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Originally posted by suigeneris
This was the discussion earlier.
Weird.
Obama, where's your head?? Van Jones??
Originally posted by harpsounds
I heard about this on Olbermann yesterday. It turns out that it was Van Jones (The green jobs czar) who initiated the attack on Glenn Beck, attempting to get all his advertisers to pull out. Here's another site that confirms it:
Examiner.com
Van Jones is a co-founder and key person in the group "Color of Change" who have been leading this attack.
latimesblogs.latimes.com...
Personally I find Beck a bit nutty, but I do think it's disturbing that a member of current adminstration is one of the key people in this attack on Beck's free speech. And it is an attack on free speech. The aim of getting his advertisers to drop out must be to force Beck off the air.
If some outside group was doing this, I wouldn't really have a problem, it's the fact that Van Jones is a government official that makes this really disturbing to me. The government should not be involved in this kind of protest, it comes across as a government sponsored attack on free speech.
[edit on 5-9-2009 by harpsounds]
Originally posted by harpsounds
reply to post by jimmyx
Did you see the part where I mentioned that I find Glenn Beck nutty? I'm not a right winger either. On the political compass I'm in the middle of the bottom left box, ie libertarian left.
I just think people in active government should not be doing this kind of political action, it leaves a bad taste in the mouth. Did you miss the bit where I said I'd be fine with some independent group doing this 'remove the advertisers' attack?
Originally posted by Boston Grump
Oh I don't know but I have another question. Should people learn the proper use of an apostrophe before they're allowed on the friggin internet?
We are soooooo screwed.