Kanye West Snubbed By George Clooney Haiti Telethon
Kanye West's outspoken reputation has left him on the outside looking in, says the gossip site Popeater. Tomorrow, celebrities from various mediums will partake in a George Clooney-hosted telethon to raise aid and relief for last week's tragic earthquake in Haiti, a disaster that has reportedly taken the lives of nearly 200,000.Not invited was Kanye West, who previously stirred controversy when he said, then-United States President "George Bush doesn't care about black people." Someone on the production staff spoke to Popeater, and cited that 2005 incident, as well as the MTV Video Music Awards incident with Taylor Swift last year as reason enough to not include the Chicago superstar.
"Kayne [sic] has to make everything about himself. He will do anything to steal the spotlight and, well, this night it's just not about him," said the anonymous "producing partner."
The special, airing tomorrow evening on all major networks, including MTV, will however feature on-site reporting in Haiti from Wyclef Jean. The onetime Fugees front-man and prolific producer has raised over one million dollars in aid in less than a week.
UPDATE: Today Us Magazine reports that yesterday's quotes were not a factual. A new, but again nameless rep spoke to the leading Pop culture magazine and said, "That's absolutely not true. We did reach out to Kanye." The new facts come with additional information that says Will Smith, Jay-Z, Rihanna and Alicia Keys have now also pledged their support to tonight's event.
The telethon is airing on networks at this time (3:03 pm EST)
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A Racist Black Person:
shiet why aint niggaz making jokes and shiet about the haiti quake?? wheres the "tsunami song" for haiti??? Niggaz always be claming racism and shiet like Kanye but when shiet happens to them...they act like nothing has happened
Carlos Mencia.:
thats what you get for being a gayfish
Bleaks':
WHO THE FUCK CARES? Its not about Kanye or Clooney, ITS ABOUT HAITI.
Support the cause
Chris_Jericho:
good job clooney I wouldn't let kanye anywhere near this haiti telethon.
Chris_Jericho:
good job clooney I wouldn't let kanye anywhere near this haiti telethon.
Ashley Moore:
Kanye should have been allowed to participate in the show because he has millions of fans and they would have supported him. Forget George he is crazy for not letting him do the show. ass
SLABB MUZICK:
i believe thats messed up how they treating Kanye, because right now this haiti devistation shouldnt be about wut kanye did in the pass, and if these people were really concerned with helping haiti they would take all the help they could get which would include Kanye because he got money to. Another thing is the last time i checked America was a free country, which gives you freedom of speech where ever you are being the awards or television. Its F**K dat they leavin him out when really haiti disaster should bring us closer......
bobby_b_nice:
kanye is getting what was coming to him. if you act like an ass, people are not going to want to associate with you. and even if they didnt want him on their program, its not like his ass couldnt donate to the relief effort. i doubt his appearance let alone any single person's appearance on the telethon would really boost donations. it was a collaborative effort of people who have proven (in the public) that they aren't only about self-promotion and egotism.
and yes America is the land of the free. but its up to you how you want to be portrayed. you can say whatever the hell you want (there is a limit though) but dont expect people to respect you as an individual just because you said it. why? because i am "free" to consider you an individual with a lack of self control based on how you have acted in the "past"..more so if the "past" tends to repeat itself.
