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MSNBC Host Asks Van Jones for Advice: What Can Progressives Do?

Big victories for the Republican Party last week have liberal progressives on edge and so-called “green” policies facing uncertain futures. Fortunately for the progressive base, MSNBC went right to the source to get their new marching orders.

In an “interview” with MSNBC’s Cenk Uygur this week, former White House green jobs czar and current senior fellow at the Center for American Progress Van Jones criticized the president’s progressive base for “sitting back, munching popcorn, blogging and tweeting about what the president is not doing.”

“You gotta get specific with me. You gotta tell me what can progressives actually do?” Cenk pressed in MSNBC’s typically unbiased fashion, of course.

After Cenk accused the White House of throwing him under the bus, Jones went on to plug his Green For All organization and encouraged progressives to support the EPA, which he claimed will be put “on the chopping block” with Republicans regaining control in the House.

In addition, Jones asserted that banks and oil companies like Halliburton are plenty of money and that they should be forced to pay for putting unemployed Americans back to work:

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  • oldasdirt
    Posted on November 11, 2010 at 11:33pm

    Telling dems to buckle up and prepair for battle.Big mistake rocks for brains.The battle you are wanting will be short lived,and you will die at long range.About 600 yds.to be exact.
    Water,food,and lots and lots of bullets.

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    • Diamondback
      Posted on November 12, 2010 at 4:49am

      I know a bunch of boys that can hit prairie dogs out beyond 1,000 yards so let’s not limit ourselves too much. Put it this way. They won’t be distressed by hearing the gun go off.

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  • pamela kay
    Posted on November 11, 2010 at 11:32pm

    Does anyone remember that Van wants to give green jobs to prisoners serving time? Does he think that we are not aware of his background? The epa is going to force cap and trade and obama will just shrug his shoulers and say my hands are tied. So we need to start working on shutting them down sooner than later.

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    • Marcobob69
      Posted on November 12, 2010 at 8:55am

      I agree with you. The epa has gotten way out of control and needs to be reigned in; they have way too much power if they can bypass congress and enact laws on their own. THAT IS WHAT WE HAVE CONGRESS FOR!!! And, asking Van Jones for advice? Come on, MAN!!! Why not just stick your head in the lion’s mouth!!!!

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  • the hawk
    Posted on November 11, 2010 at 11:27pm

    I cound’t hang on blah blah blah blah blah blah
    I’m a right winger I would sign that deficit com sug into law tomorrow
    their as close to something than we will ever get ! wonder what Ross Peroit would say ?

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  • LIBERALSBEDAMNED
    Posted on November 11, 2010 at 11:26pm

    Dont forget folks, we are the many they are the few. never forget that. they will lose as long as we are determined to win.

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  • MUDFLAPS
    Posted on November 11, 2010 at 11:25pm

    This man is a dirt bag. man there are so many of these idiots around. thats why they have been lowering the education requirements, so these nuts would be able to sway them. man, there are a million things i could say here, but, i bet you think them too.

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  • BoilitDown
    Posted on November 11, 2010 at 11:24pm

    The fact remains that the “Green Industries” would have taken off by themselves if they were so desirable and fantastic.
    Punishing the real producers is about the most counter productive thing we could do. Robbing the oil companies will only lead to further unemployment. Van Jones is mentally incapable of doing the simple math to achieve that conclusion.

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  • A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
    Posted on November 11, 2010 at 11:21pm

    I don’t want wind and solar power at the expense of oil power. American oil companies should just find a way to go out there and drill anyway – to hell with these oppressive, Marxist, pretended legislations.

    Our own oil is good for us. Foreign oil is bad for us when the foreign oil comes from those who want to destroy our economy and our lives.

    BP is great. I wonder how many lives were saved by the use of all the oil BP drilled? I wonder how many new markets were created?

    Now BP suck when it comes to that bomber guy, so screw them for that. But the oil is great. And when we can get rid of the environmental regulations, we should drill for more of our own oil and maybe we won’t need BP to do that for us (it’s our oil, after all).

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  • JohnnyJT
    Posted on November 11, 2010 at 11:19pm

    Asking a Jail Bird for advice… WoW.

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  • tnalp
    Posted on November 11, 2010 at 11:19pm

    These jerks, socialist, communist, progressives and liberals are all running scared. They just aren’t running far enough to get them out of the United States. Make an illegal alien a citizen deport one of the above.

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    • GulfPeg
      Posted on November 12, 2010 at 5:08am

      We need to really work hard and watch these progressives and their shadow government! We also need a national I.D. and have everyone prove when they not only register to vote, but at the polling locations proof of U.S. citizenship. These progressive/socialists/marxists/leftists, etc. are going to get the illegals to vote in the 2012 election, folks. This has to be stopped!

