CNN’s Off-Record Video: Obama Calls Kanye ‘Jackass’

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Okay folks, here it is. You know you want it! Too bad presidents can’t always be this…human. Because Kanye West was indeed being a jackass. In case you’ve had your head buried in the sand the past week, Obama was referring to Kanye’s stage-crashing at MTV’s Video Music Awards, taking the mic from Taylor Swift, winner of the Best Video category, and saying that the award should have been Beyonce’s. (The incident, an instant cultural meme, has triggered any number of spinoffs, like this one, and this!) Trouble was, the comment was off-the-record, but employees at ABC, which share a feed with CNN, saw the video and promptly tweeted it. But there’s more to this story. You’ll note that this video is branded Politico and TPM. Well, Politico, for one, apparently acquired and posted the video but then quickly pulled it out of respect, it explained, for a fellow news organization. But CNN decided Politico’s could remain on YouTube. Moral: In the Twitter age, you can never put the toothpaste back in the tube.

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