Jesse Jackson was 'crude, hurtful' about Obama
A bit of jealousy, I suspect:
"Jesse Jackson, a prominent US civil rights leader and failed Democratic presidential candidate, has apologised to Barack Obama for a "hurtful, crude" remark that was picked up by a TV microphone - but which one network has said is too off-colour to broadcast. Reverend Jackson, a minister from Senator Obama's home town Chicago, said he made the comment in a private conversation with a fellow guest on a Fox News program after taping had finished, not realising microphone were still on and that his remark would be recorded.
Fox has said the comment was made to one of the network's reporters. An item on its website claimed Rev. Jackson's comment was: "I want to cut his nuts off", although another report puts it differently.
A Chicago newspaper columnist reported Rev. Jackson told him he had been talking about Senator Obama's speeches to black churches across the US about personal morality, then said: "The senator is cutting off his you-know-what with black people".
Jackson sought to pre-empt that embarrassment to the Obama campaign with his apology. "I was in a conversation with a fellow guest at Fox. He asked about Barack's speeches lately at the black churches. I said it can come off as speaking down to black people," Rev. Jackson said on CNN.
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7 comments:
First, Je$$e's comment was not made to a Fox reporter, but to the guest sitting next to him. And how do you make a "private" comment on national TV? Nice try rev, but you've been caught with your envy showing. Again!
You can bet Al $harptongue, the country's other professional race-pimp, will jump all over this opportunity to move ahead of Je$$e getting into that "private" entrance to the White House when their boy gets elected.
First, Je$$e's comment was not made to a Fox reporter, but to the guest sitting next to him.
The Fox article says that the remark was made to a guest as well. As the article is linked from the original source article cited in this blog, I wonder why the discrepency?
And how do you make a "private" comment on national TV?
To be fair, the comment was made during a time when the network was not filming or broadcasting Jackson or the guest. I can see where someone would think that the comment was made in a "private moment."
However, that being said, "private moments" are really what define us as people. I suppose that it is fine for Jackson to crusade around speaking highly of Obama, but his true opinions come out when in a "private moment."
Jackson is a hypocrite, which of course is not news at all.
Woulda thought that the REVrund would have learned something from his "of the record" comments to that reporter about "Hymietown" (= NYC) during his presidential campaign a bunch of years ago.
Arrogant and stupid both go straight to the bone....
"OFF the record"
"To be fair, the comment was made during a time when the network was not filming or broadcasting Jackson or the guest. I can see where someone would think that the comment was made in a "private moment."
If they weren't filming, then how were we able to see his goof? It may not have gone out over the air, but it clearly was recorded.
If they weren't filming, then how were we able to see his goof? It may not have gone out over the air, but it clearly was recorded.
True. But most of the time the set up shots waiting for the anchor in another studio to "come to you," are not saved. They really are worthless fluff.
There have been a lot of people caught in things like this. Jackson thought that the cameras were not recording him. That doesn't excuse his comments or his retreat and later apology. Jackson supports Obama simply on the basis of his race, and that is a shame.
As a side note, the show 60 Minutes used to pull a stunt where they would be filming the interview with a standard 3 camera setup. (one camera on each participant and a camera that shot both participants in their seats. One of the cameramen (usually the guy taking the group shot) would say "I have to stop filming and change film canisters." The person being interviwed would naturally think that all of the people stopped filming, but they didn't. Many a person was caught on tape saying something embarassing due to that trick.
Amazing what comes out of the mouths of leftists of all kinds when they THINK that nobody's watching or listening.
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