Video of the week: “It ain’t [America] no more, okay?”
By Michelle Malkin • August 28, 2009 11:09 PM
I already gave out one Cone of Shame award today. Officer Wesley Cheeks just needs a Bozo the Clown mask. Watch as he tells a town hall protester in Reston, Virginia, that he can “charge [him] with whatever I want to” because the protester is holding up a sign he doesn’t like.
When the protester asks why other sign-holders aren’t being threatened with trespassing charges, the officer says it’s because the protester’s sign has a picture.
“This used to be America!” the protester exclaims.
Following the news this morning that Barack Obama's caommunist-Truther Green Czar was linked to the Truther movement back in 2002, Jake Tapper tweeted that he was told that Van Jones spent a brief time with The War Times as their business department:
Jake Tapper wrote more here on the latest denials by Van Jones.
The War Times is a poisonous anti-American, pro-jihadi hate-filled far left monthly paper that began publishing in January 2002. Van Jones was instrumental in the creation of this publication and sat on its board for at least the first year and a half of its existence.
Van Jones worked for The War Times when it was first released in January 2002.
Van Jones continued to work in business department at The War Times in June 2002 (pdf) six months into the project: Click to Enlarge
Now comes word from Shanghai, via the WSJ, that Gary Locke said Americans “need to pay” for China’s carbon emissions:
“It’s important that those who consume the products being made all around the world to the benefit of America — and it’s our own consumption activity that’s causing the emission of greenhouse gases, then quite frankly Americans need to pay for that,” Commerce Secretary Gary Locke told the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai.
I don’t want to hear any complaints in the Senate — especially from you, Sen. Hutchinson — about how Locke’s China pandering is going to hurt American businesses and taxpayers.
You were warned. And you were too “bored” to do anything about it.
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You can find all the dirt on Locke in one handy place in Culture of Corruption…coming July 27.
Union politicking at the pulpit
By Michelle Malkin • September 1, 2009 10:02 AM
Church sermons that espouse conservative values are met with hysterical cries of “theocracy!”
But orchestrated campaigns by Big Labor bosses to fill churches with Democrat-supporting pulpit speeches are met with…the sounds of crickets chirping.
Each Labor Day weekend, Interfaith Worker Justice (IWJ) and the AFL-CIO sponsor the Labor in the Pulpits /on the Bimah /in the Minbar program, which highlights the shared goals of the faith community and the union movement for a new vision for justice in our communities.
As part of Labor in the Pulpits, union members serve as guest speakers in congregations to speak out about their faith, work and the union movement. Some AFL-CIO central labor councils use this program as an opportunity to host a Faith and Labor meeting in which participants discuss important issues facing workers in their local communities and reaffirm their shared commitments to social justice. This year, more than 1,000 faith congregations are participating in Labor in the Pulpits.
Over the years, the Labor in the Pulpits program has helped thousands of congregations focus their Labor Day weekend services on the injustices facing low-wage workers and the religious community’s efforts to support those workers’ struggles for living wages and family-sustaining benefits.
Says IWJ Executive Director Kim Bobo:
Labor in the Pulpits /on the Bimah /in the Minbar expresses in a very clear way the bonds between religion and labor. Every major religion teaches respect for work and the moral duty to care for the poor and foster social justice-the same goals that the union movement holds.
Those shared goals create a natural bond between us. That bond is even stronger this year as we stand poised to bring about real change in our country from reforming health care to stopping wage theft and making our workplaces more democratic.
That’s pretty sophisticated for a couple of boys to come up with on their own. No mention of pony rides, fishing or hunting trips, or even stories around the supper table with Granddad. Hmm. Had an eerie similarity to what David Axelrod or Rahm Emmanuel would have written. You don’t suppose their one opportunity to say something at the only funeral Granddad Teddy would have would be used for political purposes at the expense of a personal memorial do you?
So young to be such tools…
Ricardo ….you would think the would pray that Ted would be able to apologize to Mary Jo… or that he’ll get a good seat at happy hour… this just proves the left are the robots.
Count down to Liberal reprisal:..3…2..1…
That’s pretty sophisticated for a couple of boys to come up with on their own. No mention of pony rides, fishing or hunting trips, or even stories around the supper table with Granddad. Hmm. Had an eerie similarity to what David Axelrod or Rahm Emmanuel would have written. You don’t suppose their one opportunity to say something at the only funeral Granddad Teddy would have would be used for political purposes at the expense of a personal memorial do you?
