Yep, President Obama has surely ushered in an era of post racialism
Michelle Malkin has a link-rich roundup of the distortions and lies the Legacy Media, aka Democrat PR Media, are pushing in the Van Jones “resignation” meme.
9/10er, Charles Johnson backpedals on his support of Van Jones on the front page but falls in line with the “lynch mob” Leftist mendacity in the comments [h/t Pablo] (and engages in disingenuous moral equivalency as added stooooopity.)
But it can’t be Van Jones’ fault that he’s a Marxist, vulgar, cop-killer-supporting Truther! No, no, it’s Glenn Beck’s fault! And the GOP!!! Van Jones was scalped I tell you!
There’s even the claim this was because of poor vetting by the Obama administration. What, Valerie Jarrett doesn’t know how to use Google? Please, what you have here is that Van Jones, with his background as a radical activist, was acceptable to be an Obama czar. Because this isn’t just a one time fluke, considering Dr. “Complete Life System” Zeke Emanuel and “People are a plague” John Holdren.
Obama ran on a platform of “Transforming America” and people are realizing he was serious and they are not happy with what “transform” means when translated from ObamaSpeak.
Leftists aren’t happy that their goals for a militarily-neutered, Euro-statist-economy, post-Western-culture America isn’t being readily achieved. And they will use the race-card at each and every pushback in a naked attempt to guilt people into shutting up.
Schmucks.
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Oh, btw, if you think Obama’s driving need to never be out of the news-cycle, even if it means doing an unprecedented, nationwide address to K-6th graders is, well, a little creepy, then you must be a racist.
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Via Bob Reed, some good stuff from Dan Collins entitled Van Gone
And he’ll always find an audience for his assertion that Whitey done him wrong. Don’t cry for Van; he’s doing enough crying for himself.
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UPDATE: Ace reports Slobberman whipping up Kosskiddies to go all-McCarthy-ite on Glenn Beck.
More UPDATE: Meanwhile, Obama gets 10 more ethics waivers for his admin picks. Good to be The King
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UPDATE: Wow, here is some real classic Leftist projection
After a brief respite, the most accessible American political discourse has returned to fearful, hate-filled, ignorant rants of a high-volume, low-intellect minority? [...]Too often, this White House has sent the signal that it seeks common ground and conciliation with parties interested in its total destruction. From my point of view, negotiating with ignorance, fear, hate and irrationality is insane. [...]
I realize I’m lumping a variety of “opposition” camps together: birthers, deathers, those who accuse the president of racism and those who accuse him of socialism. I’m grouping them because to me they all come from the same place. They’re engaging in a form of terrorism.
Comment by Akatsukami on 9/6 @ 11:49 am #
Dangerous to themselves and others. If disagreeing with the Obamist cabal is racism, then doesn’t that make racism a noble and patriotic act? Who would have thought that rehabilitating Strom Thurmond and Bobby Byrd would have been so easy?
Comment by JeffS on 9/6 @ 11:58 am #
Van Jones was scalped I tell you!
That explains his lack of hair. He was expecting to be scalped all along.
Comment by JeffS on 9/6 @ 12:00 pm #
And they will use the race-card at each and every pushback in a naked attempt to guilt people into shutting up.
I was supposed to be feel guilty about this? Not happy? Stupid lefties.
Comment by McGehee on 9/6 @ 12:04 pm #
Bush Years: Dissent is patriotic!
Obama Years: Dissent is racist!
Of course, the risk of the new version is that some bird completes the syllogism and avers that racism is patriotic.
Comment by McGehee on 9/6 @ 12:05 pm #
…then again, during the Bush years a lot of proggs were claiming that patriotism is racist, so…
Comment by Bob Reed on 9/6 @ 12:10 pm #
Poor vetting? Valerie Jarrett and Obama didn’t know the real Van Jones?!?
That’s all BS…
Here’s a youtube vid of Valerie Jarrett from the recent nutroots convention; one where she’s gushing about just how happy the administration is to have Van Jones on board…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud_yNFnfrSI
It’ll be interesting to watch the administration and the MSM twist and spin this episode considering how hard the sycophantic MSM worked to keep this out of the public eye in the first place…
As many have noted, imagine what some folks are going to think when they read Van Jones’ name in print for the very first time in the legacy media, only to find out they’re reading an article about him resigning under fire for his racist statements, controversial views, past associations with criminals, and self-proclaimed communist beliefs…
‘Cuz really, all the trooooooooofer! stuff was simply the icing on the cake…
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Comment by Matt on 9/6 @ 12:17 pm #
I wish my sole motivation for getting on the remove Jones bandwagon wasn’t racism. If Jones was a white communist truther scumbag, I would never have raised any issues about his past but because he’s BLACK, well we can’t have that.
So many people of color, so little time to discriminate. Being a racist is harder work than I thought.
Comment by geoffb on 9/6 @ 12:24 pm #
The Dr. Jekyll Obama hired him and the Mr. Hyde Obama fired him. Must be hell working for the bi-polar boss.
Comment by SBP on 9/6 @ 12:29 pm #
But it can’t be Van Jones’ fault that he’s a Marxist, vulgar, cop-killer-supporting Truther!
Don’t forget racist.
Comment by TendStl on 9/6 @ 12:30 pm #
Daleen you mentioned Charles at LGF. Not sure if you saw the pwn3ge Ace put on Chucky yesterday and this morning. I am sure Chucky is drooling like a 2 year old.
Comment by Pablo on 9/6 @ 12:32 pm #
Up next, John Holdren.
Comment by JeffS on 9/6 @ 12:35 pm #
So many people of color, so little time to discriminate. Being a racist is harder work than I thought.
I suppose that you expect us to agree with you, like the mindless trolls that you normally associate with?
If so, you’re even more stoopid than you appear.
