Jesse Jackson visits Caracas, Venezuela - as blood runs in the streets

The American Thinker ^ | Aug. 28, 2005 | A.M. Mora y Leon

[Kitten Festival]

Jesse Jackson's traveling circus reportedly flew to Caracas yesterday for a grandstanding visit with Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. The announced visit came in the wake of ill-considered remarks from televangelist Pat Robertson who declared that the U.S. ought to try to assassinate Chavez. Jackson went there to show Chavez he's a 'man of peace and goodwill' and probably wanted to curry favor with him, given the opportunity presented by Robertson. And what better way to look good for his U.S. domestic constituents than to be seen in an abrazo embrace with telegenic Hugo Chavez?

But a funny thing happened on the way to Caracas: Blood ran in the streets. A peaceful march of Venezuela's democratic opposition was ambushed by the Venezuelan dictator's goons. Demonstrating with a legal permit, these protestors, mostly women, had been seeking redress for political prisoners held in Chavez's dungeons.

The many photographs from the incident are bloody enough that Reuters calls it the most serious violence in months.

Given the timing, Jackson seems to have gone to Caracas to take a shot at Robertson over the 'assassination' remark, puff himself up in self-righteousness, and give Chavez a veneer of respectability. Amid all the tears and flapdoodle about sin and forgiveness, what Jackson neglected to consider is that Hugo Chavez is in fact a brutal dictator - and acts as one. While Jackson was cordially meeting Chavez, an attempted massacre was going on outside.

Is Jackson going to speak out about what happened on his own visit? Or is he going to be silent about Chavez and hope no one notices the blood in the street?

Jackson's got a public relations problem right now A big one.

[Kitten Festival]

What's Jesse got to say for those bloody people outside his palace window?

[ncountylee]

What's in it for the race pimp?

[Rosemont]

Casstro is getting jealous of Rev Hymietown's new schoolgirl crush

[Kitten Festival]

I think he went there to take a shot at Robertson and Republicans in general. He wants to show Chavez that (unlike all those Republicans) he doesn't want to assassinate him. It's total baloney - he is trying to paint us with the 'assassin' brush, just as while he's back home, he accuses us of wanting to starve children if we don't vote for his race-pimp welfare programs.


Well, there is blood in the streets.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Just DO IT Jesse! There's a huge reward and everybody will respect you afterwards.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Just DO IT Jesse! There's a huge reward and everybody will respect you afterwards.

[ChadGore]

"Go Grey Davis . . . Yer blockin the cameras"

[atomicpossum]

The announced visit came in the wake of ill-considered remarks from televangelist Pat Robertson who declared that the U.S. ought to try to assassinate Chavez.

Oooo, thanks for the 'two-fer,' Jesse....

[conservativeharleyguy]

It was probably a training event for Jesse's goons.

[Kitten Festival]

That too.

[Parley Baer]

Jessie's goons have already started training in Seattle.

[PistolPaknMama]

Is he growing a moustache under his eyes now? How come his lower eyelids and upper lip look the same?

[lowbridge]

Jesse is just going where the money is.

"Look, Chavez. You gave one million bucks to Al-Qaeda. You operating on my side of the hemisphere, and you don't give me a taste. Whuzzup wid dat?"

[yoe]

Jessie Jackson making a fool of himself is nothing new...

Anyone got pictures of the Chavez Rule of Law?

[garyhope]

Whadda ya think? Oil money, oil bribes, oil money extortion. Anything to brown nose with anti-American commie thugs.

[doug from upland]

This is a rewrite of a song from 5 years ago. How time flies. J.C. Watts called Jesse a race-baiting poverty pimp. Watts was right on the mark. When the victim mentality goes away, the race-baiting poverty pimps will finally go away.

MIDI - FOLLOW THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD - scroll down to WIZARD OF OZ section

(note: I know that the original song really has nothing to do with the content of this parody, but it is the only song I found where "race-baiting poverty pimp" will fit. :)

Race-baiting poverty pimp…race-baiting poverty pimp
Reverend Jesse Jackson is a race-baiting poverty pimp
Where cameras roll, he's there to be found
His pearly whites seems are always around
It is time we say to him his message is gonna go down

Let's tell him we're rejecting those people dividing by race
Don't be afraid, we're stepping right up and slapping them in the face

His message has always been crystal clear
He's filling his people's heads with fear
He makes us fight among ourselves, it true
Jesse, it's time you are finally through
Jesse, it's time you are finally through

It's time to say to Jesse, that race-baiting poverty pimp
Your fifteen minutes came and went, and now you are looking quite limp

I've got a bumper sticker that's telling him "Run Jesse Run"
It's on the front, I'm warning him now, if I see him he is done
Of course I am kidding, but he is slime
Why would anybody send a dime
He's legendary as the shake down king
Where he appears, trouble he will bring
Where he appears, trouble he will bring

I'd love to see up skyward a wonderful colorful blimp
And read the words "Hey Jesse, you're a race-baiting poverty pimp"

[BigBobber]

The libs never met a thug they didn't love. If it were 1938 Jesse would be hugging Hitler.

[Brilliant]

Chavez threw Jackson some bait when he suggested that he would sell gasoline inexpensively to poor Americans.

[conservativeharleyguy]

Anyone interested in Venezuelan events should "Google" Venezuela and Hezbollah together.

We have long known of links between the Chavez dictatorship, Hezbollah and Hamas. Chavez has been providing sanctuary for them since day one of his regime. The information is there, it's just that few are looking, and fewer are acting on it.

The Venezuelan island of Margarita is now essentially a radical Islamic training camp on a par with those of the Afghani Taliban, and al'Queda in Pakistan and Sudan.

It's pretty simple. They are training to kill US!!!! These people have told us for 40 years that all they want to do is kill us, so it shouldn't have taken us by surprise when they started to do so.

The fact that Jesse Jackson is even visiting Chavez is proof enough of his radical marxist/maoist ideologies.

It's time to wake up America. Jesse isn't just some good old South Carolina Democrat preacher, he's a dedicated revolutionary.

[Lawgvr1955]

I think he went there to take a shot at Robertson and Republicans in general. I think he went there for $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.