Instead of trying to get you healthcare, Pres. Obama has to deal with Kanye

The fallout continues from the dissemination of off-the-record remarks Pres. Obama made about Kanye West's outburst at Sunday's VMA Awards. The President was sitting down to do an interview with a CNBC correspondent when he was informally asked what he thought about Kanye's antics:

"I thought that was really inappropriate," Obama says. "What are you butting in (for)? ... The young lady seems like a perfectly nice person. She's getting her award. What's he doing up there?"
The reporter asks, "Why would he do it?"
"He's a jackass," says Obama, while several others laugh.
Obama quickly asks the remarks be kept private,"Come on guys," he says. "Cut the president some slack. I've got a lot of other stuff on my plate."

The thing is, a group of ABC reporters were eavesdropping on the conversation via their shared fiber optic line. Before they even filed any stories on it or cleared it with editors, ABC reporters began to e-mail contacts the information and at least three ABC reporters tweeted Obama's remarks via their Twitter accounts. The statements were quickly deleted, but this being the age of the Internet, they were captured and widely disseminated.

Pres. Obama is hardly the first president to be caught with an unexpectedly "hot" mic: in 1984, President Ronald Reagan joked that he had outlawed the Soviet Union and that "the bombing begins in five minutes" while waiting to make a speech. George W. Bush called a reporter an obscene name during the 2000 presidential campaign.

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