Beck’s Character Assassination Campaign Against Van Jones Was Fueled By AFP’s Efforts To Kill Green Jobs
Beck’s Character Assassination Campaign Against Van Jones Was Fueled By AFP’s Efforts To Kill Green Jobs
Last month, Fox News’ Glenn Beck engaged in a character assassination campaign to demonize White House environmental adviser Van Jones as “a committed revolutionary” that led to Jones’ resignation over the weekend. The conventional wisdom was that Beck took aim at Jones because a group he co-founded, Color of Change, was successfully convincing advertisers to drop Beck’s show after he claimed President Obama had “a deep-seated hatred for white people.” Though Beck’s attacks became “especially pronounced” after the boycott started, he actually began his attacks against Jones before he even uttered the words that sparked the activist campaign against him.
As Adele Stan and Joe Romm have both noted, on Sunday, Phil Kerpen, the policy director for the industry front group American for Prosperity, took credit for starting the assault on Jones. Kerpen wrote that on July 10, he e-mailed an old profile of Jones to a producer for Beck’s show, saying “Please share with Glenn this article about green jobs czar Van Jones, a self-described communist who was radicalized in jail. Confirms ‘watermelon’ hypothesis.”
After that, Beck attacked Jones in 16 episodes of his Fox News show between July 23 and September 4, including five where he hosted Kerpen to help him:
– KERPEN: So, it’s kind of — Van Jones, who you mentioned, the self-described communist who is now green jobs czar, he described the Apollo Alliance mission as sort of a grand unified field theory for progressive left causes that ties all these things together. [Fox News, 7/28/09]
– BECK: [Van Jones] is the avowed communist. He was into social justice, which — help me out — social justice basically is just code word for.
KERPEN: …taking money from someone and giving it to somebody else. [Fox News, 8/4/09]– KERPEN: So, it’s kind of — Van Jones, who you mentioned, the self-described communist who is now green jobs czar, he described the Apollo Alliance mission as sort of a grand unified field theory for progressive left causes. It ties all these things together. [Fox News, 8/21/09 -- replay of 7/28 appearance]
– KERPEN: The inside here with Apollo and Van Jones and so on is that if you raid the U.S. Treasury and you take all these money and use it to subsidize these so-called green jobs and make them union jobs, give money to the social justice street organizers and so on, you can get every one of these leftist constituencies on the same side with taxpayers on the other side. [Fox News, 8/24/09]
– KERPEN: Hey, Glenn.
BECK: I wanted to bring you here because I want to show you what’s on the other side of the board and I need you to help draw this together, because I think this is stunning. We have Van Jones. We tied yesterday — tied him together with — right directly to Obama and right directly to the Apollo Alliance. [8/25/09]
In his Fox Forum op-ed, Kerpen explained that his real mission is to put the “‘green jobs’ concept outside the bounds of the political mainstream.” In his Sept. 7 podcast, Kerpen declared, “Van Jones is gone, but the ‘green jobs’ threat remains,” adding that the right-wing should “channel all of the energy” of Jones’ resignation towards “defeating the policy program that he stands for.” Listen here:
When Kerpen first contacted Beck about Jones, he said that it “confirms ‘watermelon’ hypothesis,” which Dave Weigel notes is the effort of conservatives “to paint environmental activists like Jones as anti-capitalist radicals less interested in the health of the planet than in a well-disguised radical agenda.” In fact, on the June 26 episode of Beck’s show, Kerpen and Beck discussed the idea, saying that cap and trade “is green on the outside, the thinnest green on the outside. And inside, it’s deep communist red.”
For months now, much of the right-wing has been galvanized around mocking and attacking green jobs, calling them “paper mâché,” “subprime,” and “gangrene.” GOP leaders, Fox News, right-wing columnists, conservative think tanks, and Big Oil front groups have all attacked the concept by citing a paper by Exxon-funded libertarian Gabriel Calzada, which was recently eviscerated by the Department of Energy as “not supported by their work.”
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September 9th, 2009 at 2:32 pmFOX is an astroturf outlet for anarcho-greedsters
September 9th, 2009 at 2:35 pm.
FEAR the Marxist/Commie/Fascist/Muslim/Pinko/Black Man
.
