Obama: Kanye West a 'jackass' for outburst

[ReDemoN 10+ year member]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32859148/ns/politics-white_house?GT1=43001

In what were supposed to be off-the-record comments, President Barack Obama called musician Kanye West a "jackass" because of the performer's outburst at a music awards ceremony.

The comments were mistakenly sent out via the online service Twitter by ABC News' Terry Moran, who had access to off-the-record comments Obama made while being interviewed Monday by CNBC.

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

Moran quickly deleted the comment but it was still accessible online.

ABC News later issued a statement apologizing for reporting comments meant to be off the record.

Moran "prematurely tweeted ... 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," the spokesperson said in a statement first issued to politico.com.

The White House has not responded to the incident.

West was widely criticized, and later apologized, for interrupting Taylor Swift after she won a best female video award at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday.

West took the microphone from Swift to proclaim that Beyonce was more deserving.

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[treadburner 10+ year member]

repost

 

[J31Rob 5,000+ posts]

repost

this.

 

[iamamp3pimp 5,000+ posts]

i like it

 

[ReDemoN 10+ year member]

****it.

I thought I got to it first.

Crap.

Oh well.

But not everyone is gonna read the whole other topic.

 

[NJTStang11 10+ year member]

Now we patiently wait for Kanye to comment how

"Obama hates black people"

 

[ReDemoN 10+ year member]

Yeah no kidding

 

[Savag3 10+ year member]

Now we patiently wait for Kanye to comment how"Obama hates black people"

kanye is about as black as hillary clinton

 

[Rmsanger 10+ year member]

kanye's had about as much black in him as hillary clinton

This

 

[revrider1 5,000+ posts]

Lol...

 

[Rmsanger 10+ year member]

Yes that is Hillary sitting next to Sammy Sosa during Bill's state of the union address all while the Lewinsky scandal was happening. It's a known truth that Hillary likes her some chocholate. Thats why they vacation separately and she spends all of her time in Sub-Sahara Africa.

 

[azimuth 5,000+ posts]

i still get a chuckle out of west's "bush is ordering the shooting of black people" comment. he probably actually believes that he's an intellectual heavy weight. probably because noone he surrounds himself with has the nuts to call him out on his stupidity.

 

[power-fanatic07 5,000+ posts]

i wonder who smokes more cak, kanye or dmx

 

[Tehgregzor 10+ year member]

i still get a chuckle out of west's "bush is ordering the shooting of black people" comment. he probably actually believes that he's an intellectual heavy weight. probably because noone he surrounds himself with has the nuts to call him out on his stupidity.

Your sig makes me laugh

 

[SRim23 5,000+ posts]

add Terry Moran to the unemployment list.