Two Demagogues In One!

Now’s the time when Ace juxtaposes:

• Jesse Jackson Jr. Says Way Out of the Unemployment Crisis Is to Change the Constitution So Every Ghetto Kid Gets an iPod and a Laptop.

• Jesse Jackson Jr. blames iPad for higher unemployment.
  

Strike a pose, there’s nothing to it.

Related: Luddites then and now: Jesse Jr. blames the iPad — presumably running its Amazon.com Kindle app — for Borders declaring bankruptcy; a decade ago, Thomas Friedman of the New York Times was convinced that Amazon was doomed.

Meanwhile, Jesse Sr. is involved a scandal that — were he a religious leader on the right — would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country and playing 24/7 on all the cable news channels that lose in the ratings to Fox. Funny how while hypocrisy may be a mortal sin to the left, they’re sure happy to look the other way when one of their own is afflicted. (And savor the schadenfreude-tastic irony of a man who made his living for decades shaking down American businesses being shaken down himself.)