Van Jones has quit the Obama administration, so apparently I can’t use him to point out to people that, no, actually this really is a radical left administration. It’s a shame, because it was really interesting to hear the rationalizations when someone says that “no this really is a center left administration,” and you bring up Van Jones. . .
I suspect that there will be a lot of teeth gnashing on the left about the self-admitted rodeo clown, Glen Beck, for targeting this guy in retaliation for the Color of Change boycott of his show. Van Jones will become a martyr showing the danger of right-wing talking heads. . .
Serious problem with that characterization, the Color of Change boycott happened after Glenn started talking about Van Jones. Newsbuster lede:
President Obama’s controversial green jobs czar –a self-described “rowdy black nationalist” and “communist”– is a co-founder of the same unsavory left-wing pressure group that is urging an advertiser boycott of Glenn Beck’s TV show after Beck did several unflattering news packages on the czar.
Please note the date of the article, August 12th. So it looks less like a talking head being vindictive about someone being mean to him, and more like a person in the White House manipulating a private organization to shut up political speech they didn’t care for. Which should you find more disturbing in a free society? (Also makes you wonder about basic fact checking at the AP, is it that hard to find out when Glenn started reaming this guy vs. when the Boycott started?)
Two more incidental things. Saying that he signed the truther statement but didn’t agree with it is a good sign that he belongs in the legislative branch, not the executive. And he did say one thing I agree with, Republicans are a-holes.
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Steve Ramey · September 7, 2009 at 10:25 am
Regarding the truther statement: he smoked the stuff, but didn’t inhale. He did, however, partake in the free samples of WMDs (Weapns of Mass Delusion).
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