"Jesse Jackson apologizes for 'crude' Obama remark
NEW YORK - The Rev. Jesse Jackson apologized yesterday for making crude remarks about Barack Obama that were picked up during an interview with Fox News on Sunday.
The civil rights leader apparently did not know that his microphone was on when he whispered the comments to another guest as he prepared for an interview on "Fox & Friends."
"Barack, he's talking down to black people," Jackson said in a short clip the network aired yesterday on "Special Report With Brit Hume." Hume reported that Jackson also "threatened to cut off a certain part of Obama's anatomy."
Well, Jesse is right about the lecturing! And WTF did he offer to cut off?
Jackson gave an interview to rival news network CNN expressing regret for his comments, which he said were made as part of a discussion about Obama's calls for more personal responsibility during appearances before black churches.
"I said it can come off as speaking down to black people," Jackson said on CNN's "The Situation Room." "And then I said something I felt regret for - it was crude," he added. "It was very private and very much a sound bite - and a live mike. And so I feel - I find no comfort in it, I find no joy in it. So I immediately called the senator's campaign to send my statement of apology to repair the harm or hurt that this may have caused his campaign because I support it unequivocally."
Bill Burton, Obama spokesman, said the Democratic presidential contender accepted Jackson's apology. CNN did not report the exact words Jackson used during the Fox interview.
Anchor Wolf Blitzer said the language was "so crude" that the network could not air it.
What did he say? Dick? Cock? Balls?
Why can't we know?
After all, you guys TELL ENOUGH LIES that GET PEOPLE KILLED in SENSELESS WARS!!!!!
And you are DOING IT AGAIN today, ZNN with your "Eye on Iran!"
The comment triggered condemnation from an unexpected source: Representative Jesse L. Jackson Jr., Democrat of Illinois and Jackson's son. In a statement, the younger Jackson said he was "deeply outraged and disappointed in Reverend Jackson's reckless statements about Senator Barack Obama."
"Reverend Jackson is my dad, and I'll always love him. . . . I thoroughly reject and repudiate his ugly rhetoric," he said. "He should keep hope alive and any personal attacks and insults to himself (Los Angeles Times)."
So that is a THIRD Jesse?
As soon as ZNN made such a "breaking story" out of this, I wondered if it wasn't a way to ease Bob Wright back into the conversation.
