House Speaker Denies Request for Cheating Radical Rev to Lie in Honor at Capitol

House Speaker Mike Johnson denied a request to have the late Jesse Jackson, a vile racist who was once caught on tape threatening to castrate Obama, who used racial slurs, repeatedly lied about his relationship with Martin Luther King Jr, cheated on his wife, supported terrorists and shook down companies.

The request was supposedly made by Jesse’s kids.

That presumably includes former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr, an Obama co-chair who allegedly used $750,000 to buy everything including a Michael Jackson fedora and was sent to prison.

Jesse Jr. is apparently trying to run for reelection.

But does it include ‘Ashley Jackson’, the daughter that the ‘reverend’ had out of wedlock?

What exactly did Jesse Jackson do in his life to merit lying in state? He did create one of the first racial shakedown groups, PUSH, after trying and failing to take over MLK’s movement by lying that he had held the dying civil rights leader in his arms and going around with a bloody turtleneck, that served as a model for Al Sharpton.

Does shaking down companies to fund his mistress really merit lying in state?

When news broke in January that one of his charities had paid $36,000 to help move his then-pregnant mistress to Los Angeles, the Rev. Jesse Jackson vowed to take some time off for spiritual and family healing.

Four days later, though, he was back on the job, welcoming his most generous corporate benefactors to a four-day conference and black-tie gala in New York. The event raised $2.1 million for Jackson’s Citizenship Education Fund–the same fund that had cut the check for his friend, Karin Stanford.

Two of Jackson’s sons own a lucrative beer distributorship, thanks in part to introductions made by a wealthy friend of the minister’s. Jackson and his wife own stock in a company that has profited handsomely, if indirectly, from Jackson’s pressure on companies to do business with minority firms.

The model for this was the merger of telecommunications giants SBC and Ameritech.

In May 1998, Jackson called the proposed corporate marriage so fundamentally flawed, so detrimental to low-income customers as to be “antithetical to basic democratic values.” He urged the government to block it.

The next year, SBC and Ameritech donated $500,000 to the Citizenship Education Fund. Then Ameritech sold much of its cellular business, some of it to an African American businessman who is a longtime supporter and friend of Jackson’s.

By the fall of 1999, when the Federal Communications Commission voted to approve the merger, Jackson had become a powerful cheerleader, declaring the union to be “in the public interest.”

His sons Yusef, 28, and Jonathan, 32, landed Chicago’s largest Anheuser-Busch distributorship in 1998 after Yusef met beer scion August Busch IV. The two were introduced by Burkle, who has become something of a business mentor to the sons.

On second thought, maybe Jesse Jackson should lie in state at the Capitol. He was as crooked as a lot of Congress.