Kanye West for bullying a sweet teenage girl, for grandstanding (again), and finally for stealing a once in a lifetime moment from a truly deserving star. It was beyond any excuse! Taylor Swift always shows how lovely, beautiful, and mature she really is~ inside & out! Thank u, Mr. President, it was QUITE the Presidential remark! Loved it!

Y’all need to stop blaming Kanye West for what happened at the MTV Video Music Awards and cut the guy some slack.

I know, I know, you’re wondering how a site that was founded on the notion of bettering our society’s behavior could possibly condone a man getting up on stage to steal the spotlight from a deserving artist, but hear me out.

It wasn’t Kanye’s fault.

We live in an era where members of Congress feel perfectly free to heckle the president mid-speech and a television personality has no problem calling the leader of the free world a “racist” with “deep-seeded issues with white people.” 

How can we expect more of our entertainers — be they egotistical, opinionated rappers or foul-mouthed, judgement-questioning tennis pros like Serena Williams or Roger Federer, both of whom lobbed obscenities during the U.S. Open — than we do our elected officials?

And besides, as we now know, at least Kanye has the excuse of being drunk.  As far as we know, videos of Congressman Wilson and Glenn Beck guzzling liquid courage before shooting their mouths off haven’t yet surfaced. 

Sure, Donald Trump has accused Kanye of “grandstanding to get attention”, but being driven by delusions of grandeur is something the sometimes-bankrupt tycoon knows nothing about, so why listen to him?

And let’s face it: In the end, West may actually have been right. How many people here have gotten tipsy and danced at an office party to Taylor Swift’s “You Belong To Me”? Anyone? Bueller? Okay, same question about Beyonce’s “Single Ladies.”

Don’t make me break out the Youtubes.

In any case, it’s become abundantly clear over the past few years that more and more of society wants to live in a “speak now and don’t ever hold your peace” world.  Actions no longer have consequence, and envelopes are made for pushing.  Yell at the president. Disrupt town hall meetings. Become famous for nothing more than being what some would call “outspoken” others just plain rude. (And yes, I’m looking at you, Spencer Pratt!)

Apparently, it really is Kanye’s world, and we’re all just living in it.

So wait, inclusion is now a bad thing?

It’s so tough to keep up!

Last night, Sean Hannity of Fox News Channel accused President Obama of saying that the United States “does not consider itself a Christian nation.” As this was reportedly said to residents of “a Muslim country”, Hannity treated this as the worst form of heresy imaginable.

Of course, what the president said and what Hannity reported him as having said were two different things. In reality, what Obama said was that “one of the great strengths of the United States is — although as I mentioned, we have a very large Christian population  — we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation, or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.”

In other words, we are a nation of peole who have differing beliefs. This is something we have always prided ourselves on. What fascinated me about Hannity’s comments was that he opened the segment — and, indeed, his broadcast, by saying, “The president of the United States — your president — told an audience…”

Back up a second, sir. Unless I’m mistaken, you just proved my point. Because I, Mr. Hannity, am an athiest, and yet Barack Obama is my president as well as yours. Even if this country were made up of 95 percent Christians, that would not make us an exclusively Christian nation. And that, Mr. Hannity, is the point Obama was making. The fact that your network choses to run a banner across the bottom of the screen declaring the United States to be “The Fox Nation” does not mean that those who opt to get their news from other sources are not Americans, does it? (Then again, this is Fox News Channel we’re talking about, so they might actually try and claim that to be true.)

We are the United States and, as that name implies, we come together as a people despite our differences. It’s precisely this type of talk that creates an environment of separatism. And given the many crises facing our country, the last thing we need is to be torn apart by such ridiculousness when we should, in fact, be rallying as one to prove exactly what it is that makes us the greatest country in the world.