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The Spectacle Blog
Over at The Weekly Standard, Steve Hayes and John McCormack tell us that during a rally yesterday in Milwaukee in support of recalling Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, Reverend Jesse Jackson likened Walker to the late segregationist Alabama Governor George Wallace. Jackson railed, “Wallace did it in Alabama and now Walker in Wisconsin - trying to take back access to vote.”
So for putting the collective bargaining rights of Wisconsin on par with federal government employees is the equivalent of “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever!” President Obama call your office. Jesse Jackson thinks you’re a racist.
For good measure, Larry Hanley of the Amalgamated Transit Workers likened Governor Walker’s reforms to the attacks of September 11, 2001. Gee, I’m surprised Hanley didn’t compare Walker to Hitler. Not that it has prevented others from doing so.
The deployment of such rhetoric convinces me that who oppose Governor Walker’s reforms have lost the argument and, unless there’s a widespread campaign of union intimidation, I think that will bear out at the polls tomorrow night.
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Ruckweiler| 6.4.12 @ 7:16PM
Ah, yes. The usual flatulence from old Jesse. It's his paying gig. He has to keep saying these stupid things.
Oldefarte| 6.4.12 @ 11:31PM
At least my flatulence is truthful!!!!!!!!
TLP| 6.5.12 @ 3:27PM
Jesse Jacson + Tamara Holder = WHORE and JOHN.
Jack in Wi| 6.5.12 @ 12:47AM
I happened top be riding by a demonstartion outside a Milwaukee hall in 1964. There was a large crowd of demonstrators outside. They were against Governor Wallace who was inside addressing his first meeting the North. I went inside and the speech was over. He was shaking hands with supporters. The line was long, so I went into the bar and had a few drinks with the people there. They loved Wallace.
His reception got world wide coverage. He had gotten a very large enthusiatic crowd. He went on to get a lot of votes against Johnson in the Democrat primaries in Wi., Michigan, and Maryland. His national career began that night and I was there.
The same thing happened to me in 1980. I rode by the hall and saw demonstrators. It was Ronald Reagan speaking while running in the Wi. primary. I hung around for the end of the meeting and shook hands with Reagan and his wife Nancy. I must have seen Reagan speak in person at least 8 times. Wi. is always a swing state which gets a lot of attention.
Lullabys Legends and Lies| 6.4.12 @ 7:22PM
Jesse Jackson's a Jackass!! Governor Scott Walker is nothing like George Wallace, Wallace was a Democrat (the same Party that started the KKK), and Walker's a Republican (the same Party that stood for the Abolition of Slavery), so they're nothing alike!! Wallace was an "actual" Racist, and Walker's just trying to save the Taxpayers of his State, from being robbed by their own Government, and the Government Workers of the State, so I see nothing in common between the two!! Now Jesse's real problem is, he can feel his grip on power slipping through his fingers, things are changing, and they're changing away from the race hustlers (for which he is a founding member), and he knows it!! The R word (Racist), just doesn't have the same affect, or the same effect that it used too, because it's been thrown around like the Muslims throw about declaring Jihad on us, so that after awhile, you just don't care anymore when it's said again. But don't worry about it Jesse, because once Obama's out of Office, you're not gonna be the guy that the African/American community is going to turn to anymore, Barack's gonna be that guy, and you'll just be a has-been Jesse, so get used to it!!
Oldefarte| 6.4.12 @ 11:47PM
http://youtu.be/F0wz2NmKg2A
My oh my oh my, he done put his ignorant foot in his excessive mouth again. Him and ol' Al [BATMAN & ROBIN] must of gotten tired of Sanford since George been incarcerated again! Maybe he's upset from another pregnant girlfriend demanding a Rainbow-Push funded house from him, who knows? When are people going to become so fed up with this crapola that they'll tell them to GO WORK FOR A LIVING AND STOP SPONGING OFF OF THE TAXPAYERS OF THIS COUNTRY? When is enough, enough? It's been far beyond that for many of us since Brown vs Bd. of Ed in 1954; and it high time they began financially supporting themselves and their substantial dependents [instead of the current play upon Hilly's words of 'IT TAKES A VILLAGE'..... OF TAXPAYERS]!!!!!!
J.C.Eaton| 6.5.12 @ 2:39AM
Simply and gently put: Mr. Jackson is trash; what he says is trash. Thank you.
Occam's Tool| 6.5.12 @ 11:03AM
The sad thing is that Jackson actually had to deal with Wallace.
The one good thing about Wallace is that he always delivered what he was selling---as the most adamant of segregationalist governors, or, as he became, the most pro-Black and integrationalist of governors at the end of his career. You always knew what you where buying and he always delivered. In that sense, if in no other, he is like Walker.
Seek| 6.5.12 @ 12:43PM
I don't there ever has been a time when Jesse Jackson has voiced a political opinion without making an ass of himself. False generalities, character assassination, inaccurate facts, unctuous moralizing -- it's all there. Thanks, Jesse. You've come through once again.