Jesse Jackson and the Color of Irony

"Not what most would call a 'Green Vehicle'."

It Isn’t Easy Being Green.

If you could put a color to Jesse Jackson’s visit to Detroit last weekend, it would be…

Hypocrisy “Green”.

Following the embarrassing news that Mayor Dave Bing’s GMC Yukon was hijacked by criminals this week, Detroit’s Channel 7 reports that the Reverend’s Caddy Escalade SUV was stolen and stripped of its wheels while he was in town last weekend with the UAW’s militant President Bob King leading the “Jobs, Justice, and Peace” march promoting government-funded green jobs.

Read that again: Jackson’s Caddy SUV was stripped while he was in town promoting green jobs.

Add Jesse to the Al Gore-Tom Friedman-Barack Obama School of Environmental Hypocrisy. While preaching to Americans that they need to cram their families into hybrid Priuses to go shopping for compact fluorescent light bulbs to save the planet, they themselves continue to live large.

Although Jackson preached that, “We need an economy that creates employment that can’t be shipped overseas,” the parts from his more than not eco-friendly vehicle were, more than likely, shipped overseas.

If the irony of the event were not perfect enough, the picture of Jackson finding out his vehicle was absolutely priceless.

"The 'Priceless' moment."

Practice what you preach Reverend Jackson.