Editorials/The Left Unscathed/Jesse Steals the Show
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS JESSE STEALS THE SHOW W hich aspiring Democratic presidential candidate compares the American military's action in Panama with the massacre of defenseless protesters in Tiananmen Square...
...Jackson's spokesman cites the Caribbean Action Lobby as the source of the Rev.'s intelligence on Panama...
...Thus I think we can all see why absent the Rev...
...No, he is not the most prominent Democrat...
...The redoubtable Rev...
...Jackson...
...Now, that is the enlightened source of this prominent presidential candidate's utterances, and he ventilates his extremist claptrap regularly, sometimes on national television, sometimes before distinguished Democratic audiences...
...Once again he was making an extremist point from the swales of the far left...
...Is it the benign Speaker of the House...
...On "Good Morning America" he said our action was similar to those Soviet invasions...
...A Washington journalist tried and finally found a telephone number somewhere in Brooklyn where a somewhat distracted lady, speaking over the din of noisy children, suggested calling back in a few days...
...and their candidate is the Rev...
...He said our troops were burying Panamanian civilians "in mass graves," and that the corpses numbered more than 1,200...
...Jackson...
...There are many nice, polite Democrats at all levels of American government...
...It is the misfortune of mainstream Democrats that about the time that former Senator George McGovern won the Democratic presidential nomination these left-wing anti-Americans gained a hoofhold in the Democratic party...
...Jesse Jackson, and he did it on ABC-TV's "Good Morning America" the morning of January 8. When the average American is asked to name the most prominent Democrat in the country, who do you suppose he names most frequently...
...With the Rev...
...EDITORIALS JESSE STEALS THE SHOW W hich aspiring Democratic presidential candidate compares the American military's action in Panama with the massacre of defenseless protesters in Tiananmen Square by the loathsome Chinese Twenty-Seventh Army...
...No, again...
...Jackson on the national scene the Democrats would be in rather bad odor with the American people...
...They have not been dislodged...
...He is a left-wing rigorist, whose presence reminds ordinary Americans that not all anti-Americans live in Libya...
...No normal mind would think of such a wild comparison, but do you know that the Rev...
...You know, the one who replaced that wheeler-dealez Texan, Jim Wright...
...Well, would it be the Congressman whc had the homosexual prostitute staying in his home, or, perhaps, the recent House Whip who absconded from Washington before the Ethics Committee sent a posse comitatus out to haul him in...
...Their problem is that there are also many irresponsible rogues among the party's eminences...
...meant...
...This he declared when most estimates settled on 300 civilians killed, and when there was relief on all sides that the tyrant Noriega was in irons...
...Early in the month at a prayer service honoring New York's Mayor David Dinkins he declared Christ's birthplace "under occupation" by Israel...
...These, are not the statements of an ordinary Democrat, an ordinary black Democrat, or even an ordinary liberal Democrat...
...You know, Congressman What's-HisName, the one who just had his dog, Alice, put to sleep...
...It is an organization that is very hard to track down...
...The most prominent Democrat of all is either Senator Edward Kennedy, the guy whose Oldsmobile could not swim, or, and perhaps a point or two more frequently mentioned, the Rev...
...They are the statements ofa far-out left-wing zealot receiving ideas from fringe groups such as something called the Caribbean Action Lobby...
...Comparing our invasion of Panama with the Chinese army's slaughter of its fellow citizens in Tiananmen Square is as irrational a flight of malevolence as it would be to compare our invasion of Panama with the Soviets' past invasions of Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Afghanistan...
...Jackson's did, and he is right now quite possibly the frontrunner for the 1992 Democratic presidential nomination...
...Left-wing fringe groups, as alienated from America as are their right-wing equivalents, now figure prominently at every Democratic presiden8 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR MARCH 1990 tial convention...
...Well, those who now occupy Beth- lehem are its original inhabitants, Christ's fellow Jews...
...The Rev...
...But that is not what the Rev...
...He said we had lost our claim to moral high ground...
...Jackson on the scene they are in worse odor...
...and Jesse is the most irresponsible of all...
...He is not just an insufferable ass...
...Many are as far to the left as various right-wing fringe groups are far to the right, but right-wing fringe groups are beyond the bounds of the Republican party...
...THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR MARCH 1990 9...
Vol. 23 • March 1990 • No. 3
