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Eugene

(61,899 posts)
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 06:10 PM Sep 2015

Kanye West showers Ben Carson with praise: 'This is the most brilliant guy'

Source: The Guardian

Kanye West showers Ben Carson with praise: 'This is the most brilliant guy'

Yeezus reveals he is a fan in Vanity Fair article and Republican candidate’s team
confirms the two talked politics and music but will they work together?


Nicky Woolf
Thursday 24 September 2015 21.19 BST

Donald Trump may have declared that he loved Kanye West and that the rapper “loves Trump”, but it seems West may prefer one of his Republican rivals – Ben Carson.

In a Vanity Fair article published on Thursday, West glowingly endorsed Carson, who is gaining on the Republican frontrunner in the polls, saying: “As soon as I heard [Ben] Carson speak, I tried for three weeks to get on the phone with him. I was like this is the most brilliant guy.”

Armstrong Williams, Carson’s business manager, confirmed that West had spent three weeks trying to get the Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon-turned-presidential candidate on the phone – and he had been successful, Williams told the Guardian.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/24/kanye-west-ben-carson-fan-vanity-fair-interview
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Kanye West showers Ben Carson with praise: 'This is the most brilliant guy' (Original Post) Eugene Sep 2015 OP
Why do celebrities always think that, just because we see them on TV, razorman Sep 2015 #1
Come on Kanye, you're the most brilliant guy. Juicy_Bellows Sep 2015 #2
Carson/West 2016. bigwillq Sep 2015 #3
Dr. Carson is a good surgeon. shenmue Sep 2015 #4
For Kayne, a slug is brilliant by comparison... joeybee12 Sep 2015 #5
This comment has potential LittleBlue Sep 2015 #7
from the guy who named his kid 'north' KG Sep 2015 #6
Can you imagine the Kardashians in the White House? Kingofalldems Sep 2015 #8
You mean, a Trump victory? nt JustABozoOnThisBus Sep 2015 #12
No "brilliant guy" doubts biological evolution and that Man rode dinosaurs. Full stop. Fred Sanders Sep 2015 #9
President Obama said it best. cwydro Sep 2015 #10
What does he think about ryan_cats Sep 2015 #11
I keep saying -- we need to take the threat of Ben Carson seriously. pnwmom Sep 2015 #13
Kanye is a Benny the Jackoff's fan? slingsam Sep 2015 #14

Juicy_Bellows

(2,427 posts)
2. Come on Kanye, you're the most brilliant guy.
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 06:22 PM
Sep 2015

There can only be one and you've always said it was you.

Well this perfectly illustrates how vapid and daft Kanye really is.

His clothing line is really something though.

shenmue

(38,506 posts)
4. Dr. Carson is a good surgeon.
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 06:24 PM
Sep 2015

He doesn't know squat about politics, though. Has no idea that he can't govern as a religious monarch.

 

LittleBlue

(10,362 posts)
7. This comment has potential
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 06:41 PM
Sep 2015

There are some very loyal Kanye fans on DU. Those are fighting words to them.

pnwmom

(108,980 posts)
13. I keep saying -- we need to take the threat of Ben Carson seriously.
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 07:23 PM
Sep 2015

We can ridicule him all we want -- but that doesn't mean he couldn't win the general, depending on circumstances.

Most voters don't vote based on a minute analysis of issues. They vote based on personality -- and Ben Carson comes across as a nice, soft-spoken guy, with a self-deprecating sense of humor. Plus he's a brain surgeon, so he has a decent number of IQ points.

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