Opinion
Why liberals are ganging up on Kanye West
By Michael Goodwin
October 13, 2018 | 8:50pm
In the beginning, it was safe to ignore Kanye West and his growing bromance with President Trump. After all, West is a performer, which makes it easy to discount his political talk, and he is married to a Kardashian, which, well, enough said.
But recent events demand attention. First came West’s Sept. 29 appearance on “Saturday Night Live,†where he rapped in his red Make America Great Again hat and praised Trump in a speech, most of which NBC cut from its telecast.
Then there was Thursday’s spectacle in the Oval Office. Once again, his stream-of-consciousness commentary veered from nonsense to common sense and included references to the 13th Amendment, which forbids slavery, and his feeling of being “programmed†as a black man to support only liberal politicians.
There was no denying those events were intriguing and entertaining, but I still didn’t regard any of it as politically significant — until the left-wing media went absolutely bonkers on him.
Their extraordinarily venomous and personal attacks on West reminded me of the left’s unhinged smears of Brett Kavanaugh and Trump.
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