BREAKING NEWS: GROWING OLD WITH JESSE
--How do they do it? --Do what? --Get Jesse Jackson so fast. --You mean this thing with the governor of Virginia. --The governor, the tea partiers smearing Obama. Any race-related breaking news story. Within hours--no, within seconds Jesse’s in a network or cable news studio. --Providing grave-faced observations. --For years. Decades. I’ve grown old with Jesse. --We all have. First the Civil Rights Movement, then globe-trotting to trouble spots. Running for president --That’s our Jesse. --He’s no fool, though. --He most certainly isn’t. I haven’t really heard much of what he says for the last ten or fifteen years. Because he’s a rerun for me now, and I tune out. But the very fact he’s still in there punching, still on every TV news operation’s Rolodex is a testament to longevity. --It’s really true. You have to be built to last to be on after all these years. Even after you’re overheard saying you’d like to cut off the future president’s balls. Even after that, they’re still s...