Wonkette

Oh dear, it looks like those liberal celebrities are insulting George W. Bush’s heroism by plotting amateurish “copycat crimes” against Freedom. Why else would self-loathing college rapper Kanye West be arrested at the airport, on 9/11? Exactly. Now let’s invade, what, Belgium or Egypt or something. [CNN]

• President Bush sends out holiday greetings, reveals deeply-felt prejudices. MORE »

In his nationally televised news conference this morning, President Bush told the press corps that it hurts his feelings whenever he hears that he doesn’t care about black people. MORE »

Does DC have its own Kanye West, Jr.? According to a FLOTUS (cute) pool report this afternoon, a visit to a Southeast Washington public charter school by Prince Charles, the FLOTUS, and Camilla prompted this observation from Denzell Grimes, 14: “It’’s awfully rare for white people to come to our school–like, from other countries.””

Speak truth to power, Denzell! Or just make an observation:

Upon further review of an audiotape, the quote from Denzell Grimes appears to be incorrect. According to the tape, Grimes stated: “It’s awfully rare for ROYAL people to come to our school–like from other countries.”

Both things technically true. You’ve got a future in politics, kid.

Full reports after the jump.

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The NFL announced that it will be instituting a 10-second tape delay for the network broadcast of its Opening Kickoff 2005, the concert-event-multisponsor-clusterfuck slated to be broadcast this year from Giants stadium. Among the performers will be Green Day, which casitgates President Bush’s “redneck agenda” on American Idiot; the Rolling Stones, which calls our leader “a crock of shit” on A Bigger Bang; and Kanye West, who questions the sincerity of Bush’s compassionate conservatism for the other-than-white complexioned. The West and Rolling Stones performances will be taped, in any event, so what this appears to boil down to is that the leaders of America’s most proudly macho sports pastime are afraid of what Billie Joe Armstrong might say. This leaves us wondering a couple of things. Aren’t the Dixie Chicks and Janet Jackson now owed a big apology from some girly-man or other? And which is now more officially dead: Punk rock or pro football? — HOLLY MARTINS MORE »

Did you ever think Mike Meyers could be at a loss for words? During NBC’s benefit concert tonight, Meyers and ego-riffic Kanye West “rapped” in the emotive sense about Katrina, but then suddenly Kanye got all. . . racial and shit, talking about how he hates how his people are portrayed and what not. Then he admitted that he went shopping before donating, but that “my business manager is looking into” how much he can give. Then things got weird: “George Bush doesn’t care about black people,” he said. People are upset about this, but, by our lights, West could have put it more strongly and still been okay for primetime. Anyway. . . First, we love that Kanye apologized for going shopping before donating. We’re returning our Target placemats tomorrow, Kanye! Second, the look on Mike Meyers’s face… Clearly, Canadians have more respect for Bush than previously thought. Oh, behave, indeed. MORE »