Hip-hop star Kanye West tore a new one for Dubya on Friday night during a televised hurricane benefit concert, saying the prez doesn't care about black people.

It's amusing to read how that statement made it past the censors!

An excerpt from the AP story on ABCNews.com:

Appearing two-thirds through the program, (West) claimed "George Bush doesn't care about black people" and said America is set up "to help the poor, the black people, the less well-off as slow as possible."

The show, simulcast from New York on NBC, MSNBC, CNBC and Pax, was aired live to the East Coast, enabling the Grammy-winning rapper's outburst to go out uncensored.

There was a several-second tape delay, but the person in charge "was instructed to listen for a curse word, and didn't realize (West) had gone off-script," said NBC spokeswoman Rebecca Marks.

Addendum

Here's YouTube on the original outburst:

And here's West looking back: