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"President-elect Obama has energized all segments of the depressed, downtrodden, rejected and despised," he said in a 90-minute speech at Mosque Maryam on the city's South Side. "Now it is up to us to take the new energy that he has given us ... and channel that energy into making ourselves better." Dressed in intricately decorated red and gold robes and a matching fez, the once-ailing 75-year-old leader spoke to more than 1,000 followers in an address called "America's New Beginning: President-elect Barack Obama." Farrakhan, who said Obama draws a "oneness of spirit" from all people, admitted he stayed quiet...

-snip- I was in Washington DC the night of the election. America’s beautiful capital has a sad secret. It is perhaps the most racially divided city in the world, with 15th Street – which runs due north from the White House – the unofficial frontier between black and white. But, like so much of America, it also now has a new division, and one which is in many ways much more important. I had attended an election-night party in a smart and liberal white area, but was staying the night less than a mile away on the edge of a...

Bill O’Reilly’s “No Spin Zone” was full of spin in his "Talking Points" opening Thursday night. He desperately tried to make the case that covering gossip from unnamed “insider campaign” sources was actually news. He even went so far to claim that not covering the childish snipes from losing, out of work campaigners would be “suppressing” news. ...snip The real news here was that the Palin children have shown more grace, dignity, and maturity than McCain staffers....

On November 5, 2008 CBS News’s Maggie Rodriguez asked her guest, “Did you think also, Dr. King, about your presidential quests in 84 and 88 and how you laid the foundation for his victory yesterday?” No, I’m not having a Biden moment. And no, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. did not survive an assassination attempt in 1964, run for president twenty years later, and chat about Barack Obama’s victory on CBS at age 80. Maggie Rodriguez’s guest was not the great American hero Martin Luther King, Jr., but the unhinged has-been Jesse Jackson. Rodriguez’s Freudian slip is profoundly depressing —...

What do Iran's ayatollahs, Hamas terrorists, Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson and Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi have in common? They are all pulling for Barack Obama to win the US presidential election. When Israel's disparate foes manage to rally behind a single candidate, it should set off alarm bells for anyone who cares about the Jewish state. If you think this is just Republican scaremongering, consider the following. Last week, Ali Larijani, the hard-line speaker of the Iranian parliament, told a press conference in Bahrain that "we are leaning more in favor of Barack Obama because he is more flexible and...

But Jackson Jr.’s path is by no means assured. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) also wants to replace Sen. Obama (Ill.) in the upper chamber if he is elected president. This gives Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who must choose between an African-American political scion and a close ally of the labor movement, a difficult decision. Jackson has made plain that he would like to succeed Obama in the Senate. “If Sen. Obama wins -- and I’m optimistic that he will, I indeed would be honored and humbled to succeed him in the U.S. Senate,” said Jackson in a statement. “But, in...

Chicago Sun-Times columnist Michael Sneed wonders, Who would replace Obama's Senate seat? She's plugged into Chicago's upper-tier social scene, and what she says she hears should be stunning. Sneed hears Barack Obama wants an African American to fill his U.S. Senate seat if he wins the presidency. • • The upshot: U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. wants the spot. • • Hmmmm. That places Gov. Blagojevich, who is charged with selecting Obama's replacement, in a tricky place. • • To wit: Sneed hears Gov. Blago, who dismisses reports of a federal probe, wants to run for office again -- and...

The McCain campaign is targeting Barack Obama over recent comments from the Rev. Jesse Jackson suggesting the Illinois senator would fundamentally change U.S. policy toward Israel. “It should not surprise anyone that Obama’s supporters see what others, from the terrorist group Hamas to Iranian President Ahmadinejad, have seen: an Obama presidency would bring real change to America’s policy of support for Israel,” said McCain senior foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann. Jackson’s comments came at the World Policy Forum in Evian, France last week and were quoted Tuesday by New York Post columnist Amir Taheri. According to Taheri, Jackson reportedly said...

PREPARE for a new America: That's the message that the Rev. Jesse Jackson conveyed to participants in the first World Policy Forum, held at this French lakeside resort last week. He promised "fundamental changes" in US foreign policy - saying America must "heal wounds" it has caused to other nations, revive its alliances and apologize for the "arrogance of the Bush administration." The most important change would occur in the Middle East, where "decades of putting Israel's interests first" would end. Jackson believes that, although "Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades" remain strong, they'll lose a great deal...

Whether intentionally or not Jesse Jackson is causing problems again for Barack Obama. The latest from the New York Post: Jackson believes that, although “Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades” remain strong, they’ll lose a great deal of their clout when Barack Obama enters the White House. “Obama is about change,” Jackson told me in a wide-rangingMcPeak said progress had not been made in the Middle East peace process because of the Jewish community in New York City and Miami. And the change that Obama promises is not limited to what we do in America itself. It is...

