Friday, July 18, 2008

Why doesn’t Fox News release the tape of Jesse Jackson saying the “N” word? Maybe he said it in a funny Snoop Dogg kind of way. I know he’s not supposed to say it at all, but maybe it was something that was so perfectly funny when he dropped that thing in there that he just couldn’t help himself. Hey, sometimes something is just too funny not to say. I would like to hear it and judge for myself. I’d also like to see the look on the face of the guy he said it to. He didn’t say it to the guy from United Health Care whom he told about the castration. I guess he told him because technically it’s a medical procedure.

Blacks have the “N’ word, gays have the “F,” Hispanics have the “S” word and maybe the “B” word, and Asians have the “C” word and also the “G” word. I wish I had a word that I could use to bring down anyone who said it. I bet that comes in pretty handy. I am called a lot of things during the course of a day, but none of them are actionable. You can basically call me anything you want and I am powerless to stop you. You could even call me all of the words listed in this paragraph and I would just have to take it. It’s amusing to me that you can say the letters, but not the words.

I sort of feel sorry for Jesse Jackson. It seems like the parade has not only passed him by, but now it’s coming back to run over him. I experienced something similar thirteen years ago when I landed on WMVP sans Garry Meier. It wasn’t easy, but I fought my way back. In a situation like that you really have to do a lot of self-examination. Not the breast kind (and not just because they came out this week and said that it’s not necessary), but the kind where you try and get your ego to match your new station in life. Jesse Jackson might have too big an ego to retool himself at this point. Or, he could become a rapper.