Uh-Oh. KanyeGate 2009 just got real!

The President of The United States has been caught on tape lighting into Kanye West. TMZ just obtained audio of President Barack Obama referring to the hip-hop heavyweight as “a jackass” in the aftermath of the rapper’s infamous stage-storming during Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at the MTV Video Music Awards 2009 in New York City on Sunday night.
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Kanye West has personally apologized to Taylor Swift. Representatives from ABC’s daytime gabfest The View have announced that the embattled rapper called the 19-year-old country star after her appearance on Tuesday’s show to say that he sorry for hijacking her MTV Video Music Awards acceptance speech on Sunday.

Taylor has accepted the apology, telling Taylor told ABC News Radio: “Kanye did call me and he was very sincere in his apology and I accepted that apology.”

On The View Tuesday, country star Taylor Swift chatted with the ladies about her run-in with Kanye West at Sunday night’s MTV Video Music Awards.

“I think my overall thought process went something like, ‘Wow, I can’t believe I won. This is awesome. Don’t trip and fall. I’m going to get to thank the fans. This is so cool. Oh, Kanye West is here! Cool haircut,” Taylor giggled. “What are you doing?’ And then ‘Ouch.’ And then, ‘I guess I’m not gonna get to thank the fans.” Read the rest of this entry »

Even President Barack Obama has an opinion on Krazy Kanye’s stage-storming at Sunday night’s VMAs, according to Politico.com.

On Monday night, ABC’s Terry Moran Tweeted: “Pres. Obama just called Kanye West a ‘jackass’ for his outburst at VMAs when Taylor Swift won. Now THAT’S presidential.”

Moran deleted the post soon after, but not before catching the attention of his more than 1 million followers.

“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,” according to a statement issued by ABC News shortly after Moran’s Tweets emerged. “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.”

(Which means, no one is disputing Obama made the comment, just that it wasn’t meant for publication.)

Kanye West publicly apologized for his behavior at Sunday night’s MTV Video Music Awards during an interview with Jay Leno on Monday night’s premiere episode of The Jay Leno Show on NBC.
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Kanye West will be on-hand for the premiere of Jay Leno’s primetime series this Monday night –- and hopefully this time, he’ll manage to keep his lips zipped.

With any luck, maybe a few audience hecklers will toss some tomatoes at him….

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Kanye will still make his scheduled appearance on the debut of The Jay Leno Show in Burbank this evening, despite his disrespectful outburst during Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech during the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night.
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Looks like Taylor Swift isn’t the only noteworthy figure to have an important speech hijacked by Kanye’s flapping flytrap!

Check out this new viral video, featuring the hip-hop heavyweight pulling a “Joe Wilson” and interrupting President Obama’s speech on healthcare!

Taylor Swift praised Beyonce Knowles-Carter for her graciousness during a post-ceremony press conference for Sunday night’s 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. Taylor was publicly humiliated while accepting her first-ever moonman, after Kanye West made history by storming the stage during Taylor’s speech and telling the crowd that he believed Beyonce was the true winner in the Best Female Video category.

“Taylor, I’m really happy for you, I’m gonna let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time,” he shouted.

Kanye’s characteristically childish outburst was greeted by boos and jeers from the Radio City Music Hall crowd, as a mortified Beyonce looked on from the audience. Taylor stood speechless as she held back tears as fans began chanting her name in support. Kanye was promptly asked to leave the ceremony by network execs.

But Beyonce, always a class act, saved the day by inviting Taylor on-stage to finish delivering her speech while accepting the Video of the Year trophy for her hit 2008 single “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It).”
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Kanye West has offered an apology for the tacky and classless tomfoolery he pulled at Sunday night’s 2009 Video Music Awards.

Taylor Swift picked up her first Moonman for Best Female Video for “You Belong To Me” at Sunday night’s ceremony but didn’t have the chance to finish her acceptance speech, thanks to the Grammy-winning egomaniac, who took the stage to interrupt her and praise pal Beyonce, who was nominated for “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It).”

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Beyonce won the Video of the Year moonman for her 2008 video “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)” at Sunday night’s 2009 MTV Video Music Awards in New York; but instead of offering a long-winded acceptance speech, the R&B hitmaker gave the microphone to country crooner Taylor Swift, who accepted her award for Best Female Video.

Earlier in the night, Taylor was callouslly ambushed by Kanye West — who declared it was Beyonce who deserved the award — in the middle of her thank you notes.

“[I remember] I was up for my first MTV award with Destiny’s Child and it was one of the most exciting moments of my life,” Beyonce said. “So I’d like for Taylor to come out and have her moment.”

Taylor then took the stage in a red dress that matched Beyonce’s, thanking the fans “on Twitter and MySpace and everyone who came out to my shows this summer,” as well as those who had worked on her video for “You Belong With Me.”