Reverend Jesse Jackson, two-time presidential candidate and leftist leader, is being castrated in the media for remarks he made off the air (yet still picked up by microphone) on a taping of Fox News’s The O’Reilly Factor. About presidential candidate Barack Obama, Jackson said, “I want to cut his nuts out….Barack, he is talking down to black people,” allegedly followed by use of the N-word in reference to the black community. Jackson was describing a Father’s Day speech by Obama that called for black men to have a greater presence in the lives of their children. Apparently Jackson felt this to be condescending rather than motivational, even in the face of statistics like 70 percent of black children are born to single mothers or one in sixteen blacks is imprisoned. The crude remark (which was not the first of its kind—in 1984 Jackson threw out the term “Hymietown” to refer to New York City’s large Jewish population) was repudiated immediately by his son, an Obama supporter and U.S. Representative from Illinois. Despite Obama’s seemingly bad luck with holy men expressing very un-Christianlike sentiments, Jackson’s comments may actually have had little to do with Obama, instead referencing the rock-era roadie method of microphone checks:
