114 Comments

1. Cathi:

This article is spot on! I’m so glad someone finally pointed out the fact that all these faux agiteurs are just that — phony. How ironic that Michael Moore is making a movie about how evil capitalism is when he is hoping to score big money from the idiots who will plunk down their dirty capitalist cash to watch it. What crust!! The same with Ayers. This man is so effete that I cannot imagine anyone takes him seriously, all the while still living off daddy’s money. Too much!! I think Dr. Hanson sums up Van Jones and Obama quite well. Both seem like mythical creatures with cobbled together life stories. Unicorns indeed!

Sep 8, 2009 - 12:38 pm 2. Dave II:

I would only add that when the “con” becomes exposed and is an embarassment (not just boring) the whole house of cards is threatened and the “offendee” must be banished! So it goes…he won’t be the last.

Billy Carter indeed!

Sep 8, 2009 - 12:51 pm 3. Dred:

Van should have learned from Barrack: you can say what you want to a rich, elite S.F. audience; just don’t let it be taped.

Sep 8, 2009 - 12:52 pm 4. Steve Sampson:

Being a contemporary of Ayers, I often wondered about the future of kids who were recruited into the SDS and the Weathermen without Trust Funds waiting for them at the conclusion of their revolutionary play acting. Obviously many lives were ruined while they were used by Communists like Ayers, a dyed in the wool trust fund baby, whose future was never in doubt.

Sep 8, 2009 - 12:54 pm 5. AThinkingPerson:

The death knell for the Obama administration is surely tolling when Billy Carter’s name is now coming to mind as a point of reference. Sheesh!

Van Jones downfall is but a sign of things to come. The MSM was publicly shamed by not reporting one iota on the buildup to his resignation. If nothing else, it’s fed the flame currently burning under Glenn Beck to root out any lingering hate mongers inside the Obama regime.

Whup-Ass indeed!

Sep 8, 2009 - 12:55 pm 6. Calvin Ball:

What that meant I think was that in lieu of studying (“Yale didn’t have any grades”), Jones knew that he could say and do almost anything he wished among rather wealthy (and to be honest, rather nerdy) white and Asian people, playing on both their guilt, and on their vicarious sense of adventure and cutting-age revolutionary romance—and do pretty well.

You forgot fear.

Sep 8, 2009 - 12:57 pm 7. PM:

OK. Now what? Biden for president?

It’s going to be a long 3 years.

Sep 8, 2009 - 12:59 pm 8. Calvin Ball:

4. Steve Sampson

That’s why I have mixed feelings about the death tax. If inheritance were taxed at 100%, we’d be spared the narcissistic rage of the trustafarians. And Mary Jo would still be alive.

Kind of like the Roe effect, we’d have the dough effect. Without the ability of inherit millions, we’d be rid of these meddling narcissists.

Sep 8, 2009 - 1:01 pm 9. masstexodus:

To complete the Billy Carter parallel there is a quite real George Obama who is living in a hut in Africa. If Obama wants to save the world perhaps he can start with his own family.

Sep 8, 2009 - 1:04 pm 10. mikesf:

Wow! You Nailed it. That is Jones to a tee! Why work hard and accomplish when you can shoot your mouth off and make millions? Great read!

Sep 8, 2009 - 1:05 pm 11. Bilgeman:

VDH:
“[Michael]Moore would never go to Cuba for brain surgery. ”

Alas, Dr. Hanson, I must disagree.

I think that not only would he, but in fact I suspect that he already DID.

Sep 8, 2009 - 1:06 pm 12. David Thomson:

(“Yale didn’t have any grades”)

A hard science degree acquired at Yale is worthy of respect. You can pretty well take it for granted that the recipient is top notch. The softer ones, however, are often a joke. Yale and the other Ivy League academic institutions have been getting away with this scam for decades—especially after affirmative action grading became the norm. Both Van Jones and Barack Obama are shallow and poorly read men. They simply did not have to do much work during their school years. Taking advantage of guilt-tripped whites was much less demanding. The MSM are presently the number one targets on the list to be marginalized. We must now also go after the Ivy Leagues.

Sep 8, 2009 - 1:12 pm 13. NCBob:

You ain’t seen nothing yet. The nation is full of black racists. Many of the are ACORNers, inner city three card monte dealers who have been taught that their every inconvenience is whitey’s fault and is intentional. These folks, basically unemployable because of low skill and poor attitudes, are tomorrow’s federal employees. Many will find “work” on the new death panels making resource distribution decisions that effect seniors. They, like most democrats in government, will be bribeable.
Van Jones was just another inner city hustler who got a free ride through the Ivy League just as Chimpy the Kenyan did. Jones will always have the ear of the president, they are from the same club, and that will allow Jones to make big bucks, selling influence in Washington.

Sep 8, 2009 - 1:21 pm 14. Poor Citizen:

I have to agree with the author on the “romantic, pseudo revolutionary” thing. I have seen and read about some real ones, middle east, south/central america, africa, spain, north ireleand. Ayers and Jones?… like I said previously, very small storm, in a very small teacup. And and as far as calling republicans names or republicans calling others names, I dont do it anymore myself, but you have to able to take a punch, grow some hair folks, it … happens. Thanks.

