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Scattered Shower of Journalism? CNN Confronts Jesse Jackson Over Chicago’s High Gun Violence Despite Draconian Gun Laws

Dec. 28, 2012 3:23pm

Longtime listeners of Glenn Beck know the radio host has a recurring bit he does when the mainstream media — seemingly out of nowhere — performs a tough interview or asks tough questions. He calls it “scattered showers of journalism.” And it was pouring on the CNN set on Friday.

During a segment on Chicago reportedly hitting the sad milestone of its 500th homicide in 2012 (there is now a discrepancy), the Rev. Jesse Jackson was asked to explain how gun violence in Chicago can be so high despite the Draconian gun laws. Additionally, the host pointed out that if such gun laws were enacted on a larger scale, couldn’t we expect a similar rise in violence in other big cities?

Jackson squirmed, and even oddly tried to blame gun ranges for the massacre: “You know, I think about Newtown, for example, they have three or four gun ranges. Now, there are no gun ranges in Chicago.Β  [They] have almost no unemployment. … Newtown is so different than the complexity of the urban crisis.”

But the host didn’t back down.

“Rev. Jackson, I’m going to make one more turn at this question, because the original question was, Chicago has some of the strictest and most tough gun laws in the country,” he said boldly. “If this level of gun laws doesn’t work in Chicago, and you still have the guns coming from outside the city in, and now you got 500 homicides this year, what is the argument to extending this nationally and to other cities?”

Jackson responded that “the guns are not coming from Chicago,” but the host noted that Chicago still isn’t working as a model for gun control considering 87 percent of the homicides were gun-related.

“Chicago is in a bubble as the manufacturer β€” we’re a target market for gun flow. And they exploit the poverty and the pain,” he said, before expanding the blame on “lack of education and lack of dreams.”

In other words, he seemed to admit that stopping violence isn’t really all about guns.

Watch the exchange below via Mediaite:

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  • FaithfulFriend
    Posted on December 28, 2012 at 4:05pm

    I think what jerkson was trying to say was that Chicago is not politically progressive enough and white enough.

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    • cessna152
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 4:48pm

      I think Jackson said ” we need a plan…ummm….we eed a plan….ummmm….we …ummmmmm…..duh….Newtown…..whitey…..Bush…..ummmmm……..Urban…Ummmmmm.”

      These freaking progressives don’t know what to do when confronted with facts.

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    • Baerlin
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 5:05pm

      I live in a suburb north of Chicago and every Monday morning I turn on the news and I hear of the weekend shootings and the deaths that are related. No weekend passes without 4-5 deaths and multiple injuries. I have yet to see or hear Jackson or Sharpton calling out for an end to the violence. Couple of loud mouth hypocrits.

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    • SgtB
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 5:43pm

      Funny how this Marine felt more safe and at ease in Iraq than he would on nearly any street in any big city in our nation. Not to mention streets with the name of a famous man with a dream. More people are killed here in the U.S. on an annual basis than are killed fighting overseas in our unnecessary and unwinnable wars on terrorism.

      Also, on an only slightly related topic; how is it that we live in a nation that exports fiction novels and movies that regularly depict a star rising above government oppression and defeating countless enemies, but so many of us just shirk and bend over when our own governing body want to insert said body into their anuses? Why aren’t we doing what we should and taking these corrupt politicians and tarring and feathering them or confiscating their ill-gotten taxpayer wealth?

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    • IIIcorp
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 5:46pm

      He hasn’t figured out how to make a dime off it yet.

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    • turkey13
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 6:08pm

      I bet Jessie Jackson wouldn’t be caught down in the hood after dark even with his bodyguard. All he had to answer the CNN speaker was that those 400 + homicides were thugs and gang war – The Chicago way. Most of the gang deaths were the ones that brought a knife to a gun fight.

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    • Bum thrower
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 6:32pm

      Guess the “War on Poverty” is turned into a ‘shooting war’…..LOL…How’s the “Great Society” working out for you guys…hmmmm; not to mention ‘Hope & Change”…..this liberalism swill has been pushed down peoples thorats for 50+ years, and now we are reaping the benefit of unbirdled liberalism…by the way Jessie, seen your ‘love child’ lately?

      Two bit ‘poverty pimp’….

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    • Mil Mom
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 8:09pm

      @cessna152
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 4:48pm

      I think Jackson said ” we need a plan…ummm….we eed a plan….ummmm….we …ummmmmm…..duh….Newtown…..whitey…..Bush…..ummmmm……..Urban…Ummmmmm.”

      These freaking progressives don’t know what to do when confronted with facts
      ***
      You got his message perfect, might add, we don’t have jobs & education, or dreams because we’ve reached our utopia, and it ain’t!

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    • rangerskippy
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:39pm

      heck, why stop with Chicago.

