Van Jones calls Republicans Assholes! Video!

[Barry]

This is priceless!

Van Jones, is the Obama administration's "green jobs" adviser.

This is from February 11, 2009 in Berkeley, Ca.
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"Well, the answer to that is, they're assholes," Jones said, to uproarious laughter. "That's a technical, political science term."

The questioner responded, "I was afraid that that was the answer."

"Now, I will say this. I can be an asshole, and some of us who are not Barack Hussein Obama are going to have to start getting a little bit uppity," he said.

Don'cha just love it when people tell the truth?

[busyb555]

Ah, more proof for evolution. This guy is just not fit to be in the job he has and the advise he gives and the work he does will absolutely make a difference. Makes his cause look stupid, why not come up with better ideas and things that have a chance of success.

Can't you just feel the 2010 election already.

This is actually starting to be fun again.

B

This is priceless!

Van Jones, is the Obama administration's "green jobs" adviser.

This is from February 11, 2009 in Berkeley, Ca.
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YouTube - DefendGlenn.com: Obama Advisor Van Jones: Republicans are "Assholes" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt66eWnjoTo)
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"Well, the answer to that is, they're assholes," Jones said, to uproarious laughter. "That's a technical, political science term."

The questioner responded, "I was afraid that that was the answer."

"Now, I will say this. I can be an asshole, and some of us who are not Barack Hussein Obama are going to have to start getting a little bit uppity," he said.

Don'cha just love it when people tell the truth?

[RexCasteel]

This is a sad day for me.

Van Jones was the first voice of reason and hope that I was privileged to hear on the morning after Bush II "won" his second election and I've been a huge fan ever since.

His leadership at the Ella Baker Center and his concept of reinvigorating inner city (and America) by greening is the kind of radical I'm in favor of. And if there was ever a time that America needed radical, I'd vote that time is now.

Unfortunately, Glenn Beck - as a front man - is about to put a stop to any of this.

Van Jones chose his words poorly. He might've used the word "ruthless" instead of "asshole" because I think that's what he really meant. The Bush administration didn't care about consensus or bipartisan anything. They simply rammed their agenda through and moved on.

There's also a clip going around where Van Jones compares Bush to a crackhead because of the insistence to cling to oil as an energy solution at all costs. I agree with him but, again, he chose his words poorly.

America is not used to those types of comparisons and is, IMHO, very afraid of her inner city.

On a recent trip to relatives' homes in Colorado, I gained an appreciation for Fox News Channel as a propoganda weapon.

I don't believe for a second that what is happening in the town hall meetings on health care around this country is spontaneous or coincidental.

It's easy for the left, however well meaning, to be derisive and even smug - "I was afraid that was the answer."

The right is all business (pardon the pun) - mercenary, focused and effective.

When a ship sets sail, all sailors leave their conflict ashore 'cause The Sea is a mighty foe. I think of that picture of Earth as viewed from the Moon and I can't help but feel that we're moving still further from that sort of ideal.

A sad day for me as Van Jones is drummed out of the Obama administration. Rough seas ahead...

Thanks for listening.

- R

Rex Casteel

[Barry]

I guess this is what happens when you tell the truth... :(: :(: :(:

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<nyt_headline version="1.0" type=" "> White House Adviser on ‘Green Jobs’ Resigns </nyt_headline>

<nyt_byline version="1.0" type=" "> By SARAH WHEATON

</nyt_byline> Robert Gibbs (https://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/robert_gibbs/index.html?inline=nyt-per), the White House press secretary, said on Sunday that Van Jones had resigned as the administration’s environmental jobs “czar” because “the agenda of the president is bigger than any one individual” and he did not want the dispute to get in the way of creating green jobs in this economy.

Mr. Jones resigned late Saturday night after weeks of controversy over his past comments and affiliations had slowly escalated.

Appointed as a special adviser for “green jobs” by President Obama (https://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_obama/index.html?inline=nyt-per), Mr. Jones did not go through the traditional vetting process for administration officials who must be confirmed by the Senate. So it was not until recently that some of Mr. Jones’s past actions received broad airing, including his derogatory statements about Republicans in February and his signature on a 2004 letter suggesting that former President George W. Bush (https://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/george_w_bush/index.html?inline=nyt-per) might have knowingly allowed the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to occur in order to use them as a “pre-text to war.”

Mr. Gibbs, who appeared on ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanoupoulos” and was asked several questions about the controversial statements, said that the president did not endorse what Mr. Jones had said.

Mr. Jones’s involvement in the 1990s with a group called Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement had prompted recent accusations by conservative critics that he associated with communists. The group, according to a post-mortem written by some of its founders, was an anti-capitalist, antiwar organization committed to achieving “solidarity among all oppressed peoples” with “direct militant action.”

