Posted on 07/16/2008 12:23:34 PM PDT by kristinn
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 easy to assure you that Bill O’Reilly will not be airing a segment regarding that statement tonight or any other night. I’ve known Reverend Jackson a long time and though we disagree on many things, I personally don’t believe those Internet rumors about a tape. I think anyone discussing this further is being unfair to Mr. Jackson.”
Fox News personality Bill O’Reilly had stated that the network had “held back” from releasing recorded statements by Jackson that eclipse the now infamous “cut his n-ts off” comment that the Reverend has since apologized for.
“I want to make this very clear, we are not out to embarrass Jesse Jackson,” O’Reilly told his guests Clarence Page and Warren Ballentine, “if we were we would have used what we have, which is more damaging than what you heard.”
(Excerpt) Read more at newsone.com ...
So release the tape already and put the issue to rest.
If CNN or MessNBC had a tape of Falwell or Dobson dissing McCain, they would be playing it at the top of the hour, every hour, for a week.
Ever find a more amusing situation?
lemme guess ...
half breed cracker ?
Doesn't believe the rumors? If he's categorically denying it, shouldn't he be standing on firmer ground than that?
Comeon Roger, show some spine...release all of the video
Not yet, Roger.
Wait.
Wait.
Wait....
Precisely. How about we let the tape decide?
I believe that releasing the tape will prove that we are all wrong, and that FOX was right and that we should all quit wondering about what the media is hiding from us...
OR it will prove us right.
“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 easy to assure you that Bill O’Reilly will not be airing a segment regarding that statement tonight or any other night. I’ve known Reverend Jackson a long time and though we disagree on many things, I personally don’t believe those Internet rumors about a tape. I think anyone discussing this further is being unfair to Mr. Jackson.”
Then why word your statment in such a manner that it leaves a shred of doubt in peoples minds ?
A nondenial denial. Correct, it is in the posession of FOX's lawyers and at their offices.
Me thinks they are milking this for ratings. Building up anticipation for the release of the rest of the tape.
Like his sidekick Geraldo and Al Capone’s vault.
If more of the Jackson’s comments exists, Ailes has just buried it at Fox.
Now THAT is a picture of the Devil Incarnate! It gives me the shivers.
Roger Ailes should be given a LOT of credit for what he has achieved in broadcasting. But the boy is on a losing streak, a very expensive one with the Fox Business Channel which has to bleeding money. He should have tended to the successes that were achieved a FNC. As it is FNC is slipping badly, the better on air talking heads are looking tired and worn, and the new faces are nothing more than eye candy. Ailes and O’Reilly are just playing this thing too cute by a half. Do these two worship at the tomb of ratings so strongly, that they are playing what they did not release as some kind of Saturday afternoon cliffhanger serial tease?
So either Ailes or O’Reilly is lying?
Well.
Now that THAT has been cleared up.
(I have no clue what’s real in this election cycle or what’s fake)
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