<p>From Drudge</p>
<p>“REV. JESSE JACKSON APOLOGIZES TO SEN. BARACK OBAMA FOR ‘CRUDE AND HURTFUL COMMENTS’ CAUGHT BY OPEN MIC… CNN DESCRIBES AS ‘UGLY WORDS,’ ‘VERY, VERY DISPARAGING’; JACKSON IN ‘DEEP DISTRESS’… FOX NEWS IN POSSESSION OF TAPE AND WILL PLAY IN ENTIRETY TONIGHT ON ‘O’REILLY’, ‘HANNITY AND COLMES’; OBAMA: NO COMMENT… DEVELOPING…”</p>
<p>Maybe a cookie? Or a Tom??</p>
<p>When I read the subject line, I thought maybe Jesse Helms had spoken from the grave.</p>
<p>^^lol, Hunt… me, too!</p>
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<p>Seriously this is lame. Shouldn’t the media be reporting on more pertinent issues?</p>
<p>talking down to black people…cutting off parts of obama’s anatomy?</p>
<p>I can imagine that Jackson feels some bitterness that Obama seems to reaping the benefit of what Jackson worked for, perhaps without given enough credit (in Jackson’s mind). Obama made this great speech about the “Joshua generation” that gets to enter into the Promised Land because of the sacrifices of the earlier generation–but Jackson’s still here.</p>
<p>I don’t honestly see what the two have to do with one another. I would vote for Obama in a second and never for Jackson. I don’t think Obama is reaping any benefit from anything Jackson has said or done. I think he’s doing well in spite of Jackson.</p>
<p>Well, we could discuss BO’s rapid move to the right on some key issues, worrying many black and liberal backers about who he really is.</p>
<p>At this point, I agree that it is more likely that Senator Obama is doing well in spite of Jesse Jackson.</p>
<p>After all is said and done, I believe Senator Obama owes Jackson no more than a tip of the hat.</p>
<p>By contrast, Jackson makes Senator Obama look happy-go-lucky…Michelle,as well.</p>
<p>Good on him.</p>
<p>Jesse is only a couple of levels above Sharpton.</p>
<p>He is in no way in the same class as Obama in my book.</p>
<p>Rapid move to the right? I have always thought that Obama had many conservative traits. community organizers are often cast as lefty rabble-rousers, but often, their main message is on getting people organized to help themselves rather than depending on the government. That’s been the crux of his message, repeated over several years, to African-Americans about parenting, about education; it’s been the basis of his health care program.</p>
<p>Poor ol’ Reverend Jesse. People want to pick on him because he misspoke. Of course by misspoke I mean he deliberately said something stupid near a mike that he didn’t want heard. Maybe someone in the media could interview the Reverend Jesse’s “love child” as some politely call it.
I don’t agree Jesse is “only a couple levels above Sharpton”. I think they are both so low they could walk under a snakes belly- to use a colloquial expression.</p>
<p>I’ll be curious to see if those who jumped on Imus for his racist remark, and his later misinterpreted racist remark jump on Jesse with equal fervor for his “acting white” racist remark. If they do, I’ll say “good for them, they are a thoughtful unbiased group”. If they don’t, then I’ll be convinced that they are just as racist as they said Imus was.</p>
<p>Jesse’s statements about Obama confirms to me one of the many reasons why I have so little regard for “Rev. Jackson”. The man’s an ass. Barack Obama “Talks down to black people”? </p>
<p>Wrong!</p>
<p>Jesse Jackson Sr. has been taken to task by Jesse Jackson Jr. Well done, Jr.!</p>
<p>What Jackson said: "The 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.</p>
<p>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.”</p>
<p>His microphone picked up the remarks."
[Jesse</a> Jackson Apologizes for Crude Obama Remarks - America’s Election HQ](<a href=“2024 Election Results, Latest News & Updates | Fox News Elections Center”>2024 Election Results, Latest News & Updates | Fox News Elections Center)</p>
<p>Considering longtime married Jackson had a baby out of wedlock a few years ago, he has a lot of nerve commenting on what Obama said. Perhaps Obama’s words struck a nerve.</p>
<p>I have tended to see Jesse Jackson as a media hound. Never quite sure what he really did for a living, as it were. Not someone who, IMO, would make it anywhere as a political candidate.</p>
<p>I think it’s a set-up. The opportunity for Obama to distance himself from Jackson without looking like an ingrate. </p>
<p>Ok. I don’t really think it was a set-up, but I do think the Obama campaign is dancing in the aisles.</p>
<p>ZM, I think you’re right–while I agree that it probably isn’t a setup, it’s a pretty good “Sister Souljah Moment” for Obama.</p>
<p>[Sister</a> Souljah moment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Souljah_moment]Sister”>Sister Souljah moment - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>I looked up “Sister Souljah moment” and read its origin and related comments/uses. By that standard, I can certainly see that if a white guy had said Obama is “trying to act white” and that he wanted to “cut his [testicles] off” the black community and fair-minded whites would be up in arms. And, rightfully so in my opinion.<br>
Somehow the Reverend(?) Jesse sees a distinction between such comments made publicly compared to if he had made them privately. Gee, I’ll remember that if I want to say some thoughtless, racist remark. If I’m a national figure, about to give a publicized speech, it’s ok to be racist if the mike’s off. Sure. I’ve also learned his apology to Obama, and the usual- anyone I’ve offended- came about only after he learned his comment was to be aired. </p>
<p>I’ve seen newsmen and pundits calling the Reverend(his title used to show my distain) Jesse of being wrong, thoughtless, crude, but I haven’t seen outrage about his racist remarks. Is my slant on this wrong? Or if not exactly wrong, then unusual? If McCain, or Hillary, or Lou Dobbs or Imus had said Obama was “acting white” or that he wanted to “cut his [testicles] off” , would the media response be so blase?
Had it been a white guy, I could just imagine Sharpton saying that to “cut his [testicles] off” harkens back to the evil days of slavery and reminds the black community of the noose. Whether Al would be right or just grandstanding is another topic; but where is he now? Perhaps Jesse needs some racial sensitivity training?</p>