Revenge of the Surrogates
Today's theme, it seems, is nuts. We've just been treated to the spectacle of Jesse Jackson ("Jesse Jackson Is Forever"), during a break in a TV broadcast, snarking into a live mike in a Fox TV studio, along with the appropriate gesture, that he'd like to cut Barack Obama's cajones off. I can't for the life of me believe that it wasn't deliberate. Rev. Jesse can't possibly be so complacent that he didn't know he was ripe for an ambush. It was Fox News, for heaven's sake, not the boardroom of Ebony Magazine. And Jackson is, after all, a stuntman. Meanwhile, over on the other side, Phil Gramm, McCain's doddering economic advisor, has gone nuts, using a mike he clearly knows is live to pronounce Americans a bunch of whiners when it comes to finanacial matters. Yeah, tell that to the airlines that are no longer showing movies so they can eliminate the weight of all that AV equipment and save on fuel costs, a savings, by the way, that is not being passed on to flyers.
posted by John M Crowther @ 7:22 AM
2 Comments:
John C., so disillusioned by all the politicians that I can not find a good comment. Now Dodd, of all people, is commenting on the housing situation. Hillary, where are you when we need you!
Jesse Jackson started in a few years ago selling indulgences to large corporations. It was cheaper for them to pay him to speak than it was to do anuthing serious about discrimination in employment and promotion. roger
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