“It's a sad day to see a man of good work get so little credit,” CNN senior political analyst David Gergen regretted about Van Jones on Monday's Anderson Cooper 360, complaining about the coverage of the Obama “green jobs” czar who resigned late Saturday night after his radical views were exposed: “I mean, there's no balance to understanding just how many good things he's done.”
Jones signed a petition which charged Bush administration officials “may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war,” described himself as a “communist,” compared George W. Bush to a crack user, called Republicans “assholes” and made other incendiary race-based remarks, but Gergen saw a saint: “As he left Yale Law School, instead of going to a lucrative job, went out and worked with ex-prisoners, tried to create green jobs for them, has been featured in Time magazine, gotten all sorts of award for it.” (Audio: MP3 clip of Gergen)
Being championed in Time magazine is only a badge of honor for liberals. Back in November of 2007, in a profile of Jones, “Bring Eco-Power to the People,” the magazine hailed him as “magnetic” and a “visionary.”
Earlier this year, for the Time 100 issue, actor Leonardo DiCaprio gushed over Jones:
By fusing economic opportunity and social justice with climate change, Van Jones is working to build pathways out of poverty through the creation of green jobs. He is the perfect person to help redefine our country's perception of what it means to be green.
For a complete rundown of Van Jones coverage, or lack thereof, with links to NewsBusters items with his past statements, check: “FNC's Baier Highlights How Mainstream Media Ignored Van Jones.”
CNN senior political analyst David Gergen on the Monday, September 7 Anderson Cooper 360, anchored by Erica Hill:
I've known Van Jones for a number of years, have seen his good works. As he left Yale Law School, instead of going to a lucrative job, went out and worked with ex-prisoners, tried to create green jobs for them, has been featured in Time magazine, gotten all sorts of award for it.I was not familiar with some of his past statements. But he's a -- he has done some good works and it's a sad day to see this happen. The White House made -- I don't think forced him out. I think he fell on his own sword, but it also made no effort to keep him. I think they are genuinely concerned that they need to clear the decks for health care and some of these other fights. But I think it's a sad day to see a man of good work get so little credit. I mean, there's no balance to understanding just how many good things he's done.
—Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center
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good lord
September 8, 2009 - 01:13 ET by katainkentI think I liked it better when they were NOT talking. My 'can't stands no more' gauge is full.
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We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. ~Thomas Jefferson
Because he went to Yale?
September 8, 2009 - 01:18 ET by JeffC...Why does it seem like the first thing out of the mouths of defenders of these crackpots are where they went to college? So, the fact that these lunatics were smart as an 18-year-olds or 22-year-old-college-grads mean that everything stupid they've done since then doesn't matter?
Since when is attending a
September 8, 2009 - 01:28 ET by NL207Since when is attending a prestigous university under an affirmative action program a pedigree?
→ Don't know NL207
September 8, 2009 - 01:38 ET by Cool ArrowMaybe since the libs decided, and Van Jones agreed, that he should be held to a lower expectation than other Americans.
Doubtless there were applicants with better grades. But it's not about achievement anymore.
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Notice how most of them went to I.V. League schools?
September 8, 2009 - 07:00 ET by sic721I call it the I.V. League. The majority of people who attend these schools seem to have received an I.V. of Kool-Aid on a regular basis as part of their curriculum.
"Life's tough.....It's even tougher if you're stupid." John Wayne
→ Another piglet
September 8, 2009 - 01:20 ET by Cool ArrowSo Gergen also believes America had it coming with 9-11.
Here's a man who served under Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton.
But he'll gladly side with the "Hate America First" crowd just to make a few bucks at CNN.
I was not familiar with some of his past statements. But he's a -- he
has done some good works and it's a sad day to see this happen.
How stupid is that, Gergen? Does that mean you are familiar with some of his future statements? Present statements? What the heck could you possibly know, other than his "past statements"?
Get out of here Gergen, you sick surrender-monkey!
Done with ya!
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→ No, I ain't done!