PREPARE for a new America: That's the message that the Rev. Jesse Jackson conveyed to participants in the first World Policy Forum, held at this French lakeside resort last week. He promised "fundamental changes" in US foreign policy - saying America must "heal wounds" it has caused to other nations, revive its alliances and apologize for the "arrogance of the Bush administration." The most important change would occur in the Middle East, where "decades of putting Israel's interests first" would end. Jackson believes that, although "Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades" remain strong, they'll lose a great deal...

Mr. Hymietown says Obama will end "decades of putting Israel's interests first" by Bill Levinson We will say up front that American Jews have only one legitimate reason to support Israel; it is a fellow democracy, with political freedoms and civil rights that are similar to those of the United States. This is, however, the only reason that any good American needs to support Israel (or Poland, or the United Kingdom, and so on) against dictatorships, theocracies, and so on. We have little doubt that the National Jewish Democratic Council and Jewsvote.org ("If you vote for McCain, to me you're...

CHICAGO (AP) - The Reverend Jesse Jackson is being treated at a Chicago hospital after experiencing severe stomach pains. Jackson tells The Associated Press that he is feeling much better after being at Northwestern Memorial Hospital overnight. He says that doctors have told him he has viral gastroenteritis but are conducting more tests. Jackson says he was campaigning and doing voter registration in Georgia earlier in the week when he began to feel ill after apparently becoming dehydrated. Back in Illinois, he entered the hospital Wednesday. The 66-year-old civil rights leader says he isn't sure when he'll be released. The...

I’m a hustler baby, I’m a hustlerI just want you to know, wanna let you knowIt ain’t where I been, it ain’t where I beenBut where I’m ’bout to go, top of the world!—Jay Z The race hustlers can almost taste it now—Obama at the top of the world. And now Spike Lee, Maxine Waters, Jeremiah Wright, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, et al. are joined by a new hustler-wannabe—Howard Dean. Yes, the Dean of scream. Yaaaaaaaaaaah! Whether he made a Freudian slip or not last week, Dean reminded me of the pathetic, race-confused “Raji” as played by Vince Vaughn in the...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson has spoken at every Democratic convention since 1984, but that streak may come to an end this year. Jackson, a controversial civil rights activist who ran for president in 1984 and 1988, last month had to apologize for saying Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) “is talking down to black people.” With a microphone recording what Jackson thought was a private conversation prior to an appearance on Fox News, he went on to make other critical comments about Obama. Jackson used a racially charged remark and also said he would like to remove a part of the male...

BELOVED former Rat Pack member Sammy Davis Jr. died broke, in debt to the IRS, and left his estate in such a shambles that it still hasn't been straightened out. And according to "Deconstructing Sammy" (due next month from Amistad/HarperCollins), by journalist Matt Birkbeck, Davis didn't have to die. After a cancer diagnosis in August 1989, doctors recommended surgery on his throat that offered an 80 percent chance of survival. He opted instead for radiation, which had a slim 30 percent survival rate. Davis made his decision based on his dismal finances. If he couldn't sing, he reasoned, he couldn't...

A BABY DADDY FOR BOTH AMERICASJuly 30, 2008 The mainstream media really seem to imagine they can prevent Americans from knowing information by refusing to mention it in newspapers or on TV. For those few Americans without an Internet connection and to whom I have not faxed the National Enquirer stories: Evidence is accumulating that John Edwards is right -- there really are "two Americas." There's one where men cheat on their cancer-stricken wives and one where men do not cheat on their cancer-stricken wives. To put it another way, it would appear that ambulances aren't the only things John...

Reverend Jesse Jackson Sr., emphasis on the Sr., is obviously displaying the early signs of senility. How else do you explain his blatant use of the N-word during that now infamous whispered conversation during a taping of “Fox & Friends” on July 6? “Barack...he’s talking down to black people...telling n—s how to behave.” The fact that Jackson, a self-described civil rights advocate, used the N-word is not that surprising in the scheme of things. I mean after all, we are talking about Rev. Jesse Jackson. This is the same Rev. Jackson who had an affair with a staffer that resulted...

A few weeks ago, the Rev. Jesse Jackson made something of a fool of himself. There he was -- a historical figure in his own right -- threatening the castration of Barack Obama. It was sad to see. If I have often criticized Mr. Jackson, I have also, reservedly, admired him. He is a late 20th century outcropping of a profoundly American archetype: the self-invented man who comes from nothing and, out of sheer force of personality, imposes himself on the American consciousness. If he never reached the greatness to which he aspired, he nevertheless did honor to the enduring...

(Side by each, "above the fold", on their site's front page) If you are a regular DiversityInc reader, you know telling a Black coworker he's "articulate" is a no-no. But does that mean you keep it to yourself when you think he nailed his presentation? Not if you know the things 'to' say to Black coworkers. ... ----------------------- This time the N-word has the Rev. Jesse Jackson in hot water. After calling for a boycott of the word in the past, how much heat will the civil-rights icon get for the gaffe?

Caution: This video has some offensive Jesse Jackson quotes. Not for the easily offended.

Do not say black and white Americans live in the same world or you will feel the wrath of Whoopi Goldberg. That is what Elisabeth Hasselbeck discovered on the July 17 edition of "The View." Upon suggesting that, Whoopi reduced Elisabeth to tears. On the news of Jesse Jackson’s use of the "n" word, the conversation quickly developed into the double standard involved between a white and black person’s use of the word. Sherri Shepherd and Whoopi Goldberg admitted there is a double standard, but added there should be. Sherri Shepherd said she uses the word "as a term of...

A "jealous rage," Fox's Geraldo Rivera called it. Before taping a "Fox & Friends" segment, Rev. Jesse Jackson, with his microphone on, sat next to another man. Turning to him, Jackson, speaking softly, launched into an attack on Barack Obama. "Barack, he's talking down to black people on this faith-based …" said Jackson. "I want to cut (Obama's) nuts off." Even before Fox aired the remarks, Jackson appeared on CNN and offered a pre-emptive apology. "I said something I felt regret for," said Jackson. "It was crude. It was very private and very much a sound bite -- and a...

The fact that the former Democratic presidential candidate and civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson wanted to cut out some of Barack Obama's nuts for himself was hardly a surprise to anyone familiar with their miraculous properties. For a long time, people from all cultures of America and beyond have sought to incorporate Obama's nuts into their lives, both as objects of beauty and as tools for the body, mind and spirit. Every Obama's nut is unique with various properties and characteristics and has the ability to induce hope, as well as store, receive, and transmit energy. Other legendary properties...

Sharpton 'Very Disappointed' With Jesse Jackson Calls For Public Figures To Be 'Consistent' NEW YORK (CBS) ― Rev. Al Sharpton spoke out Thursday against Rev. Jesse Jackson's use of the N-word that was caught on tape while preparing for an interview for Fox News. Sharpton, who has joined Jackson in opposition of the word, said on CBS News' The Early Show on Thursday that he was "very disappointed" by this latest revelation. "I think this certainly does not reflect the Reverend Jackson that we all know and love," Sharpton said. "I think that we have to be consistent. We have...

As much as I enjoy the O'Reilly Factor, Bill is becoming less objective every day. This is the latest instance.

Fox News says the Rev. Jesse Jackson used the N-word during a break in a TV interview where he criticized presidential candidate Barack Obama.

It turns out Jesse Jackson whispered something even worse than his desire to cut off Barack Obama’s manhood. Fox News sources reveal that on an unaired portion of the tape, Jackson uses a vile racial epithet. It turns out that what he actually said, according to Fox, was: “See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based – I wanna cut his nuts out. … Barack – he’s talking down to black people -- telling n------s how to behave.� The longer exchange was first reported by TVNewser.com. Fox sources say there are no immediate plans to air...

News has surfaced that Jesse Jackson on the now infamous video wanting to cut Obama’s nuts off used the N word on that tape that was was cut from the original tape.

For several days, rumors have been circulating that the Reverend Jesse Jackson punctuated his disturbing off-camera comments on Fox News about Barack Obama by calling him a “half-breed ni**er.” In an exclusive written statement, the Chairman and CEO of Fox News Channel, Roger Ailes, has told Cathy Hughes, Founder and Chairperson of Radio One, Inc. (the parent company of NewsOne.com) that this rumor is simply “not true.” “I can categorically deny that Fox News Channel is in possession of a tape containing the alleged statement supposedly made by Reverend Jackson,” says Ailes. “That is simply not true. So it is...

Exclusive: TVNewser has been sent the transcript of what Jesse Jackson said Sunday morning July 6, as he prepared for an interview on Fox & Friends Weekend. Below is the partial transcript we received in our tips box, and confirmed to be authentic by Fox News Channel representatives. Barack...he's talking down to black people...telling n—s how to behave. So, yes. Jesse Jackson did use the "N" word. But it was not directed at Barack Obama. Fox News and Bill O'Reilly have maintained there was more on the tape, but that the un-aired portion was not relevant to the issue at...

Just now on the Live Desk. Trace Gallagher said O'Reilly will be on the Live Desk to "tell" exactly what was revealed and what wasn't. Sounded to me like they were going to play the rest of the tape.

LARRY ELDER SHOWLarry Elder is discussing the additional comments reportedly said by Jesse Jackson about Barack Obama. Besides cutting out Obama's n**s, Larry is reporting the claim from sources that Jackson called him an "N-word," a "half-breed," and an "f-ing half-breed N-word." No wonder O'Reilly didn't tell us the rest of the story. If this is true, the entire statement must be exposed, and Jackson should be pushed out of public life for good.

I try to avoid making commentary out of commentaries of news items. I also try to avoid using the word “I” in my columns overmuch, but the reader shall see how that worked out. This is actually a commentary on a commentary of a commentary on a news item, if that makes any sense at all. Last Friday evening I had the honor of joining Mr. Hannity and Mr. Colmes on their FOX News television program. They, along with the urchinesque Tamika Mallory (Director of Al Sharpton’s National Action Network) and I, analyzed the July 11 New York Post column...

(CNN) — Longtime Washington talk-show host John McLaughlin is facing fire Monday for referring to Barack Obama as an "Oreo" during a segment on his Sunday political program, "The McLaughlin Group. The veteran Washington journalist was discussing the recent comments from the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who was caught last week by an open microphone on Fox News saying the Illinois senator is "talking down to black people" as he campaigns for the White House. Those remarks were largely seen in reference to Obama's recent admonishment at a Chicago church of some black men who he said were not living up...

RFFM.org Commentary Recently, the Rev. Jesse Jackson shocked the political world when he launched a "sharp" tirade against Democratic presumptive presidential nominee, Barack Obama. Jackson was caught on a live mike before an interview with FOX and Friends (FOX News Channel) regarding the subject of health care, essentially saying that he wanted to remove Obama's reproductive anatomy with a cutting utensil. Jackson drove home his point, for lack of a better phrase, by pantomiming a cutting motion when he talked about the surgical procedure he would like to perform on the junior Senator from Illinois. The story hit the airwaves...

The Reverend Jesse Jackson said his offer to cut Senator Obama’s nuts off “should not be construed as, in any way, hostile to the Illinois senator’s drive to become the country’s first African-American president.” “Senator Obama is already in solid with the Black community,” Jackson pointed out. “He will get 90 percent or more of the Black vote. His big problem will be winning over former Hillary supporters. I’m just suggesting that he’d have a better chance with this demographic as a castrati.” Leslie Bianco, spokesman for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender (LGBT) Political Action Committee (PAC) said people...

None other than the Rev. Al Sharpton has come to Milwaukee. Well, at least his voice is here. Sharpton’s syndicated radio show recently began broadcasting from noon to 3 p.m. weekdays on WMCS-AM (1290). That’s probably welcome news for some in town; for others, not so much. For some Milwaukeeans, Sharpton is part of the unholy trinity — along with Louis Farrakhan and Jesse Jackson — of outspoken black men who never let white America forget its sad racial past. To others, it’s a welcome relief to have a nationally syndicated African-American radio program with a political focus during daytime...

Jesse Jackson’s term as a the unofficial leader of the black civil rights movement ended abruptly with the release of excerpts from the Fox News’ tape of Jesse Jackson’s off-camera statements. Americans of all races have lost confidence in him. His own son, Jesse Jackson Jr, led the way in renouncing him as the reigning monarch of black political leadership. As many folks have suspected for years, Jesse Jackson revealed to everyone that he has an opportunistic side. His motives seem to be mixed and confusing. It’s safe to say that he, like many others, jumped on the Obama bandwagon...

Race gets snippy: Barack beats scissors. Papers cover Barack. The Reverend Jesse Jackson, leader of the Rainbow Coalition and director of United Eunuchs, wants action, not distraction, against an overpopulation of politicians. In a recent interview in the second stall of the Fox News studio bathroom, Jackson said the overwhelming number of stray politicians who are issuing Civil Rights messages should be dealt with sooner, rather than later.“There’s too much talkin’ and rappin’,” said Jackson. “And not enough happenin’. People need to see works, not words.”

Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., says that he won’t back down on his “tough love” message to African Americans -– a subject that prompted Jesse Jackson's angry open-mic gaffe this past week. Obama told reporters aboard his plane to San Diego that Americans need to recognize that there is a problem when more than a half of African American children are growing up without a father in the house. “That is a problem and I won’t back up one bit in asserting that that’s a problem that we have to be honest about," he said. Obama’s tough love message to African...

YOUTUBE PRESENTATION OF WHAT JACKSON WANTS TO DO TO OBAMA TUNE: Carly Simon's ANTICIPATION. Note: This was done as tastefully as we have seen all over the press. Yes, the words came out of the mouth of a man of the cloth. A reverend. The Reverend Jackson. This is almost as good as when he had his pregnant mistress with him for a WH photo-op with Bill Clinton. Imagine, Jesse Jackson was the spiritual advisor helping our impeached rapist president get through the Monica affair.

Jesse, Jesse, Jesse… I’d like to feel sorry for the guy but, you know? This ain’t his first go-round with the media and I’m sure it ain’t gonna be the last. Was what he said really that bad? Who knows? Back to Jesse… I remember back in the 70’s Jesse Jackson did a spot on Saturday Night Live where he sat behind a news-desk and recited Dr. Seuss’s “Green Eggs and Ham” (Click here to see video) (http://youtube.com/watch?v=EKOHrYhH3EE). It left a huge impression on me at such a young age. Not because it was eloquent or powerful, but because I...

The larger point of Jesse L. Jackson's criticism of Barack Obama -- if not the crude way he expressed it -- touched a nerve among some African American political activists who have been unhappy about the senator 's pointed critiques of absentee fathers and other problems in the black community. Eric Easter, a blogger on the joint Web site of Jet and Ebony, two black-oriented magazines, wrote yesterday that some of Obama's rhetoric "smacked of calculated political expediency" in an effort to win over white voters. The criticism was similar in some ways to the reaction to comedian Bill Cosby,...

Thank you, Jesse Jackson! It's been a long time since the self-proclaimed black leader did anything useful, but Jackson has now -- quite unintentionally -- turned a bright spotlight on Barack Obama's traditional views of parenthood. With his crude remarks several days ago, Jackson raised public awareness of an aspect of Obama's beliefs that would have received little news media attention otherwise. Apparently believing the microphone was off during a break on the set of "Fox & Friends," Jackson whispered to health-insurance executive Dr. Reed Tuckson, who is black, that Obama was "talking down to black people. I wanna cut...

If the Rev. Jesse Jackson has trouble with something Sen. Barack Obama has said, why does Jackson wish to have the senator from Illinois neutered? Don't get me wrong. Jackson is within his rights to charge...that Obama's pitch for federally supported faith-based initiatives is "talking down to black people." I don't share that assessment. But here's what nags at me: If Jackson's problem is with the words leaving Obama's mouth, why does he want to relieve the man of his testicles? Jackson, in a comment caught on a microphone that he thought was turned off, said of Obama: "I wanna...

CHICAGO (CBS) Demonstrators angry over Rev. Jesse Jackson's comments about Barack Obama got somewhat of a personal response this weekend. They protested outside Rainbow PUSH headquarters Saturday and as CBS 2's Suzanne Le Mignot reports, Jackson addressed their concerns. "Locker room trash talk has no place in public parlors – there's no doubt about that," Jackson said. The arrival of community activists at Rainbow PUSH has the Rev. Jesse Jackson still explaining the off-air comment he made about Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama several days ago. "SEE, BARACK BEEN, UM, TALKING DOWN TO BLACK PEOPLE, ON THIS FAITH BASED, I...

From the Maha - "I'll tell you, Obama, the Lord Messiah Barack Obama had one hell of a day yesterday. He flip-flopped on FISA, and the lefties are going ballistic on this. He was caught saying we need to all learn Spanish so he won't be embarrassed by us bitter clingers. He says he regrets putting his children out in front of the camera when they were shockingly charming. I mean, everybody that saw it thought the kids were cute. Germany yanked the welcome mat for his grand nonpresidential speech at the Berlin Wall and now he's getting his nuts...

I've been giving Rev. Jesse Jackson's crude comments about wanting to rip Sen. Barack Obama's private parts off because he's been "talking down to black people" a lot of thought. It's not that I enjoy paying much attention to Mr. Hymietown. I'd much rather revel in the reality that he's truly yesterday's news, a product of a bygone era of race-baiting, muckraking idiocy. And while that's probably true, his comments in a Fox News Channel studio the other day catapulted him back into the media spotlight, one of his favorite places in the world. Jesse Jackson is a master of...

Last Sunday, Reverend Jesse Jackson made some comments to a fellow guest on Fox and Friends while they were waiting to go on the air. What Jackson did not realize, was that his microphone was on and caught his remarks on tape. The “good” Reverend asserted his desire to violently remove certain parts of Senator Obama’s nether regions. He made these comments while discussing the presumptive Democratic nominee’s recent remarks on the black community. First of all, after decades of making television appearances, how could Jackson not realize that his microphone was on?