Jackson mentioned that Obama "...is talking down to blacks...and something about cutting his nuts off".
We all heard and saw that. However, do you know that there were following musings of the Reverand Jackson calling "Obama a half-breed "N" word?" This has been ignored by everyone and now even the conscience of cable newscasting - Bill O'Reilly, even though he has acknowledged the Jackson words.
The O'Reilly Factor didn't broadcast those comments by Jackson, claiming it had nothing to do with the issue at hand. See here:O'Reilly Talk
I sent a "pithy" comment off to O'Reilly for his take. He came back with the same rhtetoric in his video that he didn't want to hurt the Reverend Jesse Jackson for what was ill-advised joke.
WTF? But it's okay for the good Reverend to call Obama a "half-breed nigger", not to mention wanting to "cut his nuts off"?
I also asked O'Reilly if he thought it okay to call a persidential candidate a "half-breed nigger"? Bill hasn't responded as yet.
There are (3) thing in play here:
1. Jesse Jackson racially denigrating Obama (whom I don't support but that's a side issue);
2. Obama accepting Jacksons apology, knowing the full context of Jackson's statement;
3. Bill O'Reilly covering up the most horrendous part of Jacksons statement.
The last is what dismays me - it's always the coverup. If you listen to the link above you will hear O'Reilly making excuses for Jackson's BS regarding Obama supposedly "talking down to blacks" and "cutting Obama's nuts off". It was about political rhetoric according to O'Reilly. Of the cuff jokes I guess.
What O'Reilly refuses to deam important by censoring the rest of content, is the part where Jackson calle Obama a "half-breed nigger". O'Reilly claims he doesn't want to "hurt" (his word) Jesse Jackson - like that MF should not be.
I have no question for you folks. I only know that I am learning O'Reilly is becoming part of the establishment if he does want to hammer the race-monger Jackson. I'm bummed. Guess it's Glen Beck from hear out.
What say you folks?
O'Reilly Talking Points7/9
If BOR is not totally Ted Baxter, he’s sure darn close. “No spin” indeed.
Please don't call him this. He has done nothing to earn the respect of that title. He flunked out of the seminary, he's never had a congregation, and he's never led a church, so why to people bestow the title on him? The same is even more true for Al Sharpton, but he didn't even attend college, let along divinity school. He was "ordained" at age 10 by a DC preacher. In both cases, using the term Reverend for these two charlatans is disrespectful to those who actually deserve its respect.
I was passing by my tv yesterday afternoon and heard O’Bloviator justifying his actions on one of Shepard “I need a hysterectomy” Smith’s shows. “I didn’t show it because it would hurt the Rev.”. BAH!
I would never have thought it could happen, but if you check out O’Reilly’s comments the first night he aired the tape (about there being more and that it was worse) and then compare what he said yesterday, and the Roger Ailes comments, it sounds like Bill was told to drop it.
What say me is that BOR is trying desperately to get Obama on his show.
Releasing the full tape isn’t about hurting Jackson — I think the “nuts” comment does that in and of itself.
The “half-breed nigger” comment on the hand is so incendiary that it would have sucked the air out of the room of the entire presidential race discussion on all networks.
The entire conversation would shift to to Obama’s “blackness,” Obama’s background, and etc etc. (even more than it is now) And this would certainly hurt his cause to become so sort of “post-racial” candidate.
Ultimately the whole thing would have been turned around on BOR and FOX that they racist — bringing up an accusation and discussion that doomed the Obama campaign.
Unfortunately for BOR the tape WILL ultimately be up on youtube and BOR and the rest of the media will be forced to run with it. And BOR will still not get Obama on his show.
In fact, I think Jackson was on to something. Not only does Obama talk down to black folks, he talks down to EVERYBODY. Case in point his stupid "make sure your kids learn Spanish" comment. Yet does Obama himself speak Spanish?
Nope. He's a double standard elitist who talks down to people.
I agree with Jackson; I'd like to cut his nuts off too.
BOR is a pompous weasel. REAL journalists don’t censor the news
No Spin, my arse.
O’Reilly is nothing more than a politically correct whore. Who does he and Fox news think they are to protect Jesse Jackson from his own vile speech.
Agree completely. O'Reilly is totally off base on this one and has lost enormous credibility. I purposely avoided watching his show the last couple of days because what he did was categorically opposite to what he mouths constantly about the other news organizations - selective reporting. In fact, I'll likely avoid his program from this point forward.
Bill O. is becoming more and more like Barry Goldwater. Barry was once a strong voice of conservatism and became a nasty old liberal who simply lost it in his old age. Bill has taken a few steps into liberal land and I have quit watching him months ago.
When FOX started out, the honesty was a breath of fresh air badly needed in American newscasting. The proof came via their growth.
That's when I started watching BOR avidly. For a commentator to actually apply a little common sense was fantastic. I rarely missed even one segment. He ran for quite some time, keeping his common sense mostly intact and his pomposity to a relative minimum. I thought he was basically fair, or honestly tried to be.
All of that is on a accelerating trip into ancient history. Now I will turn off segments now and then and turn him off whenever I hear the word "OIL". It seems like he has forgotten anything he ever knew about capitalism and has no idea about 'supply and demand' OR good old American ingenuity when it comes to problemsolving. Scooby 321 said, "O’ Reilly still thinks some Arab wakes up and sets the price of oil every day. He has no clue and I see his ratings going down as all he wants is Obama on his show." and I wholeheartedly agree.
My double confirmation that BOR was either dishonest or had the wool pulled over his eyes easily by his leftist staff members were his comments about two things that I personally have close experience with:
1. FReerepublic
2. Swift Boat Veterans and Kerry's lies.
Bill O'Duped-one got them both horribly wrong AND HAS NEVER CORRECTED THE RECORD ON EITHER
Nam Vet