In NBC Interview, Bush Calls Kanye's On-Air Insult Worst Moment of Presidency

By Nate Freeman

In anticipation of the Nov. 9 release of his memoir Decision Points, George W. Bush will sit down with Matt Lauer for a prime-time news special this Monday to talk over the experiences relayed in the book. In the excerpts released yesterday in a press release, the NBC anchor grilled the ex-head of state on the memoir's key moments — namely 9/11, the Iraq War, Hurricane Katrina, etc.

But which of these events — all of them defining disasters of this millennium — does Bush consider the worst moment of his presidency? None, actually! It seems Bush is the latest victim of the cutting disses Kanye West can sneak into his nimble, dexterous flow. The offending quip, of course, was West's assertion, on an NBC Katrina telethon, that "George Bush doesn't care about black people." Bush admits that 'Ye burned him hard.

MATT LAUER:
This from the book. “Five years later I can barely write those words without feeling disgust.” You go on. “I faced a lot of criticism as President. I didn’t like hearing people claim that I lied about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction or cut taxes to benefit the rich. But the suggestion that I was racist because of the response to Katrina represented an all time low.”

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH:
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.

Kanye has dealt with the haters before — diss tracks from the Dipset crew, Barack Obama calling him a "jackass" after he interrupted Taylor Swift — but nothing compared to the president calling his insult the lowest point of an eight-year tenure in the Oval Office. What's beef, W.?

Kanye feeds your hunger

I didn't want to spend any time on Kanye's ill-behavior on the 2009 VMAs during Taylor Swift's acceptance speech, but Dwight called and insisted that I rant about it.

Kanye West is a grown ass man who knows right from wrong. He knows he had no business on that stage during Taylor's speech. Have we not all discerned that Kanye is an attention magnet? Look at how the media went crazy over this one small incident. It's like we can't identify anything else to talk about. The talk shows, the newspapers... Kanye's publicist can't stop the phone from ringing. Interns are running around clipping articles for his PR scrapbook. I don't even remember what else happened on the show!!! Oh that's right Janet performed. Has anyone seen Janet on TV, in the gossip rags, etc. Nope, but Kanye is getting yet another 15 minutes added to his clock. And now he mentions to Jay Leno that he needs to go away??? Right! Kanye needs a vacation before dropping his next album. He is a business man. He ain't stupid, his next album will be ultra hot and everyone who didn't know him will purchase it just to see what he says next.

Oh and not to mention, Taylor Swift is going to milk this conversation too.... Who is she again? I swear, I was clueless before the other night. Hmmm.

Kanye do your thing. You can't get that type of publicity sitting in the audience. BOLD!

Dwight’s Top 10 VMA Moments

10. Red Carpet Pre Show, can we please get some more energy on the carpet by the hosts? OMG can we get DJ Baker, B Scott, Nathan 7 Scott??? Somebody!!!!

9. Shakira and Pink wearing the same dress. Pink defiantly wore it better though.

8.Why was Solange performing during commercial break and those guys who I don’t know who they are were performing live for DJ AM.

7. Pink arriving with the NYC Fire Department!

6. Pink did an amazing performance the best of the night, clearly my one of my favorites, please just make me understand why can she show her breast; however Janet’s wardrobe malfunction was an issue?

5. Taylor Swift’s performance on the F train up to the street with the many MTV extras was soooo cute, I just want to make sure she used hand sanitizer the subway has lots of germs.

4. Kanye West rudely going on stage to announce that Beyonce’ deserved the award over Taylor Swift, when clearly Taylor had 100% of the country vote and Beyonce’ had to split the pop vote with the other nominees.

3. Beyonce giving up her moment in accepting her award for Video of the Year and allowing Taylor on stage to finish her acceptance speech. Beyonce’ is the definition of class, I know many may think that the incident should be my #1 but I think we should highlight the positive.

2. A real tribute to Michael finally happened and MTV gave it to him!!! Janet did a wonderful job and I know her brother was smiling down from heaven! Maybe MTV will support her music now as well.

1. THE VMA’S RETURNING TO NEW YORK CITY!!!!