Jesse Jackson Compares Scott Walker to Racist Governor George Wallace

Geoffrey | June 5, 2012
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On the eve of the Wisconsin recall election Ed Schultz invited on the Reverend Jesse Jackson to compare Republican Governor Scott Walker to the segregationist George Wallace and call him “a threat to democracy.” Schultz, on the June 4, 2012 edition of The Ed Show, prompted Jackson to explain the comparison to which the founder of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition responded that the former Alabama governor “tried to block the vote and lost and Walker is trying to stop the vote and will lose.”

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