ABC News anchor Terry Moran found himself in some hot water last night after he took an off-the-record comment made by Barack Obama and turned to his Twitter page to report it.
During a CNBC interview on Monday night the president was asked during a brief break what he thought of the Kanye West controversy. His response immediately landed on Twitter. Moran ‘tweeted’, “Pres Obama just called Kanye West a ‘Jackass’ for his outburst at VMAs when Taylor Swift won. Now THAT’s presidential.”
Then a firestorm errupted. An ABC spokesman issued the following statement: “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. This was done before our editorial process had been complete. That was wrong. We apologize to the White House and CNBC and are taking steps to ensure that it doesn’t happen again.”
Check out the ‘tweet’ below and listen to the audio recording of Obama.