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Obama vs. Kanye

An ABC News reporter caused some drama last night after taking to his Twitter account and writing this:

Terry Moran's Tweet (Obama / Kanye)

Obama’s remark was actually made in an off-the-record portion of a CNBC interview, but Terry Moran made the mistake of posting it for all the public to see. Although Moran quickly removed the tweet, it was too late. He gained followers left and right, and currently has over a million. A spokesperson for the news network explained:

“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.”

See the infamous moment of Kanye West dissing Taylor Swift here.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sylkiifeather/ sylkiifeather

    LOST SOME RESPECT FOR OBAMA…BUT HE HAS TO DO WHAT HE HAS TO DO…HE IS A POLITICIAN AND WILL SAY/DO WHATEVA TO GET REELECTED.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Whydopeople/ Whydopeople

    LMAO! You lost respect because the President showed some sense and called this fool what he was??? R U Kidding me? Too bad it was off the record, I’d have respected him even more had he said ON THE RECORD that Kanye acted a damn fool…..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Whydopeople/ Whydopeople

    BTW I really don’t think the Presidents opinions regarding a “artist” and I use that term loosely when it comes to Kanye,…. has ish to do about him being re-elected. ROFL over here….

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Kenn-09/ Kenn-09

    Yeah Kanye jumped the gun on this one – but how many times have our artists been robbed on these award shows in the past and we all sat at home complainin and didnt do shyt. One mistake versus a thousand and O’bama knows this whether or not he wanted to admit it. That statement was made off the record and was just politics im sure. but any real african american was at least a little bit happy to see that somebody is out there making sure we get our props when they’re due. -1 for that techno album and +1 for this for Kanye in my book.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CrazyBeautiful89/ CrazyBeautiful89

    Well President Obama isn’t lying.And the fact that he said it OFF THE RECORD shows that nobody was really supposed to know he said that.How is that supposed to help him get reelected?I don’t disagree with what Kanye said but the way he did it was disrespectful.People are not going to let this go.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    @whydopeople…I have lost a lot of respect for him too..here’s why…get on your job and stop worrying about what’s going on at the VMA’s…How come he didn’t call Joe Wilson a Jackass for calling him a liar to his face? No, the next day, Mr. Obama was once again making excuses for him….Kayne certainly wasn’t a jackass when Mr. Obama was using him for votes late last year! Also, how come this or any other reporter didn’t ask him about the comments made by Robert Benmosche? I want to know what the President feels about these fools who are stealing billions of dollars from us, not what the hell he feels about Kanye West at some awards show!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Toni_Anthony/ Toni_Anthony

    Mr. President was NOT lying! mR. WeSt is a Jack A** in the worst kind of way! It’s a sad man who has to alway’s be out & about insulting folk’s, putting folk’s down, etc., and what for? Why? Who the F**K is he to begin with?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sylkiifeather/ sylkiifeather

    lol…no i was saying in general…that politicians have to say/do whateva to get reelected. and i lost alil respect for him because he is feeding into this pop culture bs when he is the president and should worry about other things. NOT because he called kanye a jack*ss. i didnt say that below…but that was what i meant.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/maatra/ maatra

    What did obama say about the preacher wo wished a cancer death on him?

    I don’t care about todays rapper they aint political and revolutionary enuff. But kayne making these kkkrackas uncomfortable wit the truth gets a thumb up from me. He wasn’t lying

    But the vma’s is fo whyte folks and they can pic who da phuk eva they want as their favorite. I’m tired of seeing nagas fightn each other and the other to be the whyte mans naga

    Obama wa weak fa dis one. But its all just a smoke screen to keep nagas from seeing what’s really going on

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sylkiifeather/ sylkiifeather

    but even though i wasnt saying obama was wrong…because kanye is an a$$hole…i agree with Kenn-09 below…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sylkiifeather/ sylkiifeather

    @ _A_

    that is exactly what i meant by my first comment. he is commenting on what kanye said because it is politics. and believe it or not…it has and will become even more of a race issue. that is truly why he was asked that question in the first place…because obama is black and so is kanye…and people want to know is this black president agrees with kanye…and obama is smart enough to play the game right and call kanye a jacka$$. but then again…kanye really is a jacka$$ lol. but even if obama agreed with kanye, he never would have said so…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sylkiifeather/ sylkiifeather

