Blood
January 2001
| JESSE'S MISTRESS TELLS ALL!
In another blockbuster exclusive, The National ENQUIRER has learned that Jesse Jackson made a secret payment of nearly half a million dollars to his mistress and mother of his love child, Karin Stanford -- far more than the $35,000 Jesse's organization says she was paid! That's just one of the shocking new revelations Karin plans to include in a tell-all book she's writing about the beleaguered civil rights activist, an ENQUIRER news investigation discloses. The issue that hits stands Friday also reveals Karin's book "Public
Servants, Private Lives" will detail her secret abortion of Jesse's child
... a DNA paternity test Jesse didn't know
about ... what he really thought of Bill Clinton ... and much more.
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Jesse Jackson, Stung by Sex Scandal,
Urges 'Week of Moral Outrage'
(CNSNews.com) - In the middle of a tabloid scandal involving his extra-marital affair that produced an illegitimate child, Jesse Jackson is proclaiming this, the "week of moral outrage" against the election of George W. Bush. A visit to Jackson's Rainbow/Push Coalition Internet site finds a news release promising that Jackson's "coalition of conscience" will conduct a rally at Florida's state capital building on Inauguration Day, January 20th, to protest "the chicanery that occurred on November 7th and the crowning of a new president that followed." Right alongside the Internet pop-up screen urging a "week of moral outrage" is another pop-up linking readers to Jackson's "response to the National [Enquirer] article" about the extra-marital affair with a former employee. "I am father to a daughter who was born outside of my marriage," Jackson says in a statement released early Thursday. "This is no time for evasions, denials or alibis. I fully accept responsibility and I am truly sorry for my actions," said the man who dashed to President Clinton's side immediately after Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky made headlines in 1998. |
Jesse Jackson, Postmodern Moralist
Many conservatives and many members of the black community have long believed that illegitimacy is the greatest problem facing the black community; and that an illegitimacy rate hovering around 70% and a generation of young blacks growing up without fathers is the true evil consigning the next generation of blacks to poverty or worse. Which is why role models are so important, and why whatever his politics, there was at least some good in young blacks seeing Jackson as a public figure. The net effect of Jackson on American politics was a great negative; but there was, at least, some good. Now, any shred of good is gone, and the betrayal of the black community is all the more apparent - and all the more disgraceful. How Jackson will fare in the future is unknown, but his postmodern morality play is classic Clinton. (Who taught whom is the only remaining question, given that Jackson was Clinton's "spiritual adviser" while both were in the middle of torrid affairs with their workplace subordinates.) Act One: Fight It. When Karin Stanford, Jackson's girlfriend, became pregnant, Jackson resisted taking responsibility for the child. He told the woman she had other boyfriends. He made her get a DNA test.
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| Paul Vasques, Florida field director of the AFL-CIO, a co-sponsor of
the Saturday's anti-Bush rally and march, said Jackson's confession of
infidelity will not compromise the message of the rally. "We don't see
it as a distraction, [though] there's going to be some who do, obviously,"
said Vasques. "Really the only attention that we've had ... has been from
media."
By Christine Hall
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To keep things quiet, she left the name of the father blank on the
birth certificate. When Jackson's wife found out, she came to the office
screaming. Jackson still denied it. He even put a note in the company newsletter
saying that Stanford was leaving because she was pregnant with "her boyfriend's
child."
Act Two: Responsibility is Something that Happens When You Get Caught. When Jackson knew that the story was going public, he held a press conference, declaring that "this is no time for evasions, denials or alibis." He said he has provided full "emotional and financial support" for the child. What kind of "emotional support" is an open question. Perhaps the blank name on the birth certificate is some indication of the Jesse Jackson approach to fatherhood. Act Three: Narcissistic Regret. Now is the time to "revive my spirit," Jackson said. He appealed to his own troubled past as an illegitimate child - as if he were destined to behave the way he did. He asked forgiveness - the peculiarly postmodern kind that reduces his "mistake" to a personal failing and redefines remorse as "personal renewal." And so, even though he is a public figure, Jackson will not accept paying a real public price for what he has done, just like Clinton. Hence his sudden return to public life after pledging that he needed time away from the cameras and the protests and the phony trips to prison to heal his soul. Evidently, when you're Jesse Jackson, the soul heals quickly. Chances are, in the post-Clinton age, Jackson will get away with all this unscarred, unless the black community that gives him his authority publicly disowns him as a leader. But sadly, if the response to Clinton is any precedent, Jackson will be bruised but not broken, and he'll most likely return just as powerful and popular and self-righteous as he has been for the last 30 years. Shame on him. Shame on all of us. January 26, 2001 by Eric Cohen National Review Online |