Video: Confrontation of the day
posted at 10:47 pm on March 19, 2008 by Allahpundit
A moment of healing from the Take Back America conference, preserved for posterity by FNC cameras. Jesse Jackson steps in at the end but I’m not sure why. After all, “the anger is real”; and if we’ve learned one thing from our new moral leader, it’s that the thing to do when that anger bubbles over — be it in the form of celebrating 9/11, god-damning America, or in more mundane ways, like this — is … absolutely nothing. For 20 years, if need be.
But a good question is asked here. What about George Bush and Bob Jones University? When’s the media going to lift its total-radio-silence embargo on that?
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Way to ignore the mountain & study the molehill, dude.
jgapinoy on March 19, 2008 at 10:51 PM
“Answer the Question, Fox News!” I like it; it has a good ring.
But who was he asking that of?
Tzetzes on March 19, 2008 at 10:51 PM
That guy was scary…or…is that racist?
ronsfi on March 19, 2008 at 10:52 PM
He is a producer for Bill O’s show. He was trying to interview Jesse Jackson and got nowhere and then this guy showed up.
cjs1943 on March 19, 2008 at 10:54 PM
I like the guy who said: “Please don’t, please don’t.”
That’s it.
The rest is totally expected.
Indy Conservative on March 19, 2008 at 10:54 PM
Menacing.
mikeyboss on March 19, 2008 at 10:55 PM
1971? Rev. Racist was making racist remarks recently..
Hillary has never been called a *****!
Jesus was a poor black man oppressed by white people etc., Obama knows what thats like.. blah, blah, blah..
Chakra Hammer on March 19, 2008 at 10:56 PM
Amerika KKK-A that created the AIDS virus, to destroy the black man! >:D
Chakra Hammer on March 19, 2008 at 10:58 PM
Not helping their “tolerance” myth.
amerpundit on March 19, 2008 at 11:01 PM
I would have handled that much, much differently.
SouthernGent on March 19, 2008 at 11:03 PM
My thoughts exactly. I’m impressed with the producer’s restraint. The guy was asking for it.
mikeyboss on March 19, 2008 at 11:07 PM
He said “Answer the question” so many times I forgot what the question was. Help me out here; what was the answer the “citizen” wanted?
smellthecoffee on March 19, 2008 at 11:09 PM
What does Jesse say at the end there? It sounds like “my man, my man my…” and then what’s that word he used?
KMC1 on March 19, 2008 at 11:09 PM
Yep, I saw this earlier, my question, why should we not dismiss people like this? And I’m including Rev. Wrong and Obama and anyone else that feels and acts this way. How can any sane person listen to that crap and then take that person seriously at anything?
4shoes on March 19, 2008 at 11:09 PM
A nice head butt to the face wouldve done the trick….
I wonder if he’d have been happy w/ that awnser…
I wouldve
slaphappy on March 19, 2008 at 11:09 PM
Do you watch Fox (Answer da question) News on the weekends. This guy does the man on the street segments in addition to heading out to Long Island malls to taste the world’s hottest wings at a “Buffalo Wild Wings” franchise.
malan89 on March 19, 2008 at 11:10 PM
For crying out loud, his name is not ‘Fox News,’ and the more you say it, the worse you look.
The answer to the question is “Because it’s a non-story,” if anyone’s wondering.
emailnuevo on March 19, 2008 at 11:10 PM
Seriously, I NEVER hear about that. lol
malan89 on March 19, 2008 at 11:11 PM
This is really a manifestation of the Olbermann vs. O’Reilly feud. Olbermann had Jackson on about three weeks ago and egged him to call O’Reilly a racist and that he should be taken off the air.
This is O’Reilly returning fire.
If we had a return of dueling in this country, Olbermann and O’Reilly would signup to be the first contestants.
Pay-per-view? It’d make millions.
Hmm, celebrity dueling???
SteveMG on March 19, 2008 at 11:11 PM
Because no one cares about Bush now that he’s leaving office.
AbaddonsReign on March 19, 2008 at 11:12 PM
On tape? Fox might pay the (immense) legal settlement, but you’d never work in TV again.
CK MacLeod on March 19, 2008 at 11:12 PM
I don’t think the mike would go all the way down his throat, plus aren’t we supposed to dialogue in situations like that?
a capella on March 19, 2008 at 11:16 PM
Among other things, he said that Hilary had never been raised by a single mother. But her husband Bill was. In fact, both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama were raised by single white women whose husbands had abandoned them.