September 9th, 2009 at 2:38 pmFear of a Green Planet.
September 9th, 2009 at 2:46 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Nothing like a scab podcast on Labor Day.
September 9th, 2009 at 2:47 pmI wonder which Lobbyist Glenn is spanking (or being spanked by)?
September 9th, 2009 at 2:50 pmC’mon, we all know who Obama REALLY is.
(serious giggle)
September 9th, 2009 at 2:51 pmDon’t you love how Beck, Limbaugh, and Hannity act as if they are for the Average Joe when they are the most anti-union bunch on T.V. and radio. And yet millions of idiots honestly believe everything these fellows say as if gospel. Doesn’t say much for the education standards in the good ole U.S.A does it?
September 9th, 2009 at 2:52 pmYes, great job, Beck.
Here’s your cracker.
September 9th, 2009 at 2:52 pmYou realize that these handful of these crazy “fox”s are successfully creating a foundation for controlling our country.
September 9th, 2009 at 2:54 pmThis was so smooth they got rid of Van Jones in almost record time!!!
These massive lobbying organizations are corporate shills of the worst kind. Kochsuckers, the lot of them.
I suspect Beck will remain on air until at least the midterm elections. He would have to sink to John Gibson level before he gets fired. Beck calling the president a racist was vile, but here’s a quick reminder of John Gibson’s less than savoury statements:
On a school shooting in Cleveland – “I knew the shooter was white. I knew he would have shot himself. Hip-hoppers don’t do that. They shoot and move on to shoot again. And I could tell right away because he killed himself. hip hopers shooters don’t do that. They shoot and move on”
On falling birthrates for White Americans – “Nearly half of the nation’s children under five are racial or ethnic minorities, and the percentage is increasing mainly because the Hispanic population is growing so rapidly.[...]Do your duty. Make more babies… half of the kids in this country under five years old are minorities. By far the greatest number are Hispanic. You know what that means? Twenty-five years and the majority of the population is Hispanic. Why is that? Well, the Hispanics are having more kids than others. Notably the ones Hispanics call gabachos, white people, are having fewer.”
On France’s decision to not invade Iraq – “Now that the Iraq deal is over, let’s invade Belgium, it may be a small country, but, man, is it annoying. . . . Isn’t it time to invade Belgium, just knock some sense into them and give the Frenchies next door a scare?”
September 9th, 2009 at 2:59 pmConservaTROLL
Why havent you killed yourself yet? If you had a shred of civic pride you would kill yourself and stop allowing your monumental stupidity to be a burden on decent human beings. Go do the right thing you useless copraphageus moron
September 9th, 2009 at 3:00 pmBut Van Jones was so inconsiderate! Unlike Vince Foster he only quit his job, not the world. I’ll bet Beck is hoping to Fosterize someone else, even as we speak.
September 9th, 2009 at 3:01 pmNice, associate yourself with the most vile people on the planet. Oh yeah, you’re one of them.
I smell sulphur.
September 9th, 2009 at 3:02 pmGlenn Beck is the most anti-American out of all of the lunatic talking heads on Fox. Van Jones may have resigned and the wingnuts want to take credit for it but this is going to come back on Beck like a flood. What goes around comes around. It may seem like the Beck types are winning but they’re not.
September 9th, 2009 at 3:03 pmThis isnt about Czars, they are demonizing people hoping this somehow, dunno how, kill cap and trade legislation.
September 9th, 2009 at 3:08 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
no aaron.
September 9th, 2009 at 3:09 pmBeck, Hannity, O’R and the rest of the noxious-gas-from-pond scum people plaguing our airwaves and our country are pretty much empty people, soulless puppets. They do and say whatever they are told by whoever pays Murdoch the most.
At least- what ever else does Murdoch want? What is his real price for helping destroy the world?
If the Oil Co’s weren’t run by greed-obsessed morons, they’d be sitting high on the “Green” wagon, playing their trumpets louder than anyone. There’s lots of money to be made going Green.
September 9th, 2009 at 3:10 pmThey aren’t controlling anything and that is what is making them so crazy.
Even if they win, America loses again because of them. They can’t control anything because they can’t manage anything.
