CHICAGO - The Chicago Sun-Times reports Rev. Jesse Jackson geared up the Rainbow PUSH audience today to heat up the phone lines about a photo taken this week when Arizona Governor Jan Brewer met President Obama on an airport tarmack visit in her state:
The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Saturday called on people to flood the phone lines and fill the e-mail inboxes of Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s office after she pointed a finger at President Barack Obama during a heated exchange on a tarmac outside a Phoenix airport this week.
Calling Brewer’s gesture, “the ultimate insult,” Jackson told the crowd at the Rainbow PUSH headquarters, as well as to those “all around the country, you call the governor’s office next week.”
He gave out an 800-number to Brewer’s office, and urged those who call to say, “We don’t need her finger.”
Governor Brewer reported that she had just invited the President to visit the Arizona border, and he mentioned a segment in her book in which he said she incorrectly described a prior personal visit. She said the president is "thin-skinned" and was "irritated," and that she felt intimidated by him during the encounter.
