ABC News reporter Terry Moran caused quite a commotion tonight on Twitter after writing the following:
“Pres. Obama just called Kanye West a “jackass” for his outburst at VMAs when Taylor Swift won. Now THAT’S presidential.” (AUDIO NOW AVAILABLE)
Although Moran quickly removed the tweet, he has over a million followers, and it quickly bounced around Twitter through various users and can still be found here.
An ABC spokesperson explained to Politico what happened:
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 White House has not commented on the incident, but I’m sure we’ll hear more in the coming days.
Whaty’s so special about what the President said? It’s not worst than what the other people were Tweeting.
Kanye gets no love. HA
Wow!
I’m sure that has to bite him hard now for the President to call you out…Kanye should just stay in his little hole with his bald blonde dyke gf for a little while until he gets some class.
He didnt call the governer dude that interrupted him when he was saying his speech on healthcare a jackass “You Liar” remember him Obama? he’s right though but it was off the record so im not gonna get on his case.
That’s why I like Pres. Obama – he keeps it real!
Well he wasn’t lying.
We’ve all been saying the same thing/? What’s new? But I guess he’s the president, so it’s a bigger story.
You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love.”
niggas snitch too much on twitter
Hahaha Obama didn’t need to do that though.
well … he did act like a jackass.
Kanye was indeed a jackass for what he did
its funny how lots of the females are going hard at Kanye for speaking the truth but at the wrong place, yet you all took chris Brown side when he beat the shit out of Rihanna
Man, when the president says tha what you did was wrong, that is when you know he went too far that night. It is going to take a long time for Kanye to put himself back together now.
Wow! What is this world coming too? Yall seen Kanye on jay Leno? should we feel bad for him? I dont.. Hey concrete loop staff did yall catch that Tweet tameka raymond said about Kanye needing alexis.. Smh
Would EVERYONE get off this dudes back! This was NOT a big Deal. The President should be busy being the President, not commenting on pop culture.
kind
He said what everyone was thinking, Kanye is a jackass, hopefully now all the blogs can stop posting pics of Amber Rose
& for all those who are trying to bring up chris brown need to stop. The stoplight is off of him right now.. Damn!
@MALCOLM YOU CANT RELATE THE TWO EVENTS THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED ON CAMERA, ON NATIONAL TELEVISION. THE RIHANNA AND CHRIS BROWN INCIDENT HAPPENED PRIVATELY SO HUSH
Kanye is a jackass so who cares who said it. Any grown man who picks on a 17 year old girl is not even a man. Now if that been Rihanna been interrupted, he’d wanna fight somebody.
If this had been Bush..it would be a big thing. This is why I am I.N.D.E.P.E.N.D.E.N.T!!
Doesnt OFF THE RECORD mean we were NOT supposed to know?
KANYE IS A JACKASS!
He called Kanye out, but didn’t say crap to Joe Wilson?….ummkay. Kanye was hella wrong and it was messed up, but he apologized so let’s move on. Everybody though Joe Wilson outburst was okay, but Kanye became public enemy #1. I think America just look for the next person they can hate and criticize. Chris Brown getting a well deserved break since Kanye and Serena.
@supreme Thank you.. People need to hush & stop throwing other peoples name in someone else’s mess..
Wow I didn’t expect that from obama, I’m a little shocked. Like someone said earlier he didn’t call the guy that called him a lier a jackass why kanye. I don’t know I’m very bias when it comes to kanye. Probably its time to let him go. Never lol I luv u kkanye. Team kanye
OK obama lose my respect. Its alot going on in this world you need to be focused on. What about healthcare, economy, the troops, What about all those white folks calling you coon, monkey, liar come on now you truly lost cool points. But I guess you have to bow down to all mighty whity to. Don’t show weakness. Can you truly run this country. He was wrong but its alot going on Mr PRESIDENT.
Stop going too deep, people. Okay, stop supporting Obama, no ones cares. He called out Kanye, big deal.