Tzetzes on March 19, 2008 at 11:19 PM
Well, at least one fat moonbat got his face on camera. Apparently the conference isn’t being held near a Jenny Craig outlet.
rjwest21 on March 19, 2008 at 11:22 PM
Woah there, Tzetzes. Far as I know Bill’s dad was killed in an auto accident. You heard different?
CK MacLeod on March 19, 2008 at 11:22 PM
That’s Jesse Jackson, I believe.
Midas on March 19, 2008 at 11:22 PM
I would have shoved him OUT of my face
ArmyAunt on March 19, 2008 at 11:22 PM
Just saying Rev. Racist have been saying stuff recently, since
this campaign has began at least.
Chakra Hammer on March 19, 2008 at 11:22 PM
It’s Griff Jenkins (famous for his dogged pursuit of the judge who filed a lawsuit after a laundry lost the judge’s pants
Texyank on March 19, 2008 at 11:23 PM
Jesse Jackson.
amerpundit on March 19, 2008 at 11:24 PM
Per wikipedia..
Chakra Hammer on March 19, 2008 at 11:25 PM
Oh. My bad!
Correction: they were both raised by single white women, but only Obama’s father abandoned him.
Tzetzes on March 19, 2008 at 11:26 PM
Should have just mowed him down, arms at your side, move straight in the direction you want to go – if Mr. “don’t touch me” insists on moving to get in the way and accidentally falls on his ass, too freaking bad.
Midas on March 19, 2008 at 11:26 PM
Same for me. I don’t think I could have stopped myself from giving this fool the uppercut he deserves.
MarkoMancuso on March 19, 2008 at 11:27 PM
I’ve already had to delete one comment in this thread that crossed the line. Please don’t make me have to ban anyone. You won’t get the Obama shrug from me if you say stuff that’s offensive.
Allahpundit on March 19, 2008 at 11:28 PM
apparently it was more of a MORON convention…
D2Boston on March 19, 2008 at 11:29 PM
Don’t let it get to you, don’t let the haters win, that is Rev. Racist’s goal and that is to divide and keep divisions apparent and exaggerate them, as to make a more victims to prey upon.
Chakra Hammer on March 19, 2008 at 11:30 PM
Jesse Jackson breaking up a confrontation by restraining one of his own supporters. Priceless.
Hog Wild on March 19, 2008 at 11:31 PM
I love that move works every time.
Mojack420 on March 19, 2008 at 11:32 PM
This reminds me of something…………
Assault/Battery
In most states, an assault/battery is committed when one person 1) tries to or does physically strike another, or 2) acts in a threatening manner to put another in fear of immediate harm. Many states declare that a more serious or “aggravated” assault/battery occurs when one 1) tries to or does cause severe injury to another, or 2) causes injury through use of a deadly weapon. Historically, laws treated the threat of physical injury as “assault”, and the completed act of physical contact or offensive touching as “battery,” but many states no longer differentiate between the two.
Yeah, that’s it, now where’s my pipe?
Seven Percent Solution on March 19, 2008 at 11:33 PM
A racist black guy…I thought they didn’t exist?
As for the notion expressed that this guy was supposed to take a physical reaction, I don’t think so. Not allowed in that world any more. The Fox guy did all he could, and Jackson did a good job of defusing the nitwit.
Jaibones on March 19, 2008 at 11:35 PM
Oh shoot! I think I think I quoted the comment you deleted! :{
Chakra Hammer on March 19, 2008 at 11:35 PM
I give credit when credit is due. Whoever he is.
Indy Conservative on March 19, 2008 at 11:36 PM
Allahpundit look at my comment at 11:30 PM.. umm..
I “quoted” the comment before it got deleted.. delete mine as well..
thanks. :{
Chakra Hammer on March 19, 2008 at 11:37 PM
HAHA.
That was funny. Jesse steps in because he knows that guy is making us look bad. Jesse and Al were able to tap into the same thought processes as Wright without saying what Wright said. Repugnant as Al Sharpton has been, he never went that far. Now that Wright has been exposed they know the limits that they pushed for so long have been moved far far away from Wright’s rhetoric. Acceptable “expressions of frustration” aren’t even in Jesse and Al’s former ballpark.