Sep 8, 2009 - 1:30 pm 15. Ken Besig:

All I can tell you Dr. Hansen is that America and the International community are in for a bonfire of economic and Islamic terror chaos, and it will all be the fault of the new American President, Barack Obama.

Sep 8, 2009 - 1:34 pm 16. steveg:

I agree, the comparisons between Obama and Jones are transparent. Both realizing early on that they could manipulate guilt-tripped white liberals, and Obama, laughing all the way to the White House.

As for fellow comrades like Stone and Moore; it is time they become the devoted ‘Che’ wannabes of their childhood dreams, and give up their opulent lifestyle, and capitalist attained gains. Perhaps there is a soviet style apartment in Flint, Michigan that will fit their retirement needs perfectly?

Sep 8, 2009 - 1:46 pm 17. Kevin Bove:

Thank you Professor!

Sep 8, 2009 - 1:49 pm 18. Ron Kean:

I saw a long list recently. How much are those czars getting paid? Do they have large staffs? I read somewhere that they will receive billions of dollars to spend. Where?

One irony was a discussion on TV last Sunday. Tom Brokaw and Thomas Friedman said that because of the Van Jones affair, people shouldn’t trust the internet. Huh?

In many cultures the peasants arose. France. Russa. Obama and his group is trying to break the bank, ruin the lives of people who own nice houses and run good business’, and put ignorant violent people in charge.

I hope the internet, talk radio, and Fox are strong enough to hold the barricades.

Sep 8, 2009 - 1:58 pm 19. DocDavid:

If the corporate-created money in the Ivy League, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the George Soros think-tanks, or NPR wishes to either subsidize or publicize radical-chic agit-prop, it seems no different than the networks running sitcoms, that likewise are sometimes funny, but usually banal.

Actually, we should object, because these are all tax-advantaged entities. I certainly agree that these people are free to attract all of the personally-owned money any fool is willing to give them. Of course, they have models – Jesse Jackson perhaps the most successful

Also, has no one noticed the paranoid streak in the “lyrics” of the CD Mr. Jones made? If one’s accomplishments are far less than one’s opinion of his own abilities would predict, paranoia may follow, and “racism” may be alleged.

This, too, will pass..

Sep 8, 2009 - 2:12 pm 20. Professor Guvinoff:

White guilt and black flamboyance is a combustible mixture: With enough gumption, fakers are allowed to endow themselves with assumed excellence (”Yale graduate”, etc…), which did not need to be earned, as the mere appearance, properly accessorized, vindicates the axiomatic concept of equality behind the fallacies of affirmative action.

One fallacy opens the door to another: Should we be surprised that some individuals with remarkable self-promoting talents learn to exploit the plausible deniability of idiocy behind a smokescreen of grandiloquence? When such gambit is accidentally comes to light in the entourage of a president, the cover is blown, and the revelation is quite a public service, unintentional as it was!

Unfortunately, this is not funny, because disillusion is a painful experience, and the mistakes of apprentice sorcerers are expensive, but all of us must learn to expect better from everyone, regardless of color, and if you are black you must join those who have learned the virtues of personal effort and ultimate performance.

This great nation is blessed with good models, such as Bill Cosby, Colin Powell, Thomas Sowell, Clarence Thomas and many other distinguished black individuals who are showing the way. I purposely do not include Barack Obama in the list, because I am waiting to see accomplishments beyond winning elections.

Sep 8, 2009 - 2:31 pm 21. AdrianS:

Wow!

Shocker! Judge orders trial on eligibility issue
Arguments planned Jan. 11 for challenge to Obama

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=109242

Obama was born in …. Kenya!

Sep 8, 2009 - 2:35 pm 22. gracie:

hahahah…I can just see the little white liberals weeweeing on themselves and ewwandahhhhing over Van Jones… He’s a “tingle down the leg” type of guy.. Such a lieing man and whitehouse that cannot tell the truth about why he is resigning, CTA

thank you Glen, Rush, Hannity, twitter and anyone else that gets the truth out to the American public. All the stuff about Jones was on the internet for all to see…and the major news people let it go..Yet the WH and jones lie.

I totally agree , this nation is full of black racists, who think they can’t get ahead because of the white man..not that they have a severe lack of education and fill the jails , and onandonandon…..This is how they have been raised and no one has the nerve to tell them they are failures because it is what they chose to be..

I hope the Van Jones investigation/resignation is a sign of things to come.

“Just a quick glimpse at the headlines this morning on Drudge should answer that question:

UN wants new global currency to replace dollar
China alarmed by US money printing
Switzerland topples America as most competitive economy
Obama asks Senate to increase debt ceiling”

We have the Chinese telling us how to manage our finances…I think the world is scared of America and Obama. Scared that we ,Obama, will cause a world wide depression. what can you expect from a man that appoints Communist to such a position whtat was to oversee soooo much money and had a lot of authority. A Communist..PUKE!!

