If someone pulled a product off the rack at the local grocery store and saw an expiration date from nearly 50 years ago, it would be shocking and appalling to an extent that the shopper might immediately drop it, recoil in horror, and likely kick it aside. If that reaction is so universally understandable, maybe somebody can explain why people haven’t done the same to Jesse Jackson, for his shelf life surely expired a long time ago. He still somehow fancies himself relevant, a wise elder who speaks for a downtrodden aggregate, when in fact he is more like a man attending a black tie dinner wearing a leisure suit, or the guy who shows up for a date wearing a Nehru jacket with Edwin Starr blaring on an 8- Track. The only thing missing is his Afro because nothing else has changed about him since the 60’s.
His syringe was predictably loaded with poisonous and hackneyed venom before the final tally was made announcing Scott Walker’s victory in Wisconsin’s recall election and he wasted no time inoculating the press and his minions with wildly illogical links between Walker’s platform of personal and fiscal responsibility and the abhorrent racial practices of Governor George Wallace in Alabama 50 years earlier. If it is mandatory to present appropriate identification in order to board a plane or cash a check it is logical to invoke the same criteria for someone to vote, and bringing economic sanity to a budget by eliminating excessive benefits to state workers bleeding the coffers dry demonstrates prudence, not malice. In the world of Jesse Jackson, however, these practical solutions are immediately and absurdly defined as efforts to deny people the right to vote and an all-out assault on workers’ rights to collectively bargain. He intentionally misrepresented the results as providing tax breaks for the wealthy, job cuts for workers, more pain for the poor, and cabalistically claimed Walker represented a “typical southern strategy” espoused by a 1960’s Alabama governor who was anti-civil rights, anti-social rights, and held an anti-women agenda.
HUH? You see, Mr. Jackson does not educate, he perpetrates. He produces nothing tangible as a man or with his tax-shielded organizations and instead has been allowed to thrive in a parasitic netherworld of his own creation, completely untouched and unchallenged. He has achieved nothing meaningful for the people he supposedly represents, but has transferred the plights of others into his own construct in order to line his pockets with shakedown money from the nearest corporation or organization with a remote affiliation to a problem he willfully exacerbated. He is a clichéd caricature whose oversized mouth has masked the severe limitations of an undersized brain and traffics in race-baiting with aplomb as if it was an option in the Harvard MBA curriculum. What more need be said about a man who has leveraged the misery of others into an unfathomable personal fortune, and whose only legacy is Mini-Me, Al Sharpton.
Jackson remains the lead attack dog on Team Liberal, unfortunately, and the salvos he fired promptly and on cue after a resounding trouncing at the polls in Wisconsin is but a mere appetizer on the menu of verbal assault sound bites The Left has in its ammo dump and is chafing to unleash. Whether it’s instinctive or rehearsed with the precision of a drill team, no answer or counterpoint is formulated to advance a discussion, and instead is designed to pigeon-hole the opposition through reflexive stereotyping. If it is mentioned that the growing unilateral Gestapo-reach of the EPA be reined in liberal First Responders lash out with tales of conservative intent to poison our air and water. When the subject turns to curtailing sanctioned abuses, corruption, and primitive forms of intimidation by union thugs and bosses, the pre-packaged reply is that conservatives are out to curry favor to the rich at the expense of the “working man”, which implies, of course, the only person who legitimately works for a living is one who pays dues. Suggestions of modifying entitlements instantly elicit screams about killing granny and disenfranchising the poor, and these and other types of reactionary hysteria are ingrained to a degree as if on simmer in a cauldron and ready to boil over on demand.
Ed Schultz, the bloated and screeching cur that publicly insulted the esteemed Laura Ingraham, hit the airwaves immediately after the Wisconsin election was decided to say that Governor Walker was going to be indicted, “perhaps as early as tomorrow.” Calculably, Schultz had no facts or basis for what he said, but that does not concern the left. Aside from the blind-addiction to the “union: good; corporation: bad” premise of irrationality, one cannot help but wonder if opposition to school vouchers by lefties goes beyond the pro-union love affair and is motivated by a desire to keep a special segment of the population marginally literate so it repeats everything it hears but possesses not the basic skills to read comprehensively enough to develop opinions of its own.
