Posted by
Mike Bates on Saturday, January 28, 2012 9:48:35 PM
It was a routine Saturday morning at Rev. Jesse Jackson's Rainbow PUSH
forum, broadcast nationally on the Word Network. He was all over the
map. Jackson trashed Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater, Newt Gingrich, and
Mitt Romney. He warned that enterprises such as black funeral homes
and black insurance companies are “under attack.” He condemned a
proposed change in Grammy Award classifications. Jackson also spoke out
against Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, who, he said, “did the ultimate
insult. She put her finger in his (President Barack Obama) face.”
Jackson wants people to call and complain (video here):
Also, while it’s on my mind, Gov. Janice K. Brewer, the finger person.
Gov. Janice K. Brewer, who gave President Obama the finger, governor of
Arizona, call 1 800 253 0883. Keep that line real busy. 1 800 253
0883. We’ll give you the number later a little later today and this
week on the email number of her press secretary. We want to keep
Arizona. . . until she can put her hands in her pocket and have some
good. . . do you know how insulting it is to put your finger in
somebody’s face? Try it with the cameras rolling, she knew the cameras. She knew what she was doing. She was telling him off. She was cutting
him down to his size. She must never get away with that. Even George
Wallace did not put his finger in Dr. King’s face. Say, enough is
enough.
Being the pious, innocent, saintly man he is, perhaps the Most Rev.
Jackson deserves a pass. Maybe he doesn’t actually know the difference
between giving someone the finger and waving one’s finger in another
person’s face. But does he really consider the latter to be “the
ultimate insult”? For a man who’s referred to Jews as “Hymies,” said in the last campaign that “Barack’s been talking down to black people” and that he would like to cut Obama's testicles out, and admitted to,
as a young waiter, having spit into the food of white customers he
didn’t like, Jackson has a remarkable notion of what comprises the
ultimate insult.
Naturally, Jackson’s blunder will be ignored by the mainstream media.
He’s always given a pass. But the very next time “the black view” is
needed on a story, he’ll be front and center and ready for his
close-up.