PBS Praises CNN Journo's 'Terrific' Book on Jesse Jackson, Fighter For 'More Inclusive Democracy'

Monday’s PBS News Hour invited Abby Phillip, liberal host of CNN's NewsNight with Abby Phillip, for a gush-fest over “A Dream Deferred: Jesse Jackson and the Fight for Black Political Power,” her new book on the former inflammatory Democratic politician Jesse Jackson.

There were no recollections of Jackson’s 1984 campaign-era “Hymie-town” smear of Jews in New York City, nothing of his 2004 election denial of George W. Bush’s presidential victory, no questions about Jackson’s son, who served time for campaign finance fraud. but painted as a vital harbinger of today’s social justice politics.