howard stern lashed out kanye-west during the October 19 episode of his SiriusXM radio show (via mediaite). West has generated controversy in recent weeks for making anti-Semitic statements, most recently in an interview with Chris Cuomo where the rapper cited the “Jewish underground media mob.” Stern compared West to Hitler and criticized his supporters who cite mental health issues as the source of West’s anti-Semitic behavior.
“I almost don’t want to give energy to this Kanye West character,” Stern said. “I don’t know much about Kanye West. I don’t really like the rap scene, but he does, you know, I’m really tired of people justifying his behavior by saying, ‘Well, he’s just mentally ill.'”
Stern continued, “Kanye was on the Chris Cuomo show, and my God, you have to listen to the shit this guy is in and fuck this mental illness, self-defense thing he’s in, you know, like, ‘ Oh yeah, he just has a mental illness.” . Don’t worry about it… ‘If he’s so mentally ill, why don’t they assign him a guardian over his money like they did poor Britney Spears?
While Stern didn’t want to give West’s beliefs another platform, he praised media organizations for calling out the rapper and “exposing” him. He then played a clip of West and Cuomo’s discussion in which the rapper cited the “Jewish underground media mob” as a reason why he isn’t called a billionaire or tycoon in the press.
“Guess what, idiot? When they write about me, they call me the crash jock. You have no control over — You’re a rapper. That’s what you are. That’s how you got famous,” Stern said. “If a newspaper article doesn’t point out the fact that you’re some kind of designer or genius, maybe it’s not because they’re Jewish, but because they just don’t think much of who the hell you are. And what is your business?
“This is so depressing. I mean, Kanye used to be a funny nut. He is now like Hitler,” Stern concluded.
West also earned the scorn of Jon Stewart (via the daily beast) on the most recent episode of his podcast. Stewart also spoke out against West’s defenders, noting that if the rapper has a mental illness, then he’s not sure what medicine he would take would prevent him from being anti-Semitic.
“I don’t know what drug you could get that could make you not believe that there is a cabal of Jews controlling the flow of information from your mouth to the public,” Stewart said.
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