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Mr Obama’s interesting choice of political friends A 9/11 “truther”, appointed to a government job by The Community Organiser, has resigned. The guy was, among other things, a communist.
Of course there are causes we might have supported in our youth that we would rather not put on our employment CVs. But there are causes and there are causes. And this guy seems to be a fully paid-up moonbat.
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Right under the bus.
Behold the power of this fully operational blogosphere!
Thats one moonbat gone from this White House.
One down, um, how many? At least one more to go.
Behold the power of this fully operational blogosphere!
It’s a trap!!!
As an American, the truly terrifying thing about this man, is not the insanity of his beliefs, but the fact that Obama and his staff were completely comfortable with his beliefs, had been following his ‘career’, and were glad to have him on board.
Words fail me, as my fear both for my country, and of my government continues to rise
In other words, it’s not the fact that there are lunatics in the asylum, but the fact that they have taken over.
Wasn’t it Fox News?
I await the first MSM reference to the “swiftboating” of Van Jones.
Wasn’t it Fox News?
No, actually. The charge was led by Glen Beck, then picked up by Rush Limbaugh and the Matt Drudge. But it would still have died without the blogs – shows like Beck’s and Limbaugh’s can’t harp on the same thing day after day or nobody will tune in. The newspapers and major electronic media didn’t mention anything until vultures were already circling.
Those on the Left aren’t the only ones who’ve read Saul Alinsky’s “Rules For Radicals”.
Cut off one of them from the pack, attack, attack, attack, until they throw him overboard.
Then pick out another one.
Let no quote go UnFisked ! ! !
I heard a liberal commentator (Alan Colmes on Fox) trying to make the point that Van Jones was just a mid-level functionary with no real policy-making power, so why all the fuss? (Of course, poor Alan had to say something in defense of this racist reprobate, but still.) This harks back to the discussion on another thread about all these “czars”. What really was the scope of his power? Why should the White House have a “Green Jobs” Kommissar in the first place?
Whatever his official level of authority, it seems clear to me that the Obama administration knew of Jones’ unsavory background (even though it is now coming out that he did not complete that famous 63-question questionnaire that was to be required for all White House appointments). A month ago they were boasting about reaching out to bring him on board. It’s good that this has all come to light and he is gone in a swamp of embarassment. Let’s keep it up!
I like TWS’ point about using Alinsky’s Rules against the leftists. The specific rule he was referring to here is Rule 11: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.” Sage advice, and we’re finally learning how to apply it. Geithner’s nomination was on us too fast; his tax issues should have been fatal to the nomination, but the anti-statists were disorganized (and Obama was still riding high on the post-election euphoria) and the opportunity was missed. We did better derailing Tom Daschle’s nomination, and perhaps a few others, but now we’re hitting out stride!
Carl Pope is executive director of a large American environmental organization, the Sierra Club. He characterized Jones’s critics as a “lynch mob” and wrote this about Jones’s resignation: “He spoke to and was part of an America that Fox and the reactionary right would like to put back on the plantation or pretend is not part of our nation.”
Not one word about Jones’s nutty 9/11 conspiracy theory or his sponsorship of cop killer Mumia Abu Jamal’s propaganda or to Jones’s professed Communism.
No, according to Pope, Jones “cares passionately about helping young men and women find their way in the world…and he sees in a new green economy a powerful instrument to heal their lives. But, that kind of hope is profoundly threatening to Glenn Beck and people like him. When it comes from a black man, they reach back to an old and ugly instinct.” So threatened are they, says the director of the Sierra Club, that they don’t just lynch people, they’re trying to bring back slavery. I guess if Obama can appoint loonies like Jones to “czar” jobs in the U.S. government, it figures that the Sierra Club can put equally loony people in charge of their whole organization.
Of course they knew his #$%*ing history, it was a feature, not a bug.
The general consensus among the group I run with is that Jones’ downfall was that he is an African-American intellectual straight out of Central Casting. Denzel will play him in the biopic.
Look at him – shaved head, perfect moustache, always with either the impeccable suits or the black polo-neck, and when you pull the string on his back, out come the exact perfect words that people who pay attention to people like that want to hear – a mix of Black Pride, black nationalism and conspiracy theory. Trutherism wasn’t the limit of his goofiness – for example, he says that Big Bad Corporations deliberately target poor neighborhoods for pollution. He has the exact-same Sunday-morning go-to-meeting delivery that President Obama sometimes uses to such great effect, that same folksy, we-on-the-inside, we-all-know-what-time-it-is manner that’s used to spead nonsesne and conspiracy theories with such easy cool. Watch some videos of his past addresses, he’s all over YouTube.
It’s insane to suggest he wasn’t vetted – he was, and he was approved for his post exactly because people like him appeal to a significant part of the Democrat base. Look at them defending him. They have to at least appear to do so, for a while at least, until that part of the constituency that actually approves of and supports chuckleheads like this moves on to something else.
And the problem is – he’s not the goofiest one, not by a long shot.
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Correct – C.S. (the regulation Commissar) is being confirmed by the Senate tonight.
And he is not a Marxist – because the tradition of Karl Marx would have nothing to do with a man who thinks rats are entitled to lawyers (and so on and so on).
Think I am kidding you?
What till he starts to “nudge” people (the title of one of his books).
Of course if people tried to “nudge” the government back that would be an outrage.
Only one side may use the threat of force.
Van Jones “had no real power”.
I can name many other people in the Obama Administration who have a similar Communist background to Van Jones – but I will just name one in this comment.
Barack Obama.
Is Mr Alan Colmes going to claim that Barack Obama has no influence in the Obama Administration?