• Selfish prick Al Sharpton figures the best way to protest the acquittal of the three police officers who killed Sean Bell is by "shutting down" New York City, home to 8 million people with lives and issues of their own. Thanks, Al. [SH]

• "One actor asked the woman why she loves [Clay Aiken] so much, she answered the only way a crazed Claymate would answer, 'He is the Savior.'" [DListed]

• According to the gays, Ugly Betty is the best comedy on television. Blue Collar TV was robbed again! [PS]

• What does Elizabeth Hurley do? Is she a model? Is she a zombie? [HT]

• James Bwunt huwt his wittew fingew! [INO]

• The Iceman is melting. (We don't know how we do it. It just comes to us.) [ICYDK]

• Heather Locklear was caught momentarily making an unattractive face. Now everyone's making fun of her. Being famous sure is awesome, huh? [Yeeeah]

• Reese Witherspoon has cut out her plastic bag consumption, which is nice of her. [CityRag]

Al Sharpton, center, in May, 2007: "They had a standard that said Ice-T can't rap against police. They had a standard that said you can't rap against gays, and you shouldn't. They had a standard against Michael Jackson saying something anti-Semitic. Where is the standard against 'nigger,' 'ho' and 'bitch'?"

Memphis Bleek, right, in the song "Murda 4 Life": "Nigga's live with it money, drugs and murda for life/ Bitches deal with it, only lovin' them hoes for the night/ if you feelin' it, get high it's all right/ But you can't get it till the day, ride em' high"

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Still not sure if Kanye West is a complete idiot? Check out his new Spin interview, an unalloyed testament to the man's utter incomprehension of race.

It's frightening that he gets to mouth off in such major forums, but even scarier is that we think he actually believes this shit:

• "Take 'Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.' It's a white sample, but everything I do to it is to make it as black as possible."

• "There's certain things that black people are the best at and certain things that white people are the best at. Whatever we as black people are the best at, I'ma go get that. Like, on Christmas I don't want any food that tastes white. And when I go to purchase a house, I don't want my credit to look black."

• "White-people food? You know what it is. You never ate fried chicken and said, 'This tastes white.'"

• "I'll tell you one thing, as a black person: We have no problem breaking ourselves for what we want."

"White sample"? "Black credit"? How quickly would Al Sharpton call for his head had Bruce Springsteen said any of this?

We've said it before and we'll say it again: KANYE WEST DOESN'T CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE.

After a recent meal with fellow dumb person Al Sharpton at Sylvia's, a legendary Harlem eatery, Bill O'Reilly took to his radio program to extol the surprisingly civilized behavior of America's Negroes:

…O’Reilly reported that he “had a great time, and all the people up there are tremendously respectful,” adding: “I couldn’t get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia’s restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was exactly the same, even though it’s run by blacks, primarily black patronship.”

Later, during a discussion with National Public Radio senior correspondent and Fox News contributor Juan Williams about the effect of rap on culture, O’Reilly asserted: “There wasn’t one person in Sylvia’s who was screaming, ‘M-Fer, I want more iced tea.’ You know, I mean, everybody was — it was like going into an Italian restaurant in an all-white suburb in the sense of people were sitting there, and they were ordering and having fun. And there wasn’t any kind of craziness at all.”

The King's English from dark lips in Harlem? Slum-raised Africans "sitting…ordering and having fun," just as suburban Italians would? Perhaps you can take the jungle out of the beast. How much for three of them?

PS I sure hope O'Reilly's dinner date gets as outraged about this as he did about Imus.

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