September 8, 2009 - 01:27 ET by Cool Arrow"It's a sad day to see this happen"
How sick is that, Gergen? You honestly think it's better to keep Jones in the Obama inner circle?
you've been sipping Absynthe and Bella Donna, haven't you Gergen?
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Some beer would do you a
September 8, 2009 - 01:30 ET by NL207Some beer would do you a world of good.
Let gergen defend Jones as well. better, if some reporter with a spine were to force Gergen to defend Jones' Deserver stance, that would hoist Gergen on this petard as well.
Another Gergenism:
September 8, 2009 - 01:39 ET by BarkerCharles Manson helped a little old lady cross the street one time.
Notice that Gergen mentioned
September 8, 2009 - 01:46 ET by CooltomNotice that Gergen mentioned Jones' "good works" three times but never detailed one of them.
→ Yeah, I noticed
September 8, 2009 - 01:51 ET by Cool ArrowMust've had something to do with all those Green Jobs Czar Jones created.
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he founded
September 8, 2009 - 01:55 ET by katainkentand he founded some more. I'm curious where his funding comes from. Well, not as curious as I was last week ... but still...
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→ Truly pathetic
September 8, 2009 - 02:10 ET by Cool Arrow"As the Earth warms and the oceans rise, the civil and human rights
agenda must expand. No one has worked harder to level the playing field
in the rapidly growing green economy than Van Jones." —
Ben Jealous, President, NAACP
How many people have foolishly linked their good names to Van Jones in hopes he was a truly golden child.
Van Jones is the Bernie Madoff of invested dignity.
Van Jones is a Quitter - FS
and a senior fellow with
September 8, 2009 - 07:19 ET by motherbeltand a senior fellow with the Center for American Progress
Now there's a non-ieological, mainstream organization!
Who knows?
September 8, 2009 - 02:02 ET by BarkerMaybe Van Jones rescued a Unicorn in Fantastical Land, or something.
→ Jones Good Works
September 8, 2009 - 02:22 ET by Cool ArrowI was waiting for Gergen to tell us how wonderful it was that Hitler sketched the Volkswagen prototype.
Van Jones is a Quitter - FS
Sounds to me like Jones got
September 8, 2009 - 06:26 ET by motherbeltSounds to me like Jones got plenty of credit for the good things he's
done for individuals and even groups. That doesn't give him a pass on
everything else.
And to David Gergen and his ilk, Trent Lott, George Allen, and every other Republican who was ever pilloried for one stupid remark had NO redeeming qualities. But Jones, who said America deserved the 9/11 attacks, and claimed Bush might have actually allowed them, and is a Communist, (after all, we're supposed to be "tolerant" of different political perspectives) deserves to be looked at in the totality of his actions.
After all, he went into one of Michelle Obama's famous "helping"
professions. He was not content to find ex-prisoners jobs, they had to
be "green" jobs.
Oh, shut up, David!
(Edited)
Good point.
September 8, 2009 - 06:49 ET by superconThe list of people who lost their job for one unfortunate comment would be long.
" if Republicans are able to stop Barack Obama on health care, 'it will be his Waterloo, it will break him...." -Sen. Jim DeMint
The fact that Gergen and
September 8, 2009 - 07:57 ET by motherbeltThe fact that Gergen and other liberals continue to defend Jones says more about them than it does him.
David Horowitz puts it very well (all emphasis mine):
He was a passionate defender
of cop-killer Mumia Abu Jamal, a self-satisfied and described
"Communist," a supporter of the destruction of the Jewish state, and a
promoter of the theory that the Katrina tragedy was a white racist
plot, and so forth. That's okay with Democratic chairman Howard Dean,
and Obama's Environmental Quality Council head Nancy Sutley.....
and apparently David Gergen isn't troubled by it either.
Horowitz gives a couple of other examples of what liberals are "OK" with, including Charlie Rangel.
But the most blatant defense of Jones cited by Horowitz is from Alan Colmes:
And if you don't believe how
far left the Democrats have lurched when I say it, here's
authentication from Alan Colmes who, after ignoring all the evidence
about who Van Jones actually is and what he believes, and pretending
that it's all a Glenn Beck-World Net Daily-Horowitz plot, concludes "Van Jones is a mainstream liberal." That's exactly right Alan. And that's exactly the problem.