Sep 8, 2009 - 2:37 pm 23. Delia:

“These folks, basically unemployable because of low skill and poor attitudes, are tomorrow’s federal employees.”

Yup. It will be politically correct but it won’t be pretty. Asleep at the Bridge

Sep 8, 2009 - 2:41 pm 24. misanthropicus:

Excellent point about the gross cultural parasitism of Moore, Stone & cie. and about the latest addition to this leeches, Van Jones.

While Van Jones is obviously a fraudster, the media’s silence regarding him is deafening (as it is regarding most of Obama things).
And out of this I’d like to point to a little thing that is completely ignored – Van Jones’ association with Arianna Huffington (he was involved in her, thanks god! Calif. failed gubernatorial campaign years ago), and his being part of her Malibu/New Age coterie which trails one John-Roger, an expensive New Age scamster.

The bordering spookiness wackiness of this coterie’s ceremonies is remarkable – and Van Jones is perpetuating John-Roger loopy transcendent mysticism in his eco-conferences with impressive results, I got to say.

How can one give a job, other than parking cars, at the White House to someone levitating guru like Jones, I don’t know. Yet it looks like Obama is more than dumbing down deviancy – in his cabinet deviancy has became a norm than an exception.

Sep 8, 2009 - 2:51 pm 25. scott:

Obama is Whorealdo. Dang! You just can’t top that.

Sep 8, 2009 - 3:01 pm 26. Gringo:

4. Steve Sampson:
Being a contemporary of Ayers, I often wondered about the future of kids who were recruited into the SDS and the Weathermen without Trust Funds waiting for them at the conclusion of their revolutionary play acting. Obviously many lives were ruined while they were used by Communists like Ayers, a dyed in the wool trust fund baby, whose future was never in doubt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rudd Mark Rudd became a math instructor.

I knew a very vocal SDS person, who was a whole-hog Marxist-Leninist at the time, who did not follow down the Weatherman path. This person went to work soon after graduating at a lower level job that was related to his major, went on to become a professional with a graduate degree, with many years practicing in his profession – ironically w many years in independent practice. In later years he has been an elected official in various capacities, and appears to be more of a tax-and-spend Democrat than an SDS-type when in office.

Sep 8, 2009 - 3:18 pm 27. Hugo:

yes

but…you can’t “smear” someone when all you employ is their own words and videos.

Jones effectively smeared himself

Sep 8, 2009 - 3:21 pm 28. Paul M Hupf:

Dr Hanson: Thank you once again for uour perceptive comment. Increasingly the President appears to be a captive of his own appointees. That Van Jones has resigned his position, does not mean that he is without influence. The President lacks conviction. When he speaks extemporaneously he is halting and uncertain. I believe that to be the real Obama. The Obama standing in front of the teleprompter is a false image.

Sep 8, 2009 - 3:23 pm 29. Wil:

Some people may not like the concept of a President Biden, but I do not believe he has ever claimed to be a Socialist, Marxist, or Communist.

That fact alone puts Biden way ahead of Obama, and half of Obama’s staff and appointees.

Sep 8, 2009 - 3:47 pm 30. Darwin Akbar:

Dr. Hanson: As Dutch Engstrom said at during the climax of “The Wild Bunch”:
“GIVE ‘EM HELL, PIKE!!!”

Sep 8, 2009 - 3:50 pm 31. tanstaafl:

Moore would never go to Cuba for brain surgery.

1. Darn

2. Moore has a brain ?

“…You have to be creative about how you engage the enemy, because if you do it on his terms, the outcome is already known.”

Guess you blew that one, Van.

—all the while living a rather mundane bourgeois existence

They all do that from Noam Chomsky, through Billy Ayers & lesser known capitalism bashers like Naomi Klein. Cowards living high off the capitalist hog.

…and they can do all this in the classical delusion that one who creates inauthentic identities at opportune times, will not himself finally be disbelieved by all.

Pretty transparent stuff.

…Bill Ayers…Such a faux-persona made him romantic and ‘neat’ in the way…

Radicals, the prominent ones from the last century like Angela Davis, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, even Eldridge Cleaver & Malcolm X and and the current crop are all alike in being driven by ego and narcissism (the reason Jones would never have been happy staying in Oakland and working, painstakingly, to change the culture and the reason Barack Obama would never have been happy in academia…)

“The people” are simply the vehicle for them to get their big, bad important rocks off.

They’ve got to keep the agitation alive and burning or the whole shtick withers. There is no substantive difference between JWright ranting about whitey giving the black man AIDS and Van Jones ranting about whitey poisoning black neighborhoods.

Unfortunately, the President of the United States seems to be cut from the same cloth.

Sep 8, 2009 - 3:52 pm 32. steveg:

You can expect a much higher speaking fee for Mr. Jones. He has all the cred. He’s black, a communist, and a 9/11 truther.

Move over Ward Churchill, you are not radical enough for the college speaking circuit.

