Posted on 07/09/2008 4:27:55 PM PDT by The_Republican
Whatever the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. said in a live microphone on Fox News, it was really, really bad, and none other than his own son seems to know it.
"I'm deeply outraged and disappointed in Reverend Jackson's reckless statements about Senator Barack Obama. His divisive and demeaning comments about the presumptive Democratic nominee -- and I believe the next president of the United States -- contradict his inspiring and courageous career," wrote Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.), an Obama campaign co-chairman, in a statement sent out after word began spreading that his father had said something crude and deeply offensive.
The bold-faced text was his own. "Instead of tearing others down, Barack Obama wants to build the country up and bring people together so that we can move forward, together -- as one nation. The remarks like those uttered on Fox by Reverend Jackson do not advance the campaign's cause of building a more perfect Union."
The exact words have yet to be aired, but Rev. Jackson was near a microphone that he assumed was off when he disparaged Obama's tendency to tell African American audiences, especially black men, they needed to turn off their children's television sets, attend to their homework and keep their families together.
Rev. Jackson was contrite, ahead of an expected broadcast of his words on Fox tonight. In a statement from his Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, he wrote, "For any harm or hurt that this hot mic private conversation may have caused, I apologize. My support for Senator Obama's campaign is wide, deep and unequivocal. I cherish this redemptive and historical moment.
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i love it!
this is a fun election.
I wonder if he called him “Uncle Tom” or “Honky” or “White wannabe” or something.
If he is so sorry, it has to be something really really bad.
Jackson just tryin’ to keep Obama on the plantation.
This reads like satire... is this satire?
“If he is so sorry, it has to be something really really bad.”
Well we know it wasn’t “nigger” that’s for sure.
That wouldn’t be bad at all. Unless Jesse was white.
Then the wrath of ages would come upon him.
It’s kinda creepy seeing a son talk to about his father like that. Seems to be a ton of animosity there.
Obama is the most divisive candidate to ever reach the finals so to speak. His anti-white bigotry is all but ignored by the MSM. His gaffes are becoming legendary. His condescending attitude toward blue collar America is appalling. His wife is a nightmare. They are purveyors of the rhetoric that claims nearly everybody is a victim and deserve all kinds of ‘rights’ not found in our Constitution. How did we get to this point??
He said that Obama talks down to black people and that he would cut off his manhood. For real, only he didn’t use “manhood”.
that makes two of us
(with the music of “The Hustle” in the background)
Jessie Jackson . . . a stinking racist? . . . Biteth your tongueth. How could a man of the cloth (he never finished divinity school and also has never had a church) possibly say something so mean about someone who thinks there’re 57 states in our country, that Joint Chiefs of Staff have the power to declare and stop wars, and that we should all learn Spanish (although Hussein Obama doesn’t know it either)?
I think Jessie should be boycotted and extorted for millions to protest this outrage.
great fun!
The Rainbow Man will say he meant this:
When General Anthony McAuliffe, acting commander of the 101st Airborne, was told of this German invitation to surrender, he responded “Nuts!” After turning to other pressing issues, his staff reminded him that they should reply to the German demand. One officer (Harry W. O. Kinnard, then a Lieutenant Colonel) recommended that McAuliffe’s initial reply would be “tough to beat”. Thus McAuliffe wrote on the paper delivered to the Germans: “NUTS!” That reply had to be explained, both to the Germans and to non-American Allies.[12
Jesse says that’s what I meant!
drudge has the story up.
he said something about wanting to “cut his nuts off” — thinking the mic was off.
How can you possibly misinterpret something like that to say that he REALlY meant to say how supportive he is of Osama’s campaign for POTUS (which is what he has already come back on CNN to “correct” and apologize for his mistake)?
Let’s see - “hot mike” and “private conversation” just don’t go together. Oh, I get it, he was supposed to get special treatment regarding the “hot mike private conversation”. Funny how when a Republican makes a gaffe with a hot mike on, it’s ALL OVER THE NEWS, the alphabet stations can’t wait to put it on the air and run it into the ground. Welcome to the white world, Rev. Jackson!
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