Oh nuts!
Greg Mitchell of Editor & Publisher beat me to it, so here's an excerpt on the media's varying levels of squeamishness in reporting Rev. Jesse Jackson's desire to castrate the presumptive Democratic nominee. Why am I not surprised that AP was particularly delicate?:
So how did the media on Wednesday handle the now-infamous Rev. Jesse Jackson off-mike reference to Barack Obama while awaiting an appearance on Fox and Friends a few days ago?
The New York Times was coy: "Mr. Jackson made disparaging remarks, apparently including a crude reference to male genitalia, about how Mr. Obama was talking to black people." A later Times article cited a "vulgar reference."
But CNN.com let it all hang out, so to speak, quoting Jackson: "See, Barack's been talking down to black people ... I want to cut his nuts off."
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Reuters quotes the Reverend, evermore: "I want to cut his nuts out."
The New York Post topped that, of course, putting it right in the headline: JESSE JACKSON SAYS HE WANTS TO CUT OBAMA'S 'NUTS OUT'
Huh? "Off" or "out"? USA Today's "On Politics" blog tried to address that. It quoted Jackson saying, "I want to cut his nuts off," but added, "a Fox News transcript has that last word as "out."
Bollocks!
The Los Angeles Times' "Top of the Ticket" blog went with: "crude language."
The AP first quoted Jackson mentioning the "regretfully crude" choice of words. Later in the day it got a little more specific, citing "a slang reference to his wanting to cut off Obama's testicles."
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Jesse said more that wasn't captioned in the video..
July 10, 2008 - 12:05 ET by Pasco ConservativeI put this up at my website with the video and annotation here. Jesse clearly said:
Barack Hussein, he’s talking down the black people”
Apparently Jesse is mocking Obama's middle name. Wouldn't that be racist if you were a Republican making a statement like that?
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any
man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
→ Bravo Pasco
July 10, 2008 - 12:14 ET by Cool ArrowJesse Gets Testy That was hilarious
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Pasco
July 10, 2008 - 13:43 ET by Gary HallPasco.. perhaps so, perhaps not. He might be saying, "Barack, you see, talking down..." (;~> gary
Pasco, who is that quote
July 11, 2008 - 07:43 ET by WhichWingPasco, who is that quote from in your signature? I know I've seen that, or something similar, somewhere.
I visit left-leaning blogs
July 10, 2008 - 12:30 ET by KillgraveI visit left-leaning blogs for fun. On a posting regarding this subject, all they do is take pot-shots at Fox News, in a classic example of "kill the messenger". They can't get beyond their hatred of Fox to even talk about the immediate issue at hand.
I'll give the libs some props. They get that Kool-Aid out to their minions extremely quickly and efficiently. If this same energy was put into disaster relief, Katrina would've been mitigated within 24 hours.
Fox censored Jackson's comments.
July 10, 2008 - 12:39 ET by mitchfloridaJessie Jackson said a lot more offensive things than were released to the public.
Fox is apparently trying to protect Jesse Jackson on this.
Why???
and BOR has been pretty chummy with Al Sharpton too
July 10, 2008 - 12:42 ET by Dee BunkIt's strange. I don't get it
"Constantly attacking (peaceful) religions rather than politely sharing your own shows lack of faith " DB
John Gibson on his Fox Radio
July 10, 2008 - 12:54 ET by mitchfloridaJohn Gibson on his Fox Radio show, claimed that they taped Jackson using the word "ni***r". Why wasn't that reported on Fox News?
→ Wondrin' Aloud
July 10, 2008 - 12:57 ET by Cool ArrowI just posted this as a "you don't suppose" a few minutes ago, and here you come in with truebill from Gibson.
Getting easy to see through motives nowadays.
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At least, he didn't pull an
July 10, 2008 - 13:00 ET by Jack BauerAt least, he didn't pull an Imus and call him a...
lol Jack
July 10, 2008 - 13:15 ET by Dee Bunkexcellent point too. Look at the difference in how Imus was treated for making an off the cuff comment trying to be funny and Jackson who made a vicious comment with no humor in it.
"Constantly attacking (peaceful) religions rather than politely sharing your own shows lack of faith " DB
It's good to see some coverage. Yesterday when I read an AP
July 10, 2008 - 12:46 ET by Dee Bunkor Rueters article it just said something like he made an offensive comment. I was hoping that someone would say today what the comment was.
"Constantly attacking (peaceful) religions rather than politely sharing your own shows lack of faith " DB
Preach
July 10, 2008 - 12:47 ET by ScrapironSomeone tell me again what church the revrund Je$$ie is pastor of, other than the church of the all might dollar. A rip off artist (Je$$ie) out ripped off by a better educated rip off man (Hussein O). The pot calling the kettle black. Is that a racist statement that will get lost in the black hole in space (which is now a racist statement)?
Old, Retired and glad of it.
Scrapiron: As far as I am
July 10, 2008 - 13:02 ET by ForeverOnTheRightScrapiron: As far as I am concerned Jesse is only a reverend by, I am assuming, education and he's ordained, again I am assuming. Other than that I don't think he deserves the Rev. he missrepresents the Christian faith, again I am assuming he's a Christian Rev. I wish they'd drop the Rev in front of his name. Same goes for Sharpton.
Jackson saying, "I want
July 10, 2008 - 12:56 ET by Jack BauerThat's a co-incidence. Wasn't that Mrs Jackson's reaction when she heard about her husbands extra-marital affairs?
New York Post misses again.
July 10, 2008 - 13:13 ET by rdnzl"Jackson said on the "Fox & Friends" mike that Obama was hurting his
relationship with black voters, 'that the senator was cutting off his
you-know-whats with the black people and black churches.' "
http://www.nypost.co...
--The senator was cutting off his nuts with black people? Really? I must've missed that when I read it.
Jackson's not too bright for
July 10, 2008 - 13:11 ET by ForeverOnTheRightJackson's not too bright for making this n*** comment when he has a mic in front of him, one never knows when it could be open or recorded. If he just had to say what he said, say it in private away from a mic.
LA Times on Jackson.... focus on Fox?
July 10, 2008 - 13:37 ET by Gary HallLA Times on Jackson.... focus on Fox News?
Actually it difficult to find much fault with the LA Times' Metea Gold's effort, "Jesse Jackson apologizes for crude remark about Obama." After all, it's actually in the newspaper - not front page - but it's there.
Perhaps had the time frame of the events been less condensed, I'd complain about the headline - preferring, "Rev. Jackson attacks and threatens Sen. Obama." That, of course would only occur if this involved Republicans. Personally, I'd expect, that if the timing had been different, and Jackson had not apologized until today, that the Times would have waited a day to publish the story, if they did at all.
On the other hand, and it appears to be without the usual vindictiveness, so much mention is made of Fox News, Bill O'Reilly and Fox & Friends that it will almost guarantee that the LA Times is flooded with letters condmening and pointing the finger at Fox for all the trouble here. Can't wait to see what they publish. (;~> gary
The question that no one is
July 10, 2008 - 14:02 ET by jdhawkThe question that no one is asking is why has Jackson made the remarks he did?
The answer is by bambi (aka 57 states) telling his "people" to start taking responsibility for their lives, he is taking away their victim status. It is this status that the whole affirmative action idea revolves around. This is Jackson's rice bowl. He has made a living portraying African-Americans as victims and extracting money for his organization, the Rain Bow Coalition, in the process. The result is that Jackson is a multi-millionaire. The possibility of that being taking away will cause most people to want to cut the perpertrator's nuts off.