    @ maatra…
    and its really sad that people dont see that. never defend people who would not defend you in return. black people are dividing themselves over some white chick…which is making white people laugh. they are loving this. yea he was rude, but so what. he has always been that way and nobody got so upset before…why now? oh yea, because of WHO he was rude against.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/QueenRayRay/ QueenRayRay

    im getting tired of people thinking it was ok for him to do that. i dont care that he is an azz 99 percent of the time. i dont care if he was right. or that he wants to voice his opinion. This isnt about race because if it was anyone else who did what he did white or black i would still feel the same way. That girl didnt deserve that no one does. If he had a problem with her winning that award take it up with mtv on his time not everyone else time. What he hurt her more than anyone else and she wasnt the one who decided who gets what award. Now the focus is not on whether Beyonce should have one its on how Kanye stole Taylor Swifts thunder and pretty much bullied a young girl

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/HandsomeNegro2/ HandsomeNegro2

    The President is correct, for Kanye West is a jackass for behaving like that.

    “Truth is not always popular, but it is always right.”

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/lil_twan/ lil_twan

    I can’t believe how much ignorance of facts is coming from this blog man… First, Obama gave an opinion OFF THE RECORD. What Kanye said may have been right, but his actions was dead wrong… He is an a*****e for that. And it aint a matter of race or color. Its the principle. Lets pretend she was black, and Kanye is white. Now can you understand the severity of the situation? And ummm…. black people aren’t dividing over a “white chick”. Sorry to say, but it doesn’t take that much to divide us black people. We can’t even agree on morale and principle. Kanye disrupted a national televised event that he DID NOT pay for. Regardless of “who” he did wrong upon, he was wrong none the less. As far as the President dealing with Wilson as the gentleman pointed out, I”m sure he had a few choice words for him also that was spoken off the record. Those words just didn’t reach YOUR ears as I’m sure it was “off the record” (better kept secret from the media) For the most part… I’m in complete agreeance with Kanye’s statements but he should’ve said something later on in an interview AFTER the awards, in a song, in someone’s magazine, or on an online blog…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DangerouslyInLove/ DangerouslyInLove

    If u actually condone what Kanye did u are seriously trippin, especially since if he did that to your ass u wouldn’t have handled it like Taylor did; u probably would have pushed that fool off the stage(I know I would have). That was total disrespect! IDC if u think Bey’s video was better, she didn’t win that award, and he had no right to jump up there and dictate his feelings like that so GET OVER IT and STOP trying to make it about race.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sylkiifeather/ sylkiifeather

    i dont condone what kanye did…that was rude. but i also dont condone the outrage over it…the type and as much outrage over it…i just dont get it…why care about him being rude now?

    @ lil_twan….when i said black people are divided over a white chick…what i meant was that while we are doing that, we could be united over many other things. i wasnt saying a white chick is what is dividing black people as a whole. you said “Lets pretend she was black, and Kanye is white. Now can you understand the severity of the situation?”. As i have also posted on the other places on this site…what if he had done that to another rapper for example? would people (especially that MTV audience) have been so up in arms over it?? no. in fact, it probably would have gotten alot of laughs…and people would have been entertained. nobody would be demanding people boycott him or whateva. my point is…just because she looks like this lil defenseless girl, people want to get all upset. for what? she better toughen up being in that industry. of course he was rude, but if she was not who she was, people would not have been AS upset.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/M0M0_S0_PURDI/ M0M0_S0_PURDI

    WHY IS THIS GETTING SO MUCH OUTRAGE???!!! THIS IS BULL CRAP! EVERYBODY PUTTIN ALL EYEZ ON KANYE TO DISS HIM… BUT NOBODY IS GON TRIP OFF OF JACK BLACK GETTIN THE WHOLE AUDIENCE TO HOLD HANDS AND PRAY TO THE DEVIL??? THAT’S NOT GETTIN ANY NEGATIVE ATTENTION. BUT KANYE SAYIN B HAD THE BEST VIDEO OF THE DECADE IS JUST SOOOO BAD RIGHT? UGH. BLAH WHATEVER

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/StarrSantiago/ StarrSantiago

    Momo so purdi, these dumb uncle toms are too stupid to realize that the media is using this mediocre situation to take attention away from the Joe Wilson situation. As another poster said…you Black folks are a bunch of spineless (unproductive) boot lickers :)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DAREALRECKLESS/ DAREALRECKLESS

