[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]FLU: Wow. Good for Rogers, and that was an excellent response to a thinly veiled attempt at a shakedown.
Sharpton uses the same tactics, and intimidates his targets with a combination of accusations of racism, white guilt and good old fashioned guile.
Jackson is also a media junkie and I doubt he appreciates Obama’s rock star status with the MSM.
What is truly a shame is that Jackson was involved with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (you can see Jackson on the hotel balcony where King was shot, pointing in the direction of the shooter, James Earl Ray, in a photograph taken on the day of the shooting) during the toughest part of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. To go from there to where he is now…[/quote]
Actually Jackson’s actions caused a rift with Kings window that never actually healed. I know this because I lived in Atlanta for 15 years or so and it was discussed there.
Jackson was not standing with King when he was shot. He ran over with the others and smeared King’s blood on his sweater and then presented himself to the media as playing a role in the chaos.
It irritated Mrs King to no end that Jackson grandstanded during the incident.
