Posted on 09/06/2009 5:56:27 PM PDT by kristinn
Obama transition chief and head of the leftist Center for American Progress, John Podesta, laid in to Glenn Beck tonight with a spirited but after the fact defense of former Obama administration official Van Jones that was posted tonight at Think Progress:
Van Jones is an exceptional and inspired leader who has fought to bring economic and environmental justice to communities across our country.
He has chosen to resign because he believed he was serving as a distraction to the president’s agenda. I respect that decision.
Van was working to build a common ground agenda for all Americans, and I am confident he will continue that work. Unfortunately, his critics on the right could find no common ground with him.
Clearly, Van was the subject of a right-wing smear campaign shrouded in hypocrisy. Van’s chief tormentor Glenn Beck, who spent weeks engaged in vicious name-calling, retains his perch at Fox News after calling the president a racist who has “a deep-seated hatred for white people.” Van has set a standard that Beck would never impose upon himself.
I look forward to working with Van to move our country towards a clean energy economy that empowers and lifts up all Americans.
Van Jones is a race-baiting, America-hating, cop-hating, terrorist-sympathizing, expert at living off the public teat. In other words he's a perfect Democrat. No wonder Podesta loves this guy and looks forward to working with him (again).
I will be campaigning for their replacements for the first time in my life.
Want to go up against these ACORN thugaroos!!!
And there are millions of us.
His appearances are likely a sign that what he's been working at the the last few years is now starting to fall apart.
Podesta is a smart feller and also a fart smeller.
His nose has been so far up Vans butt, the man's cross eyed.
So 0bama has no idea how to respond. He only knows how to organize a community against “the man” he has no idea how to be “the man”
ROFL
I’m quite confident saying that whatever irritates Podesta, politically, is most likely an absolute good.
The truth is Van’s worst enemy. Playing his own videos in front of him acted like sprinkling water on the Wicked Witch of the West. HE’S MELTING!!! WHAT A WORLD, WHAT A WORLD!!!!
Are they interviewing? I'd like the job if it's still open.
Tormentor? How about Truth Seeker?!
How do these people publicly defend the appointment of a communist?
IMPEACH OBAMA.
Whatever the hell that is
It means instead of communities with low rents getting low rent businesses and moderate wage jobs, they instead get NO businesses and NO jobs.
LOL
LOL. Podesta says “tormentor” like it’s a bad thing.
Van Jones was victimized by his own tongue and his own actions. If there wasn’t legitimacy to what Beck was reporting, Van Jones would have been retrained and the administration would have stood by him. If the rest of the media had been doing their job, Beck wouldn’t have been alone in the wilderness reporting this.
Sooooh let me see...
Is Van now a Bus boy?
Podesta is next. Van Jones crapped in his own hat.
Mr Podesta
Glenn Beck kicked your ass.
Podesta can KMA. I know his history.
If Beck has this kind of power he should bring them all down.
Your boss is next, Johnnie.
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