Exclusive: TVNewser has been sent
the transcript of what Jesse
Jackson said Sunday morning July 6, as he prepared for an
interview on Fox & Friends Weekend. Below is the partial transcript we
received in our tips box, and confirmed to be authentic by Fox News Channel
representatives.
Barack...he's talking down to black people...telling n—s how to behave.
So, yes. Jesse Jackson did use the "N" word. But it was not directed at Barack Obama. Fox News and Bill O'Reilly have maintained there was more on the tape, but that the un-aired portion was not relevant to the issue at hand: about whether Obama was "talking down" to the black community.
> Update: Jackson's statement, Al Sharpton weighs in, and more on the reaction to the comment.
• Earlier:
FNC
To Air Jesse Jackson Comments...
O'Reilly
Airs Some of Jackson's Hot Mic Comments...
What
Jesse Jackson Didn't Say on That Tape...
Roger
Ailes Tries to Quiet the Jackson Rumormill...
• More: O'Reilly will be on with Shepard Smith at 3pmET discussing the tape...
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Grow up! Jesse thinks Barack is a N_ _ _ _ R! Get mad at him!
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Then I found out that my black brothers and sisters would frequently use the term as an endearment when conversing with each other but would flare up in rage when used by somebody other than black. It was really puzzling and sounded hypocritical to me. If that term is an insult why use that amongst yourselves? So I found out that it a crutch issue, blacks throw that in the face of whites to hold them eternally guilty of the injustices of the past such as slavery, and also to cover up or ward off any scrutiny of themselves. You don't like the term, don't use it to describe each other, else you remove any cause of anger towards others who use it. It does not make any sense at all. Whilst at it, can Americans stop, interlacing every sentence with the word "FUCK"? Fuck this, fuck that. That is also disgusting. Thanks
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Look at Jessie, if he's calling "the blacks" in general "n___ers" out of disrespect, then don't expect anyone else too...Comprende'! My question is, what's wrong with our media and society that they can't see this for themselves!!!!
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This one, as you suggested, even more so.
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Jesse would be on national TV in a heart beat, beating the heck out of the race card, demanding appologies, and shaking the speaker down for money for rainbow coalition or some other cause..
Me thinks Jesse is a racist. Go away Jesse, go far far away.
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The 'word' is not profanity....Use your dictionary! Also note the definition! It has nothing to do with race. He called them (and himself) 'niggers'!
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Please help me
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what do you think?
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Most blacks are bigger offenders of being a racist then most whites. Get off your asses and improve your life!
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"April 5, 1968: Just twelve hours after an assassin murdered civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, a young black follower announced on the NBC 'Today Show' that King had 'died in my arms.'"
In excerpts published Sunday in the New York Post, Timmerman continues:
"He had cradled King's head and was 'the last person on earth' to whom King had spoken. As proof, he appeared on TV wearing an olive-brown turtleneck sweater that he claimed bore the stains of Dr. King's blood."
It took eight years before cracks in Jackson's King-death story began to garner public attention - and only then because a black reporter from Chicago sought out members of King's entourage who were at the Lorraine Motel that day.
"The only person who cradled Dr. King was [the Rev. Ralph] Abernathy," Hosea Williams told reporter Barbara Reynolds.
"It's a helluva thing to capitalize on a man's death, especially one you professed to love," added Williams, who was a top King lieutenant at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and who was just yards away from the civil rights leader when the assassin's bullet struck.
Mr. Williams isn't the only King aide critical of Jackson's melodramatic account.
"I am sure that Rev. Jackson would not say to me that he cradled Dr. King," said Rev. Abernathy.. "I am sure that Rev. Jackson would realize that I was the person who was on the balcony with Dr. King and did not leave his side until he was pronounced dead at St. Joseph's Hospital in Memphis.
"I am sure that he would not say to me that he even came near Dr. King after Doc was shot," he added.
Former U.N. ambassador and one-time Atlanta mayor Andrew Young, who was also present at the Lorraine that day, professed to be mystified over Jackson's "cradling" story, saying the first he heard of it was when he read it in the newspaper.
To this day King's widow, Coretta, and Jackson remain estranged over his conduct in the aftermath of the civil rights leader's death.
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What Jackson did was completely in line with what blacks in my experience do, as well as all other "groups." This is a fundamentally hypocritical world. Women call each other words that we take total umbrage at men calling us. The problem with separate groups and identity politics is the whole us vs. them mentality. As humans descended from tribes and it's in our nature, I don't see this changing, however much the multi-culti-pomo-utopia set wishes. So while it's shocking, it should not be -- it is human nature.
What is interesting is what this reveals about Jackson's attitude to blacks in general. He either thinks of them as Ns or he thinks Obama thinks of them as Ns. Or both. I suspect both.
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May his work live forever as Substance
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