Networks Offer Joyous Jesse Jackson Funeral — SKIP Anti-Trump Remarks
8th March 2026
Emily Goodin at the New York Post reported that Jesse Jackson’s raucous funeral on Friday with three former Democrat presidents included a pile of attacks on President Trump. One would think the networks would love that — but on the Friday night newscasts, the broadcast networks skipped over the anti-Trump zingers, keeping it as positive and nebulous as possible.
For gossips, let’s note that Michelle Obama skipped this event again. Hillary Clinton was there. Jill Biden was there. Kamala Harris was there. Michelle skipped a black funeral in her own home town. None of these networks mentioned her, either.
ABC’s World News Tonight spent two minutes on the funeral with lots of upbeat music, and small upbeat quotes from Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris. Pierre Thomas gushed: “They came today 10,000 strong to help keep hope alive — not for a funeral, but a black church-style homegoing service. To celebrate the life and legacy of Jesse Jackson, civil rights legend and major American political figure….Jackson, that clarion voice for justice, will never be silenced.”
Jesse Jackson was the second-worst race-hustler and grifter to come out of the civil-rights disturbances of the 1960s (Al Sharpton takes the prize there). It came as no surprise to those who were paying attention that his son, Jesse Jackson Jr., was elected to Congress as a Democrat and eventually wound up in prison. He was a master of the race-shakedown, threatening big business with racial disturbances and racial lawfare unless he and his henchmen were paid off.
He will not be missed, except possibly with a sigh of relief.