Is there a such thing as “off-the-record” these days? These days of Twitter, Facebook, blogs, and the yearning of people across the country to be the next Perez Hilton?

Technically, you could say yes. Technically, someone can say “this is off-the-record”. But technically, someone’s off-the-record statement can be read by millions of people within minutes these days.

I’m assuming that in today’s information age that everyone is already aware of the Kayne West/Taylor Swift tussle at the MTV VMAs last night. I feel that it is safe to say that everyone knows about it because even President Obama had something to say about it.

According to Politico:

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

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.

Whether it is because someone doesn’t have high journalistic ethics or because some guy is too stupid to use common sense, everything you say has a possibility of making it to print (or to tweet). This is just more proof that “off-the-record” is a thing of the past… just like dinosaurs and newspapers.

I’m sorry Obama but I do not feel sorry for you. What’s said is said and if it is remotely interesting enough it will make it to the internet. And if it is really interesting it will be tweeted as you speak.