he want recount! he want recount!

What a whiny bitch.

And now with video:



Turns out that, when he didn't win Video of the Year at the MTV Europe Music Awards, Kanye West stormed the stage, took the mic away from the winners - Justice and Simian - and launched a four-letter-word-filled tirade that he should have won because his video cost a million bucks and "had Pamela Anderson in it."

At what point does one feel such a sense of entitlement that it becomes alright to trample all over what might be one of the most important moments for other musicians? I can respect West's standing up for what he believes when he tells us that "George Bush doesn't care about black people" in the wake of Katrina. I can respect his calling attention to the blood diamond trade in his music videos. I'm left wondering, however, whether any of his bling is diamond-based despite his awareness that African children are enslaved and murdered by the ditchfulls for those shiny rocks. I cannot respect a whining, self-aggrandizing blowhard shitting on the accomplishments of other people in his field.

Can we take this event as a bouillion of American foreign policies and attitudes about American entitlement in the face of sovereign nations? Hmm.