President Barack Obama called hip-hop musician Kanye West a "jackass" on Monday in an off-the-record comment during an interview with CNBC, an ABC News anchor reported on Twitter.
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Obama was apparently weighing in on an interruption that occurred the night before during the MTV Video Music Awards where West grabbed the microphone from teen country singer Taylor Swift during her award acceptance speech to announce his belief that Beyonce had a better music video.
"Pres. Obama just called Kanye West a 'jackass' for his outburst at VMAs when Taylor Swift won. Now THAT'S presidential," "Nightline" co-anchor Terry Moran wrote Monday evening to his more than 1 million followers.
The tweet forced the network to issue an apology after the Internet quickly became abuzz over the stunning remark published on the microblogging site.
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."
Moran's tweet has since been deleted, but can still be accessed.
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Tuesday
Kanye West is a JACKASS!!!!
I bet that most of you have heard about this but man is Kanye an A hole!!!!! But I did have a blast when I read this
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Wednesday
WI # 30 What a Disaster
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Sometimes I think our body needs to be shaken so we don’t
hit that plateau. Or this logic could be my excuse why I had the bad week. But really I hate those moments. I remember a couple of months ago when I could not get out of the 170’s it was horrible feeling until I found spinning classes. I am actually addicted to it now. In some cases I do more than 60 mins, which my fiance thinks is over kill but I am enjoying it. My goal for this coming months is to be out of the 160’s. I was almost there till the past week disaster. I am getting close. I can smell it and yet I am not there. But I am in no rush. Because I know that this time I am doing this the right way. It may be a really slow progress but I will get there and I will cherish every moment of it because I worked really hard for it. Maybe this time it will stay off because I don’t want to revert back and do it over again.
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