Van Jones Admits: I Kept Quiet During Oil Spill Because Barack Obama Was President
Van Jones said that he and environmentalists stayed quiet during the BP oil disaster in 2010 because Barack Obama was president — and admitted he would have “been out there with a sign protesting” had George W. Bush or John McCain been occupying the White House.
Jones, Obama’s former green energy adviser, made the comments during a recent interview on C-SPAN’s Book TV:
“I’m critical of myself, first, and the environmentalists. When the oil spill that happened in the spring of 2010, there was another moment to say, ‘Hold on a second, let’s re-look at energy policy in America. Should we be subsidizing companies that are risking our health immediately and in the long-term?’ We didn’t do it. You’ve never seen the environmental movement more quiet during an oil spill. I guarantee you, if John McCain had been president, with that oil spill, or George Bush had been president with that oil spill, I’d have been out there with a sign protesting. I didn’t, because of who the president was. Well, that’s a bad, uh, uh…that’s not good for the earth, it’s not good for the cause, it’s probably not good for the president. It’s certainly not the way we should conduct ourselves. And so, I’m very tough on progressive movements and leaders, including myself, who did not stand on principle, based on who we looked across and saw as president.”
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blackyb
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 11:43amWhy do not more conservatives control the media? Why is this getting away from conservatives and those who are seeking the Truth?
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JRook
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 1:55pmGiven the fact that fair and balanced pseudo new outlets like Fox and whatever the blaze is, thought the President was too hard on BP and the oil industry for trashing the gulf, why would it matter that Van Jones did not protest for stronger action. Ah yes a classic GB non-point point.
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lovenfl3
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 3:07pmI agree, that’s why we need to turn away from the “traditional” forms of media and look to new sources of information. The MSM wants to control the narrative, and that includes Fox. The internet is hard to control, yet it’s easy to verify the information. This new short video is a great example of this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t5bgM61ULc
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turkey13
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 4:08pmOld VJ said it all, when he was talking about the Government susidizing BP – a-non American Co. Of course they gave big bucks to the Obama campaign so how could he go after them. The faster this was swept under the rug the better for all.
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M13
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 4:09pmMore stupidity from jrook.
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RedDirtTexas
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 5:17pm@ JROOK But you’re head is a point point?
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unclebarry
Posted on May 18, 2012 at 2:45amThat’s a very good question. It may be because the young people that the mainstream media hires
Tend to be just like them. The days of Woodward & Bernstein, Pete Hamill, in short the days of the
hard boiled, get the facts, all the facts news reporter/writer are long gone. Now everything is done by “stringers ” or media people who cover up the news by putting into print exa tly what they are handed. There are no longer any newspeople who actually work for a byline.
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blackyb
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 11:42amVan Jones is a lying hipocrit who needs salvation. He is evil and one-sided. That is the way they figure all their rules to slip and slide for their convenience. Just saying what he did does not make it alright. It is like these people having out of wedlock children and saying they made a “mistake.” They made a sin, a grevious err. There was no mistake involved. Crime and Criminals do not make mistakes they are commiting crimes and sinning. These people better learn what the word mistake really means, what crime means and sin means. This creepy, “he made, or she made a mistake is simply denigrating the seriousness of what people do so they will have no conscious about what they do. They seem to think it is OK to apologize, then say they made a mistake and they are off the hook. It does not work like that. They do want it to, however.
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country_hick
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 11:42amRacist!
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angelcat
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 12:10pmExactly! He admits Obama got a pass ONLY because he was a black, Democrat president. If a white person refused to demonstrate against a white president only because of his color, that person would be called every name in the book including racist.
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blackyb
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 12:13pmI will take a white lamborgina over a black mercury. How about you?
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Brasil2520
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 11:39amAs whites attack each other on every little detail, blacks help blacks
Notice how Jones doesn’t bring up blacks helping blacks, but thats what they do.
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OneTermPresident
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 12:14pmWhat? Blacks help Blacks? 96% of Black killings are Black on Black.
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Brasil2520
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 2:11pmONETERM
Those people vote black regardless of experience or criminal record, like with Marion Barry.
This is true also all over Africa, since the fall of South Africa in the 1990′s, crime statistics on black on white and black on black crime are up, yet blacks still vote black.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP3EKImCt6M
About blacks killing blacks it shows just how reckless they are, yet America ends segregation WTF !
So now the reckless blacks are mixing with our white daughters, we are doomed !
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Papadoc
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 3:04pm@ONETERMPRESIDENT – that says nothing other that punks don’t go too far from home.
What the OP is saying is that black racism trumps every other concern. As many have recently said about Obama’s abortion preference and conversion to gaydom, “though we don’t agree with him and think these are morally repugnant positions, we still have more that connects us than divides us”… in other words being half black trumps everything else including immorality.
