{"id":383034,"date":"2018-10-31T02:29:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T01:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ive-been-used-kanye-west-quits-politics-cnn-goes-into-withdrawal-rt-us-news\/"},"modified":"2018-10-31T02:29:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T01:29:34","slug":"ive-been-used-kanye-west-quits-politics-cnn-goes-into-withdrawal-rt-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ive-been-used-kanye-west-quits-politics-cnn-goes-into-withdrawal-rt-us-news\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I&#8217;ve been used!&#8217; Kanye West quits politics, CNN goes into withdrawal \u2014 RT US News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.10\/thumbnail\/5bd8f866dda4c81e3e8b45ae.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        After weeks of infamy as the most famous Black face of the conservative movement, Kanye West wants off the Trump train, claiming he\u2019s been \u201cused\u201d and blaming fellow controversy-courter Candace Owens for ideologically seducing him.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Owens unveiled the logo for her \u201c<em>Blexit<\/em>\u201d movement \u2013 as in a \u201c<em>black exit<\/em>\u201d from the Democratic party \u2013 at Saturday\u2019s Turning Points Young Black Leadership Summit, boasting that West had helped design the logo, which he now denies. Not only is he pulling out of any further involvement with the campaign, he says, but \u201c<em>I never wanted any association with Blexit<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My eyes are now wide open and now realize I\u2019ve been used to spread messages I don\u2019t believe in. I am distancing myself from politics and completely focusing on being creative !!!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ye (@kanyewest) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kanyewest\/status\/1057382916760707072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><\/div>\n<p>The rapper claims to be washing his hands of politics, tweeting regret that \u201c<em>I\u2019ve been used to spread messages I don\u2019t believe in.<\/em>\u201d He pledged to focus on creative endeavors going forward, though some might say his Oval Office performance earlier this month, during which he hugged the President and called his Make America Great Again hat a \u201c<em>Superman cape<\/em>,\u201d was pretty creative.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x3NPMpqu0hs?ecver=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>His bizarre monologue also inspired some jaw-dropping performances on the part of CNN pundits, who wasted no time in making the kind of racist statements they\u2019d normally crucify their fellow commentators for uttering.<\/p>\n<p>Kanye\u2019s embrace of Trump had some Democratic strategists panicking. While his Oval Office lovefest earned him plenty of backlash on social media, enough fans seemed to be following his example and \u201c<em>walking away<\/em>\u201d from the Democratic party to garner Trump a 36 percent approval rating among African-Americans \u2013 twice his ratings with that group last year.<\/p>\n<p>West cleared up a few of his political stances on Twitter before switching out of politics mode entirely, tweeting out his support for asylum-seekers, \u201c<em>common-sense gun laws<\/em>,\u201d and prison reform.\u00a0 In June, the rapper and his wife, Kim Kardashian, actually secured a presidential pardon for Alice Johnson, a 63-year-old woman who had spent the last 22 years in jail on nonviolent drug charges.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Like this story? Share it with a friend!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/442693-kanye-west-quits-politics\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After weeks of infamy as the most famous Black face of the conservative movement, Kanye West wants off the Trump train, claiming he\u2019s been \u201cused\u201d and blaming fellow controversy-courter Candace Owens for ideologically seducing him. Owens unveiled the logo for her \u201cBlexit\u201d movement \u2013 as in a \u201cblack exit\u201d from the Democratic party \u2013 at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":383035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-383034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}