Sep 14th, 2009
Not so grand-standing
Joe Wilson might breathe a sigh of relief today, with Kanye West capturing the headlines in this week’s Inappropriate Outburst/Public Apology.
Kanye disrupted the VMA’s – and more specifically, Taylor Swift – by interrupting her acceptance speech for Best Female Video with the sole purpose of telling the world that Beyonce deserved to win. *Wince*
Beyonce, for her part, looked openly shocked (indeed, her expression brought back memories of Mike Meyers’ reaction when Kanye went on a rant about George Bush and black people during a live Katrina fundraiser). Beyonce later invited Taylor Swift onstage during her own award for Video of the Year.
With celebrites all a-twitter about the incident, it would seem that those publicly denouncing Kanye in 140 characters or less are almost as big a story as the outburst itself. And yet, we wonder if the even more pithy canvas of a T-shirt would be somehow more effective in staunching the twitics than Kanye’s ongoing blog apologies. (He DOES NOT HAVE A F#$%ING TWITTER, after all.)
And so we award a Fantasy T-Wearer Award to Kanye West today. May he wear the “Apology Loading” T-shirt with introspection.







Jackasses offended by comparison to Kanye
http://theskunk.org/2009/09/jackasses-offended-by-comparison-to-kanye/
[...] the latest installment of off-color political statements, Barack Obama made his opinion of Kanye West’s VMA grandstanding public by calling him a “jackass.” Which is to say that Obama made an off-the-record [...]