Out of the heart, the mouth speaketh. Even for a viper like Jesse Jackson:
O’REILLY: ‘We held back some of this conversation… we didn’t feel it had any relevance to the conversation this evening. We are not out to get Jesse Jackson. We are not out to embarrass him and we are not out to make him look bad. If we were, we would have used what we had, which is more damaging than what you have heard’…
But Jackson later apologized and Obama accepted.
Jackson may have done Obama a bit of a favor. Mainstream America has long distrusted Jackson, and anything that puts distance between him and Obama can only help support Obama’s status as a member of the new generation of black politicians. He didn’t do himself any favors by attacking Obama; it will underscore his identification as a mostly discredited has-been.
I’m not sure any apology will do in this circumstance.
In the fallout of this, I look for liberals to equate this absurdity to the Jeremiah Wright relationship. Liberals have tried to dismiss Obama’s association to Wright by comparing this relationship to McCain and Hagee, which of course is absurd because McCain was not a member of Hagee’s church for twenty years. Obama’s denial of Wright’s views makes him look worse than Roger Clemens and Mark McGuire. At least with Jesse, liberals will have some substance to the claim that Obama has no relationship to him.
Others: Michelle Malkin, Stop The ACLU.
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