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Rational Man
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 11:26amDouble standard?…………..SHOCKER!!
Hypocritical?…………..SHOCKER!!
Being honest about it, for a change?………..BIG SHOCKER!!
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walmpus1
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 11:25amVan Jones is a loudmouth and he just admitted that he was swashbuckled by a black president. Well, he partially correcty. I am so tired of black people standing up for “their” president. He is not black…..hes mulit-racial. Its ok for blacks to call him black, but the white portion of society cant say things like that because were are racist. Do they forget his mother was white as snow? People like Van Jones prove 2 things are alive and well: 1)racism 2) stupidity
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Kisses6350
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 1:24pmOne percent of black blood is all that is needed to be declared legally “Black”…………….Yup! He’s black! Bi racial, but legally black! ***Smirks***
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IDONTTHINKSO
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 11:24amThat almost sounds racist!
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CatB
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 11:49amLOL .. “almost” ????????????????????????????
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slvrserfr
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 11:19amNot surprising that racist and Communist Van Jones would have this biased mentality.
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ArcticDodge
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 11:09amthe media stayed quiet on Obama as well. If that had occured under Bush, the media would have wanted his head on a pike.
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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 11:05am.
Do ya’ll remember when black guys started wearing their pants pulled down low? And how white folks started calling it saggin?
Spell saggin backwards. Sneaky white people……..
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blackyb
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 11:45amSorry, I don’t get it.
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Cabo King
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 10:58amOne S.F.N
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Gonzo
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 10:49am…and what is it about Barack that inspires such loyalty from you Van? Hmm, I wonder.
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michael48
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 11:07amtwo mindless idiots but making progress to becoming totally meaningless…birds of …etc…
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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 11:10am.
Well he stays, bent over at the waist, and I hear he likes to punk…..
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AnAmerican111
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 10:47amVan Jones?……………Who cares!
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AvengerK
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 10:52amWhen Beck castrated old Jonesy he created a whiny little cur.
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HKS
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 10:46amWhat a life, a professional protester? Is this what this country has come to, people with no productive skills make a living crying? Pitiful, just pitiful. Another fine product of the government school system. Another Zero.
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Thevoice
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 11:07amI think Van Jones should be the man …And put himself out there for the …”Green bean commie team” by running into freeway traffic…Come on Van do it for your…. “Cause”….
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Rational Man
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 11:30amYep! The most nobel thing Jones could do is try to stop a polluting old 18 wheeler with his body.
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cookcountypatriot
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 10:44amgood to know ..so when president romney has problems in his administration and jones and his wee wees start moaning..we can just wiggle are arse,s in thier faces and say FRAUDS!
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Constructionist
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 10:44amWell, to be fair… Obama is the first environmentalist president.
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Stoic one
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 11:32amThat statement forces me into a hyperbaric chamber so as to prevent my head form exploding.
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CatB
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 11:52amOH man … nail on head .. as much as he is “president” (lower case on purpose) of anything. I live on the Gulf Coast ( a few miles from the beach) I am NOT amused .. the oil never reached here .. but because of his lack of action .. our businesses suffered.
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RightUnite
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 10:43amNo, you kept your mouth shut, because the fool in the WH told you to shut yer black yap!
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flashback@liarinchief
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 1:20pmAgree
http://www.blinkx.com/watch-video/major-garrett-laughs-off-van-jones-blaming-the-right/YdgkWB6VSyequPmBPzwldQ
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flashback@liarinchief
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 1:22pmStanding next to a lightning rod may be hazardous to your health so it’s best to move away from it.
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Hades
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 10:43amWow, talk about accidental honesty! This is one of the most dangerous men in America. We must defend our way of life from people like him.
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 10:41amOne more example of the treason he and Obama commit daily.
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CMDR6
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 10:39amSounds like a classic racist to me!
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AJAYW
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 10:38amJust shows that Jones is a racist idiot
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cemerius
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 10:46amMoron sums it up!
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Mark0331
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 10:38am…this guy thinks that by being ‘honest’ he is somehow re-inventing himself…silly commie, it only proves that you have had no character all along…hypocritical racist opportunist.
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cornfed440
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 10:36amHello Captain Obvious…….
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Americanaiko
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 10:43amLong time listener, first time caller.
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Infidel49
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 10:35amWe all knew that before you opened your suck.
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AustinMilbarge
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 11:03amLove your moniker…Thanks for your service!!
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Madmilo
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 10:30amCrawl back under your rock, Van.
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AustinMilbarge
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 11:01amPlease, could you re-phrase your comment to, maybe, Crawl back into you’re hole. We don’t want to be accociated with that Commie Douche Nozzle!
Signed,
Rocks everywhere.
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