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