They are just noisy. they are dying as we speak and these efforts are exactly why they are dying.
September 9th, 2009 at 3:10 pmIf we are lucky, he will put the gun in his mouth and pull the trigger right after watching Glenn Beck splatter his own brains all over the Fox studio.
September 9th, 2009 at 3:11 pmBut Glenn Beck is a friendly, wholesome, moral, religious man with a golly gee attitude!
Just remind the uneducated that the man is the patriot in Jack the Ripper’s body with a cutlery set that would make Ginsu blush.
September 9th, 2009 at 3:11 pmConservatives, you need to check yourselves. You’re fighting lots of things, but when you start working actively against the creation of jobs, you’ve really lost it.
September 9th, 2009 at 3:12 pmaaronk says:
regardless of the motive for going after rumsfeld,wolfowitz, gonzo, cheney, bush, etc., surely you can admit that they needed to go, and have made very dangerous, ludicrous, and racist statements in the recent past right?
September 9th, 2009 at 3:13 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Are Democrats really going to let conservatives get away with shutting down a potential boom in job and economic growth for ridiculous ideological extrapolations? If there’s such a sophisticated “Appolo” network that is dissiminating information so efficiently, how come I haven’t heard a single word attacking conservatives for their anti green job positions?
September 9th, 2009 at 3:14 pmGO HERE to read about their Astro-Turfing Slime Agenda:
http://www.americansforprosperity.org/national-site
September 9th, 2009 at 3:14 pmaaronk, why would you consider an investigation of the Bush administration concerning 9/11 to be dangerous? Do you know something we don’t?
September 9th, 2009 at 3:14 pmDaily Kos Dairy on this…
“Big Oil” Lobbyist Was Behind the Van Jones Witch Hunt Hotlist
These findings necessitate that a thorough investigation should be carried out by the White House into what the real motivations were of those who were really behind the witch hunt against Van Jones.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/9/9/0323/92597
September 9th, 2009 at 3:15 pm“His quick return to the Center for American Progress shows that his radical goals are consistent with the agenda of CAP, the progressive movement, and the Obama administration.”
Whoah, groundbreaking news!! We all knew he worked at CAP, we all knew he was in the Obama adminstration, so why is this a huge surprise that he has goals that are similar to both?
September 9th, 2009 at 3:16 pmWho wants to. You? He was right.
September 9th, 2009 at 3:16 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
aaronk says:
Ah NO. We dont get rightwing talking points programmed into us like you do. Tell the truth you get your kool-aid from an IV dont you?
September 9th, 2009 at 3:16 pmAaronK: “regardless of the motive for going after Jones, surely you guys can admit that he needed to go, and has made very dangerous, ludicrous, and racist statements in the recent past right?”
Can you even read? How is it that conservatives have become so lazy-minded and downright stupid? This discussion is about how a corporate group wanted to stop the process of creating green jobs. Van Jones’ background and what he may have said 20 years ago is completely irrelevant.
September 9th, 2009 at 3:17 pmaaronk says:
Cough up a citation in context or STFU
September 9th, 2009 at 3:18 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
really a? can you provide a credible link to back that up?
September 9th, 2009 at 3:18 pmVan Jones is just an easy target for the neocons. However, the fact that they are going after presidential advisers only draws attention to the fact that there are many nominations that are being held up in the Senate by Republicans. They are setting precedent and when the Republicans are in the WH, they will get the same treatment. Some of the Republicans understand this, but seem incapable of stopping this conduct.
September 9th, 2009 at 3:19 pmThis goes to show that the majority of the conservative crowds are easily swayed and have a hard time thinking for themselves.
I really was not surprised by this and I wouldn’t be surprised if there was even more corporate money was spent behind many of the recent controversies.
September 9th, 2009 at 3:19 pmWhat amazes me is that there will always be an important use for petroleum; it is used to make just about everything we use in our day-do-day lives. It’s insane to burn it up, especially when the pollution from the burning is killing the Earth. But Oil Co’s appear to be unwilling and unable to visualize the future except up to the next “Quarter’s” profit statement.
