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9/5/2009

Van Jones Resigns

Filed under: Obama — DRJ @ 10:03 pm



[Guest post by DRJ]

Scott Jacobs has the story at The Jury.

— DRJ

84 Responses to “Van Jones Resigns”

  1. Oh, not to worry. The guy will be on Maher and Olbermann next week, and will no doubt get a book deal.

    Because we are all raaaaciiiisssts.

    Eric Blair (721b15)

  2. I’m telling you, Olbermann’s next show or two will be GOLD! I’m gonna DVR them to enjoy over and over again. They will be hilariously insane.

    Scott Jacobs (d027b8)

  3. QUITTER!

    daleyrocks (718861)

  4. “On the eve of historic fights for health care 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.”

    What lies?

    daleyrocks (718861)

  5. the dirty socialist Associated Press which is now just getting on top of the Van Jones story pauses this weekend to refresh the Narrative

    What it turned out to be was the beginning of five weeks that shook the American financial system to its foundations. The stock market convulsed. Wall Street itself was redrawn. The word “depression” was suddenly on everyone’s lips.

    One year later, the economy is only now beginning to show signs — tentative at that — of pulling out of the Great Recession, the longest economic contraction since World War II. The Dow, while still more than 30 percent off its peak, is no longer the source of a daily national ulcer.

    Not a news story. That’s not what the AP specializes in anymore. But if you’re down for hot tasty fresh dirty socialist narrative you know who to go to.

    happyfeeet (6b707a)

  6. “They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide.”

    Apparently, Mr. Van Jones is too weak and overcome by the haters that he is unable to refute the lies with the truth. How easy it would be to dismantle those lies and distortions if one actually had the truth on their side.

    But now, by accusing others of behaving badly and wrongly, he positions himself to be a sacrificial lamb for the greater good. A martyr for the cause.

    Dana (863a65)

  7. the e’s they are too many

    It’s awesome how the dirty socialist Associated Press’s fresh tasty narrative tastes so good even though they forgot to sprinkle in any Indymac.

    happyfeet (6b707a)

  8. time for a late night victory lap around the pool!

    redc1c4 (fb8750)

  9. VAN JONES RESIGNS: Minorities and Charles Johnson Hardest Hit

    Official Internet Data Office (4e6ad1)

  10. Wash Monthly took the weekend off. No comment. I love it.

    Mike K (4baa9f)

  11. Dana – Van Jones is VICTIM!

    daleyrocks (718861)

  12. Charles Johnson is a useful idiot what is curiously devoid of all utility. It’s a paradox, really.

    happpyfeet (6b707a)

  13. Yellow bus runs over red van.

    Film at 11.

    Mitch (69e416)

  14. feets, you gots too much p in your name

    John Hitchcock (3fd153)

  15. People are smearing Van Jones by telling the truth about his background.

    These liberal counterdefinitions of common word meaning are funny.

    daleyrocks (718861)

  16. “HuffPo hits with Beck Gets First Scalp.”

    That really should read “Obama Steps On Own Dick Again.”

    daleyrocks (718861)

  17. #15 — I hate going to the HuffPo — feels like the going through the sewer and needing to shower right-away.

    But I couldn’t resist the link, Dana. Thanks for wading through and finding it.

    (it’s a dirty job, but someones got to do it.)

    Pons Asinorum (39c941)

  18. Pons, you’re welcome. I thought I’d get a jump on the what the MSM will be giving us tomorrow…whenever they get around to reporting it.

    This is priceless,

    Jones’ resignation, coming around midnight on the Saturday of a three-day weekend, minimizes the amount of time Beck and his allies can spend celebrating.

    Dana (863a65)

  19. lol — they are so clueless. Methinks the wheels are starting to fall-off.

    Pons Asinorum (39c941)

  20. eh, strike didn’t work on tomorrow…Must have to type in the word strike itself…tomorrow

    Dana (863a65)

  21. This is a serious question. We know he was appointed without oversight, but is there any way we can find out what his compensation was? Ans more importantly, perhaps, what his severance package was? From Barry’s perspective, this guy may be gone, but I bet he is still on the WH guest list. After a suitable period, of course.