Republican blogs and conservative talk show hosts, notably Glenn Beck (https://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/glenn_beck/index.html?inline=nyt-per) of Fox News Channel, seized upon Mr. Jones’s statements and associations. Mr. Jones apologized on Wednesday for derogatory words he directed at Republican opponents of Mr. Obama’s Congressional agenda during a lecture in February, calling his remarks “inappropriate” and noting that they were made before he joined the administration. Mr. Jones has also said in the past that the Sept. 11 petition did not reflect his views.

“I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past,” Mr. Jones said in a statement announcing his resignation that was released early Sunday morning. That message was followed by another from Nancy Sutley (https://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/nancy_sutley/index.html?inline=nyt-per), chairwoman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, affirming that she had accepted his resignation.

On Friday, Representative Mike Pence (https://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/mike_pence/index.html?inline=nyt-per) of Indiana, chairman of the House Republican conference, called on Mr. Jones to resign, and Senator Christopher S. Bond (https://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/christopher_s_bond/index.html?inline=nyt-per) of Missouri called for a hearing on Mr. Jones’s appointment. Mr. Obama has appointed more than two dozen special advisers who are not subject to the confirmation process.

Before joining the Obama administration in 2009, Mr. Jones wrote the book “The Green Collar Economy” and co-founded several nonprofit organizations, including the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and Green for All.

Howard Dean (https://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/d/howard_dean/index.html?inline=nyt-per), the former head of the Democratic party, defended Mr. Jones on Sunday, saying he was being penalized for not realizing what the petition was.

“This guy’s a Yale-educated lawyer,” Mr. Dean said on “Fox News Sunday.” He’s a best-selling author about his specialty. I think he was brought down, and I think it’s too bad. Washington’s a tough place that way, and I think it’s a loss for the country.

“Look, all of us campaigning for office have had people throw clipboards in front of our face and ask us to sign. And he learned the hard way you ought not to do that. But I don’t think he really thinks the government had anything to do with causing 9-11.”

Mr. Beck, who regularly draws almost three million viewers on Fox News, first criticized Mr. Jones in July, in segments on his syndicated talk radio show and then, on July 23, on his television program, according to Christopher Balfe, the president of Mr. Beck’s production company. Mr. Beck called Mr. Jones a “communist-anarchist radical.”

A few days later, Mr. Beck called President Obama a racist on a Fox News morning show, leading Color of Change, an activist group co-founded by Mr. Jones four years ago, to call on Mr. Beck’s advertisers to stop sponsoring his TV program.

Color of Change says Mr. Jones is no longer affiliated with the group, but its executive director, James Rucker, on Sunday issued a statement in which he called the resignation “the tragic result of a retaliatory witch-hunt by Glenn Beck and Fox News Channel.”

Mr. Balfe emphasized that Mr. Beck had spoken about Mr. Jones’s background before Color of Change “began targeting Glenn.” Dozens of advertisers have subsequently issued statements to distance themselves from Mr. Beck’s show in the past month, but Fox said no revenue had been lost.

In a statement released on Sunday, Mr. Beck said that Americans had demanded answers about Mr. Jones, but “instead of providing them, the Administration had Jones resign under cover of darkness.”

Mr. Beck added: “I continue to be amazed by the power of everyday Americans to initiate change in our government through honest questioning, and judging by the other radicals in the administration, I expect that questioning to continue for the foreseeable future.”

<nyt_author_id>Peter Baker contributed reporting from Washington, and Brian Stelter and Joseph Berger contributed from New York.

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[busyb555]

Actually, its what happens when you look and sound like an ignorant, uneducated, bum from the ghetto. Obama made a fool of himself once again.

At least this guy pays his taxes, well maybe since he was never vetted as normally he would have been, but the big O skips steps like that so he can place this kind of man in his administration. I keep asking why.



I guess this is what happens when you tell the truth... :(: :(: :(:

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<hr align="left" size="1"> September 6, 2009
<nyt_headline version="1.0" type=" "> White House Adviser on ‘Green Jobs’ Resigns </nyt_headline>

<nyt_byline version="1.0" type=" "> By SARAH WHEATON

</nyt_byline> Robert Gibbs (https://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/robert_gibbs/index.html?inline=nyt-per), the White House press secretary, said on Sunday that Van Jones had resigned as the administration’s environmental jobs “czar” because “the agenda of the president is bigger than any one individual” and he did not want the dispute to get in the way of creating green jobs in this economy.

Mr. Jones resigned late Saturday night after weeks of controversy over his past comments and affiliations had slowly escalated.

Appointed as a special adviser for “green jobs” by President Obama (https://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_obama/index.html?inline=nyt-per), Mr. Jones did not go through the traditional vetting process for administration officials who must be confirmed by the Senate. So it was not until recently that some of Mr. Jones’s past actions received broad airing, including his derogatory statements about Republicans in February and his signature on a 2004 letter suggesting that former President George W. Bush (https://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/george_w_bush/index.html?inline=nyt-per) might have knowingly allowed the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to occur in order to use them as a “pre-text to war.”