Sep 8, 2009 - 4:03 pm 33. D Foster:

How can we be surprised when a Black racist like Van Jones makes it into the POTUS personal circle of friends and ad visors.
Jessie Jackson-Extortionist and Racist is the model for success in this anti White industry. Fueled by Liberal White guilt.
Jackson is a multi millionaire and hides behind non taxpaying units like Church and Charity organizations. What a deal.
A guy like Van Jones, Smooth talker and showman to the people looking to blame their problems on “Whitey”, see this success and figures how to get money from government funding, easy as pie. ACORN is federally funded for voter registration.

We only have ourselves to blame. No one has the conviction to stand and defend against the Black Racist and their liberal friends.

Sep 8, 2009 - 4:25 pm 34. Charles Gordon:

Our historic first Islamic apostate president, this culmination of deconstructed Western tradition, self-made Samaritan to his kin of color, self-proclaimed schismatic to those in whose care he was raised and with whose votes he made his ultimate ascent, shines as an emblem of infallible authority to them who wish that he were, but ineffectually casts the swarthy veneer of a treasonous demagogue to us who see him for who he is.

From one day to the next, speaking out of both sides of his mouth, saying one thing and its contrary, our statist media’s commentariat sees a reasonable centrist, the rest of us, an untrustworthy shadow of a man.

For each new policy a newly crowned czar, these fellow travelers, the Jones’s, ranting person-of-color mantras, demean as non-persons of color their brethren who have fulfilled that very dream a man named “King” once had; that one day, blacks would think of themselves in terms of their character, not the color of their skin.

Sep 8, 2009 - 4:45 pm 35. LeighB:

Earth to Van Jones, Earth to Van Jones…Beck opened up a can of whup-ass on you. Beck 1. V-Jones 0.

Dr. Hanson–great article.

Sep 8, 2009 - 4:49 pm 36. Now and Then:

10. mikesf:
“Why work hard and accomplish when you can shoot your mouth off and make millions?”

Right! And so I resign as governor of the great state of Alaska that I love so much.

Sep 8, 2009 - 5:08 pm 37. zhombre:

Not just our first Islamic Apostate President, Charles Gordon, but I’ll put down money our first Triple Citizenship President: American, Kenyan and Indonesian.

Sep 8, 2009 - 5:21 pm 38. Rashputin:

Excellent article.

I don’t know why people have ignored the academic world so long as they watched it drift ever further into unreality. Any who want to can live in a bubble at most schools and if appropriately PC can continue to do so after graduation. As long as the mass of the public shrugs their shoulders and allows this sort of reality immune crowd to be led around by the likes of this faux revolutionary, I don’t know what result could be expected other than what we’re in fact seeing. Until universities return to being centers of learning rather than churches of the socialist faith, there’s no way to halt these repeated, absurd, socialist power grabs.

Why is teaching faith in this essentially religious belief that demands no argument and insists that all students do penance for their “sins” publicly funded? It makes no sense to keep putting public money into the source of most of our problems.

Regards

Sep 8, 2009 - 5:43 pm 39. scott:

Well said Rashputin!

Sep 8, 2009 - 6:29 pm 40. Delia:

“Right! And so I resign as governor of the great state of Alaska that I love so much.”

‘Making’ millions being a loud mouth race baiter and paying defense lawyers big-bux to fight frivolous lawsuits are not the same thing, now are they, N&W?

Sep 8, 2009 - 6:42 pm 41. Annie:

#29…no…but I think he may be a direct relative of Bozo and Pinocchio

Oh what the heck, the world thinks we are fools and that would prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt…

Sep 8, 2009 - 6:49 pm 42. 438miler:

Rashputin is right. All it takes is a reading of “Until Proven Innocent” about the Duke Rape Hoax, and one viewing of “Indoctrinate U” to see how far the universities have fallen. Van Jones fits right in and there are people in education right now who are lamenting the ‘unfair’ and ‘racist’ treatment of Jones. He’ll parlay this into multiple speaking engagements and do very well at the universities.

I wouldn’t give a penny to 95% of the universities in the country. I donate $0.00 every year to my alma mater – U. of Iowa. It has adopted a ’speech code’ to stop offensive speech. I’m not joking. They’ll probably be one of the first to offer Jones a big lecture fee however….. This is the bizarro way of the American University…….

Sep 8, 2009 - 7:00 pm 43. Kevin S:

Al Gore…worth over $100 million, never had a private sector job. The Clintons, never worked outside of a law firm in Arkansas, worth over $100 million. Charlie Rangel, worth millions (mostly not declared until recently, but that’s another story), never did anything but hold down the salary of a congressman. More Democrats are millionaires than Republicans in both houses of Congress, without ever working a job beyond politics.
Sarah Palin…net worth?…not counting that wildly provident wardrobe for a presidential campaign.
Why is it OK for Dems to accumulate hundreds of millions while collecting ordinary salaries (where do those millions come from?) while Republicans like Cheney and Bush run real businesses and get pilloried for making far less at real work and at wealth generation that goes beyond themselves?

Sep 8, 2009 - 7:21 pm 44. GGA - Dublin, Ohio:

Dr. Hanson -

Thank you for another stellar piece. Thoughtful analysis, logic, and a healthy dose of common sense is deeply refreshing!

