What did Jesse Jackson say about Obama at an open mike event, and why is he catching heat for it?
JESSE JACKSON SAYS HE WANTS TO CUT OBAMA’S ‘NUTS OUT’ By CHARLES HURT, D.C. Bureau Chief Last updated: 10:10 pm July 9, 2008 Posted: 6:35 pm July 9, 2008 WASHINGTON – In a vulgar tirade caught on tape by Fox News, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said he wanted to “cut his [Barack Obama’s] nuts out” and he accused the fellow Chicagoan of “talking down to black folks” by giving moral lectures to African-Americans, source said Jackson’s shocking quotes were picked up by a hot mic before an interview on health care in Fox’s Chicago studio last Sunday Fox planned to air the recording on Bill O’Reilly’s “The Factor” show. In an effort to blunt the controversy, Jackson issued an apology. “For any harm or hurt that this hot mic conversation may have caused, I apologize,” Jackson said in a statement. Jackson said he couldn’t recall everything he’d said in the studio but couched the remarks as part of a discussion about Obama speaking to black churchgoers. In such settings, Obama has urged greater emphas
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