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Meg Whitman, the fourth richest women in California, has been running for governor while refusing to debate an opponent, face an impartial interviewer, or address an unfriendly crowd. She has never held public office, rarely even voted, and has no readily apparent ideas. There's a word for this figure in Republican politics: Frontrunner.
She's committed $50 million dollars of her personal fortune to the race, she says, and so far she's won the has the full and passionate support of a woman named Pattie Sellers at Fortune magazine. It's like a groundswell.
Or it was, until now. That's all over. Because California just found out the sinister truth about so-called "Republican" Meg Whitman:
She loves black Marxists.
And not just any black Marxists. She specifically loves the black Marxist who connects ACORN to the SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION! A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER who actually believes in GLOBAL WARMING! A principal architect of THE PORKULUS! AN OBAMA CZAR! She loves VAN! JONES!
Who's black. And a Marxist. You might even call him a black Marxist. Because of how black he is. And because he's a Marxist.
But here, I'll let her tell you herself:
There's a guy over in Oakland, I think his name is Van Jones. And he and I were on a cruise last summer in the Arctic, on climate change. And I got to know him very well. And a lot of the work he's doing to enfranchise broader communities I'm a big fan of. He's doing a marvelous job... I'm a huge fan of his. He is very bright, very articulate, very passionate. I think he is exactly right.
Now, as a rational person, you might be wondering what makes this such a big deal. But that's because you don't watch Glenn Beck. Van Jones is the co-founder of a group called Color of Change. Color of Change organized a boycott of Glenn Beck's TV show. So Glenn Beck spent the last week with a dry erase board proving that Van Jones is behind everything that scares white people in America, including the beach.
Beck also called Jones a communist -- about a thousand times -- and proved, with his white board, that President Obama has put him in charge of the Federal government. Which is a line that even the McCarthyites never crossed. I mean, they never went after the president. They never said the communists were in charge.
And that was when there was an actual Soviet Union, full of actual communists.
Almost seems like Glenn Beck is a delusional simpleton. Who thinks he's a con man. Impersonating a delusional simpleton.
But back to Meg Whitman.
Meg Whitman once said something nice about Van Jones, which didn't mean anything at the time, but now proves she supports collectivism and miscegenation. The video is a couple of months old but it appeared, out of nowhere, on YouTube this week. Today Steve Poizner -- who's running against Whitman for the Republican nomination -- put out a new version, cleverly edited into the credit sequence from The Love Boat.
Yes, The Love Boat. That's Republican satire. Back me up, 1977. Why not duck some more debates, you big disco duck?
Is it a big deal? It wouldn't be, if Meg Whitman would give us anything else to talk about. That's the problem with a campaign strategy based on perfect silence. Other people get to fill in the gaps. If you won't tell us who you are, you might as well be Cinque's sea wife.
So this kind of thing can stick. Remember, she's running as a Republican. And right now those people are crazy.
Van Jones isn't the end of Whitman for Governor, it might not even be the beginning of the end, but it is the end of the beginning.
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Hey, did you notice how the nicest complement Meg Whitman could come up with for a black man was "articulate?" Must be because he has a law degree from Yale and she went to Princeton. Those people are always at each other.
Arianna Huffington: Thank You, Glenn Beck!
Thank you, Glenn Beck. By helping force the resignation of Van Jones, you have done a great service to your country. But in the exact opposite way than you intended.
Nobody in their right mind would sign a petition looking into the twin towers coming down. I know a professor in WI believes it was an inside job and has taught that in his classes. I know many celebrities believe it was an inside job. Fruitcakes come in all shapes and sizes. Van might be a very interesting guy, but his head isn't attached very well.
Perfectly legitimate democrats that have or had access to the WH are wondering how exactly he got by the FBI search. I am wondering that as well.
I have heard Meg debate Mitt one time. It was a very lengthy debate on C-SPAN which showed her to be quite willing and capable of understanding the issues. True she doesn't have any political background and that will take a bit of learning. The sad fact is the more she learns the political world the less truth we will ever get from her. It is the naive yet truthful remarks a wet behind the ears candidate makes that tells us more about their views. It is a pity we squash that by attacking people for their views.
People do change their views.
Thinking that 9/11 was an inside job IS DIFFERENT from suspecting that some who knew of it's eminence did nothing to stop it.
Van Jones signed a petition claiming the latter. I think with a minimum of the PDB saying Bin Laden about to attack, there would have been reason to look at what more existed that was not acted upon but wait, criticizing the Bush Administration was and still is simply un-american. You need to get your facts straight though.
(I'm guessing this endorsement was before her knowledge of his ridiculous, inflamatory and radical statements, as I hope your knocking of her for endorsing him is.)
http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/kausfiles/archive/2009/09/04/van-jones-gone-in-60-seconds.aspx
Van Jones is like conservative thinkers' gold. He has done more to advance the views of conservatives more than anyone since Ronald Reagan!
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/09/04/gibbs_offers_little_support_fo.html?wprss=44
If the author is really trying to defend Van Jones, why doesn't he take on a few of his statements. This one might be a good one to start with.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6gOmIalJVw
C ya Czar Jones.
"Articulate" - BWAH! I thought Biden had erased that foot-in-mouth term from white folks vocabularies. (Wow, imagine that honey? A black person who has an Ivy League law degree and who is a WH appointee can actually speak the King's English. Golly!) Perhaps it was only erased from Dems' vocabularies.
Apparently, GOPs didn't get the memo + how many blacks do GOPs even know? How often do they ever get the opportunity to not use "articulate" in context? The future Governor (cough), perhaps, was caught off guard....
You will NOT be missed
Great post. I expect you to follow up with one about Poizner, who is yet another billionaire Repbulican like Whitman. Poizner is currently California's Insurance Commissioner.
His early "new idea" to spearhead his campaign is to return California's full-time Legislature to part time status.
Never mind that because of our 2/3 vote requirements on general fund spending and tax increases, the minority Republicans gridlock the process every year, making effective legislating almost impossible, his idea is to have the Legislature spend even LESS time trying to govern the state!
They've been throwing the Communist and Socialist labels around as if they were scarlet letters that instantly prove anti-Americanism. Apparently Van Jones hates white people, too.
Beck, et al are acting as if Jones' role in the WH allows him to rule by fiat over the United States.
The most important aspect of Jones' story - that he appears to have worked tirelessly for years as an advocate for a disadvantaged community - counts for nothing in the face of his automatic conviction by the judge and jury of the Beck-wing of the thought police.