Comment by Bob Reed on 9/6 @ 12:36 pm #
Oh, and you can be assured that the nutroots are going off over this whole thing…
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/9/6/777715/-Van-Jones-Resigns
I read the first hundred or so of the comments, and they are fuming at Obama and the Democrats for “Backing down so easily!1!!1!eleventy”…
A couple of tastes of comedy gold;
“Definitely the most cowardly administration (40+ / 0-)
most of my generation (twentysomethings) have seen so far.”
and
“facts?? the fact is we have another quitter!! (9+ / 0-)
He couldn’t stand behind his words and caved. That’s being a fucking coward.”
or
“I’ll believe it when I see it… (3+ / 0-)
So far, I haven’t seen any democrats go up against the lying and the bullying from the other side.Makes me sick and doesn’t bode well for all of us who thought there was gonna be change we could believe in. I would rather see us fight and lose than to not fight at all…”
but maybe the best is;
“I’ll take my uprate away. n.t (1+ / 0-)
“YES WE CAN” doesn’t mean he is going to.”
Sounds like trouble in paradise to me…
Comment by Bob Reed on 9/6 @ 12:38 pm #
Save it for the echo chamber Moby Matt…
Comment by JeffS on 9/6 @ 12:39 pm #
Pablo, while Holdren is a worthwhile target, don’t forget Valerie Jarrett and Doctor Zeke…..
Comment by geoffb on 9/6 @ 12:41 pm #
From a comment at Ace of Spades there was mentioned a Time magazine Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008 article that gushed about the oh so through vetting that the upcoming Obama administration would be doing and the rigorous questionnaire that all those hiring into the administration had to fill out.
Question #12 is of interest.
To which Time says.
Yeah, bad haircuts, with a side order of communism, corruption and cronyism. The new CCC.
Comment by sdferr on 9/6 @ 12:43 pm #
This is beginning to resemble skeet shooting, which all in all, is good clean fun. But who ever ate a clay pigeon when a Canada goose is on offer?
Comment by ccoffer on 9/6 @ 12:49 pm #
Yeah. If that America-hating communist piece of shit hadn’t been quite so brown colored, he would have been adored by republicans.
Comment by SBP on 9/6 @ 12:50 pm #
Yep. I’m normally all about the racist communist Truthers, but when they’re also BLACK… well, one must draw the line SOMEWHERE.
Comment by No one you know on 9/6 @ 12:50 pm #
geofb @ 17
Yeah, I remember those — ahem — “news” articles in December and January about how Obama’s was the GREATEST, BESTEST, SMARTEST transition EVAR11@1@1@!!12@!12!
Not hearing a whole lot of that any longer.
Comment by ccoffer on 9/6 @ 12:52 pm #
Ergo, racism is patriotic.
Comment by Darleen on 9/6 @ 12:54 pm #
Bob Reed
I took Matt’s comment as sarcasm — If Jones was a white communist truther scumbag, I would never have raised any issues about his past
Comment by Darleen on 9/6 @ 12:55 pm #
TendStl
I went and looked
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/291867.php
I’m still laughing!
Comment by Pablo on 9/6 @ 12:55 pm #
OTOH, it does keep them busy. It’s tough to transform a nation when you’re constantly removing the feet from your various orifices.
Comment by geoffb on 9/6 @ 1:05 pm #
I wonder if an FOIA request could be made for the questionnaires to see “What did the President know and when did he know it”. It’s only fair right? Done all the time as I recall.
Comment by TendStl on 9/6 @ 1:06 pm #
Darleen, Chuckies logic is teh awesome, lets review:
Van Jones signature on a truther website, can’t trust truthers because “truthers lie”
So Chuckie finds 2 truthers to refute the truther website:
SO!
Truthers that claim Van Jones is a truther = Liars
Truthers that de-bunk claim Van Jones is a truther = Beyond reproach
Comment by McGehee on 9/6 @ 1:17 pm #
TendStl and Darleen, I was particularly gratified by the four points of irrational argument Ace describes, because I recently wasted an entire day arguing health-care “reform” with just such a person.
Comment by sdferr on 9/6 @ 1:17 pm #
Perhaps you are right Pablo, it does keep (some of) them busy but frankly I can’t see the tiny price the White House has to pay as nearly fit to the problems Mr Jones exemplifies (either in the WH or in the MSM). Look at Jonah’s take on Gibbs and Axelrod this a.m. (I saw neither, but am willing to take Jonah at his word on their performance.)
Jones’ office isn’t going away. The stupidities he spouted in that office will not cease. The terrific waste of tax revenues he would have proposed in that office will not stop. He will merely be replaced with another appointee, again unexamined/unapproved by the Congress, who will carry on as before as though nothing of consequence has happened with Jones’ resignation. Maybe I underestimate the attention that Jones’ resignation will get as Congress resumes its work but as of now, I don’t see this leading anywhere significant.
Someone else at NROcorner (M. Hemingway) mentioned the ouster of Chas Freeman before Freeman could even be seated in his slot. BFD, I say, insofar as Freeman’s disgusting policy positions issue forth from the Oval Office in any case.
Comment by TendStl on 9/6 @ 1:21 pm #
Wait until Al Gore is appointed to his position.
Unintended Consequences
Comment by Snowcone on 9/6 @ 1:27 pm #
If only snark translated into political power.
Comment by sdferr on 9/6 @ 1:30 pm #
So little do you know snowcone, it already has and we’re living it now.
Comment by gregorbo on 9/6 @ 1:41 pm #
Not the first time a president has addressed the nation’s school children. H.W. Bush did it in 1991.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/sep/03/arne-duncan/barack-obama-not-first-president-address-school-ch/
Here’s the good part–Democrats at the time accused him of abuse of power for making the speech:
[open quote] The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students,” said Rep. Richard Gephardt, then the Democratic majority leader in the House of Representatives.”And the president should be doing more about education than saying, ‘Lights, camera, action.’”
Patricia Schroeder, then a Democratic member of Congress from Colorado, said the speech showed “the arrogance of power,” and that the White House should not be “using precious dollars for campaigns” when “we are struggling for every silly dime we can get” for education.” [end quote]
Of course, Newt Gingrich defended the President’s right to speak to the nation’s snowflakes.
The problem with Obama’s speech is neither the fact of the speech nor its content–it was the DOE pre-prepared curricular activities that, until the Administration wisely pulled them, encouraged kids to think about how they could “help the president.”
Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 9/6 @ 1:50 pm #
[stolen from allah]
Obama: “Let me be clear Van, you’re job is no longer being created or saved.”
