YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Remember When Criticizing Kanye Was Racist?

“George Bush doesn’t care about black people.” This was the moment when Kanye became a superstar. Even people who didn’t like his music cheered on this semi-coherent rant. Kanye spoke for every American who wasn’t quite smart enough to articulate an argument against Bush, but still knew in their bones that Bush was bad. Any attack was welcome, and the angrier and more irrational, the better. They literally blamed Bush for the weather, and Kanye became their hero.

And if you didn’t like what Kanye said back in ’05, or thought it was the wrong venue to say it, or had any other criticism whatsoever, guess what that made you? HINT: It starts with “R” and ends with “acist.”

But that was different because back then Kanye was still useful to the cause.