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How many of those you whine about were ex-convicts or communists? I didn't know any of them were. Actually, Van Jones is both so maybe he is the worst one in the bunch.
Roy, at the bottom of the newsbusters article is this:
*****Update: For the record, it appears the first suggestion of a Beck boycott by Color of Change came in an e-mail message sent to members on July 30 (h/t NBer Gary Hall).
Beck called Obama a racist on July 28, on Faux & Friends.
I think the July 23 and 28 Beck attacks on Jones were just a coincidence.
So it's good that newsbusters is at least honest enough to publish that, even though it's at the bottom of the page.
He and this Wade guy both lied -- in the July 23 quote, Glenn lied about Van Jones being an "avowed Communist"; the rest is Glenn's typically shoddy, dumbed-down, small-minded-for-small-minds summary, the implication about "green is the new red" was especially glib and stupid. I'll read the rest later.
edit -- possibly the newsbusters "tipster" found the information at the NYT?
That day, Fox News appeared to distance itself quickly from Mr. Beck’s remark that Mr. Obama was a racist, telling the TVNewser blog that Mr. Beck had “expressed a personal opinion, which represented his own views, not those of the Fox News Channel.”
Two days later, ColorOfChange asked its 600,000 members to sign a petition addressed to Mr. Beck’s advertisers. It says more than 100,000 have signed.
If so, that means newsbusters is deferring to the untrustworthy liberal cesspool The New York Times !!!! !!!!
Of course, you didn't read anything from al Times of New York about the reverse boycott that has begun against those advertisers. It has a few more than 100,000 out of 600,000 ColorofChange folks that have agreed to support those who stayed with Beck and to boycott those who left. I wonder who gets hit in the pocket book first, corporations or Fox.
See, you found that little bit that was at the end. Most left leaners wouldn't have found that because they wouldn't have read that far. You are a good lady although a bit misguided, politically.
I think they were a coincidence. He called Obama a racist on July 28th, Color of Change asked for a boycott July 30. In other words the boycott was more likely to do with the remark about the President, not the July 23 and 28 attacks on Van Jones. Color of Ch didnt askfora boycott on July 24, for example.
"Fox's Glenn Beck recently said President Obama is 'a racist' and has a 'deep-seated hatred for white people.' Beck is on a campaign to convince the American public that President Obama's agenda is about serving the needs of Black communities at White people's expense." - ColorOfChange.org
I agree with them there.
Sorry, I can't handle ColorofChange because it sounds to me like it is just what Beck accused Obama of being. I guess since I am a terrible racist because I wouldn't vote for him and can't accept so much of what he and his people are doing. I have been called racist for those two reasons by many but it just doesn't bother me.
So you think that the CofC was just after Beck because of what he said about the President? I think they went after him because of what he said about their old creator and leader. Liberal vs. conservative it looks like to me.
One link per thread should be enough. There is one back there a bit about Jones in a post to either katiana or delusianne. Find it yourself since it isn't really very far back there.
You really didn't know that Jones had been put in jail for his part in a riot?
Of course, you didn't read anything from al Times of New York about the reverse boycott that has begun against those advertisers. It has a few more than 100,000 out of 600,000 ColorofChange folks that have agreed to support those who stayed with Beck and to boycott those who left. I wonder who gets hit in the pocket book first, corporations or Fox.
See, you found that little bit that was at the end. Most left leaners wouldn't have found that because they wouldn't have read that far. You are a good lady although a bit misguided, politically.
So what, about a reverse boycott? And if you'd read the Times article you'd see what the advertisers did -- dont be afraid of the Times just because you've been told to be. And why are you attacking the Times and trying to deride it? It turned out to be true-r than your newsbusters "article" -- is that why?
I found that little bit at the end -- and isnt it cowardly of newsbusters not to put its correction/update up top the way reputable news outfits do? -- because I dont trust what I read, roy, so I read it -- something most of you right wingers DO NOT DO, for whatever reason. But Faux, newsbusters et al. know that -- that's why the correction gets put at the end, that's why the misleading headline and first few paragraphs at Faux and only below the fold, grudgingly, the actual facts. This is true and you are being played like a harmonica by these people. Dont be played, roy, you're too nice.
One link per thread should be enough. There is one back there a bit about Jones in a post to either katiana or delusianne. Find it yourself since it isn't really very far back there.
You really didn't know that Jones had been put in jail for his part in a riot?
and how long was he in there, and what was he in there for?
In 1992, during a protest of the Rodney King verdict in San Francisco, police officers illegally arrested Jones and hundreds of other participants in a peaceful protest march.[8] Jones, at the time a law student at Yale Law School, participated as a volunteer, legal monitor. The District Attorney later dropped the charges against Jones. The unlawfully arrested protesters, including Jones, won a small legal settlement. The incident deepened Jones's "disaffection with the system and accelerated [his] political radicalization."[8] - wiki summary of a post by Jones
Ive noticed some of you are parroting what you read/hear at your "news" sources: "an ex-felon."
Sorry, I can't handle ColorofChange because it sounds to me like it is just what Beck accused Obama of being. I guess since I am a terrible racist because I wouldn't vote for him and can't accept so much of what he and his people are doing. I have been called racist for those two reasons by many but it just doesn't bother me.
So you think that the CofC was just after Beck because of what he said about the President? I think they went after him because of what he said about their old creator and leader. Liberal vs. conservative it looks like to me.
Why didnt they go after him on July 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, or 29, then?
and how long was he in there, and what was he in there for?
In 1992, during a protest of the Rodney King verdict in San Francisco, police officers illegally arrested Jones and hundreds of other participants in a peaceful protest march.[8] Jones, at the time a law student at Yale Law School, participated as a volunteer, legal monitor. The District Attorney later dropped the charges against Jones. The unlawfully arrested protesters, including Jones, won a small legal settlement. The incident deepened Jones's "disaffection with the system and accelerated [his] political radicalization."[8] - wiki summary of a post by Jones
Ive noticed some of you are parroting what you read/hear at your "news" sources: "an ex-felon."
I don't know but I did read that Jones said he went in prison as a radical activist and came out a communist. Now if that isn't admitting something I guess Obama was wrong when he said words mean something. Kind of like saying that be for he said in Colorado Springs last September that he needed a civilian force as well funded, organized and armed as the military. He said both those things and then people started making excuses for him. He said it, not me. Jones said that and I didn't say it either. I don't know but trying to clean the crap off a kid that fell in the outside toilet was a big job for people back in the old days.
Lets see now. Does it not say in your post that Jones posted all those things? Cleaned up and everything.
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