You can’t say .. “doesn’t he have more important things to worry about… like this this and this” he only took 1 second out of his life to address that, while you took 1 minute to write a respond when you yourself could be “having more important things to worry about..”
No body knows if Obama called Joe Wilson a jackass or not. This Kanye comment was “off the record” it just so happens that there were nosey ass people around who over heard and felt the need to put the presidents business on his twitter page for millions to read. Once it gets on twitter, theres not point in deleting it…its in Twitter-cyber space forever! lol. If Obama called Joe a jackass, nobody was around to overhear it and put it up on the internet.
And aren’t people forgiving Kanye already? On twitter ppl are saying he learned his lesson after Jay Leno asked him about how his mom would have reacted or something like that.
Oh, I’ don’t know if a lot of people on here watch tennis, but Roger Federer went off on the chair umpire tonight. He was cursing just like Serena only he didn’t threaten the person, but he did say shut the f up talking to me. So that brings me to my point, Where is all the rage and unsportsman like talk Serena received?
P.S. Watch Serena on Goodmorning America tomorrow
@j. drakar – concreteloop should be very careful on how they report statements that the PRESIDENT “ALLEGEDLY” said.
I mean there are no direct quotes from the President, nothing. It was made off the record and we know what that mean – its chance that it never actually occurred.
We as Black Media cannot carelessly release statements allegedly made by our most PROMINENT FIGURE IN THE WORLD. WE HAVE TO BE MORE CAREFUL, MORE PROFESSIONAL.
We as Black Media cannot participate in nonesense like other sites. I dont believe ABC gave Politico any statements. I checked Politico and the person who claimed ABC apologized and there is no direct quote either, there is no specific person they (politico) can point to and say hey this person said it.
Plus do you think that PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA WOULD USE PROFANIT AFTER HE STATED THE MASSACHUSETTS POLICE ACTED “STUPIDLY” WHEN THEY ARREST HIS FRIEND THE HARVARD PROFESSOR. YOU THINK THE PRESIDENT WOULD USE THAT TYPE OF PROFANITY WHILE HE IS THE FATHER OF 2 SMALL CHILDREN???
All i’m asking is that concreteloop dont adopt these alleged comments as true and and a media source – you all should report alleged actions of the PRESIDENT OF THE U.S. – with a little more caution.
other than that everything is fair game.
just my 2 sense!
@Malcolm um you don’t know me, so count me out that category of females “took chris Brown side when he beat the shit out of Rihanna” because I didn’t. Thanks.
Oh so even if u delete a twit it stays??!!! Oh No.. I have said some foul shit! Goodnight
in 10 seconds kanye catapulted himself back into the spotlight, front and center. he will be known as one of the best marketed figures in entertainment history.
And to people acting like Obama went on a rant about Kanye please STFU dude called him a JACKASS, he didn’t start a rally, he didn’t give a speech about Kanye. Your president can voice his opinion on something if he was asked. smh
So what?
who hasn’t called Kanye a jackass… NEXT!
#32: I respect your thoughts, but the only information we have to go on is what was posted on Terry’s Twitter. As I mentioned in the post, I’m sure we’ll hear more about this for clarification on what, exactly, was said and in what context.
LOLL! Kanye gets his just deserts… Stupid boy!!
Ruining the taylors first award moment…
At lleast she writes songs about life/love about riding a guys jock.
LMAO Kanyee… always engaging somkind of mess at award shows..
Now the president calls you out. Must be embarrased. Damn when will people learn. I’m not black but when obama became president jay z called him his nigga (a song), know this fool.
That what Ye gets but LMAO Mr. Obama.
RIP Patrick Swayze
He needs to be calling Joe Wilson a JACK ASS
Think about it though she’s white, his black. supposedly he wanted beyonce to win. He interupts taylor. It doesn’t look good. I’m hindu. The peope i’m talking are saying. If somebody did that rihanna he woud be going crazy – left,right and centre…
Ingorance!!!!
