Jackson comes across as not such a bad dude–even eating at Jeruslaem Pizza. I wonder what the real truth is on all the charges of abuse–and how much more he knows about all the corruption in the city of Detroit?? You asked him–but I wonder how much was being spun and/or held back.

That would have been a good question, Debbie. Good job overall, though. Can’t understand why only you ask (some)hard questions while the other Women of Color (coincidence?) on Detroit Channels 7 (ABC/WXYZ) and 4 (NBC/WDIV)– not to mention people of any sex, color or religion on the national networks — couldn’t at least try to contact Jackson for a rebuttal, however brief. Who among you believes Fanchon’s Fantastic Fables or even less of what Rayford Jackson says about Fanchon’s visible scars (His evasive replies made me think: “Haven’t they faded by now? Wasn’t that in 2005? I was drunk; I don’t recall”). Whatever. The term, “Detroit Journalists” seems to largely be an oxymoron where the Synagro case and the Tamara Green case are concerned. Scott Lewis at Fox 2 News, do your job, would you? Expose corruption; isn’t that why they pay you the big money? What could you possibly be afraid of? Oh, right. Never mind. Carry on with Grandma and the crooked roofers. Give your former co-worker a pass.

Debbie, I would also have liked to hear Jackson comment on the comment made by Sam Riddle (who is standing trial for allegedly hand-delivering a bribe in the Synagro case to former Detroit Councilwoman Monica Conyers): “Fanchon Stinger knew what she was doing from the moment she left her white husband to deal with a black man who turned her out because she wasn’t used to nothing black.”

Don’t believe me? See: http://www.detnews.com/article/20091219/METRO01/912190397/Riddle-disses-feds–Stinger–judge-in-interview

That would have been good. Really good. I love those reality show-style “reaction takes” to provocative comments. (Heads turn; mouths drop open; eyes widen. Silence ensues.)

To the other posters here —
California Screaming: Right on about the makes-me-want-to-puke fake smile that Louis Eugene Walcott from The Bronx, oops, I mean THE GREAT Louis Farrakhan, pastes on while he spews his delusional fantasies about Judaism being “a gutter religion.” (see Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Farrakhan for attribution; I am not Jewish, for the record — so I have no drums to beat about Israel or Jews. I will leave the drum-beating to Farrakhan and his followers.)

And to “learningquranonline,” the Mohammedan poster who has so graciously educated us about his/her “peaceful” religion, so well-evidenced in 2004-2006 across Iraq: You forgot to include the tiny little passage in the Q’uran that commands Wahabbi Mohammedans to kill all infidels (Translation: Anyone who does not agree with you) in the name of Allah. Whoops. As a card-carrying Muslim, could you please also edify us about how you and other devout Muslims have implicitly approved Fanchon Stinger’s adulterous affair with Jackson, a married man who has four children (hopefully all with one woman, and to whom he is currently married, to avoid the “INFIDEL” stain); YET — YET — claims to be closely associated with that paragon of Mohammedan virtue, Louis Farrakhan? That sounds very suspiciously like an infidel to me, and we all know that a good Muslim like Farrakhan would be prohibited from having an infidel in his “house.” Or two of them, since my understanding is that Jackson and Stinger were reportedly both married to other people when they began their implicitly Nation-of-Islam-approved “relationship.” What should be done about them and their adulterous behaviors, since this never came up in the interview as an obvious conundrum? Stone them? Put their eyes out? Castration? Hands cut off? Oops, not the peaceful religion of Mohammedanism, er, Islam. We across the entire globe know that Muslims NEVER do that to adulterers. Instead, for penance, I propose scheduling a fawning interview between an Infidel Adultress and Farrakhan, to tie up Channel 2 for a half-hour of his brand of grinning, teeth-flashing, snarling hate. Sound good? Everyone wins. Very pragmatic. Oh, you did that? Great, never mind.

But do, “learningquranonline,” please do, rebut this post and present your tortured logic, outlining how all of that is perfectly fine in the eyes of Allah, for everyone’s entertainment and further edification, thanks. Inquiring minds worldwide want to know, and could all use a good belly laugh.

Seahawker, thanks for bringing your piercing, glittering observations to the party, and for staying on topic; excellent work. Do weigh in again soon with another gleaming non-sequitur of insight, you are so refreshing.

Regards, everyone. We will all get together for a nice, kosher nosh at Jerusalem Pizza sometime. I hear they’re Phen-OM-enal. Let’s see if Jackson would like to attend.