Gergen and Zelig
September 8, 2009 - 08:01 ET by allanfSomehow, I think that if Gergen were hired by FOX News, he'd play a conservative.
Amen, MB
September 8, 2009 - 09:38 ET by KC MulvilleThat's the first thing that leapt to mind ... how George Allen was demolished over a comment that was absolutely innocuous, and yet after Van Jones made some whoppers, the media's attitude is to beg for perspective, and to over look comments that he "already apologized for."
After the hatchet job on Allen, they lost the right to beg for a wider "perspective."
Don't forget
September 8, 2009 - 06:29 ET by jdlybrandTerrorists love their chidren too.
"What a revoltin' development this is!"
Chester Riley
Leonardo DiCaprio + social justice
September 8, 2009 - 03:04 ET by Conservative VoiceSick and tired of white guilt. Mr DiCaprio do you even understand social justice? It means payback for slavery through communism. Do you think you will be rich under communism? What an over paid idiot.
What in God's name
September 8, 2009 - 03:40 ET by rockyracoonWhat in God's name constitutes a "green job?" or is that a rhetorical question?
To say that David Gergen "jumped the shark" a long time ago is an understatement.
Green Job
September 8, 2009 - 06:34 ET by jdlybrandI've worked in the Horticulture (green) industry for over twenty years. Grown and planted many trees, shrubs, and flowers. Uh...do I deserve ecological reparations?
"What a revoltin' development this is!"
Chester Riley
Spain's model?
September 8, 2009 - 05:00 ET by okiehawk44BTW why do blacks think they will get jobs building wind turbines or solar arrays? These will be skilled jobs going to those with skills both in America and in other countries. Just because Obama is black and Van Jones is black doesn't mean a job for you.
He's a fan of...
September 8, 2009 - 05:25 ET by Army Bratracist, communist, cop hating, anti-American Troofers who make racist rap videos.
Is that really how he feels? Someone should ask him.
islam is a lie and Truth is killing it.
From first hand knowledge,
September 8, 2009 - 09:51 ET by buddycFrom first hand knowledge, they are building solar panel plants in Asia like crazy.
The "solar" plant I am dealing with has only 20% of the parts some from the US. 40% from Asia and 40% from Europe. The company doing it just finished a huge new plant in Asia.
2 types of solar plants. One uses panels that converts the sun's energy directly to electricity. The other uses the sun's heat to generate electricity in the traditional way of heating a liquid, creating steam and using a generator. Only the later creates jobs on an on going basis.
Wind is like solar panels. Little or no ongoing jobs. Both need huge swaths of land, harming agricultural land, wildlife, plants and the like. 200 acres of panels or windmills is less attractive than 5 acres of one oil rig.
None of them can compete in the market and require 2 things. They require government money in advance and they require a utility company to be compelled to buy the energy they produce at higher prices and then pass those higher prices on to YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.
The panels require NO ongoing maintenance. SO for the type that creates electricity directly from the sun, you get 90 days of minimum wage work, some minor contractor work and then it is OVER. No permanent employment. 80% of the equipment and materials come from out of the US.
This is why Spain's report indicates that the 'Green jobs" goal is a myth.
DiCaprio Wrote This?
September 8, 2009 - 05:28 ET by allanfAnyone think DiCaprio actually wrote:
Just curious
September 8, 2009 - 06:50 ET by jdripperWas this written before or after his annual bath? Mr. diCaprio is known far and wide to be hygenically challenged.
Jack
Just like the Hippies of
September 8, 2009 - 07:09 ET by Seabeach4348Just like the Hippies of Old, huh?
But not bathing or showering daily SAVES WATER and that's part of the new redefinition of "green" maybe?
Too bad DiCaprio didn't paint himself green and really go down with the Titanic. What a jerk.
No Leoretardo doesn't have
September 8, 2009 - 07:05 ET by Seabeach4348No Leoretardo doesn't have the mental capacity to write this even though it's nothing but more patent BS and giddy adulation for Jones who just got "scalped" by that nasty crabby Glen Beck.
