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- Path: sparky!uunet!meaddata!johnt
- From: johnt@meaddata.com (John Townsend)
- Subject: Re: thEwIndBag bashes Rev. Jackson, again
- References: <19NOV199211484948@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu>
- Sender: news@meaddata.com (Usenet Administrator)
- Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:54:54 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.205454.2526@meaddata.com>
- Lines: 79
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- In article <19NOV199211484948@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu>, mitcheec@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu (Elliott Mitchell) writes:
-
- |> I only allow myself a little snippet of thEwIndBag's show each day, after
- |> all, I have a heart condition.
- |>
- |> Today he allowed as how he'd heard somewhere that Rev. Jackson was calling
- |> for demonstrations in the spring if Governor Clinton doesn't live up to
- |> Rev. Jackson's expectations. I have access to the AP newswire and so I
- |> looked for myself. I didn't find this statement (that doesn't mean he
- |> didn't make it, however). I did find reference to Jackson's viewing the
- |> film "Malcolm X." which thEwIndBag hinted that Rev. Jackson had skipped on
- |> purpose. Here follows the text of the update I sent to thEwIndBag on his
- |> Compu$erve account:
- |>
- |> Here is what I could find on the wire with respect to any news about Rev.
- |> Jesse Jackson in Birmingham. I couldn't find any reference to marching in
- |> the streets if Clinton fails. As you can see, it's just the copy
- |> associated with the television news clip fed over NewsOne. But you could
- |> send someone from the EIB building to the ABC building for whatever wire
- |> copy they have on the story (wink wink, nudge nudge)
-
- Hey, stupid, get a real news source. Here's the story from Lexis/Nexis:
-
- Copyright 1992 Globe Newspaper Company
- The Boston Globe
-
- November 18, 1992, Wednesday, City Edition
-
- SECTION: OP-ED; Pg. 19
-
- HEADLINE: Jesse Jackson's truce;
- DERRICK Z. JACKSON
-
- BYLINE: By Derrick Z. Jackson, Globe Staff
-
- BODY:
- WASHINGTON To Jesse Jackson, the alarm clock for President-elect Bill
- Clinton is ticking fast. In an interview last week, Jackson said: "When people's
- expectations are raised, they fight to protect their hopes. Under more
- progressive administrations, you have more demands, more action, because people
- believe something can happen.
-
- "And so you will see major action this spring, demonstrations, fighting to
- put America back to work, fighting for national health care, fighting for D.C.
- statehood. . . . I think he has an opportunity, a window here. There's a
- significant amount of legislation that Bush vetoed, like family leave, like
- motor-voter registration.
-
- "There's some stuff he could sign now that could gain for him a lot of trust,
- gain a lot of points. . . . We'll have more awareness of this transition"
- because of mass media "than ever before in history. People will be making
- judgments by Christmas."
-
- Jackson heaped neither warm praise nor hot criticism on Clinton. This was
- the year of the bitten lip for Jackson, and his public words remain tightly
- controlled. The 1984 and 1988 presidential candidate spent this fall quietly
- registering voters. This is after Clinton kicked sand on him in the Sister
- Souljah incident. This was despite a conspicuous noninvitation to campaign with
- the Clinton-Gore ticket.
-
- Jackson said this was "annoying." But there was too much at stake to do open
- battle with Clinton. There was Carol Moseley Braun's US Senate race in Illinois
- as well as many other candidates of color and women for Congress.
-
- "Think of it as a burning house, and your children are in the house,"
- Jackson said. "How you approach it would be quite different than if it were
- empty. You might go in it if your children are in there. . . . If I had spent a
- lot of time attacking him in a way that diminished these numbers, we could have
- lost some congressmen we were trying to get."
-
- ...etc.
-
- Gee, this is what Rush has been saying all along.
-
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