Comment by sdferr on 9/6 @ 1:54 pm #
“…the Administration wisely pulled them…”
A “wise” administration would not have allowed them to be published in the first instance. Better to say, “…the Administration clumsily rushed to pull them once they realized the unnecessary political damage being done …”, no?
Comment by Darleen on 9/6 @ 1:56 pm #
GHWB broadcast his statement on CNN, NBC, not directly beamed into classrooms via the government website with invites going directly to principals (bypassing school boards) nor was it accompanied by an extended lesson plan with followups.
Citing Reagan’s broadcast with Q/A from high schoolers is a real stretch of equivalency.
The President always has the right to use his/her office as a “bully pulpit” and speak on matters of good/evil, morality, etc. What is creepy is the “to serve the president” slant and the cult of personality that oozes from the Obama administration.
IMHO, education is the proper province of the First Spouse.
And outside of advocacy, the Fed should butt out of education altogether. Has public education gotten better or worse since Jimmy Carter established the Dept. of Education?
Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 9/6 @ 1:59 pm #
“If only snark translated into political power.”
Well, you one-trick ponies can have a golf clap for translating incompetence into political power.
We’ll provide the snark…(and the beat down) election day 2010.
Comment by gregorbo on 9/6 @ 2:07 pm #
sdferr–point taken. And Darleen–I agree. The way President Obama is doing this is qualitatively different than HW or any other previous president.
What I find amusing is that Obama is so sold on his own coolness that I think he honestly thinks that American students are not going to think he’s a dufus.
Pssst, Barack–you are now the establishment.
Comment by dicentra on 9/6 @ 2:53 pm #
Notice that the 10 waivers were reported by The Only Reporter Left In Washington, Jake Tapper.
He’ll have to turn the lights out when he retires, ya know.
Comment by dicentra on 9/6 @ 3:00 pm #
I have a question: When people say “How could Obama not know this?” and “Why didn’t the MSM think to check?” are they serious?
Because Obama knew, and the MSM knew, and they said nothing because they were down with it.
Beck does it a lot, but he’s being entirely rhetorical. He knows that Obama is down with the radicalism, and he knows that a good question sometimes works better than an outright accusation.
Comment by John Foerg on 9/6 @ 3:05 pm #
The government, city-county-state- and yes federal is so full of crooks no wonder the government is having to worry about social security. How MUCH MONEY has been taken OUT of the social security system since the mid 1950’s? DON’T RE-ELECT ANYONE !
Comment by sdferr on 9/6 @ 3:17 pm #
Peter Wallsten, LA Times
Nikolai Bukharin, removing all doubt of his guilt [ha!] in a final confession before the court:
Comment by N. O'Brain on 9/6 @ 3:38 pm #
“Comment by Snowcone on 9/6 @ 1:27 pm #
If only snark translated into political power.”
Huh! Perfect description of the current administration.
That’s actually the first intelligent thing you ever said.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 9/6 @ 3:42 pm #
” How MUCH MONEY has been taken OUT of the social security system since the mid 1950’s?”
Ummmm……
All of it.
Don’t you realize it’s a fucking Ponzi scheme?
Comment by dicentra on 9/6 @ 3:45 pm #
Now that Olby wants the KosKiddies to dig up dirt on Glenn Beck (or at least make up stuff), I’ll be glad to supply the following:
Comment by Silver Whistle on 9/6 @ 3:49 pm #
Having watched the videos of this Jones chap, I don’t think he believes in anything but Mr Jones. He’s cut from the same cloth as Dear Leader – if he was made of chocolate, he’d lick himself. Complete narcissist and would say anything to his current audience to get up the greasy pole.
Comment by Pablo on 9/6 @ 3:51 pm #
I’ll help too. Glenn Beck is an alcoholic, drug addicted rodeo clown. He’s been a complete asshole to virtually everyone that’s ever had the misfortune to be a part of his life. Except for lately, acause he’s sobered up and started thinking things through a bit more. But for reals, he was a total piece of shit for quite a while.
I know this is true because I heard it from Glenn Beck. Or maybe he was lying about being a degenerate prick. Get after it, Keef!
Comment by Dave on 9/6 @ 4:00 pm #
So , who knew about his views and when did they know it ?
” Come Watson , the game is afoot ! ”
And , Love-d the way the media followed /is following this story , or would that be – DIDN’T follow it so we’ll get a bunch of Dems. to try and justify this guys behavior on all the Sunday A.M. news shows and then sit back and watch them spin it into a Rep. conspiracy whilst smileing and nodding in agreement the whole time….
Comment by Pablo on 9/6 @ 4:04 pm #
VAN UNDER A BUS is a great headline.
Comment by Dave on 9/6 @ 4:05 pm #
PS – On a side note , was a tad bit surprised by Juan William’s reaction on Fox this morning . After listening to his comments I had an urge to send him an E-mail telling him his color was showing.
Comment by Pablo on 9/6 @ 5:14 pm #
The White House on Jones’ hiring: “Well, we’re kind of stupid.”
It’s too bad they’re lying about not knowing who ol’ Van is and what he’s about.
Comment by geoffb on 9/6 @ 5:18 pm #
Via Riehl World View, Jane Hamsher at Firedoglake is considerably upset that Van Jones didn’t get more support from liberal groups. The concluding paragraph.
Comment by SBP on 9/6 @ 5:20 pm #
I always envision Jane Hamster as a toothless harridan knitting at the tumbrils.
Comment by sdferr on 9/6 @ 5:24 pm #
Heh. ” … to right wing extremists that will devour us all if left unchecked …”
She really has no idea how little those wingers would care about her and her kind if only she would leave them alone instead of constantly trying to stick her beak into their wallets through her government proxies.
Comment by geoffb on 9/6 @ 5:45 pm #
Not being able to loot = being devoured. This is basic. Live to steal, steal to live.
Comment by Eben on 9/6 @ 5:54 pm #
My local newspaper, the Virginian Pilot, to which my wife subscribes for the weekend edition, carried the resignation of a Presidential appointee in the paper today.
On the back page, in the lower left margin.
All 70 words of it.
Here’s to them laying off even more people!
Comment by geoffb on 9/6 @ 6:07 pm #
I wonder how far this will go for them. The Left long ago set up a system of un-vetting. Anyone appearing to be down for “the cause” would be given a pass on most anything as long as they advanced “the cause” in some way. This has allowed their entire side to become riddled with charismatic narcissists especially in the leadership levels.
