Thursday, July 10, 2008

I’m getting an odd kick out of Jesse Jackson breaking bad on Barack Obama during a break on Fox News with a “hot mic,” it’s funny that Jesse Jackson thinks Obama is talking down to Black people. Isn’t Jesse Jackson the guy who constantly rhymes things for Black people? That seems a lot more condescending than anything I’ve seen Obama do. I also have to say that in my 53 years on planet Earth, I have never had he urge to cut another man’s nuts off. In fact, I don’t think the thought has ever occurred to me. Once, I wanted to cut my own nuts of during a very painful bout with jock itch, but that’s a story for another blog. Thank God for Desenex, is all I’m saying.

You’d think that someone who’s around microphones as much as Jesse Jackson is would know better. He knows enough to call it a “hot mic,” which tells me that he’s pretty well versed in the lingo if not the technology. As a young broadcaster you quickly learn that wireless lapel mics are the Devil’s tool. You have to really work at remembering that you’re wearing one and that it’s usually, if not always, on. You have to remember to take them off or turn them off even when you go to the bathroom. Somewhere there’s a montage of famous people peeing and worse that TV tech guys are laughing at as you read this. Sadly, I’m probably on there a few times myself.

I see that Jesse immediately called Barack and apologized. He probably said something like “Barack, this is Jesse. I’m sorry that I was thinking about grabbing your nut sack with my bare or possibly gloved hands and then while holding your testicles slicing a hole in the bottom of said sack and slipping your parenthood pellets out like I’m shucking an oddly formed caramel colored pea pod.” Jackson supporters (supporters -- get it?) are quick to point out that Jesse immediately took ownership of his statement and said it was wrong. So did Don Imus. Jesse could volunteer at an animal shelter on the weekend and castrate some dogs and cats to satisfy his blood lust.