President Barack Obama called Kanye West a “jackass” during an off-the-record moment while conducting an interview on Monday with CNBC. Terry Moran, an ABC News anchor reported it on Twitter. Obama was apparently weighing in on the Kanye West’s outburst at the MTV Video Music Awards.
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TerryMoran: Pres. Obama just called Kanye West a “jackass” for his outburst at VMAs when Taylor Swift won. Now THAT’S presidential. – via Splash News
In case you’ve been in the cave. West jumped onto the stage and grabbed the microphone from Taylor Swift while she was giving her acceptance speech after winning the Best Female Video Award. Kanye wanted to voice his belief that Beyonce had a better music video.
Kanye had apologized for the incident on his blog and again earlier tonight at 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.”
ABC network had issued an apology after the Internet quickly became abuzz over the stunning quote published on the Tweeter.
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.” – Fox News
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