    Obama is just a puppet for the white man

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/doubleap/ doubleap

    This is the type of attention that Kanye was looking for and the people and the media are giving it to him! Kanye is not the greatest, he is a 1/2 a step up from a one-hit-wonder artist. He won’t be remembered in 25 years so why waste the time and energy on him? He put Beyonce in an uncomfortable situation! People need to face the fact that there is NOTHING wrong with Kanye mentally. He’s just an uncouth, loudmouth stupid ass fool. He’s an embarrassment to the music industry. and Starr Santiago, I don’t know who you’re calling a bunch of dumb uncle Tom and spineless unproductive boot lickers. No one has forgotten about Wilson’s or the minister’s remarks that wish our President dead. No one called you a SPIC so you need to watch your name calling!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sylkiifeather/ sylkiifeather

    that is why i dont understand black people jumping to the defense of this chick…they are not getting it and its sad. this is what “they” want. and of course obama is working for them…as i said…he said what he said because of political reasons…he knows who runs the show. why was he even commenting on kanye anyways?? if he was asked about kanye, he should have said there are more important things to worry about instead of feeding into what “they” want us to, and then bashing kanye. we should be questioning why people would be asking obama about kanye anyways…its because obama is black. would they have even asked bush what he thought about kanye’s and taylor? most likely not. but i guess because obama is black that means he is supposed to comment. further proof that the main reason people are upset is because taylor is america’s lil (white) sweetheart.

    and @ Starr…real recognizes real…so i give props to what you said (even if im supposed to be offended lol). i say i can agree with you about black people because we need to learn to stand up for ourselves alot more and stop trying so hard to fit in with mainstream (white) society. black people are saying how they are so embarrassed of kanye…why? because he did what he did on MTV? so what. yea he was rude. but this level of outrage i just dont understand…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/QueenRayRay/ QueenRayRay

    wow a lot of delusional people first what Obama said was off the record meaning we weren’t suppose to hear it. Secondly, i believe the president is allowed to comment on anything he wants just because he is now the president of the united states that doesn’t mean he would not have an opinion on popular culture.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sylkiifeather/ sylkiifeather

    but why would he even be asked something about pop culture in the first place? especially kanye vs taylor? like i said, people are not seeing things and its just sad…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/QueenRayRay/ QueenRayRay

    again like i said he was asked off the record

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/QueenRayRay/ QueenRayRay

    again like i said he was asked off the record are people only allowed to ask certain questions

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/donyetta2000/ donyetta2000

    Obama is still a citizen of this country and still has the right to say what he feels….lay off my president, because everyone feels the same way about what he did.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sylkiifeather/ sylkiifeather

    doesnt matter when he was asked…off the record or on. i wasnt saying he wasnt allowed to have an opinion silly lol. of course he is. he is even allowed to comment on it. but i was just wondering why a reporter would even ask him that in the first place (assuming the reason why he commented was because he was asked). point being would they have asked bush if he was in office? idk.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/blaXXX/ blaXXX

    what a shame; Kanye can be deemed a jackass for imposing on Ms. *lilli-white* yet….

    Carolina-klansmen calls President a liar, to his face —-in the most disrespectful show against The Office of U.S. President— in the history of U.S. Congress, and…

    ~He says not one word to him
    ~Calls him not so much as one single solitary name
    ~didn’t even utter a disagreement with him.
    ~And millions of lame-brains applaud this peculiarly pro-White doublestandard

    man-0-man, this *Stockholm Syndrome* is getting terrible!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/maatra/ maatra

    A sylkiifeather don’t waste ya breath on these negropeans cuz if it aint got a beat to it with a catchy hook and some “bling” around it these negropeans will never understand cuz if it aint their reach they can’t c it

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sylkiifeather/ sylkiifeather

    maatra…ok i was beginning to think i was a little crazy or something. its quite sad…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/big_yummie/ big_yummie

    U KNOW THEY ARE MAD THAT FIRST OF ALL… OUR PRESIDENT IS A BLACK MAN. STILL CANT GET OVER IT OBVIOUSLY. SO THEY FEEL THE NEED TO ATTACK HIM. WELL WHAT HE SAID IS TRUE AND IF I WERE THE PRES MY “OFF THE RECORD” STATEMENT ABOUT IT WOULD LOOK SOMETHING LIKE THIS…” HE SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF HIMSELF BRINGIN HIS GROWN A@# ON STAGE ONCE AGAIN MAKING HIMSELF LOOK LIKE THE DUMB F$#@ THAT HE IS. HIS MUSIC IS OKAY SO THAT IS WHY HE FEELS THE NEED TO BELITTLE A MERE CHILD WHO IS GETTING AN AWARD THAT HIS SORRY A*% WISHES HE COULD HAVE GOTTON AT THAT AGE…WTF CAN HE SAY HE DID OR WAS NOMINATED FOR AT THAT AGE? WHAT A F!*&#%N A%^ HOLE!” QUOTE THAT LEAVE OBAMA OUT OF IT, ONLY SAID IN A NICE WAY WHAT WE ALL WERE THINKING!

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