"...He is the perfect person to help redefine our country's perception of what it means to be green ." Now what the hell is that supposed to mean? (Hint green = communism)
Tell you what, DiCaprio, you go get a windmill, some solar panels built by "poor people" and dump all your appliances (because you won't be able to use them) and "get off the grid" as they call it. Then get rid of your cars and use your bicycle for transportation. Then you'll experience Jones' and Obozo's redfinition of what it means to be "green". Let us know how it is.
And maybe Leoretardo and Jonesy need to get a room together somewhere?
Time Lit Major
September 8, 2009 - 07:38 ET by allanfThe pompous prosiacness of the screed make me wonder if on of the lit majors at Time penned the words.
Blah, blah, blah!!!
September 8, 2009 - 06:00 ET by BourbeauWhen the hell do they ship David Gergen off to the dog track? This guys is so lost in the DC fog he couldn't find his feet. Memo to the libs: the reason this country is in the toilet is because of grads from Harvard, Yale, and the rest of the ivy pooh dungeons of liberalism. Their problem now is that the electorate is perhaps waking up and asking who these people are, where they came from, what they're doing and who funds their activities. Answer those four questions and most of Obama's Czars head for the exit.
David Gergan and Peggy
September 8, 2009 - 06:45 ET by nadadhimmiDavid Gergan and Peggy Noonan are prime examples of the rino's that have run the GOP off the cliff. Gergan makes me want to puke. If he just can't bring himself to face his cocktail party lib friends without bashing Capitolism, he should be truthful and call himself a lib, not a fake-ass conservative. And Noonan is just a High School Cheerleader type that did "real good" in speech class, and still wants to date the Quarterback. In this case BO. Her gushing over Obama is embarrassing to see.
Gergen used to be a Republican?
September 8, 2009 - 10:18 ET by candanceReally? I didn't know. I always thought he was a long-time lib, since that's all I've ever seen from him.
Remember 'Gergen and Shields'?
September 8, 2009 - 10:29 ET by SickofLibsYeah, Gergen played the Republican against the diminutive Dem worm Mark Shields on PBS Newshour - they were like Abbot & Costello back in the 90s.
He was the David Brooks of
September 8, 2009 - 14:41 ET by fitzfongHe was the David Brooks of the '90s. Token "Conservative" hired to appear opposite Mark "Maxi" Shields to represent the "Republican" side in issue discussion and create the illusion of "ideological balance" on McNeil/Lehrer. Then he took a no-show job in the Clinton Administration to create the impression that the President was "bipartisan". A complete douche.
"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered." -George Best
Liberals Favorite Conservative
September 8, 2009 - 06:51 ET by Tyler DurbinGeorge W. Bush went to Yale, but he was stupid...even though his GPA was higher than Kerrey’s. I don’t understand liberals complaint against Republicans here -- the GOP has no power force Obama into any Czar selection. It was Obama that rolled this guy under the bus.
It’s laughable for Mr. Gergen to bemoan the lack of context to this story. Forget balanced media coverage of Van Jones; the MSM completely ignored him until Glen Beck started highlighting the guy’s radicalism.
The biggest reason these
September 8, 2009 - 06:58 ET by nadadhimmiThe biggest reason these fake conservatives support Obamacare and all the othe aspects of socialism is;, they don't think they have a dog in the fight. They truly believe they, as members of the Oligarchy, are protected from what they impose on the "little people", the cerfs. These rino's need to study the histories of revolutions. they will find that they will be consumed in the fire also. Rino's will find they have been double crossed by the Communist zealots led by Obama, Jones, Ayers, et al. The mere megalomaniacs like Pelosi, Reid, Rahm and the rest, both Dem and GOP, will be sacrificed as needed to the "cause". It's up to "the people" to end this bull$hit.
David Gergen is the perfect
September 8, 2009 - 07:00 ET by marpelDavid Gergen is the perfect example of a DC weasel. He makes my skin crawl.
David Gergen?
