I can't believe someone is peddling this crap.
http://mediamatters.org/...
At the Democratic National Convention in 1992, Jerry Brown, who finished a very distant second to the party's nominee, had his name placed into nomination and addressed the assembled convention. After seconding his own nomination (true story), Brown delivered a fiery speech that thrilled his unruly supporters inside Madison Square Garden. Brown's ill will toward nominee Bill Clinton was so legendary that The Atlanta Journal-Constitution considered it newsworthy that Brown's convention address "avoided a direct attack" on the nominee, while the Los Angeles Times noted Brown "did not specifically endorse presidential nominee Bill Clinton."
Indeed, for weeks leading up to the convention, Brown refused to back his party's nominee, complaining to The New York Times in June that supporting Clinton was like buying a ticket for the Titanic.
Who is this Eric Boehlert and what the hell is he talking about? Everyone knows that's untrue. Everyone knows Bill Clinton, upon receiving the nomination moved the DNC to Arkansas, and then executed his agenda to rid the party of Jerry Brown once and for all, sending out people to have Brown supporters remove their Brown92 T-shirts. And then to top it off, everyone knows Clinton then had Brown's name removed from nomination.
Someone needs to get on the horn to the folks at Media Matters right now and let them know if they don't stop peddling lies like this, then their advertisers will be contacted and they will be put out of business.
But listen to this, this idiot goes on:
Four years earlier, the Democratic convention in Atlanta witnessed even more tumult from the second-place finisher when Jesse Jackson, furious at being passed over for the vice-presidential slot by the party's nominee, Michael Dukakis (who failed to call Jackson and tell him the VP news), threatened to withhold his delegates' support from the party's nominee. In fact, just hours before the convention began, Jackson's supporters threatened to place the candidate's name into nomination for the vice presidency, which would have created a massive floor fight between Jackson and Dukakis' pick, Sen. Lloyd Bentsen of Texas.
Pre-convention tension grew so heated that the mild-mannered Dukakis was quoted as saying, "I don't care what Jesse Jackson does. I'm going to this convention and I'm going to win." During his convention keynote address, which lasted nearly an hour -- much longer than expected, Jackson did not specifically endorse Dukakis.
Lies. Lies. Damned lies. Everyone knows Jesse Jackson fully endorsed Michael Dukakis leading the cheers for Dukakis. Not only that everyone knows Jesse Jackson siezed control over his supporters and told them loudly and clearly, "I deceived you with my campaign to run for president, gave you false hope and now you should all do the right thing and support Michael Dukakis right now cause if you don't then, in my view, you are all really bad Democrats and should be purged from the party right this very second."
Everyone knows that's what he said, I don't even have to prove it.
Have a nice day.