      Ask Jackson why blacks make up 12.5% of the population, but do half of the nation’s murders. Most of the murders are done with cheap handguns. The “assault rifle” kills less folks than knives do.

      If Jackson and crowd could bring black murder rates down to where white murder rates are, they would drop the nation’s murder rate by almost 40%, and save a whole lot of black lives.

      We do know that libs, and the professional race hustlers are not about saving black lives. If they were, they would call for the abortion clinics to be taken out of the black neibhborhoods. if they were concerned about black murder rates, they would stand up against violent rap music.

      if they were really concenred about black murder, they would see that it is intrinsically tied to welfare, and the programs from the left.

      Jackson is about lining his own greedy pockets with money.

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    • Lord_Frostwind
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:50pm

      Vance, really? I wasn’t aware of that, and for such a lofty claim I’m sure you can add the link to the article or show where he said that.

      Back to the matter at hand, it is fun to watch people squirm when they have the evidence that their idea doesn’t work. For all the coddling the media does for guys like Jackson, it’s good to see it when they decide to sweat them a little.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:55pm

      Vance Upper cut.

      Try again you lame troll.

      “”Hitler and all of the people in the Third Reich – they were all doing the same thing,” he said, suggesting that they complained of inheriting a “bad situation” from the Weimar Republic just as Mr Obama has stated he was left with an economy wrecked by George W. Bush.”

      “Beck’s co-host, Stu Burguiere attempted to make clear that they were not suggesting “gas chambers” were being “built in Kansas”.”

      http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8664738/Glenn-Beck-likens-Obama-administration-to-the-Third-Reich.html

      Vance LMAO @ U.

      You are such a lame polemicist & troll.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:00pm

      Vance

      And political camps for kids does sound creepy. Young princes & princesses being groomed of succession. I man god knows they wouldn’t want to be an accountant, electrician or business owner. Oh no, they must be set up to be ruling class. That is lame & it is frightening.

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    • B440
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:01pm

      Ranger skippy- spot on!! Well said.

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    • Cemoto78
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:05pm

      The acorn didn’t fall too far from the tree with the Jackson’s, they’re both nuttier than a fruitcake. Sure wish daddy would be able to share a cell with junior.

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    • OlefromMN
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:06pm

      You have to give him a little credit. When he speaks of “lack of education”, he speaks from the heart.

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    • jhrusky
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:15pm

      Jackson is a textbook example of a black whore. And before anyone jumps up and screams, “RACIST!” at me, no … I’m not racist. I just call a spade a spade.

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    • SendTheMeteors
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:07pm

      “Draconian gun laws”? Every other industrialized Democracy in the world has more restrictive gun laws than those in the United States of America. Every single one. So gun laws in the US are “draconian?” By what standard? Not the standard of other Democracies. So then, by what standard are US gun laws “draconian?” US gun laws are draconian only when compared to lawless countries who have no gun laws.

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    • jhrusky
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:26pm

      @ sendthemeteors

      I don’t believe one has to compare place X to place Y in order to proclaim place X having ‘draconian gun laws’.

      DraΒ·coΒ·niΒ·an [drey-koh-nee-uh n, druh-]
      adjective
      1. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Draco or his code of laws.
      2. ( often lowercase ) rigorous; unusually severe or cruel:

      Definition #2 will fit depending upon the mindset of the person proclaiming the law is draconian. ‘Severe’ and ‘cruel’ can be relative terms, just as ‘rich’ and ‘poor’ can be.

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:43pm

      When you check out Austrailia’s crime rate after they disarmed them..if you go to the US gov stats for Austrailia..crime..homicides etc went down..If you go to Austrailia’s stats website..robberies like home invasions were up something like 44% and homicides were up also..There is definitely an agenda here..It’s called Agenda 21..Just remember that after disarming other countries..the commies went in and slaughered 56 million people..If they did that now in other countries..there is no way Americans would turn over their arms..Kid Gloves..

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    • SendTheMeteors
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 12:12am

      jhrusky you get points for posting the definition of the word “draconian.” But you lose points for suggesting that the meaning an individual gives to a word is as valid as the way the meaning the rest of the world gives to that word. Were that true, language would have no meaning.

      But you are onto something. If I say that the requirement to stop my car at a stop sign is a “draconian” requirement, according to me, then I can feel comfortable not stopping at intersections. And because it’s draconian, and therefore illegitimate, then I, and everybody, has no obligation to follow traffic regulations, because in my mind they are draconian and restrict my freedom to drive as I choose.

      Please, jhrusky, tell me where in the Constitution of the United States of American does it say I can’t drive my car when I want, as fast as I want and prohibits me from driving through any intersection I want when I want. Look for it jhrusky and you won’t find a single dang thing in the Constitution that prohibits me from driving my car however I want. And you are un-American for suggesting otherwise!

