WORD OF RELEASE CHEERS PRISONERS' FAMILIESBy WILLIAM R. GREER (NYT); Foreign Desk
June 28, 1984, Thursday
NYTimes, Section A, Page 5, Column 1, 664 words
The families of 22 Americans whom the Cuban Government agreed yesterday to release from prison began receiving official confirmation from the State Department last night that their relatives would be returning home today. Many of the family members praised the Rev. Jesse Jackson for apparently securing the release of ...
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4 comments:
Those were definitely the days. I don't if Jackson changed, the media changed or I changed.
He is an ambulance chaser and an egomaniac crank.
Well Skip, you might be right. You wouldn't be the first to reduce Jesse Jackson to ambulance chaser.
That certainly is what Fox reports, CNN implies, The Washington Post suggests and 90% of Jewish writers say straight up.
The Reverend has not had good press in years.
Jesse could rescue a baby from a burning building in the morning, solve the mortgage crisis before lunch and catch Bin Laden in a motel with 2 ho's in the evening, and they would still call him a publicity seeker.
But if you peep where he is steering the dialog, I'd take 1 Jesse Jackson over 50 Harold Ford Jr.'s.
He just seems like a washed up religious/political crank to me.
People use him as a go between sometimes, because he is always willing to play to the media.
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