The Valerie Jarrett Incident You Have Probably Never Heard About

the blaze ^ | 11/4/12 | Charles C. Johnson

[Nachum]

It’s no secret that close Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett can be a fiery figure. In fact, while researching her past work in Chicago, it quickly became obvious that her tenacious, and controversial, attitude was present long before her days in the White House. No story illustrates that better than when she used the press to lambaste a business for an innocuous omission that she saw as a racial slight.

While serving as the Department of Planning and Development Commissioner, Jarrett once harassed a white business owner for not paying sufficient deference in print to the memory of the city’s first black mayor in the mid-90s. As Ellie Monty, one of two white owners of the small firm targeted by Jarrett saw it, it was a contrived racial incident. And while she maintains there was “never intended to be a political agenda,” Jarrett saw otherwise.

Jarrett told The Chicago Defender, a local black newspaper, that she was “completely outraged” and was “thinking of seeking legal redress” against the company for failing to mention Mayor Harold Washington in an ad book for the city.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

You know, for all the years we’ve been hearing about ‘angry white males’, the truth is that most of the anger we’ve seen in the past decade or more has been from angry women and angry minorities. It’s very destructive.

On the other hand, I guess Chris Matthews qualifies as an angry white male.

[Right Wing Assault]

Tuesday we send these angry, ugly individuals back to obscurity.

I've got a bad feeling Jarrett and the whole obama crew are going to be very regular on the MSM doing a daily play-by-play critique of Romney. They are going to pound away at him. I hope he and his people are ready and have a plan. It is not going to be pretty, especially if things don't go according to Romney's plan. The MSM is going to be the obama gang's full partner in this crime.

[kabumpo]

What is wrong with you - she is not Iranian - she was born there because ger father had a job there. My cousin was born in Japan for the same reason - that doesn’t make him Japanese. I was born in a city where my parents were going to college. My father got a fellowship when I was two months old and we went to Europe. I never set foot in my birthplace after that. Where you are born doesn’t mean much if your parents just happened to be there briefly and you were raised somewhere else.

[noinfringers2]

There is nothing wrong with me. You apparently take the view that birth alone sets the criteria for a persons national relationship. I choose the view that a person who is born in Iran, spends childhood years in Iran, comes to the USA with USA parents but holds favor/feelings for Iran, and most recently was a person of enough importance to hold secret discussions with high up Iranian officials to scale back nuclear projects to help get Obama elected,was a child of Iran and now is shown to be an adult of/for Iran.

[lonevoice]

Please don’t.

[kabumpo]

No, what I said is the exact opposite of the idea that birth alone sets the criteria for a person’s national relationship. I cited examples of my cousin, my brother and myself to that when one is born in a place where one’s parents sojourned briefly, the birthplace is irrelevant to one’s identity.
Valerie Jarret probably doesn’t remember anything about her infancy in Iran - which in case was during the time of the Shah, when Iran had a secular government. And furthermore, she doesn’t speak Farsi - how can someone have an identity with a nation and culture when they can’t speak, read or write the language?
I am sure she has had meetings with all sorts of dreadful people, but she is not by any stretch of the imagination Iranian.