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Obama Advisor John Podesta Rips Glenn Beck as "Van's chief tormentor'
Sunday, September 6, 2009 | Kristinn

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 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.

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).


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clintonistas; democrat; democrats; dnctalkingpoints; glennbeck; hypocricy; hypocrisy; impeachobama; johnpodesta; jones; obama; podesta; vanjones; vj
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To: kristinn
Van Jones is an exceptional and inspired leader who has fought to bring economic and environmental justice to communities across our country.

STFU Podesta! Or we'll take away your bike and tie your hands behind your back so you can't spank your monkey in dark theaters anymore you disgusting perv.

81 posted on 09/06/2009 6:53:29 PM PDT by RoadKingSE (How do you know that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a muzzle flash ?)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Sure hope Glenn’s tax records are in order.

But imagine him starting his TV show with, “Ladies and gentlemen, I’m being AUDITED! IRS agents are in my office right now and I’m going to introduce them one by one, uh, sir, please state your name and IRS badge number for the folks out there in TV land, and what are your marching orders concerning my personal income tax files?”


82 posted on 09/06/2009 6:57:53 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("O Muslim! My bullets are lubricated in pig grease!")
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To: kristinn

The Left cannot stand that one of their own has been taken out using their own playbook. They will cannonize Van Jones—they will transform him into the new Che.


83 posted on 09/06/2009 6:58:58 PM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: kristinn

Mr. Red Commie speaks.


84 posted on 09/06/2009 6:59:14 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: rbg81
The Left cannot stand that one of their own has been taken out using their own playbook.

No playbook here - facts were presented and they were detrimental to Mr. Jones. The left just cannot stand reality.

85 posted on 09/06/2009 7:02:35 PM PDT by meyer (Do not go gentle into that good night - Rage, rage against the dying of the light.)
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To: kristinn
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.

Can I add a few?

He's a dirt-eating, snake-licking, skunk-milking bag of 'possum spunk.

But I hear he's a really smart feller......

86 posted on 09/06/2009 7:04:58 PM PDT by 50cal Smokepole (Effective gun control involves effective recoil management)
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To: kristinn; All

Truth : Liberals :: Kryptonite : Superman


87 posted on 09/06/2009 7:08:33 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
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To: kristinn

Obama Advisor John Podesta Rips Glenn Beck as “Van’s chief tormentor’

Yeah, sure, Glenn Beck lied and Van Jones cried. Right.


88 posted on 09/06/2009 7:09:05 PM PDT by TalBlack
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To: RonDog

That chart needs to be overlaid with the US population.

The US population has increased immensely and evening news viewship dropped off a cliff.


89 posted on 09/06/2009 7:10:11 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
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To: kristinn

Matthew 12: 37 “...by thy words thou shalt be condemned”

Bye bye Anthony “Van” Jones

Glenn just played your own words back.


90 posted on 09/06/2009 7:14:04 PM PDT by Domandred (Fdisk, format, and reinstall the entire .gov system. I am Jim Thompson.)
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To: kristinn

Jones has no one to blame but himself. He took heat for things he actually said and did, not for what people thought he said and did. People merely pointed out the truth about him.


91 posted on 09/06/2009 7:17:42 PM PDT by texaschick
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To: kristinn

Time to SMEAR the others and get them out... Let’s Rollll....!


92 posted on 09/06/2009 7:19:22 PM PDT by Paige ("All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing," Edmund Burke)
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To: goodnesswins
We AMERICAN'S DON'T TAKE LIGHTLY to this OVERTHROW!

Call it what it is: establishing a "fifth column" in the White House.

93 posted on 09/06/2009 7:20:57 PM PDT by Rapscallion (Obama installs a fifth column inside the US Government. Why?)
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To: kristinn; Fred Nerks; null and void; stockpirate; george76; PhilDragoo; Candor7; BP2; MeekOneGOP; ..
Van wanted to shut Beck up because he was telling truth to the public.

Van thought he could do that by endorsing a boycott of Becks sponsors.

