You can say "nuts" on TV, I'm pretty sure.  Apparently, Jesse Jackson wants to cut Obama's off.  Or "out" as I heard it — which seems almost lovingly delicate.  You know, so as to leave the scrotum intact, but as a purely decorative element, like a turkey wattle.

They made it sound like it was something so awful it could never be spoken by human mouths*.  It's another sign that the media's run by men with castration anxiety.  Just say it: Jesse Jackson said he wants to cut Obama's balls off!  Don't make me have to google, "what did Jesse Jackson say?"  It's obnoxious.

It reminds me a little of the reports of the Nixon tapes that said the language was too scandalous for print.  The transcripts had all these gaps where the profanity supposedly was, and everybody assumed Nixon was saying "fuck" every other word, when actually it was "foshizzle".  Nixon was always ahead of the curve.

So anyway.  Rest assured there has been no Night of The Long Knives or Saturday Night Massacre this time around.  Jesse's both "rejected and repudiated" himself, and everyone who hadn't yet "rejected and repudiated" him, his own son included, has, too.

Breathe easy. Obama's nuts are intact. 
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*The female anchor on BBC World News said it, matter-of-factly and with that tart Oxford accent, and it was brilliant.  I was listening in the kitchen and almost lost my coffee out my nose.