# Jesse the negotiator: laughing so hard I can’t type **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 27, 2001, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesse-the-negotiator-laughing-so-hard-i-can-t-type/84173 "2001-09-27T20:00:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesse-the-negotiator-laughing-so-hard-i-can-t-type/84173/1 "2001-09-27T20:00:26Z")
No, it is not a [joke](http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/WTC_MAIN.html). > [@](#): > > In a surprising development, U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson said he has accepted an invitation from the Taliban to go to Afghanistan and discuss the bin Laden situation. White House officials have said Jackson should not get involved, and the Taliban said today it did not invite Jackson to Kabul, but would accept his offer to mediate. Jesse: “My brothers in Afghanistan have called upon me to mediate and bring about a peaceful solution to this conflict.” Taliban: “Jesse who? The tell the infidel dog to go away. Wait, on second thought, let him in [and fetch my best flogging cane]” ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesse-the-negotiator-laughing-so-hard-i-can-t-type/84173/2 "2001-09-27T20:37:28Z")
Ignore the stray ‘the’. Told you I was laughing too hard to type. ---
**Author:** ![Pucette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@Pucette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pucette)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesse-the-negotiator-laughing-so-hard-i-can-t-type/84173/3 "2001-09-27T21:27:40Z")
There are so many funny things about this - about 4 co-workers have stuck their heads out of their offices into mine over the course of the day because of my giggling. As a sort of serious aside, hasn’t Jackson done some international negociating before? or maybe I’m misinformed… I return you now to mad giggling and hearty whooping… ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesse-the-negotiator-laughing-so-hard-i-can-t-type/84173/4 "2001-09-27T21:34:04Z")
Coulda been worse. I thought y’all meant Jesse _Helms_. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Big\_Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@The\_Big\_Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Big_Cheese)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesse-the-negotiator-laughing-so-hard-i-can-t-type/84173/5 "2001-09-27T21:38:13Z")
No one (The gov’t anyway) thinks it’ll work, but if it stops an extremely expensive war, it’ll be worth it. He’s also trying to get the two young women released from prison in Afgh. being held. I remember something about a pilot getting released in the middle east because of him. From the last page of a Yahoo link: Jackson previously negotiated the freedom of American hostages in Syria, Cuba and Yugoslavia. ---
**Author:** ![Britt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Britt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Britt)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesse-the-negotiator-laughing-so-hard-i-can-t-type/84173/6 "2001-09-27T21:38:17Z")
and when reading the title I thought of Jesse Ventura ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesse-the-negotiator-laughing-so-hard-i-can-t-type/84173/7 "2001-09-27T21:48:54Z")
Maybe they should send all three. Come to think of it, I’d pay $150 to go see _The Three Jesses_ at a big ol’ stadium. Hmmm… ---
**Author:** ![arara123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/41988e/32.png) [@arara123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/arara123)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesse-the-negotiator-laughing-so-hard-i-can-t-type/84173/8 "2001-09-27T23:25:50Z")
Rev. Jackson _is_ an ordained minister. Wonder if he’ll have time to do any preacing and/or conversions while he’s in Afghanistan. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesse-the-negotiator-laughing-so-hard-i-can-t-type/84173/9 "2001-09-27T23:47:40Z")
I saw Colin Powell on the tube at lunchtime saying, basically, Rev. Jackson can do whatever he wants but he doesn’t speak for the U.S. ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesse-the-negotiator-laughing-so-hard-i-can-t-type/84173/10 "2001-09-28T00:27:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by beatle \* > \*\*I saw Colin Powell on the tube at lunchtime saying, basically, Rev. Jackson can do whatever he wants but he doesn’t speak for the U.S. \*\* Nor was he ‘invited’, as he said, according to the Taliban statement within the article. You have to laugh at his tactics in orchestrating his 15 minutes in this debacle. When the laughing is over, though, it is reprehensible to use such a tragedy as the backdrop for your own masturbatory public relations coup. ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesse-the-negotiator-laughing-so-hard-i-can-t-type/84173/11 "2001-09-28T19:35:04Z")
They just said on FOX news that Jesse was now saying he is not inclined to visit Afaganistan. No reason given at this time. ---
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesse-the-negotiator-laughing-so-hard-i-can-t-type/84173/12 "2001-09-28T20:04:02Z")
Please, can we send him anyway? Maybe they’ll keep him. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesse-the-negotiator-laughing-so-hard-i-can-t-type/84173/13 "2001-09-28T20:22:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by thirdwarning \* > **Please, can we send him anyway?** Only if we throw in the other two Jesse’s (Jessi?)…