SEE if you can guess the "Most Downloaded clip of 2005" on Crooks & Liars

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Most Downloaded clip of 2005



http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/01/02.html#a6545

Kanye West: "George Bush doesn't care about black people"

(originally posted on 9/02/05) I don't have the actual totals yet, but an early count of only two servers has this video being downloaded almost 800,000 times in the last two months.

During the Concert for Hurricane Relief, Kanye West and Mike Meyers were celebrity narrators during the segment, West said: (rush transcript)


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"I hate the way they portray us in the media. "If you see a black family it says they are looting if you see a white family it says they are looking for food.

"We already realize a lot of the people that could help are at war now fighting another way and they’ve given them permission to go down and shoot us."

"George Bush doesn't care about black people."

Mike Meyers was floored...

9:50:23 AM Comments (26) permalink9:50:23 AM

[bananas]

1. make that 800,001

I just decided to download it again.
Thanks!

[greiner3]

9. 800,002 and counting; n/t

[XOKCowboy]

2. I was surprised...

I figured it would have been a Bill Maher or a TDS clip.

[mom cat]

3. Yes! Number One is great!

[Double T]

4. George Bush doesn't care about anybody, unless you have a fat......

wallet to make a large campaign contribution to his previous campaigns or to the GOP.

[Patiod]

16. That's Obama's take on it

It's not racism, but malignant indifference - West had it exactly right - "Bush doesn't care about Black people" - he doesn't hate them, he doesn't even THINK about them.

Obama declared on the Senate floor that the poor response to Katrina was not “evidence of active malice,” but merely the result of “a continuation of passive indifference.”

[patdem]

5. I thought it was the "Is bush* drunk" since it was posted so many times

here. I guess C&L has many more viewers than here at DU? That was an amazing statement...and TOO TRUE!

[newswolf56]

6. As a companion to the video clip:

http://www.pkarchive.org/column/091905.html

Just as Kanye West's commentary was a rare, breathtaking and welcome moment of televised truth (which like "television news" is normally a contradiction in terms), so is the above-linked Paul Krugman essay astonishing to find in the pages of corporate media. In fact Krugman's essay is so revealing, and explains so much about the rise of American fascism, I think it is the most important piece of U.S. social journalism since the Civil War -- and maybe ever.

(By the way, thanks for posting the video links: I knew of the incident of course, but saw only CNN's censored version, which was edited to make West's condemnation of Bush appear to be a non sequitur, and thus to make West himself look demented if not stupid.)

[McCamy Taylor]

7. So, true. Dems could run on a Katrina platform and sweep 2006.

[meganmonkey]

8. Not surprised, although I was thinking it may be

when John Stewart smacked down *ucker Carlson. That was awesome :D

[XOKCowboy]

12. Was that in 2005?

I agree that was sweet!!

[XOKCowboy]

13. October 2004

Here is the clip if you want to watch it again...

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2004/10/17.html

[meganmonkey]

15. Oh yeah,

I think I am starting to get old. I forget things, and time moves really fast :P

[Straight Shooter]

10. Amazing that over 800,000 people go to that trouble to hear the truth.

Just goes to show how little we hear of the truth, that we actually have to seek it out to listen to it for ourselves.

[sakabatou]

11. It almost looked liek Mike did a double take.

[FVZA_Colonel]

14. Personally, I was hoping for the famous "Hanity and Colmes" clip from New

Orleans, featuring Hanity being Hanity, Geraldo Rivera on the verge of an emotional breakdown because of what he was seeing, and a Shepard Smith who looked like he wanted to punch Hanity in the face for what he was saying.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

17. I'd give that one a vote for the Smith portion...

...that was about as real as it gets. I haven't seen him since his Katrina reporting, so I don;t know if he's slipped back into his old persona, or if he's truly remained "a man transformed."



:toast:

[iconoclastNYC]

18. I thought it was Sam Seder

I tried to download it after malloy mentioned it and his server was crawlin.

Or how about "It's DARK sided!!!" that was great too.