Jesse Jackson Is the New Michael Richards

At the time, Fox’s Bill O’Reilly claimed that there was more to the tape than just the quote that was aired during the network’s first ratings extravaganza. Today the other shoe dropped.

What Fox News omitted was a few seconds of the Rev. Jackson using — wait for it — The “N” word.

This is funny. Very funny. You don’t believe me? You don’t think this word can be funny if you really try to laugh at it? Here’s a reminder from South Park that you’re horribly, horribly wrong:

Now, of course, the Rev. Jackson wasn’t calling Barack Obama a “n——r” in this case. He was using it as general street slang. According to the TVNewser blog, which first broke the story (confirmed this afternoon by O’Reilly), here’s what Jackson said:

“Barack…he’s talking down to black people…telling n——s how to behave.”

But this is the same Jackson who said in 2006 that the word should be banned as a form of hate speech. He asked Hollywood, including black entertainers (which he basically is), to completely do away with it. And he called for a boycott of “Seinfeld” DVDs after Michael Richards was caught calling people “n——s”:

Asked about free-speech issues, Jackson said the word is “unprotected.”

Somebody arrest that man! Or at least ask him to apologize to Don Imus.

[Hat tip: Allahpundit]

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