Oooops! Van did not count on Beck being a genuine patriot, rather than a materialist dedicated only to the purse string. ALAS. That was poor Van's BIG MISTAKE. And Van made it because he sees the world through the restricted eyes of a materialist, a Marxist, where men exist only for material purposes as their prime motivation ( AKA the falsehood of Marxism).

Beck has revealed to America, the weaknesses of the Obama thugs who seek to impose their Utopian rule on America, their blindness, there not understanding the basics of why we love our nation.It is the handle of their undoing, and we shall crank it with reckless abandon! We do not want their Utopia, we want and shall keep our freedom! FREEDOM!!!!!

And Podesta should cringe. There are at least 60 million more like Beck, many of these right here on FR.We will tell the truth, even if Obama has most of the media corked, and especially if the TRUTH is not "politically correct".

OOOOOOH Poor Widdle Whining Podesta!!!!!!!Doncha love hearing liberal whining in the morning. MUSIC TO MY EARS!

I hope Obama tries the SAME with Rush Limbaugh. The result would be so extremely positive for the Republic.

94 posted on 09/06/2009 7:25:50 PM PDT by Candor7 (The weapons of choice against fascism are ridicule ,derision ,truth. (member NRA)
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To: bray
This is just the beginning.

It is the beginning of Podesta's fall too.

I knew him in the Senate as a staffer and although he was/is brilliant he had a flaw. He lacks self-discipline; a very bad trait in mortal partisan politics.

John Podesta will be his own worst enemy. Keep the pressure on.

95 posted on 09/06/2009 7:26:30 PM PDT by Rapscallion (Obama installs a fifth column inside the US Government. Why?)
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To: kristinn

Yay Glenn!!!!


96 posted on 09/06/2009 7:26:32 PM PDT by Guenevere
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To: Candor7

We’re their worst nightmare, conservatives who have found joy in protesting a government gone bad.


97 posted on 09/06/2009 7:27:48 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: goodnesswins
The only smear that Jones underwent was to be smeared with the truth. And Beck did a dang good job of it. 1 down, 36 czars to go.

The truth hurts those who have something to hide...in this case from the American people.

He, you, Obama, and others thought you could just slide on in with all of this marxism, communism, racicalism, and ant-Americansm...but you're wrong.

Here's the nasty little truth, John, and we're going to expose the whole day long and through the night...

Van Jones = Frank Davis = Bill Ayers = Bernardine Dohrn = Jeremiah Wright = Tony Rezko = Rashid Khalidi = Raila Ordinga = Carol Browner = Rahm Emanuel = Henry Gates = John Holdren = Rosa Brooks = Eric Holder = Ezekiel Emanuel = BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

This is who the man is. A cauldron of corruption, greed, marxism and communism...who is detroying the free market and fundamental republican principle as we speak in his bid for "fundamental change" and to replace it all with a marxist command economy built on the ashes.


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98 posted on 09/06/2009 7:31:58 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: kristinn

http://apolloalliance.org/about/board/

Apollo Board of Directors

Chairman

Phil Angelides, Chairman, Canyon Johnson Urban Communities Fund

Members

Frances Beinecke, President, Natural Resources Defense Council

Robert Borosage, President, Institute for America’s Future

Leo Gerard, International President, United Steelworkers Union

Gerald Hudson, International Executive Vice President, Service Employees International Union

Mindy Lubber, President, CERES

Nancy McFadden, Senior Vice President of Public Affairs for PG&E Corporation

Kathleen McGinty, former Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection

Terence M. O’Sullivan, General President, Laborers’ International Union of North America

Ellen Pao, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers

Michael Peck, Principal, MAPA Incorporated

John Podesta, President and CEO of the Center for American Progress

Carl Pope, Executive Director, Sierra Club

Dan W. Reicher, Director of Climate Change and Energy Initiatives, Google

Joel Rogers, Director, Center on Wisconsin Strategy


99 posted on 09/06/2009 7:34:45 PM PDT by maggief
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To: kristinn
How's that Beck boycott going for you DU guys? ROFL

I can't wait till 2010 and we can send all your buddies in congress to hang out in the unemployment line with your commie friend Van.

100 posted on 09/06/2009 7:36:28 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied, the economy died)
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