From: johnt@meaddata.com (John Townsend)
Subject: Re: thEwIndBag bashes Rev. Jackson, again
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:54:54 GMT

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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