He's been on THREE talk shows since the incident "apologizing" . . .

Even if it wasn't a planned publicity stunt, he's reaping the rewards. "Oh, look at the poor sad rapper, he's so sorry, he seems nice, let's forgive him and buy all his albums."

This pattern is getting old: celebrity does something awful -> celebrity apologizes publicly several times -> celebrity is forgiven -> celebrity does something awful . . . ad nauseam.

Like when ABC "apologized" that they Twittered about Obama calling Kanye a "jackass." They're not sorry. They just realized that they have to SAY they are to be taken seriously in the future.