One can only hope your prognosis of boredom is correct. We, the People are indeed growing weary of this administration and all of its tiresome antics, staged theatrics, and Orwellian double-speak (breathlessly repeated, er, excuse me, reported as “news” in the lamestream media).

Boredom is not only the death of a con, as you correctly point out, it is also the death knell of most things with regular Americans. In fact, it is fascinating that you mention it, since “boring” is one of the few politically correct insults we have left that cuts to the bone.

And, my oh my, how the ridiculousness, outrageousness, and absurdity of this administration has now, after nauseating repetition, been rendered boring and banal.

Keep up your great work.

Kind regards,
GGA – Dublin, Ohio

Sep 8, 2009 - 7:23 pm 45. Russ D:

The artcle is spot on and worth reading as most of Dr. Hanson’s books and articles are. The only exception I take is with the commentaries, the MSM will never feel shame no matter how outlandish their positions.

Sep 8, 2009 - 7:44 pm 46. Now and Then:

40. Delia:
sex of one half a bosom of the other

Sep 8, 2009 - 7:44 pm 47. eazymark:

Dr. Hanson, whup ass, indeed!

Sep 8, 2009 - 7:57 pm 48. Gaffe Prices:

I think relentless over-promotion of the ad-product has put 0bama into the dumpster where he belongs.

Sep 8, 2009 - 8:19 pm 49. myna:

Howard Dean defense that it is shame that he was out because Van Jones is Yale graduate. Van Jones and GWB were both Yale graduate. Yale diploma is just trash.

Sep 8, 2009 - 9:01 pm 50. AtheistConservative:

“‘Making’ millions being a loud mouth race baiter and paying defense lawyers big-bux to fight frivolous lawsuits are not the same thing, now are they, N&W?”

Take pity on him, he once again found himself unable to refute an excellent article on this site, and so waited for something he could gainsay to appear in the comments section.

Meanwhile, that ‘dumb hick’ Palin is busy destroying Obama’s health care plan. Hertz Donut?

Sep 8, 2009 - 9:13 pm 51. Jack Marcotte:

Essential vdh

BHO, Van Jones, and the rest of the PC, AA, elite semiliterate indoctrinated fools are idiots. They are feeding on the “intellectual stimulus” of the warmed over revolutionary language employed by despots over many centuries. Communism/socialism simply being the latest version.

The BHOOs and their unawareness of the well documented historical facts of the perfumed scorpion of communism highlights the disadvantage of going to Yale or Harvard under the AA, PC umbrella.

Under PC, AA admissions they don’t really have to know how to read or write or analyze to graduate and take their AA, PC positions within government funded programs. Rot and parasites that are now beginning to kill the host. No matter they also have embedded in the Dems and some Rhinos. They don’t even pay attention nor do they understand.

Being a race baiting black or other PC “minority of the day” idiot is all you need to get in the participating Universities. They then can collect the government funding for such programs. Follow the money it is that simple. Who directs and profits from this funding–the Politicians of course.

That the consequence of the self deception involved in AA and PC is now destroying America does not compute within the static minds of the “promoters” looking for money to skim off the funding. The idiot University profs. believe in it. They are useful idiots as stated by the Kremlin.

The Real world consequences of static and University inbred thinking and indoctrination are unknown in this rare atmosphere of intellectual plowing.

Of course plowing over ground and wearing out the dirt that has been better covered in centuries past.

Check Mr. Gates. A Semiliterate race baiting distinguished black professor at Harvard. In reality a complete idiot who is simply a version of an Al Sharpton, a well known “criminal” who has never been prosecuted for anything including the hotel bills he does not pay. He shows up on Hannity. Similar personalities on opposite sides.

Check out the Acorns and their activities and the words they use to justify extortion and ballot stuffing.

These BHOO narrow and shallow minds who gather like lifeless iron particles around a magnet have “discovered” what they think is original thinking due to their brilliance. A way to take down and fundamentally change America the Enemy of the “educated world”. Check BHO and Chavez and their statements. In their own words.

This is AA, PC Brilliance. A brain steeped in self pity not for any real reason but as a rationalization of AA, PC Brilliance.

This induced Brilliance is of course much like the hallucinations of a Tim O’Leary, when he discovered a whole new universes within his drug saturated brain.

This indoctrination has been presented to the BHOOs in Utopian words and thinking by weak minded intellectuals buried in a static and tenured cell block in Universities.

The Universities for program money allow shallow and unproductive AA and PC thinking that elevates lack of integrity, lack of responsibility, of individuals to the highest calling within their minds. In truth Anarchy.

It is a system that with words promotes weakness and ineptitude. It shows in results how the beneficiaries of AA and PC are in reality allowed to stay bigoted and uneducated and yet be told how smart and educated they are by the fawning MSM who of course are collected from the same iron particles. It has to be How else would the University justify all of the grants. They have to be smart.

Spending 150,000 government taxpayer dollars on an idiot in a PC AA University Program makes him smarter than someone who simply went to College and worked his way through. It has to be— it is the economic theory of the BHOOs.

