Jones, Jones and Jones

 Yes, these are comments about or by people named Jones.

If you have ever read that block to the right of this post, you know that my last name is Jones. Before you get too comfortable with that tidbit of information, I must confess that my last name was not Jones at birth. I am a Jones kind of like my hero John Paul Jones was a Jones. It was not his name at birth, either.

Before you go chasing Wikipedia or other bogus sources about Johny Paul's reason to change his name, rest assured that I never killed any sailor leading a mutiny. However, I did beat the hell out of a dishwasher who attacked me one morning. But that's a story for another post.

What inspired all of the Jones stuff? My new hero, Jerry Jones. I don't like Jerry Jones, owner of the Dallas Cowboys. I used to be a Dallas Cowboys fan until Jones bought the team. Then I realized that I was actually a Roger Staubach fan and a Tom Landry fan. I haven't watched a Cowboy's game since then. 

However, this week I developed a tolerance and almost a liking for Jerry Jones. A story came out that Jerry Jones was photographed in a crowd of people in a Little Rock high school during the integration of public schools there. Jones is merely standing in the crowd. He has no rifle, no stick, no flaming torch in his hands. He has no sign or Confederate battle flag. None of this is stopping the usual crowd of loons from attacking him. This event was about 65 years ago. In the last 65 years, no one has asked Jerry why he was there. At this point, what difference does it make? Hillary Clinton used that line, maybe it will work for Jerry. 

Jones, at this point refuses to say anything else other than to affirm that was him in the photo of students at his school. This was back in the era when we had to actually attend school. We didn't have "remote learning", which is a half-truth. It's remote, but nobody is learning.

Did any reporter interview Jerry Jones that day in Little Rock? If they did, they didn't write a story. So, all the leftist loons are upset that Jerry Jones is pictured in a group at the school he attended. Maybe he was trying to find out what was happening. Maybe he was just gathering data to make his own decision on the issue. Maybe he was headed to the restroom to sneak a smoke. Does anyone without a (D) by their name even care?

Leftists think that Jones is a racist based on that photo. Let's put this into perspective. On the day that Martin Luther King was killed at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, there were photos taken that pictured Jesse Jackson on that balcony with MLK.  Was Jackson involved with and an accessory to the assassination of King? That would be a stupid question, just like asking if Jones was involved with demonstrations in Little Rock, is a stupid question. Yet, "reporters" keep questioning Jones.

There are pictures of several people on the "grassy knoll" in Dallas the day that JFK was killed? Did any of them face abuse from the media about that? How about the thousands who stood along the parade route? Has the media questioned all of them? Was Jones on the grassy knoll? Was Lyndon Johnson on the grassy knoll?

Several years ago, Chic-Fil-A ended donations to the Salvation Army to appease LGBTQ activists. Jerry Jones may be an arrogant, pompous ass but he supports the Salvation Army. If you saw the Thanksgiving Day Cowboys game, you saw the huge red kettles in the end zone. For all of his faults, Jones is a big supporter of the Salvation Army. The Salvation Army helps many of the people that liberals claim to be concerned about.  How many of the writers penning trash about Jones in high school will we find out ringing the bell at a red kettle? My guess is less than one. 

I'm with Jerry Jones on this one. I will pay a compliment here to the first reporter who writes a good story about Jones and the Salvation Army. I am not worried about that happening this year.