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Obama Calls Kanye West a "Jackass"

on Sep. 15, 2009 11:15 AM / 42 Comments

Uh-oh, Kanye West better watch out. He has just incurred the wrath of the Most Powerful Man in the World.

In an off-the-record comment that has naturally found its way onto the Internet, President Barack Obama weighed in on West's super-rude interruption of Taylor Swift's acceptance speech at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday.

"Pres. Obama just called Kanye West a 'jackass' for his outburst at VMAs when Taylor Swift won," ABC's Terry Moran tweeted yesterday, as the Chief Executive was doing an interview with CNBC. "Now THAT'S presidential."

Hmm; do we detect a note of sarcasm from Moran?

Either way, it's clear that Kanye West is one turkey who most likely won't be receiving a presidential pardon this Thanksgiving.

Let us know in the comments section: What do you think of President Obama's assessment of West?

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  • true! 2 mos ago

    er..obama kinda only won cos he's black, and people wanna change things, and be able to tell children,they helped make history,so he had and advantage to john mcarthy, and i think from a president calling kanye a jackass is too much, i mean, know my brothere might call kanye a jackass, and say, but the president says it. i gotta say that was a no!

  • stop trippn 2 mos ago
    true! said:

    er..obama kinda only won cos he's black, and people wanna change things, and be able to tell children,they helped make history,so he had and advantage to john mcarthy, and i think from a president calling kanye a jackass is too much, i mean, know my brothere might call kanye a jackass, and say, but the president says it. i gotta say that was a no!

  • w2 2 mos ago

    no way he did that

  • I could see why Obama would be upset by this, he's been getting rudely interrupted during his speeches recently too.

  • Caprica Six 2 mos ago

    "I could see why Obama would be upset by this, he's been getting rudely interrupted during his speeches recently too."

    Yea, except that Kanye was full of crap saying that Beyonce's song / video was better and Joe Wilson was being pretty accurate about Obama's speech (heck, his presidency as a whole)

  • what the? 2 mos ago

    true! said:
    er..obama kinda only won cos he's black, and people wanna change things, and be able to tell children,they helped make history,so he had and advantage to john mcarthy, and i think from a president calling kanye a jackass is too much, i mean, know my brothere might call kanye a jackass, and say, but the president says it. i gotta say that was a no!

    He only beat Mcarthy because he's black and people wanted to make history. I have to challenge your ability to have the pulse of the election when you don't know who he was running against. By the way....it was John McCain......and I'm in Canada. Stop watching so much MMA. Though I'm sure big John would appreciate the shout out.

  • Nate 2 mos ago

    Hey, it's not on camera or on a podium- so what if he called him a Jackass. He IS a Jackass and if the fact that the preseident said that off camera and off the record (apparently) is the worst thing that has happened so far behind supposedly closed doors then we're doing OK!! We have only skimmed the surface of what went on with prevuous presidents methinks- I'll bet they're happy they didn't reign in the age of TMZ and camera phones!!

  • "I could see why Obama would be upset by this, he's been getting rudely interrupted during his speeches recently too."

    Yea, except that Kanye was full of crap saying that Beyonce's song / video was better and Joe Wilson was being pretty accurate about Obama's speech (heck, his presidency as a whole)
     


    Whether you believe Joe Wilson or not (personally, I think he's full of sh*t) does not make him any less of a rude prick for his atrocious and unprofessional behavior.

  • TCPIP 2 mos ago
    true! said:

    er..obama kinda only won cos he's black, and people wanna change things, and be able to tell children,they helped make history,so he had and advantage to john mcarthy, and i think from a president calling kanye a jackass is too much, i mean, know my brothere might call kanye a jackass, and say, but the president says it. i gotta say that was a no! 


    Not to mention he was a great speaker, but you wouldn't know that, judging by your barely coherent sentences it may have been over your head. Or may have been the fact that people voting against him were writing in McCarthy instead of checking off McCain. Besides it was an off-the-record comment kinda like how you would say to your "bro", it just so happened that Terry Moran decided to tweet it.

  • GB 2 mos ago

    Umm ... Obama said what he did off the record, it was not a public statement or proclamation of any sort. Some reporter decided to put his private comment out on Twitter. President or not, he's allowed to have his own private opinion ... which is why I don't get how this qualifies as news. Just a reporter crossing an ethical line (posting an OTR comment) in order to create news.

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