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Bill Maher: I Know You Are, But What Am I?
Posted by Mr. Wrestling IV in Politics, Van Jones on September 18th, 2009
In keeping with what apparently is the Left’s best argument against any opposition to President Obama’s policies, which is that anyone who disagrees with them is a racist, Bill Maher posted his most recent profanity-laced juvenility on the obviously standardless Huffington Post this weekend, informing President Obama that, in order to best the lying racists he is forced to govern, he needs to become “an a**hole.”
I couldn’t help but remember a favorite story that my wife and I tell on each other from time to time. Years ago, we were going through some counseling about our relationship (we’re totally cured now, of course. Just ask my wife). We had two counselors who were partners, one of whom focused on us, but both of whom knew our story. After a considerable number of sessions had come and gone with no tangible improvement, one day my wife stormed into their office in an obvious fury to see our guy. His colleague, a wonderfully grumpy man, glanced up at her and offhandedly said, “What’s your problem?”
“My husband’s an a**hole.”
He responded flatly, “Maybe you’re the a**hole.”
We’ve laughed about this many times over the years, but it was a strange little turning point for us. We remember  it often to remind each other always to make sure our side of the street is clean before we start complaining about the other side.
But in Maher’s case, there is just no “maybe” about it.
When I read his column, I realized something about Maher that I also realized about Obama a couple months ago, when he so badly botched the Gates affair in Cambridge: To them, it’s all about race. Obama admitted that he didn’t know the facts of the case when he decreed that the police acted stupidly, but he knew the only facts that mattered to him. Gates was black. The officer was white. Case closed. Let’s have a beer.
In his column, Maher is either willfully lying or he is, to use one of his favorite projections, stupid. He claims that Obama fired Van Jones because Glenn Beck told him to, which would mark the first time in history that Barack Obama ever listened to someone who disagreed with him, and then multiplies the dumbness by claiming that the reason Beck told him to was because he called Republicans “a**holes.â€
Everyone from Charles Krauthammer to Beck himself said that Jones’s “Republicans are a**holes†comment didn’t bother them at all, Krauthammer famously stating that he’d called members of his own family that and worse. Krauthammer even went on to say that Van Jones’s describing himself as an “avowed Communist†didn’t matter, since we’ve had a few Communists in our government before (see Maxine Waters).
No, Bill, it was Van Jones signing on as a “truther†that scuttled him. You see, in the Obama Administration, you can call the opposition names (Obama does it himself), you can advocate the destruction of free-market capitalism (see previous parenthetical), you can accuse white people of intentionally poisoning minorities who work in their agricultural industries, and you’ll still be a remarkable addition to the team. But even Obama can’t have a lunatic around who agrees with idiots like Charlie Sheen and Rosie O’Donnell that President George W. Bush, the stupidest man who ever lived in their eyes, somehow pulled off the greatest crime and cover-up in history, by orchestrating the murder of 2,996 Americans and blaming it on Islamic terrorists, all so he could go into Iraq and avenge the attempt on his Daddy’s life made by Saddam Hussein. (Jonah Goldberg has a great takedown of this lunacy here.)
Maher loves to call people stupid as much as he loves to call people racists, as he made clear during his appearance on the Conan O’Brian show, where he said that Obama should just drag health care over the finish line with or without the support of the American people, because they are stupid. Maher, like most self-righteous liberals, pines for a nice a**hole dictator who would just ram whatever he wanted down the stupid peoples’ throats (assuming, of course, that said dictator is someone Bill Maher thinks is smart, like, say, Joe Biden).  To a third-grade mentality like Maher, Bush is stupid, Palin is stupid, Reagan was stupid, all the Tea Party protesters are stupid — everyone who doesn’t agree with Bill Maher is stupid.
I know you are, Bill, but what am I?
And in fact, Maher is provably so stupid that he wouldn’t know a truly ignorant, plagiarizing, buffoonish dolt if one bit him in the a** and then got his vote for Vice President. (Hey, wait a minute!)
