Community | November 03, 2010 | 58 comments

George Bush: "Kanye West's 'disgusting' accusation was lowest moment of my presidency"

George W. Bush has described the 'lowest moment' of his presidency in his memoirs "Decision Points," which are to be released next week.

So what was it? The legally-questionable invasion of Iraq that led to scores of civilian deaths? The horrors of 9/11? Refusing to sign the Kyoto Protocol?

Nope. Turns out it was the time Kanye West called him a massive racist.

 

In the book, Bush writes that he was "disgusted" and "deeply insulted" by Kanye West's insistence that Dubya didn't 'care about black people'. The president told his wife, Laura, that it was the lowest moment of his presidency.

In a TV interview with NBC News that's due to be aired on Monday, Mr Bush said:

"I didn't appreciate it then and I don't appreciate it now. It's one thing to say, 'I don't appreciate the way he's handled his business.' It's another thing to say, 'This man's a racist.' I resent it. It's not true. And it was one of the most disgusting moments in my presidency."

In the book he writes: 'The suggestion that I was racist because of the response to Hurricane Katrina represented an all-time low'.

Here's another look at Kanye's famous criticism and Mike Myer's hilariously shocked reaction:

In 2007, Kanye West spoke about how his life improved after he accused Bush of not caring caring about black people:

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58 comments // George Bush: "Kanye West's 'disgusting' accusation was lowest moment of my presidency"

  • corndog67
  • musicjohnny
  • sffsmessiah
    • +1
      sffsmessiah  

    • Wow, how about thousands of people being killed within the first year of your presidency? Or realizing that you had declared war on a country based on faulty information, leading to the deaths of thousands of people, or the fact that your shitty economic policies led to the firing of millions of employees?

      But no, a college dropout entertainer calling you racist is worse? Okay asshole. Sidebar, you are a piece of crap.

      hot daughter though...

    • 1 year ago
  • keithponder
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      keithponder  
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    • “The first thing I thought after reading Bush's comment, was how much of an impact Kanye has gained over the years. It makes ‘Power’ that much more significant. Of all the things Bush has had to deal with during his time in office, from going down as one of the presidents with the lowest approval rates in history to the country's plummeting economy, you'd think Kanye was the least of his worries. But here we are five years later and he says he resented ‘Ye's comment then and does now.”

      “When I think of disgusting moments during the George Dubya Bush presidency I think of wild WMD goose chases, a war in Iraq, the World Trade Center attack on 9/11, the economic downturn, unemployment rising and poor people getting poorer and the wealthy getting wealthier, not Kanye West's comment. George Dubya needs to get his priorities straight and if he were really that outraged he'd gone out of his way to his way to prove Kanye wrong. But, like he responded to Matt Lauer when asked about the statement and getting heat for it, he ‘don't care.’ ”

      Disdain at Bush’s concern about one man’s remarks in lieu of the nation’s ills was a common thread.

      “That quote, that completely idiotic quote just wrapped a nice little bow on top of the crappy presidency that was George W. Bush. “Blowing it on 9-11 when there were multiple warnings, watching thousands of bodies float away and die in New Orleans, that big ass "Mission Accomplished" spectacle, not finding Osama bin Laden yet, wasting money and lives in Iraq (stop me at any time) wasn't the worst—it was a rapper saying you didn't care about black people. That was his low point?”

      Oh please George, you're crying in my milk !

    • 1 year ago
  • Dejan_Croatia
  • toyotabedzrock
  • Stoneyroad
  • Stoneyroad
  • ibrake4rappers13
  • Varex_Sythe
    • 0
      Varex_Sythe  
    • ibrake4rappers13:

      I am not going to vote this question up since it is off topic, but I would like to point out that it is a valid question and here is just about as good a place as any to have it asked and answered.

      Can anyone answer this gentleman's question?

    • 1 year ago
  • im1mjrpain
  • EdJoyProductions
  • richjm
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      richjm  
    • ibrake4rappers13:

      Hi ibrake4rappers13,

      Thanks for your question. As a staff member (I'm managing editor of the UK current.com, based in London), we have a few extra admin abilities, such as embedding images and videos in stories, linking off to other pages etc.

      We roll out new features all the time and generally test them ourselves first. Any feedback users give with regards to features and anything else Current related is always really appreciated (and listened to) so get in touch any time: comment@current.com.

      Hope that helps,
      Rich

    • 1 year ago
  • Armageddon_Now
  • themotivateddropout
    • +6
      themotivateddropout  

    • I wonder how "disgusted" and "deeply insulted" he was about the fact that the locals in New Orleans were saying the same thing.

      The fact that this was his lowest point illustrates what a superficial president he was.

