Correction: Completion of article.
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RUSH: Tamara Holder, Fox News contributor, lawyer -- yep -- accused of having an affair with Jesse Jackson
in a lawsuit that, quote, "alleges the illegal use of a gay Jackson employee to facilitate the relationship."
What in the world does that mean?
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RUSH: Well, seriously. So much racism out there, where does he find the time to bed these babes?
Of course we're assuming there's a bed involved, but -- (interruption) no, no, no.
This is not the woman that had the baby. This is Tamara Holder.
You know what she was? She was a pardon attorney.
She specialized in getting pardons from Blagojevich.
That's why Jackson hired her.
We've been doing some research here, folks.
She's a pardon attorney, and that's how the Reverend Jackson came across her.
From her online law bio:Tamara founded www.xpunged.com, which is a Chicago based expungement practice
that provides a second chance to those who have been convicted of expungable offenses under Illinois law.
She also helps ex-offenders seek a governor's pardon for nonexpungable offenses.
She's met privately with Governor Blagojevich on the issue of pardons.
She was invited to work with the Reverend Jackson founder and president of the Rainbow PUSH Monochrome Coalition.
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RUSH: You have to indulge me here. I have to find out what this means.
Is accused of having an affair with Jesse Jackson in a lawsuit that alleges the illegal use of a gay Jackson employee to facilitate the relationship.
What would the legal use of a gay employee be?
Cliff Kincaid wrote this. He obviously knows.
The illegal use of a gay Jackson employee."The accuser, Tommy Bennett, was Jackson's personal travel assistant,"
which means he got the girls their rooms.
He ran the legal clinic. (interruption)
Well, just like Tiger had a guy like that, got the girls their rooms."He ran the legal clinic at Jackson’s organization, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition.
He says he was eventually fired for protesting his treatment by Jackson and other PUSH employees
and is seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages.
"Holder has not responded to repeated requests for comment from Accuracy in Media,
but Jackson’s press representative, Lauren Love, says the allegations are false and will be proven so.
Bennett attorney Thomas V. Leverso says thatJackson and PUSH have been stonewalling a legal response for many months but that investigations and the case are moving forward.
Leverso tells Accuracy in Mediathat witnesses have come forward to verify the allegations against Jackson.
"Bennett worked for Jackson for more than two years and was known as 'Aruba Tommy' on local Chicago radio station WVON.
The lawsuit alleges that Bennett was subjected to 'humiliating tasks' because he was a homosexual,
such as 'escorting women to his [Jackson’s] hotel room' --"
Okay, now we're getting to the heart of this.
Well, I guess if you're a gay guy, escorting paramours to your boss's room may be a little humiliating
because you yourself are being used to provide the imprimatur of legitimacy here.
In other words, the woman's not showing up on her own and knocking on the door; is being escorted there by Tommy Bennett.
He's gay, so he's the escort for women, plural, to Jackson's hotel room,
and then he was humiliated because he was"ordered to clean up after Jackson had sexual intercourse with them."
Now, that would be humiliating, you have to clean up the room after the deeds had taken place. (interruption)
Well, because you can't have the maid do it. The maid does it, then the word gets out.
So you gotta have somebody go in there and clean up before the maid comes in there to clean up.
Yep. That's true.
"One of those women, the suit claims, was Tamara Holder, a pundit and criminal defense attorney who claims she'single-handedly' founded what she calls 'a pro bono legal clinic at Rev. Jesse L. Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH Coalition.'
A self-described Democrat, she appears regularly on Fox News to defend the Obama Administration and other prominent Democrats.'Because of the Democratic Party’s deep Chicago roots, Tamara has worked closely with some of the City’s most prominent leaders."
That's basically the nuts and bolts of the story.
So Tommy Bennett is suing because he had to escort the women to the room of the Reverend Jackson
and then clean it up, get rid of the evidence and so forth before hotel employees, as in maids, showed up,
and that one of the women was Tamara Holder.
That's just amazing, the stuff that you learn doing this show.
It's amazing the stuff that you learn listening to this program.
Sorry for the interrtuption, folks.
I guess I need to get some sleep.Because of the Democratic Party’s deep Chicago roots, Tamara has worked closely with some of the City’s most prominent leaders.
I really don’t see any illegality here.
Unless he was sent to procure actual prostitutes where is there any crime here?
Even if this gay guy found being asked to bring these girls up to Jackson’s room and then, er, whatever, clean up later humiliating, I don’t see how that’s illegal, I’m not even sure it would be actionable civilly.
Suppose my boss asks me to pick up his dry cleaning, etc. I find it humiliating, but how is it illegal?
Now, if my boss is the mayor, or something like that maybe it’s illegal because I’m on the taxpayer’s dime while I’m doing this personal stuff, but other that a scenario like that, I don’t see it.