Posted on 10/17/2022 8:48:12 PM PDT by TigerClaws
After Kanye West unleashed more than three and a half hours of anti-Semitic rants, untruths about George Floyd and hostile comments toward everyone from Trevor Noah to Diddy during a Sunday appearance on Revolt.TV’s “Drink Champs,” interviewer N.O.R.E. apologized for using his platform to have such views aired during a call to the”Breakfast Club” on Monday morning.
N.O.R.E. (real name: Victor Santiago), who challenged West only occasionally during the interview, was on the receiving end of many angry social media posts for his tacit acceptance of many of the comments.
“I made a mistake doing the Kanye interview,” he said. “I could come out here and say this was Kanye’s thing and that’s it. And guess what? People will forgive me and I could get away with that. But that’s not what I’m doing. I feel like I failed my people. I called ‘The Breakfast Club’: because I wanted to apologize to my people.
“I want to be honest. I support freedom of speech,” he continued. “I support anybody not being censored. But I do not support anybody being hurt,” N.O.R.E told “The Breakfast Club” host Charlamagne Tha God. “I did not realize that the George Floyd statements made by Kanye on my show were so hurtful. You have to realize that it was the first five minutes of the show – like when he walked in, he told my producer that if we stop filming, he’ll walk out. So I didn’t want a Birdman moment, like when he walked out, so I wanted the man to speak.”
N.O.R.E. stressed that he did he did “check” West in regard to some of the more incendiary comments regarding George Floyd, particularly the claim that Floyd’s death was due to a Fentanyl overdose rather than police officer Derek Chauvin — who was convicted on two counts of murder and one of manslaughter. “I actually checked him about the ‘White Lives Matter’ thing too, but they were later in the episode, and I was already inebriated at that time, that maybe people looked over it. But I apologize to the George Floyd family.”
While N.O.R.E. didn’t specifically focus on West’s more incendiary comments about Jewish people — including that the “Jewish owned” media is out to get West, and that everyone from “Jewish basketball team owners” to “Jewish record label bosses” are in control — or to labeling Pete Davidson, West’s estranged wife Kim Kardashian’s former paramour, a heroin addict, the “Drink Champs” host did offer a blanket apology to all who may have been wounded or insulted by West’s comments.
“I don’t watch my own interviews because I know I’m great. But when I watched this one, I cringed. And I felt terrible. So I have to say that I am sorry to anybody who was hurt by his rhetoric, anybody who was hurt by his speech. I want to apologize to the George Floyd family… I want to apologize to anyone who was hurt by someone saying something in my platform. Contrary to popular belief, we own ‘Drink Champs.; We own our IP, so the person to blame is us. I’m not going to blame Puff Daddy [the owner of Revolt.TV where “Drink Champs” is aired]. Six years of this, I’m not going to have the excuse that I am not a journalist. I have responsibility…. I do not want my people to think that I did not step up at the time, but if you watch the whole 3 hour and 38-minute interview, I represent for George Floyd and Black people five, six, seven times.”
N.O.R.E. also attempted to defend himself by stating, “I had four Jewish people in the room” during the interview, including Steve Rifkind from Loud Records. “I looked to the Jewish people in the room to tell me when Kayne was going over the line.” Their looks, apparently, were those of “understanding where Kanye was coming from,” he claimed, “but I don’t support none of it.”
He also denied rumors that some of West’s comments were edited out of the interview, as Fox News did earlier this month. “We don’t edit out nothing,” he told “The Breakfast Club.”
Diddy declined comment on the interview, but West posted a text exchange between the two earlier this month that concluded with Diddy writing, “I’m just trying to talk to you as a Black man. And I’m talking to you because this is hurting our people. Stop.”
When “The Breakfast Club” hosts joked to N.O.R.E. about a comment that former president Donald Trump made about West being too “crazy” with his antisemitic statements, he laughed and said, “That’s when I had to step up.”
N.O.R.E. was gently reprimanded by Charlamagne for not challenging West earlier in the long interview, and for having him on the show at all. “As your friend, I told you last week not to do this [interview],” he said. “I told you this twice.”
The billionaires feelings were hurt.
