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Jay-Z Disregards Matt Lauer's Hard Work, Maintains Kanye Was Right
If this was a month ago, the headline could have referred to either Kanye West's provocative comments after Hurricane Katrina or his ill-conceived assertion about the quality of Beyonce's "Single Ladies." Taylor Swift is a bug on his windshield at this point; it's now West versus our former president. Jay-Z stepped out in favor of Kanye's original thoughts, essentially giving the finger to Matt Lauer's attempts at reconciliation for the rapper and the politician:
“I 100 percent agreed with the comments that he made, because again… it felt like it was being done to black people. Like all you saw on the news was black people with help signs and all this stuff, and then you have this picture of the commander in chief, who we all rely on, just flying by….”
There is no word yet if George Bush has also been affected by these statements, or he just kind of quit caring sometime in late 2008. [The Daily Swarm]
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Bush just did say that the Kanye diss was the low point of his presidency of all things.
In his book, Bush claims that the worst moment of his Administration was being called a racist by Kanye West.
Wow, for a supposed leader to consider what this one hot-tempered individual THINKS or SAYS about him to be the worst part of his Administration tells volumes. Really, this is worse than the fact that his decisions (Iraq, Katrina) led to the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians is not much worse proves that this guy was far from the "Compassionate Conservative" he and Karl Rove marketed Bush as.
Paul Harris
Author, “Diary From the Dome, Reflections on Fear and Privilege During Katrina"
Paul Harris