[AmericanInTokyo]

Asahi Shimbun is a considerably liberal Japanese daily newspaper with immense public circulation. Number two here in Japan, in fact.

Further, Google Japan/News will show that the Van Jones story is just starting to break hard and fast. Japanese media are slowly being forced into the position, many of them, to finally report for the first time in Japan to their readership, that Obama is actually losing considerable popularity, something that would surprise most Japanese readers as they have been force-fed Obama for the last six months, as if he were some kind of Messiah. It is just a few stories for now, but keep a watch on this link, they will no doubt grow. I am waiting for the conservative Sankei Shimbun; they would really have a field day over this. They have been the most aggressive in exposing Obama in the Japanese press.

Google Japan Search News Stories: VAN JONES

These are interesting developments here overseas....

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Thanks for your report! Good to know that even in Japan, the Obama commies can’t escape notice!

[AmericanInTokyo]

ping!

[gaijin]

oh wow...! That’s gonna leave a mark..!

[Mr. Silverback]

Can I say something about that headline gives me very happy feelings inside without getting a Secret Service visit? :-)

Seriously, SS guys, I want the President to be safe just as much as you do. Don’t hassle me.

[keats5]

“...this development has all the trappings of being a new smack in the face...”

If that’s not a new FReeperism, I don’t know what is!

[AuntB]

Thank you for posting this!

In case you missed it, this is good one from the British Press.

Why does President Pantywaist hate America so badly?
by Gerald Warner

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geraldwarner/9614177/Barack_Obama_and_the_CIA_why_does_President_Pantywaist_hate_America_so_badly/

[elizabethgrace]

this development has all the trappings of being a new smack in the face.

I love that! Thank you for your report.

[fightinJAG]

Thank you very much!

[concentric circles]

I trust your translation but I read it as “...this development has all the trappings of being bitch slapped.”

[FastCoyote]

Great report, something you never get in the LSM.

[Gator113]

Thanks for the report. I’m sure glad that we have you over there.

[CAluvdubya]

I absolutely love the “smack in the face” headline. It’s just the way I feel, too! heh

[21twelve]

“...right in the middle of President Obama’s declining popularity as being hit on his health care reform policies, comes this resignation.”

That sentence hit me that this was not just some two-bit racist commie that resigned - but is something bigger. I then for some reason thought of how I would have felt if it were some Bush appointee that was forced out. (Rumsfield?) And how the media portrayed it as a Bush failure, etc. and how serious I thought it was.

I sincerely hope that this IS just the tip of the iceberg of Obama’s future failures.

[TomGuy]

There have been some recent rumblings — from the left — about possible challenging Obama in 2012.

Even some of the most Obama-ite newsies are starting to frown at some of Obama’s actions.

These do not bode well for Obama, as they are coming from HIS side, his supporters.

[Eye of Unk]

I would be interested if in Japan this “loss of face” that Obama is going through does change the nations view of America.

Political sepuku,(correct my spelling)is what Jones did, not ceremoniuosly but never the less by his exposure of his past and the publics enlightenment it apparently became too tenuous to keep him around, Jones was creating too much Communistic anger for the Whitehouse.

And that is indeed a danger to Obamas goals to change America, it must be done as quickly as possible before the people realize whats happening, problem was too many people now hear the burglars in the house and are not waiting to call the police.

[Ken H]

Another translation...

OPERATOR: We get signal. Main screen turn on.

GIBBS: It's you!

BECK: How are you gentlemen? Make your time.

GIBBS: What you say!

BECK: All your czar are belong to us. HAHAHA!

[DTogo]

ホホホ、グリーン　ジョブ　ザー！

(Ho-ho-ho, Green Job Czar!)

日本＊ピング＊ (kono risuto ni hairitai ka detai wo shirasete kudasai : let me know if you want on or off this list)

[Freedom2specul8]

That was interesting.. Sounds like the liberal newspapers in Japan aren’t quite like the ones here.

[Jet Jaguar]

BTTT

[AmericanInTokyo]

With one of the enemy's advance MIGs downed, pilot ejected, and all our fighters back safely, a post-mission de-brief back at the base:

Cognizant of it or not, IRONICALLY, AND THIS WILL DRIVE SENATOR OBAMA BONKERS, WE TOOK WHOLE SECTIONS OUT OF SAUL ALINSKY'S BOOK AND APPLIED IT WITH GREAT SUCCESS IN VAN JONES' CASE.

I wholeheartedly recommend we perfect these tactics and adopt them in the next cases: Mark, Cass, Valerie and the rest of the whole rotten statist, elitist crew in D.C. (and their replacements if they don't get the message the first time we, the People, are serious).

Sound familiar?:

Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.

Rule 6: A good tactic is one your people enjoy. “If your people aren’t having a ball doing it, there is something very wrong with the tactic.”

Rule 7: A tactic that drags on for too long becomes a drag. Commitment may become ritualistic as people turn to other issues.

Rule 8: Keep the pressure on. Use different tactics and actions and use all events of the period for your purpose. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this that will cause the opposition to react to your advantage.”

Rule 10: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. Avoid being trapped by an opponent or an interviewer who says, “Okay, what would you do?”

Rule 11: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack abstract (socialist organizations) or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.