    • 1 year ago
  • Prijedor
  • Vierotchka
    • +2
      Vierotchka  

    • The man protesteth far too much, thus highlighting his profound racism. According to Webster Tarpley, when Dubya was governor of Texas, he would lock himself in his office with windows closed and curtains drawn all day every Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

    • 1 year ago
  • kennymotown
    • +1
      kennymotown  
    • Vierotchka:

      I loved the look on Georges face when My Giants Spanked his Texas Rangers twice in Texas while he sat helpless in the front row! He was once a owner of the Rangers and helped illegally steal the land the ball park is built on!

    • 1 year ago
  • tverdell
  • kennymotown
  • libertyforall
    • -6
      libertyforall  

    • Interesting that we have blatant racist comments being defended by the liberals because it was about Bush, but they are up in arms over a man who comically dressed as something offensive for Halloween.

      Oh those crazy hypocrites.

    • 1 year ago
  • div
  • libertyforall
  • div
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      div  
    • libertyforall:

      Of course black people can be prejudiced, and yes, racist (if you don't subscribe to the racism = prejudice + power idea). But calling Bush out for being racist is not in and of itself racist.

    • 1 year ago
  • insaintity
  • Ares
    • -5
      Ares  

    • The election didn't go well for us, what do we do?!? MAKE FUN OF GEORGE BUSH, THAT ALWAYS FUCKING WORKS!

    • 1 year ago
  • insaintity
  • div
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      div  
    • Ares:

      It just came out, it just made the news. Should we have found out about this in the past using a crystal ball and a seer and then made fun of him?

    • 1 year ago
  • irie_ojo
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      irie_ojo  

    • the only reason bush got super pissed about kanye's comment is b/c it was the only "insult" that really wasn't true.....

    • 1 year ago
  • div
  • progressive67
    • +1
      progressive67  

    • Bravo then for Kanye, and to the international community for making America's first war criminal afraid to leave his home. And I believe revealing the ID of an undercover CIA operative for political reasons is TREASON.

    • 1 year ago
  • bike10
  • Radical_Centrist
  • Proud_Progressive
    • +7
      Proud_Progressive  

    • Oh my goodness. THAT was the lowest moment? What about when you lied about weapons of mass destruction and invaded a country? What about when you ruined the economy with your draconian tax cuts? What about when you deregulated Wall Street, leading to the housing bubble?

      WHAT ABOUT 9/11?!?!

    • 1 year ago
  • Blkwdw
  • Ricky84
    • -1
      Ricky84  

    • This is such a great example of why Kayne West and the fluff and nonsense reporting driven by most current media outlets is dumbing down the national conversation and by extension ruining any chance at a meaningful self reflection on past events. How else is it that out of all the people and out of all the relevant or important questions asked of George Bush, Kayne West and “George bush doesn’t like black people,” left the biggest impression?

    • 1 year ago
  • kennymotown
  • ayipis
    • -5
      ayipis  

    • a free Bush only means either he is innocent and idiots like kanye west is just cashing in on the hype (i am sure he is not known to do that LOL)

      or.........or.......or

      the democrats who promised all these idiots of impeachment and war crime charges were too fucking weak and incompetent to actually deliver..

      which one is it??

    • 1 year ago
  • ayipis
  • Dazedandconfused
    • +2
      Dazedandconfused  
    • ayipis:

      huh? well i don't think Obama hates black people, or cheats into office, or runs us headlong into secretive wars...... But yeah he shouldn't be our president because hes much much worse then Bush who fucked us all for nearly an entire decade.

    • 1 year ago
  • Thargor19
  • daveinLA
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      daveinLA  
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    • KANYE IS A RACIST.
      Nobody gives a shit what Kanye says anymore. Kanye again showed his racism with the Taylor Swift incident. Kanye is useless, and a has-been hater.

    • 1 year ago
  • Dazedandconfused
  • ayipis
  • dudefromtherock
  • EdJoyProductions
  • bailey78
    • +6
      bailey78  

    • not the fact that he got us into an unjust war or the fact that he lied to us about every thing under the sun. But the fact that this YoYo said he didn't care about the black folks. thats just sick. i wish i could get my hands on that dust farting old bastard. I would love to choke him till his eyes pop out.

    • 1 year ago
  • Dmerza1989
  • bailey78
  • Dmerza1989
  • themotivateddropout
  • EdJoyProductions
  • Dmerza1989
    • +6
      Dmerza1989  

    • No bush's new lowest point, is saying his lowest point in Kayne talking shit about him. If i was given a microphone, i would have said worse.
      What Kayne said was the most UNnarcissistic thing that has ever come out of his mouth.

    • 1 year ago
  • Cruzin
  • CarolineS
    • +11
      CarolineS  

    • The only inteligent words to come out of Kanye's mouth was what he said about George bush.
      And as for George, well what does it say about a man who is more moved by being called racist, than he is about the hundreds of thousands of people he has killed and displaced around the world.

    • 1 year ago
richjm
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