The "Obama Love Army"? You've Got To Be Kidding Me...

Zsa-Zsa Gabor sound-alike (and think-alike) Arianna Huffington tries to put some lipstick on the pig that is the Van Jones Affair:

Thank You, Glenn Beck!

Thank you, Glenn Beck. By helping force the resignation of Van Jones, you have done a great service to your country. But in the exact opposite way than what you intended.

Your vile and vicious smear campaign has helped reverse one of the worst examples of miscasting since John Wayne took on the role of Genghis Khan in The Conqueror.

Don't get me wrong: Van Jones was the best person for the job he just gave up. But the job was not the best use of Van Jones.

Contrary to the media caricature, the real Van Jones is a thoughtful leader who knows how to use words to move people to action. To stick him behind a desk, working out the details of tax credits for green jobs -- incredibly important though the job is -- was never the best use of his unique and abundant skills.

It should be noted that if you blog on the internet and use the word "vile", you can't write worth a shit. So it is with Arianna Huffington. Vile is the most overused word in the blogger's arsenal. People like Charles Johnson use it about six times a day.

In any event, if you really want get a whiff of Van Jones' "unique and abudant skills", check out this bit of drivel at the Yes! website. Best unique and abundantly skillfull line offered up by Van Jones, super-genius?

I couldn't be prouder to be laying my sword on the table along with everybody else in the Obama Love Army, and I'm excited about it.

That's enough to gag a maggot. What the fuck is this? 1967? Is he looking to get a part in the remake of I'm Gonna Git You Sucka? Or what? Christ, I'd have fired his dumb ass just for saying that... It's worse than just about anything else he's said or done, including the truther stuff.

Thank God that moron is headed back to Oakland.

Remember: According to Bill Maher and Arrianna Huffington, Van Jones is one of the abundantly smart ones...

Comments

[Mike C.]

You are so on a roll these days.

[Guesst]

Lest we forget, he headed up Green For All, about which he set these goals:

The nuts and bolts on the ground, producing real jobs, making sure that economic justice prevails even as we green the economy.

...our mission at Green for All has changed because the situation has changed—there are billions of dollars for a green recovery—the question is how do we get them implemented on the ground.

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Van Jones is like Obama in that his real and only jobs seem to consist of working to organize labor by appealing to uneducated unemployed "progressives" on the government's dime. (Our dimes.)

[Guesst]

and one more V. Jones quote from Yes!:

We Rock: we got new heroes & she-roes
Plus, we have an abundance of new leaders and smart organizations. They include Code Pink. The Hip Hop Summit Action Network. Barack Obama. America Coming Together. Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans. MoveOn.org. Progressive Majority. Michael Moore. Rock The Vote. Michael Franti. The list goes on and on. All this new and renewed activist energy is barely standing up on little fawn's legs. And yet we almost defeated the right-wing's fearsome dragon. Just imagine what we will be able to do in four years, or 10.
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Obama put a left-wing activist into the fabricated position of 'green czar'--but the WH is "surprised" by his affiliations.

Riiiiiiight.

[Jim Ryan]

Yes, Arianna, Jones is going to have an excellent career. Collecting speakers fees from idiots like you. Don't worry, the thrill of self-righteousness he will deliver you and your audience of 329 other neurotics will be worth the $20K every time.

Have fun dumping your money into his vacation homes, honey. Keep doing it. You'll get your commie society someday, by paying "Van Jones" to say things.

[PeterUK]

"She met oil millionaire Michael Huffington, a family friend of the Bushes, at a 1985 party hosted by Ann Getty in San Francisco. The couple were married in 1986 at a wedding paid for by Getty, who had declared that she needed to find Arianna a husband. They moved to Washington, D.C., when he was appointed to serve as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Negotiations Policy. They later established residency in Santa Barbara, California, in order for him to run in 1992 as a Republican for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, which he won by a significant margin. He was a political conservative on most issues. Arianna campaigned for her husband, courting religious conservatives, arguing for smaller government and a reduction in welfare. In 1994 he narrowly lost the race for the U.S. Senate seat from California to incumbent Dianne Feinstein.[5]

The couple divorced in 1997, and in 1998 Michael Huffington revealed that he was bisexual.[6] A 1999 magazine article claimed that Arianna Huffington "entered the marriage... with full knowledge of Michael Huffington's sexual interests in men".[7] The financial terms of their divorce agreement remain undisclosed. Arianna Huffington chose to retain her former husband's surname, although she had been known as Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington during the period of her marriage."

Wiki.

[Mona]

But Dennis. I also employ the word "vile" with some frequency when blogging! (pout) Further, I use the phrase "It's enough to gag a maggot" a lot in meatspace. ;)

[David]

Notice how you never see Andrew Sullivan and "Arianna Huffington" at the same time? Hmmm?

[PeterUK]

Do you want to?

[David]

If only to prove that they're not the same person.

[Progressive Wiggah]

Don' be hatin' on the brutha's sword. You white muthafuckas just be whack jealous!

[PeterUK]

"I couldn't be prouder to be laying my sword on the table along with everybody else in the Obama Love Army, and I'm excited about it."

There does seem to be homoerotic overtones to this.

[wayne fontes]

Lost in the truther controversy were questions like "do we need a green czar?", Do we need czars at all and is it a good idea to put a marxist in charge of a thirty billion dollar budget.

Jones's was an activist/lawyer. He didn't have the economic, scientific or administrative credentials to needed to do the job. He did have lefty credentials.

[Mona]

Do we need czars at all

NO! The whole notion is sick in the extreme. It began with a "drug czar" and has metastasized from there. In America, no one in govt should seriously (or even semi-seriously) hold the title of "czar."

[JeffS]

Yup, Mona, I agree wholeheartedly. No "czars" at all. If an appointed official is directing US policy at the strategic level (and yes, I know, that's hard to define), that person needs to be approved by Congress. The drug czar was a bad step in the wrong direction.

[Guesst]

Exactly. We don't need anymore stinking czars, especially ones those whose only qualifications are being radical leftist activists.

[Pat Patterson]

Yeah, but Susan Hayward. Susan Hayward was in the film.