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  • Blazergirl
    Posted on November 11, 2010 at 11:15pm

    Comming from a true communist. I hope the progressives continue to sit on the side lines. Surely they aren’t going to buy into all that propaganda. 80,000 green jobs? Really? Why isn’t the White House and the left winged media reporting on all these green jobs? Oh yeah, that’s because for every green job they create they kill 100 nongreen jobs. They’re 80,000 jobs are NOT in the US. They are created in China. Why doesn’t the White House just shut him up?

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  • UlyssesP
    Posted on November 11, 2010 at 11:10pm

    Van is right!
    Pass the popcorn I’ve got to tweet this!

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    • A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
      Posted on November 11, 2010 at 11:35pm

      LOL, yeah.

      It looks like a sizeable, and growing, chunk of the “proletariat” of America turned out to be something other than what the Progressives expected. ;)

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  • A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
    Posted on November 11, 2010 at 11:05pm

    I don’t hate the federal government. The federal government has a role to play in service to the private sector. And since the private sector is the the creator and sustainer of all governments everywhere, in all times, governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

    Governments aren’t supposed to prosper at the expense of the private sector, since government is like the private sector’s “overhead”; When the economy is such that the private sector suffers, it’s time to cut out some of that overhead.

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  • Mickeyd
    Posted on November 11, 2010 at 11:04pm

    Defund NPR! If you don’t defund NPR, then you’re not serious about cutting federal spending! They can get all the money they want from George Soros. As to why they want to be in bed with that country-wrecker, one can only wonder…..

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    • A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
      Posted on November 11, 2010 at 11:28pm

      The government isn’t supposed to fund media. Being accountable to the People as to their own work is one thing, but other than that one of the important functions of the media is to shine light on the government – that’s what “freedom of the press” is about.

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  • Mousey
    Posted on November 11, 2010 at 11:00pm

    Keep the movement going brothers and sisters!
    The light will shine on these people and a choice will come to us all.
    We are awake now.. and waking the others around us.

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  • tenring
    Posted on November 11, 2010 at 10:58pm

    Glenn has put a face on the enemy.

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    • snowleopard3200 {mix art}
      Posted on November 11, 2010 at 11:22pm

      Every time I see Van Jones I have to wonder, did someone go and clone Pelosi?

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    • AntiCommie
      Posted on November 12, 2010 at 1:36am

      Thank God for Glenn.

      It just proves Glenn’s point – VJ is a senior fellow at the the Center for American Progress…

      And all those green jobs are being subsidized by tax dollars. If it was such a deal, private companies would be investing in it.

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  • iWonderWhy
    Posted on November 11, 2010 at 10:57pm

    I can’t even watch the whole thing. All I start to hear is “blah blah blah NOTHING” Someone please tell Minivan Jones to shut up!

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  • Sunnyr
    Posted on November 11, 2010 at 10:57pm

    What the heck is a “Cenk Uygur?” Sounds like a fatal disease. Never heared of this Twit.

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    • Star Spangled
      Posted on November 11, 2010 at 11:09pm

      He has a youtube gig called the young turks . It’s all crap .

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    • behonest
      Posted on November 13, 2010 at 7:25am

      The young turks they have hundreds of Bush hating Obama slobbering You tubes. Big fat blowhards

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  • Abel
    Posted on November 11, 2010 at 10:55pm

    Notice how he “accidentally” referred to the EPA as the “Equal Protection Agency”.

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  • rtlane28
    Posted on November 11, 2010 at 10:54pm

    Just a couple of Saul Alinsky disciples plotting the demise of America….

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbUuXu9_X_s

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  • sassygirl
    Posted on November 11, 2010 at 10:54pm

    Wow, the Progressives really are freaking out! II never even heard of Progressives or their Agenda until Obama came on the scene. I am so amazed at their way of thinking and how Elite they sound whenever they are speaking.I can’t believe America now knows the truth and is now stepping up to defend against these Progressive ideas. God Bless America and all of us who still believe in the Constitution and our Founding Fathers.

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    • snowleopard3200 {mix art}
      Posted on November 11, 2010 at 11:57pm

      Just consider if it had not been for Beck and a handful of other watchmen on the walls what those Progressives could have accomplished; and we americans would have been asleep and oblivious.
      That is scary to the worst extreme possible.

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    • Diamondback
      Posted on November 12, 2010 at 4:56am

      They‘ve already accomplished a helluva lot beginning in the early 1900’s!!!

      Social Security, Welfare, Unemployment, Medicare, Medicaid and now Obamaocare plus much, much more.

