Jesse Jackson says sorry to Obama for 'crude' remark

How is a conversation "private" when there's a FOX NEWS mic in your damn face???

So what did he say?

I'm hoping it was "How does it feel to piss on the constitution fuckhead?".

What I heard was that paraphrase here, Jackson wanted to rip Obama's nuts off for throwing Wright under the bus.

That's what I found on Politico. Though I don't think the live transcript has been released yet.

SCNDLS said:

How is a conversation "private" when there's a FOX NEWS mic in your damn face???

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson apologized to Barack Obama on Wednesday for making a "crude" remark about him, which was picked up by a live television microphone.

Jackson said the Fox News microphone picked up his disparaging remarks about the way Obama, vying to be America's first black president, addresses the African American community.

"For any harm or hurt that this hot mic private conversation may have caused, I apologize," Jackson said in a statement, which did not specify the exact remark.

"My support for Senator Obama's campaign is wide, deep and unequivocal. I cherish this redemptive and historical moment.

"My appeal was for the moral content of his message to not only deal with the personal and moral responsibility of black males, but to deal with the collective moral responsibility of government and the public policy which would be a corrective action for the lack of good choices that often led to their irresponsibility," Jackson said.

"That was the context of my private conversation and it does not reflect any disparagement on my part for the historic event in which we are involved or my pride in Senator Barack Obama, who is leading it."

Later, in an interview on CNN, Jackson said he had said "something I regret was crude. It was very private. And very much a sound bite."

Jackson, 66, is a former associate of assassinated civil rights leader Martin Luther King, and made his own unsuccessful runs for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988.

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jj is played th hell out.

Fox should be airing it and cumming all over themselves right about now. But as Lazy said it was pretty close to:

"He is cutting his dick off with ni***rs"

Jessie's words, not mine. I think he's fucking the whole country over, but that's another thread.

Mars23 said:

SUPRMAN said:

SCNDLS said:

How is a conversation "private" when there's a FOX NEWS mic in your damn face???


[Edited 7/9/08 16:13pm]

What the F is he talking about?
Government is morally responsible for my individual choices?

but to deal with the collective moral responsibility of government and the public policy which would be a corrective action for the lack of good choices that often led to their irresponsibility," Jackson said.

So government now has a moral responsibility to provide a corrective action for the lack of good choices that often led to their irresponsibility?

Maybe their irresponsibility for themselves and their actions got them into trouble. Government is not and should not be a moral arbiter or standard bearer.
That should be the individual, parents, and houses of worship.

I guess all black people need is the government to play Daddy.

i just a clip on msnbc where the comments were 'he's talking down to black people' and 'i want to rip his nuts off'.

I thought Jesse was all for banning the N word?

His own namesake didn't appreciate his comments at all!

http://www.huffingtonpost...11732.html

a very harsh statement from Jackson's son, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.:

I'm deeply outraged and disappointed in Reverend Jackson's reckless statements about Senator Barack Obama. His divisive and demeaning comments about the presumptive Democratic nominee -- and I believe the next president of the United States -- contradict his inspiring and courageous career.


Instead of tearing others down, Barack Obama wants to build the country up and bring people together so that we can move forward, together -- as one nation. The remarks like those uttered on Fox by Reverend Jackson do not advance the campaign's cause of building a more perfect Union.

Reverend Jackson is my dad and I'll always love him. He should know how hard that I've worked for the last year and a half as a national co-chair of Barack Obama's presidential campaign. So, I thoroughly reject and repudiate his ugly rhetoric. He should keep hope alive and any personal attacks and insults to himself.

wow this campaign has divided parishioner from pastor, now son from father.

Who really cares what this racist adulterer says on or off mic?

There is one orger who is a COMPLETE RACIST who should be banned from this board but will never be.

http://uk.youtube.com/wat...jo85WhbYqM

evenstar3 said:

i just a clip on msnbc where the comments were 'he's talking down to black people' and 'i want to rip his nuts off'.

On the bright side, it appears Rev. Jackson will or at least should no longer have that 'black leader' tag.

And to be upbraided publicly by your son who has your name . . . priceless?
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Ripping his nuts off?

I think that the good reverend is just jealous.

if you mean it, say it and stand by it.

if you don't mean it, don't say it - not in public, not in private, not in front of a microphone, on or off.

superman said:

Graycap23 said:

Mars23 said:

"Always blessings, never losses......"

Ya te dije....no manches guey!!!!!

I'm a guy!!!!

Graycap23 said:

Seriously, what business does Jesse Jackson have being a "Man of God" or "Leader" or "Pastor" to anyone when he can't guard his own tongue or penis? The man is an adulterer, and he is constantly saying stupid things against his brother Barack Obama, whom he should be doing everything possible to support and defend. I used to have respect for Jesse Jackson, now there's not a shred left.
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Graycap23 said:

markpeg said:

Seriously, what business does Jesse Jackson have being a "Man of God" or "Leader" or "Pastor" to anyone when he can't guard his own tongue or penis? The man is an adulterer, and he is constantly saying stupid things against his brother Barack Obama, whom he should be doing everything possible to support and defend. I used to have respect for Jesse Jackson, now there's not a shred left.
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SUPRMAN said:

superman said:

Ripping his nuts off?

I think that the good reverend is just jealous.

I agree. (Almost want a falling off chair here.)

Jesse, Jesse, Jesse....

Whose nuts?

markpeg said:

Seriously, what business does Jesse Jackson have being a "Man of God" or "Leader" or "Pastor" to anyone when he can't guard his own tongue or penis? The man is an adulterer, and he is constantly saying stupid things against his brother Barack Obama, whom he should be doing everything possible to support and defend. I used to have respect for Jesse Jackson, now there's not a shred left.
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In all fairness, Jesse Jackson has been part of the civil rights movement for half a century. He walked side by side with MLK in civil rights protests of the 50's. A few years ago, I transcribed an hour-long interview with him because he is appearing in a documentary made by a friend of mine. I was impressed by what a deep, intelligent, passionate, articulate thinker he is.

You would never know this by his presentation in the media. I also know that he is a bit jumbled up as a person and has a need for spiritual advisors and guidance in his own life. Being a reverend himself, he probably took the Wright controversy personally. Whatever. He makes a fool of himself, but he's more than that too.

noimageatall said:

Jesse, Jesse, Jesse....

Whose nuts?








Stop teasing me like that. I am way too horny . . .