Kanye West Interrupts Taylor Swift at the VMA's

[Bells]

President Barack Obama's candid thoughts about Kanye West are provoking a debate over standards of journalism in the Twitter age.

ABC News says it was wrong for its employees to tweet that Obama had called West a "jackass" for the rapper's treatment of country singer Taylor Swift. The network said some of its employees had overheard a conversation between the president and CNBC's John Harwood and didn't realize it was considered off the record.

The network apologized to the White House and CNBC.

Harwood had sat down with the president to tape an interview following his appearance on Wall Street on Monday. Although they are competitors, CNBC and ABC share a fiber optic line to save money, and this enabled some ABC employees to listen in on the interview as it was being taped for later use.

Their attention was drawn to chatter about West, who was widely criticized for interrupting Swift as she accepted an award at Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards to say that Beyonce deserved it.

During what sounds like informal banter before the interview begins, Obama is asked whether his daughters were annoyed by West's hijacking of Swift's acceptance statement, according to an audio copy that was posted on TMZ.com.

"I thought that was really inappropriate," Obama says. "What are you butting in (for)? ... The young lady seems like a perfectly nice person. She's getting her award. What's he doing up there?"

A questioner chimes in, "Why would he do it?"

"He's a jackass," Obama replies, which is met with laughter from several people.

The president seems to quickly realize he may have gone too far, and jovially appeals to those assembled that the remark be kept private. "Come on guys," he says. "Cut the president some slack. I've got a lot of other stuff on my plate."

E-mails shot around among ABC employees about Obama's comments, said Jeffrey Schneider, ABC News spokesman. Before anything was reported on ABC's air or Web site, at least three network employees took to Twitter to spread the news.

One was Terry Moran, a former White House correspondent. He logged on to Twitter and typed: "Pres. Obama just called Kanye West a 'jackass' for his outburst at VMAs when Taylor Swift won. Now THAT'S presidential."

When ABC News authorities found out about it, they had the tweets deleted after about an hour, Schneider said. Moran declined a request to comment.

But the news was out.

Harwood said there was no explicit agreement with the president that those comments were off the record. But he said it is broadcast tradition that such pre-interview chatter is considered off the record until the formal interview begins. Harwood is holding to that: He would not discuss what the president said before their interview and has no plans to do so on CNBC.

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For those of you playing it at home, during the MVA's hosted by MTV, Kanye West broke in stage to say an award that was given to Taylor Swift should be given to Beyoncee.

How DARE him!? Even the president consider this man a Douche. Kanye, listen up... Beyoncee is old news my man. Taylor is the present. You lay off of her or i'll rain mighty hell upon your douche-venetian-blinds-glasses-wearing-face!

This stupid piece of news brought revelations to the table for myself at a personal level... such as

1- I didn't know the VMA's were happening this year at all.
2- I didn't know who the hell Taylor Swift was... and still don't.
3- Kanye West is a douche, and i didn't knew that either...

And now, it's front page NEWS!

And has a Youtube Remix!

For more on this Craptacular scenario we go live with our Senior Pop Culture Correspondent... the next poster in this thread.

[Mirai Gen]

I was blissfully unaware until now what the hell the deal was with Kanye West.

Thanks a lot, Bells.

[Bells]

I'm a helper =3

Also, Colbert

[krogothwolf]

Here is what I have to say about that

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Kanye West's a douche, he's a big fat douche,
He's the biggest douche in the whole wide world,
He's a stupid douche, if there ever was a douche,
He's a douche to all the boys and girls.

On Monday he's a douche
On Tuesday he's a douche
And Wednesdays and Saturdays he's a douche
Then on Sunday just to be different,
he's a super king kong mega mega douche

Have you ever met the singer Kanye West,
He's the biggest douche in the whole wide world,
He's a mean old douce and he has stupid hair,
He's a douche, douche, douche, douche, douche, douche
douche, douche douche douche douche douche douche
He's a stupid douche, Kanye West’s a douche,
And he's such a dirty douche.

Talk to kids around the world,
It might go a little something like this...

[Sung in three different languages by other children]

Have you ever met the singer Kanye West,
He's the biggest douche in the whole wide world,
He's a mean old douce and he has stupid hair,
He's a douche, douche, douche, douche, douche, douche
douche, douche douche douche douche douche douche
He's a stupid douche, Kanye West’s a douche,
And he's such a dirty douche.

I really mean it,
Kanye West, he's a big fat, fucking douche
Dirty fuckin' douche, Kanye Wesssssssssssssssst
Yeahhhhh, Chaaaaa

[Magic_Marker]

What site did you steal that from?

Nevermind.

Excellent song though.

[BloodyMage]

Wouldn't have been nearly so bad if Taylor had said something, anything, afterwards. A witty retort would been best but moving on with her speech would have been accepted. She stood there in utter silence. I felt sorry for her but I was laughing.

[Mirai Gen]

Originally Posted by BloodyMage

She stood there in utter silence. I felt sorry for her but I was laughing.

She's a music industry idol; she's not supposed to be smart.

[Kim]

Originally Posted by Mirai Gen

She's a music industry idol; she's not supposed to be smart.

I think it was more because her crowning moment had just been shat upon. You know, kind of an incredibly hurt and shocked silence, rather than, "I'm a TV lady what sings what did Kanye say derpa derpa derrrrrrrrrrrrr."

[Mirai Gen]

Originally Posted by NonCon

I think it was more because her crowning moment had just been shat upon. You know, kind of an incredibly hurt and shocked silence, rather than, "I'm a TV lady what sings what did Kanye say derpa derpa derrrrrrrrrrrrr."

Let me correct myself: she had every right to be hurt and shocked, I was just more commenting on the fact that I didn't expect her to strike back with a one-liner.

[krogothwolf]

It's Cartman's song Kyle's Mom's is a bitch lyrics which i then changed to be Kanye West's a douche. I stole it from no site!