George Bush Reflects on Kanye West's 'Racist' Remark

By Zach Dionne Posted Nov 3rd 2010 11:23AM

George W. Bush sat down with Matt Lauer for an interview surrounding the release of his presidential memoir 'Decision Points,' and yes, Kanye West's "George Bush doesn't care about black people" remark came up.

"It was one of the most disgusting moments in my presidency," Bush tells Lauer. Read on.

"That [means] 'he's a racist,'" Bush says of West's comment. "And I didn't appreciate it then. 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."

In the book, W. writes that Kanye's televised remark "represented an all-time low."

Lauer then read the Kanye passage from Bush's memoir in the interview, and the former president commented: "Yeah. I still feel that way as you read those words. I felt 'em when I heard 'em, felt 'em when I wrote 'em and I felt 'em when I'm listening to 'em."

At the time, in 2005, Bush was hard-pressed to think of a worse moment of his time in office, and told his wife Laura the same. "My record was strong, I felt, when it came to race relations and giving people a chance. And it was a disgusting moment."

Lauer went on to assert -- leading the way for media headlines proliferating as this is written -- that Bush definitively considers West's diss as the toughest moment in his eight-year presidency. "You're not saying that the worst moment in your presidency was watching the misery in Louisiana. You're saying it was when someone insulted you because of that," Lauer grills.

Bush's response? "No, and I also make it clear that the misery in Louisiana affected me deeply as well. There's a lot of tough moments in the book. And it was a disgusting moment, pure and simple."

UPDATE: 3:45 P.M. 11/03/10

Kanye commented on Bush's interview with Houston DJ Devi Dev of Hot 97.9 The Boxx, saying he sympathized for the former President, according to All Hip Hop News.

"I can understand the way he feels to be accused of being a racist in a way, because the same thing happened to me where I got accused of being a racist," said on Nov. 3 in an interview.

The full interview will air on NBC on Nov. 8 at 8PM.

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Wednesday 03 November

By laughin@stupid

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is that right gw bush im white and seems you were a bit slow with the katrina nitemare ????? whats the next excuse

By Connie

The toughest part of his presidency was having to deal with the lame-stream media...and he's still having to deal with it. Right Lauer??

By daveej

Chelsie Morning is an even bigger douce yet!

By Dee

Kayne annoys that crap out of me! When he is on TV I turn the cannel! He sounds like he is angry & I cant stand his music!! He really needs to be quiet & go away!

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By The Dude

Kayne West is just an idiot beyond definition. If he were able to speak intelligently, maybe then I could understand his point. But to see Mike Myers look during the (Katrina Video) says it all.

Kayne, your a bigger idiot then I thought, your music is very representative of your intelligence. -0-

Have happy life loser...

Friday 12 November

By drew

Not very suprising that former president Bush's worst moment is being insulted. Not ANYTHING that happened on 9/11, in Iraq, or anything in New Orleans, that spawned that very sentence that made poor little george fill up with disgust.

By catert26

yall must be crazy just like bush i didn't like how kanye west how he said it but it true look at the facts it took them for ever to help in NO so yes he is racist his mother proved that when she came out her mouth and said living in a gym was better then there own homes the apple never fall to far for the tree

Thursday 04 November

By Carmen

Why is this topic being brought up now? Bush should've/could've addressed this long before now. Hmm...and right around the time of the mid-term elections

By kaden

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black people have got to stop playing the race card.while we all try to work together and get along, it just takes one hatefull person to start the race card lie,I know people who never had a bad word to say about anyone, say I do not want to be around black people because I might say something that they would call me a racist, this is sad when we wont socialize because were afraind of PC.sad day in AmericaIf someone says something you do not like, take them aside ,and say please dont say that again please my people find it offensive, try it

By ANGELOCOOL

I DONT KNOW YOU AND SAYING NEGATIVE THINGS IS NOT A GOOD THING SO I APOLOGIZE , I ALSO FEEL THAT PRESIDENT BUSCH WAS A CAREING PERSON , ANYWAY AS FAR INSULTS I DO APOLOGIZE

Friday 05 November

By duane

Is Bush still around? I thought he'd been hanged for 9/11 treason!

Monday 08 November

By Kristin

Kanye proved to be a racist once again in his new video! During the dinner sceen- if this was a white artist he'd be the first to address it!! Lets have a toast to the racist.......AGAIN!!

Wednesday 10 November

By Jane

Bringing all of this up again just proves, how much of an ignorant President Bush was. I think 9/11 and the Katrina floods was more devastating to me. Millions of people dying was horrific. Bush and his racist fans need to stfu.

By Wow

Millions and millions of people died during 9/11 and the Katrina disaster but yet Bush is most upset over little ole Kanye West. I dislike Bush even more today than I have before. Bush is just too stupid beyond words.

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