The President called Kanye West a jerk, but doesn't want to admit it. Kind of like Obama's our president, but we don't want to admit it.
Terry Moran, a reporter for ABC News, upset the White House last night when he tweeted:
“Pres. Obama just called Kanye West a ‘jackass’ for his outburst at VMAs when Taylor Swift won. Now THAT’S presidential.”
The tweet was soon removed, but not before it spread throughout the Twitosphere.
Did President Obama really say it? If so, why was it removed from Moran’s Twitter page? Here’s how ABC later explained it:
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.
So there’s no question that Obama said it. He just doesn’t want anyone to know he said it, because, appartnely, it’s not Presidential to call someone a jackass.
This undoubtedly explains the President’s complete silence on the ACORN scandal. It’s just wouldn’t be Presidential to call an organization “a bunch of corrupt jerks who are ripping off the American taxpayers and undermining democracy.”
Source: Politico.com
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too bad he retracted the statement — it would have been the first time I agreed with Obama
I think that Obama and Kayne should have one of those fake Rapper feuds where they write songs ‘calling’ out each other and acting all manly. Except if Jackass is the best Obama can do, he will have a tough time writing more lyrics.
Pat, I love the idea about a rapper feud between Obama and Kanye.
Hmmm…I wonder what rhymes with “single term presidency”…
He would have to think up anything. The speech writer and teleprompter will take care of that.
*wouldn’t have to, rather
Kanye is a gayfish!! (You tube it!!) LOL