Van Jones Dubbed ‘Star’ At Calif. Dem Convention Where Dems Praise Occupiers…Who Are Protesting Outside
- Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:25am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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He’s baaaack.
Okay, so maybe Van Jones never really went away. But if you read the San Francisco Chronicle this weekend, you would know that the former green jobs czar who resigned after he was exposed as a 9/11 truther is back on the rise.* In fact, one of the paper’s blogs dubbed him a “star” again after his speech at the California Democratic Convention — a convention, mind you, filled with praise for the Occupy Movement. A movement that, ironically, was protesting the event.
“Van Jones, the former Obama Administration green czar who resigned in controversy, appears on the fast track to a political comeback — emerging as a star at this weekend’s California Democratic convention and lauded by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi as a ‘leader of the future,’” writes Carla Marinucci of the Chronicle.
Why all the nice things? Well, here’s what he had to say:
To the cheers of the grassroots activists, Jones endorsed a “millionaires’ tax” as a means of firing up younger voters in the 2012 election, saying “that will get their attention.”
While Jones didn’t specify if he was referring to a specific ballot initiative titled the “Millionaire’s Tax,” or the general idea of taxing the top 1 percent income earners, he argued that under-30 voters critical to Democratic successes in 2012 will find appealing “the idea that the people that already climbed that ladder (of success) will give something back.”
Jones repeatedly won cheers when he defined what he said were the issues and challenges faced by Democrats — and President Barack Obama — as the 2012 election approaches.
“I’m tired of being accused of being anti-American,” said Jones. “”They call it class warfare…if anything, it’s warfare against people who have no class…they won’t even return our phone calls when our houses are underwater.”
The effusive reception given to Jones underscores that the former community activist appears in resurgence since the days after the Obama Administration green czar was forced to resign after controversial statements and ties with grassroots groups that Republicans claimed had radical roots.
According to the Chronicle, Pelosi even called herself a “fan” of Jones. She’s also the same one who said “God bless them” when asked about the Occupiers a few months ago.
But we should point out a few odd things here. First, if you look at the convention’s video section on its website, Jones‘s apparently rousing speech isn’t available. Interesting. Second, the Occupiers Jones praised so much were actually outside protesting the convention.
A member of the Occupy San Diego movement protests in front of the California Democrats State Convention Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012, in San Diego.
The Associated Press provides the irony:
Even with Democrats supporting higher taxes on the wealthy this November, Occupy protesters still found fault with California’s majority party at their annual convention in San Diego on Saturday.
About 100 Occupy members protested outside the San Diego Convention Center, where the state party was holding the convention, sounding off on themes similar to those being discussed inside. But protesters said some Democrats had let them down by supporting the indefinite detention of terror suspects and spending millions on political campaigns.
“Don’t just watch us, come and join us,“ and ”Get up, get down, there’s revolution in this town,” they chanted.
Democratic delegates had to push through the crowd as they returned from lunch, but many stopped to talk to the protesters. Some of them also wore buttons saying “We are the 99 percent” and “Millionaire’s tax of 2012.”
Those protests, however, didn’t stop Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom from saying the Democrats owe thanks to the Occupiers.
On behalf of his two young children, the AP reports, he said, “I want to thank the Occupy movement for stepping up and stepping into this space and doing more than we have in 30 years for putting the focus on the growing income inequality gap.”
And that’s despite the Occupiers chanting outside: “Feinstein, come out! We got some shit to talk about!”
Intrepid blogger Zombie, who first noted the head-scratcher, is appalled.
“It’s absolutely astonishing that the California Democrats are embracing the Occupy movement even long after it has crashed and burned, and even as those very same Occupiers are hurling abuse and vulgarities at the people praising them,” he writes.
“Everyone knows that politicians are a bit slow on the uptake, but I mean this is ridiculous. It’s almost as if the left believes its own propaganda: the media intentionally misrepresents the Occupiers and their behavior and message so as to dupe middle America, even though anyone with one eye half open could see that the Occupiers were nothing but a motley crew of scatterbrained Marxists and smelly bums (and that’s being kind, frankly).”
Read all of Zombie’s thoughts here.
*Note: It should be said that Jones reportedly apologized for being a truther at the convention. From the Chronicle:
Jones apologized for some of his actions, including signing a petition for 911Truth.org which appeared to suggest the Bush Administration “may indeed deliberately have allowed 9/11 to happen.”
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Comments (166)
tommy_pete
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 9:08amSo Van Jones is a ‘Star’? Maybe he’ll explode like a super nova then…. if we’re lucky.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 9:54amMore like a blackhole, rather than a star……..
Report Post »iac
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 10:06am@ Detroit Paperboy. VJ is really a Black Hole. LMFAO! Good One!
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 10:36amShows you just how little the left has to work with.
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 11:21amSo Pelosi and company have joined forces with evil. I think we knew that but why do so many not see the truth of VJ, Pelosi, etc.? Their agenda does not belong in America. Col. West was right, take that agenda to the bottom of the oceans.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 11:58amOld Democrats .. these are the people who have taken over your party. Is this really who YOU are?
TEA!
Report Post »FormerLib
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 12:18pmThese dolts have no idea what they’re protesting.
Report Post »AmericanFightingMan1
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 12:33pmPelosi is the black widow. She sends out her little minions to do her bidding. Jones recruits the stupid and uninformed and brings them into the fold. Even if they win, they lose since their world is so sordid, it will be hell on earth.
Good luck with that Pelosi. You rot before our very eyes. Van Jones, you’re not worth the breath.
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 12:34pmIF Peelooski embaces Vannie Jones so much—then she can donate her millions to re-build Oakland.
OMG in 2012
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 1:10pm@ Detroit paperboy
More like a blackhole, rather than a star……..
Report Post »~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I concur. That WAS a good one !
goahead.makemyday
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 1:28pmNHWINTER
Report Post »Joining evil? What are you talking about? They ARE the evil, of course I know some people here don’t recognize or acknowledge that there is good and evil. But even those who don‘t must know that there is something wrong with NP VJ HR BO and others I won’t give justice to by mentioning their full names.
lukerw
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 2:44pmInside Out!
Report Post »Hollywood
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 2:58pmVan Jones, like Pelosi, are of THEIR father, the devil. No I don’t mean Obama, he is just one of the many anti–christs! KNOW you all to have discernment, to recognize WOLVES,in sheep’s clothing. They will,and are, being exposed by their deeds. DEMAGOGERY reigns supreme, in the Obama administration,and He is their leader.
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 3:00pmcommies never leave they just slide sidewise. you don’t see me now so iam not here. bloody liars. all commies should be shot before they shoot u.s. citizens.
Report Post »tankyjo
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 3:26pmYUK yuk! Good one.
Report Post »robert
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 3:33pmThis man is an affirmative action moron. That he is a Yale grad reveals just how far these radical leftist academics are ready to go in order to push non-qualified blacks through the system.
Listen to his speech. He talks like a ghetto thug. He says…among other ebonics….”We gonna change the system! We gonna change the system!”
Do you know anybody who ACTUALLY earned a degree from any university talk like that?
Yes, me neither.
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:46pmPuke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG
Report Post »its_time_to_arrest_our_government
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 10:31pmhe can be the star of his prison wing. This is one guy i just couldnt turn the other cheek to. Id do the world a favor by sending this guy back to hell where his kind come from. im sure id be forgiven for this one.
Report Post »its_time_to_arrest_our_government
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 10:38pmbottom up top down inside out? but he left out the part where we kick the snot out of them and send the rest to prison. game on van jones ether way you dont survive to see it buddy we got your number.
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 7:17amTo all…….
Pelosi-V Jones-Wasserman-Shultz-Obama-the CBC-M Waters-Reid-Dodd-, all of them and thousands more are manifestations of the Communist-led, UN-led, CFR-led, IMF/led, NWO-one/world gov anti-Nationalist machine that is working to bring the US down as a sovereign nation.
This goes back to the days (well, you could say even before) of the League of Nations, the first attempt at establishing a world government. The US wasn’t ready to swallow the LoN, but the instigators would never really quit, and would reorganize again to create the UN.
Report Post »That org is ran by NWO champions and dominated by Communists, the same ones which work every day to subvert the US. Do you really think the USSR went away without a wimper when Reagan was Pres? I hope not!
There are so many agents of Communism in our own gov, so many that were instrimental in founding the UN. You really need to read about the UN if you have not. This is the org that will take us down, not V Jones or N Pelosi.
CLG 4
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 9:07amThe california democrat (socialist) convention praises the occupy with socialism movemrnt that has been destroying public property and will most surely try to make voting at locally a scary experience for some americans.
Report Post »cuinsong
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 9:07amThe problem with Van J. is his history. He is a devout commie and the thought of his kind of governmental policies makes most people very angry. OWS is one of the disruptions he advocated while in the Obama admin a few years ago! These are his kind of followers! Never mind that the general population has rejected this bunch. They will still claim it is the majority (the 99% lie) anyway. He is counting on class warfare to carry the election in the end! They will portray this bunch of disgusting dung as normal everyday people just exercising their democratic rights.
The corrupt politicians (RINO’s) will help in any way they can! But most will stand in silence, and by their lack of action put their country at risk.
I’m not sure which angers me more. The fact that nobody in congress will stand up for the constitution or all the lies the media helps to portray! Either way, evil is working its way through people who hate this country!
This kind of tactics by the Obama-ites is disgusting and vile to such a degree that it will unite the country against Obama in the end and could bring on an eventual impeachment trial?
This man is acting in a complete vacuum and has no regard for the institutions that made us great!
His heart is truly black as his skin and the devil will work his way thru him till he is discarded back into the cesspool from whence he come!
This song is most fitting. “The Devils Song” http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_10789987
Report Post »friedwatermellon
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 11:33amVan Jones is a genetic mutataion.
Report Post »He has got to be the most illogical A hole Czar ever.
If he ever comes into my restaurant He’ll be seated in the toilet where he belongs.
lukerw
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 4:42pmHe is… the ObamaSoros… Street General… to martial Black Islam & Panthers… to become CanonFodder Martyrs… inciting Martial Law!
Report Post »ZeroOff4impact
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 9:01amThis will not end well ..
Report Post »NotFondOfChange
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 8:58amhe argued that under-30 voters critical to Democratic successes in 2012 will find appealing “the idea that the people that already climbed that ladder (of success) will give something back.”
First of all, Van … we say ‘who’ when speaking of people; ‘that’ is for cars and cows and and other non-people items. This is a very small grammatical error that shows some deep insight into how Communists (like you) view people.
Report Post »Secondly, having an entity of governance take something from you (be it as a tax, fee, surcharge, or levy) and giving something are actually at odds with one another and are not the same. In fact, the two are opposites of one another and the vast majority of 3-year-olds understand the difference.
KAdams
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 8:55amAh, the 2016 Democrat candidate has been revealed unto us…
Report Post »rrjenn
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 9:12amIf Jones is to be their new messiah then I think things will be easy for us in this future
Report Post »AzSage
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 8:53amUseful idiots.
Report Post »Bowmaster
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 8:50amHas anyone noticed that most commercials on tv have the “smart black person”, telling everyone else what they should do, or get?
Report Post »We are being programmed!
AzSage
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 8:58amI agree. It was subtle a few years ago, but now more overt — and the sheeple of this country are content with it as long as they get the super bowl and a six pack.
I believe we are only one good crisis away from total oppression and tyranny.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 9:24am@BOWMASTER
Report Post »Yes I have noticed that on TV in general ,in real life not so much.
Detroit paperboy
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 10:02amBowmaster
Report Post »Yes but you forgot about the feminised , stupid white guy that plays the moron in all of these commercials…… I ve been saying it for years !!!
friedwatermellon
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 11:36amThey want to act like they know, but they don’t know that we know, that they’re incapable of knowing..PERIOD
Report Post »cosette
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 1:05pmI’ve noticed everything pointed out in the above comments. I began boycotting those companies that present white men especially as irrelevant moronic dolts and blacks as intellectually superior. The subtle indoctrination of the masses did not escape me and I find the most effective way to protest is to withhold my patronage. It’s bad enough that the government discriminates against whites in general and white men in particular vis-a-visI affirmative action.I cannot withhold my taxes from them. But when a company advertises in such a discriminatory manner, I feel I can make a difference albeit a small one.
Report Post »friedwatermellon
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 8:45amVan Jones One of the Few, the Ignorant, the Stupid.
Report Post »All the civilized nations of the world see how Obama’s appointees are on par with the miniscule mentalities of Black African 3rd World nations.
To the Communist Liberals in America and 99% of Blacks who know absolutely nothing about what Obama is doing will do anything and say anything to keep this destroyer of the most civilized nation in the world in office.
Remember in November to vote these low class idiots out of office.
kennebec
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 9:16amyee maybe long hot summer! repeat 68
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 8:42amIf you don’t think that obama is a racist look at thei you might change your mind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BdjoHA5ocwU#
Report Post »Theleftisda
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 5:15pmCan’t listen or even look at that lowlife for one second (need transcript)
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 8:26amCalifornians… this is why you are mocked, laughed at, and pay through the nose to make sure illegals and the liberal elite are taken care of. Screw the border-wall up the once great state of California and let the liberals, marxists and socialists fix it. The imaging and optics are already in place.
