Deconstructing the “Whup Ass”

Pajamas Media ^ | Sept. 8 | Victor Davis Hanson

[AJKauf]

Very quickly, as his subsequent career attests in a variety of “organizing” jobs, Van Jones discovered that he could tease and provoke white liberals by posing as some sort of wild (but actually quite safe) revolutionary figure who would call America an “apartheid” system, or dream of a “redistribution of wealth” or praise the advantages of social revolution through hip hop music (”I don’t believe the true power of the people can be confined to a ballot box…We need to be about the whup-ass. Somebody’s f***in up somewhere… They have names and job descriptions. You have to be creative about how you engage the enemy, because if you do it on his terms, the outcome is already known.”)—all the while living a rather mundane bourgeois existence jetting around for princely lecture fees, hyping a book, trying to button-hole celebrities, and finally getting close to his exemplar Barack Obama—who likewise had parlayed Barry Dunham of a Honolulu prep school into Barack Obama, exotic avatar of revolutionary hope and change....

[swheats]

Just proves truth is lethal. Thank you Glenn you didn’t go to their level of intellectual dishonesty.

Jones knew who he was and skipped out in the wee hours of the night.

[Sig Sauer P220]

Cockroaches exposed.

[Red_Devil 232]

[swheats]

LOL Glenn must have a few cubes waiting in the wings. Forget about six packs.

[y6162]

Tom Wolfe wrote about this in Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers. Black radicals shake down white liberals for fun and profit.

Van Jones didn’t count on running into an enraged right wing.

[Iron Munro]

Glenn Beck - More powerful than the National Endowment for the Arts.

He made Van go.

[Eagles6]

VDH always nails it.

[FlyVet]

The two almost on spec can turn on the authentic “street talk” cadences when they wish to seem romantic to liberals and authentic to minorities, and then without thinking switch into nerdese when they wish to convince politicians and the public at large that they are properly circumspect and wonikish—and they can do all this in the classical delusion that one who creates inauthentic identities at opportune times, will not himself finally be disbelieved by all. In short, I think Obama has become Geraldo at month nine of his four-year term.

Ouch!

It must be hard work, learning to be such chameleons.

[Ragtime]

"We need to be about the whup-ass."

Big talk coming from a sissy who got his ass whupped (bitch-slapped into submission) by Glenn Beck.

[giotto]

It may have been the exotic avatar who managed to get the Chicago machine to underwrite his career, but it was Barry Dunham that the average white guy voted for. Unfortunately, the exotic Obama is closer to the truth. Like Billy Ayers, he may have been a child of privilege, but he despises the country that has given him so much.