miahSF:
look if ye wanted to speak his mind at that award show then fuck it why would you act outraged at it? i think EVERYBODY knows what to expect from kanye damn its like hes the most hated man in the world after tiger. and to that anonymous bitchboy that said kanye would make the telethon all about him; i think that is untrue. i believe his beliefs and comments may overwhelm everyones attention, but with him saying bush didnt care about black people kindof impowered you all i know it did. everybody needs to stop riding his ass cus this disaster needs all the celebrity attention it can recieve to raise money. people need to set their emotions aside for 1 minute and look at the biggger picture. this is bigger than kanye
Not White:
First I want to say that I am a black male. The fact that someone actually said that having Kanye stick is foot in his mouth on the telethon would've brought George Clooney more publicity, is probably the dumbest statement I've ever heard. Kanye West is nothing compared to George Clooney. The whole Taylor Swift thing.. well he may have helped increase her CD sales, but I doubt he made that much of an impact, since her album was selling pretty well, and she still would be as popular as she is now, even without that incident. Y'all are giving Kanye too much credit. I'm actually glad that he wasn't on it, because he does make it all about himself. His last CD sucked ass, and he just hates on everything really. He's just an egomaniac. I also like how a lot of you are talking about the whole "Bush hates black people" comment. If you really think Bush hates black people, then I think you're stupid. He had two African Americans in his cabinet that had pretty big roles. Just because they don't talk like they're from the hood, doesn't make them any less black than you or me. Bush wasn't the reason why the Katrina disaster happened. That was FEMA's fault. And you also have to fault the people that decided to stay in New Orleans when they were told several times to evacuate. And don't act like the hurricane that hit the coast of Texas was handled all that great, because Bush is from Texas. The state government handled most of the problems that occurred, and didn't rely so heavily on the federal government's assistance. I am in no means a Bush supporter but people only use Bush as a poster child for everything that went wrong in the country during his term. Don't be so ignorant.
miahSF:
if bush is such a fuckin hero what did he do for you and YOUR people while his 8 fuckin years in office. just having 2 black ppl in your cabinet isnt really shit. i bet everything wrong with america today is more than halfly rooted to the bush regime. playing devils advocate can get you burned.
not white not black, you know what who cares?:
haha this guy tries to give an argument that race doesnt matter and then claims that he is black to try and make his point more valid? wtf if you cant see thats stupid then go back to school.
Also yes you may have somthing with bush not hating black people, more bush doesnt care about poor people, who were the majority of the poor people in New Orleans? black people, hence Kaynes commment which was said in a time when you could see that he was hurting from the fact nothing was being done.
Quick question have the people whos houses were destroyed in Texas had them rebuilt and now live normal lifes? YES, ask the same question for New Orleans and its defiantly no.
"people only use Bush as a poster child for everything that went wrong in the country during his term." maybe thats because he was the fucking president? and i want a president that will act quickly and fairly when our country has a major disaster.
Don't be so ignorant.
That dude named Elli:
Co-sign with "Not White Not Black." How could you honestly say the president shouldn't be a poster child for everything that went wrong in the country during his term? Obviously he personally didn't create Katrina but he handled the aftermath terribly. Then you want to blame FEMA? Please tell me you know what FEMA is. Matter of fact, I'll help you. A Google search will bring this exact statement for the first link at FEMA.org "Agency of the US government tasked with Disaster Mitigation, Preparedness, Response and Recovery planning." I feel like I shouldn't have to connect the dots any further but I'm not really sure you know what the president does. Then again, if you don't feel the need to educate yourself before you start rambling online, maybe someone should just take away your keyboard. One
Assassin221:
It doesn't matter whether what Kanye said during the Katrina thing was true or not, if you fuck up the program you don't get a callback the next time around. Why would they want to invite a dude who's already proven he might be a liability?
Lima:
Agreed. Its as simple as that
MPistol:
ok that's cool - ya'll cute for saying Ye was snubbed - whatever
know who really got snubbed? Haitians!
They were broke last year too yo..... and nobody cared then
Kroz-B:
What a jack ass - Barack Obama
Real talk smithy:
Right, the point in Mr West being "snubbed" (if he really has been) was to keep all the attention on the Hati disaster and raise money because thats the point of the show. Personally i dont believe this has had its intended effect.
Firstly what is everyone on this thread talking about? Kanye not the disaster.
Secondly even if he came on the telethon and said somthing stupid (which again i doubt he would do) all it would do is damage his own reputation, but more importantly give Clooney a fuck load of free publicity.
This leads me to Taylor Swift, yeah he runined her speech and thats bad, but he has said sorry. But people acting like hes done the worst thing in the world for her wtf? Hes given her a level of publicity that would have cost millions of dollars and boosted her career ten times, her sales during this time were amazing. So dont feel to bad for her.
