There are some days when we don't know what to think about the world. Like, we've always said Kanye West is an idiot. We knew it from the days of his first major hit, "Golddigger", where he won kudos for celebrating a woman who's a user of men.
But - and here's the tricky part - we also had to wonder about the people who bought that record, celebrated it as a feminist statement of (we hate this word) "empowerment", and showered this lame brain (he mentions going to a psychic in the lyrics) with riches for it.
Then came his disgusting attack on President Bush during Hurricane Katrina. Again, it wasn't bad enough that the asshole said it, but that a large segment of the public gave him props for it - something that clearly troubles him now - as it should.
It wasn't until the Taylor Swift incident that anyone seemed to get a clue about what kind of brain cell-challenged monster they had supported/created, but, by then, it was too late:
He'd sunk your battle ship.
Now, of course, everyone's happy to laugh at him. But, the truth be told, the general public has no one to laugh at but themselves. They are Kanye West. They are the ones who applauded the ugly message in "Golddigger". They are the ones who applauded the ugly message about President Bush. They are the ones who gave Kanye their money - so much he'll be rich for the rest of his days - for saying and doing the wrong things. And now it is they who will happily abandon him because they never believed in loyalty, and aren't smart enough, or reflective enough, to see their own wrong-headed role in his life, or themselves in his lantern-jawed visage.
Well, they can think whatever they want - but so can we - and we think the public is just as guilty, and should see itself as just as troubled, as he is. Say whatever you like:
Jesus does NOT walk with any of you.
Deceiver.com
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ReplyDeleteA couple of weeks ago, Democratic pollster Doug Schoen conducted a poll that found 48% of the population believes President Bush did a better job than President Obama has been doing, and only 43% believe the opposite.
As President Obama's approval numbers have fallen, President Bush's favorability numbers have climbed.
The latest elite attempt to manufacture a new FDR, a left-leaning president who reflects their worldview and their ideological orientation, has failed. To maintain credibility, the elites must change course.
Kanye West, the hero who spoke truth to power to the sweet sound of elite applause, must become a scapegoat. It must be made about him and his general craziness, and not about the elites who heaped adoration on him.
You are seeing stage one of the redemption of President Bush, not because the people who skewered him just five years ago have suddenly come around, but because the American people are starting to realize that he wasn't possessed by the spirit of Hitler after all, and he wasn't even a horrible president.
And they're starting to realize that the elite predictions of 2008-2009, predictions of a total liberal lock on political power for a generation, were wrong.
They have to cut loose the Kanye Wests, Michael Moores, and other assorted nutjobs who rose to prominence in the 00's.
All of a sudden, all of the liberals who were forwarding me emails about incipient fascism in the Bush years are decrying the crazies. The suddenly "rational" liberal Jon Stewart just gave Rachel Maddow a public spanking on her own show. Keith Olbermann's master suspended him to keep him in line.
If the elite media doesn't become correct its course and become rational, it will never have the credibility to launch another President Clinton or President Obama...
Look behind the curtain.
Youngblood, the most vociferous critics of President Bush II have been vindicated by the man himself, on the release of his memoirs.
ReplyDeleteThey claimed that his intelligence on WMDs was wrong, that he acted too slowly on Hurricane Katrina, that he failed to bring public perception with him on his major moves - that he appeared autocratic.
Are you dissing GWB for being wrong, now that he's a statesman? Is that what you're doing, Youngblood?