Because he or she has to go, too.
Unless it is the official stance of the current administration that the previous President of the United States of America was a ‘crackhead,’ of course. In that case, I would like to see a White House spokesperson state that formally for the record.
Via Hot Air Pundit, via @seanhackbarth.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
Steve Maley
Neil Stevens
Daniel Horowitz
Would someone connect the dots, please?
civil truth (Diary) Friday, September 4th at 1:43PM EST (link)Probably its’ because I’m not a follower of popular vidoe culture, but what is the relationship between the fellow in this video and the Obama administration? I’m obviously missing the whole point here.
The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis
http://www.gmsplace.com/
Unelected green jobs czar. nt
redneck_hippie (Diary) Friday, September 4th at 1:48PM EST (link)So, Van Jones is the person in the video
civil truth (Diary) Friday, September 4th at 1:59PM EST (link)I was confused by the “joke george” label – I thought that was the name of the person in the video. I guess rather that’s the label of the person who posted the video. (And the original YouTube video had no explanation.)
The diary and Moe’s commentary makes sense now.
The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis
http://www.gmsplace.com/
I bet whoever posted that video
blooch Friday, September 4th at 2:09PM EST (link)thought it was sooo cool what Van Jones was saying, speaking truther to power and all…and YouTube was probably cool with it, too. I’ll also wager that the “original’ YouTube video that you saw was at one time more explanatory. That’s my little conspiracy theory.
“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”
Oooh, maybe Valerie Jarrett, alright!
blooch Friday, September 4th at 1:53PM EST (link)“JARRETT: Oooh. Van Jones, alright! So, Van Jones. We were so delighted to be able to recruit him into the White House. We were watching him, uh, really, he’s not that old, for as long as he’s been active out in Oakland. And all the creative ideas he has. And so now, we have captured that. And we have all that energy in the White House.”
H/T Michelle Malkin
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/09/03/van-jones-valerie-jarrett-barack-obama-do-it-yourself-vetting/
“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”
You Tube
twobeers Friday, September 4th at 2:18PM EST (link)is the best thing ever.
BTW, is it just me or is Van Jones the walking embodiment of every available stereotype one might have about a leftist in the U.S.? Self-proclaimed communist, check; 9/11 Truther, check; attended Yale Law School, check; swept up in social justice issues by the Rodney King riots, check; ran a “social justice” organization in the Bay Area, check; knows William Ayers, check; uses derogatory terms for Republicans and conservatives, check; former black nationalist/separatist, check. I could go on, but …
www.brusbits.blogspot.com
I have a lefty friend who dismissed the idea
blooch Friday, September 4th at 2:42PM EST (link)of Barack Obama as president in 2007, yet told me in the Summer of 2008 that he was voting for Obama. I asked him if the Reverend Wright stuff concerned him, and he said, “Somewhat. hope nothing else like this comes up.” Well. here it is, a day late and a dollar short. And I know that when I ask him what he thinks about Jones, he’ll regret the embarrassment Jones has caused for Obama, but laud him for…firing Jones/accepting Jone’s resignation/sticking by his appointee, who has been unfairly caricatured by the Right.
“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”
check
irishgirl Friday, September 4th at 3:19PM EST (link)And every snippet I’ve seen of this guy confirms that he’s just so full of himself and thinks he’s hilarious.
heh. hilarious in a Michael Richards way
blooch Friday, September 4th at 7:28PM EST (link)http://www.tmz.com/2006/11/20/kramers-racist-tirade-caught-on-tape/
“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”
Hard to say
arcman46 Friday, September 4th at 2:20PM EST (link)What is more disgusting. Listening to this idiot speak; or listening to the idiots in the audience cheer.
Hey Valerie.....
Bobcat51 Friday, September 4th at 2:26PM EST (link)Your HR skills are outstanding!
Birds of a feather sort of sounds the order of the day in the WH !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anCg5EiB2AM
The left wing intent is to destroy the existing society and replace it with a society of its own design.
There is more video
The Right Scoop (Diary) Friday, September 4th at 2:27PM EST (link)about Van Jones out there than probably anyone would have imagined.
A “Plethora” of video.
Did Van Jones' soliloquy take place at a "church"?
