Video: Obama Calling Kanye West a Jackass

This is the video footage of President Obama referring to Kanye West as a jackass for his antics at the MTV VMA's during Taylor Swifts acceptance speech after she received her award for best female video, aired on CNN. The actual video was taken down soon after it was posted, but not before being picked up by all the major news stations.

President Obama was getting ready to do a white house interview when he's asked "off the record" by reporter (John Harwood):

REPORTER: "Were your girls as hacked off as mine were that Kanye gave Taylor Swift the Joe Wilson treatment?"
OBAMA: "I thought that was really inappropriate. You know? I mean it's like she's getting an award, what are you butting in? I -- I -- I hear you. I agree with you."

(CNN AIRS VIDEO STARTING HERE)

OBAMA: "The young lady seems like a perfectly nice person, shes up there getting her award. Whys he up there?"
REPORTER: "Whyd he do that?"
OBAMA: "Hes a jackass... "
[Everyone starts laughing]
OBAMA: "This... --All this stuff... --Im assuming all this stuffwheres the Pool? Comeon guys, cut the President some slack..."

(CNN ends footage here, but the conversation goes on)

OBAMA: "--I got a lot of other stuff on my plate.
Because I remember the last time, there was the fly thing. That was the highlight of a...."
REPORTER: "Now that worked out well for you!"
OBAMA: "Not really..."
REPORTER: "You were a ninja!"
OBAMA: "Exept PITA..."

You can hear the audio of the entire "off record" discussion here:

http://www.tmz.com/2009/09/15/obama-calls-kanye-a-jackass/

This is just another example of how awesome President Obama is! It's hilarious!

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[okkervil18]

Try reading the comment below mine.

[okkervil18]

@bigkanish3 Disrespecting Obama? ... I don't think you read my comment correctly. I was defending him. Try again

[bigkanish3]

@okkervil18

A. Don't dis Obama when you can't use correct grammar.

B. "Obama" starts with a capital letter, as it is a name.

C "Obama is a jackass?" That sentence doesn't make sense. It should end with a period.

[okkervil18]

@sonny01red obama is a jackass? You can't even form a comprehensive sentence. Take a seat.

[sonny01red]

Of course he know's who's a Jackass because his a Jackass to

[surfer53]

I agreed with Obama, but you can't order a media outlet to stop showing something. We have to at least pretend this isn't fascism.

[peachesbellxo]

LOL

[HalfTangible]

@MrPatrickzen They put it in context. That's more than most news stations would do =P

[khs118]

~lol~ this was really fun..~

true,true .. he really was a complete jackass... even the president said he was,,,lol

[TheEzio231]

Lolololololol