Also people talking bout the "Bush hates black people" thing saying that Bush cares equally for every person, then explain why the richest country in the world still 4/5 years on has not repaired the damge in the New Oreleans? It doesnt added up.
Just thought i'd spread a bit of knowledge on some of the dumb retards that clutter these pages...
David Anderson:
I stand behind you 100 percent bro.
People need to friggin get over the fact that he did what he did to Taylor Swift
Its done
He apologized and she accepted
its done
get the fuck over it
its been 4-5 months and this shit is still going on
kanye is more sensible to say something like that
but the fact that he stated last time was true
look at the way Bush swooped in when the hurricane hit Texas a couple of years back
and compare that to the way he reacted with katrina
BIG DIFFERENCE
just because kanye west decided to speak the truth, he deserves to be shunned and outlawed?
HOWEVER,
people need to grow the fuck up and realize that this is not about celebrities and what they have done
it is about the Haitian people
the very same people that are digging themselves out of the rubble
Wyclef even said it tonight, that there isn't enough space in the cemeteries to bury the people, because the cemetery is not big enough
people need to stop worrying about celebrities and do what they can to help Haiti, the true people that are in need. Who gives a fuck about Kanye West and Taylor Swift, when the people that need it the most are hurting
Beige:
kanye didn't give that bitch taylor swift any amount of sales or money, first off. kanye doesn't belong in a selfless or humanitarian display because he is neither of those thing. he is actually obnoxious, and thinks that he's something he's not. also, you backing kanye's statement that "bush doesn't care about black people", is just racist. i don't care what color you are, everybody had it rough during the bush administration. and finally, do you really think that we are the richest nation in the world? everybody is a retard for not knowing that right? well... america is not the richest country in the world. not even top 3... shut the fuck up.
David Anderson:
you are one ignorant dude
who the fuck said that he is selfless or is a humanitarian
kanye just stated a fact that many people had a hard time believing, or seeing.
how does kanye west saying "bush hates black people" racist?
your logic is flawed because if you look at the population of new orleans, a large portion is black. in no way am i talking about the whole reign of the bush regime.
i am talking about the situation with katrina that was not handled properly
yes i understand that alot of people from different walks of life were affected by the bush administration, but hurricane katrina affected black people mainly.
I have a question for you. Have you been to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina hit?
I have and i can tell you people are living like they are in refugee camps. its predominantly black people who inhabit these poor areas.
I also understand that America is not the richest country in the world, but they are so keen on helping other countries out with their problems, so how come they can't use some of that money that they spend on wars on their own people, espically people in New Orleans and effected areas.
REAL TALK SMITHY:
@ David Anderson, cheers man nice to see someone who thinks before he types
@ Beige
Total GDP (gross domestic product, you retard) USA: 14,441.425 Japan: China: 4,327.448 Russia: 1,676.586 India: 1,206.684 Brazil: 1,572.839 all figures in billions and there a bit old, 2008 figures, but you get the point (hopfully).
I never said he was a humanitarian, far far far from it, you missed my point completely all i said is that this news has cause us to talk about him rather than the disaster.
TheGodJustice:
Well for one, JAY-Z, RIHANNA, and ALICIA KEYS were already scheduled according to the commercials I've seen on teleivision. B.u.t anyway, YE' may be obnoxious to yall, b.u.t to me he's a real dude. And yes sometimes he bothers me too. Other than that though, though I may not know him personally, he does seem like a peace individual, and the man makes great music. So for anybody who wants to ridicule him forever for a couple of outbursts, whether necessary or not, need a life and get over it. PEACE!!