Yet the BHOOs are still unaware of the real world and unaware of the level of sophistication of Western Christian thought and writing that developed over many centuries the very Western Culture that the BHOO’S parasitic life depends on for its subsistence.

America, for those who care, was formed due to individuals getting away from the above perfumed scorpions buried in history.

The ancient human subversion however has emerged here in America again raised by the same siren’s songs of histories past.

Is America going to let these maggots lead us. I think not.

Sep 8, 2009 - 9:20 pm 52. Promethea:

Regarding the intellectual failures of the U.S. universities . . . us taxpayers need to seriously assault this free lunch that the universities have been getting.

No more federal funds for intellectually bankrupt private universities. (Yale, Harvard, Columbia, etc. etc.)

No more state funds for dishonest phony state universities. (Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, California, blah, blah blah.)

We taxpayers are at a decision point. We can continue to fund this communistic/socialistic/fascist ne’er-do-well phony con artists, or we can stop the funds flowing to them and let them get jobs at the fast-food joints of their choosing.

I am calling for a taxpayer revolt now, when we can, when the states around us are going bankrupt.

Sep 8, 2009 - 10:03 pm 53. Promethea:

Since my comments are awaiting moderation, please change my words “fund this” to “fund these” in paragraph 4, line 1.

Thank you.

Sep 8, 2009 - 10:06 pm 54. Jason S:

I have reached the point where being called a racist by someone whose entire approach to race relations involves, first and foremost, a judgement of someone based on their skin color is rather amusing and entertaining. It’s funny to see them make the leap from health care or taxes or some other nerdy issue to racism with such ease and with a straight face. For the true believers, racism is the only possible explanation for dissent even as Obama’s radicalism becomes more and more evident.

Sep 8, 2009 - 10:48 pm 55. vivo:

43. Kevin S:

“Why is it OK for Dems to accumulate hundreds of millions while collecting ordinary salaries (where do those millions come from?) while Republicans like Cheney and Bush run real businesses and get pilloried for making far less at real work and at wealth generation that goes beyond themselves?”

Very simple: they are smarter than you.

The Republicans are adept at hiding money.

Sep 8, 2009 - 11:11 pm 56. BrainTrust:

Dr. Hansen has it exactly right.

Now, let us take on the corruption of the 501 C (3) corporations and revoke their non profit, tax free status and that will end the nightmare of the liberal, blood sucking philanthropist/environmentalist/affirmative actionist/lousy educationist/fake churchist/crappy artist, ad nauseum scamathon.

Then, a full court press to change governmental immunity to incorporate the “business judgment rule” and suddenly ….. logic and responsibility.

Sep 8, 2009 - 11:23 pm 57. Joseph, San Jose CA:

Thank you for another extraordinary insightful analysis. However, while I agree that Obama, Van Jones, Ayers, etc., were striking a pose as romantic revolutionaries, and have done very well for themselves in terms of prestige, power and money, I think they have become heavily invested psychologically in “The Revolution,” and are extremely dangerous. People like Ayers long ago became true believers in their own mythology. And even if by some chance recruits like Obama momentarily experienced some misgivings, it is hard to imagine them admitting their doubts. To say nothing of surrendering the perquisites of power and prestige. As they are exposed, we must not dismiss them as harmless buffoons. As the myth collapses about them, they are quite likely to become even more dangerous.

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Sep 8, 2009 - 11:58 pm 59. Anonymous:

These are just SOME of the Obamanations Associates can anyone in all honesty deny he is a RACIST MOHAMMEDAN COMMUNIST?

“I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists.” — Barack Obama

1985 – 2008

Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn — Terrorists and Communists
Bill A

William Charles Ayers (born December 26, 1944) is an American elementary education theorist and former leader in the anti-war movement that opposed U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. He is known for the radical nature of his activism, which began within the anti-war movement of the 1960s. In 1969 he co-founded the violent radical left organization the Weather Underground, which conducted a campaign of bombing public buildings during the 1960s and 1970s. He is now a professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, holding the titles of Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar.

Bernardine Rae Dohrn (née Ohrnstein, born January 12, 1942) is an American former leader of the Anti-Vietnam War radical organization Weather Underground. She is an Associate Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law and the Director of Northwestern’s Children and Family Justice Center.

1971 – 1978 Frank Marshall Davis — Communist

Obama had an admitted relationship with someone who was publicly identified as a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). The record shows that Obama was in Hawaii from 1971-1979, where, at some point in time, he developed a close relationship, almost like a son, with Davis, listening to his “poetry” and getting advice on his career path. But Obama, in his book, “Dreams From My Father,” refers to him repeatedly as just “Frank.”

2007 – 2008
Sam Graham-Felsen — Socialist/communist
Sam Graham-Felsen

He spent time in France taking part in labor riots, has written for a socialist magazine, hung a communist flag in his home, and was a fan of Marx while at Harvard.

