A few hours ago ABC’s Terry Moran tweeted that Barack Obama, when asked for his opinion on the whole Kanye West/Taylor Swift incident, called Kanye West a “jackass.” This, predictably, inspired quite a bit of chatter online, but then Moran’s tweet mysteriously disappeared from his Twitter page. However, the Twitter archive search function doesn’t remove deleted tweets, so we have Moran’s tweet.
Why Moran deleted his tweet is anyone’s guess, but we’re thinking that maybe Obama’s words weren’t part of an “official” statement and thus not intended for public consumption. Alas, the era in which we live is the era of oversharing where even members of the media can’t seem to control their impulses to blast information to the world that would have been kept private in another time and place. Regardless, here’s what Moran said:
UPDATE:
Politico has obtained a statement from ABC on the matter and, just as I suspected, Obama’s “jackass” remark was intended to be off the record:
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.
The president shouldn't be wasting his time thinking about some stupid fucking awards show.
Yeah, what the hell is he doing thinking about stuff besides politics? His brain belongs to the people now!
we already have enough retards considering the hysteria over this infinitesimal event in human history.
Kanye did act like a jackass. Good for Obama for speaking the truth, whether it was on the record or not.
Come on President Barak Obama, this is the second time. Loose Lips sink ships, be
a little more careful with what you say and to whom about trival mess. The news reporters are not your friend
Bush- " Who is Conway West anyhow ? "
I don't agree with the president on much but I agree with him on this and it was nice to get an inside peak at his personality off script. Kinda makes me like him a bit more.
"The president shouldn’t be wasting his time thinking about some stupid fucking awards show.
If you've seen the video (it's on YouTube), you'll see he was being miked up for an interview and was just chatting.
It's not like he issued a press release.
Excuse me — this is not true! Why is nobody questioning whether this is true? Do any of you realize how easy it is to put words in Obama's mouth that were never said? Do you think he has time to refute this point, given all the other things he needs to think about? People who want to sabotage him say this is "true but off the record." I say "bull".