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I fucking love Kanye West

So Kanye West appeared on NBC's Hurricane Relief Benefit Concert and went completely off the teleprompter into what was clearly an emotional and impromptu message about the devastatingly slow efforts of the government to get help to New Orleans. I fucking love him. I mean, I liked Kanye before but watching this, watching someone be so brave in standing up and calling this what it is was incredibly powerful. Also, I'd like to note that NBC edited out the last portion of his comments when they aired the show on the west coast. The fuckers. Also of note, some anchors at FOX News think he should have been censored completely. Seriously, go watch. He totally made me cry. (video from the good folks at crooksandliars)

[ ~~Kanye West on NBC~~ ] -- avi, 7.8mb

And now something I'm going to call Reporters Straying from Their Scripts: (videos originally from crooksandliars)

Anderson Cooper, from CNN's Anderson Cooper 360º has been reporting from New Orleans the last few days. In a pretty stunning display of humanism, a lot of the reporters in New Orleans have been getting a lot more personal and a lot more willing to talk about the failures of the government during this crisis. Anderson Cooper interviews Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu and asks her directly, “Does the federal government bear responsibility for what is happening now? Should they apologize for what is happening now?”

[ ~~Anderson Cooper - Sen. Landrieu~~ ] -- wmv, 2.91mb

Anderson Cooper interviewing Trent Lott is even better.

[ ~~Anderson Cooper - Trent Lott~~ ] -- wmv, 7.11mb

CNN's Paula Zahn interviewing FEMA's Director, Mike Brown on Thursday. Paula Zahn: Sir, you're not telling me, you're not telling me you just learned that the folks at the convention center didn't have food and water until today did you? You had no idea they were completely cut off?

FEMA's Brown: Paula, the federal government did not even know about the convention center people until today.

[ ~~Paula Zahn - Mike Brown~~ ] -- wmv, 2.61

Lastly, Ted Koppel interviewing Mike Brown. And dude, Ted Koppel just refuses to let Brown duck the hard questions.

[ ~~Ted Koppel - Mike Brown~~ ] -- mov, 9.07mb

I've gotta say, it's weird to see the mainstream media news anchors straying from the status quo like this. Really disorienting.

There's a very interesting article on this over at Slate that you guys should read.

eta: feel free to link to this post if you want to.

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What did Kanye say and what was it edited to? Or did they just edit out that whole last line about Bush? I downloaded it last night and I heard him say "George Bush doesn't care about black people" and saw Mike Meyers looking hella freaked out and they cut to someone else.

Snagged Kanye, Cooper, and Coppel. And wow, your server is FAST! Thanks.

Downloaded Koppel and am gonna download the others as well. I read the transcript of Kanye's impromptu speech. The sad thing is that there's probably some truth to it, though I tend to think class is as much of a issue if not more in this instance as race. Poor is poor, no matter how you cut it. And they should have had a hell of a lot more assistance.

Thanks for these clips. I grabbed the Kanye and Ted Koppel bits. Big props to Kanye for saying what everyone is really thinking.

HOWEVER, right after, someone working the Red Cross phone bank said people were calling to cancel their donations. YIKES :-(

I just had a "moment" over in my LJ when I was talking about Kanye, and I linked to you because you have a clip of it, I hope you don't mind, sweetie.

Thank you for these.

Taking all of these -- thank you so much.

Took all of them, thank you.

Took all of them, am linking to this post. Please let me know if that is okay?

Also, much love to Kayne. My response to his critics? Yeah, he said it. Don't tell me he is wrong. Prove. It.

Wanted to let you know I downloaded all of them. Thank you.

have taken the Anderson Cooper clips. Many thanks for hosting and sharing.

I was linked from... um... somewhere.

thebratqueen, I think.
When I try to save, nothing happens, and when I try to just open the file it says "You don't have permission to access to this document on this server." Any ideas as to what I could do to fix this? I really appreciate your linking the clips and I'd like to see them! Thanks.

Grabbed them all. Thanks for these.

I've loved watching members of the media let go of the fitlers they're trained to employ on air.

I grabbed Kayne as well. Thank you. I had to use the YSI link because I had the same problem as

sluggirl had. But I'm at work so it might be some stupid company block.

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