Waa, Waa Kanye West

Kanye West is a petulant little baby with an over-developed sense of entitlement.

First he complained that MTV didn’t give him any awards or let him open the VMAs last year. Then he made the Bonnaroo festival-goers wait all night long to actually start his show. Now, he goes after a pap who wanted to take his picture.

Now I’m not defending paparazzi in general. They use some very questionable tactics to get photos, and they often endanger onlookers in their pursuit of the money shot. But that doesn’t mean Kanye and his entourage have the right to destroy their cameras. Until people quit creating a market for the shots, paparazzi will be a part of the popular culture.

If Kanye didn’t have such a history of, well, histrionics, I might have a little more sympathy. Instead I mock him–doesn’t he know that poor people in the midwest would kill to have to fight off aggressive paparazzi when they go to the airport?

Edited to add: More Kanye silliness: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/ask_the_answer_bitch/b32164_are_people_finally_getting_sick_of_kanye.html

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