Posted on 07/10/2008 3:32:50 AM PDT by NCDragon
he Rev. Jesse Jackson apologized Wednesday for saying Barack Obama is “talking down to black people” during what Jackson thought was a private conversation before a FOX News interview Sunday.
Jackson was speaking to a guest at the time about Obama’s speeches in black churches and his support for faith-based charities. Jackson added before going live, “I want to cut his nuts off.”
His microphone picked up the remarks.
VIDEO: Click here to watch Jesse Jackson’s comments
At a hastily arranged news conference Wednesday evening in Chicago, Jackson said he supports Obama “unequivocally” and that he hopes to “get this behind me.”
“I have great passion for this campaign and traveled across the country … arguing the case for the campaign,” Jackson said. “And this thing I said in a hot-mic statement that’s interpreted as a distraction, I offer apology for that. I don’t want harm or hurt to come to this campaign.”
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So I know that Jesse NEVER gets in any trouble with the IRS despite his personal use tax exempt organization shakedowns,...i.e. mis-using tax free dollars to payoff his girlfriends and funnel money to his illegitimate kids, etc.,
but...can he now be investigated on charges of practicing medicine without a license??? She he is proposing performing surgery on OBAMA.
Jesse wants to get it behind him before anyone actually knows what he said/did. Of course...
What a surprise... Obama is a victim...again.
Hey..it's Jesse
For all we know he was talking about oil!
Jackson has been dealing with the media at least 30 years, and knows how to avoid on air gaffes I feel that this was a calculated stunt to distance Osama, I mean Obama, from the most radical black factions. The Moderates will take this hook, line, and sinker.
Yep, it was contrived to help Obama.
Good luck finding them, rev-rund...
What I find particularly revealing was the fact that Jackson was chiding Obama for blaming black men for leaving their families instead of blaming “government policies”, etc. Jess just outed himself on multiple levels. Good. It couldn't have happened to a more deserving person.
Rumor has it that he added "with my teeth".
Or maybe I made that part up.
If this is what Jesse wants to do to someone he supports “unequivocally” then I can only imagine what he’d do to someone he really hates, like John McCain.
He’d probably make McCain’s Vietnamese tormenters blush with envy over the creative things he could come up with.
if JJ’s name was “imus” there’d be riots in the streets.
Well, maybe...but I’m thinking that, if it isn’t entirely contrived for the purpose (which requires pretzel logic), the likelier scenario is that B. Hussein was given a script and mangled it, thus locking the wrong position into the public record, something that they’ll all have to ‘revise and extend’ somewhere down the road. The comment sounded like he was disgusted with an incompetent or perhaps angry at a predator. Now, which of these do you prefer?
By the way, why are we all still giving JJ the clerical title? Where’s his congretation? What church is he serving? Who ordained him? This ‘reverend’ thing is insulting to actual ministers, especially when the ‘reverend’ in question is entirely without portfolio or even piety or faith. Until I see proof that JJ actually works as a man of God in an actual church, I refuse to allow him the label of ‘reverend’.
I’d like to hear the rest of J.J. comments.
As O’Reily said, there is more and it is even more damaging but he said it was not relevant and didn’t play it.
Totally agree. This was a calculated, planned event - sort of a sister souljah moment - to endear Obama in he minds of some white Amercans for being opposed by the old race pimp side of the marxist party.
THIS WAS OBVIOUSLY A PLANNED EVENT!
Otherwise, 99% of America would never have known that Obamaman spoke about personal responsibility among black males...or or whatever he said.....
Jackson to Obama: How can I help you get elected?
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Obama to Jackson: Stay the hell away from me - and keep quiet so whitey won’t know of your support for me.
Jackson to Obama: Well, then, how about I bait whitey a bit....you be the good black boy and I’ll be the bad ass black guy....and let’s have some fun....
Obama to jackson: Sounds like a plan....
OR it could have been started = Obama to Jackson.
Either way - this was a planned event - calculated to separate Obama from the radical black leftists who follow Jackson in lockstep - in the minds of dull and stupid “white folk” who are easily duped...who have seen and heart Obama’s breathtakingly radical leftist campaign and who are NOT inlined to support such views on the part of any Presidential candidate.
This was all part of Obama’s huge campaign to be seen as a “moderate” rather than as the ultra radical America-hating Che loving corruption king that he is!
“Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don’t”.
Welcome to Jesse's 'Believe it or Not' cross-country tour . . .
Really, with friends like this; you can only 'go wrong'.
Cab’t see how this is contrived. This is merely two Chicago punks fighting over turf.
I’ve got a taste for Brazil nuts...
Think there are just precious times when the truth actually escapes these self-serving sychophants -if only when he microphone is turned off. Or rather, fortunately for us; when they think it is turned off.
Ordained as a Southern Bptist Minister in 1968 worked as an activist minister for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference civil rights group before founding PUSH.
No congregation, however - who would lister???
Crude remarks. Hmmmmm. Maybe we should drill Jesse.
Hmmmmmm ... seems as though Jackson may think that his days as the head extortionist negro are soon to be limited, should Obama-Lama-Ding-Dong get elected.
He's got nothing to worry about, unless he gets caught carrying a knife while at an Obam-Lama-Ding-Dong campaign event.
Can Hillary be far behind?
This is getting very entertaining.
this looks like a manufactured story
Redemption = Reparations?
An Ombama presidency gonna make everyting OTA?
“.......feel that this was a calculated stunt to distance Osama, I mean Obama, from the most radical black factions. The Moderates will take this hook, line, and sinker.”
You get it.
A sister souljah moment was the first thing that popped in my mind. This will help BHO big time.
</sarc>
Jackson added before going live, “I want to cut his nuts off.”.....
Isn’t this a hate crime?.....
luv-it...
So that was my point: many people now routinely indulge themselves in pretzel logic, sometimes even congratulating themselves on their ‘subtility’ and ‘sophistication’.
There’s a great episode of ‘Dead Like Me’ (’The Shallow End’) that analyzes the ‘frenemy’ concept, though the word never occurs in the episode. The problem with sharing it with your child is that the language is pretty harsh (nowhere near ‘Deadwood’). If there were a bleeped version, the meaning and context would be very good for your child to learn what will ultimately happen to those who learn to go with the pack like that, even against their own best intentions.
Who was listening to ‘Rev’ Wright? Those same people would swoon over Jesse. That is, if he could spare the time.
When I think of how many Afr-Am men are running around sporting the ‘Reverend’ title but seem never to have time to actually serve, it only highlights the others, like Fr. John Neuhaus, who actively serves a large Roman Catholic parish in NYC but also lives a vital and valuable intellectual life as editor of ‘First Things’.
Perhaps also Fr. Neuhaus isn’t permitting affairs of the flesh to distract him, hmmm?
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