Obama’s donkey punch
Kanye West can’t seem to go 10 minutes without doing something to get the spotlight dragged onto him.
Every time that he has an outburst, such as the “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” comment made around the Hurricane Katrina victims, they tend to get bigger and flashier because the public is quickly becoming desensitized to his attention-whoring tactics.
That seems to have backfired this time with his mess at the MTV Video Music Awards. Kanye West quickly became Kanye Mess in the process.
Kanye’s outburst caused a general uproar from the Twitter-verse, with everyone from journalists, critics, celebrities, Joe blow and Internet Hitler all taking aim at the controversial rapper. The biggest name to perhaps throw a tomato on the public-relations-challenged artist is none other than President Obama.
Obama slams Kanye in a leaked “off the record” interview and simply calls him a jackass for his hijacking of Taylor Swift’s award acceptance. It may have been the best move of Obama’s presidency, and one that he should file away for later use against political enemies: The Obama Donkey Punch.
While many people will cry and whine that the president wasn’t proper or polite, I argue against that sentiment. The president is just like any other person, and as Wilson spoke his mind when he called Obama out during his health plan speech, Obama spoke his mind about something that no other reasonable American would disagree with: Kanye West is a jackass.
Rob @ September 16, 2009