The true believers in “the cause” will not react well to finding out their entire life’s cause in nothing but a means to power for those who are the most powerful on “their” side.
The charismatic narcissists will not react well to any of those they see as the lower orders getting uppity about taking orders and shutting up.
It maybe that the townhalls are only the beginning of the stress for the politically powerful. They may get squeezed from both ends. Which is only right and fair.
Comment by John Freel on 9/6 @ 6:29 pm #
Once again, we have the opportunity to see the real Obama. He chose this Marxist racist. Keep it coming. I only hope the dismantling of this Left Wing President of ours happens without tearing our country down. But when I see the hatred and ignorance exhibited by so many who have been brainwashed by the socialist media and education system which exists today, God help us. VOTE THEM OUT!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by newrouter on 9/6 @ 6:42 pm #
viva la reagan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmmgVFByeaI
Comment by Robert Lockwood on 9/6 @ 7:06 pm #
What is the big deal? This man, an avowed and open communist, an open socialist, an open anti-american,should have been kicked out. The worry is the rest of the Obama advisors are of the same ilk but keep a lower profile. Obama and his administration will destroy the U.S.of A. if left to function.
Comment by cynn on 9/6 @ 7:49 pm #
Yes, the whole of the Obama administration is actively trying to destroy the country. Let’s get our guns and hunt ‘em down.
Comment by Snowcone on 9/6 @ 7:53 pm #
The true believers in “the cause” will not react well to finding out their entire life’s cause in nothing but a means to power for those who are the most powerful on “their” side.
That doesn’t seem to have bothered the Conservatives who worked so hard to get Bush II into office.
Trackback by Democrat=Socialst on 9/6 @ 8:02 pm #
Flaccid Retard Keith Olbermann Wets Pants Then, Appeals To Even Bigger Flaccid Retards For Dirt On Glenn Beck…
Apperantley Keith is upset over the ease with which Glenn Beck relieved one Van Jones of a job. Bwuhahahah!…
Comment by Abe Froman on 9/6 @ 8:02 pm #
That doesn’t seem to have bothered the Conservatives who worked so hard to get Bush II into office.
That’s a mindless comment even for you, blowcone.
Comment by cynn on 9/6 @ 8:02 pm #
I am not interested in Bush at this point. I want to know why Obama is so ham-handed right now, a la Bush.
Comment by cynn on 9/6 @ 8:06 pm #
I’m a lefty, and I would disengage his kickstand. He needs to be reminded.
Comment by SBP on 9/6 @ 8:13 pm #
You see, cynn, he doesn’t need you any more. He got your vote by promising to steal money from other people and give it to you, and you bought it.
Comment by Darleen on 9/6 @ 8:17 pm #
Snotcone is upset that his neighbors won’t quietly sit by and let him make off with the family silver and the cash sitting on the dresser.
Comment by JeffS on 9/6 @ 8:19 pm #
I’m a lefty, and I would disengage his kickstand. He needs to be reminded.
If, by “he”, you mean Obama, by all means. Please make every effort to do so. But SBP has the right of it; Obama suckered you in, and doesn’t need you anymore. Any money that he steals will go to his cronies and backers.
Comment by geoffb on 9/6 @ 8:24 pm #
He stole it alright but gave it to his “real” buddies. The ones he needs to keep and take his power to the next level. But don’t worry, they will follow you soon to the ash heap, to be replaced by the next, newest, BFF. Forever is a relative, elastic, and ad hoc concept see.
Obama is a shark, move upward to more power or it’s all over. Nice system you have on the Left. Eats itself, Ouroboros style.
Comment by Darleen on 9/6 @ 8:25 pm #
y’all need to see my latest update above.
I swear, the Left is engaging in all sorts of rabid projection since Van Jones got caught out.
Comment by Snowcone on 9/6 @ 8:25 pm #
That’s a mindless comment even for you, blowcone.
Every single Conservative I’ve talked to says the exact same thing, Abe:
George W. Bush is no Conservative.
Comment by geoffb on 9/6 @ 8:28 pm #
And they are all correct. See “No Child Left Behind”, Medicare Drug Program”, Amnesty…
Comment by obamapizmeoff on 9/6 @ 8:32 pm #
Whaddyaknow: Commrade Obama gives platitudes to Heir racist Jones. Racism in any form should not have any place in government….Unless your last name ends in Sotomeyor? Your past is your past and let it be a lesson for any future apparatchiks in Obama’s socialist fold. “Let your words be few, for one day you may have to eat them”!
Comment by obamapizmeoff on 9/6 @ 8:37 pm #
Last word on Jones: Some village is obviously missing their Idiot!
Comment by Abe Froman on 9/6 @ 8:37 pm #
Every single Conservative I’ve talked to says the exact same thing, Abe:
George W. Bush is no Conservative.
Hence the mindlessness of your initial comment. Are you retarded?
Comment by geoffb on 9/6 @ 8:49 pm #
Actually I accuse him of being a power hungry charismatic narcissist. One who is using the ideology socialism along with a racial “us against them” comradeship as his easy means to the power fix he constantly needs. He is treading a fine line to get to where he will be able to discard everyone.
We are all expendables, to be consumed in the quest. The Right knows this and opposes the quest itself. The Left is starting to see as was shown in that Firedoglake link. Too bad they still love the quest and think the problem is the one leading it. Still looking for perfection in all the wrong places.
Comment by Sol DuRorr on 9/6 @ 9:37 pm #
Uh…excuse me. Don’t you nice people think you’re getting just a leeetle carried away? The guy’s an asshole. Yes, I think that pretty well somes it up.
Comment by Snowcone on 9/6 @ 9:44 pm #
Hence the mindlessness of your initial comment. Are you retarded?
No.
Even though Conservatives didn’t care for George W., they liked him a lot better than Al Gore/John Kerry.
Same deal with Obama…he might not be perfect, but he’s much better than John McCain.
No buyers remorse at all.
