But I’ve always known the guy was a few Kardashians short of a reality show. Or at least I’ve known it since 2005, when Kanye said this on live network TV during a benefit for the victims of Hurricane Katrina:

In retrospect, there’s some bleak humor in Mike Myers’ visibly stunned reaction. For the first time in his career, he was the one getting upstaged.2

And you know who loved it? Liberals! They thought Kanye was great. To this day they’ve never accepted the result of the 2000 election, and in 2005 the emotional wounds were even more raw. They celebrated Kanye telling it like it wasn’t, because no lie was too insane to strike back at George W. Bush, the man they’d convinced themselves was the next Hitler.3

So no, I’m not surprised that Kanye is now praising the actual Hitler. Hell, I called it almost 14 years ago …