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    • Obama_Sham
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 12:56am

      Sendthemeteors…

      Please tell me where it states in the Constitution that we are a democracy… Comparing us to other “industrialized democracies” is draconian…

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    • Justthefactsmam
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 4:52am

      @sendthemeteors You are confusing right’s affirmed by the constition, ie the 2nd amendment, with privileges granted by the state. You have the PRIVILEGE of driving a car, as long as you abide by the laws concerning driving. If you are going to compare things, make sure it’s an apples to apples comparision, not an apples to zebras comparision.

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    • denispaul
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 6:18am

      yesterday an armed man trying to steal a gold chain was shot dead by the victim.

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    • SavvyCowboy
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 7:23am

      The reverend Jacksonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnah failed miserably to get his obummer regime (ie polit bureau) talking points across to the interviewer. With 3 viewers CNN is attempting to appear like an actual news agency rather than part of the polit bureau. My guess is the host was taken out and was summarily executed by the regime yesterday.

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    • rangerskippy
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 8:06am

      sendthemeatballs is a typicl lib in his hatred for America.

      One has to know that in the history of the world, we have only been around for a little over 200 years, making us a very young nation.

      When compared to other nations, we are the beacon of freedom, and our constitution is unique. The founding fathers recognized certain rights that already belong to the people, and that the gov only protects these rights. One of those rights is our right to keep and bear arms.

      Meatball like to clamor on and on about the murder stats of other nations, but there is one statistic that he just hates to hear, and refuse to talk about.

      He hates when we remind him that our murder rate is intrinsically tied to our welfare population. He hates when we remind him that our black population is only 12% of the total pop, but they do half of the nation’s murders. If black murder rates were the same as whites, we would lower the nation’s murder rate by a huge 40%.

      Meatball claims to have a college education, but I somehow doubt it, or he would find these stats significant.

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    • mersey
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 8:08am

      We need to make an analogy the progressives can understand, since they are the lowest common denominator of intelligence. Look at all the drug laws we have in place for the use and distribution of illegal drugs in America. Does that stop the average progressive from getting stoned in Mommy’s basement every day? Do progressives have problems buying the drugs they enjoy so much? I think not. What makes you think gun laws will be any different? The only people laws effect are those who live by them, and that surely doesn’t include progressives. Your little Utopia will always be a figment of your imagination. Grow up kids!

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    • jhrusky
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 8:42am

      @ sendthemeteors

      “Stop” is a fairly easy to understand word. It’s hard to interpret wrongly what the word means. “Excesive” or “Sever” are the opposite… the definition of words as such are in the minds of the beholders. You may think it’s excessive to possess more than 100 rounds of ammunition while I think it’s perfectly normal to have 5000 rounds. You may think it’s excessive to have a house over 3000 square foot while I might think it’s normal to have a 7000 square foot home.

      Back to “stop” … I don’t believe you can make an argument that such a word can mean different things.

      As to ‘where in the constitution…”? There is none. The Constitution doesn’t say you have a right to drive a car. The state gives you that privledge should you abide by the rules they require you to obey in order to use that privledge.

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    • PPMStudios
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 8:59am

      @ SendTheMeteors

      You need to work on your comprehension when you read something.

      The article says that Chicago has draconian gun laws, not the U.S. But then again, you idiotic knee-jerk liberals don’t ever pay attention to facts do you?

      Why don’t you put a sign in your front yard which states: “My home is a gun-free zone”? No balls huh?

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 9:21am

      Make no mistake people, progs like Send and others have guns in their homes. Oh yeah. It is the guns in the hands of CONSERVATIVES that they don’t like. If you are ever in a swamp, and you see a prog, shoot quickly, and shoot straight. They will have guns. Don’t be stupid folks. The only good prog is ………..

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    • SLAPTHELEFT
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 9:27am

      What he was trying to say is that it’s the fault of people who do not live in Chicago for the things that black people do in Chicago.

      He’s got the blame game figured out. Typical progressive.

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    • SLAPTHELEFT
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 9:32am

      Listened to him again to give him the benefit of the doubt but….

      Yup he’s a moron. Congrats black people on another unqualified black leader. Youre doing great. Keep voting progressive.

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    • Quiata
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 10:21am

      “There is nothing more painful to me at this stage of my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start to think about robbery, and then see it’s somebody white and feel relieved.”
      Jesse Jackson

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    • Quiata
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 10:26am

      @SENDTHEMETEORS/JZS “Every other industrialized Democracy in the world has more restrictive gun laws than those in the United States of America”

      But not more restrictive than Chicago (or D.C., or New York City….)

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    • WarMunger_Al
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 10:42am

      “Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.” – Mohandas Gandhi, an Autobiography, page 446.

      Liberals are brain dead zombies. They are a blight on society and an enemy of freedom

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    • Quiata
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 10:44am

      @SEND Draconian histories: China. Germany. Cuba. Cambodia. Soviet Union. Figure out the common denominator.

