In defense of Kanye West, that a-hole.

Kanye West is not a good guy. In fact, he seems to be a megalomaniac asshole who holds himself in such high regard, he's the self-appointed rap reincarnation of Jesus. However, for all of his faults and foibles, there is one thing that Kanye did NOT do that he’s widely accused; Mr. West did NOT score 106 points in a wheelchair basketball game.

Despite a story claiming just that is spreading like wildfire on the nefarious new invention called the “Internet,” the event or any facsimile just didn’t happen.

The Daily Current, a satirical website similar to the uproarious Onion, originally posted the fake news story about Kanye West that was so bad, it was good. In it, they described how West and his entourage appeared to play in a wheelchair basketball at a middle school as a PR move on the heels of his in-concert fumble in Australia (more on that later.) They went on to report that Kanye and company didn’t actually compete while sitting in wheelchairs as any reasonable person would assume, but ran up and down the court, dunked unmercilessly on the wheelchair-regulation 6-foot rims, fouled the disabled kids with reckless abandon, and even tipped them over in unison at the end of the game. In total, Kanye allegedly scored 106 points, a milestone important to him because it beat Wilt Chamberlain’s NBA record scoring performance.

The article described stunned parents and broken hearted, crying wheelchair bound children, to which Kanye laughed and gloated and said unimaginably insensitive things like, “The disabled have it too easy in this country, can’t they rap? Or dance, or something?,” and the disabled should ‘Work and play like the rest of us. Regardless of their handicap. Folks with diseases and crap like that should ‘man-up’ and act right.”

The Daily Current reported that the final score was Kanye’s Madmen 129, Paralympic Basketball Wheelchair Foundation team, 32. The game was an olive branch extended by Kanye’s people, in conjunction with the Disabled People of America program, gone horribly wrong.

While the rapper does have a song called “Monster,” to be fair – he is not one. Or at least not in this case. What is factual is that West did piss off a good portion of the planet during a concert in Sydney, Australia when he demanded the whole crowd stand up for him, and paused the whole affair and humiliated two in the audience that didn’t, though one was in a wheelchair and one had a prosthetic leg. He did show up at a gym in that same country and hoop with 70- year old women. Kanye may be an A-hole, and his biggest contribution as a human being may be toward the perpetuation of his own ego, but dunking over kids in wheelchairs? That’s a notion so patently false and horrible, that it could only exist in the realm of satire – and our vicious and eager public perception.