Quite the day. Via Drudge, I see that Jesse Jackson, talking about Obama, has stated that he would like to “Cut his nuts out.”
Via Rumproast, I see that Rothschild heiress Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild on Fox. Perhaps Howard Wolfson can ask her about it next time she is on.
Random thoughts:
1.) WTF does “cut his nuts out” mean? I understand threatening to cut them off, or rip them off, or being kicked in the junk, but what does cut his nuts out mean?
2.) If you have the name “Lady” or “de Rothschild,” you can’t call anyone elitist without making me laugh. Period.
3.) This election will never, ever end, and if the DNC does not start reforming the primary process now so that the 2012 or 2016 election is shorter, I am moving to France.
Zifnab
Obama’s a young guy. Perhaps Jackson is implying they haven’t dropped yet.
The election will continue until morale improves.
cjw79
You are miserable about every aspect of our electoral process.
Cris
Jackson has a peanut allergy.
Jake
You almost wonder if this was planned by Team Obama. Being criticized by Jackson helps Obama, and having this happen today serves as a perfect distraction from FISA.
Bravo.
demkat620
Can we vote tomorrow? Stupid is getting painful.
Punchy
Clearly it’s a Black thing, and you’re a fucking racist bigot for even pointing it out.
Stick to kitten skull-fucking.
Brachiator
I think it’s just hyperbolic overkill indicating the degree to which Jackson is frustrated that (like the Clintons) he has been eclipsed, neutered and rendered irrelevant by Obama’s rise.
Nader, Jackson. Which former lefty will make a fool of himself/herself next?
Lady, of course, is a title. The former New Jersey chick Lynn Forester married Sir Evelyn Robert Adrian de Rothschild. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1989. His wife is referred to by the honorific Lady.
And yeah, it’s elitist as hell.
SpotWeld
I think we’ve hit the point where someone could make a fortune with “election bunkers”: A cozy, hotel-like facility located within the subterranean and isolated caverns of a now defunct Michigan copper mine.
For a modest fee, customers could check in at any point during the election season and be allowed to remain in blissful seclusion until after the elections have ended. (Provisions for early absentee voting could be arranged as well.)
I just wonder if it would be more popular with Democrats or Republicans.
The Grand Panjandrum
Gosh and to think Obama supporters aren’t lining to write checks to help HRC pay off her campaign debt. Jeez, go figure.
kate r
well about her ladyship it could be argued “it takes one to know one.”
Or perhaps one might employ the “I’m rubber and you’re glue” argument?
If all else fails one could fall back upon “la di dah, folderol, neeener, neener, my lady”
kate r
Hey, I have a conspiracy theory watch.
Sometime in the next few hours (or has it happened already?) a right wing blog will convince its readers that Obama aides asked Jesse Jackson to make the remark because it would endear Obama to more Amurkins to have a public split with Jackson.
raff
France? John, dude, Canada’s right next door. It’d be a lot easier to visit friends & family in the US during holidays. On the down-side, your money doesn’t have quite the purchasing power here that it used to.
I’ll put you up in the guest room until you get yourself sorted. Also, starting practicing this phrase: “Oot & aboot” (out & about).
Cheers.
4tehlulz
>>Perhaps Howard Wolfson can ask her about it next time she is on.
I hope he asks whether the Elders of Zion are changing their plans. This one isn’t working out too well.
Just Some Fuckhead
Clearly Obama has a black preacher problem.
cyntax
Good thing the new irony-meters go to 11.
Calouste
And let’s add to that that the Rothschilds are not just any aristocratic family. Besides royalty, they are probably the most famous, well established and influential aristocratic family in Europe.
Tsulagi
First thing that came to mind was the movie Hard Candy. The bastard (in the movie) deserved it, but ouch! Cutting them off, ripping them off, or being kicked in them doesn’t compare even remotely to what was done to a pair in this movie. It’s nightmare material. Maybe Jesse had some.
Tom Hilton
Yeah, I’m expecting this to improve Obama’s numbers in Kentucky and West Virginia.
Krista
There you go! Our house will likely be completed in mid-October. We’ll have two spare bedrooms and could use the help paying the mortgage. And, we’ve got high-speed internet, so you can keep blogging.
Perfect. Pack Tunch, and get your butt up here.
Rome Again
Krista, got room for me? I’m looking for a change. ;)
Jon H
I don’t know about you, John, but my nuts are tucked inside my scrotum, from whence they could be cut out – but don’t nobody try it I’ll kill ya.
Are your testes externally mounted?
Tlaloc
I’d assume it means to cut out the testes so as to leave the empty scrotal skin flapping in the breeze.
Tlaloc
Cult math:
Obama stabbing you in the back + Jesse Jackson saying something stupid = Hills is teh devil!!!1!
Phoebe
What does this have to do with Clinton?
L. Ron Obama
Already seen several news articles mentioning Wright and Pfleiger and saying this is “another preacher problem”. E.g. from here, “Jackson is the third Chicago pastor to create problems for Obama on the campaign trail.” and from here, “Obama is still bouncing back from the weeks-long controversy over his former minister, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright”.
Well, as they say, all black preachers look alike.
slag
Pfleger’s not black. At least…not as far as I know.
L. Ron Obama
I can never tell them apart.
debrazza
I believe cutting nuts out is a lynching reference. As for how this is Obamas “problem” when someone has to apologize to him I have no clue.
debrazza
I believe cutting nuts out is a lynching reference. As for how this is Obamas “problem” when someone has to apologize to him I have no clue.
OriGuy
It’s just thread merge. The Jackson thing doesn’t have anything to do with Clinton, but Lady de Rothschild is a Clinton supporter who has not gotten the message that Hillary is on board with Obama. Nor, for that matter, are several commenters on the Rumproast thread linked to by John.
AnotherBruce
Here is a bit of contradiction, Republicans have always pushed the idea that public schools make stupid public students. But then they push some of the most stupid public ideas known to any creature that is able to walk on two legs. (including several bird species such as Crows, Jays and several deep sea mammals that can’t walk at all such as Dolphins, Whales and Krill (o.k. Krill are not actually deep sea, or mammal, but are still smarter than Republicans.) They deny the reality of evolution, and therefore reject all scientific theories, such as gravity. I think these simpletons are going to grow wings and float off the face of the earth into their own theories. At which time they will suffocate.
Just a theory though.
Phoebe
Oh my gaaaawwwwwd. I went to the rumproast link. That deserved its own isolated post.
Bedlam UK
Tlaloc, How do you say something full of wit and descriptive humour in one post, and then follow it so quickly with pointless rubbish?
Hills isn’t the devil, Obama isn’t the bloody messiah ( he’s a very naughty boy )
Obama didn’t stab anyone in the back, he made a political decision that some do not agree with.
Jessee Jackson made an off air comment and apologised directly to Obama.
Peeps dont think its right to give money to the Clintons towards their debt when your country is in recession and they are bloody millionaires.
Dont spoil your wit by being a twat.
Michael D.
I read the statement on Drudge. Now, is it me, or does this read like a statement someone would make while he was drunk?
I have always hated Jesse Jackson. I don’t know why. Well, I know WHY. I just don’t know why I hate him as much as I do.
Hymietown!!
Michael D.
On the upside, Jackson’s son ripped him a new one for the remarks!
Jim Treacher
Jake, 7/9, 5:45 pm
kate r, 7/9, 6:12 pm
Heh. Indeed…
Glocksman
Did anyone notice that the CNN piece with Lady de Rothschild identified her simply as ‘Lynn Forester’?
I guess they did it so that their audience wouldn’t think they had accidentally tuned in to an SNL ‘Weekend Update’ skit. :)