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By MOLLY DAVIS
Kanye West needs a SWIFT kick in the behind.
And Taylor should be wearing the steel-toed combat boot that delivers the kick.
Kanye West, who is known for his egotistical antics (which he justifies as “keeping it real”) shot to new heights of revolting behavior at Sunday night’s MTV Video Music Awards.
When Taylor won Best Female Video for “You Belong With Me,” Kanye jumped onstage, grabbed the mike from the country singer’s hands and delivered this rant:
“Yo Taylor, I’m really happy for you, I’m a let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time,” he yelled. “Of all time!”
He was booed.
He should have been tased, and judging from all of Taylor’s supporters, plenty would have happily signed up to deliver the punishment.
There would’ve been a long waiting list.
Swift had beat Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” for the coveted award, and after Kanye’s self-promoting performance, he was bounced out of the show.
He embarrassed everyone involved … Taylor Swift, Beyonce, and the audience.
Kanye obviously never learned manners or decorum when he was a child, and I thought that maybe, just maybe after his mother passed away he had changed and become a little more humble.
I was wrong, and I bet she would be ashamed of him.
Swift had to perform the song about five minutes after Kanye’s outburst.
She gave an unbelievable performance, was the picture of poise and class, and absolutely shined.
As usual.
As for Kanye West, he simply sucks.
He is a terrible entertainer and a pitiful excuse for a human being.
His career is going nowhere, he’s arrogant beyond belief, his music is terrible and he’s a sellout.
Taylor got the last laugh, but is being gracious about the event, saying she didn’t want to start anything and declined to bash her tormentor.
But her supporters did it for her — she is truly loved by her fans and the entire entertainment industry.
After the, ahem, interruption, it took Kanye more 24 hours to apologize directly to Taylor.
He blogged his apology as well as saying how sorry he was on his Jay Leno appearance Monday night.
Hey Kanye — if you truly were sorry, you never would’ve done what you did.
But you did, and if you had a conscience, which you obviously don’t, the second you realized what you were wrong, you would’ve made every attempt to reach out to her personally.
It took the backlash of your entertainment peers and probably pressure from your handlers to get you to do the right thing.
Of course she forgave you — it’s called class, and I don’t care how much money you rake in, Kanye, you can’t but it.
Her fans will not be as forgiving.
Of course, she accepted.
While appearing on “The View,” Taylor was asked to talk about the VMAs, when the classless thug interrupted her acceptance speech to tell the world that Beyonce’s video was better, telling the co-hosts that, “sure,” she would meet with him.
“He has not personally reached out or anything,” she said at the time. But that has changed. After the show, West called to speak to Swift directly and apologized, reports said.
“Kanye did call me. He was very sincere in his apology, and I accepted that apology,” Swift told ABC News Radio. Asked if in the future, everything would be fine between the two, she replied, “Yeah, definitely.”