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Jesse Jackson Apologizes for Crude Obama Remarks
FOWNews.com ^ | July 9, 2008 | FOXNews staff

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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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: apology; jessejackson; nuts; obama
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To: catfish1957

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?

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!


21 posted on 07/10/2008 4:04:43 AM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt (communism killed 100 milion people in 20th century.only cause USA did not give it chance to succeed)
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To: NCDragon

“Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don’t”.


22 posted on 07/10/2008 4:05:03 AM PDT by 6SJ7
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To: NCDragon
The race hustle franchise is in serious jeopardy.
23 posted on 07/10/2008 4:08:15 AM PDT by Tarpon (Ignorance, the most expensive commodity produced by mankind.)
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To: NCDragon
“I have great passion for this campaign and traveled across the country . . ."

Welcome to Jesse's 'Believe it or Not' cross-country tour . . .

Really, with friends like this; you can only 'go wrong'.

24 posted on 07/10/2008 4:08:46 AM PDT by cricket (Damn Political Correctness; before it irretrievably, damns us all. . .)
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To: NCDragon

Cab’t see how this is contrived. This is merely two Chicago punks fighting over turf.

I’ve got a taste for Brazil nuts...


25 posted on 07/10/2008 4:09:00 AM PDT by toddlintown (Morons; all of 'em.)
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To: catfish1957

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.


26 posted on 07/10/2008 4:11:13 AM PDT by cricket (Damn Political Correctness; before it irretrievably, damns us all. . .)
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To: BelegStrongbow

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???


27 posted on 07/10/2008 4:12:17 AM PDT by milky
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To: NCDragon

Crude remarks. Hmmmmm. Maybe we should drill Jesse.


28 posted on 07/10/2008 4:15:07 AM PDT by chopperman
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To: NCDragon
“I want to cut his nuts off.”


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.

29 posted on 07/10/2008 4:22:17 AM PDT by G.Mason (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: NCDragon
OK, I am not a conspiracy theorist in general. but if you were a Regan Dhimmicrat who hates Jesse Jackson, wouldn't this give you more impetus to vote for Hussein.

this looks like a manufactured story

30 posted on 07/10/2008 4:27:13 AM PDT by Vaquero (" an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein "MOLON LABE!" Leonidas of Sparta)
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To: NCDragon

Redemption = Reparations?

An Ombama presidency gonna make everyting OTA?


31 posted on 07/10/2008 4:30:46 AM PDT by wolfcreek (I see miles and miles of Texas....let's keep it that way.)
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To: BelegStrongbow
How so with the "pretzel logic"? It really disgusts me that my second-grader comes home from school talking about her "frienemies" - friends who she has to pretend to dislike for social purposes (which resulted in a VERY stern lecture from me on the basic wrongness of behaving in such a way and threats of punishment if I were to find her still doing it) ... why is it so difficult to believe that adult politicians are perfectly capable of doing the exact same thing?

Regarding Jesse's clerical title, that was my mistake; I should have written "Reverend" as "Rev-er-end" (or maybe "Rehv'r'nd"?) to mimick the way Rush Limbaugh says it.
32 posted on 07/10/2008 4:31:53 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: catfish1957

“.......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.


33 posted on 07/10/2008 4:54:20 AM PDT by Nokia
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To: NCDragon
So Jesse “Hymietown” Jackson is caught making a disparaging remark. Shocking.

</sarc>

34 posted on 07/10/2008 6:06:15 AM PDT by Yo-Yo
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To: NCDragon


35 posted on 07/10/2008 6:21:03 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (America's Mugabe, the Obamination.will bring Mugabe Change to America!)
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To: NCDragon

Jackson added before going live, “I want to cut his nuts off.”.....

Isn’t this a hate crime?.....


36 posted on 07/10/2008 8:57:12 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Kozak
luv-it...
37 posted on 07/10/2008 3:25:56 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist ©® - CTHULHU/SHOGGOTH '08 = Nothing LESS!!!)
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To: tanknetter

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.


38 posted on 07/10/2008 11:55:45 PM PDT by BelegStrongbow (what part of 'mias gunaikos andra' do Episcopalians not understand?)
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To: milky

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?


39 posted on 07/10/2008 11:58:20 PM PDT by BelegStrongbow (what part of 'mias gunaikos andra' do Episcopalians not understand?)
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Can we cut these nuts off?  Yes we can!
40 posted on 07/11/2008 12:14:13 AM PDT by Fixit (And by nuts, of course, I mean Obama supporters.)
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