1989 – Current
Gregory Galluzzo — Socialist/communist student of Alinsky
Gregory Galluzzo

A former Jesuit priest and executive director of the Gamaliel Foundation, Galluzzo was interview by New Republic’s Ryan Lizza and showed him the training manual he uses with new organizers. Galluzzo told Lizza that many new trainees have an aversion to Saul Alinsky’s gritty approach because they come to organizing as idealists rather than realists. Galluzzo, along with fellow trainer Mike Kruglik, schooled Obama in Alinsky tactics. The Developing Communities Project, Obama’s first employer in Chicago, was part of the Gamaliel network of organizations.

1989 – Current
Jeff Jones — Terrorist

Jeff Jones is a co-author of Obama’s Stimulus Bill. He used to be a terrorist. Jones was a national officer in Students for a Democratic Society, a founding member of Weatherman, and a leader of the Weather Underground.

Jones is part of the Apollo Group, which was founded by Van Jones — Obama’s “Green Czar.” The Apollo Group, under Jeff and Van Jones’ direction, basically wrote Barack Obama’s stimulus bill.

During World War II, Jones’ father was a pacifist and conscientious objector who was assigned for the duration of the war, to a civilian work camp in the Sierra Mountains of California. Ironic, a pacifist breading a terrorist.

1989 – Current
Van Jones — Communist and black nationalist

1992 – Current

Marilyn Katz — Head of Security — SDS
Marilyn Katz is a Chicago public relations consultant and political operative, who has known David Axelrod for 30 years. Katz claims it was she who introduced Obama to the “activist network” in Chicago.

1992 – Current
Mike Klonsky — Communist

Klonsky is an unabashed communist whose current mission is to spread Marxist ideology in the American classroom. Obama funded him to the tune of nearly $2 million. Obama, moreover, gave Klonsky a broad platform to broadcast his ideas: a “social justice” blog on the official Obama campaign website.

1989 – Current
Mike Kruglik — Socialist/communist student of Alinsky

Taught Barack Obama in the Alinsky method.

1989 – Current
Khalid Al-Mansour — PLO Spokesman
Khalid Al-Mansour

Obama’s friend from the univ of chgo Khalid was also an organizer for Muslims/arabs.

They both had offices on Ogden ave in chgo and were down the hall from eachother.

Khalid now is in NY at Columbia. They both had ties to the wood foundation and ayers

1980s – 1990s
Alice Palmer — Communist

1985 – 1998
Madeline Talbot — ACORN
Madeline Talbot

Madeleine Talbot was a leader at Chicago Acorn. Talbot was so impressed by Obama’s organizing skills that she invited him to help train her own staff.

Talbot turns out to have been a key leader of that attempt by Acorn to storm the Chicago City Council (during a living-wage debate). In a deliberate bit of what radicals call “direct action,” orchestrated by Acorn’s Madeleine Talbot. As Talbot was led away handcuffed, charged with mob action and disorderly conduct, she explicitly justified her actions in storming the meeting. This was the woman who first drew Obama into his alliance with Acorn, and whose staff Obama helped train.

1988 – 2008
Rev. Jeremiah Wright — Black RACIST Marxist

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Sep 9, 2009 - 12:21 am 60. Pragmatist:

These are just SOME of the Obamanations Associates can anyone in all honesty deny he is a RACIST MOHAMMEDAN COMMUNIST?

“I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists.” — Barack Obama

1985 – 2008

Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn — Terrorists and Communists
Bill A

William Charles Ayers (born December 26, 1944) is an American elementary education theorist and former leader in the anti-war movement that opposed U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. He is known for the radical nature of his activism, which began within the anti-war movement of the 1960s. In 1969 he co-founded the violent radical left organization the Weather Underground, which conducted a campaign of bombing public buildings during the 1960s and 1970s. He is now a professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, holding the titles of Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar.

Bernardine Rae Dohrn (née Ohrnstein, born January 12, 1942) is an American former leader of the Anti-Vietnam War radical organization Weather Underground. She is an Associate Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law and the Director of Northwestern’s Children and Family Justice Center.

1971 – 1978 Frank Marshall Davis — Communist

Obama had an admitted relationship with someone who was publicly identified as a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). The record shows that Obama was in Hawaii from 1971-1979, where, at some point in time, he developed a close relationship, almost like a son, with Davis, listening to his “poetry” and getting advice on his career path. But Obama, in his book, “Dreams From My Father,” refers to him repeatedly as just “Frank.”

2007 – 2008
Sam Graham-Felsen — Socialist/communist
Sam Graham-Felsen

He spent time in France taking part in labor riots, has written for a socialist magazine, hung a communist flag in his home, and was a fan of Marx while at Harvard.

1989 – Current
Gregory Galluzzo — Socialist/communist student of Alinsky
Gregory Galluzzo

A former Jesuit priest and executive director of the Gamaliel Foundation, Galluzzo was interview by New Republic’s Ryan Lizza and showed him the training manual he uses with new organizers. Galluzzo told Lizza that many new trainees have an aversion to Saul Alinsky’s gritty approach because they come to organizing as idealists rather than realists. Galluzzo, along with fellow trainer Mike Kruglik, schooled Obama in Alinsky tactics. The Developing Communities Project, Obama’s first employer in Chicago, was part of the Gamaliel network of organizations.

