ABC NEWS

Apparently unaware of a hot microphone, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr., founder and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, made a crude and disparaging remark along the lines of wanting to rip Obama's genitals off in reference to how Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., might be alienating African-Americans with various moral instructions.

Jackson has issued this apology, saying: "For any harm or hurt that this hot mic private conversation may have caused, I apologize.  My support for Senator Obama’s campaign is wide, deep and unequivocal.  I cherish this redemptive and historical moment. My appeal was for the moral content of his message to not only deal with the personal and moral responsibility of black males, but to deal with the collective moral responsibility of government and the public policy which would be a corrective action for the lack of good choices that often led to their irresponsibility."

Concluded Jackson: "That was the context of my private conversation and it does not reflect any disparagement on my part for the historic event in which we are involved or my pride in Senator Barack Obama, who is leading it, whom I have supported by crisscrossing this nation in every level of media and audience from the beginning in absolute terms."

The Obama campaign has no plans to respond as of now.

But here's something you don't see every day.

Rep. Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., D-Ill. just released the following statement as a reaction to the crude and disparaging remarks his father -- the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.

Says Jackson JUNIOR in a statement: "I'm deeply outraged and disappointed in Reverend Jackson's reckless statements about Senator Barack Obama.  His divisive and demeaning comments about the presumptive Democratic nominee -- and I believe the next president of the United States -- contradict his inspiring and courageous career. Instead of tearing others down, Barack Obama wants to build the country up and bring people together so that we can move forward, together -- as one nation.  The remarks like those uttered on Fox by Revered Jackson do not advance the campaign's cause of building a more perfect Union."

Concludes Rep. Jackson, Jr.: "Revered Jackson is my dad and I'll always love him.  He should know how hard that I've worked for the last year and a half as a national co-chair of Barack Obama's presidential campaign.  So, I thoroughly reject and repudiate his ugly rhetoric.  He should keep hope alive and any personal attacks and insults to himself."

Comments (7)

det ret rpd narc: we are in for a big surprise.... Obama should not be allowed to be president..we will jave jackass jackson and fat al helping him run the country and we all will be in deep dodo... 1 July 09, 2008 swfldep: ... Hey Jesse don't forget that Obama is 1/2 white. Maybe that's the white devil in him coming out? 2 July 10, 2008 ipscop: ... det ret rpd narc that's some leap of faith you make. It's like saying I support white superemists because I'm white, I don't. 3 July 10, 2008 det ret rpd narc: ipscop actually what I was trying to say, if Obama gets in the white house, with friends like Jessee Jackass and Fat Al backing him, we will be in for a lot more BS over white cops shooting black men and making it a racial thing instead of what it really is...an honest cop shooting a POs that was violating the law, and NOT just because he was black. By the way, you don't even know my skin color or beliefs to comment like that. 4 July 14, 2008 det rep rpd narc: you gotta admit it.... Obama hang out with the "wrong crowd" Kennedy, the murdering alcoholic that refuses to die even with a brain tumor. Jesse Jackass, and Fat Al S... as well as being a druggie...yeah...what a man for president...black or white..it's wrong. 5 July 14, 2008 NJLT: ... What ever happened to our "Commander-in- Chief" being military verterans.You would think that being Commander- in -Chief, that should be a pre requisite for the presidency.Maybe more people should make an issue out of that. 6 July 17, 2008 flprisonsgt: ... If Obama gets elected his first priority will be to make Swahili the primary language in America. 7 July 18, 2008

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