Word: jacksonism
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...George W. Bush thought enough of the necessity for what Tom Wolfe called "steam control" to talk to Jackson on the phone last week and to arrange a meeting with him. Whence comes Jackson's legitimacy, his presumed authority to speak for black America? Is it real? Or done with media mirrors...
...started thinking about the legitimacy of Jesse Jackson. A few minutes before Gephardt, Jackson was Russert's guest on "Meet the Press." Jackson has become unelected pontifex maximus of African America. He makes the rounds of the media, dispensing what is presumed to be the outrage of all blacks at what is presumed to be their disenfranchisement. He was the leadoff voice in an op-ed symposium in the Sunday New York Times on the question, "Can Bush Mend His Party's Rift With Black America...
There are two things you have to say about Jackson Pollock: He figured out a way to paint as no one before him ever had, and he was, as a human being, a shambles - drunken, depressed, disloyal and near to moronically inarticulate. The only way to approach his short and miserable life (he died in a possibly suicidal car crash at age 44) is as an insoluble mystery, and that's precisely what Harris, the star, director and co-producer of Pollock, does. The script by Barbara Turner and Susan J. Emshwiller offers no explanation of the painter's dysfunction...
...Jesse Jackson says the Supreme Court's action was equivalent to the Dred Scott decision - and we all know where the Dred Scott decision led. (Nonetheless, Jackson, with his demagogue's mastery of footwork, phoned the President-elect to talk unity...
...fight that splashed read and blue paint all the way up the Supreme Court steps. They were cynical about politics before; now they know how far politics goes. But it wasn't the stuff of revolution then and it won't be now. Unless Jesse "this is Dred Scott" Jackson really catches...