In a moment of poor judgement, highly-respected civil rights leader, Rev Jesse Jackson, was caught on microphone saying some rather controversial things about presidential candidate, Barack Obama.

As it turns out, he was venting out his feelings during a commercial interruption which he thought wasn’t being broadcast or even recorded. During a break from taping “Fox & Friends” on Sunday, a fellow guest asked Jackson about speeches on morality Obama has given at black churches. Jackson responded that Obama’s speeches can come off as speaking down to black people and that there were other important issues to be addressed, such as unemployment, the mortgage crisis and the number of blacks in prison.

Why did Jesse Jackson break the rules that you don’t attack your party’s nominee with a nasty remark about Barack Obama?

Update:

Jackson later apologized to the Democratic candidate for his comments.

Here’s more:

Jesse Jackson: Obama “talking down” to blacks - Reuters via Yahoo!

Jesse Jackson apologizes for comments about Obama - USA Today

Jesse Jackson says sorry to Obama for ‘crude’ remark - AFP