An adviser to Barack Obama has resigned in a row over past inflammatory statements, the White House said .Van Jones, who worked with the White House council on environmental quality, was linked to efforts suggesting a government role in the 2001 terror attacks and to derogatory comments about Republicans.
"On the eve of historic fights for healthcare and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me," Jones said in his resignation statement. "They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide."
He said he had been "inundated with calls from across the political spectrum urging me to stay and fight", but he said he could not in good conscience ask his colleagues to spend time and energy defending or explaining his past.
Jones issued an apology on Thursday for his past statements. When asked the next day whether Obama still had confidence in him, the White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs, said only that Jones "continues to work in the administration".
Don't Be A Plantation Negro - Can You Pass The WT7 IQ Test?
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dood went on record outside the bounds of "allowable" discourse...,
I knew Van Jones was a lying leftist piece of shit when he wrote this for the Huffington Post in 2005:
"[D]o the actual government statistics bear out the claim that Blacks contribute disproportionately to the crime rate? Or is this largely a stereotype, which is driven by the disproportionate rate of ARRESTS and CONVICTIONS of Black people? And does the over-focus on Black crime conceal an alarmingly high crime rate within the white population?"
As if it’s a fucking illusion that black people commit half of all homicides in the United States.
Van Jones can suck Castro’s dick. Obama shoulda never put him on the payroll.
see?
van jones so "wild" and "radical" he can even retroactively cause a plantation kneegrow's blood pressure to soar, breathing to become erratic, and foam to come flying out his mouf....,
I can't believe he resigned. No body is perfect but you have to have a real tough skin to be in politics.
DV:
With a favorable administration in place isn't it time for the leftist flank to call in on its conspiracy theories?
Think about it. IF AG Holder is compelled by his commitment to uphold the law in going after CIA agents - WHY wouldn't he do the same in trying to nail the Bush Administration officials who, in 9 months orchestrated these events (in your opinion)?
Why stop there? If you listen to many Black talk radio stations they also still believe that AIDS was created by the US government.
Since all of these people voted for Obama - why don't they call out Obama to release the serum to address AIDS?
DV:
Van Jones seems to be a man after your own heart at home:
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Bearing in mind that plantation kneegrows and porch simians are winging to the rescue of Glen Beck and Rupert Murdoch, here are the actual words behind the "controversy";
THE STATEMENT: Van Jones was listed as a signatory on a petition released by 911Truth.org on Oct. 26, 2004. It called "for immediate public attention to unanswered questions that suggest that people within the current administration may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war," an investigation by then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and congressional hearings into failings prior to the attacks.
THE WALK-BACK: "In recent days some in the news media have reported on past statements I made before I joined the administration -- some of which were made years ago. If I have offended anyone with statements I made in the past, I apologize. As for the petition that was circulated today, I do not agree with this statement and it certainly does not reflect my views now or ever," Jones said in a Sept. 3 statement issued by the White House Council on Environmental Quality after the petition was unearthed by blogger Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit.
STATEMENT: After a Feb. 11, 2009, a speech in Berkeley, Calif., Jones was asked by an audience member how Republicans were able to achieve greater legislative success with a smaller congressional majority than Democrats now have.
"The answer to that is: They're a--holes," Jones said to laughter in remarks posted on YouTube on Sept. 1 by supporters of Glenn Beck. "That's a technical political science term. And Barack Obama's not an a--hole. So, now, I will say this, I can be an a--hole. And some of us who are not Barack Hussein Obama are gonna have to start getting a little bit uppity."
THE WALK-BACK: The comments were "clearly inappropriate," Jones said in a statement. "I apologize for the offensive words I chose to use during that speech. They do not reflect the views of this administration, which has made every effort to work in a bipartisan fashion, and they do not reflect the experience I have had since I joined the administration."
“As for the petition that was circulated today, I do not agree with this statement and it certainly does not reflect my views now or ever.”
Van Jones must be suffering from “Obama Tergiversation.” If he didn’t believe in the 9/11 petition why did he sign it? Since he signed it, was he properly vetted by the Obama Administration? If he was properly vetted why is he waffling?
Team Obama is thoroughly spineless. They don’t possess one milligram of testicular fortitude. They will be forever twisted and turned by the fickle whims of their enemies in the American body politic.
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The original text in the "Anarcho-Capitalist" speak:
[quote]Bearing in mind that plantation kneegrows and porch simians are winging to the rescue of Glen Beck and Rupert Murdoch, here are the actual words behind the "controversy";[/quote]
Translation into English with additional commentary detailing the irony of our basement speaker.
Bearing in mind that Black People who disagree with me
Note how our friend so easily injects "slave references" when it comes to Black people without giving it a second thought. In his polluted mind - EVERY Black person around the world, regardless of where they reside and their actual history - is a candidate to be called a "Plantation Kneegrow"
[quote]and porch MONKEYS[/quote]
Stunning!!!
This word, so often used by White Racists as they drove through the Black community scoping out properties upon which they would return to later that same night with hoods and shot guns in hand has now been co-opted by the Anarcho-Capitalists. Simian = Monkey for those who didn't know.
[quote]are winging to the rescue of Glen Beck and Rupert Murdoch,[/quote]
Did anyone else catch that one?
