That Goes for both Jones and Sherrod.
Posted on 07/24/2010 2:53:54 PM PDT by kristinn
I understand how Shirley Sherrod, the Agriculture Department official who was forced to resign last week, must have felt.
Last year I, too, resigned from an administration job, after I uttered some ill-chosen words about the Republican Party and was accused — falsely — of signing my name to a petition being passed around by 9/11 conspiracy theorists. Partisan Web sites and pundits pounced, and I, too, saw my name go from obscurity to national infamy within hours.
Our situations aren’t exactly the same. Ms. Sherrod’s comments, in which she, a black woman, appeared to admit to racial discrimination against a white couple, were taken far out of context, while I truly did use a vulgarity.
But the way we were treated is strikingly similar, and it reveals a lot about the venal nature of Washington politics in the Internet era. In my case, the media rushed to judgment so quickly that I was never able to make clear that the group put my name on its Web site without my permission. The group finally admitted that it never had my signature, but by then it was too late.
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But the big breakthrough will come not when we are better able to spot the lies. It will come when we are better able to handle the truth about people. We are complex beings; no one is all good or all bad. And people do evolve into better people over their lives — just look at Senator Robert Byrd, who died this month and who entered politics as a segregationist and left as a statesman.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
“I had a much more colorful life than Ms. Sherrod,” he said. “I mean, let’s be honest: I was distinguishable as a radical leftist in the Bay Area. You’ve got to get up early, you’ve got to work weekends to be distinguishable as a leftist in the Bay Area.”
Anthony "Van" Jones on the 9/11 terror attacks, Sept. 12, 2001:
"The bombs the government drops in Iraq are the bombs that blew up in New York City," said Van Jones, director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, who also warned against forthcoming violence by the Bush Administration. "The US cannot bomb its way out of this one. Safety at home requires justice abroad."
We live in a @#$#ed up world right now!!!! grrrr.
Soooooooo many minorities are victims [SURPRISE].
Get this guy outta the Whitehouse.
In my lifetime I’ve never seen an Administration so rife with bigots. Whether it’s Van Jones or Eric “nation of cowards” Holder, Barry’s officers are very explicit in their prejudices. All policy decisions are made through a prism of race conciousness.
ROFL @The NYT giving face time . . . to VAN JONES
This is too rich. Surely, the open-minded, born again, ex-racist Shirley Surefraud appreciates this wholeheartedly
“And don’t call me Surely”
His obsequious reference to Walter Cronkite and longing for the days when the dinosaur media ruled as news 'gatekeepers' is almost touching. Jones' snide reference to 'partisans posing as news organizations' i. e. Fox News, anathema to leftists, is predictable and his overall view that it's tough to be a communist radical in public office and not get called out, is just nonsense. Boo Hoo Van, Boo Hoo.
The reason the White House is loaded with bigots is because POTUS Barack Hussein Obama is the biggest and most hateful bigot of them all!!! And....always was!!! And....always will be!!! Some of us common folk out on the hustings knew this the second the Obama relationship with America hater and Black racist Jeremiah Wright became known. Two bad the American people were asleep at the wheel!!! Sad!!! Both Obama and the entire Democrat Party have to be flushed down the toilet enmasse!!! How? Vote them out of office starting this November 2, 2010. First flush the Democrat destroyers of America down the toilet to the cesspool where they belong, and then in 2012, send Obama and his bigots packing. We should strive to defeat every single Democrat Candidate and every single RINO along with them!!! It is not too early to start pushing our side to get lined up to vote by the millions. Folks, get with the program, NOW!!!
NO NO Jones there is no BORN Again Americans after the damage you did hiding behind the race card!
Shut up van, you racist pig.
A statesman for segregationists maybe.
I totally agree. Never have I seen an adminstration so rife with racial haters with an axe to grind - and there were plenty in the Klinton adminstration.
Sherrod has a big mouth of her own. The longer she is in the public eye the more likely she will implode.
Marxists OUT!!
Cry me a river.......
That Goes for both Jones and Sherrod.
Oh man, victimhood is alive and well, and truly a cherished liberal tradition.
Maybe Van Jones should sue for reparations. haha
Van Jones: Stop worrying about the deficit. The government can just take more money from rich companies
While the federal government sinks deeper into debt than any time since World War II, former White House “green jobs” adviser Anthony Van Jones said it was time to stop worrying about budget deficits and pressure Washington to take more money from American businesses to fund larger social and infrastructure projects.
“This is a rich country. We have plenty of money, and if you don’t believe me, ask Haliburton,” Jones told a group of progressive bloggers and activists at the Netroots Nation convention Friday. “There’s plenty of money out there; don’t fall into the trap of this whole deficit argument.”
“The only question is how to spend it,” he added.
So he signed the 9/11 truther petition before he didn’t sign the petition.
He signed it before he read it, but he didn’t really really sign it.
Okay, then.
I guess it's too bad your boss is such a limp wristed weenie that he immediately caves in to such ridiculous false assertions. ROTFLOL
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