pstyles2000:
He put himself out there like that. He interuppted someone elses shine. I wouldn't care if he did it once, but this guy does this all over the globe. you say he's real I sayh he's a Real Hater. A hater to the fullest. Yea he had a couple of good albums (except the last heatbreak crap) but dude is a hater. He's the cousin you cant take nowhere cause he keep showin his ass. So THIS TIME they said leave your drunk ass at home. HE wanted to show his ass to the world therefor giving me the permission to speak on it. Its not like ODB when he use to keep you laughing when he pulled a stunt, that was a real nygga, ye aint funny anymore. Crying about grammy and moon men, c;mon Jusice you can't be serious dogg.
pstyles2000:
What Kanye said about George Bush was true, tp a certain point. His special intrest groups don't care about Black People. There we 3 states hit people. More than just Black People lost everthing they had. He was out of pocket. People who were in charge of FEMA we firerd and when that hurricane hit texas bush was on it... (I know what you're thinking save it). As far as Taylor Swift, he should've sat his drunk ass down somewhere, and let someone else get some shine. AND NO Beyonce video for single ladies was not better. Black and white, 3 girls, dancing in outfits they used to workout in in the 80's. I'm glad the industry he claim so much to run is saying fuck you, you forgot we let your black ass in this ish. Check youtube and see how humble kanye USE to be. Barak was right he is a Jackass.. or does he hate black people too?
Wood Man:
Kanye said that Bush hates black people.
I know ONE black person I hate . . .
Wood Man:
Great!! I've seen enuff of that Jackass to last
me a lifetime!
Kanye is a PUNK!!
CloudyInc:
Lol Kanye West is a tool. The world should be thankful he isn't being allowed to perform. Spare us having to listen to a bunch of his self-righteous, god pushing rap shit.
mjames4040:
Dude, you are all over the place. relax.
Ghost19:
Some of you people are hillarious.You insult someone and have no proof to what you say and think you are right in what you say."Kany West Is a tool?" How is he a tool?
hiphop11:
i dont care what point kanye was trying to prove. Truth is the guy only thinks about himself (clearly), On more then 1 occasion he has made a complete ass of himself on national tv. He disrespected the president ( dont give a fuck what you think about Bush). He was in power at the time and ya'll voted him in.
Kanyes a punk bitch and theres no reason to invite him back because he would probably fuck up the show again. And turn it into the kanye west show like he always trys. To George Clooney kanye west is a nobody.
mjames4040:
Many unnecesary lives were lost in Katrina and you care whether or not he "disrespected a president"??? And barely any black person voted for Bush btw. smh.
dmize:
PLUS Bush had fewer votes in the public, but won the election thx to our wonderful electoral college (and some shady buisness in florida with his brother)... so no, the majority of people DID NOT vote bush in.. and he doesnt give a shit about black people.. or white people.. or anyone else for that matter.. just money and power
dymond:
i totally agree w/ghost 19. i def think kanye was jus speaking the truth about katrina, i know tons of ppl would agree w/him on that quote. and if i was in the same situation as kanye and had that big ass bottle of henny at the vma's maybe i would've done that too to t.s. lol!! but after she accepted her award. ppl need to realize her video sukkkkeddd!! and beyonce's was a worldwide explosion per usual. so t.s. is lucky kanye did that before she accepted her award, cuz i dunno how successful her popularity or career would be now if that hadn';t happen. she should give kanye 10% LMAO
King of Kingz8:
Yo ppl need to lay off kanye, 4real!All the haters......daaaaaaaamn, y'all got notin better to do but step on a dude. First off, everything Kanye said during Katrina was tru. Everybody thot it, everybody felt it, everybody was angry, but only Kanye had the balls to say it. And even then, he kept it pretty diplomatic. It's not like he came out hard n started cussin any1 out, he just said it out it was, and how it was, WAS fact!!If Katrina showed any threat of just sneezing on Texas, things would have panned out a lil different. Second, y'all need to lay off the whole lame-ass Taylor swift incident. He apologised for that, str8 up. And above all, he was right!!!He might not have been right to do it in the way he did it, which he apologised for, but he was right. How the hell does Taylor swift win Best video?????(watever it was). I mean, thanks to Kanye she got nominated for a Grammy. I mean daaaaamn, either the talent out there is that weak , or the industry lost touch with everything good. Bak in the day, you kno how hard it was to win a grammy?!?!?!You had to prove yourself, you had to have a body of work that was of a high level as well as great results!Now its easier to win a grammy then it is to get on the "freebies" list. Last but not least, I thot that HipHop was about self expression!?????I thot rappers were the "voices of the ppl"???U shud be thankful for Kanye coz he's been holding it down for HipHOP for a while now!Him just be str8 up n Real is wat makes him HipHop, thats y y'all respect him, thats y y'all like his music, n thats y y'all give him the time of day to hate on him n love him. So stop feelin sorry for tha politicians n lil kids who are given things much too early in life when they havent even experienced living it!
