Can a Leopard Change His Spots?

Young Nationalist ^ | 3-29-05 | Bob Skilnik

[toddlintown]

As if the horror of the decision to pull (or not) the feeding tube from Terri Shiavo wasn't enough to divide conservatives of all leanings from other conservatives, we now have Jesse Jackson coming on board to grasp the national limelight as Shiavo nears her final days. With his arrival, we're arguing even further amongst ourselves, with some ready to nominate this charlatan for the Nobel Peace Prize and others claiming that the true Jesse only looks out for Jesse. It's the latter group that has it right.

I'm from Chicago where Jesse was playing to the local media long before he climbed aboard the national stage. After Martin Luther King's assassination in 1968 in Memphis, Jackson made the rounds of TV and radio stations, still wearing a dashiki stained with blood---MLK's blood he claimed. He also managed to fly to Chicago the next day to give a teary first-hand account of King's death in front of the Chicago City Council. King's aides, however, quickly disputed Jackson's account, protesting that he was nowhere near the hotel where King was shot, let alone did he cradle a dying, bloodied King, as he later recounted in innumerable interviews.

Continued grandstanding and fictionalizing by Jackson of King's death eventually led to his dismissal from the Southern Christian Leadership Council by civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy and MLK's widow, Coretta King.

[toddlintown]

This Bud's a dud!

[joesnuffy]

When real conservative leaders failed to step in..there was a vacume and so the likes of Jesse the Jet Jackson was able to.

Much like the moral vacume in public education when God was kicked out..

imo

[OldFriend]

I was looking for something good on the radio this afternoon and heard Sean on with Jackson. Sean was blaming the republicans in Florida.

CLICK....didn't hear the rest!

[canalabamian]

"Can a Leopard Change His Spots?"

No.

[canalabamian]

I did the same.

[Zacs Mom]

jj's actions have demonstrated time and time again that he is nothing more than a flimflam man whose life philosophy actually revolves around a deep and abiding belief that "there's sucker born every minute!

[Viking2002]

Jackson is a conniving, calculating, reptilian sonofabitch with no conscience. He knows full damned well that his 11th hour 'rally' to help Terry Schiavo is far too little, far too late. She will die a miserable death, and he knows it'll make him appear to some (READ: the intellectually and perceptually bereft in our society) like he's this compassionate, colorblind, nonpartisan defender of human dignity and American morality. That bipedal stack of animal dung could have come out on Day One if he was interested in anything else other than trying to grab an elusive photon of long-faded limelight. If he's a Reverend, then I'm a Bishop. With monkeys flying out of my butt.

[ricoshea]

I have read where Jackson was called by the family not the other way around.I do not think he is there for publicity for once .If he has any juice with the Florida legislature and can get Terri help it would be a good thing.

[OldFriend]

It has been reported that he was there at the request of the family.

I heard Randall Terry singing Jackson's praises this afternoon.

[GSlob]

If there was a vacuum then JJ would have been sucked into it and nobody would hear from or about him again - ever! First of all, he would be sucked away, and even if he weren't, vacuum does not conduct noise. Since, regrettably, this is not the case, one has to conclude that there was no vacuum, nor would any vacuum be possible with tremendous flows of hot air and posturing.

[Gumption]

I do not think he is there for publicity for once

JJ has forfeited his right to the benefit of the doubt.

[PhiKapMom]

We have a trifecta -- Randall Terry, Larry Klayman, and Jesse Jackson all together for facetime!

Has Jesse Jackson changed his mind on Abortion to become Pro-Life? If he hasn't, then Randall Terry is a hypocrite along with everything else.

[OldFriend]

There are no words.

[Osage Orange]

Can a snake shed it's skin?

That would have been more appropiate.....

[Proud Conservative2]

What is your point in this post? We all know who and what Jesse is. I would prefer to have him step forward as he is, as opposed to hiding out and becoming mute as so many others have. As long as there is the slightest chance that he can make any difference, I will welcome him. Working together to help a woman who is being murdered by her husband and a sicko judge named Greer seems in Terri's best interest. You don't have to become his best friend or be converted to a liberal to accept his help(regardless of his motives)

[Tacis]

Why wouldn't Jesse land on Terri's side? It is a no lose position.

The strange side in this is the "murder Terri" side. What speaks for killing her? Nothing, except, perhaps, Michael's belief that he is complying with her wish.

Clearly, Michael's motives are suspect. Is he out to kill her to hide evidence of his earlier wrong doing, because he will get some wealth or property on her death or has whoever is paying for her agreed to share the future savings with him.

What is surprising is that ANY ONE sides with Michael. Jesse is simply siding with the moral high ground on this one.

[Emmett McCarthy]

I'm pretty much with you. I have no use for Jackson, but it was strange for me to see him on a show last week saying that this was wrong, while a "Catholic" Jesuit priest was all fine and dandy with it. I was disgusted. I say that as a practicing Catholic with 8 years of Jesuit education.

But, a number of those whom I usually consider to be among the "usual suspects" on the left have come out against this court-ordered barbaric homicide and, when they're right on something, I'm not going to turn them away.