There is probably no one ANYWHERE on planet Earth who has not heard about Kanye West�s interruption of Taylor Swift�s acceptance speech for Best Female Video at the MTV Video Music Awards ceremony Saturday night. The world�s reaction to the story has become a story in its own right:
-- President Obama, speaking off the cuff just before an interview with CNBC's John Harwood, called West a �Jackass.� Almost instantly several people sent out the story on Twitter, in spite of the fact that such banter is normally considered off-the-record. AND, of course, Jay Leno picked up on THAT. Washington Post story here.
-- There are now (Thursday morning) 21 fan-dubbed videos of the oft-used scene from the 2004 movie �Downfall� of Hitler histrionically complaining about West. (YouTube.com search �Hitler Kanye West.�) MSNBC picked up THAT story (�Hitler finds out Kanye West disses Taylor Swift at the VMAs�)
-- The latest (today anyway) is http://kanyelicio.us/ On this site you type in a URL and the page appears with an overlaid picture of Kanye West and a message dissing the site. Story here: �Kanye West Disrespects Our Website�
There probably hasn�t been such a reaction to public misbehavior since the �Korean Dog Poop Girl� of 2005. She is now part of the definition for �Internet vigilantism� on Wikipedia. I�ll imagine Kanye will join her shortly.
Oh, yea. West did apologize according to about a hundred stories everywhere.
Tom Kelchner
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