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.
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