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    • josie
      Posted on November 12, 2010 at 5:47am

      I agree Sassygirl, I never heard of all this until Obama came on the scene, he is really scary (it may have been there, but not so open and arrogant)

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  • Psychosis
    Posted on November 11, 2010 at 10:54pm

    good ole jones calling out the troops llol what a bunch of idiots interesting they keep calling for violence, confiscating other people belongings and the global warming crap ……..its all they got

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    • Beckofile
      Posted on November 11, 2010 at 11:15pm

      Green for all used to mean that everyone that works hard will have a wallet full of green now it means send the government your green and some bureaucrat will decide using energy is bad and breathing is pollution. Where did ACID RAIN go? Oh…same place globull warming went, into the trash heap but don’t worry because now we have climate change and that means if temps go up or down it will only lead to unloading your wallet. He will be on the chair of The Center for American Destruction soon.

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  • Gita
    Posted on November 11, 2010 at 10:53pm

    Yes Mr. Jones we know top down, bottom up and inside out but it’s not gonna work cause the light has been shined on your dark satanic ideology!

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  • A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
    Posted on November 11, 2010 at 10:51pm

    Oil spills are not an act of war. Nice try.

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    • snowleopard3200 {mix art}
      Posted on November 11, 2010 at 11:20pm

      Progressives are an act of war.

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:10am

      Van Commie is proud of the coal miners???? When did coal become a green job??? I thought they wanted to wipe them from the face of the earth with Crap & Tax??? And did he really thinks he could rely on people wanting “free stuff and Govie checks” to carry the progressive torch??? He should of said, They (Libs) are sitting around eating popcorn, watching soaps and smoking weed. The only to get them to vote is provide a bus,box lunch & a pack of Newport’s……..

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    • Mister President
      Posted on November 12, 2010 at 6:48am

      The Progressive agenda is an Act of War on the United States of America. But, they know they could never actually win a real war or legitimately change the Constitution , so they do the slow erosion tactics that Mr. Beck has so brilliantly exposed. High Crimes and Treason, no doubt; however, I’ll refer you to the very specific nature of Treason outlined in Article III of the Constitution the United States of America. It’s interesting how specific it is. The Founders were absolutely brilliant and progressives simply cannot see that brilliance or don’t want to, so they try to destroy that which they do not or cannot understand.

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  • sportlock
    Posted on November 11, 2010 at 10:49pm

    What can the progressives do?
    Move to Europe is an idea…

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    • Restoreamer
      Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:44am

      Amen to that!

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    • AntiCommie
      Posted on November 12, 2010 at 1:22am

      The banks did not cause the housing crisis. It was a progressive idea that everyone should own a home and the Federal Reserve enforced the laws that Barney and Company made up. Read the report by the left-wing Ford Foundation on the NY Fed website at http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/epr/03v09n2/0306apga.pdf

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    • starman70
      Posted on November 12, 2010 at 8:48am

      Double AMEN to that!

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    • janedough1
      Posted on November 12, 2010 at 9:40am

      Actually, this is a reply to anticommie, but I don’t know any other way to post my comment with his.

      One of the things I don’t hear anyone talking about in all this is the role of zoning laws in all of this. I learned a long time ago, when I lived in Baltimore, MD, just exactly how oppressively zoning laws can be. If you ban inexpensive housing, like house trailers, then you force the poor into apartments. If you use zoning laws to limit where apartments can be, then you can segregate people by race and class. And if you artificially keep rents high, you can limit their ability to save up money to get an education, buy a house and move out. I don’t hear anyone talking about the effects of zoning on the housing crisis.

      In very recent history, a man was free to build the best house he could afford and to live in it while he improved and repaired it. For some new immigrants, this meant a sod house on the prairie. Those soddies were the deaths of some families, as their roofs came off in the middle of blizzards, but for most families, they were the birth of independence and land and home ownership. Nowadays, the only way to get a house is to buy one that is compliant with local zoning by borrowing vast sums of money that are going to keep you slaves to debt.

      Not only that, but even the most inexpensive houses are now zoning compliant and involve borrowing money. You can’t exactly build your own mobile home to your specs. You borrow money to buy a factory built, zoning compliant mobile home and make payments with interest on that money. You also have to pay lot rental. And in the end, you have a flimsy home built on lumber that is not even 1 1/2 by 3 1/2, with a flimsy metal skin on the outside and a flimsy masonite skin on the inside. A soddie would probably be safer in winds, tornados, floods or blizzards. We can’t even pretend that making a house trailer the bottom option is about keeping people safe or building environmentally friendly or about aesthetics. The only thing I can see that it does is force them into loans.

      Maybe its high time that we start letting people make their own decisions about what to do with their own property. If they want to live in a dirt floor shed with a porta-potty for a year or two in order to save up money to buy a trailer for cash, who are we to stop them and force them into a loan?

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    • oydtheyuppie
      Posted on November 12, 2010 at 3:18pm

      Amen also. Did you notice he called the banks banksters. Blame the banks, not Barney Frank & his fellow progressives in the congress. We know who the real gangsters are Van.

