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The NFL provided a curious platform for a number of screed-issuing entertainers to celebrate the launch of a uniquely American institution last night, starting with the Bush-bashing, conspiracy-addled Kanye West.

His political commentary apparently passes as evidence of a powerful intellect to the milquetoast editors of Time magazine, only too happy to put West on the cover of their dated publication before his race-baiting appearance on an NBC telethon intended to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

"George Bush doesn't care about black people," West said, which probably was not a smart thing to say to viewers being solicited to make donations.

West could assume that a polarizing remark undermines the plea to donate, particularly if the viewer is a supporter of President Bush. The deduction should be easy enough to make if he is as intellectually deep as Time's editors seem to think.

Perhaps West is so deep his motives are not to be understood by mundane thinkers.

West is a brilliant artist, after all, although he is culling from the same old material of the far-left entertainment industry.

If a limousine carrying a deep-thinking entertainer incurs a flat tire, you can be certain the entertainer will issue a statement that puts the blame on the Bush administration or America or Halliburton.

This nuance-stuffed indictment follows a strained path, which, of course, impresses the feeble editors of Time.

It is deemed cutting-edge stuff, odd as that is, because all the political stuff from the entertainment industry is the same old stuff, hardly edgy, just stale, not unlike a Hare Krishna chant.

At least Sean Penn added an interesting twist to his cliches from his sinking rescue boat in New Orleans, where he heroically bailed water with a plastic cup to save his personal photographer and entourage.