Obama called Kanye West a "jackass" for his interruption at the VMAs.
It is the top story at Fox News right now.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/15/obama-calls-kanye-west-jackass/ (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/15/obama-calls-kanye-west-jackass/)
QuotePresident Barack Obama called hip-hop musician Kanye West a "jackass" on Monday in an off-the-record comment during an interview with CNBC, an ABC News anchor reported on Twitter.
Obama was apparently weighing in on an interruption that occurred the night before during the MTV Video Music Awards where West grabbed the microphone from teen country singer Taylor Swift during her award acceptance speech to announce his belief that Beyonce had a better music video.
"Pres. Obama just called Kanye West a 'jackass' for his outburst at VMAs when Taylor Swift won. Now THAT'S presidential," "Nightline" co-anchor Terry Moran wrote Monday evening to his more than 1 million followers.
The tweet forced the network to issue an apology after the Internet quickly became abuzz over the stunning remark published on the microblogging site.
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"Off the record" means OFF THE RECORD, DICK.
On the other hand, Kanye is a Jackass, so there you go.
The interesting part of this story, is that it will put the Fox News gang in a weird position, of kinda sorta defending Kanye "George Bush hates black people" West. Because I will be utterly shocked if this isn't the lead story for Beck and Hannity.
Incidentally, I need to WOMP that image of Kanye and Mike Meyers, with Mike saying, "Kanye West hates white people."
Quote from: LMNO on September 15, 2009, 03:18:41 PM
"Off the record" means OFF THE RECORD, DICK.
On the other hand, Kanye is a Jackass, so there you go.
Exactly. So, unlike Mr. Wilson, not only did he not make the remark in a public venue. He was also correct. Oh, but of course our President's are supposed to be squeaky clean and speak properly 100% of the time.
No, please!!! Not the personality!!! Not the personality!!!!!
Quote from: LMNO on September 15, 2009, 03:18:41 PM
"Off the record" means OFF THE RECORD, DICK.
On the other hand, Kanye is a Jackass, so there you go.
this.
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on September 15, 2009, 03:17:30 PM
Obama called Kanye West a "jackass" for his interruption at the VMAs.
It is the top story at Fox News right now.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/15/obama-calls-kanye-west-jackass/ (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/15/obama-calls-kanye-west-jackass/)
QuotePresident Barack Obama called hip-hop musician Kanye West a "jackass" on Monday in an off-the-record comment during an interview with CNBC, an ABC News anchor reported on Twitter.
Obama was apparently weighing in on an interruption that occurred the night before during the MTV Video Music Awards where West grabbed the microphone from teen country singer Taylor Swift during her award acceptance speech to announce his belief that Beyonce had a better music video.
"Pres. Obama just called Kanye West a 'jackass' for his outburst at VMAs when Taylor Swift won. Now THAT'S presidential," "Nightline" co-anchor Terry Moran wrote Monday evening to his more than 1 million followers.
The tweet forced the network to issue an apology after the Internet quickly became abuzz over the stunning remark published on the microblogging site.
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The ability to call things the way they are sounds like it should be a positive attribute of a president. Unless I'm being totally naive here...
I am shocked, SHOCKED, that Obama lets himself get riled up by ... FUCKING MTV!
wait no im doing it wrong, that smells like a semi valid argument sorry.
OBAMA TRIES TO DENY KANYE'S RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH WTF
there, better?
Quote from: LMNO on September 15, 2009, 03:18:41 PM
"Off the record" means OFF THE RECORD, DICK.
I'm sorry, were you looking for a real journalist? I'm afraid the last one died a few weeks ago.
It's more the absolutely blantant admission that they were quoting the president after admitting that their own rules say that you shouldn't be quoting the president off the record.
I, for one, am SHOCKED and OUTRAGED! :omg:
At least he didn't call him a "major league asshole (http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/09/04/cuss_word/)", right guys?
Quote from: Halfbaked1 on September 15, 2009, 08:01:14 PM
I, for one, am SHOCKED and OUTRAGED! :omg:
Why is everything circling the drain? Why is there no actual journalism putting some form of check on the government?
Because of shit like what I just quoted. That's why.
It's kind of a fun bit to listen to: http://www.tmz.com/2009/09/15/obama-calls-kanye-a-jackass/
You got to hand it to The Smiler, he's a charismatic son of a bitch even on audio.
Quote from: Nigel on September 16, 2009, 12:03:07 AM
It's kind of a fun bit to listen to: http://www.tmz.com/2009/09/15/obama-calls-kanye-a-jackass/
You got to hand it to The Smiler, he's a charismatic son of a bitch even on audio.
Oh, there's no doubt about that.
Quote from: Halfbaked1 on September 15, 2009, 08:01:14 PM
I, for one, am SHOCKED and OUTRAGED! :omg:
Sarcasm dude, sarcasm. Personally I think there is nothing wrong with the media that a few well placed molotov specials couldn't fix.
Which you are aiming at the consumers, right? Please say yes.
Quote from: Nigel on September 16, 2009, 12:03:07 AM
It's kind of a fun bit to listen to: http://www.tmz.com/2009/09/15/obama-calls-kanye-a-jackass/
You got to hand it to The Smiler, he's a charismatic son of a bitch even on audio.
"C'mon guys. Cut the President some slack."
:lulz:
I wonder what Nixon would have said about Kanye...
