An unlikely defender arrives on the scene:
. . . I am very particular with my words, and the emotion I felt at that time wasn’t worded exactly right - but everybody came and said ‘Oh my God!” - I’m talking about five years ago, not a year ago, I’m talking about five years ago, I’m talking about Katrina - and everybody said, “Oh my God, Kanye, I love you so much, I hated you until you said that. But now I see you’re speaking for me. I always thought you were an a****** but now you said something that represents me, but the whole time, whole time I’m thinking in my mind I was thinking that’s not exactly what I wanted to say, I was emotional, that was not exactly the way I wanted to say, I was emotional, that was not exactly the way I wanted to word it, but I wrote it, I rode it, just as Taylor never came to my defense in any interview, and rode the waves and rode it and rode it, that’s the way I rode the waves of the Bush comment. I rode it. It’s not about popular opinion. It’s about when you look in your heart, and know what’s right and what’s wrong. When you look in your heart, look at what the media did, look at how they exploited him, they said that he said it was his lowest moment and as a mass, as America, we took that as a fact, and if you look at the interview he said that was one of his lowest moments and he said it about ten different things! But because the popularity of me, they exploited that, to make you watch the interview and make you feel that he was stupider than ever, to think that a rapper’s comment could be his lowest moment. That’s not what he f******ng said! That’s not what he f****** said! That’s not what he said! He said it was one of his lowest moments. But it shows you - the way they try to villainize, the way they tried to do that.
Mind you, as usual it's all about me me me ME ME ME; but what the hell, baby steps, baby steps, albeit profane baby steps.
I wonder if Obama's lost yet another celebrity endorsement.