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During a taping for Fox News last Sunday, the Rev. Jesse Jackson was caught on a "hot" mic saying about Barack Obama:

I want to cut his nuts out.

Yeah, we said it. NUTS. And though while this quote might have been appropriate if Jackson were a urologist and his patient, Barack Obama, had just been diagnosed with testicular cancer, it caused quite an uproar among squeamish TV pundits.

Here are CNN's Wolf Blitzer and Don Lemon trying to avoid giggling like little schoolgirls over the story:

We understand that TV pundits can't say "nuts" on the air to refer to a guy's balls, but saying "manhood" instead is just emasculating for the anchors. We have a few suggested euphemisms for any TV personalities looking to spice up their Jackson coverage while still keeping it clean.

• no-touchies


• hanging chads


• oil barrels


• Easter eggs


• iPhones


• junk


• beans


• undecided voters


• jewels


• 'nads


• marbles


• chocolate merlins


• superball-egates


• everlasting gobstoppers


• hope receptacles


• sperm globes


• change globules


• "change" and "hope"


• the Daley Brothers


• Dr. Sanjay Gupta's mail bag


• Michelle's purse contents


• improvised fertilization devices

Posted by: David Bourgeois and 236.com staff