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In 2005, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the Red Cross sponsored a telethon hosted by several celebrities who read pre-written scripts off of a teleprompter. Kanye West and Mike Myers of Wayne's World II fame were to do a dual narration and read the script while images of the hurricane's effects played in montage behind them.

Mike Myers dutifully read his part verbatim. When Myers looked over to cue Kanye West to speak his part, Kanye went freestyle, spouting gems which will be legendary on the internets for decades. Kanye stopped his tirade and Mike Myers stepped right in to finish his second part of the speech, again reading it perfectly verbatim. When he was finished he looked back at Kanye and Kanye said nothing but "George Bush doesn't care about black people." Mike Myers then made a face like he'd just swallowed a lizard, and the producers immediately cut to a bewildered Chris Tucker who bagan spouting any crap he can come up with such as "Help! Please help. HELP HELP HELP!" and other nonsense which was on topic but was just as inarticulate. Just watch the video.

Contents 1 Selected Quotes 2 Official Response 3 Media Response 4 Video Clips 5 External Links 6 See Also

Selected Quotes

Kanye West:

• "Most of the people are black"
• "America is set up to help the poor and the black people and the less well off as slow as possible"
• "We already realize that a lot of the people who could help are at war right now, fighting another way"
• "And they have given people permission to go down there and shoot us"
• "We want pre-nup! We want pre-nup, YEAH!"
• "It cost a million dollars, and Pamela Anderson was in it."
• "If I don't win, this awards show loses credibility."

Official Response

“	Many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this - (chuckle) - this is working very well for them.	„
—Barbara Bush, On the massive influx of hurricane victims into Tejas

Media Response

“	So tragically, so many of these people, almost all of them that we see, are so poor and they are so black.	„
—Wolf Blitzer, His glasses! They do something!

Video Clips

Click one to see the video

• Small snippet of his rant
• Entirety of his rant

External Links

• Rapweekly.com article
• KANYE WEST launched an attack on President Bush
• Wolf Blitzer Broadcast
• A poll on whether George Bush really hates black people. Verdict: Yes.

See Also

• BECAUSE MY CAPS LOCK KEY IS LOUD
• Imma Let You Finish