So young to be such tools…
Ricardo ….you would think the would pray that Ted would be able to apologize to Mary Jo… or that he’ll get a good seat at happy hour… this just proves the left are the robots.
Count down to Liberal reprisal:..3…2..1…
Thanks to KABC, there’s audio of Watson heaping praise on Castro, Guevara, and the Cuban health system at her town hall meeting last night — as well as injecting her usual racial poison into the health care debate. (For a reminder of what Cuban health care is really like, click here.)
I wrote up a transcript of her remarks. Bring an airsickness bag before reading:
WATSON: You might have heard their philosophical leader. I think his name is Rush Limbaugh. And he said early on, “I hope that he fails.”
Do you know what that means? If the president, your commander-in-chief, fails, America fails.
Now, when a senator says that this will be his Waterloo, and we all know what happened at Waterloo, then we have him and he fails. Do we want a failed state called the United States?
And remember: They are spreading fear and they are trying to see that the first president that looks likes me fails.
Now just understand what’s at the bottom line.
And you know we just got, 48 hours ago, we just go back, we were in Beijing, China, Hong Kong, China, we were in Taiwan, we were in Guam, we were all over the Far East.
I just want you to know: People look at the United States as a country that has changed its way and has elected someone from Kenya and Kansas, I’ll put it like that.
And they’re saying, “We thought you would never do that.”
So we don’t want to have this young man, and he just turned 48 — we want him to succeed, because when he succeeds, we regain our status. We regain our status.
It was just mentioned to me by our esteemed speaker, “Did anyone say anything about the Cuban health system?”
And lemme tell ya, before you say “Oh, it’s a commu–”, you need to go down there and see what Fidel Castro put in place. And I want you to know, now, you can think whatever you want to about Fidel Castro, but he was one of the brightest leaders I have ever met. [APPLAUSE]
And you know, the Cuban revolution that kicked out the wealthy, Che Guevara did that, and then, after they took over, they went out among the population to find someone who could lead this new nation, and they found…well, just leave it there (laughs), an attorney by the name of Fidel Castro…
William A. Jacobson
Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Cornell Law School, Ithaca, NY
A lot of people are asking "who vetted Van Jones?" or wondering how the Obama administration could have missed the problems. These are valid questions, but they miss the point.
Van Jones is a mainstream member of the left-wing of the Democratic Party. Like over half of all Democrats (as of May 2007) he either believed that George Bush knew about the 9/11 attacks in advance or at least was unsure; he hated George Bush and called Bush bad names; he called Congressional Republicans some bad names; he supported Mumia Abu-Jamal; and he used race as a political weapon.
There is no reason to believe anything was "missed" in the vetting process. To the contrary, it is just as likely that no one paid any attention to these issues precisely because for the left-wing of the Democratic Party these issues are not problems.
Given the silence of the mainstream media, the vetters were mostly correct in their assessment. If not for the conservative blogosphere, all these "problems" would have been no problem at all.
A lot of people are asking "who vetted Van Jones?" or wondering how the Obama administration could have missed the problems. These are valid questions, but they miss the point.
Van Jones is a mainstream member of the left-wing of the Democratic Party. Like over half of all Democrats (as of May 2007) he either believed that George Bush knew about the 9/11 attacks in advance or at least was unsure; he hated George Bush and called Bush bad names; he called Congressional Republicans some bad names; he supported Mumia Abu-Jamal; and he used race as a political weapon.
There is no reason to believe anything was "missed" in the vetting process. To the contrary, it is just as likely that no one paid any attention to these issues precisely because for the left-wing of the Democratic Party these issues are not problems.
Given the silence of the mainstream media, the vetters were mostly correct in their assessment. If not for the conservative blogosphere, all these "problems" would have been no problem at all.
The key point about the Van Jones affair is what it tells us about Barack Obama. Jones isn't someone who slipped through the cracks of the vetting process. We know this because, as Scott pointed out earlier today, top Obama aide Valerie Jarrett has said, "So, Van Jones, we were so delighted to be able to recruit him into the White House; we were watching him. . .for as long as he's been active out in Oakland."
Having watched the rise of Van Jones, why did Team Obama nonetheless "recruit" him into the White house? Because what Jones says and believes is well within the range of what Obama believes, and thus not jarrring to him and his crew.
If Jones is now beyond the pale, it is only because the Obama crowd finally hears him through the filter of a controversy. When Obama and company heard him only through the filter of what they believe, there was no controversy because his statements -- e.g., his attack on Israeli "occupation" dating back to 1948 and his claim that "U.S. tax dollars are funding violence against people of color inside the U.S. borders and outside the US borders" -- are not particularly controversial to Team Obama.