Actually, the next outrage will be about how Obama let black racist stormtrooper schoolchildren beat up white children:
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200909150017
Quote from: Cain on September 16, 2009, 04:36:41 PM
Actually, the next outrage will be about how Obama let black racist stormtrooper schoolchildren beat up white children:
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200909150017
the sound of mouth foaming is clearly audible :lulz:
Well, that and Jimmy Carter just laid down the race card:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32869276/ns/politics-capitol_hill/
Jimmy Carter is one of the Right's favorite punching bags so I think the "jackass" thing will be spared.
Oh yeah, he laid into the Republicans but GOOD. Basically talked about the Republicans and their Southern constituents as bigoted, racist, ignorant assholes.
I think Carter should have been more clear that it seems to be a minority of the crazy people who are specifically motivated by race. Quite a few of them seem to be the same idiots who were freaking out about Clinton, some of them have been freaking out since Bush, some of them may have legitimate political differences.... Overall, the majority appear to be unhinged, but I don't think race is the major factor... just one of many.
That being said "You Lie" sure sounded like he caught himself right before he said "You lie, BOY!" :horrormirth:
It's the Jackie Robinson effect. Bubba and Hillary didn't have their citizenship questioned, they weren't regularly being compared to Nazis, Hitler, etc., they weren't subjected to the same, endless drumbeat of "Socialism! Marxism!". The partisan rankor seemed to be more contained to Congress and the talking heads. With Obama, it has spilled into the streets and seems to be becoming mainstreamed.
In the interviews, I heard over and over "I'm against the islamification of this country!" Where these bigoted assholes are getting Islamification from ANYTHING that Obama has said is beyond me. They are listening to MAINSTREAM MEDIA to get this. It's all over the airwaves and the TV. That they can't read the man's words for themselves, or rather listen to them, is a big fucking deal. And they refuse to do it. They want prepackaged shit to chew on.
So they get shit. And I hope they fucking choke on it, too.
Quote from: Doctor Rat Bastard on September 16, 2009, 07:53:43 PM
I think Carter should have been more clear that it seems to be a minority of the crazy people who are specifically motivated by race. Quite a few of them seem to be the same idiots who were freaking out about Clinton, some of them have been freaking out since Bush, some of them may have legitimate political differences.... Overall, the majority appear to be unhinged, but I don't think race is the major factor... just one of many.
That being said "You Lie" sure sounded like he caught himself right before he said "You lie, BOY!" :horrormirth:
So what? It drives them batshit when you point out the racism, and it drives the non-racist RWNs absolutely
insane when you call them racists.
And I'm for whatever causes the most froth, to be perfectly honest about it.
Quote from: Jenne on September 16, 2009, 08:01:04 PM
In the interviews, I heard over and over "I'm against the islamification of this country!" Where these bigoted assholes are getting Islamification from ANYTHING that Obama has said is beyond me. They are listening to MAINSTREAM MEDIA to get this. It's all over the airwaves and the TV. That they can't read the man's words for themselves, or rather listen to them, is a big fucking deal. And they refuse to do it. They want prepackaged shit to chew on.
So they get shit. And I hope they fucking choke on it, too.
And I am here to help them out. I have been running a troll on freerepublic for 3 months now, egging them on.
You know, there's ENOUGH for them to be outraged at Obama over--how about campaign promises he broke? Patriot Acts, sealing up tight the logs on who visits the White House, surging the war in Afghanistan...nonregulation of the bank and lending boys...the list goes ON and ON.
But instead, these fuckers are stuck on "he's BLACK!" and "he's NOT A CITIZEN!" and "KENYA KENYA KENYA"...fuck me running, the are the stupidest bunch of fuckers.
ETA: And just wait--next the media will have enter your favorite word here -gate in about six months. Some scandal or other (the Acorn one is brewing up nicely) is going to take allll the focus away from the issues in the first paragraph of this post. Ugh ugh ugh.
Quote from: Jenne on September 17, 2009, 05:30:28 AM
You know, there's ENOUGH for them to be outraged at Obama over--how about campaign promises he broke? Patriot Acts, sealing up tight the logs on who visits the White House, surging the war in Afghanistan...nonregulation of the bank and lending boys...the list goes ON and ON.
But instead, these fuckers are stuck on "he's BLACK!" and "he's NOT A CITIZEN!" and "KENYA KENYA KENYA"...fuck me running, the are the stupidest bunch of fuckers.
They don't want him to keep his campaign promises and they can't complain about that other stuff because they said absolutely nothing when Bush did it. They can't find any legitimate reasons to lash out so they just make shit up. They lash on to any scandal no matter how big or small and pray that it becomes the one that can somehow make the scary black man go away.
True, if you pointed out these things as negatives (Gitmo still open, illegal wiretapping continuing, nonregulation of the banking industry, bailouts galore of the white corporate structure, health care yo-yoing and the Afghan situation...), they really can't say much because it was all started by their Boy Wonder...meh.
MEH MEH MEH
WTF, fucking racist! Calling a black man a jackass :lulz:
Bring it on, bitches.
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I mean is his fist half way up his nose or am I seeing this wrong??
(the rest of that picture is cute. look at the nerd with the lightsaber!)
He doesn't look real in that picture. He looks like a giant action figure. And damn he's skinny. He's got one of the top chefs in the country working for him, he's been there what, 8 months and he still looks like a 30 mph gust would break him? What's up with that?
He eat healthy
Not like fast food chowing hamfist american.
(this sounds funnier in my head, cause martin yan is yelling it)
Maybe that's why so many Americans hate him. Not only is he Black, but he's skinny. Racism mixed with waist-measurement envy.
I wanna go bowling with him cause he's a sucky lefty too.
It'd be hilarious!
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Bring it on, bitches.
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We need to get Obama a real sword and a few weeks training...
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Bring it on, bitches.
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Gotta shoop that.
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