SoFiMil (Diary) Friday, September 4th at 2:57PM EST (link)So much for the vetters. All I did was a simple Google search. Our tehno-savy president, could of done this on his Blackberry.
Moe’s posted video with Van Jones appears to be in a church, but I don’t know for sure. I did find this, however. Not sure if it’s the same “church”, but if not identical in law, it’s identical in substance.
http://www.uuworld.org/life/articles/117906.shtml
I’m also looking for quotes/videos of Van Jones speaking some 9/11 truths. I’m sure it’s out there, we just have to find it, as unhinged people like Van Jones don’t say something like this only once. It’s ingrained in them, just as this radicalism is ingrained in Obama.
www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com
Van Jones hangin' w/ cop killer Kane - Why am I not surprised?
SoFiMil (Diary) Friday, September 4th at 3:04PM EST (link)http://community.livejournal.com/blackintellects/tag/kanye
www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com
Kanye West
itsallverbatim (Diary) Friday, September 4th at 3:32PM EST (link)Is the protege of Jay-Z, who turned Che t-shirts into a hiphop staple and openly supported Obama in the campaign.
Before RedState readers say, “I don’t know who Jay-Z is, so what? Just another rapper that supported Obama…”
his wife (Beyonce) sang the national anthem and Etta James’ “At Last” at the inaugural ball.
Make no mistake: the rap music industry and Hollywood are in The One’s pocket.
Correction
SoFiMil (Diary) Saturday, September 5th at 10:35AM EST (link)Apologies are in order as I mixed together two stories. Kanye West is not a cop killer. Kanye West made comments about Bush and New Orleans. Sorry again, Mr. West.
www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com
Yes...sort of.
blooch Sunday, September 6th at 12:28AM EST (link)It was a Unitarian Universalist Church…at their 2008 General Assembly, no less.
http://www.breitbart.tv/van-jones-uses-ebonics-to-do-lively-imitation-of-george-bush-on-crack/
“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”
Why has obama surrounded himself with cesspools and garbage
bobojake (Diary) Friday, September 4th at 3:16PM EST (link)for adminstrators?
Because that is what he grew up with
larueladue (Diary) Friday, September 4th at 4:40PM EST (link)and is comfortable with. Doesn’t matter that they are a poison to the country… he doesn’t care.
"Like a dog returneth to it's own vomit..."
kyle8 (Diary) Friday, September 4th at 6:04PM EST (link)That is who he is.
“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle
Van Jones' 9/11 conspiracy ramblings are the least of my concerns
SoFiMil (Diary) Friday, September 4th at 3:28PM EST (link)His other statements are far more outrageous, hostile, and racist. Van Jones should be fired not because of his (relatively) mild 9/11 conspiracy ramblings, but for his support of communism. If Obama cites Van Jones’ connection with 9/11 Truthers as *the* reason for Van Jones’ ouster, I will find this as further evidence of Obama’s unwillingness to get involved in anything of substance.
www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com
Kowalaski
SoFiMil (Diary) Friday, September 4th at 3:36PM EST (link)By anything of substance, I mean taking the easy way out and citing Van Jones’ 9/11 conspiracy theories which most people even at the Daily Kos recognize as nuts, rather than challenging other “controversial” statements by Van Jones.
www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com
Van Jones is a Communist — No Ifs, No Buts — Valerie Jarrett Has Been “Watching”
izoneguy (Diary) Friday, September 4th at 3:32PM EST (link)http://michellemalkin.com/2009/09/03/van-jones-valerie-jarrett-barack-obama-do-it-yourself-vetting/
Take it from Obama’s own political godmother Michelle and Barack’s consigliere and Chicago powerbroker Valerie Jarrett took full credit at the nuttroots dKos blogger conference last month (August 15, 2009) for recruiting him and closely following his career:
JARRETT:. You guys know Van Jones? [Applause. Moderator injects: "This is his house apparently."]
JARRETT: Oooh. Van Jones, alright! So, Van Jones. We were so delighted to be able to recruit him into the White House. We were watching him, uh, really, he’s not that old, for as long as he’s been active out in Oakland. And all the creative ideas he has. And so now, we have captured that. And we have all that energy in the White House.
