’t count it out.
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This is why fewer and fewer people are tuning into the networks–everything has to be powderized and deodorized.
No letting a black man say what the vast majority of Americans already believe . . . nope, can’t have that . . . back to eating bugs and seeing who gets voted off the island, important stuff like that . . .
By his definition,he’s an Entertainer. He certainly has a right to his opinion, tho.
I wonder, what other motive might he have? Maybe a little self promotion? Surely not! A little extra “Pub,from the Homeys?” Naaa!
They’ve got Kayne figured out in Boston. Too bad so many people on this blog don’t. I guess this is what a halftime show by CF, GetReal,XXX or Galahad would be like.Patriots/Raiders game coverage.
West did one tune, ”Heard ‘Em Say.” Yet it was disconcerting to hear his name booed loudly by Patriots fans who evidently didn’t appreciate his nationally televised comment the other night on a Hurricane Katrina benefit that President Bush ”doesn’t care about black people.” The boos were thunderous and lasted for much of his number.Boston Globe.comWell done, Boston.
McCormick said it well. Phil, you should reprint his column here.
As far as I am concerned Kayne West can go and “do a Cheney” to himself.
Kanya West’s problem wasn’t the fact he was wrong, he just didn’t eloquently convey his thoughts to the public. It’s known fact that GW Bush blew off meeting requests with NAACP and many other black community groups during his campaigning for presidency. GW Bush’s actions have shown us that he doesn’t hate black people. Instead, he just doesn’t want anything to do with poor minority folks.
If the NAACP and other black community groups are truly helping blacks, why are there so many blacks that still need help? Are they only holding out their hands for more federal $ in order to continue the cycle of poverty, or are they also doing something useful about the culture of poverty, crime, and men using women?
There isn’t much reason for a candidate to meet with any self-appointed victim’s group that has already indulged in frequent ideological demagoguery against him.
Actually, there are far more poor whites in this country than poor blacks.
Bush and the Republicans aren’t helping them either.
Thanks for the update on who got booed during the latest gladitorial contest between ridiculously overpaid athletes, Jimmy.
I don’t watch much commercial tv myself because I can’t stand to watch twenty-two minutes of commercials for every hour of programming.
I do listen to K-State football on the radio though.
You know! I have no clue who Kayne West is. He is just another punk rapper right?
If all the entertainers were allowed to make political statements during their performances, the networks would have been forced to provide more airtime. As it was, they only had an hour. By politicizing the event, the performers may have been jeopardizing the purpose of the event, which is to RAISE MONEY FOR THE SURVIVORS OF THIS TERRIBLE DISASTER!! This event was not designed to be political in nature. End of story.
And — Gallahad — if you don’t like commercials, get a DVR recorder.
Jiminy Bisoni,
Pretty damn funny to hear you sing the praises of Boston. Guess racism makes for strange bedfellows, doesn’t it? Wonder what else Beantown and Witchy-taw have in common.
Kanye’s got Bush’s number, and only the die-hard Bush worshippers go on vilifying him. It’s hilarious. Seems like just yesterday I heard the GOP (specifically, self-hating closet case Ken Mehlman) pontificating about all the inroads they were going to make with middle-class blacks. That was before Bush’s FEMA left thousands of poor black folks to languish, die, and rot in the sun.
What’s the name of the conservative, black, hack commentator you, Gail, and every other Wingnut loves to tout? The one with the pretzel logic tall-tale of how liberals and their insidious welfare policies are responsible for the sapping the lifeblood of poor blacks in order to keep them on ‘the liberal plantation?’
Well, here’s my response. Y’all have your own problem to confront: the fact that the Right wing leadership of this country is subjecting thousands of urban black folks to concentration-camp conditions.
You heard me right, Jiminy. New Orleans evacuees were starved and left to die by the state of which they are citizens. And now, they exist in a legal nether world, unable to return to their homes, where they aren’t being told where they’re being sent, with limited provision for their well-being, and subjected to state police violence at every second. Sound familiar?
