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Lesson for Van Jones: Don't get too uppity
http://voices.kansascity.com/node/5768 ^

Posted on 09/07/2009 3:03:31 PM PDT by kcvl

Van Jones loved the spotlight. Heck, who wouldn't, after being named a special adviser and green jobs czar for President Barack Obama.

In Kansas City last week, Jones was one of the federal officials flown in to take a look at the Green Impact Zone, an idea to upgrade 150 blocks of low-income neighborhoods.

Jones was introduced twice by fellow, higher-ranking fed officials -- and on both occasions, Jones made sure to interject that he was a "special adviser" to Obama.

But now he's not part of the administration at all, thanks to imprudent remarks and a petition he signed years ago, a petition that implied the federal government allowed 9/11 to happen.

The statement that really got Jones in trouble with radio shock-jock Glenn Beck and other conservatives came in February, when he was at a green energy conference in Berkeley.

(Excerpt) Read more at voices.kansascity.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bhoczars; lessons; radicalleft; sourcetitlenoturl; truthers; vanjones

1 posted on 09/07/2009 3:03:31 PM PDT by kcvl
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Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist

2 posted on 09/07/2009 3:04:25 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: kcvl

Wahhhh wahhhh wahhh wahhhh Van Jones did himself in.


3 posted on 09/07/2009 3:08:07 PM PDT by linn37 ( "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: kcvl

Wow. Glenn Beck is a “shock jock.” What’s that make Rev. Jeremiah Wright? A “blaster pastor?”


4 posted on 09/07/2009 3:09:55 PM PDT by Steely Tom
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To: kcvl

Wow, I just thought that average Americans didn’t like communists.


5 posted on 09/07/2009 3:10:16 PM PDT by Dutch Boy
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To: kcvl

“Don’t get too uppity”?
How about love your country?
How about do not hate white folk?
How about Marxism is not a good thing?
Stupid is everywhere.


6 posted on 09/07/2009 3:10:42 PM PDT by Joe Boucher (google; operation garden spot and REX84)
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To: kcvl
too uppity


7 posted on 09/07/2009 3:11:03 PM PDT by evad (Spending money that we don't have on something that won't work for a problem that doesn't exist)
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To: Steely Tom

A screacher preacher?


8 posted on 09/07/2009 3:11:16 PM PDT by behzinlea
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To: kcvl
I had to get this far ...

radio shock-jock Glenn Beck

... before I realized this writer is full of it.

9 posted on 09/07/2009 3:13:19 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
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To: kcvl
Van Jones,Green Czar,Obama,Politics,Satire
10 posted on 09/07/2009 3:14:56 PM PDT by Flag_This (No, Massoud, there are no men left in Washington.)
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To: kcvl
Jones was one of the federal officials flown in

how much did this cost us the little people to have green jobs people flying around in jets?

11 posted on 09/07/2009 3:16:46 PM PDT by guitarplayer1953 (Romak 7.62X54MM, AK47 7.62X39MM, LARGO 9X23MM, BANG BANG HAPINESS IS A WARM GUN)
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To: kcvl

The level of self-deception among these people is remarkable.

For a Dem, everything is race. It doesn’t occur to them that anyone could disagree with them philosophically.

The Democratic Party is the party of the race obsessed. They can’t see anything past race, and they assume everyone else is like they are.

For us its the opposite. Philosophy is everything. Character is everything. A guy who could heap contempt on our country they way Jones habitually does (”years ago” says the writer... really?) a guy who talks about America the way this guy does would be driven from the party in shame. Among Democrats he is celebrated. If you don’t like him it has to be race, what else could it be?


12 posted on 09/07/2009 3:17:25 PM PDT by marron
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To: kcvl

It took a couple days for the racialists to notice Jones’ skin tone; I’m kinda surprised it took them so long. But now that they’ve noticed they’re not letting it go.


13 posted on 09/07/2009 3:19:54 PM PDT by eclecticEel (The Most High rules in the kingdom of men ... and sets over it the basest of men.)
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To: Steely Tom

Good one!


14 posted on 09/07/2009 3:19:55 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Joe Boucher

How about, don’t ever say what you actually believe, fool. Didn’t BHO teach you nothing?


15 posted on 09/07/2009 3:23:54 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (www.publishedauthors.net/benmaxwell/index.html, http://sites.google.com/site/thevuzvuz/)
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To: kcvl
Sorry, Yael, but that "uppity" crap is so 20th century.

Perhaps you've forgotten that America voted in a black president. It's time to burn your laughable race card, you lefty jackass.

16 posted on 09/07/2009 3:28:43 PM PDT by Dr. Thorne (Buy Gold and Guns Now!)
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To: kcvl
presstitutes ignore the fact that he resigned because just like his boss hussein... jones was a racist commie... end of story. The fact that he was a loon was secondary... but major.

