Well folks, Obama has officially weighed in on the Kanye West / MTV Video Music Award debacle, calling the intrepid young performer and “genius voice of a generation” a… ready for this– a ‘Jackass’.
…Thanks Barry. Now tell us something that we all don’t already know. Like how you plan to pay for healthcare.
Also, while you’re making asinine remarks about things that have nothing to do with your job as Chief Executive of the United States, who do you think is going to take it to the Super Bowl this year? I know the season just started, but you seem to have a pretty good handle on long distance timeframes… look at the economy, pretty much exactly where you said it would be right?
But I digress. There is some controversy over what Barack Said about Kanye ‘not a gay fish’ West. Unfortunately, Barack’s statement was made off the record during an interview he was doing with CNBC and apparently an ABC employee, one Terry Moran posted an update to the popular microblogging website twitter.com that said:
While it is no secret that we here at the Report are not Barry’s biggest fans–or Kanye for that matter–we do believe that journalists have a responsibility to use good judgement and be ethical. The fact is that Mr. Moran was a moron for not making sure that President Obama’s remarks were on the record before he posted them and regardless of how poorly Kanye West acted last night at the VMA’s or how deep Barack Obama shoved his foot in his mouth by calling the rapper a “jackass” there is no good reason to impugn the reputation of yourself or your organization simply because you have a phone or computer with internet access.
Read – Politico
UPDATE from Mr. Harrington:
TMZ has the audio of Barack Obama saying Kanye is a jackass…