But the racist label that Maher throws around is the true projection. To him, Van Jones got fired because he became the “Scary Negro of the week on Fox News,”   and had nothing to do with his radical policies.
But the truth is that conservatives, independents, disaffected Democrats, and unlabelled Americans who disagree with the President do so on the basis of his policies and his philosophy. We look at the people he surrounds himself with and has throughout his life, and we listen to his stated opinions and intentions, and make a judgment based on them. Many of us who are old enough opposed Bill and Hillary Clinton’s health care plan back in 1994 in the same way we oppose it now.  It wasn’t racism then, and it isn’t now.
But the racist Bill Maher looks at Van Jones and Obama and only sees the color of their skin.  His recent disgusting skit based around the Drudge Report abbreviating Negatives to Negs featured racist jokes that we haven’t seen the likes of since Al Jolson sang “Going to Heaven on a Mule“ — or at least since Ted Danson wore blackface to impress Whoopi.
And to complete the projection trifecta, Maher calls others liars, while lying himself. He says that Obama should stand up for the “70% of Americans who aren’t crazy.”  Where does  that figure come from? I haven’t seen 70% in any poll about anything. Maybe Bill just pulled that out of –well, I’m sick of those asterisks — the place on his body that he wants President Obama to become.
You know what, Bill? Maybe we’re not all stupid lying racists. Maybe we just disagree.
And the time for asterisks has passed, Bill.
Maybe you’re the asshole.
9/11 Truther Van Jones Likens Himself to Wrong Churchill
Posted by Matthew Vadum in Obama, Politics, Van Jones on September 17th, 2009
We haven’t heard the last of Van Jones.
Arianna Huffington was kind enough to allow her good friend who happens to have been a former campaign manager from her California gubernatorial run to post his preliminary reflections on being unceremoniously booted from the Obama administration on the Huffington Post.
It’s the least she could do.
Jones is President Obama’s former green jobs czar.
He believes the Bush administration caused the 9/11 terrorist attacks to happen. He also denounced the United States on Sept. 12, 2001 blaming America for the atrocities the day before. He also mourned the deaths of the people killed in the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center but only the ones who were working class.
In what will no doubt find its way into the memoirs he might be contemplating writing, Jones compares himself to Winston Churchill, which is odd for many reasons but especially because of the apparent contempt that President Obama holds for the late great British prime minister.
With all the modesty one has come to expect from a community organizer, Jones writes
Of course, some supporters actually think I will be more effective on the “outside.†Maybe so. But those ideas always remind me of that old canard about Winston Churchill. After he lost a hard-fought election, a friend told him: “Winston, this really is just a blessing in disguise.†Churchill quipped: “Damned good disguise.†I can certainly relate to that sentiment right now.
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He likens himself to the wrong Churchill.
Van Jones is more like Ward Churchill.
Sham Angelides Commission Will Protect ACORN
Posted by Phil Kerpen in ACORN, Politics, Van Jones on September 17th, 2009
Congress’s official investigation into the financial crisis, the so-called Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, will convene its first meeting today. Unfortunately, Nancy Pelosi’s handpicked chairman of the commission Phil Angelides, has deep ties to radical left-wing politics, including the Van Jones-connected Apollo Alliance, which he chairs, and ACORN, which is an Apollo member and endorsed and actively supported his gubernatorial campaign. His selection proves the commission will be a politicized attempt to advance a left-wing agenda through a revisionist history of the financial crisis. It also assures that ACORN and other community organizers who forced banks to make reckless loans in the name of affordable housing will be let off the hook.
Angelides’s San Francisco-based Apollo Alliance describes itself as a “coalition of labor, business, environmental, and community leaders working to catalyze a clean energy revolution.â€Â Based on the radical past of some of its key figures, the use of the word revolution is appropriate. Apollo was conceived of, and presently serves, as a clearing house to align the otherwise disparate interests of environmental groups, labor unions, social justice organizations, and rent-seeking corporations.
