Obama Calls Kanye West a 'Jackass'

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President Barack Obama called hip-hop musician Kanye West a "jackass" on Monday in an off-the-record comment during an interview with CNBC, an ABC News anchor reported on Twitter.

Obama was apparently weighing in on an interruption that occurred the night before during the MTV Video Music Awards where West grabbed the microphone from teen country singer Taylor Swift during her award acceptance speech to announce his belief that Beyonce had a better music video.

"Pres. Obama just called Kanye West a 'jackass' for his outburst at VMAs when Taylor Swift won. Now THAT'S presidential," "Nightline" co-anchor Terry Moran wrote Monday evening to his more than 1 million followers.

The tweet forced the network to issue an apology after the Internet quickly became abuzz over the stunning remark published on the microblogging site.

An ABC spokesperson said, "In the process of reporting on remarks by President Obama that were made during a CNBC interview, ABC News employees prematurely tweeted a portion of those remarks that turned out to be from an off-the-record portion of the interview," Politico reported. "This was done before our editorial process had been completed. That was wrong. We apologize to the White House and CNBC and are taking steps to ensure that it will not happen again."

Moran's tweet has since been deleted, but can still be accessed.

West, who is no stranger to controversy, apologized for the incident after Sunday night's MTV broadcast and again Monday night during an interview on the premiere of NBC's "Jay Leno Show."

West told Leno he's going to take some time off to reflect and that "it was rude, period."

"I need to, after this, take some time off and just analyze how I'm going to make it through the rest of this life, how I'm going to improve. If there's anything I could do to help Taylor in the future or help anyone, I'd like to," he said.

The White House had no immediate comment on the matter, Politico reported.

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[RauCous]

This gets more and more interesting as it goes on! Obama can say whatever he wants.. as long as he's not grabbing mics and cutting people off.. lol.
<Unrelated... isn't fox news a "bad" network?>

 

[Wyspa]

Fox news is known to be controversial. I think they were even accused of being racially motivated... Anyways I read this on the net some time ago. I don't think its appropriate for the President of the United States to be calling anyone a "jack-ass". Save that kindaof talk when you're in your living room. Even though it was not on record, he should've known better...... Kanye West needs to grow up. Always throwing a hissy fit when things don't go his way...steups!

 

[LadyDeath]

It was so rude,stupid,inhumane,dumb of kanye west to do that to someone who won a first vma. imagine you worked so hard to get that award and for you win it and feel like the world and someone come and ruin your moment its just heart breaking.

 

[madsuya]

this is off d topic but did u know he got ah lil taste of d similar medicine wen During the President's recent visit to Russia, none of the Russian politicians in the receiving line shook his hand.

Here’s something for everybody to think about. Once you are black, no matter who you are, what you are or how much money you may have, the color of your skin is still black.

Can you believe this, not one of these Russian Politicians shook the President’s hand as he extended it to each and every one of them. Not one word about this was published in the United States Media. Amazingly he showed no reaction!!! mg: