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O'Reilly Factor to Air Video of Jesse Jackson Comments About Barack Obama
MediaBistro ^ | 6/9/08

Posted on 07/09/2008 3:06:05 PM PDT by LdSentinal

Breaking: The O'Reilly Factor will air exclusive video of the Rev. Jesse Jackson making disparaging comments about Sen. Barack Obama. TVNewser has learned the comments were made prior to an interview Jackson did Sunday morning on Fox & Friends. We're told some of the comments are so raw that O'Reilly will most likely only run a couple of soundbites.

The video will show Jackson chatting with Reid Tuckson, EVP of United Health Group. The two were at Fox News Channel's Chicago bureau getting ready to be interviewed about a new health care initiative.

Jackson was apparently unaware his microphone was hot when he made the comments about Obama, which we're told are racial in nature.

Just before 4:00pmET on CNN, anchor Don Lemon reported that Rev. Jackson had reached out to the network to apologize for the comments.

Later, during The Situation Room, Wolf Blitzer and Lemon interviewed Jackson about his comments. At one point, Blitzer said, "because it's so crude, we can't even repeat it on the air right now."

When reached for comment about the story, a Fox News spokesperson said, "We want to thank CNN for driving tune-in to The O'Reilly Factor tonight."

> More: Jackson will respond to the hot mic comments at 8pmET tonight — but on CNN, not FNC. He will be interviewed by Campbell Brown during CNN Election Center...

> More, More: Matt Drudge Reports Jackson will hold a news conference at 6pmET...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: foxnews; jackson; jesse; jessejackson; nuts; obama
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To: duckman

nees?


21 posted on 07/09/2008 4:52:41 PM PDT by GotMojo
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To: LdSentinal
Well I guess I'll watch O’Blowhard just this one time.
22 posted on 07/09/2008 4:57:27 PM PDT by McGruff (This is not the [insert name here] I knew.)
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To: LdSentinal
At one point, Blitzer said, "because it's so crude, we can't even repeat it on the air right now."

Doug Neidermeyer: "And most recently of all, a "Roman Toga Party" was held from which we have received more than two dozen reports of individual acts of perversion SO profound and disgusting that decorum prohibits listing them here.

23 posted on 07/09/2008 4:57:37 PM PDT by Crawdad (If you're in a fair fight, your tactics suck.)
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To: GotMojo
Close but no cigar. Just a little further north of the ‘nees’.
24 posted on 07/09/2008 5:00:10 PM PDT by duckman (I refuse to use a tag line...I mean it.)
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To: GotMojo
Close but no cigar. Just a little further north of the ‘nees’.
25 posted on 07/09/2008 5:00:13 PM PDT by duckman (I refuse to use a tag line...I mean it.)
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To: Jerry Attrick
Does anyone know which church REVEREND Jackson is “preaching” at this Sunday

He and REVEREND Sharpton will be rotating Masses....7:30, 8:30, 9:15 and Noon.

Location: Church of What It Is.

Communion optional.

26 posted on 07/09/2008 5:15:40 PM PDT by ErnBatavia (...forward this to your 10 very best friends....)
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To: duckman
Has to do with the other ‘N’ word below the males waist.

I'm lost. "Hemmorhoids" has no "N".

I'll wait it out and read all about it here tomorrow, because I can't gut O'Reilly.

27 posted on 07/09/2008 5:17:50 PM PDT by ErnBatavia (...forward this to your 10 very best friends....)
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To: ErnBatavia

Jackson has nothing to step down from, but at least he can have a Trent Lott moment and apologize 15 times.


28 posted on 07/09/2008 5:30:58 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: Jerry Attrick

I don’t believe Jackson preaches anywhere. I think “reverend” is just a sort of honorary title.


29 posted on 07/09/2008 5:31:13 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Does Obama know ANYONE who likes America, capitalism, or white people?)
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To: kabar

“Obama is going to considered the victim. It will help him across the board including among whites”

No chance, no way.


30 posted on 07/09/2008 5:32:28 PM PDT by moose2004 (Go Ahead, Make My Day)
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To: randita

Very well said.


31 posted on 07/09/2008 5:33:41 PM PDT by moose2004 (Go Ahead, Make My Day)
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To: nmh

Apparently we’ll never know.

We wouldn’t want to hurt Jesse. /sarc


32 posted on 07/09/2008 5:34:15 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (Made on a Mac)
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To: All

video...

http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/video.aspx?RsrcID=32159


33 posted on 07/09/2008 5:34:30 PM PDT by lonevoice (John McCain was a Kinoki foot pad in the Reagan Revolution)
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To: lonevoice

I just can’t believe Jesse would say that, in that way, without it being a strategem coordinated with his campaign.


34 posted on 07/09/2008 5:39:15 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker
Obviously, he did not know anyone would find out what he said.

Like most liberals, and especially predominate Black racebaiters, they have a real dark side.

This is the real Jesse Jackson. He has to be Number 1, he is extremely jealous of Obama. Plus he probably sees Barack as white, as Obama is mostly White and Arab.

35 posted on 07/09/2008 5:54:50 PM PDT by Syncro (Tagline: optional, printed after your name on post)
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To: moose2004

We will agree to disagree. Most whites see it as a plus for Obama that race pimp Jackson doesn’t like him. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Jackson is doing Obama a favor.


36 posted on 07/09/2008 8:33:56 PM PDT by kabar
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To: LdSentinal


37 posted on 07/09/2008 10:27:44 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (America's Mugabe, the Obamination.will bring Mugabe Change to America!)
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To: kabar

Thank you for the reply. Sharpton yesterday admonished Jackson for potentially causing a “rift” in the black community, as did Jesse Jackson, Jr. Jackson accused Obama of treating black churches and their members poorly, that was it. Also, for Obama to have his “Sister Soulja Moment” he would have to be directly and publicly involved, just like Clinton was 16 years ago (i.e. if he publicly rebuked Jackson just as he did Reverend Wright). Obama wasn’t, this was Jackson showing his true feelings for Obama when it comes to the messiah’s feelings towards black church goers, and it has the very real possibility of causing a rift, or at a minimum a debate in the black community. Remember, regardless of the feelings people on both sides have for Jackson, he is still a very powerful voice in the black community, and he is highly influential in black churches which he feels Obama is treating badly.


38 posted on 07/10/2008 6:43:02 AM PDT by moose2004 (Go Ahead, Make My Day)
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To: randita

Very well said.


39 posted on 07/10/2008 6:44:18 AM PDT by moose2004 (Go Ahead, Make My Day)
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To: jennyjenny; skeeter
I almost think it was staged, too, but from this view: since Jesse Jackson is reported to have gone to CNN to apologize before the airing of the open mike material, I think Jackson was determined absolutely to get a negative message out about Obama.

Anyone know: was Jackson a HRC supporter?

I'm just a Conspiracy Theorist Emeritus*, Political Pundit Emeritus* and Independent Philosopher At-Large*, so I can see several angles that make for staging.

* = my husband thinks I'm "Just Plain Nuts."
40 posted on 07/10/2008 7:11:49 PM PDT by hummingbird (Why CAN'T we end a sentence with a preposition? Who made up that rule? Who?)
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