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Jackson
Stirs Controversy to Advance his Agenda
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By Paul M. Weyrich
CNSNews.com Commentary
November 16, 2001
Oh, the Reverend Jesse Jackson
is fuming. He has himself worked up in a real lather. He is
crying "foul ball". He is so angry he can't see
straight.
What's wrong with Jesse? Has the Attorney General in Illinois
or the IRS finally looked into his finances? Or is his onetime
mistress demanding more child support money? No, it is none of
the above. You see, what has Old Jesse up in a froth is that
George Bush won the presidency.
A consortium of newspapers, including USA Today and the
Washington Post and several other papers (none
conservative) spent a year counting and recounting in all the
various configurations which were a consideration in the
November 2000 election. Over and over again, to their
surprise, they found that George Bush won the election. This
included the over-vote and the under-vote, vote configurations
which are simply not valid in any other election in America.
The newspaper consortium was terribly surprised that it wasn't
the U.S. Supreme Court that really delivered the election to
George Bush. It was the voters of Florida who delivered the
election to the Governor of Texas. The only possibility for a
Gore victory was if every county in Florida was recounted, and
under the most liberal standards. But Vice President Gore
never asked for that recount. The recount of four counties
which he did ask for produced a clear-cut Bush victory.
But Jackson is angry because he says the newspaper consortium
failed to take into account all sorts of grievances he had
raised late last year. Perhaps that is because the charges
Jackson made at the time were also investigated many times
over and over by both federal and state authorities which
could find no justification for the complaints.
In fact the only institution which did find merit to Jackson's
complaints was a partisan majority of the U.S. Civil Rights
Commission. The Commission, during the Clinton years, acquired
ideological blinders. As is the case with Jackson, unless you
accept what they charge as being valid, you are racist and
unwilling to stand with the disenfranchised downtrodden.
The one chance Jesse Jackson has of electing Janet Reno as Governor of Florida over Jeb
Bush, the president's incumbent brother, is to convince the
Black and Hispanic communities that Al Gore had the election
stolen from him. In that case the minorities will turn out in
record numbers and will drive Jeb Bush from office.
The more that objective observers, such as this newspaper
consortium, conclude that Bush really is our legitimate
president, the more that Jackson and his associates look
foolish. Reasonable minorities, who are just every bit as
patriotic as the rest of Americans, want to put this issue
behind us. Vice President Gore and his running mate Senator
Lieberman of Connecticut say that want the issue put aside.
"George Bush is our president and we must stay united
behind him," Gore said when informed of the study.
So if the two men who lost the closest election in modern
times are satisfied that the election wasn't stolen from them
(and if anyone would have a right to complain it would be
these two) then just where does Jackson get off trying to
continue the fight? It is as I said. For Jackson to prevail he
must keep Blacks and Hispanics angry. Too bad for him that now
the only minorities who continue to be angry are the fringe.
The rest are proud to be Americans and proud to serve their
nation. By screaming bloody murder over this newspaper
consortium study Jackson looks like a sore loser, which he is
likely to be a year from now as well if he keeps up this
shameful act.
Copyright 2001, Free
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