I never blew it off and I never said I was a fan... I said it was terrible but it was him and based on how he's been in the past I don't expect anything better or different from Kanye. This is how he acts and how markets himself... doesn't mean I find it acceptable, but it no longer surprises me and I no longer think it will hurt his career (in fact based on his past success' it wouldn't surprise me a bit if it helped it).
And if you note everything I said so far has come absolutely true. I said it would get him more publicity... which it did. Rather than just rapping, he got to rap and be interviewed (all the negative backlash got him that interview), he is still on every paper and gossip site, you all are still talking about him, etc. I said he would find some way to tie it back to theme of his new concert tour announced the day before the VMA's, which he did. His concert theme is Fame Kills, going to be "performance art" about how fame is destroying him. What did he say to Jay last night "so many celebrities never take the time off and I've never taken the time off, and I allowed my hurt..." He is setting up the character of the destroyed celebrity, the same way Lady Gaga, if you read about her VMA exploits, was doing (they are starring in the tour together). In his own words he said he realized right afterwards that this time it wasn't just a spectacle, which to me shows he was thinking it would be just that, a spectacle. It wasn't about Beyonce deserving it at all, it was about Kanye creating a scene, getting attention, which he got. His apology was no more than he's done in the past and I wouldn't put it past him to have asked Jay to ask him what his mom would say because that might get some sympathy back over to him and give him an "out" as a hurt, grieving son.
I give it a few weeks and he will turn into the self-depricating joking Kanye who will laugh at how stupid he was, showing up on SNL or MTV or somewhere mocking himself... keeping this in the public just in time for his tour tickets to go on sale. After that he'll be back to conceited Kanye. If you look at his past, it's simply his pattern.
You can keep believing this will make him go down, but as long as you guys are talking about it, watching the interviews, and keeping this story going, you are giving him exactly what he wants... letting him build himself into the celebrity destroyed by his own fame, a hurt man, a grieving son... a man who now has a concert tour exploiting all of that. I am too cynical to think that his core fanbase will abandon him now after everything else they've put up with from him over the years.
Carrying that large bottle of Hennessy (brandy) into the VMA's.....who does that??? 
