Jesse Jackson: Beyond Stupid

Jesse Jackson's Cause du Jour this week was the execution of Stanley "Tookie" Williams up at San Quentin. Williams founded the "Crips" street gang in South Central L.A. several decades ago, and was sent to death row for brutally murdering 4 innocent people in cold blood, at point-blank range, with a shotgun. 25 years later it's time for him to pay the piper, and along comes Jesse Jackson to get a little news coverage for himself.

Obviously everyone expects this from Jackson by this point, but he went a step further with this cause: Besides being self-promoting and ridiculous in his assertions of Williams's innocence and "victim of the system" status, Jackson, a preacher, compared this murderous thug to the greatest biblical characters of all time.

A couple of weeks ago, I heard Jackson on the radio saying that Williams was like Moses: misunderstood. Then a few days later, he repeated this and added Saint Paul to the list of people Tookie was like. Finally, when Governor Schwarzenegger denied clemency for Williams, Jesse Jackson said the governor was like Pontius Pilate. That, of course, means Tookie Williams, multiple murderer and founder of one of the most violent street gangs in L.A., is like Jesus Christ himself.

Why the media or anyone continues to take Jesse Jackson seriously is way beyond me. Now the "Reverend" is out comparing killers to God. What is next?