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FLASHBACK: Reporters Adored Jesse Jackson, “King” of America’s Left

July 22nd, 2023 8:43 AM

In the 1980s and ’90s, liberal reporters openly cheered the left-wing Rev. Jesse Jackson as “inspirational,” a “king” and a “rock star,” the “conscience of the country” and America’s “charismatic national symbol of human rights.”

A Pro-Abortion Advocate Made This Case Against Abortion

November 28th, 2022 5:48 PM

Pundits, liberal and conservative, underestimated the impact on the midterms of the reaction to the reversal of Roe v. Wade. In states like Kentucky and Michigan, where abortion was on the ballot, restrictions to abortion were lost, and “protecting access” to abortion won. In California, voters voted on Proposition 1, a ballot measure to “codify” abortion by placing the right to abortion in…

Can ‘Systemic Racism’ Be Eliminated?

February 3rd, 2021 1:44 PM

Second only to his fixation on "climate change" is President Biden's focus on "systemic racism." In addition to reinstating mandatory race theory training for federal employees, Biden proposes spending even more money we don't have to fix a problem beyond the government's reach. As with original sin, curing racism is best solved internally. It is a matter of the heart.

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CNN Blames Systemic Racism for Making Black Cops, Jesse Jackson Racist

September 4th, 2020 11:39 AM

On Wednesday's The Situation Room on CNN, during a discussion of the time when liberal civil rights activist Reverend Jesse Jackson admitted that it makes him nervous if young black men are walking behind him, CNN reporter Nia-Malika Henderson blamed growing up in America for causing people like black police officers and Reverend Jackson to feel racism toward their own racial group.…

Reasoning About Race

September 19th, 2018 2:17 PM
So much of our reasoning about race is both emotional and faulty. In ordinary, as well as professional, conversation, we use terms such as discrimination, prejudice, racial preferences and racism interchangeably, as if they referred to the same behavior. We can avoid many pitfalls of misguided thinking about race by establishing operational definitions so as to not confuse one behavior with…

Black History Month

February 14th, 2018 2:22 PM
Carter G. Woodson, noted scholar, historian and educator, created "Negro History Week" in 1926, which became Black History Month in 1976. Woodson chose February because it coincided with the birthdays of black abolitionist Frederick Douglass and President Abraham Lincoln.

WashPost Hails Hillary's New 'Big Endorsement'....Jesse Jackson?

June 12th, 2016 8:22 AM
On page 2 of Sunday’s Washington Post came the headline “Hillary Clinton picks up another big endorsement.” Really? Who could that be? Jesse Jackson. And does it matter, this late in the contest?

Daily Beast Pundit: GOP Will Still Be ‘Delusional’ in 2016

November 12th, 2015 6:01 PM
It’s often noted that Republicans have lost the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections, just as Democrats had lost five of six before that. Dems snapped out of it thanks to a Bill Clinton-led tack towards the center, but Michael Tomasky predicts that the GOP will stay to the right in 2016, thereby extending its slump. After Michael Dukakis’s defeat in 1988, observed Tomasky…

Jackson's Endorsement of Emanuel's Opponent Not National News at AP

March 10th, 2015 2:11 PM
A review of the "Big Story" archive at the Associated Press's national site on Jesse Jackson's name returns quite a few instances where the wire service has treated the "Reverend's" self-injection into stories considered nationally important as noteworthy. In addition to the predictable plethora of stories relating to Ferguson, Missouri and "police-communities tension," Jackson's name has…

Stop the Presses: Jackson Said Something Sensible — On Immigration

December 31st, 2014 5:10 PM
Call the Ripley's Believe It or Not people. Have smelling salts available. What follows will surely be one of the more unusual things you've seen or heard this year. In the midst of his otherwise odious Silicon Valley race-hustling shakedown effort, Jesse Jackson said something that made sense — so much sense that the rest of the press, which usually hangs on every word of his nonsensical…

Jesse Jackson Insists No Situation Could Exist Where Michael Brown Sho

August 18th, 2014 5:26 PM
Appearing on the Steve Malzberg Show on Newsmax TV, Reverend Jesse Jackson maintained that regardless of the events prior to Michael Brown’s death, there was no instance in which the Ferguson police officer should have shot the unarmed teen. During the contentious interview on Monday, August 18, Malzberg highlighted details in which Michael Brown allegedly attacked officer Darren Wilson,…

98 Percent of Networks' Jobs Stories Ignore High Black Unemployment

April 3rd, 2014 10:58 AM
There is a jobs crisis in the U.S. that is going virtually unnoticed by the broadcast networks. The unemployment rate for African Americans towers over the national average, upsetting conservatives and liberals. In spite of bipartisan outrage, the three broadcast networks gave just 10 seconds combined to the black unemployment rate around the monthly jobs reports in the past year. Liberal Rev…

GLAAD: 'A&E Has Chosen Profits Over African American and Gay People

December 28th, 2013 3:52 PM
It's certainly not surprising that the folks at the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation weren't pleased with A&E's decision to return Phil Robertson to Duck Dynasty next year.. It was however sad that in their official statement Friday, GLAAD felt the need to misrepresent Robertson's words:

Jesse Jackson on A&E Returning Phil Robertson to Duck Dynasty: 'I Do N

December 28th, 2013 1:47 PM
In his first interview following Friday's announcement by A&E that it was ending the suspension of Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson, Jesse Jackson said, "I do not feel good about it." Speaking with Newsmax TV's Steve Malzberg, Jackson not surprisingly misrepresented Robertson's words falsely claiming, "[H]e talked about how happy blacks were under segregation, how the Civil Rights movement…