    Gazzer (1bc622)

  22. oops – thanks – I need to put my name in a hotkey but I’m not sure that app what I use for that works in windows 7

    happyfeet (6b707a)

  23. Also I don’t think Van Jones really retired for real I think he was fired cause he made Barack Obama look bad when everyone found out he was a marxist lunatic what hates America.

    happyfeet (6b707a)

  24. no victory lap after all: there’s a water main broken in the neighborhood, and everything is flooding out…..

    redc1c4 (fb8750)

  25. He didn’t resign. He was fired before the media started to ask how on earth this racist commie got appointed.

    Van Jones was Obama’s canary. Obama is finding out that the public isn’t quite prepared to grant him the indulgences granted by the Parkers, Frums and Buckleys.

    Jones is not the disease. He is but a symptom The disease is the man who appointed him.

    Terry Gain (f3f8a5)

  26. Not that I care one lick about Van Jones’ inability to sell out to the Powers That Be – Communism Fail! – but it really bugs me that anyone on either side of the Aisle thinks they have the right to decide who hates America and who doesn’t. It’s just another one of those things that sounds… stupid.

    Leviticus (f0edf9)

  27. Do you really think Van Douche actually believes that Bush orchestrated 9/11? Newsflash. He doesn’t. But he’s very very down wit the idea that it cool we invite the world to believe that the president of the United States orchestrated the slaughter of his fellow citizens.

    From this I infer that Van Douche loves America not.

    happyfeet (6b707a)

  28. but it really bugs me that anyone on either side of the Aisle thinks they have the right to decide who hates America and who doesn’t.

    Buddy, I’m safe in saying that Van Jones hates America. Have you seen the youtube of the song he recorded?

    Dude has issues.

    Scott Jacobs (d027b8)

  29. Hey Mitch!

    “Yellow bus runs over red van…”

    Dude! That’s fantastic! And a perfect headline as well as a joke. Keep up the good work.

    Brad (daf01c)

  30. This is the site the AP is now linking with their article. That picture kills me.

    Effete douche par excellence.

    happyfeet (6b707a)

  31. Hey, happyfeet – thanks for the link to WH.gov with that Michelle-arious photo. There should be a caption contest. My entry: “If the Secret Service and the photogs weren’t here, Mr. Lazybones, your shins would be pretty sore now!”

    L.N. Smithee (3e1cba)

  32. Poor guy, he had to be so sad when people took his insane and addled rantings as his real thoughts when EVERYONE should know he doesn’t have any.

    I just don’t get how these people actually get all pissy when they get questioned on their outrageous beliefs. If you believe in communism then do so, just remember that there are millions of dead and other millions more who were imprisoned, tortured, displaced and abused by communist governments the world over who might bring testimony to it’s efficacy at delivering “diversity” and “justice”.

    Vivian Louise (e35449)

  33. RACISTS !!!!

    JD (6aa3da)

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  35. Mr Gain wrote:

    He didn’t resign.

    Depends on how you look at it. I think it most likely that Mr Jones found out that he had resigned late Saturday.

    The linguistically precise Dana (474dfc)

  36. The most important question now is: Will Mr Jones retract his apology for calling Republicans [insert plural slang term for the sphincter here]? Will he now consider what he once said was “clearly inappropriate” to now be wholly appropriate?

    The [insert slang term for the sphincter here] Dana (474dfc)

  37. In other news, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a slight increase (of one) in unemployment figures.

    The statistician Dana (474dfc)

  38. Leviticus, is it possibly for anyone to hate America? If so, how is this decided?

    Is it possible for anyone living in America to hate America? Is it possible for any American citizen to hate America?

    Because if it’s possible, I’d like to know how the criteria is determined, and whether that criteria can be applied to people like Van Jones.

    If it’s not possible, I’d also like to understand why.

    steve miller (c5e78c)

  39. You Eurocentric oppressors just cannot bear the thought of a black man being a Communist, just because he does not look like all those other Communists on the Kremlin murals.

    nk (df76d4)

  40. On this holiday, which celebrates the oppressed, exploited worker, and daddies in dorky aprons, I am going to show my solidarity with Van Jones by buying a new grill which is black.

    nk (df76d4)

  41. I never liked his attitude anyway.

    Duke Nukem (d9d8ce)

  42. Wash Monthly has just weighed in on Jones.

    A few things to keep in mind going forward. First, we haven’t heard the last of Van Jones, and that’s a good thing. He’s one of the nation’s great visionaries on energy and environmental issues, and as Kate Sheppard noted, “[P]erhaps the even bigger irony here is that he’s always been more effective and influential as an outside activist than as an administration official…. In all honesty, Glenn Beck may have more to worry about with Jones outside the White House than in it.”