Disgraced former White House green jobs czar Van Jones was an Apollo board member, involved with the group from its founding, and was its model for a new type of leader. Apollo board member John Podesta, who was chairman of Obama’s transition team, already brought Van Jones back to the Center for American Progress, Podesta’s influential think tank where Jones had previously been a senior fellow. These are Angelides’s friends and ideological peers.
Apollo’s roster of endorsers includes the AFL-CIO, the SEIU, the United Steelworkers, Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, ACORN, the Ella Baker Center, and all the major wind and solar industry players. By uniting labor unions with environmentalists, Apollo seeks to repair the historical rift between those elements of the big-government coalition by tapping the U.S. Treasury to gain access to taxpayer dollars for a wide-variety of projects that fund their constituents. Not surprisingly, there is huge overlap between Apollo endorsers and Angelides’s endorsers in his 2006 run for governor of California, including ACORN, which actively campaigned for him.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) specifically credited Apollo for helping write and pass the stimulus, saying: “This legislation is the first step in building a clean energy economy — The Apollo Alliance has been an important factor in helping us develop and execute a strategy that makes great progress on these goals and in motivating the public to support them.â€
ACORN got a big piece of the stimulus pie, eligible to apply for as much as $4.19 billion of stimulus funding under the so-called “Neighborhood Stabilization Program” and likely eligible for other stimulus programs as well. David Vitter of Louisiana offered an amendment that would have blocked ACORN from receiving stimulus funds that failed on a 45-51 vote.
Angelides earned his position as chairman of the Apollo Alliance by loyally steering literally billions of dollars of the pension funds he controlled as California State Treasurer to the pockets of the renewable energy, organized labor, and community organizing interests that make up Apollo. His biography on the Apollo web site boasts:
“He directed $26 billion in state investments to promote smart growth. He put the weight of California’s $400 billion pension funds behind investment in clean energy and the fight against global warming.â€
Angelides brought his top staffer, Cathy Calfo, with him from the California State Treasurer’s office to become Apollo’s new executive director. Apollo boasts that, while in the Treasurer’s office, Calfo steered an incredible $1.5 billion in state funds to “renewable energy, cutting edge environmental technologies, and environmentally responsible companies.â€
So the man charged with investigating the financial crisis is the bagman for the union and ACORN influenced Apollo Alliance. Don’t expect much in the way of honest inquiry from the commission he chairs, and you can be sure that ACORN and its fellow so-called community organizations will be held blameless.
I’m Barack Obama
Posted by Bosch Fawstin in Obama, Politics, Van Jones on September 16th, 2009
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(….and I approve of this mess. Um….uh….. I mean, I approve of these friends……..that is, until they become political liabilities)
Barack Obama inspires me.
Bill Maher: Crazy or Stupid?
Posted by James Hudnall in Featured Story, Obama, Politics, Van Jones on September 16th, 2009
In an effort to continue to broadcast his lack of relevance, Bill Maher doubled down on his hubris-queen act by challenging President Obama to “stand up for the 70 percent of Americans who aren’t crazy.”
Yes, apparently, Maher thinks 70 percent of Americans actually agree with him. And if you don’t, you must be crazy. Otherwise, he and his pals would be crazy. And that can’t be true, could it…? *wink*
The self-professed bong lover has truly become a poster child for left coast delusion syndrome. Or maybe I should say Beck Derangement Syndrome since this is all about Glenn Beck.
The tag team of Glenn Beck and Andrew Breitbart have been doing some major damage to the credibility of the Obama Administration, while the zombie media slept. Van Jones was exposed as a racist-communist-truther and had to resign. Maher said it was because he was caught comparing Republicans to a piece of anatomy usually compared to opinions.
Then NEA Communications director Yosi Sergant was reassigned after Beck exposed Obama’s attempt to get the art community to churn out propaganda for him, with the vague promise of grants to come later.