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    • ccfonten
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 10:47am

      Jackson is getting supider and stupider (my own word!) every day!
      He and Al Sharpton couldn’t put together a coherent and logical sentence for the life of either of them.
      Somebody do us all a favor and hope that both of these idiots have a permanent case of laryngitis!!

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    • drbage
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 11:28am

      “lack of education,” Rev. Jackson??!! Chicago teachers are among the highest paid in the country and because someone had a random thought that the teachers should be held accountable, they went on strike and got a payraise–for what? For producing functionally illiterate students? For producing future feckless politicians living off of the taxpayers’ teat? For producing students whose strongest knowledge is how to game the system and live off the backs of those who do work and do struggle to make a living? It used to be that living off the govt was a shame, but now it is viewed as a badge of honor.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 11:46am

      SendTheMeteors

      Meteors got “schooled” by JHRUSKY. No drama, no name calling just a simple definition of the wprd Draconian.

      I noticed that Meteors is posting later & later. Always trying to get in the last word in. Some of the stories posted to are a day or more old. My surmise is that they want to influence some future reader that since their post was not replied to and/or refuted, then it must be received wisdom.

      JZS use to do this. I nicknamed him late hits. I started noticing this pattern with Meteors. So I looked at JZS’s last post date & Meteors join date. There is a month gap in between. Maybe it is nothing. But maybe the metadata will show the same IP address range.
      There is at least one paid troll at this site trying to sway opinion with specious arguments. that would be Etchi-skecth (or something like that). They have a new handle now.

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      Walkabout  
    • Walkabout
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 11:48am

      Meteors

      It is hard to have a back & forth argument when someone no longer posts during the day, but now mostly posts around midnight. Hiding?

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      Walkabout  
    • NewCreationDave
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 11:51am

      SGTB:

      Right on target!

      And this says it all:
      https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7950634/It%27s%20a%20free%20country.pdf

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    • edcoil
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 11:57am

      ” what is the argument to extending this nationally and to other cities?”

      Because all failed government programs are expanded.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 12:01pm

      SendTheMeteors
      jhrusky you get points for posting the definition of the word β€œdraconian.” But you lose points for suggesting that the meaning an individual gives to a word is as valid as the way the meaning the rest of the world gives to that word. Were that true, language would have no meaning.
      ***
      No that paragraph is a bunch of horsefeathers & Meteors knows it. The definition of draconian or any other word in the dictionary is how the word is understood by millions.

      Meteors attempts to say that the definition is understood that way be an individual in an attempt to disparage the argument.

      Meteors is using poor logic & semantics to try to worm its’ way out of a bad position. Typical progressive.

      P.S. Dear Meteors, there are countries where people do not stop for stop signs at all. It is not because the citizens want to be lawless. It is symptom of the f/cking government not being able to stop crime.
      Oh & driving that way is fun :/

      After such driving roller coasters & other amusement park rides are so passe.

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      Walkabout  
    • mensa141
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 12:02pm

      Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are the two worst things that ever happened to the black race. That statement arguably includes slavery. Slaves for the most part were treated far better than those two treat their own!

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    • Lgbpop
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 12:22pm

      He also seemed to say that if Newtown wasn’t so white they’d have as many firearms homicides as Chicago. Hmmm, darn that Newtown, what a bunch of racists.

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    • NeoFan
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 12:36pm

      The leaders of Chicago have not gone far enough. They need to lead by example and destroy all guns in the city. The politicians, police and celebrities need to lead by example and destroy their guns if they are really serious about a gun free city. We can watch their example and when we see its overwhelming success then we can choose to follow it.

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    • James
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 12:50pm

      Term limits is the answer and going back to the days where those Reps. didn’t stay and live in Washington DC. They have become evil powerful people a cancer if you will.We are now at the point that we have to continue to replace them and that includes some of the ones we just sent there some 2 years ago.I believe Marco is one of those! We need reps that go to Washington DC create Laws and then they to have to come home and live in the environment in which they created!

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    • bdsconserv
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 12:53pm

      really cracks me up: we’ve had affirmative action and the war on poverty for 50 yrs.,and yet somehow things have gotten worse,not better,and there’s always a new excuse as to why billions of taxpayers $ thrown at the “problem” hasn’t worked yet. i say let all the low lifes kill each other and save the taxpayers some $.

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    • oldasdirt
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 12:59pm

      Show Jackson a way to make a dime of being pro gun,and he would be pro gun in a NY minute.

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    • Fecal_Matters
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 1:28pm

      Biddy Biddy bop da boop. I ya bees the oh and Biddy Biddy bop da boop…whitey whitey

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    • Beepster
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 1:54pm

      It’s really hard for me to believe this took place on CNN. You can certainly bet Piers Morgan had nothing to do with it.

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    • pdw
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 2:19pm

      I compare this man to trying to caught a greased pig at the fair. There is no where in his vocabulary the word truth. No wonder his is a theologian for our politicians.

