White House Green Jobs Adviser Apologizes for Calling Republicans 'Assholes' - Political News - FOXNews.com
Van Jones, the Obama administration's "green jobs" adviser, apologized Wednesday for calling Republicans "assholes," saying the comments were made before he joined the administration and "were clearly inappropriate."
Jones had told a group of listeners earlier in the year that the reason Republicans are stonewalling the president is because they're "assholes," remarks that were recorded in a video and posted to YouTube.
"I apologize for the offensive words I chose to use during that speech," Jones said in a written statement to Politico. "They do not reflect the views of this administration, which has made every effort to work in a bipartisan fashion, and they do not reflect the experience I have had since I joined the administration."
He made the remarks in February during an energy lecture in Berkeley, Calif., after a woman in the audience asked him why President Obama and congressional Democrats were having trouble moving legislation -- even though Republicans, with a smaller majority, didn't have as much trouble earlier in the Bush administration.
"Well, the answer to that is, they're assholes," Jones said, to uproarious laughter. "That's a technical, political science term."
The questioner responded, "I was afraid that that was the answer."
But Jones said that, even though Obama is "not an ahole," others have to step up the fight.
"Now, I will say this. I can be an ahole, and some of us who are not Barack Hussein Obama are going to have to start getting a little bit uppity," he said.
Bold for a guy with a criminal history and an appetite for a side order of communism.
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SoWal Insider
get off the decaf
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no bob, its van jones and those who turn their heads to him that need to get off decaf. and this is just one of the many so-called czars that our ever so socialistic president gets advice from. and the list goes on and on. as if this guy has a clue about green technology and how to bring it to the marketplace. the private sector does and has for decades, but they dont matter to this administration. they would rather hook their buddies up with jobs on the taxpayers dime. green technology has been ready to thrive for many years and ive seen this with my own eyes are yearly trade shows. and there is no doubt that the biggest hurdle for them is government and gov activists like this van jones moron.
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get off the decaf
telling comment!
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Major league assholes.
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telling comment!don't you have 12,000 economists to herd today?
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Major league assholes.
Under this premise, Dems should retain the "major league" portion of the statement, and then we'll replace aholes with dbags.
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Major league assholes.
quite the intellect...... you sound like your just filled with logical thought
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A dbag is a sore bitter racist loser who repeatedly bombards a message board with his sore loser spam.
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A dbag is a sore bitter racist loser who repeatedly bombards a message board with his sore loser spam.
WHO EXACTLY IS THIS "DBAG SORE BITTER RACIST LOSER" YOU SPEAK OF?
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don't you have 12,000 economists to herd today?
Already done. Thanks for asking!
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Everyone is DC is an ..shole IMO! This includes everyone in the current and last 3 administrations. Their concern is for themselves is overwhelming! These Czars are a Joke. No FBI check, No oversite by congress. No experience in the Czaring Or real World. What Green Jobs has this Liar I mean Laywer ever created. Our whole system is a JOKE. Vote them out every chance you get!
Southpark had it right, our choices are between a Dousebag and a Turd sandwich.
Southpark had it right, our choices are between a Dousebag and a Turd sandwich.
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WHO EXACTLY IS THIS "DBAG SORE BITTER RACIST LOSER" YOU SPEAK OF?
If you have to ask, that's a sure sign.
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Everyone is DC is an ..shole IMO! This includes everyone in the current and last 3 administrations. Their concern is for themselves is overwhelming! These Czars are a Joke. No FBI check, No oversite by congress. No experience in the Czaring Or real World. What Green Jobs has this Liar I mean Laywer ever created. Our whole system is a JOKE. Vote them out every chance you get!
Southpark had it right, our choices are between a Dousebag and a Turd sandwich.
Right on! best post i've read in a long time.
czars is code for entourage. :roll:
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A dbag is a sore bitter racist loser who repeatedly bombards a message board with his sore loser spam.
So you feel information about one of our czars that is a known communist with multiple criminal infractions is spam. Yesterday it was spam because I posted the Obama corriculum for the students on the 8th. It's funny how you can't oppose anything these days without someone labeling dissent as racism.
"The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance" Benjamin Franklin
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If you have to ask, that's a sure sign.
DO YOU ALWAYS JUDGE SOMEONE THAT YOUVE NEVER KNOWN OR MET?
