Jesse Jackson Wants To Cut Off Obama’s Nuts

Jesse Jackson made some "crude and hurtful" remarks about Barack Obama Wednesday next to a microphone that Jackson didn't know was still on. Jesse Jackson and Barack Obama. Jackson said Obama was "Barack.. he's been talking down to black people... I want to cut his nuts off." Jackson told reporters that the interview had wrapped up and he didn't realize his remarks were captured by live microphone. Jackson didn't elaborate on the context of his remarks, except to say he was trying to explain that Obama was hurting his relationship with black voters by recently conducting "moral" lectures at African-American churches."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," Jackson said in a statement issued Tuesday afternoon. "This is a sound bite in a broader conversation about urban policy and racial disparities. I feel very distressed because I'm supportive of this campaign and with the senator, what he has done and is doing," he said. "I said he comes down as speaking down to black people. The moral message must be a much broader message. What we need really is racial justice and urban policy and jobs and health care. That's a range of issues on the menu. Then I said something I regret was crude. It was very private. And very much a sound bite," he also said."