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2009-09-08 Home Front: Politix

Moonbat fratricide: "liberal" institutions betrayed Van Jones!

Jane Hamsher, "FireDogLake"

I first met Van Jones when he was honored last year by the Campaign for America's Future at their gala dinner. He was being swarmed by all of the liberal institutional elite, who just could not be more full of praise for the impressive environmental leader and prison reform organizer. Everybody wanted Van Jones on their board. Everyone wanted him at their fundraisers. Everyone wanted a piece of his formidable limelight.

Now he's been thrown under the bus by the White House for signing his name to a petition expressing something that 35% of all Democrats believed as of 2007 -- that George Bush knew in advance about the attacks of 9/11. Well, that and calling Republicans "assholes." I'm pretty sure that if you search through the histories of every single liberal leader at the CAF dinner that night, they have publicly said that and worse.

So where are all the statements defending Van Jones by those who were willing to exploit him when it served their purpose? Why aren't they standing up and defending one of their own, who has done nothing that probably the majority of people in the Democratic party haven't done at one time or another? Is he no longer "one of their own?"...
It goes on for a couple thousand more increasingly venomous words, excoriating lefty institutions in what she calls the "veal pen"--her term for the Obama-media-NGO axis. It ends with this:
So to all you liberal organizations in the "veal pen" -- this is your moment of truth. I get all your emails. And the next Common Purpose meeting is probably on Tuesday. If you can't get it together to at least put out a statement of support for Van Jones and condemn the White House for using him as a sacrificial lamb to right wing extremists that will devour us all if left unchecked, it's time to add "proudly liberal only when it doesn't matter" to your logo and be done with it.

Posted by Mike 2009-09-08 08:30|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 "expressing something that 35% of all Democrats believed as of 2007" I guess the rest either took their meds or have a firm grip on reality. BTW he did not just sign his name, he made a statement that bascially said we deserved to get attacked. Why in God's green earth nobody in the MSM found that little nugget is beyond me.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2009-09-08 08:58|| 2009-09-08 08:58|| Front Page Top

#2 right wing extremists

n. (1) anyone who doesn't agree with those of the social-ist front. (2) common pejorative used to describe classical liberals, centralist, independents, and conservatives.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-09-08 09:40|| 2009-09-08 09:40|| Front Page Top

#3 right wing extremists
n. (1) anyone who doesn't agree with those of the social-ist front. (2) common pejorative used to describe classical liberals, centralist, independents, and conservatives.

Also see anyone to the right of Stalin and Pol Pot in political thinking.

Posted by DarthVader 2009-09-08 09:44|| 2009-09-08 09:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, that and calling Republicans "assholes."

Another clueless libtard. Jones is an avowed Communist, or did she also bring that up in her 1,000 word drivel.

Posted by Woozle Uneter9007 2009-09-08 10:51|| 2009-09-08 10:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Ah, come on. Even famous party members weren't excluded from a little old ice axe purge. Sorta of the 30's version of a bus undercarriage. For the good of the party, of course.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-09-08 12:11|| 2009-09-08 12:11|| Front Page Top

#6 "[Jones] has done nothing that probably the majority of people in the Democratic party haven't done at one time or another..."

Yes, dumbass, and there's room under that bus for them as well.

Posted by Woozle Uneter9007 2009-09-08 13:32|| 2009-09-08 13:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Once again Jane the Hamster projects onto conservatives the type of behavior she routinely employs.

Posted by Steve White 2009-09-08 13:56|| 2009-09-08 13:56|| Front Page Top

#8 One might argue that "liberal" institutions have betrayed humanity, but I'm trying to get this damn veal pen to write.

Posted by SteveS 2009-09-08 14:41|| 2009-09-08 14:41|| Front Page Top

#9 The WH hasn't thrown anyone under the bus. Publicly, anyway. In fact, they haven't even made a comment about Van Jones being a truther. And they haven't even said that truthers shouldn't work in the WH. In fact, Nobama can't say anything because Van Jones got through his not-so-vaunted screening process. Saying anything would be suicidal because if he can't even screen a candidate for obvious mental deficiencies, then what can he do?

Posted by gorb 2009-09-08 14:58|| 2009-09-08 14:58|| Front Page Top

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