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IS DEFIANT JESSE'S CORE OF SUPPORT CRUMBLING?
New York Post-Thursday, January 25, 2001
By ROD DREHER
Moral leader or political hack? WHEN he arrives on the floor of
the New York Stock Exchange for a lavish fund-raising gala
tonight, the Rev. Jesse Jackson could be partying on the deck of
his own personal Titanic.
Serious new questions are arising about the propriety and
legality of Jackson's role drumming up business for minority
allies on Wall Street - and that's making some financial bigs
nervous about the preacher man from Chicago.
On the surface, Jackson's pull with the financial titans appears
intact.
A $7.1 billion bond deal, one of the largest ever, was announced
yesterday at the Wall Street Project conference. Jackson's
cronies all got a cut of the action.
"Jesse is unrepentant, but his power is undiminished," fumed one
insider.
We shall see. An emboldened Jackson used the pulpit at the Canaan
Baptist Church on Tuesday night to launch another attack on
George W. Bush's legitimacy. I'm not sure that a man with
Jackson's peculiar financial arrangements is smart to call anyone
else a thief, particularly the man who controls the IRS and the
Securities and Exchange Commission.
But that's our Jesse, brazen to the last. It's costing him
elsewhere, though. The randy reverend's handling of his tawdry
personal life is losing him support in what has long been his
mainstay: the black church.
To the uninformed, Tuesday night's prayer meeting for Jesse at
Canaan Baptist must have looked good for Jackson.
Rep. Charlie Rangel, state Comptroller Carl McCall, McCall's city
counterpart Alan Hevesi and other Democratic bigs showed up to
back the embattled activist.
But others within African-American church circles were more
surprised by who wasn't there: powerful New York City black
clergymen like Calvin Butts, Floyd Flake, A.R. Bernard, Gary
Simpson, Franklin Richardson, and their followers.
"These are churchgoing people who are very offended by his
behavior and lack of remorse," said one observer. "The turnout
shows that Jesse has gone from being a moral leader to nothing
but a political hack."
"Jesse is not sorry at all," said another person at church.
The source reported that some members of the audience "looked at
each other and shook their heads" when Jackson showed up without
his wife, who was expected, but with a controversial woman in his
entourage, someone other than Karin Stanford, who he admits bore
his love child.
Chutzpah? You bet. But what do you expect from a man who sent out
a March 19, 1999, fax to Rainbow/PUSH Coalition supporters noting
that Stanford was taking maternity leave - and named someone else
as the father!
The one high-profile black minister who did make a big show at
Jesse-palooza was, of course, the Rev. Al Sharpton, who organized
the event.
Is Rev. Al really standing by Jackson? Don't be naive.
Sharpton is no dummy. He stands to gain the most if Jackson
should fall. His outward display of solidarity with Jackson
masked a deft assertion of power. Jesse, until last week the most
powerful politician in black America, is now beholden to Rev. Al.
"That was an in-your-face move. [Sharpton] was saying, �You can't
come to New York without coming through me first,'" said a
well-placed source.
"It was a real comeuppance for Jesse to have to do that after
he'd been having this well-publicized feud with Sharpton. The
truth is, Jesse is over. Sharpton's the one who can get people on
the street."
At Tuesday night's lovefest, Congressman Rangel railed against
the media for picking on poor Jesse.
"This is what I say to the press: Get over it!" Rangel bellowed.
What the congressman chooses not to notice is that much of the
heat being put on Jackson is coming from prominent liberal black
columnists like Clarence Page, Cynthia Tucker, E.R. Shipp and
Jack White.
Said one African-American close to the story: "The only media
people protecting Jesse are guilty white liberals."
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