 merrie says: But let’s look at his parting shot and, as they say in the streets of middle America, break it down. 1. opponents of reform There’s a loaded phrase, eh? Because the key word here is reform. By that can we assume he meant the changing of the “whole system” from the ground up? “We gonna change the whole thang.” By reform is he talking about changing our existing American system of government to bypass elected officials almost entirely by appointing czars surreptitiously, for the very purpose of avoiding any usual vetting process? Is he referring to the dismantling of our Capitalistic society in order to “give” jobs to the “chronically unemployed?” Are black people currently prevented from going to school? Prevented from applying for jobs? Doing the work of building this hallowed new system of gleaming clean energy? 2. vicious smear campaign Here he is most likely referring to Glenn Beck and Fox News, for having the journalistic sensibility to . . . actually play tapes and videos of Van Jones himself making audacious racist statements, outlining his hyper-generalized vision of a new economy that seems to favor a particular color of person. By that we can assume he meant the “black” color, but he may have been referring to Koreans, or Phillipinos, or Indians. 3. lies and distortions to distract and divide What would a 9/11 “truther” know about lies and distortions, I wonder? This group sought to use the atrocity of 9/11 as a political weapon against George Bush, in order to gain power. But of course, when such an affiliation became a political liability, Van Jones claims to not even remember signing it. [...] When he tal... |
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