LLS

17 posted on 09/07/2009 3:29:36 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussama will never be my president... NEVER!)
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To: kcvl

“Green Impact Zone” = inner city. This whole green jobs thing is camouflaged welfare.


18 posted on 09/07/2009 3:30:36 PM PDT by qwertypie
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To: qwertypie
This whole green jobs thing is camouflaged welfare.

Exactly!

19 posted on 09/07/2009 3:32:26 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: kcvl
Yeah thats what Van Jones did...
He went and got hisself uppity..

The magic negro PimP slapped him.. ugh huh...

20 posted on 09/07/2009 3:33:18 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: kcvl

LOL! I guessed the columnist just by the title.


21 posted on 09/07/2009 3:33:57 PM PDT by maggief
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To: hosepipe

WE DIDN’T SPEND ENOUGH ON KATRINA. Just ask Van Jones organization - “Green for All”

Yet, Van Jones couldn’t describe what a ‘green job’ was.

******

Building a green economy strong enough to lift people out of ...

Remembering Katrina...

Four years ago, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. As the Gulf Coast struggled to keep its head above water, the rest of us were ...

www.greenforall.org/


22 posted on 09/07/2009 3:37:37 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: marron

For a Dem, everything is race. It doesn’t occur to them that anyone could disagree with them philosophically.

%%%
They are emotionally stunted, so that they exhibit all of the emotional maturity of a typical 12-year-old spoiled girl. Such a child will often say, “You don’t like me!” when her behavior is corrected in class. This writer’s estrogen is getting to him again, I suppose.


23 posted on 09/07/2009 3:39:45 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Palin/Hunter 2012)
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To: kcvl

Racism is alive and well, as we can see from the likesof this author.


24 posted on 09/07/2009 3:40:53 PM PDT by SueRae
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To: kcvl

The readers of the Kansas City Star don’t seem too impressed with this guy’s column. They completely destroyed him in the comments section.


25 posted on 09/07/2009 3:42:00 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: eclecticEel

It took a couple days for the racialists to notice Jones’ skin tone; I’m kinda surprised it took them so long.

^^^
This apparently is the current Rat talking point; notice how Patterson and Rangel are trying this one.


26 posted on 09/07/2009 3:42:05 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Palin/Hunter 2012)
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To: kcvl

27 posted on 09/07/2009 3:42:23 PM PDT by paulycy (Screw the RACErs.)
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To: kcvl

It’s hard to imagine that there are many people who are actually willing to pay to read a newspaper that features Mr. Abouhalkah.


28 posted on 09/07/2009 3:43:04 PM PDT by snowsislander (NRA -- join today! 1-877-NRA-2000)
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To: qwertypie

This whole green jobs thing is camouflaged welfare.

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Designed to maintain the Rat plantation of beholden voters.


29 posted on 09/07/2009 3:43:40 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Palin/Hunter 2012)
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To: kcvl

Another hippie that doesn’t care what Jones said or did.

Just that Beck had the nerve to tell everyone.


30 posted on 09/07/2009 3:53:44 PM PDT by VanDeKoik (Iran doesnt have a 2nd admendment. Ya see how that turned out?)
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To: kcvl

Poor Van Jones. I’m sure he returned every penny of the $30 billion he was given control over. I’m sure none of that went to his relatives or personal overseas bank accounts.


31 posted on 09/07/2009 4:02:22 PM PDT by ReagansShinyHair
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To: ReagansShinyHair
I’m sure none of that went to his relatives or personal overseas bank accounts.

AUDIT VAN JONES' DISBURSEMENTS.

32 posted on 09/07/2009 4:09:18 PM PDT by paulycy (Screw the RACErs.)
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To: kcvl

Another lesson would be, “Don’t be a communist fake. Even your fellow leftists can’t save you.”


33 posted on 09/07/2009 4:38:28 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Yes, we disagree - no, we won't shut up - no, we won't quit.)
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To: marron

“The level of self-deception among these people is remarkable.”

They’re not deceived. They know that Jones was a radical, and they’re lying about him and why he had to resign. They’re doing it for political reasons.


34 posted on 09/07/2009 4:40:12 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Yes, we disagree - no, we won't shut up - no, we won't quit.)
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To: kcvl

the word “Uppity” has historic ties to the “N” word.

Team Acorn WILL jump all over that Word Choice.

Again, their followers will be sucker into Indoctrination, rather than reading the full story.


35 posted on 09/07/2009 4:46:54 PM PDT by PizzaDriver ( on)
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To: kcvl
Eveybody, an' a lota sawbones, done tol' me I was impotent ........ so's ah beena lookin' impotent!Looky here how impotent I am!

Nam Vet

36 posted on 09/07/2009 4:59:13 PM PDT by Nam Vet (Obozo (the health expert) thinks innuendo is an Italian suppository.)
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