Mr. Gibbs, who appeared on ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanoupoulos” and was asked several questions about the controversial statements, said that the president did not endorse what Mr. Jones had said.

Mr. Jones’s involvement in the 1990s with a group called Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement had prompted recent accusations by conservative critics that he associated with communists. The group, according to a post-mortem written by some of its founders, was an anti-capitalist, antiwar organization committed to achieving “solidarity among all oppressed peoples” with “direct militant action.”

Republican blogs and conservative talk show hosts, notably Glenn Beck (https://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/glenn_beck/index.html?inline=nyt-per) of Fox News Channel, seized upon Mr. Jones’s statements and associations. Mr. Jones apologized on Wednesday for derogatory words he directed at Republican opponents of Mr. Obama’s Congressional agenda during a lecture in February, calling his remarks “inappropriate” and noting that they were made before he joined the administration. Mr. Jones has also said in the past that the Sept. 11 petition did not reflect his views.

“I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past,” Mr. Jones said in a statement announcing his resignation that was released early Sunday morning. That message was followed by another from Nancy Sutley (https://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/nancy_sutley/index.html?inline=nyt-per), chairwoman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, affirming that she had accepted his resignation.

On Friday, Representative Mike Pence (https://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/mike_pence/index.html?inline=nyt-per) of Indiana, chairman of the House Republican conference, called on Mr. Jones to resign, and Senator Christopher S. Bond (https://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/christopher_s_bond/index.html?inline=nyt-per) of Missouri called for a hearing on Mr. Jones’s appointment. Mr. Obama has appointed more than two dozen special advisers who are not subject to the confirmation process.

Before joining the Obama administration in 2009, Mr. Jones wrote the book “The Green Collar Economy” and co-founded several nonprofit organizations, including the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and Green for All.

Howard Dean (https://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/d/howard_dean/index.html?inline=nyt-per), the former head of the Democratic party, defended Mr. Jones on Sunday, saying he was being penalized for not realizing what the petition was.

“This guy’s a Yale-educated lawyer,” Mr. Dean said on “Fox News Sunday.” He’s a best-selling author about his specialty. I think he was brought down, and I think it’s too bad. Washington’s a tough place that way, and I think it’s a loss for the country.

“Look, all of us campaigning for office have had people throw clipboards in front of our face and ask us to sign. And he learned the hard way you ought not to do that. But I don’t think he really thinks the government had anything to do with causing 9-11.”

Mr. Beck, who regularly draws almost three million viewers on Fox News, first criticized Mr. Jones in July, in segments on his syndicated talk radio show and then, on July 23, on his television program, according to Christopher Balfe, the president of Mr. Beck’s production company. Mr. Beck called Mr. Jones a “communist-anarchist radical.”

A few days later, Mr. Beck called President Obama a racist on a Fox News morning show, leading Color of Change, an activist group co-founded by Mr. Jones four years ago, to call on Mr. Beck’s advertisers to stop sponsoring his TV program.

Color of Change says Mr. Jones is no longer affiliated with the group, but its executive director, James Rucker, on Sunday issued a statement in which he called the resignation “the tragic result of a retaliatory witch-hunt by Glenn Beck and Fox News Channel.”

Mr. Balfe emphasized that Mr. Beck had spoken about Mr. Jones’s background before Color of Change “began targeting Glenn.” Dozens of advertisers have subsequently issued statements to distance themselves from Mr. Beck’s show in the past month, but Fox said no revenue had been lost.

In a statement released on Sunday, Mr. Beck said that Americans had demanded answers about Mr. Jones, but “instead of providing them, the Administration had Jones resign under cover of darkness.”

Mr. Beck added: “I continue to be amazed by the power of everyday Americans to initiate change in our government through honest questioning, and judging by the other radicals in the administration, I expect that questioning to continue for the foreseeable future.”

<nyt_author_id>Peter Baker contributed reporting from Washington, and Brian Stelter and Joseph Berger contributed from New York.

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[bakerchic]

What is it about him that makes you believe he looks and sounds like he's from "the ghetto?" And what "ghetto" do you believe he's from?


Actually, its what happens when you look and sound like an ignorant, uneducated, bum from the ghetto. Obama made a fool of himself once again.

At least this guy pays his taxes, well maybe since he was never vetted as normally he would have been, but the big O skips steps like that so he can place this kind of man in his administration. I keep asking why.

[Zeno Swijtink]

Actually, its what happens when you look and sound like an ignorant, uneducated, bum from the ghetto. Obama made a fool of himself once again.

At least this guy pays his taxes, well maybe since he was never vetted as normally he would have been, but the big O skips steps like that so he can place this kind of man in his administration. I keep asking why.

Bruce, in your profile you write: "I just recently moved from the Central Valley and found a new awakening in this wonderful area. I am truly amazed how much more alive I how each turn brings opportunity to grow. So different from my life before Sebastopol."

Reading your post I think you still have some way to go.