Our fearless friend, KC Nulan is accusing us "right minded Negroes" of defending Murdoch. YET he discards his offense shown about 4 months ago about a cartoon from the NY Post - A News Corporation property that allegedly shows BARACK OBAMA AS A CHIMP.
Today KCNULAN IS CALLING OTHER BLACK PEOPLE MONKEYS!!!!!!!!!!
No doubt his White Snarling Fox Intellectual sponsors are quite proud of their handiwork.
[quote]here are the actual words behind the "controversy";[/quote]
Don't watch the wrong card in the 3 Card Monte game that Mr Nulan is playing. HE WANTS US ALL to believe that the "9/11 Truther" association is the ONLY reason why Van Jones has submitted his resignation.
Quite honestly folks - I am more disturbed at the Kneegrows who are arguing on their blogs that WITH THE OUSTER OF VAN JONES - the hopes that the Black Community would gain FULL EMPLOYMENT via "Green Jobs" is now dashed.
They ironically promote the VALUE of "Green Jobs" for the health of the community yet they tacitly admit that this VALUE can only be expressed if the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT provides them with resources that THEIR OWN COMMUNITIES were not able to produce.
lol..,
no porch simian,
it's really not that deep.
my philosophy clearly states,
you.are.on.your.own
which in your particular case
amounts to a death sentence.
I didn't expect Van Jones to produce anything of substance for anybody in the U.S. Had he been capable, the wheels of such a program would have already begun to roll. As you might imagine, (well, really not, you're not that bright) this has left me to devise such a program all on my own. I am my very own agent provocateur of a green collar micro-insurgency.
oh, and unlike you, still very much free to say exactly tha phuk I feel like saying, when and where I feel like saying it.
I'm not shocked at the lack of this administration's real efforts to take care of the folks who brough them to the dance. Rather, they, the administration seems to be taking their political cues from the sc.. who did not support them in the first place, and never will. Their failure to properly appoint folks and address the real problems of the people Michele can truly identify with, was predicted. He, BO, may be from Chi-town, but he is not a Harold Washington acolyte or progressive.
Bamboozled comes to my mind in cases or situations like this.
COme on DV! Lets talk about the Black woman with white kids! Ive been trying to school ya'll ( ever since Peru) about the origins of white ppl. Plus I want to see what my dog Byrdeye gotta say.
GDAWG:
Based upon my reading of the tide of discontent that is brewing on the hate-filled left the bulk of the issues have to do with unrealistic expectations that they had for one man who took the helm of the system. With many of them unhitched from any organizational MANAGEMENT role and having a spirit of totalitarianism anyway, this experience with reality has been disappointing for them.
I struggle to understand why more of them have not learned from their local failures and see that "trying harder" at the national level does not gloss over their flaws.
Van Jones is a Yale educated attorney who advocates "green jobs" designed to rehabilitate the very system which led to disaster in the first place. Like Obama, Sotomayor, Jarrett, Rice and others he is a moderate to conservative person of color and hardly a radical. Even conservatives ranging from Senator Brownback to Governor Huckabee to Representative Paul have advocated for judicial reforms of the type favored by Jones and the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. Recent opinion pieces in influential journals like Harper's Monthly and The American Interest read by elites have called for a reassessment of the Reagan legacy especially as California has proven to be ungovernable.
"Van Jones is a Yale educated attorney who advocates "green jobs" designed to rehabilitate the very system which led to disaster in the first place. Like Obama, Sotomayor, Jarrett, Rice and others he is a moderate to conservative person of color and hardly a radical."
^^ so what?
That was my riposte to "Obama shoulda never put him on the payroll."
^ Specifically, what characterizes Van Jones's philosophy, rhetoric or tactics as "moderate to conservative"?
For an empirical analysis of post Civil War relations between government and private enterprise I would refer you to Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency: the Progressive Conservation Movement 1890-1920 by Samuel Hays and The Triumph of Conservatism: A Re-interpretation of American History, 1900-1916 by Gabriel Kolko. In no way is Jones trying to upend the capitalist order in which workers are dependent on the combined benevolence of government and business. The Green Jobs Act was signed by George W. Bush and the entire "Green Revolution" is funded and supported by corporate hegemons like Google.
"... struggle to understand why more of them have not learned from their local failures and see that "trying harder" at the national level does not gloss over their flaws.."
Well put CF!
And I also agree with Sub's analysis.
[quote]As if it’s a fucking illusion that black people commit half of all homicides in the United States.[/quote]
UBM:
You are alright with me on that point.
Here is the point of great irony.
The same Anarcho-Capitalists who are staunchly against the "Death Penalty" do LITTLE to educate the Pirates who they interact with about the evils of the DEATH PENALTY and thus convince them to stop their killing on the streets.
Instead they figure that by teaching Ubuntu Linux - this same person will begin to value human life.
Clearly there are some major holes that need to be plugged even prior to them learning how to type.
God he's sexy... other than that, this whole story was overblown and uninteresting to me.
I'm sure this is all interesting discourse but.....
DAMN HE IS FINE!!!!!!!!!!
LOL, Pink. We're on the same page.
LOL Robyn that's so funny!!!! But yeah he's hot!
Pink and RJEsq, I said the same thing when I saw him on the news yesterday. LOL!! Didn't know what the story was about at first.... :-)
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