The Rev. Jesse Jackson used the N-word during a break in a TV interview where he criticized presidential candidate Barack Obama, Fox News confirmed Wednesday.

The longtime civil rights leader already came under fire this month for crude off-air comments he made against Obama in what he thought was a private conversation during a taping of a “Fox & Friends” news show.

In additional comments from that same conversation, first reported by TVNewser, Jackson is reported to have said Obama was “talking down to black people,” and referred to blacks with the N-word when he said Obama was telling them “how to behave.”

“I am deeply saddened and distressed by the pain and sorrow that I have caused as a result of my hurtful words. I apologize again to Senator Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, their children as well as to the American public,” Jackson said in a written statement. “There really is no justification for my comments and I hope that the Obama family and the American public will forgive me. I also pray that we, as a nation, can move on to address the real issues that affect the American people.”

I think by now you’ve realized that I have no problem with using irreverent language, but Jesse Jackson is such a sanctimonious prick about everything racial, including Imus’s comments about the Rutgers girls, the N-word in general, hip-hop, basketball, sleeping with white women, not tipping well…uh…A Different World…the list goes on!

Doesn’t he kind of look like Admiral Akbar though (side by side comparison here)? An alien WOULD want to stir up controversy like this all the time to divide us, only to conquer us down the road. The solution: Give Jesse Jackson Reese’s Pieces. WE DON’T HAVE TIME FOR YOU TO ASK QUESTIONS.