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"Communist-group founder on team influencing environmental policies"
"Jones is one of 20 advisers to the University of Colorado–based Presidential Climate Action Project, or PCAP, which draws up climate-policy recommendations for the White House and has been working with members of the Obama administration."
Did Senator McCarthy rise from the grave, or is it that anyone (or specific group) Glen Beck doesnt like is a communist? If so, I guess that makes me and 56% of americans communist.
Did Senator McCarthy rise from the grave, or is it that anyone (or specific group) Glen Beck doesnt like is a communist? If so, I guess that makes me and 56% of americans communist.
Glenn Beck is a self-proclaimed cry-baby, fat-head.
Van Jones is a self-proclaimed communist.
Good deflection from the OP, Saul
Answer to OP: Yes
He just got pushed off the payroll
In October 2005 Jones said he was "a rowdy nationalist"[15] before the King verdict was announced, but that by August of that year (1992) he was a communist.
Yes, the Van Jones flash-mob achieved nothing more than getting his title and office address changed. He is still working on a multiude of environmental issues and still providing advice and counsel to the President and his administration. So is Tom Dacshle, by the way, so right-wingers can go ahead and stew on that one, too...
As I recall, the quote was something about going to jail a radical and coming out a communist; from meeting all the radicals when he was in jail turned him into a communist.
Sorry, no link. Just what I remember from TV; I think he might have said it in some speech that was youtubed. I don't remember.
Dude, you cite 'wikipedia' as proof? You are aware that wikipedia is the publically modified (therefore worthless) encyclopedia? You may as well quote the onion.
The problem with Wikipedia is its variability. Crap can get in there alright and it can take a while for it to be edited out. The crap however has usually been flagged to indicate that the article in its current state has been questioned. That describes the margins. The vast bulk of Wikipedia is actually as accurate and reliable as any other reference source and more so than many. The footnotes in particular can be valuable leads into doing a much broader review of sources and information.
And that is the problem with the link to Wikipedia provided. The article includes only a few words extracted from a much larger context. That's the sort of thing that a complete partisan waste and political hack such as Glenn Beck might do. The quote itself comes from a 2005 profile of Jones that appeared in the East Bay Express, a Village Voice-like alternative weekly newspaper in the Oakland/East Bay/SF area. Reading the whole article puts the quote in a rather different light from what the senseless right-wing screamers have tried to shine on it...
Citation of Van Jones claimng to be a communist? Without it, what you are saying is hearsay.
Don't take my word, take his. There's a reason why people are calling him a "self-avowed Communist."
Jones told the East Bay Express in 2005 after the Rodney King verdicts:
"I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th [1992], and then the verdicts came down on April 29th. By August, I was a communist. (...) I met all these young radical people of color – I mean really radical: communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of.' I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary."
Did you really think he resigned his czar job because it was discovered he called Republicans some bad names?
"When he graduated from law school, Jones gave up plans to take a job in Washington, D.C., and moved to San Francisco instead.[15] He got involved with Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM), a group explicitly committed to revolutionary Marxist politics[19] whose points of unity were revolutionary democracy, revolutionary feminism, revolutionary internationalism, the central role of the working class, urban Marxism, and Third World Communism."
He really isn't in the closet over what he is. He's been pretty upfront about it, if you ask me.
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