Obama's Green Jobs Czar Van Jones: Republicans Are "A**holes"

[henktermaat]

Obama's Green Jobs Czar Van Jones: Republicans Are "A**holes"
YouTube - Obama Advisor Van Jones: Republicans are "Assholes"

 

[Archbishop]

Nice. Such class. Let the role be reversed and watch the media scream!

 

[HandK]

I guess when your a Czar you can do and say what you want!! after all what tops a Czar?????? Come on what country do we live in ??? Czars???? things do not look good for Americans.

 

[Whosyer]

Van Jones is a self proclaimed Communist. His idols are Mao Tse Tung, Lenin and Marx. But hey, Obama isn't a radical just because he hangs out with them. Right? If you have not already heard of him, do a search on Mark Lloyd. Obama's new "diversity czar" at the FCC. I saw a clip of the guy praising Chavez and his"wonderful democratic revolution". He seemed especially fond of the fact that Chavez took radio stations away from "the property owners"

 

[JetGirl]

Van Jones is a self proclaimed Communist. His idols are Mao Tse Tung, Lenin and Marx. But hey, Obama isn't a radical just because he hangs out with them. Right? If you have not already heard of him, do a search on Mark Lloyd. Obama's new "diversity czar" at the FCC. I saw a clip of the guy praising Chavez and his"wonderful democratic revolution". He seemed especially fond of the fact that Chavez took radio stations away from "the property owners"

You're judged by the company you keep.

 

[nova512]

the stupid people have us surrounded

 

[mrjarrell]

Well, if he's talking about Republican politicians I can't say I disagree with him. They've pretty much proven his point over the years. Of course the same also applies to Democrats, too. That goes without saying.

 

[rambone]

And the crowd went wild.

 

[IndianasFinest]

This guy without a doubt does not need a job in the Whitehouse.

 

[Boilers]

A**holes in a GOOD WAY!

Bite me, Dems!!!!

 

[Huzrjim]

Glenn Beck has been running some very good Czar exposure on his program the past few days.

 

[rambone]

Hire that man.

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[Phil502]

I agree with him, he is an a$$hole.

 

[Blue Tile Spook]

FOX NEWS claimed a bit ago that 98% of the people responding to their poll, "Do you accept Van Jones' apology?" responded with YES.

Only 2% disagreed that it didn't go far enough.

 

[Paco Bedejo]

the stupid people have us surrounded

 

[Spot Me 2]

Yes, we are A$$holes!! With the constitution and guns to back it up. We still think America is the greatest nation on earth. That makes us a$$holes!

 

[Spot Me 2]

He's a uniter!! Just like his boss.

 

[Boilers]

I have not read all this thread, but I did see this article

Controversial Obama Administration Official Denies Being Part of 9/11 "Truther" Movement, Apologizes for Past Comments - Political Punch

A top environmental official of the Obama administration issued a statement Thursday apologizing for past incendiary statement and denying that he ever agreed with a 2004 petition on which his name appears, a petition calling for congressional hearings and an investigation by the New York Attorney General into "evidence that suggests high-level government officials may have deliberately allowed the September 11th attacks to occur."

Van Jones, the Special Advisor for Green Jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, is Number 46 of the petitioners from the so-called "Truther" movement which suggests that people in the administration of President George W. Bush "may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war."

In a statement issued Thursday evening Jones said of "the petition that was circulated today, I do not agree with this statement and it certainly does not reflect my views now or ever."

He did not explain how his name came to be on the petition. An administration source said Jones says he did not carefully review the language in the petition before agreeing to add his name.

"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," Jones said in his statement tonight.

Jones also said in his statement that "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. If I have offended anyone with statements I made in the past, I apologize."

With a history of incendiary and provocative remarks, many of them dealing with his view of how whites exploit minorities, Jones has emerged as the subject of much conservative scrutiny in recent days, particularly from Fox News' Glenn Beck. (Jones defenders point out that most of Beck's criticism came after a group Jones helped found, Color of Change, began pushing advertisers to boycott Beck after he accused President Obama of being a racist.)

Jones is the best-selling author of The Green Collar Economy and a leader in the "green jobs" movement -- the idea that clean energy jobs can create jobs, especially in poor communities. He has been praised from leaders ranging from Al Gore to former eBay CEO (and Republican) Meg Whitman, who in May said that Jones is doing "a marvelous job… I’m a huge fan of his. He is very bright, very articulate, very passionate. I think he is exactly right.”

Earlier this year a profile of Jones in the New Yorker, author Elizabeth Kolbert wrote that "the basic premise of Jones’s appeal—that combating global warming is a good way to lift people out of poverty—is very much open to debate. ... it’s not at all clear that the number of jobs created by, say, an expanding solar industry would be greater than the number lost through, say, a shrinking coal-mining industry. Nor is it clear that a green economy would be any better at providing work for the chronically unemployed than our present, 'gray' economy has been."

But those theories aren't the ones that have made Jones a lightning rod in the past few weeks.

In 2005 Jones told the East Bay Express that the acquittal of Rodney King's assailants in 1992 in that infamous police brutality case changed him significantly. "I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th," he said. "By August, I was a communist."

Jones and other young activists in 1994 formed a group called Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM, rooted in Marxism and Leninsm. Two years later, Jones launched the Ella Baker Center, an Oakland, Calif., based "strategy and action center" which states that it tries to "promote positive alternatives to violence and incarceration."

In February during a discussion on energy at Berkeley, Calif., (and prior to his joining the Obama administration) Jones referred to Republicans using an epithet for a proctological orifice, which he called "a technical, political science term."

Asked why Republicans asserted more control of the Senate when they had a smaller majority before 2006, Jones said "the answer to that is, they're a--holes." He added that President Obama is not an a--hole, but, "I will say this. I can be an a--hole, and some of us who are not Barack Hussein Obama are going to have to start getting a little bit uppity."

"I apologize for the offensive words I chose to use during that speech," Jones said in a different written statement to Politico on Wednesday. "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."

- jpt

 

[Boilers]

And this:

Green jobs czar signed 'truther' statement in 2004 - The Back Story - Washington Times

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.”

 

[henktermaat]

You just gotta love the partisanship coming from this guy's spew-hole. Republican? LOL