Umm, Rev. Jackson, that microphone is still on

[Inky_Wretch]

From Drudge ...

SHOCK: REV. JESSE JACKSON SLAMS OBAMA, WANTS TO 'CUT HIS NUTS OUT'... APOLOGIZES FOR 'CRUDE AND HURTFUL COMMENTS' CAUGHT ON TAPE... FOXNEWS WILL PLAY JACKSON TAPE IN ITS ENTIRETY TONIGHT ON 'O'REILLY' 8 PM ET/5 PM PT... DEVELOPING...

Jackson Statement: For any harm or hurt that this hot mic private conversation may have caused, I apologize. 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.

_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, whom I have supported by crisscrossing this nation in every level of media and audience from the beginning in absolute terms._

 

[Ben_Hecht]

No way Drudge would ever step back from stirring that particular kettle of ****.

 

[zeke12]

I'm trying to think of a downside for Obama to getting blasted by Jesse Jackson.

And I got nothing.

 

[PopeDirkBenedict]

I'm trying to think of a downside for Obama to getting blasted by Jesse Jackson.

And I got nothing.

Agreed.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Wolf Blitzer said the comment was so crude it couldn't be repeated on air.

I didn't realize "cut his nuts out" was on Carlin's list.

 

[pallister]

I'm curious to se how many responses this thread gets. Jesse is a media ***** of the highest level, and a racist to boot.

EDIT: I'll third Zeke and PDB's comments.

 

[Moderator1]

President Bartlet still wins the prize for best use of open mike that he "didn't know" was open.

He's a .22 caliber mind in a .38 magnum world.

 

[Ace]

Yeah. Doubt that Obama is planning a concession speech or anything.

Thought I doubt that Rev. Jesse knows what unequivocal means.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Jesse's in a different business than BO is, now.

Jesse's enabling act is beyond tiresome -- not to mention self-serving.

 

[Ace]

I'm curious to se how many responses this thread gets. Jesse is a media ***** of the highest level, and a racist to boot.

EDIT: I'll third Zeke and PDB's comments.

One problem is that there is no context at all, just this reprinted Drudgery.

 

[PopeDirkBenedict]

Jesse's in a different business than BO is, now.

Jesse's enabling act is beyond tiresome -- not to mention self-serving.

Michael Kelly (RIP to a great one) wrote the seminal article on Jesse for GQ. Wish I could find it online.

Small part:

Jesse Louis Jackson is forty-nine years old and suffering from a midlife crisis. It is not the usual sort, not a tremor of waning libido or of looming mortality. It is a crisis of relevance. Relevance is the base of all that Jackson has. His extraordinary career rests on the strength of his great talent for seizing the moment, for being in the right place at the right time and shouting the right thing. This skill has made him America's foremost political celebrity ... And yet, all of a sudden, there is an awkward feeling in the air. A scent of So What. A strong whiff of Who Cares.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Jesse's in a different business than BO is, now.

Jesse's enabling act is beyond tiresome -- not to mention self-serving.

Michael Kelly (RIP to a great one) wrote the seminal article on Jesse for GQ. Wish I could find it online.

Small part:

Jesse Louis Jackson is forty-nine years old and suffering from a midlife crisis. It is not the usual sort, not a tremor of waning libido or of looming mortality. It is a crisis of relevance. Relevance is the base of all that Jackson has. His extraordinary career rests on the strength of his great talent for seizing the moment, for being in the right place at the right time and shouting the right thing. This skill has made him America's foremost political celebrity ... And yet, all of a sudden, there is an awkward feeling in the air. A scent of So What. A strong whiff of Who Cares.

That's fairly spot-on.

Man bankrupted a charity. That's hard to do.

 

[Moderator1]

When Arthur Ashe died, Jesse Jackson called our newsroom and said, "I want to be quoted."
Unfortunately, we did.

 

[pallister]

When Arthur Ashe died, Jesse Jackson called our newsroom and said, "I want to be quoted."
Unfortunately, we did.

Media. *****.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Am grateful that the train is at least beginning to leave the station.

 

[PopeDirkBenedict]

More Kelly:

Jesse Jackson "jets around the world as secretary of his own state of mind."

"There are at least three obvious Jesse's, all oversized and contradictory. One is a self-anointed God king, who sees himself in terms both imperial and messianic. ... This is the Jesse who compares himself to Jesus Christ, Moses and Martin Luther King Jr. and who speaks routinely in the royal we. This is also the Jesse who has become a powerful national voice of moral authority, a minister who has inspired generations of black youths with his stirring message of self-reliance and hope and who has become America's most important voice on behalf of, as he says, "the dispossessed, the disenfranchised and the dislocated." The second Jesse is the Huey Long of the television age, a demagogic and cynical manipulator of the press who owes allegiance to no one and stoops to anything to advance himself. The third, and the best hidden, is a quasi-revolutionary, an angry boy grown into an angry man in unending conflict with a nation he sees as immoral and unjust."

Somewhere in heaven, William F. Buckley, John Kenneth Galbraith, Tim Russert and Michael Kelly are discussing McCain/Obama. I only wish that death wasn't the price of admission.

 

[ondeadline]

If this means Jesse Jackson doesn't have any sort of voice in the Obama campaign, that's a good result for the Democrats. Nuts to him.

 

[PeteyPirate]

Jesse Jackson Jr. calls out his own pops: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/07/09/rep_jackson_blasts_his_father.html?hpid=topnews

 

[markvid]

Will Al Sharpton hold a protest at the HQ of the Rainbow Coalition?

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Read Juan Williams's book "Enough" and pay attention to the chapter devoted to Sharpton and Jackson. If you don't want to punch them both in the face when you're finished, immediately check yourself into a hospital for a psychological evaluation. Jackson is nothing more than a shakedown artist masquerading as a civil rights leader. And the fact that no one has slammed the door on his bull**** is the most angering of all.