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 presidents 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. Vans 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).
Wonder how much taxpayer cash Podesta expected Jonesy to send his way...when liberals get this worked up it usually has something to do with the money faucet being turned off.
No just a fart smeller.
I’m speculating here, but....
Let’s say a certain green jobs czar had co-founded a company that actively and publicly called for a boycott of Glenn Beck, and was not properly vetted by the White House, and further suppose that czar was, in fact, encouraged by the White House to shut down Mr. Beck-—and was given $30 bil dollars to paly with-—
What is the exposure to the White House of a civil rights complaint filed by Mr. Beck?
Commies of a feather flock together.
Economic and environmental justice = REPARATIONS
definition of justice is “giving to each what he or she is due.”
Economic justice promotes a vision for economic fairness by advocating for fair wages and health benefits, the development of quality jobs for low wage workers.
Environmental justice (EJ) refers to inequitable environmental burdens borne by groups such as racial minorities, women, residents of economically disadvantaged areas, or residents of developing nations. Environmental justice proponents generally view the environment as encompassing “where we live, work, and play” (sometimes “pray” and “learn” are also included) and seek to redress inequitable distributions of environmental burdens (pollution, industrial facilities, crime, etc.) and equitably distribute access to environmental goods such as nutritious food, clean air & water, parks, recreation, health care, education, transportation, safe jobs, etc. Self-determination and participation in decision-making are key components of environmental justice. According to a compilation of thoughts by several notable EJ organizations, root causes of environmental injustices include “institutionalized racism; the commodification of land, water, energy and air; unresponsive, unaccountable government policies and regulation; and lack of resources and power in affected communities”.
I just love getting lectured by John Podesta...
Podesta site which is part of its regular feature Radical Right-wing Agenda.
John Podesta, Bill Clintons former chief of staff, and George Soros current point man at the Center for American Progress. Podestas site, called Think Progress is one of many that Podesta has launched from his 501©3 cum Political Action Committee
MediaMatters, a site created and run by the self-confessed liar, Soros-protégé and Podesta ally, David Brock. MediaMatters is entirely dedicated to the slander of Republicans and conservatives and has no other evident purpose.
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Media Matters For America was created in 2004 by the Democrats left-wing progressives at the direction of Hillary Clinton to David Brock, now President and CEO of Media Matters For America. Clinton advised Brock, ex-conservative insider and author of The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy (Crown, May 2004) to start a media company to counter-attack the negative information from conservative talk shows like The Rush Limbaugh Show, Fox News network shows such as the OReilly Factor, and Hannity and Colmes and conservative bloggers like Michelle Malkin and Pajama Media. Funded by Center for American Progress (CAP)and the Tides Foundation, both million dollar non-profit charities that use funneled monies from un-named liberal donors like Bill and Hillary Clinton, and anti-conservative pet charities of George Soros, Michael Halperin, and John Podesta, Media Matters twists and manipulates current events to suit the left wing extremists political agenda.
Group Led By Clintons John Podesta Outlines Assault of Conservative Radio
By Noel Sheppard
June 21, 2007
The supposedly free speech left are out in force trying to silence all voices in the media with views different than their own just in time for the 2008 presidential campaign.
Potentially more worrisome, one liberal advocate in the middle of this debate has close ties to the Clintons, although it is quite unlikely the press will convey such when its recommendations are disseminated with their predictable stamp of approval.
*****Update: Michelle Malkin is all over this.
With that in mind, the left-leaning Center for American Progress published a report Thursday detailing how conservatives dominate the talk radio dial, and exactly what needs to be done legislatively for liberals to wrest control over this medium (emphasis added throughout):
Restore local and national caps on the ownership of commercial radio stations.
Ensure greater local accountability over radio licensing.
Require commercial owners who fail to abide by enforceable public interest obligations to pay a fee to support public broadcasting.
Imagine that.
For those unfamiliar with the Center, its President and CEO is none other than John Podesta, the former Chief of Staff for President Bill Clinton. And:
The Executive Vice President for Management is Sarah Rosen, who was also a member of the Clinton administration.
Senior Vice President for Development Debbie Goldberg worked for the Clinton campaign.
Senior Vice President and Director David Halperin was a speech writer for President Clinton.
Vice President of Communications Jennifer Palmieri was Clintons White House Deputy Press Secretary.
Senior Vice President for External Affairs Winnie Stachelberg worked at the Office of Management and Budget under Clinton.
Vice President of Finance and Operations Brad Kiley worked for the Clinton administration.
Ditto Peter Rundlet, Anna Soellner, Debbie Fine, and Michelle Jolin.
In reality, the staff and Senior Fellows listing of this Center reads like a Clinton administration Whos Who.
Shut up, Mr. Podesta. Or you are next.
Wherever you are. Were coming. You try to shove communism down our throats, from inside or outside of government, and we will ruin YOUR career, too. We have the numbers, we have the skill and we have the will.
Did you see this posted by STARWISE?
A List of Obama Czars (in alphabetical order) AND cronies put into top government policy positions (some of which DO require Congressional approval. The second list gives those who do NOT require approval and are hired directly and work out of the Obama House.
