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Bill O'Reilly calls Kanye West a "patriot" (Video)

4:21 p.m. · July 24, 2008 · by Ethan Stanislawski

Even Kanye's good deeds have caught the attention of the conservative press. On the same day fellow rapper Nas publicly picketed Fox News and lashed out at Bill O'Reilly on the Colbert Report, Kanye West was earning Bill-O's high praise. That's right, the man who once declared that "George Bush doesn't care about black people" was featured on The O'Reilly Factor's "Pinheads & Patriots" feature for his outreach to troops in Iraq:

The generosity of Kanye's support of Iraq troops is not tarnished. It just happens to be  a particularly poor time interjection by O'Reilly for Kanye (but excellently timed for Bill-O himself).