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  • Ronko
    Posted on November 11, 2010 at 10:49pm

    He’s right about the EPA the Republicans should deal with them and the ruling that the Supreme Court made with them a couple of years ago that gave the EPA power to regulate certain gases when their was no problem with those certain gases. The solution would be simple get rid of the EPA and replace it with something thats better and cheaper.

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    • snowleopard3200 {mix art}
      Posted on November 11, 2010 at 11:06pm

      Agreed, get rid of all the junk that is not needed or has grown too large in becoming a governing body within its own right. Reign them in across the board.

      http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm

      Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}  
    • Beckofile
      Posted on November 11, 2010 at 11:09pm

      How about not replacing it and just tell folks to not poop where they eat. Conservation and wet lands protection and even our state parks were all origionally Republican or Conservative items. We don‘t want to trash our environment but we also don’t want to trash our economic system which will trash more of the environment when despair is widespread.

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    • what4
      Posted on November 11, 2010 at 11:14pm

      Gut all gubment agencys, re-hire at a fair wage….EPA should be first!

       
    • Anarcho Capitalist
      Posted on November 11, 2010 at 11:17pm

      The EPA is the worst of all. Why not just get rid of it and replace with nothing. Do you have no knowledge of the economics you must support. They are not needed buy any one for anything. You must learn about free markets. Read books from mises.org.

      You sound like the type that say “ legalize and tax” just legalize and skip the tax.

      Anarcho Capitalist  
    • snowleopard3200 {mix art}
      Posted on November 11, 2010 at 11:20pm

      @Beckofile

      I understand the need for conservation, and agree with it. My problem comes when the EPA has the near god-like authority to shut down or impose new laws in the matter of regulations without any type of Congressional approvals, or controls. If the EPA as a whole is out of control, then either reign it in or replace it with a more effective and efficient one. Whatever waste needs to go, get rid of it.

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    • SgtB
      Posted on November 11, 2010 at 11:28pm

      If it weren’t for the epa and their arbitrary standards we would all be driving cars that got 50 mpg or better and went 0-60 in 5.0 sec. But thanks to low compression ratios and all of the weight of extra systems we don’t all need like anti-lock, traction control, airbags, sophisticated computer diagnostic systems, and more we have expensive and crappy cars.

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    • Robert W
      Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:43am

      Frauds.

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    • rebel
      Posted on November 12, 2010 at 1:15am

      hoorible host. horrible guest. If i was a drinking man i would create a game called “let’s take a shot when Van Jones says AMERICAN HERO.” drunk in 4 minutes!

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    • teddie888
      Posted on November 12, 2010 at 2:38am

      And while they get rid of EPA, include the Feds & UN

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    • staythecourse
      Posted on November 12, 2010 at 4:38am

      America’s government is also the state government. It is about “limited” federal government. And the one that has “MY” money is the government…not big corporations.

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    • *************************
      Posted on November 12, 2010 at 5:37am

      Come on, America! You’re afraid of these drippy-nose wimps? Really. Just walk right over those whiny malcontents and let’s get on with the business of LIBERTY!

      sheriff BART: “A man drink like that and he don’t eat, he is going to die.”
      town drunk JIM: “When?”
      -Blazing Saddles

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    • waynef2000
      Posted on November 12, 2010 at 6:30am

      The EPA is almost as worthless as the Department of Education.

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    • judy1270
      Posted on November 12, 2010 at 7:31am

      Mr.Jones
      I think, you and your organizations were behind the BP Spill…“ But thats just Me”
      If you think we are not going to be Bigger and Stronger..come 2012 your Green..
      We are going to come out fighting, toe to toe…lie to lie……..you may think we are old and white you may call us racists………..But I’m here to tell you………..
      You have no Idea how mad we are………..You Sir….are racist.. socialist pig..and we are going roast you and all your organizations.
      People like you, and the people at MSMBC…………Have no Idea how mad the American People are.
      You people don’t have any original thoughts……..

      judy1270  
    • lillymckim
      Posted on November 12, 2010 at 8:47am

      The “Green Czar”…. An-phony Jones is Commie Red to the core…

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    • 5
      Posted on November 12, 2010 at 8:48am

      Look close at VJ face.
      He’s looking pertty old.
      Better lay of the Crack Mac.
      You Commies are going to drop like Flys in Crap.
      Prays the Lord. My God doesn’t have a will. It’s up to YOU!

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    • ishka4me
      Posted on November 12, 2010 at 10:40am

      If there was t .v. during the revolution, msnbc would have benedict arnold as a regular guest

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    • bulldawg
      Posted on November 12, 2010 at 3:05pm

      Wow, commie television, almost like watching Mr. Ed a dumb@ss talking to another dumb@ss. Dumb and Dumber 5. Van Jones your daddy Soros has big problems trying to cover his butt with Beck, so be real careful what you say because your brother in crime is still in Japan. http://www.weeklyrepublic.com

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