Comment by dicentra on 9/6 @ 10:44 pm #
[a] narcissist… who is using the ideology socialism along with a racial “us against them” comradeship as his easy means to the power fix he constantly needs
To clarify, he’s not “using” the ideology in the sense that he pretends to be down with it but he could choose something else just as easily. He is using the ideology because it’s a narcissistic ideology to begin with, one that tells “smart people” how smart they are and how they ought to be in charge except for those vulgar capitalists.
Most of whom donate to the Dems anyway, but we must perpetuate the memes even after the landscape changes.
Classical liberalism is by definition not appealing to narcissists, because it entails rolling back centralized power as much as possible and spreading it around. It means that you’re no better than anyone else, and the “commoners” are just as useful to the Republic, in their current state, than the smart people are.
And also let’s remember that all Glenn ever did was show Van Jones videos, which on the left constitutes a smear.
Comment by dicentra on 9/6 @ 10:47 pm #
Argh. </i> after the first ¶ paragraph.
The left thinks it was the “@$$hole” comment that got him canned, and they’re comparing it to Cheney’s FU on the senate floor.
Hardly. It was his Trooferism, which Glenn didn’t break. And also his explicit linking of the “green economy” with a progressive agenda. Didn’t even try to hide it; it’s all for “the cause” more than for the environment.
Comment by SBP on 9/6 @ 10:52 pm #
The left thinks it was the “@$$hole” comment that got him canned
No, they don’t. That’s just how they’re spinning it. They’d be getting away with it, too, if it weren’t for the net.
Comment by bill on 9/6 @ 11:14 pm #
Jones’ mistake-you can’t be a Bolshevik and a Tsar at the same time. Anybody knows that.
Comment by Abe Froman on 9/6 @ 11:50 pm #
No.
Even though Conservatives didn’t care for George W., they liked him a lot better than Al Gore/John Kerry.
Same deal with Obama…he might not be perfect, but he’s much better than John McCain.
No buyers remorse at all.
Who said anything about leftists regretting that they didn’t vote for McCain? It really isn’t about what a moron like yourself who follows politics like a fan of a sports team thinks, but thanks for the child-like synopsis of how two-party politics works. The far left has been deeply, emotionally invested in the idea of Obama as one of their own. So naturally they’ll have a cow every time they suffer even a small “betrayal” of this ideal like Van Jones being sent packing, and that is what Geoffb was talking about.
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 9/6 @ 11:59 pm #
No, they don’t. That’s just how they’re spinning it. They’d be getting away with it, too, if it weren’t for the net.
Exactly. They don’t want the fact that this scary smart eco commie sign a trooother petition along with about 200 more fucking wackos on the left.
Comment by geoffb on 9/7 @ 12:12 am #
Agree, in his case as he was brought up with socialism baked in. He however sees it as a means to a personal end not as an end in itself which those on the far left do. Obama’s loyalty is to Obama not the “cause”.
That’s only part of what I wish to say however it is past 2 am and sleep is calling. ‘night.
Comment by junior on 9/7 @ 12:13 am #
One czar down and more to go
Comment by Snowcone on 9/7 @ 12:19 am #
The far left has been deeply, emotionally invested in the idea of Obama as one of their own.
Who is the “far Left” Abe?
A handful of ancient Bolsheviks squirreled away in a Cambridge hospital?
Kept alive the far Right in the hope that their rants against the “Commies” won’t sound completely insane as long as they’re still around?
Comment by Darleen on 9/7 @ 12:24 am #
Snotcone
Name ONE significant difference in policy in the Obama Admin and those policies already enacted by Socialist Democrats in Europe.
Van Jones is an admitted Marxist (aka communist). Obama is a “progressive” … A statist who wishes broad economic power be centered in DC. As has been captured on tape, Democrats don’t believe the hoi poloi is capable of making decisions for themselves.
NannyState or liberty. That’s not rhetoric, it is reality.
Comment by Abe Froman on 9/7 @ 12:26 am #
Who is the “far Left” Abe?
A handful of ancient Bolsheviks squirreled away in a Cambridge hospital?
Kept alive the far Right in the hope that their rants against the “Commies” won’t sound completely insane as long as they’re still around?
You can start with the three million who voted for Nader instead of Gore in 2000, shit for brains.
Comment by Darleen on 9/7 @ 12:26 am #
see, Snotcone, there was a time when American liberalism was still anti-left.
The Left has subsumed “liberalism”. Obama, who is on record stating the US Constitution is “outdated” because it deals in negative rights rather than positive ones, is a leftist, NOT a “liberal”.
Liberalism is found in contemporary America to the right of center.
Comment by Darleen on 9/7 @ 12:30 am #
Abe
snotcone seeks to pretend the far Left doesn’t exist because of “language”. It seeks to obfuscate by controlling the language, attempting to seize the narrative.
But at its core you find two types of people…those that want to control others and those who do not.
Snotcone and leftists are in the former category. Statism v liberty.
Comment by Snowcone on 9/7 @ 12:36 am #
You guys crack me up.
Repeating slogans you heard your parents spouting 50 years ago and pretending they’re still relevant today.
To real old school Leftists, Obama isn’t that different from Ronald Reagan.
Comment by Abe Froman on 9/7 @ 12:57 am #
Right, blowcone. Ideological depth perception has never been a strong suit of people on the left, and I’m sure it’s especially challenging for someone like yourself who isn’t very bright.
Comment by kyle kiernan on 9/7 @ 3:27 am #
Van Jones is nice example of an affirmative action positive feedback explosive failure.
Any kind of preferential treatment separated from actual performance will lead to a failure of negative feedback in the system which we call “select people based on their ability”.
Individuals and populations cursed with this will be selected above their capacity to perform and shortcomings and small failures will be overlooked.
Only when this positive feedback system is exposed to sufficient stress (ie promoted to White House responsibility level) will this system fail, but instead of a small failure at low energy levels it will fail catastrophically.
This can be seen in higher failure rates of affirmative action admitted undergraduates up through the display we have seen with VJ.
Everyone may now begin calling me racist, but I maintain that the same results will adhere for any people exposed to it.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 9/7 @ 3:34 am #
Bernie Sanders is a myth, and so is the communist party. Yep I see where this is going.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 9/7 @ 3:42 am #
“Who is the “far Left” Abe?
A handful of ancient Bolsheviks squirreled away in a Cambridge hospital?
Kept alive the far Right in the hope that their rants against the “Commies” won’t sound completely insane as long as they’re still around?”
