we’re at Def-Kanye Five:

[metalman]

'Your life is going to be much better if you apologise!' Jimmy Kimmel reveals details of threatening phone call from Kanye West

"In response to the Twitter attack Kimmel aired a skit titled 'Josh Groban's the Best Tweets of Kanya West.' ​

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

I've never heard anything Kanye has done or said to this point in my life, so before I watched the Kimmel thing I thought I ought to watch the BBC interview and know a bit more about Kanye. I had the interview on in the background for, I guess it's about an hour, and now I finally know where Kim Kardashian fits into the celebrisphere (and I still fail to care). It wasn't the best use of my spare attention but it was an entertaining mix of megalomania and humility with an energetic delivery. It would have been easy to take a few segments out of the interview and over play those parts so as to ridicule the man. After all, John Lennon said that the the Beatles were more popular than Jesus and that was enough to lose airplay in Texas and bring the Klan out to protest shows. Maybe he IS uppity, who knows, but it's dangerous for the under-classes to have idols that say the wrong things - not that someone who is so enamoured with being a part of it would be any danger to the establishment. OK, there's some room for satire in there.

So now I'm ready for the Kimmel moment - and Jimmy rips me off. What a weak piece of crap. That's 2 steaming Kimmel turds in a row - this one and burning girl - thanks a lot metalman.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

BTW: About two minutes from the end of the interview, Kanye mentions the Amiga.

 

[metalman]

I've never heard anything Kanye has done or said to this point in my life

From the wayback machine 2006:

Considering that Obama was reelected by low information voters who know more about the Kardashians than politics, you have to keep track of what's going on in pop culture, because these low-info voters are not "interested in politics"

- thanks a lot metalman.

your welcome!!!

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

From the wayback machine 2006:

Damn. Suddenly I like him even more.

because these low-info voters are not "interested in politics"

That's most of the voters on both sides. The allegiance of your ignorance depends largely on the TV channels you watch.

 

[metalman]

From the Wayback Machine

That's why Obama went on so many entertainment shows during the campaign, its all about pop culture and emotion, the facts don't matter to low information voters

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

That's why Obama went on so many entertainment shows during the campaign, its all about pop culture and emotion, the facts don't matter to low information voters

I guess you can spot the low information voters by how familiar they are with pop culture - you know the type - the one who knows where to find all the pop culture references and then post them into forums.

 

[metalman]

I guess you can spot the low information voters by how familiar they are with pop culture - you know the type - the one who knows where to find all the pop culture references and then post them into forums.

Obama can spot the low information voters by how familiar he is with pop culture - you know the type - the one who rants about the post being about pop culture, while having his head so far up his arse he fails to notice that Obama is actually on the show, not an impersonator. Obama is the pop culture President, with groupie followers who fail to notice that "the emperor has no clothes"

Obama knows where to go for soft ball questions and low information voters

The commander-in-chief will have his sixth sit-down with Jon Stewart later in October.

First, we’d agree that “The View” appearance is reelection-related. As our colleague Gloria Goodale noted yesterday, softer news-like talk shows have become a favorite venue for the Obama campaign. They’re friendlier than a press conference, and guests benefit from the good feelings viewers have toward their favorite shows.

President Obama has not taken questions from the White House press corps since June 19, Instead, Mr. Obama has done a number of interviews with local TV news reporters in the various markets where he's been campaigning and has come under criticism for recently doing interviews with outlets such as ESPN, People Magazine, "Entertainment Tonight" and radio shows instead of taking questions from more hard news outlets.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

Obama is the pop culture President, with groupie followers who fail to notice that "the emperor has no clothes".

I'm not disagreeing. That's the way things have been going. I remember Clinton and his (oral?) sax all those many years ago. And Ronnie Reagan came from TV and movies ... speaking of Reagan - here's a nice little clip of Ronnie campaigning for the Democrats and slamming - well, the rich and corporations. Lots of familiar themes in there. Worth listening to.

Ronnie was on the Carol Burnett show once to answer audience questions while he was Governor of California. It's a part of politics now and I'm not arguing that it's not low-brow. I'm just saying that some folks just seem to be too aware of what Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon and Kanye West are up to to be claiming that they are somehow not part of that pop-culture audience.