Brian Stelter on Kanye West’s ‘Humiliating’ Meltdown: He’s Acting ‘Like a Gift to Racists’

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STELTER: "In the past he’s definitely been a master of marketing. This feels like a PR tour, but it also feels like it is backfiring in a really embarrassing, public, even humiliating way. You look at the reactions to what Kanye West said on TMZ about slavery. He is being roundly denounced, widely denounced for what he said. And that interaction with the TMZ staffer really says it all so effectively. Kanye West has been a brilliant entertainer, but right now he’s acting like a gift to racists because he is saying comments, he is saying these sorts of ridiculous things that are usually promoted by white nationalists, by fringe groups, by fringe individuals, mostly on the Internet, that promote racist ideas. So unfortunately, he’s playing right into that, whether he knows it or not."