The asshole Jones described himself as a communist. You might want to try google.
Also this quote from one of those mythical vampire like creatures that would call themselves a “communist”.
“You Americans are so gullible. No you won’t accept Communism outright, but we’ll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you’ll finally wake up and you find you already have Communism. We won’t have to fight you. We’ll so weaken your economy until you fall like over-ripe fruit into our hands.” – Nikita Khrushchev
Comment by Frank P on 9/7 @ 4:53 am #
An awful lot of Van Guff from the leftie trolls above. (Who was that who said, “‘ear, ‘ear!”)
Comment by SDN on 9/7 @ 5:07 am #
Snowjob, when the goals of the Left in this country change from 50 years ago, maybe those slogans will no longer apply. Until then, if the shoe fits……
Comment by Rusty on 9/7 @ 5:26 am #
#79
Not to worry, it’s coming.
Comment by Rusty on 9/7 @ 5:28 am #
Actually, cone, when viewed from the lens of economics, your man Obama, is a dismal failure. He’ll end up making facists look benign.
Comment by Akatsukami on 9/7 @ 5:57 am #
“I’m a lefty, and I would disengage his kickstand. ”
And the same thing will happen to you as if you had disengaged the kickstand of a Hell’s Angel’s motorcycle.
Comment by No one you know on 9/7 @ 6:10 am #
If, as many here believe, it is the case that Van Jones was forced to resign as a result of his signing some “Truther” petition, then it is most certainly a case of racism, just not in the way the left would like to spin this. I mean, if Howard Dean can basically spout the same crap on national TV in 2003, and then go on to be DNC chairman, while Van needs to resign, what does that tell us about the Democrat party?
Or is it the case that Dean gets just enough wiggle room with the “I’m just asking questions here” formulation that he can’t be pinned with the same “trutherism” tag?
Comment by N. O'Brain on 9/7 @ 6:17 am #
“…he might not be perfect, but he’s much better than John McCain.
No buyers remorse at all.”
Just wait, you mindless hack.
Comment by Alec Leamas on 9/7 @ 6:20 am #
Anyone know how heavy the IGFA all-tackle world record Baratunda is?
That’s the insidious part. Take, for example, this Baratunda character – he’s giddy at the prospect of calling his political opposition “low intellect.” His wiki bio states that he has a BA from Harvard, so it is likely that he actually believes that he’s a member of the cognoscenti, rather than what is far more likely – that a bunch of white people at Harvard said “get me some black guys,” and he wound up being one of them. Notice, they didn’t say “get me some smart guys.” So, while Baratunda can belittle your hard-earned degree from State, you’re identified as a racist if you mention the fact that his “education” was a race-based sinecure.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 9/7 @ 6:25 am #
Racism has ALWAYS been a feature of the left.
Comment by sierra on 9/7 @ 7:26 am #
Here’s a good one. Asserts racism in the headline, but provides no evidence for the assertion.
Extra fun: “The worst outcome of all this is that it will validate Beck and his long history of paranoid conspiracy theories and repugnant allegations. It will be like chum in the water, almost as invigorating to the crazies as bagging Dan Rather.” Recall that Dan Rather was bagged after putting forth a story alleging a conspiracy to cover up Bush’s supposed lapses in fulfilling his National Guard duty.
Comment by Carin on 9/7 @ 7:44 am #
A handful of ancient Bolsheviks squirreled away in a Cambridge hospital?
Kept alive the far Right in the hope that their rants against the “Commies” won’t sound completely insane as long as they’re still around?
I guess I just imagined Obama saying that we need to “spread the wealth around.” And that the rich have done well for long enough.
And that we need economic justice.
Comment by Carin on 9/7 @ 7:45 am #
Oh, and that the problem with our Constitution is that is says what the government Can’t do to you, instead of what it can do for you.
Comment by Carin on 9/7 @ 7:46 am #
One only has to read The Communist Manifesto to KNOW what the proggs are up to. What they aspire to.
Comment by royf on 9/7 @ 7:52 am #
Repeating slogans you heard your parents spouting 50 years ago and pretending they’re still relevant today.
My parents never spouted any slogans but the lefty/fascist have been pursuing a ideology which has failed for 100 yrs. It is the source of more human suffering and death in the 20th century than anything else. You are the fool snowcone you don’t even know what fate awaits you as a “useful idiot”. History is full of facts about what happens to fools such as yourself, but hey I’m sure it will all be different this time around. Bwhahaha!
Comment by Rusty on 9/7 @ 8:15 am #
Where does stuff come from, snocone?
Comment by geoffb on 9/7 @ 8:32 am #
At least a portion of the left is going to their Alinsky, Rule 6, Rule 8, and their favorite Rule 12, all combined in a noxious brew.
Comment by Neo on 9/7 @ 8:38 am #
I can understand the outrage of Keith Olberman, Van Jones was the most important member of the Obama Administration, after Obama himself, … NOT.
You’d think with ObamaCare and the rest of the Obama agenda in their death throws that Keith Olberman would have “bigger fish to fry” … but he does have his priorities, as warped as they may be.
Comment by themeandaddy on 9/7 @ 8:39 am #
Van Jones is nothing but a bigoted, white hating, black racist
Comment by sdferr on 9/7 @ 9:01 am #
Could Pia Catton find a more absurd thesis? Politico [emphasis added]:
Comment by sdferr on 9/7 @ 9:01 am #
sorry, link.
Comment by Alec Leamas on 9/7 @ 9:09 am #
I simply find it odd – scary, even, in the Orwellian sense – that Leftists can’t ever see a Communist, self-declared or otherwise. See below, wherein no-account “Liberal Talk Radio” host Mike Malloy blames “the right” for the assassinations of the Kennedy brothers, and denies that Oswald was a Communist, despite a record which includes a (pre-assassination) televised interview in which he self-declares as such, and his defection to the Soviet Union.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MDhjNGYwZGMwMGIzZjQ1YzBjZjNiNTgxMTQ3ZTg1Zjk=
Comment by serr8d on 9/7 @ 9:28 am #
Happy Labor (of Love, Peace, Prosperity and White House CZAR Vacancies!) Day to all!
A nice essay on Capitalism seems appropriate.