    Once again, we see that Obama and his base agree with Jones. Some of the comments are from people angry he was fired. This sort of stuff is the beating heart of leftism today. Calling yourself a communist is OK. Good to know.

    Mike K (4baa9f)

  43. He had to quit so he could concentrate on his acceptance speech when he’s cleared next year for Justice Stevens seat on the bench

    EricPWJohnson (999d2e)

  44. Fulsome WashPost haigiography

    Jones, a towering figure in the environmental movement, had worked for the White House Council on Environmental Quality since March. He was a civil-rights activist in California before turning his focus to environmental and energy issues, and he won wide praise before joining the Obama administration for articulating a broad vision of a green economy Democrats could embrace.

    Brother Bradley J. Fikes, C.O.R. (9e0955)

  45. As far as I’m concerned, Obama and Jones’ ideologies and beliefs converge. IOW, I believe Obama is for all intents and purposes a 9/11 Troofer. Just think about that. It’s likely he believes his predecessor caused or allowed 9/11 to happen.

    If only we could get the entire American voting population aware of the truths in this Jones story, this country would repudiate Obama and his thug regime overwhelmingly. Meaning only an insignificant percentage of certifiably insane citizens would still stupport him.

    Peg C. (48175e)

  46. Bro Bradley – Shouldn’t someone reading that drivel wonder why the greaterest greenie EVAH was forced to resign?

    JD (b7fd45)

  47. I think the American public is slowly figuring this out. It is also significant that the MSM did not cover the controversies about Jones and suddenly the public learns that he is gone. What happened ? Then they learn the story was out there all along but covered up by the media. You know what this is starting to resemble ? The Soviet Union and the Samizdat. Everybody in the USSR knew Pravda was lies. Are we getting there with the NY Times now ? I’d be worried if I were a Times editor or publisher. The web is the Samizdat. In the USSR everybody knew what was going on but not by reading the paper.

    Mike K (4baa9f)

  48. Left wing radicals are no different than the right wing radicals, both are extreme. Bush had a cabinet full of religious extremists, fundamentalists.

    And whose to say attacks on government officials didn’t occur from within? The ANTHRAX scare to news offices 2001-2002 was done by a U.S. military officer. Timothy McVeigh, also a government worker.

    The republicans are using this an excuse to again, incite more discord. Lets go back to the “holy” war in Iraq- which had NO weapons of mass destruction- and did contain oil. And the Republican parties, favorite female candidate for Vice President Mrs. Sarah Palin, who stated during her RNC speech- “we are at a war for ENERGY” – did she know something the rest of the public who were told Iraq was a mission from God, didn’t. The Repub’s just adored their princess who worked for the oil companies in Alaska- home of off-shore drilling.
    An independent commission investigating the WTC? Thats funny- New Yorkers started that and live in New York- most of you were not here and seem to be the authority on New York- because Bush is not welcome in New York- and the WTC investigation, just post 9-11 was shut down and corrupted. Why is Bush hated in New York when he claimed to be “protecting” it with God?

    norfolklore (fbf74c)

  49. Dalyrocks (#4):

    Actually, Van Jones’s statement is technically correct. We (his critics) DID use lies and distortion to kick him out. Of course, Van Jones neglects to mention that the lies and distortions used against him used were his own…

    Sean P (3928ec)

  50. #50 is so utterly moronic that it looks like a parody.

    Phil Smith (4e586c)

  51. Comment by nk — 9/6/2009 @ 5:49 am

    Isn’t Patrice Lumumba on one of those murals somewhere?
    After all, they did name a College at Moscow U after him.

    AD - RtR/OS! (fad78f)

  52. Comment by Mike K — 9/6/2009 @ 9:00 am

    Old Soviet saying:
    There is no izvestia (news) in Pravda, and there is no pravda (truth) in Izvestia!

    AD - RtR/OS! (fad78f)

  53. Comment by norfolklore — 9/6/2009 @ 9:02 am

    DING-DING-DING!…We have a winner!

    We’ve finally found someone who is a bigger Moron than the IMP!

    AD - RtR/OS! (fad78f)

  54. “Left wing radicals are no different than the right wing radicals. . . “

    Students, this is the kind of moral relativism which can only develop after years of heavy marijuana use.

