Posted on 09/05/2005 12:03:48 AM PDT by Cinnamon Girl
West and Mike Myers had been paired up to appear about halfway through the show. Their assignment: Take turns reading a script describing the breach in the levees around New Orleans.
Myers: The landscape of the city has changed dramatically, tragically and perhaps irreversibly. There is now over 25 feet of water where there was once city streets and thriving neighborhoods.
![](http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/rids/20050905/i/r2956414549.jpg?x=380&y=266&sig=JDy3UNtJjc9L6AJ1XbGguQ--")
(Myers throws to West, who looked extremely nervous in his super-preppy designer rugby shirt and white pants, which is not like the arrogant West and which, in retrospect, should have been a tip-off.)
West: I hate the way they portray us in the media.
You see a black family, it says, "They're looting."
You see a white family, it says, "They're looking for food."
And, you know, it's been five days [waiting for federal help] because most of the people are black.
Plaquemines Parish: The racial makeup of the parish is 69.77% White, 23.39% Black; Orleans Parish: The racial makeup of the city is 28.05% Caucasian, 67.25% African American; St. Bernard Parish: The racial makeup of the parish is 88.29% White, 7.62% African American; Jefferson Parish: The racial makeup of the parish is 69.82% White, 22.86% Black
And even for me to complain about it, I would be a hypocrite because I've tried to turn away from the TV because it's too hard to watch. I've even been shopping before even giving a donation, so now I'm calling my business manager right now to see what is the biggest amount I can give, and just to imagine if I was down there, and those are my people down there. So anybody out there that wants to do anything that we can help -- with the way America is set up to help the poor, the black people, the less well-off, as slow as possible. I mean, the Red Cross is doing everything they can. We already realize a lot of people that could help are at war right now, fighting another way -- and they've given them permission to go down and shoot us!
(West throws back to Myers, who is looking like a guy who stopped on the tarmac to tie his shoe and got hit in the back with the 8:30 to La Guardia.)
Myers: And subtle, but in many ways even more profoundly devastating, is the lasting damage to the survivors' will to rebuild and remain in the area. The destruction of the spirit of the people of southern Louisiana and Mississippi may end up being the most tragic loss of all.
(And, because Myers is apparently as dumb as his Alfalfa hair, he throws it back to West.)
West: George Bush doesn't care about black people!
(Back to Myers, now looking like the 8:30 to La Guardia turned around and caught him square between the eyes.) 
Myers: Please call . . .
At which point someone at NBC News finally regained control of the joystick and cut over to Chris Tucker, who started right in with more scripted blah, blah, blah.
Wonderful post, CG!
WOW. YOU WIN! The best post ever. The pictures tell it all.
You gotta like the brotha with the heineken. he knew what to grab.
Thanks, CG!!
That dirty ol' Bush..he's a baaad baaad man.
Nice post, tells it like it is, which of coarse we know the left isn't interested in.
Awesome. Nice work.
>>And even for me to complain about it, I would be a hypocrite because I've tried to turn away from the TV because it's too hard to watch. I've even been shopping before even giving a donation, so now I'm calling my business manager right now to see what is the biggest amount I can give, and just to imagine if I was down there, and those are my people down there. So anybody out there that wants to do anything that we can help -- with the way America is set up to help the poor, the black people, the less well-off, as slow as possible. I mean, the Red Cross is doing everything they can. We already realize a lot of people that could help are at war right now, fighting another way -- and they've given them permission to go down and shoot us!<<
That's what you call "flapping your gums in vain search for a thought."
Great post ! It says it all! Photos don't lie.
That was brill! Thanks Cinnamon Girl!
If the mayor of New Orleans had been a white republican guess where the blame would fall.
Fantastic job, Cinnamon.
West was totally incoherent. Almost like he was drunk or something. For sure he was very upset. And he acted like a fool.
Cinnamon Girl, I lost count of my LOLs as I read your post. Great stuff!
I'm gonna go make myself some cinnamon toast in your honor! Thanks for the laughs.
The pictures tell the real story.
Between the time Katrina smashed into Florida and the time it devastated the Gulf Coast, Kanye was livin' it up at the VMA Awards in Miami, granting an interview with MTV in which he talked about his wardrobe, his shoes and his success in the music industry.
Maybe Kanye could've been filming public service announcements instead to try to convince all of "his people" to get their asses out of their low-lying homes that were in the path of a Cat5/Cat4 monster of a storm.
Will Oprah let the Prez kiss her tomorrow when they both show up in New Orleans (or the Astrodome. whereever they're going to be along with John Travolta)?
"It's all a conspiracy."
"They" forced you to say that, didn't "they"?....;)
wow....how un-kumbaya of you dear...lol
have you been mugged?
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