Comment by Carin on 9/7 @ 9:55 am #
Serr8d, the media’s misrepresentation of what a middle class lifestyle is a [expletive] joke. Obama’s as “inconspicuous consuption”? Nothing inconspicuous about flying the extended family to Paris. And golfing (hate to bring this up) is one of the most ecologically unsound activities out there. It’s bad, except when Barack does it, I guess.
“Renting” a vacation house instead of returning to an estate? Please. Let’s take a poll of how many Americans, this past year, “rented” a vacation house. A tiny percentage of Americans have “family estates” and a large majority of the super-rich rent vacation homes.
I know it’s too much to ask for the media to pretend to have a bit of impartiality. I hope they all go under. Every one of them. “Regular Folk” don’t go to Harvard. “Regular Folk” don’t make $300,000 working at a hospital.
Including my local paper which failed to mention Van Jones’s resignation.
Comment by Carin on 9/7 @ 10:00 am #
What a joke- from Serr8d’s link:
Yes, I buy my “cheap stuff” in the $200 range.
Comment by TForeman on 9/7 @ 10:02 am #
I believe the left is covering its ears and shouting “I can’t hear you!” because they cannot reconcile the egregious failures, nastiness, bumbling and deliberate arrogance with the image they so eagerly bought into. They are a like the teenage girl who is convinced the 25-year old hustler really loves her.
And what the hell does “wee-weeing” mean? What juvenile language is this stranger in the White House speaking?
I am sick of the condescension and the insults. When this country gets back on its feet, it will be because of the hard work of individual Americans. But you’ll never see the current occupant of the Oval Office admit that or compliment average people; it will be all his doing. He’s too busy making us all evil demons.
I say bravo to those who understand the nature and intent of his school address. By the way, has anyone ever seen anything he has written, or his grades? Is he going to tell the youngsters to go find elite private schools like the ones he attended? Or will he announce a revival of the successful voucher program in Wn DC that enabled youngsters to thrive? Oh, please. I can’t wait for 2012
Comment by Bob Reed on 9/7 @ 10:04 am #
I agree Carin, more and more though, the media is being exposed for the propaganda machine that it is; Andrew Breitbart characterized it well, calling it the Democrat-Media complex!
But at times, like with the article sdferr linked, the fantasy is breathtaking…
Comment by Bob Reed on 9/7 @ 10:06 am #
And I’m not surprised that papers in the land of Kwame Kilpatrick, Conyers (both!), and Granholm would give no shrift to the Van Jones story…
Comment by SBP on 9/7 @ 10:08 am #
Yes, I buy my “cheap stuff” in the $200 range.
Hell, I don’t pay that much for a suit.
Comment by Darleen on 9/7 @ 10:33 am #
sdferr
Not since the Kennedys has a first family with young children lived in the White House,
WTF? Doesn’t Pia have an editor? Amy Carter was 9 years old when Jimmy became President and unlike the Obamas, Amy went to DC PUBLIC schools.
Comment by Snowcone on 9/7 @ 10:35 am #
Happy Labor Day everyone.
If you work less than 100 hours a week, thank your Commie ancestors today.
Comment by Carin on 9/7 @ 10:38 am #
Shit, Snowcone, 16% of michiganders who wished they had a job right now can thank their commie ancestors too!
Comment by Carin on 9/7 @ 10:44 am #
And, of course my husband might have put in close to a 100 hours last week. Who should he be addressing his complaints to?
Comment by Darleen on 9/7 @ 10:47 am #
Snotcone is woefully ignorant of the USSR and chairman Mao.
Or maybe not. It just see’s its coney self as a member of the Politburo, not one of the peasants.
Comment by sdferr on 9/7 @ 10:57 am #
Andy McCarthy, catching Charles Krauthammer in another error, points to the underlying reason snowcone can blithely hail his communist ancestors:
Comment by Salt Lick on 9/7 @ 10:58 am #
WTF? Doesn’t Pia have an editor? Amy Carter was 9 years old when Jimmy became President
Darleen — It’s not clear what Amy was. Some authorities think she may be a botched attempt by Jimmy to create a mini-me (see photo). Others point to her wedding, where she “chose not to be given away, stating that she ‘belonged to no one.’”
Comment by SBP on 9/7 @ 11:21 am #
It just see’s its coney self as a member of the Politburo, not one of the peasants.
Of course it does. Same thing as the new-agey “past life regression” people — they were always Alexander the Great, Napoleon, or Cleopatra, never the guy who had to clean out the lord’s outhouse.
If they actually bothered to study history, they’d know that people like them are always the first ones to get sent to the camps.
What productive skills do you have that would convince Obama to keep feeding you, snotcone? Better think about it.
Comment by serr8d on 9/7 @ 11:31 am #
Salt Lick, that’s one good lookin’ cat in that photo.
Oh, from my earlier link, the line I savored…
How easily melty one’s lack of education proves him incapable of understanding the failures of communism, socialism, fascism, and the false sense of altruism that leads to these forms of collectivisms.
He should, in his lifetime, have to work in a collectivist’s camp. For the understanding of it.
Comment by royf on 9/7 @ 11:35 am #
SBP its not always about productivity, sometimes it is to clear the field of anyone who feels he has some sort of political payback coming. If snowcone thinks he has a entitlement coming yet he is no longer useful for political propaganda do you think productivity will matter? That’s not likely.
Comment by Danger on 9/7 @ 11:35 am #
The Doctor makes a diagnosys:
FTA:
The proposition that enlightened government officials should control the economy sounds appealing to those who feel capitalism has not treated them well. No matter what name it operates under, fascism never works. It can’t work. Fascist control might produce short-term gains for its favored constituencies, and the sense of organization it brings might benefit a highly disorganized or demoralized population, such as prewar Germany, for a while. In the long run, fascism falls apart because political control is always less flexible and innovative than free-market competition. The political masters of the economy have a list of alternatives they will not consider, mistakes they will not admit to making, and explanations that simply cannot be true. Since they see the free market as inferior to their intellect and moral judgment, they never study it carefully enough to understand how it really works. They become highly adept at killing the geese that lay golden eggs.
Sorry a little long on the post but it was difficult to decide on a good sampling.