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    • rangerskippy
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 3:58pm

      not only did JHRUSKY give sendthemeatballs an English lesson, we also see another lib trying to play word games and semantics.

      Leave it to the group that worships a man that argued over the meaning of the word “is” to play word games.

      What libs cannot do, is argue a topic on the merits. They lose on facts, they lose on history, and they lose on logic and critical thinking. Once they know they will lose, they call names like racist, sexist, islamaphobe, or homophobe.

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    • Mulder1
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 4:07pm

      Yes, 500 people are murdered in Chicago, but black activists are silent since most of the killers are blacks and Hispanics.

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    • FNGRNFAN
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 6:19pm

      SGTB
      Im with you on that, the second amendment is our last line of defence as voting has gone way over the line of corroption. This is right in front of everybodys face and because I have this same opinion and have talked openly about it to so called friends Im down to almost zero of them. Wearing that proudly I have also come to the same conclusion that im not surrounded by like minded poeple something I’ll have to rectify. Hope your having better luck with that

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    • michaelmoron
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 6:48pm

      @sendthemeteors

      OMG, are you dense.

      Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection will take care of an idiot that flies through red lights at 100 m.p.h.

      Maybe a dad whos daughter almost got clipped by the clown, will do the deed.

      Then, under Constitutional Common Law, a jury of 12 people will find he is guilty of 3rd degree manslaughter, give him 3 years probation, and then society is free of morons who run red lights at 100 m.p.h.

      I love natural law.

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    • Tonto USA
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 9:12pm

      Jackson and Sharpton have been exploiting blacks and been used by the socialists for so long, the socialist double talk and disassembling are the only tack they can take for the hard questions. Their philosophy can’t stand the bright light of truth and logic. They been getting rich by talking smack and avoiding the questions for years and years. Don’t expect those professional crybabies to give up that lucrative rice bowl easily.

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on December 30, 2012 at 1:51am

      The NRA is blame for all the ills and this is called critical thinking by people that never solve anything …these same people always say we are one law or a billion dollars away from fixing it. Give us more power or more money, that’s the ticket

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  • AmericaMustBeFree
    Posted on December 28, 2012 at 4:04pm

    Why does anyone ask Jesse Jackson Sr. anything?? I find him irrelevant!

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    • Steel
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 5:35pm

      I agree with you in part. Jackson has never been relevant in the first place, so I’d have to say he hasn’t risen high enough to become irrelevant. He hasn’t even risen to the level of a viable resource for truth, and thus can’t even lay claim to being an anachronism. He’s simply non-existent. That’s the basic reason no one should ask him a question about anything, least of all even the most incongruous or innocuous subject matter. What I find most telling about this particular article is that Jackson usually can depend on the newscaster to cue him for the answers because they are of the same race. What Jackson was completed taken aback about is why his “brother” was asking such a logical question of him on national TV. Worse yet, the newsman wouldn’t let Jackson off the hook, which must have really puzzled whoever that interviewee was – probably because he’s so non-existent, I can’t seem to recall his name.

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    • ron2win
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 5:37am

      They ask people like jessa questions once in a while ,just to see the worm squirm . It is an event not often afforded to the spectators in general of this country .

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    • jaylew
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 8:43pm

      For the same reason people try to argue with SENDTHEMETEORS on this forum. The only difference between Jesse Jackson and SENDTHEMETEORS is the size of their lips and the size of their egos….the former’s ego now shrunken into an ossified Cook County stalagmite and the latter’s ego is still developing as he tries to hijack threads on this forum…..but he still can’t get the pretty girl in Calculus class to give him the time of day……and so he comes here. Always thinking of “Indira” the hot Pakistani chick in Calculus class who won’t even look at him……and so he whittles away at people’s nerves on the Blaze. I ignore both Jesse Jackson and SENDTHEMETEORS….the same way I ignore the germs on a public bathroom door….I just don’t touch any knob jobs….be they on doors or in YOUTUBE format or posts on this forum. I would rather watch Paid In Full on Netflix for the 50th time.

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  • ChurchSecurityI
    Posted on December 28, 2012 at 4:04pm

    Sadly, Chicago is one of the toughest cities with gun violence, mostly drug, gang and crime related, and states like Texas, with many more legal guns and the right to not only own but to be able to carry them, have some of the lowest. Rev. Jackson and others can’t blame it all on others bringing in guns, their own citizens & criminals are the ones buying, stealing 7 using them to commit so much crime & death.

    With so many states and cities now allowing concealed carry and having even more guns but less crime it shows that the problem is more in and with Chicago and their government and laws than others. No wonder the President and his family want to live in even DC, plus vacation in Hawaii and not come home to Chicago, and look at the security that he has when he goes there, plus his friend, their Mayor.

