Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Obama - 'Kanye West is a Jackass'

Update (9/15/2009): Berman Post: Audio of Obama Calling Kanye West a "Jackass" End of Update:

Obama called Kanye West a "Jackass" in an off the record remark that was mistakenly Tweeted. Nineteen-year-old Taylor Swift won Best Female Video at the Video Music Awards and Kanye West stole the mic proclaiming "Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time". Taylor Swift was reportedly seen back stage crying afterwords. My first inclination was that it was some sort of publicity stunt, but Kanye has made some ridiculous statements in the past. The more angles this is reported from the more it seems that if it was planned, Taylor Swift did not know about it. Assuming this was not a mutually planned publicity stunt, it is hard to argue with Obama on this one. West did apologize, sort of, pulling his apology before issuing a second one.

http://www.politico.com/click/stories/0909/did_obama_call_kanye_a_jackass.html

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ABC's Terry Moran set the Twitter-sphere all aflutter when he wrote:



We've reached out to Moran and will update this post when we learn more. 



Now, an ABC spokesperson explains to POLITICO what happened:



"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. 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."

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Video embedded below. (from http://www.tmz.com/2009/09/14/ultra-d-bag-kanye-hijacks-taylor-swift)

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