The Jeremiah Wright fallout barometer is Jesse and Al’s post-debacle rhetoric. Sharpton has his position staked out. There is no sign more clear than that. Obama will never move beyond the Senate.
Theworldisnotenough on March 19, 2008 at 11:39 PM
In America, due to its History, unlike any other nation, words can hurt some group of people.
Ironically but sadly, words are more important than actions.
I mean, you can be racist all you want in the real world, just don’t write it down or talk about it.
A nation of Hypocrites and Liars?
Absolutely.
Indy Conservative on March 19, 2008 at 11:44 PM
It would be as instinctual as scratching an itch.
Ugly on March 19, 2008 at 11:50 PM
Good for Griff!
Per Hugh Hewitt, “Lose your cool, lose the game.”
Domino on March 19, 2008 at 11:54 PM
Hey, that is the most level headed I have ever seen the Rever-Rend Jackson. The first part was just a typical liberal, being a liberal.
Vigilante on March 19, 2008 at 11:56 PM
Not that I go around trying not to offend people, but that comment stooped to their level. We’re better than that.
malan89 on March 19, 2008 at 11:57 PM
to clarify…i was reffering to the comment in question, not the comment on the comment that got deleted. and just for good measure, comment…comment…comment.
malan89 on March 19, 2008 at 11:58 PM
As long as we’re on HH…
you know who comes out ahead after all the Obama/Race controversy? that’s right, Mitt Romney.
malan89 on March 20, 2008 at 12:00 AM
Fox has jackson on too much for me. He and Sharpton get way too much face time.
TroubledMonkey on March 20, 2008 at 12:00 AM
To clarify, my tobacco pip……
Seven Percent Solution on March 20, 2008 at 12:01 AM
HAHA.
Theworldisnotenough on March 20, 2008 at 12:03 AM
Black or white, the guy is an a–hole. This whole Wright story does raise the horrible truth that there is a black supremacist movement in Chicago. I have, unfortunately, been threatened by blacks on several occasions who belong to the Nation of Islam. It is a shame because it poisons race relations at a time when many whites have come so far. I would like to see a black candidate, a lot more conservative than Obama, because it would be proof that white America is willing to vote for black Americans. I just wish Obama would do more to separate himself from these haters.
Bill C on March 20, 2008 at 12:13 AM
Unless the “citizen” got his feet planted. If he had position, then FoxNews gets one for charging. If not then the “citizen” gets “the harm,” heh, and the foul.
smellthecoffee on March 20, 2008 at 12:15 AM
that arrogant SOB had the balls to say “don’t touch me” when the guy tried to get by. I think I would have asked him to move, warned him a second time, then cracked my forehead on his nose (after warning him that I would do so).
I really, really, really hate obnoxious racists that refuse to stop talking. “Answer the question, answer the question…”
Dude. Take your Mike Tyson voice and go find something else to argue about. Maybe the disproportionate number of blacks in prison or single black moms.
Dumb ass…
cannonball on March 20, 2008 at 12:19 AM
That wasn’t the orifice I would’ve chosen. ;-) I’ve never been a proponent of the ol’ “kill ‘em with kindness” crap.
SouthernGent on March 20, 2008 at 12:22 AM
Yep.
LOL
Ugly on March 20, 2008 at 12:25 AM
Griff Jenkins or Fox News, handled it ok. Not sure what the question was though?
koolbrease on March 20, 2008 at 12:27 AM
Drudge just linked to this: video of a black preacher (Episcopalian?) doing some serious dumping on Obama and his supporters. Ouch.
Tzetzes on March 20, 2008 at 12:29 AM
The Sarah Jessica Parker (non)story showed up on his site not long after it was posted here, also.
And I say (non)story because there’s only one Ugly.
Ugly on March 20, 2008 at 12:32 AM
What about John Mccain and Tim LaHaye?
Radio silence…
SnarkVader on March 20, 2008 at 12:40 AM
Savage was playing excerpts from this earlier today.
carbon_footprint on March 20, 2008 at 12:41 AM
And that is the “racist” stuff in the black community, that needs to be condemned!(He’s not black enough.. blah, blah, blah.. comedians shouldn’t even do this..)
A person can not CHOOSE their parents..
Chakra Hammer on March 20, 2008 at 12:43 AM
I smell a whole lot of banning coming.