September 8, 2009 - 07:01 ET by Red JeepForgot all about him. Haven't read about him in weeks. Must be he took a vacation from making stupid statements.
...Didn't miss him a bit...Retire David, retire...
Gergen and others
September 8, 2009 - 07:06 ET by SemusThis complete dishonesty is amazing.
What works???!!!!
September 8, 2009 - 07:28 ET by c5thenVan Jones hasn't DONE anything since he graduated. We was an activist and a community organizer (sound familier). He tried to re-classify manual labor and unskilled labor as "green jobs" based on the end result of what they were installing, not the nature of the job itself. Teaching people how to drill holes and fasten pieces of metal together on a roof is not "green". But Jones says that if you are installing solar panels on a comminity center then it's a "green job". It's all a bunch of crap and, it of course is tied to getting government money.
Then he wrote a book about a theoretical world that doesn't and can never exist.
But the liberal media has worked diligently to create the mythology of Van Jones as a leader and a visionary. It's hard to tell whether Gergen is a fool who's been duped by the liberal media's creative writing or part of the cabal who is trying to dupe the general public.
Throw 'da bums out!!!
no incumbent re-elected, with very few exceptions!
www.loyaltoliberty.com
Good post but there can be
September 8, 2009 - 08:09 ET by tired170Good post but there can be no exceptions. They all have to go. Its the only way
What I want to
September 8, 2009 - 07:43 ET by Conservative in the ArtsWhat I want to know.......what has he done since being a member of the White House staff? All I hear is how wonderful his PAST is.....how many "green" jobs did he create in a couple of months he's been in his new job?
Gergen's one of the
September 8, 2009 - 07:43 ET by equusartsGergen's one of the reasons' I stopped watching CNN around the beginning of the election. I realized this guy, supposedly "bi-partisan" and "objective" was as about as objective as chris matthews-just quieter about it. But lately it seems. CNN tries to hide its partisan left shift weakly, but that's about the only transparency around-seeing through these weak attempts. Wondering when Dobbs will be looking around for another network!
"Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty."
Pickin' cotton
September 8, 2009 - 07:46 ET by sevenCotton pickin was the green job title for slaves. Spandex and polyester pickin' not so much.
We can't find a single green job story associated with Jones other than his preeching green jobs.
Maybe the reason we do not
September 8, 2009 - 08:02 ET by snaggletoothieMaybe the reason we do not hear anything about Van Jones' good works is because no one has ever been able to find any.
I know Gergen lives in Fantasyland but I don't want to spend time there.
Gergen is a "white asshole". Nuf said.
September 8, 2009 - 08:03 ET by jazbo"Democrats; Breeding voters like farm animals since 1962"
~Welcome to Kos, everyone
September 8, 2009 - 08:31 ET by choselife3xDissent: It's not just for liberals anymore.-kudzupolitics, USA Today
Sorry for the profanity. It was just to show the double standard
September 8, 2009 - 09:02 ET by jazboand how it's just fine when leftists say such things.
"Democrats; Breeding voters like farm animals since 1962"
Good morning jazbo
September 8, 2009 - 08:31 ET by cocodrieYou aren't giving him full credit for his capability. He'd be one in any color imaginable.
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
clinton killed people to cover up his lewinsky scandal?
September 8, 2009 - 08:05 ET by sarainitalyVan Jones also accused Clinton of going to war to cover up his Lewinsky scandal.
http://www.sfgate.co...
``This is using dead Third World bodies to cover up his own unzipped pants,'' declared Van Jones, director of Bay Area PoliceWatch, an organization that until now has focused on alleged misconduct by law enforcement officers. Jones spoke at a demonstration at Powell and Market streets in San Francisco that drew 400 people, according to police estimates.
The theme that Clinton took military action to distract public attention from the Monica Lewinsky affair was highlighted in a protester's sign in Palo Alto that read, ``Don't let a wartime incursion be Clinton's diversion.''
Good morning sara
September 8, 2009 - 08:37 ET by cocodrieThe truth was there for everyone to see, even racist communists like Jones.
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
so you think Jones was right?