Jarrett, as I pointed out on Sean Hannity’s radio show five weeks ago, is the self-proclaimed keeper of Obama’s urban/racial “authenticity.” The Obamas don’t make a move without her, according to their closest friends and allies.
Jarrett’s praise for Jones’s Oakland activism is explicit endorsement of his race-baiting career at Ella Baker, funded by the Soros-supported Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights/Ford Foundation/Rockefeller Foundation, and his Free Mumia agitation in the Bay Area schools — where he lambasted moderate civil rights leaders for objecting to politicizing the classrooms and where his pro-Mumia allies likened supporters of murdered police officer Daniel Faulkner to the KKK.
But as I noted five weeks ago, the elites in the MSM are too busy penning 8,100-word love letters to Valerie Jarrett and her fashion sense to question her judgement, her crony deals, and power grabs in her role as the “eyes and ears” for the Obamas.
It’s the same blind and deaf media treatment they are giving Michelle Obama, John Holdren, David Axelrod, Carol Browner, Nancy DeParle, Adolfo Carrion, and on and on and on.
http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/loudon-van-jones-is-a-communist-no-ifs-no-buts-valerie-jarrett-has-been-watching/
Even more stunning is the only day-old admission by “the other half of Obama’s Brain”, Valerie Jarrett, that “we” have been watching Van Jones for some years and are “so happy to recruit him to the White house”
http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-file-78-smoking-gun-proof-that.html
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
Mike Pence
irishgirl Friday, September 4th at 4:30PM EST (link)According to Townhall, Rep. Pence has called for Jones’ resignation. Looks like the heat is on, as well it should be.
A few additional czar/cabinet suggestions
Patel Friday, September 4th at 5:28PM EST (link)I think rather than throwing Jones under the bus, it’s time for Obama to “go all in” with the conspiracy theorists.
I hearby nominate Cynthia “President Bush ordered the National Guard to kill thousands of black men and dump their bodies into the swamp after Katrina” McKinney to head FEMA.
Does anyone know of a good “the CIA killed the Kennedys” type to replace Pancetta?
Oh, I'm sure the O-ministration
TNJim (Diary) Friday, September 4th at 5:43PM EST (link)will pull someone off the grassy knoll for that post.
It would not surprise me
izoneguy (Diary) Friday, September 4th at 6:10PM EST (link)if Van Jones has his own grassy knoll moment….
Isn’t that what the mob does with “problems”?
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
Oliver Stone?
blooch Friday, September 4th at 7:08PM EST (link)Plenty of experience as a Director of stuff.
“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”
Space Czar
Patel Friday, September 4th at 9:44PM EST (link)Oliver Stone will be a perfect addition to acting President Biden’s cabinet.
Now for NASA, I think they should definitely go with this guy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_Sibrel
The best part is that Buzz Aldrin punched the guy when he tried to interview him.
I’m looking for an “Elvis is Still Alive” person to head up the NEA. There really is a conspiracy theory for almost every job.
I think it was
SteveLA (Diary) Friday, September 4th at 6:56PM EST (link)Cynthia McKenney, after all, nothing says nut job like Cynthia McKenney..
I miss her and James Trafficant, the crop of nut jobs in Washington are just boring….LOL
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Competency over ideological purity and litmus tests
I'm surprised she hasn't been hired
Patel Friday, September 4th at 9:48PM EST (link)I used to live in her district and I do NOT miss her. I think she lives in California now. But her dad periodically pulls some crazy in her absence.
I read that Trafficant just got sprung from jail
civil truth (Diary) Friday, September 4th at 10:02PM EST (link)I’m sure he’s planning to go back into politics, just as Sptizer is trying for a comeback.
For Democrats, an indictment is a green light and a conviction just a bump in the road. After all, nothing they’ve said and done more than two hours prior is admissable for evaluating their suitability for office.
Republicans, of course, are expected to forever foreswear public life and join the Trappist Order because of 20-year old theses or any other offense to leftist values during their lifetime.
The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis
http://www.gmsplace.com/
Comedian?
jeffreywturner (Diary) Saturday, September 5th at 2:13AM EST (link)Someone should tell Van Jones that it isn’t a great idea to make fun of people when you yourself speak with a lisp. Donald Duck doesn’t TELL jokes, he IS the joke.
“Life is too short, can’t we all just eat pork and kill some terrorists?”