Dave's People Supposedly Edit Anti-Semitic Remarks from Kanye Interview

[Mark Jeffries]

Some people who attended a January 2019 taping of Letterman's Netflix interview series claim that West, along with his now-typical attacks on Jews and the left, also said the sexual abuse of Rhianna was her fault, along with what seemed like an indirect reference to R. Kelly being "persecuted," along with engaging in arguments with audience members--When the Wrap requested an unedited copy of the interview from Netflix, they refused and a spokesman for Worldwide Pants says that Dave challenged most of West's remarks, but the audience members say that the final product resembled more "celebrity fluff":

https://www.thewrap.com/david-letterman-show-sanitized-kanye-west-ye-nazi-comments/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking_news_7168006

[PGage]

While the Subject Header here is accurate, it would also be accurate to say that Dave’s People edited out lots of non anti-Semitic remarks. As the The Wrap piece makes clear, Dave’s Netflix show is not really an hour long version of his old talk show panels; the final show contains like 20% of the material they recorded.

That does not by itself justify the particular editorial judgements made, and while I mostly enjoy Dave’s show (I have intentionally chosen not to watch the West interview, so can’t not comment directly) it does sometimes feel a little too fluffy and airy, as if the point is to show how mellow and accepting old man Dave has become. If young Dave was sometimes accused of ambushing and being mean and inhospitable to his guests, old Dave can maybe be accused of something of the opposite.

Also, while I do not for a minute view West’s mental illness as an excuse for his anti-Semitic and other kinds of hateful speech, I do see the challenge posed to Dave’s People so soon after West announced his Bipolar diagnosis. If they make a third of the show a spotlight on what must have seemed like a manic episode, wouldn’t they be open to criticism of exploiting a sick man? 

In retrospect perhaps best to have pulled the plug on the whole project on the basis that the man was obviously not well, though really, it has been clear for some time that the guy is not well, and that did not sop a long line of entities from trying to profit off of his fame and following. 

On Sun, 6 Nov 2022 at 8:47 PM Mark Jeffries <spotl...@gmail.com> wrote:

Some people who attended a January 2019 taping of Letterman's Netflix interview series claim that West, along with his now-typical attacks on Jews and the left, also said the sexual abuse of Rhianna was her fault, along with what seemed like an indirect reference to R. Kelly being "persecuted," along with engaging in arguments with audience members--When the Wrap requested an unedited copy of the interview from Netflix, they refused and a spokesman for Worldwide Pants says that Dave challenged most of West's remarks, but the audience members say that the final product resembled more "celebrity fluff":

https://www.thewrap.com/david-letterman-show-sanitized-kanye-west-ye-nazi-comments/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking_news_7168006

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[JW]

> ...That does not by itself justify the particular editorial judgements made,

> and while I mostly enjoy Dave’s show (I have intentionally chosen not to
> watch the West interview, so can’t not comment directly) it does sometimes
> feel a little too fluffy and airy, as if the point is to show how mellow

> and accepting old man Dave has become. If young Dave was sometimes

> accused of ambushing and being mean and inhospitable to his guests, old

> Dave can maybe be accused of something of the opposite.

The nature of this show is very different than the nightly hour. The guests seem to be people who Dave wants to talk to, rather than a parade of folks with projects to plug. And Dave spends a lot of time with these guests, so the final product is certainly going to be edited for length.

As far as the Kanye show goes, I watched it a couple years ago when it first came out, and very little of it stuck. If I try, I can remember that there was some goofy stuff that Ye said, but nothing that struck me as newsworthy. I don't think this show is aiming for newsworthy, and the fact that all of this hasn't come out until years later is an indication of that.