Barack Obama Calls Kanye West a Jackass; Rapper Apologizes Yet Again on Jay Leno
President Barack Obama may be having trouble unifying the country behind his health care plan, but can't be accused of being out of touch here.
Thinking what the rest of the country is thinking, and actually saying it off the record, the Prez called Kanye West "a jackass" to CNBC yesterday.
He really did - off the record. But his remark became public when it was tweeted by ABC's Terry Moran on Twitter, Politico.com reported Monday.
Way to go, guys. Not that we disagree with the Prez in the least.
An ABC statement explains, without denying that the remark was made, that: "ABC News employees prematurely Tweeted a portion of those remarks that turned out to be from an off-the-record portion of the interview."
No thumbs up for Kanye from the President - or anyone - this week.
Meanwhile, Kanye West himself admitted to Jay Leno what Americans, including our Commander-in-Chief, had already figured out: He blew it.
"It was rude, period," he said.
Sunday at the MTV VMAs, the rapper jumped on stage, crashing Taylor Swift's speech and declaring that her award should have gone to Beyonce.
After fielding widespread criticism and apologizing, West told Leno last night, "I'm just ashamed that my hurt caused someone else's hurt."
West, who has had similar outbursts at previous awards shows, though never this bad, said, "I need to, after this, take some time off and just analyze how I'm going to make it through the rest of this life, how I'm going to improve.
"If there's anything I could do to help Taylor in the future or help anyone, I'd like [to]," Kanye said, adding that he knew he really screwed up bad "as soon as I gave the mike back to her and she didn't keep going."
Check out Kanye's West interview on The Jay Leno Show below ...
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January 6th, 2010 1:52 PM
Kanye West. Remember the world doesn't revolve around you. We live in a global society and every action you make and every mistake will be against your reputation, life and business.
October 18th, 2009 3:20 PM
How do you go from being a complete jerk to all sympathetic, caring, willing to help, etc....
simple answer to that love, not sober to sober...very simple.
TEAM KAYNE MATE!!!!
Rank: D-Lister
October 1st, 2009 2:26 PM
GO OBAMA!!!! he probably shouldnt have said that but i totally agree with him. Kayne is a jackass. LOL
September 28th, 2009 12:14 PM
The President should not get any flak for it - he was saying it like it is. He also should not have been tweeted by Terry Moran. Before this, a President had some discretion given to him, some off the record discussion allowed without public display - this President has no such luxury - and fairly doles out his praise and criticism. Kanye, bad move, but if you sincerely apologize, I think we should all move on.
September 23rd, 2009 1:02 PM
Barack said it best.
September 20th, 2009 12:34 PM
i think conway west and barrack obama need to have a boxing death match for the title. what title you ask? the worlds strongest black man
September 20th, 2009 1:00 AM
You could not have said it any better, totally agree!!! and the prez. is right, he is a total jackass!!! He thinks the world revolves around him, he thinks he is the only one in pain, and he thinks someone owes him alife because his mother's situation, all he is looking for is attention, get some HELP boy, you need to see a SHRINK!!!!BIG TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Laine Says:
September 15th, 2009 9:03 AM
I saw Kanye on Leno last night. He made some comment like, "I just wanted to share my vision of the awards with everyone". No, moron, you just wanted be the center of attention. Nobody asked you for your opinion. You just decided to get up on stage like you were invited. You weren't. And now you're getting the reaction you deserve.
It's not like it's the first time Kanye bulldozed his way onto a stage uninvited. It's not like it's the first time he made a total azz of himself, shooting
September 17th, 2009 3:33 PM
OK people. You are going to love this one.
TOP 10 REASONS KANYE WEST RAN ON STAGE AND TOOK TAYLOR'S MIC.
1-HE PLAYED TRUTH OR DARE W/ JAY Z AND HAD TO DO IT.
2-HE WANTED TO SEE WHAT IT FELT LIKE TO WIN AND BE ON STAGE.
3-HE HAD A FLASH BACK WHEN HE KARYOKE AND SOMEONE TOOK HIS MIC.
4-BEYONCE PAID HIM $1,000,000 TO GO UP AND DO IT.
5-HIS GIRL FARTED AND RAN AS FAR AS HE COULD BUT ENDED ON STAGE.
6-HE MEANT TO DO IT TO BRITNEY SPEARS BUT SHE WAS NOT IN TOWN.
7-WHILE HE PUT HIS COGNAC DOWN SOMEONE SPIKED IT W/ JACKASS PILL.
8-DURING HIS HAIRCUT THE CHICAGO BASEMENT BARBER SLICE HIS BRAIN.
9-WAS SO EXCITED HIS IDOL(IN HIS PINK IPOD)WAS ON STAGE & REACTED.
DRUM ROLL PLEASE!!!! BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM
10-HE SEEN BUTTS(BRUNO)FALLING FROM THE SKY&WENT TO WARN EVERY ONE
September 17th, 2009 3:12 PM
OMG!!!!! I can't let this story go. It's like a crime that happens and if the media does not keep the fire on, it will just fade from peoples minds. Forget that I am a writer/blogger by nature/gift from god but I just feel like it my duty to make sure this punk/kanye(oh he does not deserve to get is name with a CAPITAL)goes down for what he did to a innocent soul. Well I can tell you this. He won't get any commercials or any PR firm calling. Oh I just got a revalation. kanye is trying to use being drunk as an excuse(indirectly) but %90 of the audience was drunk/stoned. So why every one else was civilized? Stay tuned for my next update. Oh I don't need to do it on twitter, I did not open one yet. Stay tuned HollywoodGossip.
September 17th, 2009 10:19 AM
Ok team bloggers, we need to set Kanye up to look at all our comments. Lets tell him he has a lot of support on HollywoodGossip and when he checks we got him. The world is not loving him now and he needs to take a look at our comments. Wow!!!!!!!!!! He can't go anywhere now. Oh well, I guess he must stay in the slums of Chicago(no disrespect Mr. President you lived in the nice part) where they need Gulliani to clean up or Bill Bratton. Kanye please don't come to NYC we have some goons waiting. What's funny is real gangsta's don't like punk ass, tight pants, colorfull, wanna bees picking on the innocent. That is not Gangsta buddy. Where is Suge Knight??? Yo Suge, if Kanye ever wins an award please send a goon to take the mic. Taylor we love yooooooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!