Comment by Danger on 9/7 @ 11:51 am #
serr8d:
I noticed that you commented in the Dr Zero article I linked to which leads me to believe that I may have missed an earlier reference to it.
My apologies
Comment by serr8d on 9/7 @ 11:55 am #
No, Danger, I didn’t link Dr. Z’s article here, just that very good essay by Art Carden. I guess that Dr. Z’s essay had been linked earlier, since he’s becoming a star in his own right (already eclipsing Allah and Ed AFAIC).
Comment by serr8d on 9/7 @ 11:57 am #
guess=surmised, and definitely eclipsing Allah. )
Comment by SBP on 9/7 @ 12:03 pm #
If snowcone thinks he has a entitlement coming yet he is no longer useful for political propaganda do you think productivity will matter?
Right. Come the revolution, revolutionaries become superfluous.
Comment by serr8d on 9/7 @ 12:08 pm #
Superfluous, and…cold.
Comment by Snowcone on 9/7 @ 12:11 pm #
Snotcone is woefully ignorant of the USSR and chairman Mao.
And the American Right is ignorant of real American history.
It seems all you guys study is the couple months Ronald Reagan wasn’t busting the budget with his massive increases of the federal government and a few WWII battles viewed through a rose-colored lens.
And I’m sure you guys all refused to take a holiday today to show solidarity with all those dead, discredited Austrian economists you worship.
Comment by serr8d on 9/7 @ 12:18 pm #
Go blow goats, snowblind. You wouldn’t be so well-fed (read: a fatass) and blessed with an internet connection (from home, no less!) if American wasn’t the best damned country on Earth.
Try as you like, you can’t beat it here. If you think you can, why don’t you just beat it?
Comment by royf on 9/7 @ 12:26 pm #
Well snowcone why don’t you supply us with some “real American” history? LOL!
Comment by Darleen on 9/7 @ 12:29 pm #
Oh my, snotcone, what is “real American history” to you? Something shat by Bill Ayers after he disgested Howard Zinn?
Comment by Carin on 9/7 @ 12:30 pm #
Snowcone, I admit it. I never read Howard Zinn’s book, so I suppose that makes me woefully ignorant in your eyes, right?
And, I’m try not to use the words “Massive increases federal government” in the same sentence if I were you.
Comment by serr8d on 9/7 @ 12:35 pm #
Austrian economist? You must mean…
Comment by Danger on 9/7 @ 12:46 pm #
Snowcone is too busy being dazzled by Obama; he being so popular and all.
Unfortunately popularity does not buy much in the way of tangible benefits,
i.e. assistance in afghanistan or enforcing justice for the victims of the Lockerbie bomber.
Here is a hint for the snowblower 1. Popularity ≠ Respect
Comment by SBP on 9/7 @ 12:46 pm #
Well snowcone why don’t you supply us with some “real American” history? LOL!
Yeah, I can’t wait.
Like others, I suspect that his “real American history” is going to consist of regurgitating Zinn.
In “real American history”, Jefferson purged Adams and sent him to the gulag, right? Later on, Lincoln had Douglas executed, and Truman sent a thug to kill Dewey with an ice ax.
I suggest that snot
Comment by SBP on 9/7 @ 12:47 pm #
Whoops, deleted part of the last sentence before saving.
I suggest that snotcone look into the fate of dissidents in the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, Zimbabwe, Cuba, North Korea, and every other Marxist state.
Hint: it’s not pretty.
Comment by sdferr on 9/7 @ 12:51 pm #
He could begin here with the Case of Buhkarin at a related link I left upthread, SBP.
Comment by Danger on 9/7 @ 1:13 pm #
More evidence of the (lack of) benefit of popularity
Perhaps Obama needs to push the Honduras government around some more to find his mojo
Comment by SBP on 9/7 @ 1:35 pm #
Here’s Israel’s response to Barky’s “popularity”.
I don’t speak Hebrew, but I think it’s something like “Fuck you, Barky”.
Comment by dicentra on 9/7 @ 1:48 pm #
Democrats don’t believe the hoi poloi is capable of making decisions for themselves.
Correction: The democrats don’t want the hoi polloi to make decisions for themselves. Making decisions for everyone else is what dems crave.
Comment by sdferr on 9/7 @ 1:49 pm #
Heh, SBP. “Israel Defies Washington, Looks After Its Own Interests Instead.”
Comment by LTC John on 9/7 @ 1:54 pm #
“They’re engaging in a form of terrorism.”
Odd…I never ran into anyone from the HIG, AQ, Talib or JAM quoting people with their own words or running You Tube clips of their speeches. The “form” of terrorism they used mostly involved killing people and destroying schools for girls and such. Who knew that Hekmatyar Gulbuddin could have been using blog postings to terrorize the Afghan people? Or that al Sadr could have run set up a You Tube channel to beat the IA?
Comment by Cowboy on 9/7 @ 2:08 pm #
One hour and counting since Darleen asked Snowcone for some example of his knowledge of American history…
…crickets…
My guess is he’s perusing Zinn’s special illustrated History.
Comment by Cowboy on 9/7 @ 2:27 pm #
gak–html FAIL.
Comment by serr8d on 9/7 @ 2:39 pm #
Oh, OT, but Tigerhawk says “It’s about damn time Republicans started picking up on the Alinsky Narrative”. Or at least that’s the message I would give.
Comment by Rusty on 9/7 @ 6:39 pm #
Snocone isn’t really very good at answering questions, is he. Seems like anything outside the ‘narritive’just can’t be fielded by himself. So much for critical thinking I recon. It’s late and I’m on a diet and I have to take my wife to the airport yet tonight and I either wants me some aged swiss or a Culvers chocolat malt, with caramel syrup, but I’ll probably have a nectarine instead. I’m in hell.
Nobody worked 100 hours a week unless they owned the joint. Farmers mainly. C’mon sno. Where does stuff come from? If google had a meter like the one the electric company provides, ole sno’s would be going a thousand miles an hour.
Comment by Pablo on 9/7 @ 7:13 pm #
It’s code, Col. John, for: “I’m a hysterical pussy. Also, RACIST!!!”
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Comment by Rusty on 9/8 @ 7:04 pm #
I think maybe he has the cone inverted on top of his head. Yes. I’m sure he does.