    Maybe they should listen less to Mayor Blumberg and their own leaders locally and look to the other states and states with lower crime rates & take some lessons from what works in those cities & states. The idea of not allowing law abiding citizens to have a gun to protect themselves & defend their homes while criminals, who don’t obey the laws but do have guns, seem more in control than the Mayor & the City Council and state officials. Surely, if other cities have the guns but don’t have the murders then it must be in Chicago and committed by their citizens, not outsiders coming in and committing all of the crime and murders they are having there today. It’s s

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    • PlowMan
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 4:30pm

      The people of this country should have know what they were getting when they elected a man from Chicago. He will never look at other states and the facts because it does not fit his template. He (Obama) can not get past what he thought going into this job. The liberals thought Bush had people around him that just spewed the company line, look at this president! Of course they suffer from the same affliction as Mr. Obama. I think they call it “can’t see the forest for the trees”

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    • toto
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 8:03pm

      Gee, if people would just grow up and act like adults with integrity, we would not even be having this discussion. Anyone on welfare, food stamps or other government assistance for an extended period of time, is a perpetual child that refuses to be self reliant. Self reliance with dignity and integrity defines actual adulthood as opposed to the society we have that is made up of really old children.

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  • chips1
    Posted on December 28, 2012 at 4:02pm

    If Jackson thinks it’s a lack of dreams, maybe more of his followers should jump off of the African-american plantation train and join the Black American Dream. Lots of room. We could use more Americans

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  • dadsrootbeer
    Posted on December 28, 2012 at 4:00pm

    “lack of education and lack of dreams”. Isn’t that the plight of the entire black race.

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    • spirited
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 4:10pm

      No.
      But, that’s the excuse ‘folks’ like Mr. Jackson use to keep themselves significant in ‘the community’
      (as Mr. Obama calls it; and the community dwellers).

      >real leaders –ehh?

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    • gyro
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 4:28pm

      spirited is corect

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    • circleDwagons
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 5:20pm

      “Lack of education…” dont they have schools? Dont they have unions? Dont they have govnment? What de proplem?

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    • Mirimichi
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 6:03pm

      Absolutely!

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    • bbhouston
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 7:49pm

      Circledwagons…..You’ve summed it up perfectly.

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    • Mil Mom
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 8:25pm

      @dadsrootbeer
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 4:00pm

      β€œlack of education and lack of dreams”. Isn’t that the plight of the entire black race
      ***
      Nope! It’s the plight of the entire HUMAN race under the tyranny of communism, fascism, socialism, and all the other ism’s that make the emphasis on society and not the individual. That means everything but the old fashioned American Individualism, where you teach a man to fish unless he’s disabled, then help him find something he can do to support himself, rather than constantly giving a fish.

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    • Zeb
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 1:43pm

      Unlimited birth control, unlimited abortion service, unlimited crack cocaine, a christian denomination that has never known CHRIST as with the Obamanation.
      They are truly a select group equal to the plantation serfdom.
      BUT DO NOT SELL THEM SHORT.
      You must look at their accomplishments.
      Highest crime rate
      Highest abortion rate
      Highest murder rate
      Highest incarceration rate
      Highest murder rate ‘ black on black ‘
      Highest drop out rate
      Highest STD rate
      Highest unwed birth rate
      Highest unpaid child support ‘quantitative’ none dollar value

      continue the list with your own qualified stats, lit your fingers Google your stat

      I am not a raciest it is your chosen political party and government that is securing your place in the slavery of serfdom.

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  • bdandsl
    Posted on December 28, 2012 at 3:57pm

    In a world where common sense prevailed these fools would have been monked and run out of town!

    It amazes me that this is who the blacks choose as a leader.

    The worst states for poverty, crime, welfare, unemployment, drop-outs, teen pregnancy, drugs, gangs, and HIGH TAXES are run by liberals. So, that tells me, whatever their doing, it’s not working.

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    • SUNTZU
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 4:06pm

      OOOOOOOO its working alright
      When its working in rest of country we will be able to
      get our NWO.

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    • 1ChristianPatriot
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 4:09pm

      Thats it! take out the gun ranges, we will all be safe from crime. Good job Rev. Jesse. you solved the worlds probablems yet again.

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  • SpartanPride
    Posted on December 28, 2012 at 3:54pm

    I think he overdoes his medication, it’s reduced him from what he once was, if that is even possible

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    • 1956
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 8:07am

      He didn’t have far to fall, did he? From moron to blathering moron.

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  • nysteve
    Posted on December 28, 2012 at 3:54pm

    What did he say?

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    • Dkoonz
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 4:03pm

      Not sure what he said but I think it goes like this, uh whity is selling guns here in chicargo and we aint geten enough free uh stuff yo no.

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  • WrshpMzshn
    Posted on December 28, 2012 at 3:53pm

    ” Now, there are no gun ranges in Chicago.” Really? Where do the cops practice?
    This statement has gotta be complete baloney. I can’t imagine any major metropolis that doesn’t have multiple public and private ranges.