    “Bush had a cabinet full of religious extremists, fundamentalists. . . “

    Bush had one really religious cabinet member, John Ashcroft, as Attorney General. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

    “And whose[sic] to say attacks on government officials didn’t occur from within?”

    Sane people, a group which doesn’t include Truthers like you.

    “Why is Bush hated in New York?”

    Why are the Red Sox hated in New York?

    Official Internet Data Office (4e6ad1)

  55. Comment by Sean P — 9/6/2009 @ 9:05 am

    Conservatives “smear” Progressives by using the words and actions of those Progressives against them;
    Progressives smear Conservatives through lies and calumny!

    AD - RtR/OS! (fad78f)

  56. Isn’t Patrice Lumumba on one of those murals somewhere?
    After all, they did name a College at Moscow U after him.

    Comment by AD – RtR/OS! — 9/6/2009 @ 9:10 am

    Purely a token to the illusion of Internationalism. Lumumba was no real black man — he was just a Comrade Uncle Foma put on display by the white communist power structure.

    nk (df76d4)

  57. “…. he made Barack Obama look bad when everyone found out he was a marxist lunatic what hates America.”

    Happy feet, but doesn’t that also describe our Barackula to a tee?

    P.S. JD, your Illini looked good yesterday!!!

    BT (78b929)

  58. Not nice, BT.

    JD (ac4a62)

  59. The ANTHRAX scare to news offices 2001-2002 was done by a U.S. military officer.

    That’s never been proven. To assume it was makes you a rather unreliable observer. Then again, you’re of the left.

    Timothy McVeigh, also a government worker.

    He was an ultra-rightist and someone any sane person should avoid at all cost. He’s the type who should be treated like the crazed aunt or uncle in the attic. I have no trouble saying that.

    McVeigh was the flip side of a Jeremiah Wright or Van Jones, which apparently people like you have trouble acknowledging or saying. Then again, you’re a “progressive.”

    I read more closely the balance of your post and you must be doing — as someone previously mentioned — a parody of a loony leftist, of a 100% certified (and certifiable) moonbat. My bad for having assumed you were serious to begin with.

    Mark (411533)

  60. Comment by nk — 9/6/2009 @ 9:40 am

    How can you be a “white communist”?
    Wasn’t that issue settle in the great White/Red Civil War between 1918-1922?

    AD - RtR/OS! (fad78f)

  61. Is there anything funnier than someone accusing their own words as being part os a ‘smear campaign’?

    I’m sure Olbermann, Matthews etc will have an insane week trying to defend a guy they never vetted (or cared to) but do you really think they’ll give long-term honor to someone who was out-smarted by Glenn Beck, a right-winger they consider dumber-than-dirt?

    I’m no fan of Beck either, I just consider him better than anything on MSNBC.

    harkin (3c2f88)

  62. Sean P @ 51 – You are absolutely 100% correct. It it is underhanded and despicable to use Van Jones’s own lies and distortions to discredit him. His lies and distortions should be off limits because he is a towering figure in the ghetto green jobs pimpage movement whereby 50% of the nations energy requirements will magically appear out of his butt by the year 2020.

    daleyrocks (718861)

  63. “…50% of the nations energy requirements will magically appear out of his butt by the year 2020…”

    More side dishes at the BBQ, please.

    AD - RtR/OS! (fad78f)

  64. “Leviticus, is it possibly for anyone to hate America? If so, how is this decided?

    Is it possible for anyone living in America to hate America? Is it possible for any American citizen to hate America?

    Because if it’s possible, I’d like to know how the criteria is determined, and whether that criteria can be applied to people like Van Jones.

    If it’s not possible, I’d also like to understand why.”

    – steve miller

    Answering each question respectively,

    Yes. They decide it. Yes. Yes. They decide it. No, it can’t – he has to decide it himself.

    Leviticus (f0edf9)

  65. The real question seems to be:
    How can you hate America that much and still stay here?

    You could stay if you had a reasonable belief that you could make effective changes.
    But, the level of hate is so intense, it can only indicate a breadth of dissatisfaction so wide,
    that a rational person would believe that any positive change is impossible.
    But, we are talking about a “Progressive” here, one steeped in “Liberation Theology”,
    so rationality has no part in the discussion.

    AD - RtR/OS! (fad78f)

  66. It’s always the same question you ask folks who are self – declared committed Communists; if you think it’s all that and a bag of chips, let’s see you put your money where your mouth is and move immediately to serve under Uncle Fidel. Should be simple enough, but of courses Van da Man would have to give up his substantial monetary resources accrued over the years by ranting at the evil hatey whitey America. Yet they never do seem to actually move out of our awful country – funny, that.