Drucifer1983:
I really dont see the big deal, as far as I know alot of people arent gonna be there, whats so special about him??
Kanye always uses situations like this to promote himself anyway, like the whole "George Bush doesnt care about Black People" remark a few years back
Was he telling us summin we didnt already know??........Did it even have anything to do with why they handed him a Mic in the first place??
No, he said that for no other reason then to see his face on CNN the next day(In my opinion)
Dudes an attention whore to a disgusting degree, he would use a baby getting run over by a semi-truck to promote his new single, Fuck that egomaniac, for real
Ghost19:
He just spoke how he felt.I mean look at how george bush handled the situation.All he did was say what alot of people were saying. is he wrong for that? Is he wrong for speaking on how he feels? And how is he promoting himself by saying "George bush doesent care about black people?" If you feel a certain way about something and its eating at you to release it, eventually it will come out.And thats what happend in that situation with hurricane katrina.
MalcolmLittle:
@ Ghost19
I feel ya...go back and look at that video when 'Ye said that about Bush, that wasn't no attention-seekin shit...look at his face, fam was PISSED!! Bitchin about awards, that's one thing...ain't no cool points for that cuz that WAS just for the attention...but the whole Bush thing?? Nah...that shit was heartfelt...
kamse:
Understandably Mr. West feels snubbed but his behavior and comments are not guaranteed to be proper and professional. Bringing attention to this "snub" just takes away attention from this tragic situation in Haiti and makes Mr. West look like a whiner. Sit back, enjoy the show.
Ghost19:
Thats a good point. I never looked at it that way.
awhellno:
man, kanye isn't the one personally reporting this shit y'know that right? lol
Ghost19:
And before anyone responds I want to say I know you are going to bring up the vmas.He appologized what more do you want.We all make mistakes so dont bash this man for being what you are afraid to be...REAL!!
mjames4040:
Kanye shouldve been invited, he is one of the most outspoken individuals when it come to times like these. And this stuff came from a gossip site so I dont really know how much truth is to this.
Ghost19:
This is what happens when you speak from your heart and mean what you say.If you sugar coat things and pretend to be someone you arent you are accepted.And thats the way it goes.The problem with soceity is people hear what they want to and not what they need to.Thats the real reson Kanye is banned because they dont want him to speak from his heart.
Ghost19:
This is what happens when you speak from your heart and mean what you say.If you sugar coat things and pretend to be someone you arent you are accepted.And thats the way it goes.The problem with soceity is people hear what they want to and not what they need to.Thats the real reson Kanye is banned because they dont want him to speak from his heart.
Ghost19:
Sorry for sending it to you two times.The submit button is messed up.
audio tech:
Thats right people, we wouldn't want anyone going off-script...Let's all pretend we care for one night and forget about the US Marines involvement in the 2004 coup of Haiti's president,the democratically elected by over 75% of the pop..We wont talk about how USAID,who's been thoroughly infiltrated by the CIA for years,has blocked food and aid from getting to most of the population..Nah, we'll just cry our little crocodile tears for poor old Haiti,a country that's been exploited and raped for generation after generation by these same corporations that's sponsoring this event..What's that saying again? "With friends like these..."
mjames4040:
now thats something I gotta look in!!!
Beez:
I feel you Audio Tech!