Report Post »Delta D-5-3
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 4:55pmWhere do I send me donation??!!
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 8:21am.
Report Post »Star Hell!!!!! All I see are Crosshair’s on a Shooting Star…………..
BLACKDIAMONDSKIER
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 8:07amIt says a lot about a political party and their members when they support Van Jones **** An AVOWED COMMUNIST *** !!!! It shows exactly where the Democrats stand and who they stand with. Funny how President Obama’s mentor was a Communist. Also funny how President Obama’s recent executive orders reflect his willingness to SIEZE power. Ohhh you remember don’t you. The one where US citizens can be held without trial for as long as the government sees fit in our own country!!! They just made the definition of terrorist so broad that it could mean any sovereign citizen who is reading this post. Yea YOU!!!! WAKE UP!!!
Report Post »ishka4me
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 8:10amwhat is funn is that he has shown up at all occupy places to give train – ins. Another funny part of vann jones is for the Boston Train- in he gave, he showed up in a limo
Report Post »ishka4me
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 8:11amThes commies are going to Chicago for May. They have riots planned. Hope the justice deaprtment is listwening to them.
Report Post »Tickdog
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 8:06amfigures…
Report Post »conservativejon
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 8:01amthe libs better watch out. those that you are embracing will turn on you soon.
Report Post »deadend
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:57amKeep your powder dry guys. This summer when Obummer get’s behind in the poles these worthless pieces of rat vomit are going to riot. Obummer will use that as an excuse to “postpone” the elections till he can reestablish order only that will never come. So be ready comrades the great leader wants the chaos that is coming.
Report Post »slwrig2
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:52amAll these commie/marxist leftist Douchbags are all the same from the occupy losers to the white House to their media allies and surrogates they all belong incarcerated with the terrorist in Gitmo.
Report Post »Macman1138
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 8:25amHell yes!
Report Post »I like your thinking!
I.Gaspar
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:48amWhen will “moderate” democrats get the picture? The administration, pelosi, reid, and the rest stand behind van jones, truther, communist, and occupy rabble rouser….and that they are working feverishly to tear down this country.
Report Post »Can’t independents and non-marxist dems see that?
Baddoggy
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:58amOh as long as Obama does not touch Social Security the so called moderate Democrat will vote for him again. They don’t understand issues anymore. they are too busy watching Wheel of Fortune. In November they roll them out of the Nursing home to go vote…
Report Post »cosette
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 1:08pmModerate Democrats= oxymoron.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:47amThe OWS movement and Dems are getting tied together nicely. I for one love it. I think Obama should endorse them and bring them in the Democratic Convention to make speeches. Then their brilliance can really shine…Broken drug addled sentences and idiotic slogans along with silly demands…I would love to see that.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:42amHe’s a star alright…a big RED one.
Report Post »Mess23
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:40amDemocrats – the real terroists. Obuma is doing a great jub creating dependants and dividing the country? Just once I want to hear something presidential from him.
Report Post »MYHEROISRON
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:34amDemocrat Party? There is no such thing. It’s the Liberal Marxist Party and has been
Report Post »for a very long time …
JDF10487
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:31amWarning!
Obama’s DHS is setting Patriotic Americans up to be labelled as terrorsits.
Here is a list of beliefs and actions that could place you under scrutiny and cause you to be arrested and detained without due process.
http://www.infowars.com/see-something-say-something-could-label-any-american-a-suspected-terrorist/
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:31amDemocrats praise the Occupiers outside and their leader inside? How shocked will they be when they find out Van Jones is using the Democrats as much as he is using the Occupy bands for the agenda of Soros.
Report Post »qpwillie
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:37amInside is the top “down”.
Report Post »Outside is the “bottom up”.
Laus Deo
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:30amIs it not telling that they -the democrats- consider Jones -a despicable parasitic POS- to be a “star?”
Report Post »marybethelizabeth
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 4:32pmYoo Hoo keys. Better keep looking over your shoulders. Van Jones is coming. And he’s gonna get you.
Report Post »Maybe storing freeze dried food will save you from the caliphate (although you won’t have any water to prepare it)
But
Nothing can save you from Van Jones.
Abooga booga.