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    • SUNTZU
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 4:01pm

      Most if not all law enforcement have their own
      CLOSED to PUBLIC ranges.I think there is or use to be
      an indoor range at the White House.

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    • WrshpMzshn
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 4:02pm

      A quick Google search yielded three. http://www.yelp.com/search?cflt=gun_ranges&find_loc=Chicago%2C+IL

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 9:45am

      Sun,
      You are correct. We can’t have cops and other govt goons mingling with low-life average citizens. We are the enemy. We can’t be trusted because we don’t have a badge. They have to have their own gold-plated ranges with the best of everything, paid for by the taxpayers. They must have so much better facilities than we do, so they can gun us down, then back slap each other afterwards. We are on the other side of the thin blue line. Don’t you see?

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    • pondmanhank
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 4:45pm

      Don’t they get enough practice just by having to shoot @ the bad guys? Seems that should be plenty of practice. Wonder how many rounds average cop gets off on typical shift?

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  • showmerancher
    Posted on December 28, 2012 at 3:52pm

    β€œlack of education and lack of dreams”

    That pretty much explains everything you need to know about ALL Democrats/Liberals.

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  • Dismayed Veteran
    Posted on December 28, 2012 at 3:47pm

    Looks like someone’s testes just dropped. That was a big boy question.

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  • The-Monk
    Posted on December 28, 2012 at 3:46pm

    Was Jessie Sr visiting Jessie Jr Christmas morning?

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  • NHwinter
    Posted on December 28, 2012 at 3:44pm

    β€œlack of education and lack of dreams.” – Wasn’t Chicago the city that had the teacher’s protest for increase in salary and benefits with most of them averaging at least $60 to $70,000 in salary. Shouldn’t they have the best schools in the country? We have teachers that care more about their money then the students. It isn’t money that makes a good teacher.

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    • radinsocal
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 3:53pm

      But it’s for the kids!

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    • Cavallo
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 3:54pm

      shhhh.. 80%+ of their students cannot read at their current grade level. They’re breeding State acolytes, and that is what is important.

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    • DougHuffman
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 4:15pm

      “It’s for the chill-drun! (VADM Joycelyn Elders, MD SGUS)”

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  • The-Monk
    Posted on December 28, 2012 at 3:40pm

    “We have almost no unemployment (in Chicago)……”

    Really Jessie????

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 4:05pm

      Hi MONK, I think that he meant Newtown with that remark. I had to listen to it a couple of times myself.

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    • chips1
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 4:07pm

      Gangs are hiring every day. Your resume must include a stolen gun or one issued by Holder. Both are acceptable.

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    • texashuntre
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 4:09pm

      LMAO I heard that too.. WHAT? Take a another one Jessie, your slur is starting to stagger a little bit. That is the same as BHO saying I am driving the USA upwards.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 4:33pm

      Hi RJJ,

      Must have meant Newtown and he mentioned 40% unemployment near the end.

      Won’t hear MSNBC say Chicago has 40% unemployment.

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  • Bernard Gui
    Posted on December 28, 2012 at 3:39pm

    Thank you, un-named journalist, for the follow-up questions and not allowing
    Rev. Jackson to evade the issue.

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    • kitchensink
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 4:13pm

      The journalist is Victor Blackwell. Up until a few months ago, he was an anchor at WPBF in West Palm Beach, FL. I was sorry when it was announced he was leaving, and am very happy to see that not only did he land a national gig, but he is GOOD. Way to go Victor!

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  • NHwinter
    Posted on December 28, 2012 at 3:39pm

    500 died in Chicago in 2012 mostly because of guns!!! How many babies died in Chicago in 2012 because of abortion? Why isn’t the media outraged about that?

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    • FISH_BONE
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 4:07pm

      Simple: dead babies don’t vote or pay union fees.

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    • Eric_The_Red_State
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 4:35pm

      high five

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    • ChurchSecurityI
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 5:09pm

      I believe people are and do express their outrage at abortions, but the government has not banned them and don’t seem as worried about them as they are the gun ranges and law abiding citizens with guns. Maybe you should suggest to the Mayor and Council, and the President, that outlawing and banning abortions would save lives & make up far more than the 500 that they blame on the guns killing.

      Somewhere along the line it would seem they would wake up and make realistic changes but the “Chicago Way” seems to be so well in place & repeated that it can’t be changed by even the President or his Mayor, who he has trained and taken with him until now, when he let him go back home to get it ready for the re-election. I wonder where the President and his family will move when they leave DC? For some reason I believe the odds are more for Hawaii than they may be for Chicago & kids in school there, even with the Secret Service to protect them and keep them from joining the 500+ by then. Sad.