While there are no plans to offer alternatives to positions held by Mr. Romney, and certainly no intentions of trying to defend the air-brained policies of Obama, there is a cohesive plan in place to attack and ridicule Romney relentlessly as November nears, and to cut loose with a D-Day level assault the minute an Obama loss is confirmed at the polls, filled with criticism and unrealistic expectations for an instant fix, and while the country is in need of immediate, emergency surgery, the best Mr. Romney and a Republican Congress will be able to do in the first four years is stanch the hemorrhaging with an eye on creating a pro-business atmosphere that will begin paying dividends during a second term.
The unprogressive “progressives” are ready to mobilize with a smear campaign of unprecedented proportion, and Jesse Jackson stands at the ready to record it all with his black and white camera.
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“There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient
to get well.”
– Booker T Washington, written in 1911
the scarlet pimpernel: I know the quote well…thks for posting it…
Snoop,
You rock.
I don’t know what I could add to such an excellent rant.
DB
Jesse Jackson should really just stick to what he does best: Being first in line to stand, front and center, alongside the family members of dead black celebrities as the press covers their grief. Al Sharpton should stick to what he does best: Bringing up the rear as Jesse stands alongside the the grief-stricken family members of dead black celebrities. Maybe they should both just offer their services as funeral ushers or pallbearers. It wouldn’t be as distasteful as having their lips so firmly planted on the rears of the grief-stricken relations to the stars.
Thank you for the kinds words, DLB.
DJB
Dan, I have a couple of comments: you wrote “whose only legacy is Mini-Me, Al Sharpton.” His children are his legacy too and judging by Santita’s comments on air, the apples didn’t fall too far from the tree. You also wrote “which implies, of course, the only person who legitimately works for a living is one who pays dues.” That would be ironic as those who pay dues and are unionized tend to be the laziest people around. Good rant!
Jackson, Sharpton, Wright and (senior moment) the leader of the black muslims and the rest of their ilk are living reincarnations of the black foremen of slave days. Their biggest fear is that black people will advance to the point they don’t need their bunch and they will have to look for real jobs. Not that they have any employable skills.
Wow, James H.
It’s rare that I read something that sets me back in my chair, but you just did with your comments, and I thank you.
DB
Thank you for a fascinating post Mr. Bubalo. Some ideas: If the standard of a great leader was an individual whose self and public persona was less important to them in the larger landscape than their ideas, beliefs, actions and goals found through work and sacrifice in order to attempt to transform society, the nation, and influence the world for the better, then Dr. Martin Luther King would be my idea of that leader for the 20th century. Granted it’s difficult to live up to that standard, but the real failure of Jackson is he never really tried. His self serving provocative populist politics, cult of personality, and self righteousness were firmly in place before the assassination while King was almost broke on the day he died. In the long run Jackson is a sad figure who still needs people to believe that he presided over achievements and advancements almost all of which would or could have occurred without him. Whatever it was about, he just simply wouldn’t do it himself. So he became a minister who wouldn’t pastor a church, a politician who wouldn’t get elected, a Shadow Senator who had a shadow office and gave shadow speeches and had a shadowy pressence at he U.N. He became a businessman who mostly declined to make money and an anti-capitalist anti-corporate nonprofit corporation whose existence relied on corporate support. All of this was for the voiceless and the poor, that he wouldn’t live with or feed, hire or represent?
I hadn’t thought of him as an expired product, but that must be true, he occurred to me to be a nostalgia factory trivializing the meaning of the march on Selma, Emmitt Till, and the slave master(s) by comparing anything current to them. The Jackson phenomenon could not have happened without a now aging old media aristocracy and a feverish fan club that used him like a verbal switchblade on their enemies. Now the switchblade looks like a crayola crayon. Many Christians believe the life of personality is a form of earthly bondage and obviously that the word is in a book, not a TV set. The trajectory of fame is always downward. As his relevance and fame declines I expect that the heat and volume of his rhetoric will go up until the sound distorts.
I’m with you, Pat, and don’t be surprised to learn my feedback falls 100% in your court.
If Jackson had to work a real job, he’d starve! The only thing this guy can do is make accusations and stir the pot…at least that’s my opinion!
Thank you, Spark.
Mr. M. and I are committed, and we value your readership and responses.
You bring up great points as always, Sumitch. Your description of Schultz reminds me of brushing my teeth before I go into the shower and AFTER I get out of the shower.
