Meg Whitman Blasts Van Jones

Weekly Standard ^ | 09/04/09

[BunnySlippers]

“My husband and I met him and many others on a cruise sponsored by National Geographic and The Aspen Institute. He talked about supporting job growth in California, but of course I did not do a background check of his past over dinner. As these reports have surfaced, it’s clear that he holds views that I entirely reject; any suggestion otherwise is ridiculous.” --Meg Whitman

[stop_fascism]

The problem is that she made supportive statements without knowing who she was supporting. That shows poor judgment. We have a current governor who has poor judgment, do we want another?

[ansel12]

but of course I did not do a background check of his past over dinner.

You left out the description by The Weekly Standard.

"Yesterday Meg Whitman, the Republican candidate for governor in California and former eBay CEO, got caught up in the growing controversy over the statements made by White House green jobs czar Van Jones. A tape surfaced of Whitman praising the "marvelous job" Jones had been doing in his environmental work.

Whitman made the statement in May, a year after she'd met Jones on a cruise through the Arctic

-- and long before Jones's radical Communist past and connections to the 9/11 Truth movement had been reported. THE WEEKLY STANDARD asked the Whitman campaign for comment and received the following statement from the Republican hopeful:

[staytrue]

It does not sound like a flip flop to me. Sounds like she just met him and now he is VERY obviously a NUT.

Trashing Whitman is more conservative BS spin where you trash people unfairly who you don't like and you spin it as positive if you like them.

FR has become a trash dump for this stuff.

If it were Duncan Hunter, it would be "Duncan Hunter, bold and decisive in changing direction" If it were Arnold it would be "flip flopping rino arnold covering his rear with lies".

[achilles2000]

This is the heart of the problem. There is nothing in her background or public performance that shows she is anything more than a corporate bureaucrat at her core. One of the things that distinguishes great leaders such as Reagan and Thatcher from financially successful mediocrities like Arnold and Whitman is intellectual depth. Non-entrepreneurs like Whitman all too often survive in the corporate world by being “pragmatic”, or, to put it less politely, by being unprincipled in any serious sense. Whitman is McCain in a skirt.

[Dick Bachert]

In major CYA mode!

[ansel12]

Here she is a year later strongly endorsing the man and getting absolutely gushing in her praise and description of his effectiveness, she is trying to sell him to this reporter as she keeps describing herself as a “huge fan” of his work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSn37TMXZO8&feature=player_embedded

[iopscusa]

That video of Meg on Love Boat is very funny....Meg & Myth in a twee, wee wee wee! Where do these creepy politicians come from, da Moon?

[Califreak]

Too late Meggie.

[OldDeckHand]

I was somewhat agnostic on Whitman, thinking "Hey, it's California. How much better could the GOP really do and still have a realistic chance of winning?".

But, Van Jones aside, if she's stupid enough to think that there really is something called a "green job", then she's plainly just too stupid to be a governor of anything, let alone the fourth or fifth biggest economy in the world.

[Earthdweller]

"Where do these creepy politicians come from, da Moon?"

Pretty close...Harvard. Same as Obama and Romney. Wow, what a coincidence.

[BunnySlippers]

She did not talk to him about “green jobs”, she only spoke about “job growth in CA”. Very different.

I can imagine that a chat on a cruise would not yield much.

[jellybean]

As for the McCain pic in this thread, even that wacko free-speech hater, Fred Thomson was in much more connected with McCreepy.

Who the he!! are you calling a free speech hater, n00b?? You'd best put on your asbestos underwear to protect your private parts because they're about to be roasted!

[RicocheT]

If Meg Whitman was on a cruise sponsored by National Geographic and The Aspen Institute, it’s clear she is a RINO. So is Carly, Kalifornya can’t catch a break no way, no how.

[Kakaze]

Fred Thompson, a free speech hater...........you sir or gal are a nut.

[NonValueAdded]

I think the leading “sc” was omitted from that screen name by mistake.

[heiss]

uh..

so you are saying that FT (when he was in Senate Centrist Coalition) was not the key activist pushing unconstitutional campaign finance reform with McCreepy and liberals? okay, maybe i made up this /sarc

[goat granny]

Jesse Helms was my favorite, a true southern gentleman....loved him.

[bvw]

A a conman, charming charlatan, a rasputin — never men one should give a live ear to. Too dangerous. Meg Whitman took the morphine offered by the charming Death Dispenser.

And she did it on a Death Cruise.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Weak.

[Petronski]

...wacko free-speech hater, Fred Thomson...

An ill-informed n00b?

Quel cliché...