Much ado about the venerable Reverend Jackson and his not quite fit for the pulpit declaration that Barack Obama talks down to black people and that the Rev wants to cut his nuts off. This statement was, naturally, accompanied by a snip-snip motion.

Come on, do you expect me to believe that Jackson, who has spent his entire adult life speaking into a micro- or megaphone, doesn't know when his words are being recorded? Surely the Rev doesn't actually believe that telling black men they should stop fathering and abandoning out of wedlock children is a bad thing (although it may have hit a little close to home). 

No, he knew exactly what he was doing.  Jesse Jackson hating Obama can't do anything but make him a more attractive candidate to general election voters.  "Oh no, Obama is a scary secret Muslim, I'm gonna vote for the dried out husk of John McCain that George W. Bush has hollowed out and climbed inside of.  Wait, what? Jesse Jackson doesn't like Obama? Well, that changes everything... maybe he isn't so bad after all..."

Let me be the first to stand up and applaud the Reverend Jackson for helping the cause of Obama for Pres by putting the considerable heft of his reputation as a hypocritical blowhard to work.