Shorter Free Republic cultural critics:

Saturday Night Live picked the critically acclaimed, massively popular Kanye West to be the new season's first musical guest because he hates Bush.

(Well, they don't have a clue. West had ten Grammy nominations last year, reached #1 in the '04 Village Voice critics' poll, sold at least 860,000 copies of the new album in its first week in release, hit #1 on the charts with a single from that album ... but a Freeper says, "Nobody ever heard of this Kanye West before a few weeks ago, and his ad lib outburst at that awards show (that nobody watched) had the desired effect - - to get West's name in the news.")