Bill C on March 20, 2008 at 12:43 AM
Keep it real. :{
Chakra Hammer on March 20, 2008 at 12:44 AM
I dunno. He’s over the top, imo. Is there some kind of anger competition going on amongst black preachers?
a capella on March 20, 2008 at 12:50 AM
WayWard, that’s a horrible thing to say. Don’t you know the leftist blogs look for these kinds of statements so they can say conservatives are racist?
doodleduh on March 20, 2008 at 12:51 AM
Lots of emotions. Sad to see. This is starting to cause some real damage to our country, I fear.
Problem is, it’s all because of Obama’s inability to tell the truth about himself, his true intentions and beliefs and how he truly is a thin-resumed, unvetted race candidate and little else.
TexasJew on March 20, 2008 at 12:59 AM
I don’t really think he’s any better than Wright seeing as how he called Obama’s mother a “trashy white woman”. I don’t know anything about Obama’s mother but that’s over the line and to say his “in heat African father went a whoring” after her is way over the line too.
And what the heck is it with the language at these black churches? Do most of their preachers talk like that? I’d get up and leave if I heard that stuff at my church.
Benaiah on March 20, 2008 at 1:00 AM
I don’t know what he said, but he seems to have been stricken down by Allah.
Tzetzes on March 20, 2008 at 1:00 AM
I’m dumbfounded. I don’t like Obama either, but there are more civil ways to register disapprobation.
It rather spoils the “take responsibility” message he’s trying to send.
Tzetzes on March 20, 2008 at 1:04 AM
Man, he should know better, no one gets in the face of the Griff Dog. Jenkins already showed that DC lawyer he doesn’t take any lip from people.
Rbastid on March 20, 2008 at 1:09 AM
“there are more civil ways to register disapprobation.”
Didn’t I just hear that line on the “John Adams” movie on HBO?
Returning to the subject of cretins registering their disapprobation, with all his G-ddamming, I somehow don’t think that Rev. Wright ever heard of (or cared about) the third Commandment.
Religious leader? Of what religion, exactly?
TexasJew on March 20, 2008 at 1:10 AM
I’m marinating in it.
The Ugly American on March 20, 2008 at 1:18 AM
Somehow, If this is the “norm” in the “black community” we have found some of the problems.
“some” of the message with the hate removed(and it was hard to get it removed), the part about taking responsibility was good.. however the delivery is over the top. That has no place in ANY Church, the language is just simply unacceptable.
You can’t say “titties” in Church.
Chakra Hammer on March 20, 2008 at 1:20 AM
Fine by me: we do not fight racism with more racism, but by exposing it to ridicule and reproach.
Tzetzes on March 20, 2008 at 1:22 AM
I don’t know; I haven’t got HBO. My inspiration here (though it’s not an exact quotation) comes rather from P.G. Wodehouse.
Tzetzes on March 20, 2008 at 1:24 AM
Disgusting. This is what happens when you open registration.
malan89 on March 20, 2008 at 1:35 AM
I never caught the question being asked. However my initial reaction would be not to confront a FOX news reporter.
I would think going to a government source would be a better place to ask a question regarding policy.
After all the government sets the policy not FOX.
But maybe I am missing something.
F15Mech on March 20, 2008 at 1:39 AM
That is the nut with the Church in Harlem – Dr. Manning – that John Gibson had on constantly. I see no different between him or Dr. Wright, why Fox News was/is giving Dr. Manning a pass for the same hateful rhetoric towards whites in NYC is beyond the pale. He hates whites because they have the nerve to move to Harlem and take part in the neighborhood gentrification.
God forbid – it’s a sin to clean up 125th Street and make the neighborhood nice and livable. Dr. manning detested Rudy and Governor Pataki, how dare they.
I don’t really understand the double standard at all, unless because he hates Barack Obama, and that’s the difference.
AprilOrit on March 20, 2008 at 1:39 AM
Good god.
well if you use half your posts to whip up your much of your readership into an African-American hating frenzy this is what you get. Any suggestion of any kind of white racism is ludicrous while blacks are consistently portrayed as “race-baiters” or racists when they raise legitimate issues of justice and equality. Your reap what you sow.
crr6 on March 20, 2008 at 1:43 AM
Any preacher who uses the word tits in a sermon to describe a part of a woman’s body – as Dr. Manning did – in describing that Obama girl – is inappropriate, and especially in a sermon from a pulpit in a church.
