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...and now it looks like he's been a Truther since 2002. Not to mention, a self avowed communist, and a member of STORM thereby throwing his hat in the ring with those who espouse overthrowing our system of government.
This thing has so many legs I lost count.
Redenbacher you magnificent bastard - I bought your product!
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09/04/2009 15:58 Comments ||
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He's a Communist subversive getting a salary courtesy of the capitalistic taxpaying Americans he despises. We cannot vote him out or impeach him yet any criticism is considered "racist" from "domestic terrorists". Heaven help us.
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Anyone opposing this administration's policies will be called 'racist'. Against gov't. healthcare? According to Rangel, you're a racist. Now we're assholes as well :) Going to be a long 3-1/2 years.
President Obama's "green jobs czar" Van Jones has been targeted again and again by conservatives for his controversial views and now they'll have another item to use as fodder.
Mr. Jones signed a statement for 911Truth.org in 2004 demanding an investigation into what the Bush Administration may have done that "deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war."
His name is listed with 99 other prominent signatories supporting such an investigation on the 911Truth.org website, including Code Pink co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodi Evans, comedienne Janeane Garofalo, Democratic Rep. Cynthia McKinney of Georgia and others. He's identified as the executive director for the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights on the statement, which he founded before going to the White House. The statement is available here. Mr. Jones is number 46.
Mike Berger, a spokesman for 911Truth.org, told the Washington Times over the phone that all of the signers had been verified by their group. He said 9/11Truth.org board members "spoke with each person on the list by phone or through email to individually confirm they had added their name to that list."
"I think in most cases they spoke to them personally," he added. "No one's name was put on that list without them knowing it."
Fox News personalty Glenn Beck has described Mr. Jones as a "radical" on his program and many conservative blogs have questioned his political tactics and strategies. Mr. Jones recently landed in hot water when a video surfaced of him calling Republicans a disparaging name at an energy lecture in Berkeley, California last February. He apologized for those remarks in an email to the Politico this week.
The White House has been contacted for comment and this blog will be updated with their statement when provided.
UPDATE: A response was provided to reporters Thursday evening. In it, Mr. Jones apologized for signing the statement and said he doesn't feel that way today and never has had such thoughts, although the 911Truth group claims to have personally confirmed support from all of their signers.
"In recent days some in the news media have reported on past statements I made before I joined the administration -- some of which were made years ago," Mr. Jones said. "If I have offended anyone with statements I made in the past, I apologize. As for the petition that was circulated today, I do not agree with this statement and it certainly does not reflect my views now or ever.
"My work at the Council on Environmental Quality is entirely focused on one goal: building clean energy incentives which create 21st century jobs that improve energy efficiency and use renewable resources," he added.
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Mr. Jones apologized for signing the statement and said he doesn't feel that way today and never has had such thoughts, although the 911Truth group claims to have personally confirmed support from all of their signers.
You could almost feel sorry for this psychopath, especially since he going to be publically hung, drawn and quartered courtesy of the Magnificent Bastard Karl Rove and Buraq will be forced to watch every gory detail, and then have to humiliate himself by throwing Van Jones under the already crowded bus.
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Why would you expect different? That's why the same group they swim with don't understand the concept or sacredness of an oath. This wasn't a vote for 'present'. Past acts and behaviors are only the standards others are held to, not to truthers true believers. One set of rules for me, another set of rules for thee.
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The Van Jones (non) feeding frenzy From a Nexis search a few moments ago:
Total words about the Van Jones controversy in the New York Times: 0.
Total words about the Van Jones controversy in the Washington Post: 0.
Total words about the Van Jones controversy on NBC Nightly News: 0.
Total words about the Van Jones controversy on ABC World News: 0.
Total words about the Van Jones controversy on CBS Evening News: 0.
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Senior White House officials, in conversations with reporters today, are floating the idea that President Obama is secretly negotiating with Sen. Olympia Snowe over a health care compromise that would phase in a government-funded health care alternative if private insurance companies fail to meet quality and cost benchmarks over a certain period of the time. The public discussion of the Snowe "compromise" is meant to test the reaction of House Democrats, who will pass a bill that includes an immediate public option added to a new health insurance exchange. The White House hopes that, having voted for a public option, House Dems would accept a "trigger" as part of a conference committee compromise rather than putting the kibosh on the entire health care reform project. In some ways, this strategy is old, and in some ways it's new. For months, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel has been pushing the idea of a "trigger" internally, and he and Snowe regularly trade legislative and political intelligence. When President Obama addresses a joint session of Congress next week, he will present an outline of a comprehensive health care bill -- one that will be universal in character. Privately, the White House is signaling that Obama is willing to sign a bill that is less than universal in its coverage ambitions, though the president will not say so publicly.
