Whoops of the Day
“Pres. Obama just called Kanye West a “jackass” for his outburst at VMAs when Taylor Swift won. Now THAT’S presidential.”
That was apparently a tweet from ABC’s Terry Moran earlier this evening. We missed it, but Politico didn’t. It caused quite a stir in the Twitterverse– the “Nightline” anchor has over a million followers— and it was deleted.
Politico received this explanation from ABC:
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.
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