    Dmac (a93b13)

  67. […] Join the discussion over at Patterico’s. […]

    Gazzer’s Gabfest » Door…meet Van Jones ass… (b98ad6)

  68. O/T, but –
    Am watching a replay of FoxNewsSunday…
    Has Howard Dean had a spinalectomy?
    He sits on-camera as if he’s got a broomstick jammed up his backside to keep him upright.

    AD - RtR/OS! (fad78f)

  69. Another example of good, old-fashioned American ingenuity.

    Official Internet Data Office (4e6ad1)

  70. “How can you hate America that much and still stay here?”

    Because welfare checks in Cuba are a pittance.

    Dave Surls (315df2)

  71. Quitter!

    The Emperor (0c8c2c)

  72. Comment by Dave Surls — 9/6/2009 @ 1:19 pm

    But, but….
    They have superior Health-Care!
    Mikey says so.

    AD - RtR/OS! (fad78f)

  73. “They have superior Health-Care!”

    No doubt this is part of the reason hundreds of thousands of people have fled Florida to take up residence in Cuba.

    Dave Surls (315df2)

  74. He sits on-camera as if he’s got a broomstick jammed up his backside to keep him upright.

    Dean always looks like that – kind of his Banter Rooster thang he trots out during his TV appearances. Funny thing is that he comes on way too strongly in front of the camera, and you almost expect him to do his infamous Tarzan yell in short order: Yeeearrrrrgh!

    Dmac (a93b13)

  75. Question: how will the truly insane left-wing ranters, such as Olberman, react to the Van Jones resignation? Will they ignore it? Or will they go driving off the cliff in full throttle defense of Van Jones and everything he stands for?

    I think they will merrily drive off the cliff. As blind as those lefty loonies are, they don’t even see the cliff right in front of them. Of course the smart thing to do, the thing which would help Obama the most, would be to ignore Van Jones and pretend he never existed in the hope the public will quickly forget (or not even discover) the controversy.

    Brad (daf01c)

  76. Severian, a commenter on Sister Toldjah’s site, had it right:

    This just proves the old adage that Republicans and conservatives fear being quoted out of context, while Democrats and liberals fear being quoted accurately and in context.

    The accurately-quoting and documenting Dana (4e0dda)

  77. This just proves the old adage that Republicans and conservatives fear expect being quoted out of context, while Democrats and liberals fear being quoted accurately and in context.

    FTFY.

    Dana (863a65)

  78. Comment by The accurately-quoting and documenting Dana — 9/6/2009 @ 3:48 pm

    Isn’t that one of Rush’s Undisputable Rules of Life:
    Liberals have to lie about what they believe or nobody would ever vote for them.

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  79. [DNC Chairman] Dean told “Fox News Sunday” that Jones was “brought down,” and he called it a “loss for the country.”

    He said that he had spoken with Jones, and that Jones should not be held responsible for signing the Sept. 11 petition.

    “He was told by the people waving those clipboards around that he was signing something else,” Dean said. “I think that’s too bad.”

    So according to the head of the DNC, a well-educated professional who is in the president’s administration is not responsible for what he chooses to put his name to.

    This is insulting and demeaning to Mr. Van Jones’s as it implies that he lacks the common sense to not sign his name to anything unless he fully knows what is being signed.

    It’s surprising that Dean would belittle Mr. Van Jones in this way. One, that he doesn’t first read what he signs, and two, that he needs to make excuses for a grown man.

    And as a reminder, this is precisely what peeves so many of us re the health care bill, stimulus, bailouts, etc. – people in power signing before knowing what they are signing, just assuming it’s a good thing for everyone – no matter how possibly disastrous it may be and that means, too, that there cannot even be a projection of unintended consequences.

    …perhaps Dean is onto something.

    Dana (863a65)

  80. The excuse is that a lawyer signed something without reading it? Heh.

    Official Internet Data Office (4e6ad1)

  81. If Yale lawyers are taught that it’s OK to sign things you haven’t read, there is something seriously wrong in the legal community.
    But, of course, Dean is a lying POS – it is Doctors like himself that have caused the medical profession to fall into such disrepute, and make themselves targets of lawyers such as Van Jones.
    They deserve each other.

    AD - RtR/OS! (fad78f)


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