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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: d.taggart who wrote (122049)	1/14/2001 6:29:19 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 769667

The truth about Race Huckster Rev. Jackson and voter "disenfranchisement". When Jesse Jackson’s Lips Are Moving … Neal Boortz Friday, Jan. 12, 2001 Back in December America’s pre-eminent publicity whore, Jesse Jackson, was in Florida leading protest marches and bleating into microphones. He was on every major network newscast, seemingly every night, saying that George W. Bush and Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris had organized the Florida election in such a way as to deny blacks and other minority voters access to the polls. Jackson said that there was a "pattern of voter suppression" by state and law enforcement officials that prohibited minorities from voting. The NAACP then chimed in, saying that minority voters had been prevented from casting ballots. There was something odd about Jackson’s ranting, though. Neither he nor the NAACP produced one single legally registered black voter who was denied the opportunity to vote. I told you then that they weren’t producing disenfranchised voters because they couldn’t find any. As is so often the case when Jesse Jackson speaks, it was all blather. It was all lies. Yesterday Jesse Jackson and the NAACP had a chance to put up. They didn’t. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights held a hearing in Tallahassee – at Jackson’s insistence – to investigate the charges. No Jesse Jackson. No NAACP. Nothing. So, who testified? We had a man who said that he saw unmanned police cars near a polling precinct on Election Day. He thought that was unusual. He went ahead and cast his vote. We had a preacher who said he had been taken from the voting rolls when he was misidentified as a convicted felon. One call to the election supervisor settled things and he cast his vote. Then we had a woman who was stopped at a police license-check roadblock miles from her precinct. They asked for her driver’s license. She produced it and was allowed to proceed. She says she was "intimidated," but she voted. Three witnesses, and not one of them had been denied their opportunity to vote. No other witness showed up to say that he or she was actually denied the opportunity to vote. Now, why wasn’t Jackson there? It’s not hard to figure out. It’s one thing to walk down a street chanting slogans, to rant for the network news cameras about blacks being turned away from the polls. Its one thing to stand out there and demand investigations, but it’s quite another thing to actually show up at the hearing you have called for, raise your hand, swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, and then either commit perjury or admit that you haven’t found one single black who was denied a legal right to cast a vote. Jackson’s absence speaks volumes. Now we know. In spite of Jackson’s foaming at the mouth, there has not been, nor is there now ANY meaningful evidence that there was ANY attempt on the part of ANY public officials to keep ANY blacks from casting their votes. Jackson, once again, has been exposed as a blowhard race-baiter. Do you think it will mean that he’s going to be getting less face time on the news shows? Yeah, sure. Let’s address this poor, poor pitiful woman who was so intimidated at that license-check roadblock. Just how was she intimidated? She was asked for her driver’s license. That’s all. That’s it. They asked her for her driver’s license and she wants to testify that it was an attempt by racist whites to keep her from voting. Isn’t that just nifty? We’ve reached the point in this country where the very act of setting up a police roadblock to check for licenses, insurance or boozed-up drivers is an act of racial intimidation. Instead of putting up signs on the highway that read "police roadblock ahead," they ought to just say it like it is with a sign, "police intimidation ahead." Let’s see, in New Jersey we’ll soon be having cops waving black traffic violators off because of a de facto quota system that is being initiated on traffic stops. Maybe in Florida we should have a policy of just waving blacks through license and insurance check roadblocks. Don’t want to intimidate anyone, you know. Oh, and did you catch Jesse Jackson recently on CNN’s "Late Edition"? Jackson uttered these rather strange words about George W. Bush: "Bush stopped drinking at age 40. He drank longer than Dr. [Martin Luther] King lived, at age 39. I'm not sure what all this means." Huh? That makes two of us, Jesse. What on Earth are you talking about? What does the age at which Bush gave up alcohol have to do with the age at which Martin Luther King Jr. was when he was assassinated? Of what possible significance is this comparison? Now, we know that Jackson had some goal in mind when he issued this comparison. Was it just a weak way to mention George W. Bush and the assassination of MLK in one sentence? Is this a take-off of that NAACP election television ad that sought to tie the name of George Bush to the dragging death of a black man behind a redneck’s pickup truck? And, if George W. Bush did drink longer than MLK lived, that would mean that Bush started boozing at the age of, oh, about one. Again, even though this man continues on a regular basis to make a complete ass out of himself, look for the leftist media to continue their fawning over his every pronouncement.