Just when I say something nice about Jesse Jackson he goes and puts his worst foot forward again.

It was one of those very rare moments in time when I found cause to compliment the current 'King of the Poverty Pimps' himself, Jesse Jackson, for his very accurate description of the real unemployment numbers in America and the demographic that are the most affected by it, even though he failed to report that the group taking the jobs that should be going to many of the millions who are unemployed are illegal immigrants because they're probably a revenue source for him, but he at least made the point that the numbers being reported by the government are grossly understated. Then I get this email that's verifiable on Snopes and my new found respect for the 'Jet Stream' flies out the proverbial window.

It appears that The Reverend has taken pity on one of the state of Illinois' most noteworthy low level weasels, Mel Reynolds. Some quick history is in order, the dishonorable former Honorable Mr. Reynolds worked his way up through the system of Chicago politics and eventually won himself a seat as a Congressman from his district in the great Windy City only to have his political fortunes dashed by his bad behavior, specifically having sex with an underage staffer/volunteer, and that ain't all your honor, he was actually convicted of 12 counts of sexual assault, obstruction of justice and the granddaddy of them all, solicitation of child pornography, as the old saying goes 'not only his penis was working overtime, it was doing all of his thinking'. He resigned from Congress, got five years and then was convicted on unrelated charges of bank fraud, lying to SEC investigators, got 78 additional months and was pardoned by none other than Slick Willie himself, what a political resume.

So, as fate would have it the Good Reverend Jackson was apparently in need of a youth counselor for his Rainbow/PUSH Coalition organization recently and guess whose name floated up through the slime that covers the Chicago river, you guessed it , Mel Reynolds.

I'm just guessing that because of his political background and the fact that probably half of his former peers in Congress are of the same ilk, he managed to skate on the 'sex offender' moniker that most people get when they get caught banging a minor or soliciting child pornography. So based on Jesse's and 42's track records for porking staffers Mel must seem like one of the guy's. But then who knows, this may be a real step up in staffing for the Coalition.

Thanks for reading,

"Let the punishment match the offense".
Marcus Tillius Cicero
106 BC - 43 BC
Roman Statesman, Philosopher

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