Hartmann today on Van Jones firing. Follow the green....to big oil!

It sounded very logical to me. His reasoning - sure Jones had a few things that were scoped out and picked on - signing a 911 investigation petition (that Hartmann, many of the 911 families, etc signed), big into promoting educational opportunities amongst blacks - but the biggie is his leadership on green jobs. Hartmann's view is that stopping at Beck is not the way to view this - it is Beck's corporate masters, and eventually, money from Big Oil that brought him down. The deep reaches of lobbying money. He went through this during the opening 20 minutes of his show today.

He's what got the ball rolling. As soon as that Color of Change petition was started, Van Jones' days were numbered.

Americans for Progress or something like that (I wonder if Hartmann posts a transcript? Need to go to his website)

but Beck had the perfect motivation when that petition was started.

Here's a partially applicable quotation excerpted from today's sending.

"Thom's Blog
Sarah Palin is calling the AP's decision to release a battlefield photo of a dying Marine over the family's objection "an evil thing to do." Santiago Lyon, the director of photography for AP, said, "AP journalists document world events every day. Afghanistan is no exception. We feel it is our journalistic duty to show the reality of the war there, however unpleasant and brutal that sometimes is." I get it that the family did not want to see this photo published - and it breaks your heart to see this photo - Americans, our politicians and the President must see the true cost and the reality of war. You can't deny what war is about when you see a photo like this. War is hell. Was this death a heroic act? A senseless sacrifice? Or both?

With the Obama Administration allowing Green Jobs czar Van Jones to resign, questions about the Democrats being spineless are becoming more and more the truth. Why didn't they just let Glenn Beck and the others keep yelling their heads off about Jones' purported radical ideas? Why didn't they just dismiss the hollering and say - there's a new group in town. BTW - who's next on Glen Beck's list? I heard it's Cass Sunstein. . ."

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He won't spam ya I swear.

Right wing talkers are all puppets. Who is writing their lines, pulling thier strings? I'm not buying that this was big oil but I do know that the PR companies that work for Big Oil have very strong ties with these right-wing mouth pieces.

about taking Van down...



A link to Kerpen's column... http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/09/06/phil-kerpen-van-jones-resign/

I still don't see why he quit...hell, remember Senator Vitter from LA who liked prostitutes to put him in diapers so he could shit himself and cum at the same time????

I would remind the Repugnant party of that every damn day....!!!! And when Vitter returned to the Senate, he got a fucking STANDING OVATION.

That's what Van Jones should have said. No I don't think I'll resign unless Vitter does. WTF is wrong with these men??????? Are they paid to resign????? Does Big Oil give them tons of money or what???

I just don't see how these dudes can be so spineless....my cat has more of a spine.

I'm just soooooooooooooooooooo sick of it.