He was arguing with Cuomo tonight saying the same things.
Interesting he could say “whites did this or that” and nobody would say a word about it. In fact, he’d be deemed a hero.
But can’t say “Jew” without being canceled.
Never could figure out the animosity between blacks and Jews. As historically oppressed peoples, you’d think they’d find common ground.
That was fast. 🤔
Jews are fighting for blacks but treat them with paternal animosity.
Any black that gets off the plantation is immediately trashed by media as Uncle Tom or ‘you ain’t black’ or they’re deemed crazy.
Wow!
N.O.P.E. guy must have gotten word from on high. He apologizes and he says he isn’t a journalist, doesn’t have a journalism degree, and was Special Ed. LOL!
Made that guy grovel and bend over apologizing or get canceled.
But... doesn’t that prove “Ye”s point in the first place?
Black folks got no free speech or freedom to stray from the plantation or they’ll get destroyed.
Who signs the black athletes to record deals, agents them, and then owns them? Reminds me of Prince’s contract.
We need the various factions of the Dem party to turn against each other. Hispanics and blacks HATE each other (just ask).
Muslims and Jews.
Gays and Muslims.
How are all these groups under the Dem umbrella?
We need to get them divided or run some as 3rd party candidates to split the Dem vote.
The pussy apologized. Very “street”.. lol.
“Never could figure out the animosity between blacks and Jews. As historically oppressed peoples, you’d think they’d find common ground”
Look up who sold, transported slaves in USA and you’ll have your answer.
The video is on YouTube. He didn’t just apologize ... he groveled. He was told he’s mud and his career is over and someone cracked the whip on that boy for sure. Straight up he was threatened his career would be over.
Kinda sad, actually, to see a grown man grovel like that.
But he 100% proved Ye’s point.
> Never could figure out the animosity between blacks and Jews. <
It is worth noting that many founders of the NAACP were Jewish. As you noted, blacks and Jews have a lot of common ground. But I suppose the age-old hatred of Jews because they are “different” trumps all.
What kind of a moron makes such a dopey stage name? If I ever think of him again it’ll be as “NOPE.”
I’ve noticed this for decades.
The “powers that be” are ramping it up for their own ends. They’d rather stoke hatred than find ways to solve problems.
“But can’t say “Jew” without being canceled.”
Basically what Kanye said, and they promptly canceled him... proving his point. LOL
Well that and the fact the current Marxist control over our higher education is a result of the Frankfurt School of Marxism arriving in and eroding our society after they fled Hitler.
Or that the evil that is feminism was 99% a Jewess creation. All the early leaders were Jewish and that’s caused millions of babies to be murdered and our declining birth rates.
Jews are overwhelmingly in control of the Democrat party (and Biden’s White House) as well as the major media outlets in the country (NYT etc.).
Jews view blacks as inferior children who are useful buffers for them. Civil Rights was really all about Jewish rights and destroying white culture.
Ye (Kanye) is pointing out how artists like Prince had their entire music catalog stolen by Jewish companies and were basically (as Prince himself put it) slaves to these non-creator parasites. Free country. He’s entitled to speak his mind about people in his own industry. Isn’t he?
Why would Kanye be allowed to say “white people did this or that” and he’d be handed a megaphone but... say it about Jews and he’s crazy and he should be banned?
Why are Jews such a protected class in our society where they can’t be mentioned, especially by a rich black man?
So, yeah, people do get upset about all that.
But we do have Ben Shaprio on our side and a few other Jewish conservatives.
I haven’t seen a grown man grovel like NOPE did today. That was crazy. Someone cracked the whip on that boy’s back and told him he best get his black a** back on the plantation or else.
> Why are Jews such a protected class in our society where they can’t be mentioned... <
It doesn’t bother me much that Jews are a protected class. What bothers me is that other classes do not have that same protection.
Say something negative about Jews in general or blacks in general and you’re likely to get yourself into trouble. But say something negative about whites in general and that’s okey-dokey.
Some “F” bombs in here but here’s where he calls Pete Davidson a heroin addict.
https://twitter.com/GadSaad/status/1581841255730139137
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