And then Beck and Breitbart struck again with the exposure of ACORN willing to help set up an under aged brothel for a team of undercover journalists posing as pimp and prostitute.
Naturally, Maher doesn’t see what all this means. He rushed to attack Obama for not defending the racist truther Jones instead of questioning why the administration would hire someone so unqualified and irrational. Moreover, since many of Obama’s czars are extreme radicals not that different from Van Jones, one would naturally conclude maybe that’s what the White House also believes. After all, you don’t hire people to represent your agenda who are that different from you politically. Not unless you are a fool or incompetent. And Obama can’t be one of those, could he…?
But Maher doesn’t seem to care about that. Like a lot of lefties he’s outraged that black nationalist Van Jones who claimed “white people are poisoning minorities,” was forced to resign over a holiday weekend.
Maher and company don’t like what Beck has wrought. In a week’s time, he’s landed some serious body blows on the administration. And his 9/12 movement helped to organize one of the largest marches on Washington in American history.
That’s got to have a lot of lefties like Maher all “wee wee’d” up, to paraphrase the Prez. In fact, they’re probably shopping for Depends right about now.
What Maher and others of his ilk are doing is missing the point. If it’s that easy to make Obama look damaged so early in his administration, with only a few people trying (because the zombie media sure isn’t), just imagine what will happen when everyone starts to pile on. And they will.
Obama’s poll numbers are dropping fast. He’s in the 40s and heading south. When, not if, his poll numbers get to the 30s he’ll be in open season territory. The press will stop carrying his water and start looking at him as a lost cause and an embarrassment.
And you know what they like to do with people they put on a pedestal, after they tire of them.
Which brings us back to Maher. He’s an alleged comedian. Yet Obama is comedy gold. If ever there was a pretentious fraud waiting for a “Kick Me” sign on his back, it’s our death panel denying prez. Instead of finding jokes in all this material, Maher turns to anger and starts lashing out like a bad Tony Clifton imitator.
And here I thought he was supposed to be funny.
Looks like the joke is on him.
ACORN Story Grows But Mainstream Media Refuse to Cover It
Posted by Publius in ACORN, Hannah Giles, Jake Tapper, News, Obama, Politics, Van Jones on September 14th, 2009
This story has everything you could ever want – corruption, sleazy actions at tax-funded organizations, firings, government ties, sex, hookers. It is a network news director’s dream. Imagine the ratings. But almost no one is covering it.
Bruce Springsteen once wrote: “From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come).†I doubt he expected that story of love gone wrong would become ideal political commentary for the group known as ACORN.
The small scandal showing an embarrassing video of Baltimore ACORN staffers looking like they were giving tax advice on how to set up a brothel, is now national news. — This story has everything you could ever want – corruption, sleazy actions at tax-funded organizations, firings, government ties, sex, hookers. It is a network news director’s dream. Imagine the ratings!
Only almost no one is covering it.
This is the news media in the era of Van Jones and President Obama. The major outlets cover what they want and create the themes they want. When they find something inconvenient, they let it pass. They didn’t like the Van Jones story, so they ignored it. The network news media liked the financial entity known as Fannie Mae, so they ignored that scandalous organization for years. ACORN is getting the same treatment.
But it isn’t working any more. The ACORN fiasco has now impacted three offices – Baltimore, Washington and New York – with laugh-out-loud videos reminiscent of the hookers and pimps from the 1970s “Starsky and Hutch†show. Huggy Bear returns! Four employees have been fired, with more likely to come. And the controversy was so laughably bad that the Census Bureau cut off all ties to the group known formally as the “Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.” — They called it the “tipping point†to shed themselves of ACORN. More nuts for someone else, I guess.
And yet. And yet it’s still been ignored by the network news. Nothing on ABC, CBS or NBC. The only thing any one of the three broadcast networks has done appeared in a blog post by ABC’s Jake Tapper. It’s hardly worth noting except to show that the networks know about what’s going on. They just don’t care to report it. Only FOX News has bothered to report on the controversy.
Read the full article here.