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Umm, Rev. Jackson, that microphone is still on

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Inky_Wretch, Jul 9, 2008.

  1. Moderator1

    Moderator1 Moderator Staff Member

    When Arthur Ashe died, Jesse Jackson called our newsroom and said, "I want to be quoted."
    Unfortunately, we did.
     
  2. pallister

    pallister Guest

    Media. Whore.
     
  3. Ben_Hecht

    Ben_Hecht Active Member

    Am grateful that the train is at least beginning to leave the station.
     
  4. PopeDirkBenedict

    PopeDirkBenedict Active Member

    More Kelly:

    Jesse Jackson "jets around the world as secretary of his own state of mind."

    "There are at least three obvious Jesse's, all oversized and contradictory. One is a self-anointed God king, who sees himself in terms both imperial and messianic. ... This is the Jesse who compares himself to Jesus Christ, Moses and Martin Luther King Jr. and who speaks routinely in the royal we. This is also the Jesse who has become a powerful national voice of moral authority, a minister who has inspired generations of black youths with his stirring message of self-reliance and hope and who has become America's most important voice on behalf of, as he says, "the dispossessed, the disenfranchised and the dislocated." The second Jesse is the Huey Long of the television age, a demagogic and cynical manipulator of the press who owes allegiance to no one and stoops to anything to advance himself. The third, and the best hidden, is a quasi-revolutionary, an angry boy grown into an angry man in unending conflict with a nation he sees as immoral and unjust."

    Somewhere in heaven, William F. Buckley, John Kenneth Galbraith, Tim Russert and Michael Kelly are discussing McCain/Obama. I only wish that death wasn't the price of admission.
     
  5. ondeadline

    ondeadline Well-Known Member

    If this means Jesse Jackson doesn't have any sort of voice in the Obama campaign, that's a good result for the Democrats. Nuts to him.
     
  6. PeteyPirate

    PeteyPirate Guest

    Jesse Jackson Jr. calls out his own pops: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/07/09/rep_jackson_blasts_his_father.html?hpid=topnews
     
  7. markvid

    markvid Guest

    Will Al Sharpton hold a protest at the HQ of the Rainbow Coalition?
     
  8. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

    Read Juan Williams's book "Enough" and pay attention to the chapter devoted to Sharpton and Jackson. If you don't want to punch them both in the face when you're finished, immediately check yourself into a hospital for a psychological evaluation. Jackson is nothing more than a shakedown artist masquerading as a civil rights leader. And the fact that no one has slammed the door on his bullshit is the most angering of all.
     
  9. Umm, let's see, Sh*t, P*ss, F*ck, C*nt, C*cksucker, Motherf*cker, T*ts ...

    Nope.
     
  10. That's a good first post.
     
  11. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

    I'm guessing "nuts" falls under the same category as "balls."
     
  12. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    If Obama wins Jesse may actually have to get a job. No wonder he's worried.
     
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