We are over the target, then.
Posted on 09/07/2009 7:46:27 PM PDT by kcvl
Arianna Huffington, a long-time friend and one-time employer of Van Jones, thanked Fox's Glenn Beck on Monday evening for leading the charge that resulted in the environmental adviser's resignation.
Confused? Well, Huffington does describe Beck's calling attention to Van Jones' past radical statements -- on televion and radio -- as a "vile and vicious smear campaign." But in the end, she claims that Jones will be more effective working outside of government.
I remember going to the White House this spring for a briefing of journalists by David Axelrod. Before the meeting, Van and I met for a quick coffee and I was hit with the same overwhelming thought: how much we were going to miss his voice on the outside.
NYTs’ Friedman Was Big Fan of Green Job Czar Jones in Oct 2007
Well, some in the media weren’t ignoring avowed Communist and Barack Obama Administration “Green Jobs Czar” Van Jones after all.
The New York Times’ Thomas Friedman was lauding him.
In print on October 17, 2007, Friedman offered up a Van Jones paean entitled “The Green-Collar Solution.” In which Friedman offers nary a hint as to the radical nature of Jones’ many ridiculous and disturbing positions and proclamations. (In addition to being an outspoken Marxist, Jones is amongst other bizarre things a 9-11 “Truther.”)
Friedman was undoubtedly in at least the beginning stages of writing his September 2008-released book Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why we need a green revolution - and how it can renew America. (The title of which would indicate the ruminations of a man who has never stepped outside of Manhattan; Friedman should know better. There are vast expanses of abject nothing all over the planet, with elbow room aplenty there for the taking.)
Apparently, along the way towards his tome Friedman stumbled upon Jones. And was wowed from the outset.
Van Jones is a rare bird. He’s a black social activist in Oakland, Calif., and as green an environmentalist as they come. He really gets passionate, and funny, when he talks about what it’s like to be black and green:
More...
Bob McConnell
Sarah Palin
A little trick he stole from Governor Palin. Damn liberals. They can never have an original thought or idea.
Unlike the sweetness and light with which the left and liberals treated Bush and his supporters for 8 years.
And all Beck did was let Van Jones do the talking. Van Jones did himself in.
Hell, if I was married to her I might decide I was gay.
So asking reasonable questions is now considered a smear campaign.
>> She doesn’t seem to have much more substance than a thistle down but about the same amount of prick.
Are you saying she’s an impotent tiny prick?
The keyword there being exposed. It’s not that she doesn’t support anti-American avowed communists.
Lately, Arianna resembles the Gabor sisters on steroids.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CGQcGdNsww
Arianna Gets A Call From Her Housekeeper
New York Times - Thomas Friedman
Mr. Jones, who heads the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in Oakland, which helps kids avoid jail and secure jobs, has an idea how to change that - a “green-collar” jobs program that focuses on underprivileged youth....
...One thing spurring him in this project, he explained, was the way that the big oil companies bought ads in black-owned newspapers in California in 2006 showing an African-American woman filling her gas tank with a horrified look at the pump price. The ads were used to help bring out black votes to defeat Proposition 87. That ballot initiative proposed a tax on oil companies drilling in California, the money from which would have gone to develop alternative energy projects. The oil companies tried to scare African-Americans into thinking that the tax on the companies would be passed on at the pump.
“The polluters were able to stampede poor people into their camp,” said Mr. Jones. “I never want to see an N.A.A.C.P. leader on the wrong side of an environment issue again.”
...but what she doesn’t admit is that the politics of personal destruction is not new, not invented by or used exclusively by Beck...
And turnabout is fair play, except in this case it was facts and the person’s own words. Documentable. Facts can be a really inconvenient bitch at times.
We are over the target, then.
New York Times - Thomas Friedman
Mr. Jones’s group and the electrical union in Oakland created the Oakland Apollo Alliance. This year (2007) that coalition helped to raise $250,000 from the city government to create a union-supported training program that will teach young people in Oakland how to put up solar panels and weatherize buildings.
It is the beginning of a “Green for All” campaign (greenforall.org) that Mr. Jones - backed by other environmental activists like Majora Carter from Sustainable South Bronx - is launching to get Congress to allocate $125 million to train 30,000 young people a year in green trades.
“There are certain obvious things we have, certain specific things,” says Huffington. “Conspiracy theories — we don’t allow conspiracy theories. If you thought Sept. 11 was caused by the Bush administration, your comment is not going to appear unless it is a mistake.”
Yet she defends him kind of hypocritical for sure.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.