Posted by
steven anderson on Thursday, July 17, 2008 4:42:36 PM
Jesse Jackson was caught on an open microphone demonstrating how he would like to make sure Obama would qualify as a eunuch at the Chinese imperial court. Jesse made the determination Obama was talking "down" to black people. That would mean black people were listening to Obama rather than Jesse.
The Fox people edited out what was in part of the rest of the conversation. It appears Mr. Jackson used a derogatory racial slur at Obama. Calling him the dreaded N-word. If any white person had called Jesse Jackson that word, the PC storm troopers would have swooped in and in force. Heads would have rolled, firings demanded, advertisers pulled, and 24 hour media saturation would have started.
Fox was wrong to have edited that segment out. It may have been trash talk but they need to be reminded of something.
They report, we decide.
We were not given that option. Instead, bowing to the PC storm troopers out of sensitivity to Jackson, he was given a pass. Jesse Jackson and his group routinely threaten to sue corporations for alledged racism. It looks to me like FOX news had other reasons not to report what is a major story completely. No one held back on Don Imus or anyone else that used that word, or even something close to it. Fair and balanced reporting? In this case, fair to Jesse, and balanced to the PC crowd, not its viewers. A very poor job by Fox and O'reilly.