What Is This World Coming To?

It appears that the Reverend Jesse Jackson is not quite as enamored of Senator Barack Hussein Obama as are the majority of his constituents.

Unaware that his microphone was on before a television interview Wednesday, Jackson expressed anger that in his view, Obama has been overly critical of the black community.

“See Barack Obama been, um, talking down to black people on his faith based — want to cut his n*ts off,” Jackson said in a video that aired Wednesday on the Fox News program “The O’Reilly Factor.”

Even more fun was listening to the Reverend Jackson’s damage control efforts. Evidently, it was all the fault of the perfidious media:

This is a sound bite in a broader conversation about urban policy and racial disparities. I feel very distressed because I’m supportive of this campaign and with the senator, what he has done and is doing…I said he comes down as speaking down to black people. The moral message must be a much broader message. What we need really is racial justice and urban policy and jobs and health care. That’s a range of issues on the menu…Then I said something I regret was crude. It was very private. And very much a sound bite.”

What apparently had Jackson bothered was Obama’s embrace of the Republican cause of funding government programs run out of churches and speeches Obama has been giving urging fathers, especially black fathers, to “turn off the TV, turn off Sports Center” and spend more time parenting.