July 9, 2008
IF BARRY WON'T COME TO SISTA SOULJAH...:
Hot Mic Catches Jesse Jackson Hammering Obama; Jackson Apologizes (Jake Tapper, July 09, 2008, Political Punch)
Apparently unaware of a hot microphone, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr., founder and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, made a crude and disparaging remark (apparently involving genitals) about how Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, might be alienating African-Americans with various moral instructions.Jackson has issued this apology, saying: "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."
A fake spat with the Rev is the first smart thing this campaign has done--too bad Jesse had to engineer it for them.
N.B.: One interesting thing to note is that, provided that the Reverend Jackson was referring to himself as one of the "nuts", his comment can be read as self-deprecating, true, and non-scatalogical. Think that's what he meant?
Jackson is so awesome.
He's like a hypnotist with the words!
He got caught and just started in with the talking and long sentences and at the end everyone was like what were we just talking about and Jesse was like I don't know, what were we talking about?
Posted by: Benny at July 9, 2008 9:31 PM
"...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."
Isn't that what prison's are for? Government and the American public disdain crime. The lack of anyone (black, white, brown, green...) to make the correct choice is irresponsible and punishable by law. What the heck does this guy want?
Posted by: Bartman at July 9, 2008 6:29 PM