^ Ignorance!!!
y is the president watching the vmas? he needs to get on the ball and create more jobs and get our troops home. come on now!!
these ppl around him are making him look like a fool. they all have loose tongues. barack better watch his back bc i dont see anything positive at all for his future career in office. they will have fun with him and spit him out. they already are!
Oh give me a break!
We don’t know if Obama called Joe Wilson a jackass or not, after all this was suppose to be off-the-record comment.
And please do not think that entire interview was about Kanye and the VMA’s. Some of you look for reasons to beat on the President.
obama needs to stop being content being the token blk boy
“NO COMMENT”…..when it comes to questions about anything “entertaining/entertainment” the president needs to start using this in his vocabulary, lol.
@J DRAKAR – I understand but did you read some of these posts. THEY ARE TAKING IT AS GOSPEL, as if they heard President Obama in an address to the nation on Monday night. that’s what the problem is. Our PRESIDENT IS RIDICULE & DOWNGRADED BY SO MANY OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS. We cant be one of them.
the word “ALLEGEDLY” goes a long way. b/c what happens if this was never a true comment? the damage is already done. People believe what they hear first not the truth.
AMERICA, AMERICA, AMERICA! Y are we soooo obsessed with what ppl say in the public eye? I mean we are definately ALL HUMAN n we are ALLOWED to make some dam MISTAKES. Why the hell did God give us free will then- for stuf like this? Man, he’s human, its all forgiven but I agree with Malcom’s comment- women were quick to back up Chris when he beat Rihanna but now because Kanye snatched a mic from a 19 YEAR OLD GIRL (last i checked ur an adult in the U.S. at that age) we should burn him at the stake? WTF, how bout we worry bout our economy, healtcare, our ozone layers, and our genocides going on in our world rite now…there is WAYYY MORE important stuf than this…
Just remember, when we point the finger to others, there are 3 fingers pointing back at us…
LOL @ 34. That is funny!
YOU ARE SO IGNORANT
if you instantly say you stopped supporting Obama, because
of this shit . “Team Kanye” you need to check your life .
it’s OFF THE RECORD, & who’s to say if someone just asked him what he
though about that situation ? i doubt he just
came out of nowhere with that .
rflmao, the end! What did he think of lil mama?
fukk Obama he’s not black!
i hate mixed and biracial cuz act like jews!
damn yall acting like the president cant have a personal life?!!
Kanye my nikka
Apparently you guys don’t know how to read. It was an off the record comment. Google it if you don’t know what that means. Why would he lose your respect for something that wasn’t meant to be aired? What makes you think he didn’t say something similar about Joe Wilson OFF THE RECORD? Seriously, half of this site is completely ignorant.
People are talking about how Obama did not call the “you liar” dude a jack ass, but who’s to say he didn’t. White people have a way of twisting stories. For all we know they could have did this purposely to reflect the president in a bad light.
We might not feel it was a bad remark, but think of what the rest of America, a majority of them being republicans, think.
WHO IS TO SAY HE DIDNT CALL THAT WHITE GUY A JACKASS?…WE DONT KNOW IF HE DID OR NOT…WHAT HE SAID ABOUT KANYE WAS OFF RECORD BUT SOME FOOL DECIDED TO TWEET ABOUT IT…HE COULD HAVE CALLED THE WHITE GUY WAY WORSE BUT HOW WOULD WE EVER KNOW…
AND I AM TIRED OF PPL SAYING HE ISNT BALCK…WHEN HE FILLS OUT A FORM THAT ASK WHAT RACE HE IS WHICH BOX DO U THINK HE CHECKS…I CAN TELL U THAT IT SURE THE HELL ISNT WHITE.
IF THE FORM HAD MIX RACED HE WOULD PROLLY CHECK THAT ONE…IF IT DOES NOT THEN HE IS CHECKING THE BOX THAT SAYS BLACK/NON HISPANIC.