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Obama calls Kanye a 'jackass'...
politico ^ | 9/14/09

Posted on 09/14/2009 6:22:22 PM PDT by mathprof

ABC News reporter Terry Moran caused quite a commotion tonight on Twitter following after writing: "Pres. Obama just called Kanye West a "jackass" for his outburst at VMAs when Taylor Swift won. Now THAT'S presidential."

Although it wasn't long before Moran removed it, with over a million followers, the tweet quickly bounced around Twitter through various users.

Now, an ABC spokesperson explains to POLITICO what happened:

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: beyonce; blackpeople; blindpig; brokenclock; jackass; kanye; kanyewest; obama; politico; socialism; taylorswift; terrymoran; twitter; vma
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To: mathprof

Not another ‘Beergate’ moment?!?


141 posted on 09/14/2009 8:02:28 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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To: mathprof

Why is he even commenting on this?
Not his place.................


142 posted on 09/14/2009 8:03:12 PM PDT by Kiss7
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To: mathprof

Wow, I finally agree with the President on something.


143 posted on 09/14/2009 8:03:13 PM PDT by Cymbaline (Bipartisan consensus - that's like when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.)
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To: mathprof
Another retread: a "Sister Souljah moment" by the One

Yep, first post on the thread and you nailed it exactly. This "leaked" comment was orchestrated by the Ubama handlers, and ABC was delighted to be their chump.

144 posted on 09/14/2009 8:06:22 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard; mathprof
Another retread: a "Sister Souljah moment" by the One

Dang. I was unfamiliar with the term, so had to look it up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Souljah_moment

During the 2008 United States presidential campaign, Democratic Party nominee Barack Obama experienced a number of events that were described as Sister Souljah moments. On April 29, in response to a series of provocative statements from his then-Pastor Jeremiah Wright, Obama gave a speech where he distanced himself from Wright and called some of Wright's statements "a bunch of rants that aren't grounded in truth."[5][6] South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn said of the speech, "This, I think, offers Barack Obama his Sister Souljah moment";[6] the speech was also described as "more than a Sister Souljah moment" by columnist Maureen Dowd.[7]

On July 8, former Special Counsel to Bill Clinton Lanny Davis called Obama's decision to vote for the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 a "Sister Souljah moment" that showed "that as president he would be more committed to the 'solutions' business than to yield to the pressure to prove his ideological purity to his party's base."[8]

On July 10, prior to a taping of Fox and Friends, civil-rights activist Jesse Jackson was unwittingly caught by an open microphone whispering to a fellow interviewee, saying that Barack Obama was talking down to black people; Washington post columnist Dan Balz called it Obama's Accidental Sister Souljah moment, saying Jackson's public image was of old-style Black politics.

145 posted on 09/14/2009 8:13:53 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: mathprof

Kanye is a jackass, but a President doesn’t comment or involve himself with items like this.
Obama isn’t presidential material and this is not American Idol.
Obama is too stupid to know better.
I can’t believe that this is the person with access to the nuclear football.


146 posted on 09/14/2009 8:14:07 PM PDT by BuffaloJack (The ACORN REPORT = http://republicans.oversight.house.gov/media/pdfs/20090723ACORNReport.pdf)
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To: mathprof

They pulled it because it was off the record? Bush43 never had the luxury of any off the record moments.


147 posted on 09/14/2009 8:16:09 PM PDT by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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To: mathprof

Sounds like a racist hate speech type remark to me.


148 posted on 09/14/2009 8:16:45 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Half of the population is below average)
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To: mathprof

This “president” just doesn’t know how to behave “presidential”! Yeesh!


149 posted on 09/14/2009 8:16:55 PM PDT by luvie (2010 is Conservatives' to win....or lose. So....LET'S WIN!!)
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To: South40

the african americans are justified to put all other americans down to lift themselves up. kayne is an ass. it still means obama is the same cause he still lies.


150 posted on 09/14/2009 8:20:03 PM PDT by television is just wrong (one bad ass mistake America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: thecodont

Do you know how the term originated?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Souljah_moment

“Such an act of repudiation is designed to signal to centrist voters that the politician is not beholden to traditional, and sometimes unpopular, interest groups associated with the party, although such a repudiation runs the risk of alienating some of the politician’s allies and the party’s base voters.”

In Ubama’s case, he risks nothing. Where else would the permanent victim class go?


151 posted on 09/14/2009 8:26:27 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: GOPsterinMA

“West is more of a Jackasa than Ayers, Wright, Dohrn Soros, etc.are? I think NOT!..”

You left out OBAMA and Ms. OBAMA!.....Oversight??


152 posted on 09/14/2009 8:38:15 PM PDT by True Republican Patriot (May GOD Continue to BLESS Our Great President George W. Bush!!)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Personally, I think the President should be above criticizing the tacky behavior of celebrities. And calling someone a jackass is hardly what a statesman does. Obama has no idea how to be president.

That hits the nail right there. We may agree with Obama, but in the back of our mind we're sorry he stated the obvious so meanly in public. He'd have been better off to say nothing.

153 posted on 09/14/2009 8:50:03 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: mathprof

“Off the record” my ass. This was planned and Moran participated in this obvious Rahmbo “Sista Souljah” moment.


154 posted on 09/14/2009 8:54:54 PM PDT by montag813 (qui)
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To: mathprof

I want to know what is up with that etch-a-sketch he has for a head. Did he lose a bet do you suppose? Or was he passed out drunk and his friends played prank on him and widdled that into his head?


155 posted on 09/14/2009 8:56:42 PM PDT by coon2000 (Give me Liberty or give me death!)
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To: coon2000

Darn it, I meant “whittled”. But I guess it looks like someone widdled on him as well!


156 posted on 09/14/2009 8:58:03 PM PDT by coon2000 (Give me Liberty or give me death!)
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To: mathprof

if this is true then that and his smoking habit are two things i can relate to

and that Brasilian girl’s butt though she was a mite young


157 posted on 09/14/2009 8:58:14 PM PDT by wardaddy (Bro and his czars...we have tar, feathers and rails waiting...and a road outta town..)
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To: allmendream

LOL.


158 posted on 09/14/2009 9:01:23 PM PDT by LucyJo
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To: mylife
Time for a cognac summit at the whitehouse?

Now there would be some media fodder, LOL! Invite 19 year old Swift to the WH and serve her alcohol :)

159 posted on 09/14/2009 9:04:28 PM PDT by MCH
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To: mathprof

And when it comes to Jackassing, nobody knows Jackass better than Barry-Hussein-Barrack.


160 posted on 09/14/2009 9:14:13 PM PDT by R0CK3T
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