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    • Baerlin
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 7:55am

      I have been starting to post the same argument. I do see the horrifying scene in CT but the same day, statistically, in the US, 3,200 abortions were performed. Since ’73, 55,000,000 babies, number has been rounded, have been murdered and that has been done with government approval. The moment the government stops legal murder and using my tax dollars, then we can move on to gain moral high ground. Until then, we are nothing more than the people who bomb buses.

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  • The Bagginator
    Posted on December 28, 2012 at 3:39pm

    I swear I’ve never been able to understand more than a third of what this man has ever said.

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  • marybethelizabeth
    Posted on December 28, 2012 at 3:38pm

    Why is CNN expecting a minister to be knowledgeable about street crime?

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 3:41pm

      Is that the best you can do BaryMethElizardeth?

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    • Fubared
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 3:41pm

      Like why we should look to MBE for common sense. Duh.

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    • mrunner
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 3:43pm

      Minister of the Church of Entitlement and Victimhood

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    • randy
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 3:48pm

      MInister?
      Bwaaaaahahaha
      Give me a freaking break…..

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    • Cavallo
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 3:50pm

      Maybe they should ask him if he is still relieved when he sees white people walking behind him rather than a young black male?

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    • flattop
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 3:53pm

      @marybethelizabeth

      “Why is CNN expecting a minister to be knowledgeable about street crime?”

      Because “the Rev” is closer to being a street criminal than he is to being a minister.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 4:02pm

      BARYMETHELIZABETH, From the Chicago area, always outspoken when it comes to crime, but always plays the race card, and I would suggest you look at his son’s recent criminal history. I’d say this man is the perfect choice for the question.

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    • Fubared
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 4:04pm

      MBE
      Finally, news you can relate to:

      http://todayhealth.today.com/_news/2012/12/27/16170957-no-worries-neuroticism-may-have-a-healthy-upside?lite

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    • FISH_BONE
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 4:11pm

      SCARYMARY always makes me laugh. Her comments are by far the most comical of any on TheBlaze. One of the my favorites was her comment on the FREE gun classes for teachers in Utah wherein she stated, “We don’t have the money to be paying for this.” What a dope.

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    • gyro
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 4:30pm

      omg

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    • henryKnox
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 8:08pm

      Minister? Where exactly is his church? Please!

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    • cosette
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 9:03am

      @ Matyelizabeth….. Because this loudmouth race pimp inserts’ himself into every possible national conversation that even remotely has anything to do with race. In this instance he was faced with a question that, if answered honestly, would once again expose him for the fraud he is. He is hardly some humble “minister” who works to spread the Gospel of the Savior in whom he professes belief. His mission on earth is to foment racial division and eventually see the white man in chains. He knows as well as the rest of us do that more gun control means fewer armed law abiding citizens. His gandbanger brothers will never give up the tools of their trade, namely ILLEGAL guns.

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    • Dustoff
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 11:07am

      Well, he claims to know SO much. Remember he’s a lib.

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    • GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
      Posted on December 29, 2012 at 11:50am

      Minister?…LOL, maybe he is the Minister of the Bathhouse where Barry used to party….

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  • NinjaJuice
    Posted on December 28, 2012 at 3:37pm

    They dont care about nobody except lining their own pockets with money.

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  • Rbell2915
    Posted on December 28, 2012 at 3:37pm

    This guy is a joke.

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  • No Name Yet
    Posted on December 28, 2012 at 3:34pm

    What a waste of our oxygen! Is there ever a crisis this man doesn’t like???

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  • Lordchamp
    Posted on December 28, 2012 at 3:34pm

    So as always, we must defend our desire for guns to the highest degree and be question on every single fact we present but they can just mumble any incoherent response and it is acceptable and deemed an appropriate answer answer.

    All it would take a just a few real journalist to put this to rest. If they would truly make these people present facts and not just opinions they would shut up very quickly about gun control.

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  • Jenny Lind
    Posted on December 28, 2012 at 3:31pm

    That man never answers a question that makes him look like the total a.. he is, so it just makes him look like a worse one. Silly to have expected an intelligent answer.

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    • radinsocal
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 3:52pm

      He’s a reverend? What the heck is that? Self-described. He indicated preference for gay marriage? Do not be deceived by unChristian professed christians. This tool is nothing but a lying deceived individual that the media prefers. reverend Al Sharpton, another misguided soul, these guys get summoned to the White House on a regular basis, this is the Moral Compass of our direction taken by these scoundrels? This is indicative of the lies that come out of this very large group of imbiciles.

      If it weren’t so sad, it would be entertaining. GOD Bless Everyone.

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  • Fubared
    Posted on December 28, 2012 at 3:28pm

    ” they exploit the poverty and the pain,” he said, before expanding the blame on β€œlack of education and lack of dreams.” Sounds like he is talking smack about himself and Rev Al. Never one to exploit and all.

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  • Cavallo
    Posted on December 28, 2012 at 3:28pm

    Good thing this journalist is of color, otherwise he might be looking for a new job.

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