September 9th, 2009 at 3:19 pmBetter to be a liberal and free than to be a wingnut pawn of the corporations…Too bad our conservative friends are too focused on their money to actually see that we are basically all pawns of corporations…
Aaron: yes, Van Jones is SUCH a dangerous radical, only because he called Republicans a-holes…So we must investigate him and hound him to the ends of the earth.
September 9th, 2009 at 3:20 pmYou’re the evil fool who claims it’s not true, prove it.
He was also right about beck. exactly right and the loss of sponsors backs it up.
September 9th, 2009 at 3:20 pmI wonder if any people who build windmills and solar panels watch Glenn Beck?
September 9th, 2009 at 3:20 pmWhat’s really funny in a sad and pathetic way is the the trolls think this is a victory.
Wow, a low level member of the admin steps out of the limelight because of controversial statements at an inconvenient time.
No mention of the gop guys who left office in disgrace like rummy and gonzo and liddy, etc. who were HIGH ranking officials in the bush admin.
perspective, it does a body good.
September 9th, 2009 at 3:22 pmBeck is a pussy and so is his audience
September 9th, 2009 at 3:23 pmThat’s what I thought!
September 9th, 2009 at 3:24 pmFine. Jones said something wrong and he resigned, STORM. He took responsibility.
When’s Beck going to resign from his statements?
September 9th, 2009 at 3:25 pmI lost count of how many republicans under bush left office because they “wanted to spend time with their families”
disgraceful bunch of losers and now they want to project their evil intentions onto others. Typical, epic fail.
September 9th, 2009 at 3:26 pmpoor little storm and erronk, no-one here will believe their lies
it hurts their little feelings
September 9th, 2009 at 3:26 pmThat’s what I thought!
September 9th, 2009 at 3:27 pmit takes a lot of stupid to believe anything becky says
a LOT of stupid
massive stupid
republican stupid even
troll stupid
September 9th, 2009 at 3:28 pmI don’t consider that dangerous. Never said I did.
September 9th, 2009 at 3:28 pmerronk is still stinging from being proven a liar in previous threads
poor little guy
September 9th, 2009 at 3:29 pmweepy assed glenda becky ought to be worried about the fact that he’s living on borrowed time now that his advertizers are bailing out on him at light speed and not slandering people.
September 9th, 2009 at 3:30 pmATLANTA – This past week the Associated Press released results from its analysis of an EPA research project showing African Americans are 79 percent more likely than whites to live in neighborhoods where industrial pollution is suspected of posing the greatest health danger. Using EPA’s own data and government scientists, the AP More Blacks Live With Pollution study revealed that in 19 states, blacks were more than twice as likely as whites to live in neighborhoods where air pollution seems to pose the greatest health danger.
http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/BullardAPEJ.html
September 9th, 2009 at 3:30 pmaronkie, tell us again what a nice guy you are like you did yesterday and how you don’t deserve to be treated with distain and called a troll.
I haven’t had my laugh for today.
September 9th, 2009 at 3:31 pmYes, but don’t take it from me. Take it from his mouth. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6gOmIalJVw
September 9th, 2009 at 3:31 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Yes you did. Stop lying.
September 9th, 2009 at 3:31 pmConfirms ‘watermelon’ hypothesis?
What sort of bigoted nonsense is that? Hmm… the President and his chosen adviser are both black Americans. I wonder why the reference to ‘watermelon’ was injected?
What’s next: a reference to a woodpile at the White House? These characters know no bounds.
September 9th, 2009 at 3:32 pm“The first symptom of conspiratorial delusion is everyone that disputes the conspiracy is apart of it. Good luck.”
sort of like oily taint and the “birthers” storm?
September 9th, 2009 at 3:33 pmwow…
that’s the most i’ve seen APOLLO ALLIANCE mentioned here at
ThinkProgress EVER… other than MY OWN comments about it…
too bad fox had to give it notoriety…
and -
how can there be the exact same words, but one, spoken on 7/28 and 8/21
September 9th, 2009 at 3:33 pmwithout a teleprompter, at least cue cards…?
There’s the republican party today. I’m bettin that ronkie is an “independent”
Seems no one is a republican these days. I can’t find anyone anymore who admits to voting for bush.. funny aint it?
