President Obama calls Kanye West a Jackass!

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ABC's Terry Moran set the Twitter-sphere all aflutter when he wrote:

TerryMorgan: Pres. Obama just called Kanye West a "jackass" for his outburst at VWAs when Taylor Swift won. Now THAT'S presidential. from Terry Morgan-6:39PM (1 hour ago)

We've reached out to Moran and will update this post when we learn more.

Now, an ABC spokesperson explains to POLITICO what happened:

"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. This was done before our editorial process had been completed. That was wrong. We apologize to the White House and CNBC and are taking steps to ensure that it will not happen again."

The White House had no immediate comment.

— Josh Gerstein contributed to this report. source from politico.co

But regardless here is the recording of Obama calling Kanye a jackass and RIGHTFULLY SO!

The Conversation on Black Names Continue…

by today's Urban Chameleon contributor

A friend of mine came over the other day and said to me, “Girl, Black names are off the hook these days!”

Well we’ve known that. I cannot tell you how many times I’ve met Black children named after a car, a bottle of alcohol or an exotic bag of weed and struggled not to bust out laughing in their face. But she caught me off guard when she asked me how I thought the name “La-a” was pronounced.

I responded, “LA AH?”

“No girl, Ladasha!”

You mean to tell me someone has used a hyphen, excuse me a “dash” as part of the pronunciation of their name?! Oh no.

So you know we had to keep it going coming up with the most ridiculous pronunciations using other punctuation marks

/ia - Oh this would be pronounced “Backspacia”

J' - pronounced "Japostrophe"

:’ - pronounced "Colón"

...a - pronounced "Ellipsa"


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Please contribute to the madness and let us know the most outrageous name you’ve come across (or maybe your own name is uuuhm... unique) Please share.

P.S. If anyone else also read about the name La-a please let us know so we can reference the source.


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