As IF Times

D.C. marchers rally for jobs and justice – The Washington Post.

When Reverend Al gets into the fray, it generally confirms that whatever the cause he’s backing, it’s probably hysterical hyperbole.  Reverend Al, for those who are  unfamiliar with his career, sees racism in the most mundane things.  White lines on blacktop would arouse his keen sense of racial injustice if only he could convince anyone of its merit.   His affected indignation at anything involving perceived racial injustice to blacks is legendary and by now, he is essentially a comical caricature of himself, ironically taken seriously only by those in the white liberal media.  The media perpetuates Reverend Al’s influence by interviewing him whenever any issue involving blacks pops up.  As if Reverend Al is THE spokesman for a nation of 80 million blacks.  Imagine if something contentious was occurring with a white person and Charlie Sheen’s opinion was sought to get the white perspective.

We know he caters to a constituency of idiots or at least to those of very modest intelligence because of the way he frames his messages.  Rather than making articulate speeches, he prefers the classic nursery rhyme technique to drive home his compelling intellectual arguments.

Borrowing a page from the famous Johnnie Cochran of O.J. Simpson legal team fame, Reverend Al has taken the infamous ” if the glove don’t fit, you must acquit” tactic and adopted it as his own.  As the linked article details, his present campaign is ” if you don’t get jobs bill done in suite, we will get done in street”, in reference to both the recently nixed Obama jobs plan and the protests in the streets of New York.  It doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, but at least a few words rhyme, so for Reverend Al, it’s considered witty repartee.  He follows this with “this is not about Obama, it’s about my mama!”.  Pure gold.   It’s not exactly “Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks”.  But this technique gets the job done.  His constituency can more easily remember his position if it can be repeated in rhyme than if it were articulated more prosaically.

It’s unclear to me why his followers wouldn’t be insulted by his condescending delivery, it’s as if he were addressing pre-adolescents.

Or maybe he’s just a master entertainer.

That would make sense since his entire shtick is part vaudeville, part church revival and part P.T. Barnum.  Like many of his other hypocritical colleagues in the liberal bleat-sphere, railing against poverty and oppression has, surprise, surprise,  made Reverend Al rich and famous.  This is like Al Gore bleating of global warming and living in a house the size of a community center or of  Michael Moore condemning capitalism while making millions off his delusional movies.

In the spirit of Reverend Al however, we’ve come up with some other slogans which are free to be used by any who may find them appropriate:

Give me a job, or I join a mob!

Given some time, what’s yours will be mine!

Give us da cash, or we gonna bash!

We want rights, we want justice, if we don’t get it, come and bust us!

And of course the most genuine chant:

Stop all greed, enough is enough, give us more money, give us more stuff!