September 9th, 2009 at 3:33 pm20 years ago……Hahahaha. He said that in January of 2008.
September 9th, 2009 at 3:33 pmerronk is a proven liar
no need to debate him, his is full of schmidt
September 9th, 2009 at 3:35 pmYes, i know, he just told a bald faced lie to me.
September 9th, 2009 at 3:36 pmAnd when the world environment and economy collapses due to our destructive political policies, these people are going to be the “first ones against the wall”.
I for one will be quite happy with that sad ending for Beck and his fellow scum.
September 9th, 2009 at 3:37 pmwell, being pussies, erronk and stormy are both afraid of the truth
September 9th, 2009 at 3:37 pmI’m shocked, shocked I say….
September 9th, 2009 at 3:37 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
it is easy to lie to Fox’s audience, they have neither the brain power nor the courage to discern the truth
September 9th, 2009 at 3:40 pmaaronk, stop lying and tell us why you think investigating the Bush administration’s role in 9/11 to be dangerous. To whom is it dangerous, and why?
September 9th, 2009 at 3:40 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
hahahaha……what the heck is wrong with you. Please, show me where I said that. Until then, STFU!!!
September 9th, 2009 at 3:43 pmaaronk, why do you like poisoning black people?
September 9th, 2009 at 3:43 pmpoor little erron, caught lying so many times that noone believes anything he says anymore
erron is the boy who cried wolf
actually…
erron is the boy that cried
it’s easy for Fox to brainwash people like erron, not so much brain to wash
September 9th, 2009 at 3:44 pmaaronk thinks we need to prove to him that he is a liar. Funny just never stops with the worthless trolls these days.
September 9th, 2009 at 3:44 pmaaron: “20 years ago……Hahahaha. He said that in January of 2008.”
I was thinking of his remark about communism and radicalism. Again, you don’t seem to be able to grasp the point here. The point is that it had very little to do with Jones and everything to do with a lobbying groups attempting to stop the creation of green jobs.
Don’t you think green jobs or any jobs at all for that matter would be a good thing for America? Why would you congratulate someone on torpedoing more jobs for Americans? What is the matter with you?
September 9th, 2009 at 3:44 pmuhoh, we hurt little erron’s feewings again
call whine wun wun and get this little boy a waaambulance
September 9th, 2009 at 3:45 pmwe don’t have to show it to you. We remember it.
Waiting for you to start whining and claiming that you don’t deserve this kind of treatment, etc…..
September 9th, 2009 at 3:46 pmDoes anyone know if there’s any truth to the rumor going around that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990?
I mean, its a ridiculous claim, but he hasn’t denied it.
September 9th, 2009 at 3:46 pmWow, so far today, we have found that aaronk thinks the Bush administration should not be investigated concerning 9/11, because they are hiding something “dangerous”, and he thinks it is OK to poison black people.
September 9th, 2009 at 3:48 pmaaron: “And if you had any brains, you would realize that the EPA’s results are a product of economics, not race.”
Evidently Einstien here thinks economics has nothing to do with race. What do you expect from someone who has no reading comprehension.
September 9th, 2009 at 3:49 pmdebasser: “Does anyone know if there’s any truth to the rumor going around that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990?
I mean, its a ridiculous claim, but he hasn’t denied it.”
OK, then. That proves it. Glenn Beck is a rapist and a murderer!
September 9th, 2009 at 3:50 pmyou guys are really ridiculous…..you should go back and read your own posts….it’s very very sad. I’m having fun with it though, so keep it up.
Van Jones claims that white people are poisoning black people. Someone who says that and feels that way should not be in the white house, and especially in an important position. That is a warped view, and clearly shows that he doesn’t have the capacity, judgement, and clear head that is required to work in such an important position.
If a conservative had sad anything that even resembled that, you guys would have your torches out….sad sad sad
September 9th, 2009 at 3:54 pmthis will be interesting. Please tell me how race inhibits or supports one’s income in this country in this day & age.
September 9th, 2009 at 3:56 pmVan Jones claims that white people are poisoning black people. Someone who says that and feels that way should not be in the white house, and especially in an important position. That is a warped view, and clearly shows that he doesn’t have the capacity, judgement, and clear head that is required to work in such an important position.