September 8, 2009 - 12:38 ET by sarainitalyYou think Clinton started a conflict to get out of trouble? You think he killed people to hide his falling zipper?
Green Jobs
September 8, 2009 - 08:06 ET by tired170Can someone explain to me just exactly what is a green job and how are these jobs supposed to save the economy and everything else that needs saving?
As for Jones, he may have been the greatest thing since sliced bread but if he was truly sorry about all of those comments / party memberships, he would have renounced them a lot sooner than after being appointed to a government position.
Good riddance
van jones and billayers-BHO inner circle
September 8, 2009 - 08:56 ET by JIMMY1660Gergen has blinders on. anyone on the right who would associate him/herself with the extremeists would be run out of town. but its okay for BHO to have CRAZY anti Americans close to him.
B HO owns words-judge me by the people i surround myself with.
BHO- THE PROGRESSIVE PIRATE
Green Jobs Explained
September 8, 2009 - 08:59 ET by nolotrippenGreen Jobs are government jobs. They are make-work jobs like most government jobs created by FDR during the Great (super-duper) Depression.
Most government jobs are paper-based (i.e., bureaucratic), which is the antithesis of "green." This means that if one dollar is designated for a Windmill where there's little wind or a solar panel where the sun don't shine, 10 cents of that dollar will go to actually building and maintaing the thing while 90 cents will go to administering it (that's exactly how the dollars are spent in the Los Angeles Unified School District).
But the real goal of Green Jobs is votes. People vote their pocketbooks and goverenment workers tend to overwhemingly vote Democrat.
I is clueless. Really. I is.
September 8, 2009 - 09:05 ET by JWFSomeone tell me how jobs in artificially created industries will only be reserved for the poor and minorities and ex-cons.
Has no one heard of the form call a Job Application? Will they deny whitey filling one out if he shows up at the window?
Sincerely,
a Veteran of a 1000 psychic wars.
It's gonna be like the midget Reich said
September 8, 2009 - 11:04 ET by SickofLibsIt's gonna be like the midget Reich said about the new stimulus-funded jobs in the construction industry - the jobs should not go to white males.
"the jobs should not go to white males."
September 8, 2009 - 12:23 ET by R D HelmHe was right. They aren't.
-Dave
Even when the government tries to kiss you, it is just a prelude to a good screwing. -Neal Boortz
I would really...
September 8, 2009 - 09:22 ET by stage9like for them to define "good". As in Van Jones did "good" work. Again, the fact that these people actually are disheartned by the fact that this avowed Communist has been exposed and booted really should disturb us enough to the point that we never elect another Democrat for as long as we live.
"If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will
be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for
pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner."
— Malcolm Muggeridge
I never watch CNN and from
September 8, 2009 - 09:35 ET by buddycI never watch CNN and from what I read, I am not alone. Is David Gergen that guy that was once a republican? Is he the one CNN trots out, identifies him as a republican and then he kisses liberal asses and criticizes republicans. If so, WHO CARES what he says. He is irrelevant.
Communist, Marxist, 911Truther, Racist
September 8, 2009 - 09:43 ET by RpeggioUnreal, now they're gonna try to canonize and make him a martyr? Simply read Van Jones' Wikipedia page....it's that simple. He claimed himself to be a communist in the 90's and then joined STORM a Marxist group. And of course there's a plethora of YouTube videos with him spewing various race-laden diatribe...oh, and the 911Truther thing. In my opinion, the 911Truthers are much worse than the Birthers. But you won't see any of the MSM news outlets reporting Van Jones' warts-and-all...just that he was in Time and was a visionary, oh and signed a 911Truther petition 'by accident'.
The 911Truther thing is the cherry on top of a Communist/Marxist radical background that clearly Valerie Jarret and Obama were aware of...."they followed his career for years" as Valerie put it.
The big issue, the elephant in the room that the MSM isn't reporting on are the 30+ Czars that Obama has appointed and evidently none of them were properly vetted, none of them filled out the 7 page questionnaire. What we'll see now is more just scrutiny of these Czars, their backgrounds, and yes, if others have radical pasts, we need to know about that, we pay their salaries now!
