Van Jones joins the Center for American Progress

John Podesta statement ^ | Podesta

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

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.

[RichInOC]

Okay, now go ahead and explain to me why we’re the folks who need to get rid of our nutters.

[pabianice]

"You can't polish a turd." -- Will Darnell, Christine

[popdonnelly]

It must be nice to be a radical leftist huckster and have such a terrific support system. Podesta should stop lying about how Jones is. It does the public and the country a disservice.

[khnyny]

NBC is throwing away ANY pretense of being non-biased.

Jeffrey Immelt is on the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board which was created by Executive Order by Obama in 2/09. Immelt has also been recently appointed to the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Here is a list of the "advisors":

1. William H. Donaldson, former Chairman, SEC
2. Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., President & CEO, TIAA-CREF
3. Robert Wolf, Chairman & CEO, UBS Group Americas
4. David F. Swensen, CIO, Yale University
5. Mark T. Gallogly, Founder & Managing Partner, Centerbridge Partners L.P.
6. Penny Pritzker, Chairman & Founder, Pritzker Realty Group
7. John Doerr, Partner, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers
8. Jim Owens, Chairman and CEO, Caterpillar Inc.
9. Monica C. Lozano, Publisher & Chief Executive Officer, La Opinion
10. Charles E. Phillips, Jr., President, Oracle Corporation
11. Anna Burger, Secretary-Treasurer, SEIU
12. Richard L. Trumka, Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO
13. Laura D'Andrea Tyson, Dean, Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley
14. Martin Feldstein, George F. Baker Professor of Economics, Harvard University
15. Jeffrey R. Immelt, CEO, GE

[popdonnelly]

Make that, “who Jones is.”

[CottShop]

[[Unfortunately, his critics on the right could find no common ground with him.]]

Van Jones is a scumbag anti-American- Americans are not- nope- sorry- can’t ‘find any common ground’

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

-———You are wrong about it being the same for Van Jones as it was for Sarah.-————

I agree. Even in the end the liberal media didn’t equate Jones as a quitter like they did with Sarah.

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

Great information, thanks. I hope you show others, we are truely up against a formidable machine.

Take a look around FR here for the apollo alliance. CFAP is tied in with them and some incredibly deep pockets.

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/apolloalliance/index?tab=articles

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

“economic and environmental justice “

I quit reading right there. Marxism to the max

[agere_contra]

economic and environmental justice

Let's pause for a moment and look at the true meaning of those lame buzzwords, which I bring up each and every time they're brought up in my presence.

Economic justice = you earn it, you keep it. Taxation for anything other than Defense, Police, Emergency Services and the Court system is fundamentally unjust.

Environmental justice. In my book this means 'stopping people from telling lies about Anthropogenic Global Warming'.

[TexasRepublic]

“economic justice” is a codeword for forced redistribution of wealth, AKA communism.

[top 2 toe red]

No! They still do NOT have a clue how Sarah Palin feels!

Not one single lie nor gross exaggeration has been told about Van Jones...his words and ONLY his words have been used against him!

[Ann Archy]

Center for American COMMUNISM.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

They must have beat out MSNBC and CNN for his services....

[AFPhys]

LOL

Isn’t it great that to the “Progressives”, aka CommuFascists, revealing what they think, believe, and say is a “SMEAR”?

This is why they had to denounce the word “liberal”...

[mojitojoe]

Today is the worst day of van jones life.
The little b!tch just got his a$$ handed to him by a bunch of white conservatives.
He went from being a powerful czar with billions at his disposal to just another angry black man with enough higher education/indoctrination to make look foolish...eat it, jones...

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Bang! You nailed it.

[MHGinTN]

"Clearly, Van was the subject of a right-wing smear campaign shrouded in hypocrisy." Soros lap puppet, Podesta.

John, you obsequious Soros toy, did you really expect Americans to swallow the racist commie crap your fellow fascist traveler spewed for years prior to Valerie Jarrett and Barry Obama pulling him into the White House? Pull George Soros's hand out of your ventriloquist dummy butt and see the reality, fool.

[MHGinTN]

Immelt runs GE, which owns NBC, which is positioned as aide to camp for Barry Obama to profit BILLIONS through the forced fascist legislation of cap&tax. NBC ceased being an objective news org years ago, but now under Immelts directives NBC has become a clear propaganda arm of Axelgreasy’s squad.

[varina davis]

“It was NOT a smear campaign.”

I KNOW it was NOT a smear campaign again Jones. I was just referring to the vicious attacks on Palin.

[mojitojoe]

They have been planning this for years. They need to be stopped now. Shadow government.