Dick Cheney claims that torture saves lives. Someone who says that and feels that way should not be in the white house, and especially in an important position. That is a warped view, and clearly shows that he doesn’t have the capacity, judgement, and clear head that is required to work in such an important position.
Which statement is Beck railing against, again?
September 9th, 2009 at 3:58 pmaaronk, you are an evil fool. He did step down because it was a controversial thing to say for a member of the admin. What part of “we are doing the right thing” do you not understand.
When did a conservative ever show such character? Ever?
See, you are the one who looks sad and pathetic for trying to turn this into something that it is not.
carry on, I would expect no less from a fool.
September 9th, 2009 at 3:58 pmAaron, really, what would be the point of explaining anything to you? The ways in which corporations have been polluting poorer areas and ghettos has been well documented. You and your mindless, ugly-American friends don’t want to know how this happens or works. Don’t pretend you have any interest in finding out the truth. If you can’t understand how race inhibits or supports one’s income in this country, then you not only haven’t been paying attention, but you don’t want to pay attention.
September 9th, 2009 at 4:02 pmaaronk says:
Someone who says that and feels that way should not be in the white house
Guess what–he’s not in the White House! But you’re not going to let that stop you, just like you won’t stop complaining about the single-payer health care system that nobody is trying to enact.
September 9th, 2009 at 4:05 pmJesus Hussein Christ! I go to a two hour meeting, come back and little aaronk is still pissing and moaning. Where’s that life you said you had little guy? You were here late last night and all day today. You are one sad little shit.
Get out of the basement, get some exercise, meet some people, you might find you like human interaction.
The dog won’t mind, blow him again after your walk.
September 9th, 2009 at 4:10 pmGreen Jobs Threat????? These A’holes are crazy and dangerous. Those of us in the middle and on the left, and even some clear thinking people on the right, need to stop feeding the machinery behind these people. Stop watching Glenn Beck, et al.
September 9th, 2009 at 4:13 pmI am boycotting Glenn Beck and the television channel he is on. If we all do and the advertising revenues drop then the advertisers will drop him. If that happens then maybe the programers will drop his sorry ass.
September 9th, 2009 at 4:18 pmOOPS! The link I posted earlier seems to be broken, here’s another one…
“Big Oil” Lobbyist Was Behind the Van Jones Witch Hunt Hotlist
These findings necessitate that a thorough investigation should be carried out by the White House into what the real motivations were of those who were really behind the witch hunt against Van Jones.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/9/9/779019/-Big-Oil-Lobbyist-Was-Behind-the-Van-Jones-Witch-Hunt
September 9th, 2009 at 4:29 pmThey are. An EPA study proved it dumbass.
I just figured out who you are. You and Tracist are the same person. You are both racist liars.
September 9th, 2009 at 4:33 pmMore black people live in poor areas, and poor areas are subject to more pollution. This in no way justifies a comment that white people are poisoning black communities.
Are you white?? Are you poisoning black people?
They are subject to more pollution because white corporate bosses like to locate plants in these areas, because of their nearness to poor communities, where they can pay lower wages. I used to work for one such boss – but he skedaddled, owing the plant’s owner hundreds of thousands of dollars. Typical rapacious republican.
September 9th, 2009 at 4:39 pmYes, the trolls completely ignore the fact that the EPA study proved this. It doesn’t fit their alternate reality.
September 9th, 2009 at 4:59 pmWatermelon? OOOOOOH sh8t! FOXCOINTELPRO NEWS is at it again and Glenn Beck is the new J. Edgar Hoover! lol…. The gloves is finally off!
Glad to see the base fired up against these right wing terrorist!
And people should be thoroughly reminded about about Beck comments about the 9/11 victims during his phony 9/12 project! Fire with Fire! Eye for an Eye! Tooth for a Tooth! We’ve backed down from these people for to long!
September 9th, 2009 at 4:59 pmOh and i remember that “ApeCORN” freudian slip by Beck that i dont think anyone caught. He was talking to Ann Coulter wannabe Michelle Malkin. another wing nut terrorist!