He reeled on about Obama doing a white woman, I mean just disgusting and it does not belong in a church sermon, especially with minors in the pews.
Any black minister who calls an assortment of white New Yorkers – the man – should not be given a free pass on any show on cable news, let alone Fox News, just because he hates Barack Obama and adds to the spectacle.
Hey – white trash – you took a wrong turn, this isn’t Ron Paul’s site or Stromfront’s.
Back yourself out of here before you regret it.
AprilOrit on March 20, 2008 at 1:48 AM
Black or white, if any person treated someone like that in Texas, he would have been wearing that microphone.
Johan Klaus on March 20, 2008 at 2:06 AM
Good God is right, because I do not see in my everyday life occurring.
F15Mech on March 20, 2008 at 2:08 AM
Your comment was made late at night, it should be removed soon.
Why do you even talk like that?
Chakra Hammer on March 20, 2008 at 2:13 AM
Chakra Hammer on March 20, 2008 at 1:20 AM
I don’t think that this is the norm in the black community, but in just some segments. In my business, I deal mostly with black people and the overwhelmly majority are good decent folks. I do run into a small number of people that act that way, but I run to the the same bad adjective people in the white community.
Johan Klaus on March 20, 2008 at 2:15 AM
If it were me, he’d have been eating that microphone.
SuperCool on March 20, 2008 at 2:22 AM
You are in the old business of killing the messanger, aren’t you?
Even Al-Burack himself admitted in his “post racial” speach MOST black preachers speak exactly like Ayatollah Wright, when the racist Jesse Jackson ran for nomination 90% of blacks voted for him (imagine what would happen if Ron Paul would have got 90% of white vote), the black crime rate is a few times higher than non-black and the list just goes on.
So yes, you can say that 90% of the black community is giving the rest a bad name.
Aristotle on March 20, 2008 at 4:32 AM
I don’t know if John McCain can get tortured for years on end, by the Vietnamese, and forgive and have reconciliation, he did that long ago.. then maybe just maybe people that have been called “names” or that have been treated unfairly in the past can also forgive.
Bob Jones University stuff is going back 37 years.
37 years ago, McCain was getting tortured, not just being turned down to a private college.
For Reverend’s to have have pent up anger like this with no forgiveness in sight, I don’t even understand it?
Chakra Hammer on March 20, 2008 at 4:32 AM
You are perpetuating the problem of In-Your-Face racist provocation by that comment.
Unfortunately, I’m half expecting to see more of this race baiting provocation from idiots like yourself and like that guy in the video. So in anticipation of your forth coming ban, so long numb nut.
This is going to escalate into a real problem that BHO cannot wish away by giving flowery speeches. His ministers voice has beckoned to racist all over to perpetuate their hate of Americans.
Regardless of what color. There is simply no excuse for this.
Kini on March 20, 2008 at 5:45 AM
heh.
WayWard Fundamentalist Christian on March 20, 2008 at 6:23 AM
Why are leftist, wackjobs all uncivil jerks? I’m juss askin’ a question, ya know?
Warner Todd Huston on March 20, 2008 at 6:38 AM
I feel bad for the little white nerd with the glasses. African Americans are so big and terrifying…I know I shake in my boots every time I see one
LtE126 on March 20, 2008 at 6:52 AM
Adios, amigo. You can say things that are politically incorrect — hell, the whole blog is politically incorrect — but when you combine stupid, factually incorrect and borderline racist, you make your continued presence unproductive. GFY, nitwit.
Jaibones on March 20, 2008 at 7:00 AM
I wish it was legal to knock the sh*t out of any reporter that gets in a private citizens face.
TheSitRep on March 20, 2008 at 7:02 AM
God, why can’t I have been that reporter. I would have given away the family farm to drop that guy with a vicious head butt , then jump Jesse on national tv. My reward, Fox would have hooked me up with Laurie Dhue.
THE CHOSEN ONE on March 20, 2008 at 7:03 AM
Yeah, I’m not so precious as to believe that one word has magical powers to overwhelm the rest of the language. It’s just another word that people use to insult and characterize.
And it has nothing to do with open registration — I’m sure AP and MM go through a weeding out process every time there are new commenters, but I know for a fact that some events inspire long-time commenters to go off the reservation.
Wait, I can’t say that, can I?
Jaibones on March 20, 2008 at 7:06 AM
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