Liberal/progressive proponents of a "robust" public option are skeptical of claims by reporters that Obama won't threaten to veto a bill without a public option Unfortunately, the skepticism, accompanied by haranguing over anonymous sources, is misplaced -- Obama hasn't ever threatened to veto a bill without a public option and won't. For a while now, Obama's aides have believed that the 50-odd progressives in the House who are demanding a public option will get their jollies if they can pass a bill out of the House, and that they will be too afraid to oppose a bill that makes it out of a subsequent conference committee -- a bill that President Obama would specifically endorse. For now, the administration will proceed as if both the House and Senate would pass health care legislation via the normal process.
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Senior White House officials, in conversations with reporters today, are floating the idea that President Obama is secretly negotiating with Sen. Olympia Snowe over a health care compromise that would phase in a government-funded health care alternative if private insurance companies fail to meet quality and cost benchmarks over a certain period of the time.
Funny, does it have a provision to abolish government programs if they fail quality and cost benchmarks over a certain period of time?
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"..a health care compromise that would phase in a government-funded health care alternative if private insurance companies fail to meet quality and cost benchmarks that the government will make unattainable over a certain period of the time."
Fixed it.
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First it was Gov. Paterson. Now the dean of New York's congressional delegation has played the race card -- and just as the governor did, he's using President Obama to do it.
Rep. Charles Rangel said Tuesday that "bias" and "prejudice" toward Obama are fueling opposition to health-care reform.
Those incendiary comments came on the heels of Paterson's controversial comments about race that also mentioned the nation's first black president.
"Some Americans have not gotten over the fact that Obama is president of the United States. They go to sleep wondering, 'How did this happen?' " Rangel (D-Manhattan) said Tuesday.
Speaking at a health-care forum in Washington Heights, Rangel said that when critics complain that Obama is "trying to interfere" with their lives by pushing for health-care reform, "then you know there's just a misunderstanding, a bias, a prejudice, an emotional feeling."
"We're going to have to move forward notwithstanding that," said Rangel, the powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and a chief health-care negotiator.
Rangel then likened the battle over health-care expansion for the uninsured to the fight for civil rights.
"Why do we have to wait for the right to vote? Why can't we get what God has given us? That is the right to live as human beings and not negotiate with white southerners and not count the votes. Just do the right thing," he said.
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a lying cheating sack of shit is a lying cheating sack of shit, regardless of the color of the bag
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"Some Americans have not gotten over the fact that Obama is president of the United States. They go to sleep wondering, 'How did this happen?' " Rangel (D-Manhattan) said Tuesday.
Why can't we get what God has given us? That is the right to live as human beings and not negotiate with white southerners and not count the votes.
Very powerful statements there Charlie....
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
09/04/2009 14:30 Comments ||
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Come on now! He's just playing the cards he has left. Nothing surprising here. His predecessor fought hard to regain his seat after getting out of prison for similar crimes of corruption and he won. Charles is just a remake of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
Posted by: Richard of Oregon ||
09/04/2009 15:18 Comments ||
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I wonder how many votes Obama would have gotten if they had said outright that they'd use the race card at every opportunity to ensure his policies got passed.
I suspect he wouldn't have even swept the African-American communities. Charlie is a funny guy, I've seen him interviewed and when not playing partisan he seems okay. Having said that he belongs in jail over his tax dodging and other nonsense.
For New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, last Friday was long in coming -- the day a federal prosecutor announced that after nearly a year investigating alleged corruption in the awarding of state contracts, he had wrapped up the case without any indictments. The investigation had cast a cloud over Richardson, scuttling a job in the Obama Cabinet and putting in doubt his political future.
But even as Richardson and his allies proclaimed his "vindication" and predicted it would catapult him back onto the national stage, the prosecutor handling the case wouldn't let the matter fade. U.S. Attorney Greg Fouratt fired off a letter to defense lawyers asserting the inquiry "revealed that pressure from the governor's office resulted in the corruption of the procurement process," holding out the possibility of reconvening an investigation and stressing that the decision not to charge Richardson "is not to be interpreted as an exoneration of any party's conduct."
Now, as Richardson attempts to reassume the national and international stage -- he recently hosted a delegation of North Koreans in the state and traveled to Cuba on a trade mission -- he and his allies are lashing out at the prosecutor. And they have a point, according to some legal experts.
If Fouratt thought he had a case, he should have filed charges, but if he didn't, he should have let the investigation end without comment, said Stan Brand, a top Washington defense attorney. "Put up or shut up," said Brand, who called the letter "a cheap shot."
