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By MOLLY DAVIS
A Florida deejay learned nothing from Kanye West.
The lesson should have been that you just don’t mess with Taylor Swift.
Swift has rocketed from cutie pie country crooner to America’s Sweetheart with her soft spoken presence and unbelievable talent.
Girls everywhere idolize her; boys everywhere want her to idolize them.
Which is why I don’t understand how some degenerates, like this radio host, seem to want to take her down a few pegs.
What other agenda is there?
Swift has everything, and on top of that, she is a class act – why would anyone deliberately seek out a flaw of a certified icon?
Either the inquisitive deejay was under a rock for the incredible wrath Kayne incurred from the world after his disgusting debacle on the VMA’s, or he is missing his brain.
And it’s probably the latter.
More than a week after the whole “Ima let you finish, but Beyonce…” exchange went down at the VMA’s, people are still talking about Kanyegate.
Everyone except for Swift.
The country-pop star and bundle of adorableness was doing radio interviews when she came across a particularly persistent prober on the MJ Morning Show in Tampa, Fla.
After three (yes, THREE) very polite attempts to steer the questions in another direction, Swift ended the interview.
Here is the exchange:
First, the jock asked her to describe the scene of the night with Kanye West:
TAYLOR: “I’m just honestly trying not to make it into a bigger deal than it already is. It’s kind of become more of a big deal than I ever thought it would be. I just, you know, it happened on TV, so everybody saw what happened. I just would like to move on maybe a little bit.”
The host ignored her request, and went on to ask if she thought the whole thing was scripted.
Response: “Well … you know, I um … I didn’t know what to think, but I think that we should maybe talk about something else, because, um, I’ve talked about this in one interview, and that was going to be it. It’s not something I feel like we need to keep talking about.”
Finally, the host asked if she thought West’s apologies were sincere.
Response: “I really would appreciate it if we could talk about something else, because I’ve asked you three times now, and I’m trying to be nice about it. It just isn’t something we need to spend this whole interview talking about.”
At that, the host offered to give Swift “a couple of tips” about handling interviews, saying that questions about the VMAs incident were not going to end with his show.
He spit out another Kanye question, and Swift either handed off the phone to her publicist, or the rep intervened and asked if they could move on to another topic.
Some harsh words were exchanged and the call was ended.
Not by Swift’s people.
The radio host hung up on them.
So, Mr. Deejay, not only did you push the sweetest girl alive into doing something totally out of character, you added insult to injury by hanging up on her.
Way to go.
Do you think people will applaud your efforts to upset a 19-year-old?
Frankly, if Swift hasn’t said anything derogatory about the incident by now, she won’t.
She’s obviously not built that way, and doesn’t possess a mean bone in that gorgeous body.
Swift’s star will continue to orbit, and this radio hack will continue to look for company to his misery, as the adage goes.
Because not only is she “Fearless,” she’s flawless.

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.”