September 9th, 2009 at 5:05 pmBeck is a criminal. He should be arrested today. Never to be seen again.
September 9th, 2009 at 5:08 pmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_racism
September 9th, 2009 at 5:23 pmGlenda pimps for anti-Green corporate interests? How truly amazing; I thought he would have gone out in the parking lot to committ seppuku by now, but he obviously has no shame. He has already demonstrated his unworthiness of advertisers and his viewers will desert him too, if they can only find a brain.
September 9th, 2009 at 5:55 pmI already showed the idiot trolls that the EPA study proved that blacks are being poisoned. Of course, they both ignored it.
September 9th, 2009 at 5:58 pm@ 96, shoeless says: aaronk says: Van Jones claims that white people are poisoning black people. They are. An EPA study proved it dumbass. I just figured out who you are. You and Tracist are the same person. You are both racist liars. September 9th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Shoeless, keep in mind that AaronK is a simple minded idiot who is parroting a phrase that is itself a simplification of the environmental racism thesis.
AaronK, the point is not “white people poisoning black people”; the problem is that the large (and medium) corporate polluters, corporations which find it economically cheaper to dump their waste by-product instead of handling it responsibly have generally dumped in areas where the inhabitants are without the political clout to stop them. Typically, such corporations started out with WASP (White Anglo Saxon Protestant) owners and are still very much controlled by European Americans. That makes them look white.
Their dumping in poor black and brown communities got early notice because of the effect of consciousness raising about racism, but those corporations have no problem dumping in poor white communities too. All it takes is a local or regional authority who can be persuaded to look the other way, and who is willing to override the complaints of the people being abused. Barfly’s point about plant owners and bosses putting a polluting industry in an economically depressed area and then taking off when it starts to look like accountability time is another aspect of the issue.
The newer dump and run method is to contract a distant rural area, especially a sparsely populated area, and arrange for a dumping ground there; there are several west Texas counties that are getting into that ‘business’, which will probably make them into the high desert equivalents of Love Canal.
September 9th, 2009 at 6:14 pmSTORM says:
That’s what I thought!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
You are a liar. You have never thought in your life. You are stupid. As incapable of higher brain function as a rock untill you get the requisite equipment
September 9th, 2009 at 6:45 pmImpossible to engage in character assassination of Van Jones since Jones is bereft of character. Don’t let the VanDoor hit you on the way out Freak Show!
September 9th, 2009 at 7:40 pmbradshaw88 says:
What is impossible is to overestimate the stupidity of brainwashed morons like YOU. At every turn you demonstrate the need for your eradication as a species
September 9th, 2009 at 7:49 pmHey bradshaw, do you know anything about Van Jones that you haven’t been spoon-fed by that big baby on FOX?
September 9th, 2009 at 7:54 pmcharacter assasinaion? Van Jones’ own words were used from videos in context. He assasinated himself, duh
September 9th, 2009 at 8:18 pmEugeneDeb- You gotta try some Decaf
September 9th, 2009 at 8:19 pmBaker YOU have got to aquire some critical thinking skills. Spewing what rightwing screechmonkeys tell you to think is just pathetic. I guess you KNOW you are too stupid to think for yourself. Also. What makes you think I am agitated in any way? You cant read minds moron. I just amuse myself laughing at people as stupid as you and slapping you around
September 9th, 2009 at 8:25 pmVan Jones since Jones is bereft of character. Don’t let the VanDoor hit you on the way out Freak Show
September 9th, 2009 at 8:36 pm—
Seems I should just keep “care to defend your thesis”on the clipboard…
own words were used from videos in context.
September 9th, 2009 at 8:38 pm—
Would this include all individuals who have said things which could be manipulated or just people you disagree with?
Pudgy Little Aryan Punk (Herr Beck) -”Social Justice- …codeword for (Communism)
September 9th, 2009 at 9:21 pmI seem to recall the Presbyterian and catholic Churches are very involved in “social justice”, as are lots of other groups-
never realized they were shilling for the commies-
Niner Fan-
I’m well versed in Van Jones stupidity. The stupidity that got him FIRED BY THE OBAMA WHITE HOUSE! (some others on this board are dumb enough to think that this was not a forced resignation, but I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt that your smarter than that.) I’m no fan of Beck’s, but let’s be honest, he was ahead of the story in this case and happened to be correct about Jones fitness to serve in any white house.
