It was something that have been sparking in the back of my head since the whole Publix thing started, but it just would not come out in full till today and after enough ingestion of caffeine. The not-so-subtle extortion by Hogg has happened before by a well-known political scumbag: Reverend Jesse Jackson.  Some years ago, Rev Jesse Jackson was said to be the ultimate political extortionist. He would denounce a company using the brand new Race card, accuse them of whatever the heck we could up with. The media would focus on the company and repeat Jackson’s talking point till the company made some apologetic statement and the check to Jesse Jackson’s (ahem) charities.

The one that I remember and you will be hard pressed to find was his butting heads with Quaker Oats about Aunt Jemima pancake mix.  Her are a couple of screen caps from the book “Showdown: Confronting Bias, Lies and the Special Interests That Divide America”

And the Reverend would have continued to be successful as Mafiosi for Race, but it came out that he had a daughter out-of-wedlock with  a much younger female civil rights worker at the Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition and was shelling thousands of dollars in cash monthly in child support.

It never pays to pay political extortionists like Hogg or Jackson. Their motives are never pure and they are probably corrupt to the core.