Welcome to AmeriKKKa. It’s something you and I will never see, Jiminy, because you (and I, for that matter) were fortunate enough to be born financially rich (relatively) and melanin- poor.
This also applies to the folks of South Bostom, who, for all their entrenched poverty, at least don’t have to labor under the additional burden of being a visible minority. And don’t think they don’t know it. So of course they booed Kanye West: the secret of America is that if you’re white, it doesn’t matter whether you’re rich or poor. You always have someone to look down on. Chris Rock said it best: “‘ain’t no white person going to trade places with me, and I’M RICH! [In white person voice] ‘I’m going to keep ridin’ this white thing, see where it takes me!’”
This is it for black Republicans, Jiminy. Ken Blackwell, and every other one of them. Kiss ‘em all goodbye. Because from here on out, any one of them who stands up for the GOP, when it let his or her brethren die in droves before dispersing them across the country like cattle, will have ZERO credibility in the African American community. And once Barbara Bush let it slip what she–and the GOP–really think of black folks, that only put the knife in a little deeper.
If I was a Wingnut who had to defend Bush’s racial politics, I’d be looking anywhere I could–Boston included. The attempt to make an example of Kanye West stinks of desparation. I’ll use Clarence Thomas’s words: can you say, “high-tech lynching?”
CF: West was booed loudly in the People’s Republic of Massachusetts. America’s on my side, not yours. Thank God.
I’ve truly come over the course of these blogs to hate one JImmy Bisoni. I mean that Jimmy. You are everything that is wrong with America.
But ya know what? Even as I hate you and yours, I take heart in knowing that you are increasingly coming across as dis-connected from reality.
“The country is with me” (your post)
Uh Jimbo? Bush approval now 38% fella. Now that’s not QUITE down to the bare bones of the wing nuts, but it is getting close. How’s it feel to be a proud idiot?
The whole nation and the whole world knows that bush is a failure. The outpouring of support for the hurricane victims is in a way an apology for that failure. People want to show the hurrricane victims that even though bush does not care about them, that we do.
Slowly, the survivors’ stories are getting told and reported.
What we hear is that, white or black, the “left-behinds” in New Orleans faced local sheriffs and Nat’l Guard whose primary job was TO KEEP THEM THERE.
In view of this, I wonder if the cops who turned in their badges did so out of protest for the policies they were forced to implement.
Cops and Guardsmen sealed off bridges so that no one could leave. They lined people up every four hours at the Superdome for busses that never arrived.
After days, when some busses did arrive, authorities forced evacuees onto the busses and WOULDN’T LET THEM OFF until they reached their destination, unknown to the evacuees.
All I can say is those authorities should be glad I don’t live in New Orleans. Because nobody’s gonna stop me from crossing a bridge in my own country.
JR hatesHe really do.If you make sensethen he hates you.
JR, bud, welcome to the club–you’ve entered the troll’s pantheon!
It means you’ve made an valid argument the troll knows to be true but can’t admit.
Thanks CF. But as XXX has demonstated today, the right is easy meat.But I do appreciate the kudos. With my little webtv, I don’t have the links or resources that you do.
Maybe that says something. They can’t even beat lil’ ol me.
Heh
Let’s just put it out there. For the most part, a majority of white americans don’t won’t to either admit, or deal with the fact that they really deep down don’t want to deal with black america’s problems. Just because there is no slavery does not mean the mentallity that allowed it is gone. Don’t get me wrong, everyone, black,white or whatever are responsible for the outcome of there life to an extent. But at the starting gate one group has a bike and the other a car (guess who hasthe car). It is not equal and never will be, not if the group with the car has anything to say about it. Katrina exposed the “willing” capicity of this country’s government, and why you should not fear Middle East terrorism as much as you should fear this country dissolving into seperate regions (from within)from the federal goverments inability to take care of the united regions!
Somebody should give West a bunch of bananas and put him in a cage! The black race is failed, parasitic race and a plague on humanity. Negroes need to stop whining and just STFU!
Viva La Raza Blanco!!
well bush is a up to down loser i would never vote him as president