Let's reprimand Kanye West!

Yesterday, the House of Representatives reprimanded Congressman Joe Wilson (R-SC) of saying 'you lie' during President Barack Obama's address to Congress on socialized medicine. (Let's call it what it is!) Wilson was responding to Obama's claim that illegal aliens wouldn't be covered under his plan. Everybody will admit that it was inappropriate for Wilson to disrupt the President's speech, but let's give this some perspective. The Republicans wanted to add amend-
ments to H.R. 3200 that would prohibit coverage to illegal aliens, but the Democrats shot them all down. Wilson also apologized to the President, who accepted the apology. But the Democrats in the House couldn't help themselves. They had to waste an hour of precious floor time to repri- mand a member who already apologized for his actions. The liberal press have been labeling this incident as being racist. They couldn't be more wrong. Nevermind the fact that Democrats will destroy the reputations of decent black conservatives like Condoleezza Rice and Clarence Thomas. In the eyes of the liberal media, Democrats are not capable of racism despite the fact that Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) was a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

Now let's flash forward to the MTV Video Music Awards show last Sunday night. When 19-year-old country star Taylor Swift won the award for best female music video, she got up on stage to accept it. Then out of nowhere, rapper Kanye West stormed the stage, grabbed the microphone out of Taylor's hand, and started ranting on how Beyonce's video should've won the award. How does this compare to what Congressman Wilson did? Did Wilson storm Obama's podium to take away his precious teleprompter? Did Wilson go on a tirade on how socialized medicine was bad?
Of course not! Nevermind the fact that West and Beyonce are black and Taylor Swift is white.
The liberal press would never think of this as a racist incident even though it wasn't. I think MTV should reprimand Kanye West from ever appearing on the VMA show ever again. He's done stupid things like this before. If a reprimand is good enough for a two-word rebuke, it should be good enough for Kanye West's outrageous stunt.

G.J. LaRouche, 16 September 2009