Mike McKay, who served as U.S. attorney for the Western District of Washington state under President George H.W. Bush from 1989 to 1993, called Fouratt's letter "virtually unprecedented. It reflects extremely poor judgment."
"The very existence of federal criminal investigations is not supposed to be disclosed," he said, citing the potential damage to the subjects' reputations. "And certainly for the same reasons, you don't disclose closed investigations," he said.
Both McKay and Brand said they expected President Barack Obama to replace Fouratt, much as he's done with other U.S. Attorney holdovers from the Bush administration. Brand said Obama was probably waiting for the Richardson case to conclude before proceeding, out of concern that replacing Fouratt mid-investigation could appear to be an effort to quash the inquiry.
Richardson's office issued a statement calling Fouratt's letter "wrong on the facts" and "nothing more than sour grapes." And Steve Murphy, who was a top adviser to Richardson's 2006 reelection campaign and his 2008 bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, called the letter "a disgraceful, politically motivated statement." Murphy asserted the letter wouldn't prevent Richardson from putting the investigation behind him but also suggested the governor might wage a PR offensive of sorts.
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Now, as Richardson attempts to reassume the national and international stage -- he recently hosted a delegation of North Koreans in the state and traveled to Cuba on a trade mission -- he and his allies are lashing out at the prosecutor.
Van Jones, the Obama administration's "green jobs" adviser, apologized Wednesday for calling Republicans "assholes," saying the comments were made before he joined the administration and "were clearly inappropriate."
Yes they were. Appallingly rude, too.
Jones had told a group of listeners earlier in the year that the reason Republicans are stonewalling the president is because they're "assholes," remarks that were recorded in a video and posted to YouTube.
"I apologize for the offensive words I chose to use during that speech," Jones said in a written statement to Politico. "They do not reflect the views of this administration, which has made every effort to work in a bipartisan fashion, and they do not reflect the experience I have had since I joined the administration."
"Bitter people, clinging to their religion and their guns. But not assholes. Let's flush that particular thought right down the drain."
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Anybody remember Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz during the Nixon administration? Can we get the same treatment for Van Jones? No? Just thought I'd ask.
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..would refuse a job in the Palin administration?
Your assumption is that Palin would win as a Trunk. Considering the number of knife wounds in her back from the establishment and Beltway Trunks, that's not a given.
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Palin = Truther, LH? Come'on, that's a bit of a stretch, isn't it?
Posted by: Mike N. ||
09/04/2009 12:41 Comments ||
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LH, I've called both Dems and Repubs worse. I guess I'm not qualified to be in any administration, then. Oh well!
If this was the only stupid thing he had done, no, I wouldn't have a problem with him. I actually agree with him on this part, only I would have added an adjective like "dumb" or "stupid" before the term a$$hole. But, that's just me.
Unfortunately, this is the least of his dumb moves (troofer petition signing, accusing white people of deliberately poisoning minority communities, naming his kid after some radical African revolutionary, his political conversion after heading to jail during the King riots in LA, etc., etc.).
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He's backing off of his truther denial as well. How much more public pressure before he sees the undercarriage of a bus? Time will tell.
Posted by: Richard of Oregon ||
09/04/2009 15:09 Comments ||
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There's a difference between private conversation and standing up in front of a crowd as a paid authority. He was there giving a speech, then said the asshole thingy in response to an audience member's question.
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Nah, it's ok because, in addition to the flag, they are also going to have little white crosses for the tens of millions of people that died in the political purges and the greatest famine in human history. Aren't they?
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In other news the White House will be publishing important Obama quotes in a small convenient book with a red cover. All citizens will be required to own a copy.
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ION CATHAY REDDIT > [Gordan Chang-FORBES Magz]WILL JAPAN BECOME A CHINESE COLONY?
* SAME > IIRC JAPAN'S COMMUNIST PARTY is already the SECOND LARGEST IN the entire G8
Pragmatically, as per MWF Netters > CHINA has NUCMISSLES + NUCBOMBS, JAPAN doesn't. Iff a major US-CHINA WAR occurs ee TAIWAN, China can simply destroy Japan's largest cities + major US JAPAN, ASIA-PACIFIC milbases with its Nukes before shifting targets to deal agz any incoming USN Carrier fleet???
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First it was Gov. Paterson. Now the dean of New York's congressional delegation has played the race card -- and just as the governor did, he's using President Obama to do it.
Van Jones, the Obama administration's "green jobs" adviser, apologized Wednesday for calling Republicans "assholes," saying the comments were made before he joined the administration and "were clearly inappropriate."
