Obama calls West a jackass, Kelly Clarkson lashes out, too

As a contrite Kanye West apologized to the nation on Jay Leno’s show last night, President Barack Obama dissed him off the record in an ABC interview.

Obama was just chatting with ABC’s reporters when he let slip his opinion of the rapper’s now infamous MTV VMA awards outburst during Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech. Calling West a “jackass” wasn’t an official part of the interview, but ABC reporter Terry Moran let the comment slip on Twitter. And as we all know, what has been twote cannot be retracted, at least not after it hits all the major political gossip blogs and news aggregators.

ABC said in a statement:

“ABC News employees prematurely tweeted a portion of those remarks that turned out to be from an off-the-record portion of the interview.”

But Obama wasn’t the only one lashing out at Kanye harshly- former American Idol Kelly Clarkson penned a seething missive at the rapper on her blog:

What happened to you as a child?? Did you not get hugged enough?? Something must have happened to make you this way and I think we’re all just curious as to what would make a grown man go on national television and make a talented artist, let alone teenager, feel like sh*t. I mean, I’ve seen you do some pretty sh*tty things, but you just keep amazing me with your tactless, a*****e ways. It’s absolutely fascinating how much I don’t like you. I like everyone. I even like my a*****e ex that cheated on me over you…which is pretty odd since I don’t even personally know you. The best part of this evening is that you weren’t even up for THIS award and yet you still have a problem with the outcome. Is winning a moon man that much of a life goal?? You can have mine if it will shut you up. Is it that important, really??

Clarkson goes on to say that Kanye is “bitter” that Swift “outsold” him.