Dang, I did not know about the King snub of Harry. Sort of reminds me of Obama snubbing Jackson in Chicago the day after he was elected. I recall watching on TV that rainy day and seeing Jessie alone in the crowd about 5 rows or so back. Obama never mentioned him. Jackson has to be the Rodney Dangerfield of politics.

I recall seeing Jackson standing all alone at the Democratic headquarters here in Milwaukee the night of our Gubernatorial election. All these upscale Democrats were socializing and there was Jesse off to the side like he was a f'n nobody. Well, he was not a nobody to me. I was so excited seeing him i immediately went over to him to say hi. We talked damn near 10 minutes and not one of the passers-by stopped to say hello. It was shameful. I got a big laugh from him when i told him i wanted to call my 95-year-old mother and put him on the phone to say hi to her because she was a huge fan of his. I told him that she watched him on the Kup show from Chicago back in the 60's and she got a kick out of him putting his feet with his boots on Kup's desk while he interviewed him. I took my phone out only to see that the battery was dead.