Jesse Jackson Jr.'s Fists of Fury

By Chuck Sudo in Miscellaneous on Aug 8, 2007 3:02PM

We've been having some fun here with this series of photos featuring Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. practicing martial arts. After Sun-Times columnist Mark Brown wrote about the photos in today's paper, they're now officially more than an Internet phenomenon.

The photos make a nice sidebar to an argument last week between Jackson and Nebraska's Congressman Lee Terry after a debate on an agriculture appropriations bill was tabled for the day. Name calling ensued, prompting Terry to yell "shut up" at the Democrats in general after one said the Republicans "couldn't be trusted" (a generalization with which we don't necessarily agree; we only worry about the fascists neo-cons). Anyway, things between Terry and Jackson heated to the point where Jackson asked if Terry wanted to "go outside and talk about it."

Judging from the photos, we think Junior could have held his own. One never knows, though. Former Cubs catcher Michael Barrett also studies martial arts, and he had his ass handed to him by Carlos Zambrano.