President Obama did not say Kanye West is a "Jackass"
If you were watching the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) then you would remember, arrogant rapper and producer Kanye West did to 17-year-old Taylor Swift at the event. After the big mic grabbing drama, West's promos soared as he was most talked about on Twitter, Facebook and on international celeb gossip shows and even President Barack Obama commented on what he thought of Kanye's stunt.
I dont like what he did because it was so arrogant and demeaning to the poor Swift who had to just stand there and try act like she was not humiliated... meanwhile we all know how embarrassing that must have been.
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Officially, rapper Kanye West is not a "jackass" -- at least not as far as the White House is concerned.
President Barack Obama apparently was speaking off the record Monday when he used that term to characterize the performer's stunning interruption of Taylor Swift during Sunday night's MTV Video Music Awards. While Swift was accepting the award for best female video, West rushed the stage, grabbed the mic and proclaimed that Beyonce had made the best video of all time.
ABC News' Terry Moran tweeted the president's off-the-cuff comment about West to his 1 million-plus followers on Twitter.
In an attempted retraction, Moran, a "Nightline" co-anchor, later removed the tweet from his Twitter feed. But once on the Web, always on the Web.
"TerryMoran: Pres. Obama just called Kanye West a "jackass" for his outburst at VMAs when Taylor Swift won. Now THAT'S presidential," read the now infamous tweet.
It turned out that Obama's remark was not meant for public consumption.
"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," ABC News explained, apologizing to the White House for the slip-up. "It was wrong."
West since has apologized repeatedly for his outburst, including on Monday's premiere of "The Jay Leno Show" and in a phone call to Swift on Tuesday. But judging from reaction to the president's unpublished but widely tweeted remarks, Obama was not alone in his unofficial summation of the West story.
I dont like what he did because it was so arrogant and demeaning to the poor Swift who had to just stand there and try act like she was not humiliated... meanwhile we all know how embarrassing that must have been.
READ:
Officially, rapper Kanye West is not a "jackass" -- at least not as far as the White House is concerned.
President Barack Obama apparently was speaking off the record Monday when he used that term to characterize the performer's stunning interruption of Taylor Swift during Sunday night's MTV Video Music Awards. While Swift was accepting the award for best female video, West rushed the stage, grabbed the mic and proclaimed that Beyonce had made the best video of all time.
ABC News' Terry Moran tweeted the president's off-the-cuff comment about West to his 1 million-plus followers on Twitter.
In an attempted retraction, Moran, a "Nightline" co-anchor, later removed the tweet from his Twitter feed. But once on the Web, always on the Web.
"TerryMoran: Pres. Obama just called Kanye West a "jackass" for his outburst at VMAs when Taylor Swift won. Now THAT'S presidential," read the now infamous tweet.
It turned out that Obama's remark was not meant for public consumption.
"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," ABC News explained, apologizing to the White House for the slip-up. "It was wrong."
West since has apologized repeatedly for his outburst, including on Monday's premiere of "The Jay Leno Show" and in a phone call to Swift on Tuesday. But judging from reaction to the president's unpublished but widely tweeted remarks, Obama was not alone in his unofficial summation of the West story.
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