ILL BET YOUR A REAL HAPPY AND PRODUCTIVE FELLA....
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DO YOU ALWAYS JUDGE SOMEONE THAT YOUVE NEVER KNOWN OR MET?
ILL BET YOUR A REAL HAPPY AND PRODUCTIVE FELLA....
Come on Krazy K. Get over yourself.
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Pass the troll spray, please.
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Yeah...he's a nice choice for a political appointee. He was also just in the news for making claims that white environmentalists steered poison into minority communities because they "because they don't have a racial justice frame."
Just a matter of time before somebody from the inside muzzles him, IMHO...
Breitbart.tv ? Green Jobs Czar Says ‘White Polluters’ Steered Poison Into Minority Communities
Just a matter of time before somebody from the inside muzzles him, IMHO...
Breitbart.tv ? Green Jobs Czar Says ‘White Polluters’ Steered Poison Into Minority Communities
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Yeah...he's a nice choice for a political appointee. He was also just in the news for making claims that white environmentalists steered poison into minority communities because they "because they don't have a racial justice frame."
Just a matter of time before somebody from the inside muzzles him, IMHO...
Breitbart.tv ? Green Jobs Czar Says ?White Polluters? Steered
Poison Into Minority Communities
A Jesse Jackson in Al Sharpton's clothes. :roll:
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Not sure why Repubs are upset about people using their own foul language. GW referred to a reporter as an ahole and would not apologize for it and Cheney dropped the F bomb on the Senate floor and said he felt better after doing so. Not judging here but just asking, is there any demonstrable evidence that Republicans are not assholes?
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Everyone is DC is an ..shole IMO! This includes everyone in the current and last 3 administrations. Their concern is for themselves is overwhelming! These Czars are a Joke. No FBI check, No oversite by congress. No experience in the Czaring Or real World. What Green Jobs has this Liar I mean Laywer ever created. Our whole system is a JOKE. Vote them out every chance you get!
Southpark had it right, our choices are between a Dousebag and a Turd sandwich.
I don't disagree that everyone in DC is...whatever, but you need to check your facts first. This guy's title is Czar of...nothing. He's assistant senior undersecretary deputy something. Only the Labor Dept is authorized to spend money, BY CONGRESS, and yes, everybody gets an FBI check. He must have passed his.
NOW: let's stop getting befogged by these smokescreens that the TV rating-hogs are throwing out, and look at something that really matters...like the large number of staff positions still unfilled, the health care bill that does not actually exist and yet has sparked riots, the escalation of the war in Afghanistan, and above all, the complete lack of movement on any banking/finance regulation to prevent the real major-league (insert your word here) from taking us to the woodshed again and again and again.
The only thing that is better than it was 12 months ago is Glenn Beck's ratings. He serves no real purpose, except to be constantly, breathlessly outraged. He must be getting tired.
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A dbag is a sore bitter racist loser who repeatedly bombards a message board with his sore loser spam.
it's a sad day when truth becomes spam
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Not sure why Repubs are upset about people using their own foul language. GW referred to a reporter as an ahole and would not apologize for it and Cheney dropped the F bomb on the Senate floor and said he felt better after doing so. Not judging here but just asking, is there any demonstrable evidence that Republicans are not assholes?
let me get this straight, calling a specific someone an ahole is the same as calling an entire political party an ahole?
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let me get this straight, calling a specific someone an ahole is the same as calling an entire political party an ahole?
poopy in 1....2.....3...
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www.greenforall.org
Here's a website that has some information about what Van Jones has been up to before he was appointed to Obama Administration.
Has anyone posting here looked into this, or perhaps read his book "Green for All)? I have, and while I really wish they would have let me edit the book for tone and repetitiveness before letting it go to print, it has a lot of good information and good ideas.
For whatever it's worth, there are a LOT of books published these days that should have been better edited to cut redundancies and reduce waste of paper and ink!
Here's a website that has some information about what Van Jones has been up to before he was appointed to Obama Administration.
Has anyone posting here looked into this, or perhaps read his book "Green for All)? I have, and while I really wish they would have let me edit the book for tone and repetitiveness before letting it go to print, it has a lot of good information and good ideas.
For whatever it's worth, there are a LOT of books published these days that should have been better edited to cut redundancies and reduce waste of paper and ink!
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