Tearful Kanye gets Obama tongue-lashing

Barack Obama called the rapper a jackass for leaping on stage, ripping the microphone from 19-year-old country star Taylor Swift and declaring that Beyonce should have won her award.
The colourful remark was made during an interview with US network CNBC and was meant to be kept off the record.
But the comment leaked out to news sites after a reporter from rival network ABC posted the comment on micro-blogging site Twitter.
“Pres. Obama just called Kanye West a ‘jackass’ for his outburst at VMAs when Taylor Swift won. Now that’s presidential,” reporter Terry Moran wrote.
Monday night, West made an impromptu appearance on Jay Leno’s late-night show to apologise to Swift, saying he wanted to say sorry to her in person.
The rapper said he was sorry for being “rude”.
Viewers were shocked by his antics at last Sunday night’s awards — beforehand he was seen swigging cognac from a bottle on the red carpet.
West told Leno he was planning to take a break from the music industry and to assess his behaviour, which he partly sought to excuse with the recent death of his mother Donda.
As the host introduced his guest, he said: “This really wasn’t planned, but Kanye wanted to talk, so please welcome Kanye West.”
When he sat down, Leno said to him: “Tell us about your day. Have you had a tough day today?”
His voice cracking, West — dressed all in black — said: “It’s been extremely difficult, just dealing with the fact that I hurt someone or took anything away, you know, from a talented artist – or from anyone.
“But I need to, after this, take some time off and just analyse how I’m going to make it through the rest of this life, how I’m going to improve. Because I am a celebrity, and that’s something I have to deal with.
“It was rude, period.
“And, you know, I’d like to be able to apologise to her in person. And I wanted to. . .”
West was angered at the MTV awards by the victory of Swift in Best Female Video category for You Belong To Me.
She was left humiliated as West turned to the audience after grabbing her microphone and shouting that the gong should have gone to his friend Beyonce, for her video for Single Ladies.
He was booed by the star-studded audience and ejected from the theatre. — Mail Online.