Jesse Jackson said, charmingly, the other day of Barack Obama (not realizing a nearby microphone was turned on): "I wanna to cut his nuts off." Naturally this caused a bit of a tiff with the Obama campaign and today Jackson apologized. All the same, though, one really can't expect much better from a has-been racial extortionist.
Of far greater interest than the story itself is how the media covering this sensitive matter have managed to avoid quoting Jackson's vulgarism directly. There's an amusing round-up here (h/t the Instapundit ) but it omits the best and drollest description of Jackson's lapse found, not surprisingly, in the pages of the New York Sun where it is dryly noted: "Rev. Jackson used a crude reference that suggested he would like to perform an orchiectomy on Mr. Obama."
Well, your Bloviator will own up havin' a bit of book-larnin' but that's a word he's never seen before. It does fit the bill, however.
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