Great stuff.
Oh yeah. Good rant Dan. I see you’re a fan of Ed Schultz too. That snarling pig causes me to wash my TV inside and out and deodorize the room with ammonia if I even accidentally surf through his station. I wonder how he got so old being the charmer he is. I’ll even listen to O’Reilly or Hannity before I will him.
Can you just imagine the wailing, breast beating, ashes smeared and hair tearing from Jesse and his brother reverend Al if Boehner gets some backbone and lets the contempt of Congress charges be brought against Holder? (Which is now being reported as possible. Maybe our cards and letters are having the desired effect). You gotta know it’s going to be blamed on us honkpersons and Dubya. I’d never wish ill on anyone (well almost anyone), but I sure wouldn’t shed any tears if the Lord unloaded a lightning bolt or two on them. I might even give away a free six pack to the first ten people that made it to my apartment to celebrate.
Excellent Dan, just excellent! Thank you.
Debating his Reverend title, where does his bible tell it’s reverends to spit in the hamburgers of whites when he was a kid flipping burgers? And he there must be some strong Muslim leanings for shooting off his mouth and yelping about “Hymietown”. And let’s not forget that the reverend knocked up a gal just a few years back. He’s been a racist punk, trouble maker and liar since he was a kid and has only grown worse with the times. He must have been dubbed a Reverend by the right Jeremiah White. Or maybe any real proof lies with Obama’s degrees.
Has there ever truly been peace and love in this country between the races???? Will never be, as long as we have a President, J. Jackson, Al Sharpton, who divides us the way they do. Character should matter, not the color of your skin.
Chris,
I think the government is messing with my responses…….unfortunately the gimick works with too many people, as much as by design as anything.
Chris, it’s a “game” at which they are extremely adept.
It isn’t fooling you or me, but unfortunately the gimic
Thank you as always, Marilyn.
You seem to say it better than I every time, and it’s a pleasure.
Jim Holmes,
Mike and I play on the same team——–glad to have you as a reader.
DB
Dean Wormer, indeed, Kwatz.
Who delivered a truckload of Fizzies to the swim meet, and cadavers to the alumni dinner?
Funny how these midguided Liberals resort to a tactic called ‘psychological projection’ whereupon they throw accusations on their opponent what they are guilty of. In a ‘diversity’traininig class about 5 years ago, I put the leader of our sub-group on the defensive by asking her why Jesse Jackson doesn’t put his money where his mouth is & use his millions to help “the poor”. It left her stammering w/ some weak excuse, but the point was made loud & clear. Someday, the disenfranchised in the black community will wake up & see they’re being made fools of by the ones who claim to help, but are lying thru their teeth.
Excuse me, Dan wrote the article, I mistakenly gave credit to Mychal. Apologies to all …
Mychal wrote, “He is a clichéd caricature whose oversized mouth has masked the severe limitations of an undersized brain and traffics in race-baiting with aplomb as if it was an option in the Harvard MBA curriculum.”
A classic description of Jesse Jackson, Mychal. As you mention, it is no wonder that he is so predictable … nothing has changed about him since the 60s. If I remember correctly, a lot of what he spoke then was a lie as well. Steve Cokely had some interesting things to say about MLK and Jesse, both before and on the day of the killing.
I can’t stand J. Jackson. Number one, because he calls himself a “Reverend/Minister.” Of What? Hell? Although he can barely speak a comprehensive sentence, he makes his presence known with his satanic jabbering and supposedly speaking for all blacks. MY black frineds hold him in total disgust and disrespect. Number two, Jackson’s inteview on radio told it all: He said, “When a black kills a black, it’s Miller time. When a white kills a black, it’s ‘Gettum’ time.” Great Minister, hey? I understand that Jackson’s daughter and Michelle were good friends during their high school years. Michelle spent a lot of time in the Jackson home. What does that say? Maybe nothing but I don’t think so. I can’t fathom being friends with Jackson. EeeeeW! Great Rant, Dan. Thumbs Up on telling like it is.
Ed Schultz reminds me of a quote from Dean Wormer of Faber college when addressing Bluto, “Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life.”
That guy makes all the cities for his groupies and to show everyone that he makes no-sense. I’m wondering how he gets thru an airport screening…those enormous bags under his eye’s need a good searching/screening. Great article.