"CASTRATION, IF YOU WILL!"?

John Kass:

So what part of Barack Obama will Rev. Al Sharpton want to chop off now?

Barack's pinkie toe? A nose hair? The vast Barackian ego?

Sharpton's got to find something, now that his fellow racial crisis broker, Rev. Jesse Jackson, said something not even Don Imus would dare utter.

Speaking into a microphone on Fox News, Jackson whispered he was tired of Obama talking down to black people. And he said he wanted to cut off Obama's special purpose. Both of them.

Both of what?

"Manhood, er, genitals," muttered a flustered CNN reporter, obviously unnerved that Jackson made his comments exclusively on the rival Fox News network. "Uh, male private parts."

Then CNN's Wolf Blitzer, who said he couldn't be specific for reasons of taste (though the real reason was that he didn't have Fox's tape) uttered one of the greatest lines in the history of American broadcasting. It should be carved into stone, with a bust of Blitzer illuminated by an eternal flame.

"Male private parts?" shrieked Blitzer. "The suggestion really was CASTRATION, IF YOU WILL!"

The tape was on the Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor," and host Bill O'Reilly offered it with glee at the top of his show, with Jackson muttering about Obama's desire to carry on the Bush White House policy of funding faith-based programs.

"See, Barack's been talking down to black people on this faith-based—," Jackson says during a break in taping. "I want to cut his nuts out."

The national media was stunned, as if they'd just found out Obama is a Chicago politician rather than a mythic hero of Kennedyesque proportions, who drew the great sword Axelrod from the cornerstone of Chicago's City Hall.

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Kass believes the "cutting" remark may be helpful to Obama. Perhaps it was a reverse Sister Souljah moment. Read the whole thing just for more good puns. The theory is that the attack by Jackson will help Obama with white voters. It really did not change my opinion of either man.