1) Herbert Allison...............Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability
2) Admiral Dennis Blair........Director of National Intelligence
3) Ron Bloom ....................Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury Salary
4) Alan Bersin......................Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and Special Representative for Border Affairs, US Department of Homeland Security
5) John Brennan..................Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security
6) Carol M. Browner..........Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change
7) Adolfo Carrion Jr........... Director of the White House Office of Urban Affairs Policy
8) Ashton Carter.................Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics
9) Aneesh Chopra................Federal Chief Technology Officer of the United States
10) Jeffrey Crowley..............Director of the Office of National AIDS Policy
11) Cameron Davis.................Great Lakes Czar
12) Nancy-Ann DeParle.........Counselor to the President and Director of the White House Office of Health Reform
11) Earl Devaney....................Inspector General, US Department of the Interior
13) Joshua Dubois..................Director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood
14) Arne Duncan....................Secretary of Education
15) Kenneth Feinberg...........Special Master appointed by the Treasury
16) Daniel Fried......................US Department of State Special Envoy for Guantanomo Closure
17) Scott Gration.................Special Envoy to Sudan
18) Melissa Hathaway.........Director of the White House Office of Cybersecurity
19) David J. Hayes................Deputy Secretary of the Interior
20) Richard Holbrooke........US Envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan
21) John P. Holdren .............. Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
22) Gil Kerlikowske...............Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy
23) Ron Kirk..........................United States Trade Representative
24) Vivek Kundra..................Chief Information Officer of the United States
25) Kevin Jennings.................Assistant Deputy Secretary, Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools
26) Van Jones........................In charge of the Obamas administrations green jobs program
27) Mark Lloyd..................Chief Diversity Officer
28) Douglas Lute...................Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan
29) George Mitchell.............Special Envoy to the Middle East
30) Ed Montgomery..............Director of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers
31) Dennis Ross.....................Special Advisor for Iran, the Persian Gulf and Southwest Asia
32) Lynn Rosenthal............White House Advisor On Violence Against Women
33) Gary Samore.................U.S. government-wide coordinator on the prevention of WMD terrorism and proliferation,
34) Todd Stern...................Special Envoy for Climate Change
35) Larry Summers............Director of the National Economic Council
36) Cass R. Sunstein ..............The White House Office of Information and Regulatory Afairs
37) Michael Taylor............Special Assistant to the FDA Commissioner for Food Safety
38) Arturo Valenzuela.............U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs
39) Paul Volker.................Chairman of the Economic Recovery Advisory Board
40)Elizabeth Warren..............Assistant Secretary for Financial Stability, US Department of the Treasury
41 ??
42) Jeffrey Zients....................Chief Performance Officer
AND A different list with 44 czars
Afghanistan-Pakistan (Af-Pak) czar, Richard Holbrooke
AIDS czar, Jeffrey Crowley [openly gay white man]
Auto recovery czar, Ed Montgomery
Behavioral science czar, position not yet filled
Bailout czar, Herbert Allison Jr., [replaced Bush bailout czar Neel Kashkari, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability confirmed by Senate]
Border czar, Alan Bersin
Car czar, Ron Bloom [Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury , under Senate
oversight]
Climate change czar, Todd Stern
Copyright czar, not appointed yet
Counterterrorism czar, John Brennan
Cybersecurity czar, position will be vacant on August 21st [upon the departure of Melissa Hathaway]
Disinformation czar, Linda Douglass [This is a new media buzz since our earlier list, a response by pundits to the White House request for informants: see Glenn Beck and Lew Rockwell]
Domestic violence czar, Lynn Rosenthal
Drug czar, Gil Kerlikowske
Economic czar, Larry Summers
Economic czar number two, Paul Volcker
Education czar, Arne Duncan
Energy czar, Carol Browner
Food czar, Michael Taylor [a former Monsanto executive, or, the fox in charge of the henhouse]
Government performance czar, Jeffrey Zients
Great Lakes czar, Cameron Davis
Green jobs czar, Van Jones [who has a communist background]
Guantanamo closure czar, Daniel Fried
Health czar, Nancy-Ann DeParle
Infotech czar, Vivek Kundra [Shoplifted four shirts, worth $33.50 each, from J.C. Penney in 1996 (source). His last day in DC government was March 4 but on March 12 the FBI raided his office and arrested two staffers.]
Intelligence czar, Dennis Blair [Director of National Intelligence, a Senate confirmed position. He is a retired United States Navy four-star admiral]
Latin-American czar, Arturo Valenzuela (nominee) [although this post is referred to as a czar, he is nominatied to be Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs and so is subject to Senate confirmation. Voting on his confirmation was delayed to clarify his position on Honduras. Watch WaPos Head Count to track status of confirmation.]
Mideast peace czar, George Mitchell
Mideast policy czar, Dennis Ross
Pay czar, Kenneth Feinberg
Regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein
Religion czar, aka God czar Joshua DuBois
Safe schools czar, Kevin Jennings [appointed to be Assistant Deputy Secretary of the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, a newly created post (that does not require Senate confirmation); openly gay founder of an organization dedicated to promoting pro-homosexual clubs and curricula in public schools]
Science czar, John Holdren
Stimulus oversight czar, Earl Devaney
Sudan czar, J. Scott Gration
TARP czar, Elizabeth Warren [chair of the [Congressional Oversight Panel for the Trouble Assets Relief Program; note that Herb Allison is frequently called the TARP czar]
Technology czar, Aneesh Chopra
Trade czar, Ron Kirk
Urban affairs czar, Adolfo Carrion
War czar, Douglas Lute [retained from Bush administration, married to Jane Holl Lute, currently a Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security]
Water czar, David J. Hayes [a Deputy Interior Secretary and therefore subject to Senate oversight]
Weapons czar, Ashton Carter [actually Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics and so subject to Senate confirmation]
Weapons of mass destruction czar, Gary Samore
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2009/09/king-obama-and-his-appointed-princes.html
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