Posted on 09/03/2009 8:37:43 PM PDT by pissant
Sniff...sniff...sniff...we smell some oppo research cooking. That's the only explanation for the right-wingosphere's delayed reaction to Comrade Marinucci's fine camera work from FOUR MONTHS AGO when California GOP hopeful Meg Whitman told her that she was a "huge fan" of the work of Van Jones. Said she met Jones on a cruise.
At that time, Van's biggest sin was his recent appointment as a green jobs advisor to President O. Then he was green. Now, he's red.
For those who don't set the dial to the right, Jones is this month's Bill Ayers to righties thanks to Fox Newsite Glenn Beck going all Joe McCarthy on Van -- inaccurately and/or hyperbolically -- for his past as a "Communist". The reason: Jones is the co-founder of Berkeley's Color of Change, the online organization that led a successful advertiser boycott of Beck's show after he went all Grand Dragon on Obama. Or maybe Beck was still ticked about Van calling Republicans "a-holes" a few months before he joined the Administration. Jones has since apologized.
Nonetheless, Camp Poizner is all over this, sending a missive today noting that Bakersfield radio (KNZR 1560 AM, which carries Beck's radio show) host Jaz McKay "criticized GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman over her support of Van Jones." And they use -- ahem! -- Comrade M.'s four-month-old video.
Anways, Jaz played the clip, then added some commentary afterwards, which Team Poiz dutifully recorded.... probably because McKay said "(Whitman) is the eBay chick, right? And she is running for governor. She has more money than Steve Poizner, who's the only hope the state really has at this point."
After playing the clip, McKay said: "Who doesn't love a Republican who goes on global warming cruises with communists, right?"
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But I do. I'm glad you exposed Meg Whitman for the imbecile she apparently is.
She is a total fraud.
Meg Whitman who?
Dumber than a box of rocks too.
She can’t possibly be a fan of the Van Jones that we know.
Please Joe, stop writing like an 8th grader in the lunchroom.
This month's Bill Ayers? I don't remember Beck calling Jones a terrorist.
Beck is a mormon; severe foundational issues. (insert buzzer sound here)
Her career dissipation light just went into high gear.
I’m glad she being exposed. Of course she’s from the bay area isn’t she? So it’s no surprise.
I question the intelligence of any communist. In theory and/or in practice, can anyone make a cogent case for Marxist/socialist/communist economics that makes even one angstrom unit of sense
Meeting someone on a cruise = going on a cruise with them?
What does her support have to do with Beck and this communist czar? Someone clue me in on the ‘gotcha’ moment.
Its a gotcha moment allright, but for Whitman not Beck. There goes her race for governor.
Meg Whitman is the Christie Whitman of California, if not worse.
More bird cage lining from the Chronicle.
Whoa! I didn’t know that she’s a global alarmist. There will be no new green jobs only greens who kill jobs.
Why does that harm Glenn Beck though? That’s what I’m geting from the title. Was Beck supporting her or something?
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