September 9th, 2009 at 9:40 pmI’m well versed in Van Jones stupidity
September 9th, 2009 at 9:48 pm–
Then it sure will be easy to make your case using objective critical thinking persuasive skills. Would you agree?
What we got here is a pretender…
September 9th, 2009 at 9:50 pmOops Sorry, I am suppose to point that out a little later….
Sure. He has a history of violence and incarceration. He has made comments on a wide range of topics that are not out of the mainstream of politics, but lacking in civility and decency. He is a race-baiter whose analysis of shootings loses sight of the fact that anyone dumb enough to shoot others is lacking in sanity regardless of race. His comments that green jobs should go to minorities are absurd and overlook the demographics of the country that make such an idea nothing more than wishful thinking at best. The man may have some good ideas, but he is woefully unqualified to serve in any capacity in any presidential administration.
September 9th, 2009 at 10:24 pmSoyou don’t really get the idea of objective concise documentation in support of opinion based theises I am quessing… Whatever, I have so little room left on the mantle…
September 9th, 2009 at 10:31 pmSeethe thing is that after you make an intentional imflammatory statement you are supposed to offer up the supporting primary source documentation.Otherwise the other side see you a a lame assed poser. Are you a poser with or without a lame ass…
September 9th, 2009 at 10:33 pmbradshaw88 says:
Sure. He has a history of violence and incarceration. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
You are a liar. You are stupid and brainwashed. This was a lie already debunked long ago. You are too stupid to be taken seriously since you dont know ANYTHING and just regurgitate what Rush TOLD you to think long after it has been proven to be a lie. You should be embarassed by your stupidity and sheeple like mindlessness but then again you are probably just too stupid
September 9th, 2009 at 11:12 pmHe was right about needing an investigation to determine who was behind 911.
My guess – Bush/Cheney
Way too much evidence pointing to Inside Job.
Same thing with the Anthrax attacks.
Not surprised by this as we now know the past administration was torturing people for confessions.
These folks are evil – we now know this now.
Should come as no surprise to anyone with half a brain that the same folks who lied about WMD’s would utilize a false flag incident to occupy countries for oil.
September 10th, 2009 at 12:32 pmDid you wave bye-bye as that arrogant idiot Van Jones went flying thru the air as he got kicked to the curb where the rest of you loonies reside. Hope Mochellie Obami can help the idiot find the rock she found him under.
September 10th, 2009 at 1:21 pm@ 124, Baloney sez; Did you wave bye-bye as that arrogant idiot Van Jones went flying thru the air as he got kicked to the curb where the rest of you loonies reside. Hope Mochellie Obami can help the idiot find the rock she found him under. September 10th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Got racism, Baloney?
Anything else you’d like to share? If you do, give us a little warning so we can put on our anti-toxin gear and get prepped for a poison spew.
September 10th, 2009 at 5:12 pmThank you for your sharing.!
September 11th, 2009 at 4:06 pmWhy is it that liberals love free speech until it is someone else doing the talking. If Beck didn’t scare the crap out of you, you wouldn’t be spending all this time on him. Looks like his supporters will give up their time to go out and get what they want, while most of you can’t push yourself away from the computer keys. burun esteti?i
September 15th, 2009 at 7:43 amWhy is it that liberals love free speech until it is someone else doing the talking. If Beck didn’t scare the crap out of you, you wouldn’t be spending all this time on him. Looks like his supporters will give up their time to go out and get what they want, while most of you can’t push yourself away from the computer keys burun estetigi
September 15th, 2009 at 7:43 amWatch how the fans of Glenn Beck show their intelligence (or lack there of) http://www.billionairesforwealthcare.com/
September 15th, 2009 at 6:24 pmgunter says:
Why is it that liberals love free speech until it is someone else doing the talking. If Beck didn’t scare the crap out of you, you wouldn’t be spending all this time on him.
Scared of Beck? Do you understand what Beck and his ilk are doing is running all the moderates out of the Republican party?
September 15th, 2009 at 6:34 pm