Clinton had 3 Czars, Bush had 9, Obama has 30+....it's ridiculous....where's the MSM? Clearly he's used the Czar loophole to avoid proper public and Senate vetting of his appointees. Folks, Obama is a radically left man, everything he has done and said and who he's befriended over the years says so. He wants socialist type economic justice as he's said himself and single payer healthcare...his own words.
Why is anyone surprised anyomore? Oh that's right, the MSM is in love with the man and didn't do their jobs.
Gergen, AKA David "Combover" is a joke. He is always...
September 8, 2009 - 09:46 ET by jawebster1wrong. Even Clinton dumped him at the first opportunity. He is our version of "Baghdad Bob". Jim Webster
September 8, 2009 - 10:20 ET by jessieHCNN senior analist is friends with a commie, a racist and a country hater. That is why I never watch CNN.
→ Jessie
September 8, 2009 - 10:22 ET by Cool ArrowI hope you mean "analyst".
"Analist" would be a different thing entirely. Like "shootist"
Come to think about it, you may be right.
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Churchill Was Only Partially Right
September 8, 2009 - 11:27 ET by JustAlHe supposedly said something to the effect that anyone who is not a liberal when young has no heart while anyone who wasn't a conservative when they got older had no brain.
Perhaps there is a third stage we can call "political demensia" when a conservative looses enough brain capacity to revert to liberalism. Maybe we can call this re-modeling "ReGergenation".
Gergen--pfft
September 8, 2009 - 13:08 ET by StarAZLike Broder, Brokaw, and some others--Gergen is still droning on--has a new book out. I won't be reading it. I suspect he would not personally have a drink with Jones...not that Jones would want to have a beer with him, either. I hate to say things like this about people who used to be journalists--but this bias has ruined the business for people like me, too. Yeah, Dave, it's all so sad.
"But I think it's a sad
September 8, 2009 - 13:11 ET by MikeB"But I think it's a sad day to see a man of good work get so little credit. I mean, there's no balance to understanding just how many good things he's done."
David, David, David... Adolf Hitler brought post-WWI Germany out of Depression. He expanded economic activity. He provided automobiles for the common man (Volkswagen ... "People's Car). He reduced unemployment amongst average German citizens. He acquired natural resources for Germany. Gee, wasn't he a fine, upstanding leader who accomplished good things? We should totally ignore all of the Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, Gypsies, Poles, Czechs, Russians he killed, either in person or by proxy, right, David? Geeze, this guy is a complete waste of oxygen.
"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan
The benefit...
September 8, 2009 - 14:17 ET by slickwillie2001The real lasting benefit of the demise of Van Jones is going to be that more folks have realized the connection between the so-called green movement and the far-left socialist wackos in our country and around the world. Every day the entire left-wing environmental movement, including 'global warming' is further discredited.
The solar panels are the
September 8, 2009 - 21:33 ET by RR GOPThe solar panels are the mirrors and the rhetoric of the Communists is the smoke. You could cover your roof with solar panels and you won't be able to operate much else besides your air conditioner (and not one that's too big) during daylight and a huge bank of deep cycle batteries at night...and they know it.
Not against the stuff, but like I keep saying they should be used to augment our energy so that more barrels can be used for other things taking advantage of its storage abilities and portability-but only a liar would claim they're an energy panacea...same with wind generators.
What is painfully obvious is that they have no intention of America continuing to use energy as it is now. If this weren't the case, they'd be spending billions on building nuclear power plants.
They are intent on punishing us for our high standard of living and reigning us in (again, the power thing) with second or third world energy supplies.
One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 86% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.
Help me understand
September 9, 2009 - 00:04 ET by LindamaeTruthers are acceptable but Birthers are nuts? I feel like the world is just crazy. I disliked Jones support of communism - and did not trust him to support the Constitution. But - then - he never was asked to support the Constitution since Obama hired him on his own. When you consider the other losers Obama has hired - Socialists, crazies - then you can't be surprised. Glad he's gone.
Now, Truthers are - according to the msm - acceptable but Birthers are by their very nature idiots? You just can't make this stuff up.