This, of course, is the Rev. Jeremiah Wright phenomenon all over again. Wright's racist, anti-Israeli, anti-American statements didn't jar Obama while he was sitting in Wrights's church for 20 years because they were not that different from what Obama believes. Even when controversy erupted and Obama's political future was on the line, Obama at first found Wright's pronouncements no more in need of being "disowned" than his grandmother's view that she'd rather be driven to work than be panhandled by an aggressive black man at the bus station. It took a shot by Wright at Obama himself to cause the candidate to break with his spiritual mentor.
The Jones phenomenon signifies that, as my friend Bill Otis likes to say, the left "can't hear itself." That's why when it heard Jones, all it detected was "creative ideas" and "energy" to bring to the White House.
To quote Bill again, "Van Jones is simply Jeremiah Wright behind a White House desk."
U.N. declares Castro a “World Hero of Solidarity”
By Michelle Malkin • September 5, 2009 01:33 PM
Yes, it’s true.
The United Nations has declared misery-inducing, freedom-strangling Cuban dictator Fidel Castro a “World Hero of Solidarity.”
The award was presented to Castro by the President of the UN General Assembly, Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann. Brockmann also successfully lobbied the Obama Administration to demand that Honduras allow the return to power of its ex-president and would-be dictator, Manuel Zelaya. (Two months ago, soldiers acting on orders of Honduras’s Supreme Court arrested Zelaya after he systematically abused his powers. After the Court quite legally declared that Zelaya was no longer president, he was duly replaced by Honduras’s Congress with a civilian, the Congressional Speaker). The Obama Administration recently decided to impose sanctions on Honduras, and indicated it will not recognize future democratic elections in Honduras unless Honduras first lets ex-president Zelaya return to power.
Marxism seems to be back in fashion in Washington these days.
While I am in complete support of lifting the embargo against Cuba, I think Obama and his cronies are playing a very dangerous game in their attempt to force America to the left… We understand that many members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) have sympathies for socialism and Fidel Castro, but to visit Cuba, and then come back with nothing but praise for a man who has murdered thousands of people to build his version of a socialist utopia is not only foolish, but an insult to all those who respect human dignity. Politico
Lee and others heaped praise on Castro, calling him warm and receptive during their discussion.
“It was quite a moment to behold,” Lee said, recalling her moments with Castro.
“It was almost like listening to an old friend,” said Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Il.), adding that he found Castro’s home to be modest and Castro’s wife to be particularly hospitable.
“In my household I told Castro he is known as the ultimate survivor,” Rush said.
Rep. Laura Richardson (D-Ca.) said Castro was receptive to President Obama’s message of turning the page in American foreign policy.
“He listened. He said the exact same thing” about turning the page “as President Obama said,” said Richardson.
If Castro lives that long, isthere anyone who thinks Obama is NOT going to meet with Castro within the next 4 years?
The national flag of the People's Republic of China (PRC) will be hoisted at the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on September 20, media reported Sunday.
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Today, GOP Sen. Kit Bond called for congressional oversight on nutball green jobs czar Van Jones:
U.S. Senator Kit Bond, ranking member of the Green Jobs and the New Economy Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today called for a Congressional oversight hearing probing the fitness of a senior White House official.
In a letter to Senator Bernie Sanders, Chairman of the Subcommittee with oversight of administration green jobs efforts, Bond voiced concerned that Mr. Van Jones, as Special Advisor to the President for Green Jobs, is becoming increasingly erratic and unstable as reflected by incendiary comments and repugnant associations made public in recent days. Mr. Van Jones is responsible for directing administration policy and spending on tens of billions of dollars in taxpayer funding regarding environmental policy and green jobs programs. However, since the White House appointed him as a “czar,” Mr. Jones was able to avoid any oversight or confirmation by the U.S. Senate.
In his letter to Senator Sanders, Bond wrote, “Today, news outlets are reporting that Van Jones signed a petition from the so-called ‘Truther’ movement which suggests that the Bush administration ‘may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext to war.’ I can imagine few sentiments more repulsive to our brave fighting soldiers and the victims of the 9/11 terror tragedy than to think the U.S. government deliberately allowed the events of 9/11 to occur. Of course Mr. Jones in hindsight is embarrassed by the public disclosure of his participation in the petition drive and now asserts he did not read the fine print of the petition. But can the American people trust a senior White House official that is so cavalier in his association with such radical and repugnant sentiments?”
