Obama calls Kanye a ‘jackass’

US President Barack Obama has been caught on tape calling Kanye west a “jackass” for hijacking Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech during the Video Music Awards.
Monday night, while reporting on remarks by President Obama for a CNBC interview, Terry Moran posted to his Twitter feed: Pres. Obama just called Kanye West a ‘jackass’ for his outburst at VMAS when Taylor Swift won. Now that’s presidential. The impulsive tweet went out to over a million followers and was rapidly retweeted across the net.
The post was deleted only a short time later and an ABC spokesperson later explained to Politico.com that the Kanye West jackass remark was not supposed to be repeated.
ABC has apologized to the white house and CNBC for letting Obama’s opinion of Kanye West leak to the public and says it is “taking steps to ensure that it will not happen again.” We’re thinking Mr. Moran won’t be sitting in on anymore presidential interviews for a while.
Obama isn’t the first celebrity to bash Kanye over the Taylor Swift VAMs insult, but nobody much care if Kelly Clarkson thinks Kanye is a “piece of shit”. The President, on the other hand.
Should the POTUS be allowed to express his opinion, even if crass, about mundane matters like an awards show publicity stunt? Or is he supposed to keep these kinds of thoughts inside his head so he doesn’t muck up his presidential image? What do you think?
Meanwhile, Kanye West and Taylor Swift both took to television shows this week to hash their feelings over the VMAs incident. While West once again apologized for his behavior on the Jay Leno Show, Taylor Swift told the ladies of the view that West hasn’t reached out to apologize directly to her yet.