1989 – Current
Jeff Jones — Terrorist

Jeff Jones is a co-author of Obama’s Stimulus Bill. He used to be a terrorist. Jones was a national officer in Students for a Democratic Society, a founding member of Weatherman, and a leader of the Weather Underground.

Jones is part of the Apollo Group, which was founded by Van Jones — Obama’s “Green Czar.” The Apollo Group, under Jeff and Van Jones’ direction, basically wrote Barack Obama’s stimulus bill.

During World War II, Jones’ father was a pacifist and conscientious objector who was assigned for the duration of the war, to a civilian work camp in the Sierra Mountains of California. Ironic, a pacifist breading a terrorist.

1989 – Current
Van Jones — Communist and black nationalist

1992 – Current

Marilyn Katz — Head of Security — SDS
Marilyn Katz is a Chicago public relations consultant and political operative, who has known David Axelrod for 30 years. Katz claims it was she who introduced Obama to the “activist network” in Chicago.

1992 – Current
Mike Klonsky — Communist

Klonsky is an unabashed communist whose current mission is to spread Marxist ideology in the American classroom. Obama funded him to the tune of nearly $2 million. Obama, moreover, gave Klonsky a broad platform to broadcast his ideas: a “social justice” blog on the official Obama campaign website.

1989 – Current
Mike Kruglik — Socialist/communist student of Alinsky

Taught Barack Obama in the Alinsky method.

1989 – Current
Khalid Al-Mansour — PLO Spokesman
Khalid Al-Mansour

Obama’s friend from the univ of chgo Khalid was also an organizer for Muslims/arabs.

They both had offices on Ogden ave in chgo and were down the hall from eachother.

Khalid now is in NY at Columbia. They both had ties to the wood foundation and ayers

1980s – 1990s
Alice Palmer — Communist

1985 – 1998
Madeline Talbot — ACORN
Madeline Talbot

Madeleine Talbot was a leader at Chicago Acorn. Talbot was so impressed by Obama’s organizing skills that she invited him to help train her own staff.

Talbot turns out to have been a key leader of that attempt by Acorn to storm the Chicago City Council (during a living-wage debate). In a deliberate bit of what radicals call “direct action,” orchestrated by Acorn’s Madeleine Talbot. As Talbot was led away handcuffed, charged with mob action and disorderly conduct, she explicitly justified her actions in storming the meeting. This was the woman who first drew Obama into his alliance with Acorn, and whose staff Obama helped train.

1988 – 2008
Rev. Jeremiah Wright — Black RACIST Marxist

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Sep 9, 2009 - 12:22 am 61. Gary Ogletree:

Zar Jones and President Wee Wee will never be happy, having missed out on writing that letter from the Birmingham jail. But then they have shown themselves incapable of writing that letter.

Sep 9, 2009 - 2:44 am 62. Samizdat:

Promethea,

Right on. Why taxpayers fund the likes of Ward Churchill and the thousands of other Marxist spewers is beyond me. They, along with people like Van Jones, contribute nothing to our society. They advocate a discredited ideology and are funded by us. They seek to destroy our society permanently. You can’t be a Marxist and believe in our Constitution. It’s that simple.

Now watch, Van Jones will make millions outside of the Administration. He was a first amoung equals, thinks he is part of the proletariat, but he is really just bourgeoisie and will whore himself out as he condemns the country he grows wealthy from. What a hypocrit.

Sep 9, 2009 - 2:56 am 63. President Urkel:

Brutal takedown of Jones and Obama. Both men are strange and inauthentic, running a minstrel routine on sad, “soulless” white people. It’s like John Guare’s “Six Degrees of Separation,” starring Steve Urkel.

In the meantime, President Obama has done a great service: HE HAS DEMAGNETIZED THE RACE CARD. Eight months into his term, it’s stopped working! Skip Gates pulled his race card, and all he got were tax problems. Jones whipped his out and still lost his gig. The card that carried these Mau-Mauing clowns through Ivy League schools and into their “careers” suddenly no longer works.

That must be tremendously frustrating. But the very fact we can publicly discuss grotesque racial prejudice and not be talking about white people is remarkable. And I want to thank Barry Dunham for that.

Sep 9, 2009 - 3:27 am 64. Neo:

murderer Che becomes a popular T-shirt emblem among the college elite

I’ve been a proponent of combining the “Gitmo problem” with that T-shirt problem by renaming Gitmo to “Chez Guevara”

Sep 9, 2009 - 5:24 am 65. Pryor Restraint:

Richard Pryor, perhap the greatest of all American comedians, and a guy who wasn’t a coward about discussing race (cf. Eric Holder), foresaw the possibilities of a racially divisive presidency and the inability for a president to keep his true self hidden from the public 30 years before it happened. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtlDVi_1JMg

Sep 9, 2009 - 5:28 am 66. RJ:

When you inserted that word “con” I knew we were both on the same page about “those people” who have come to Washington and their mentors. Some smart “street” people knew long ago who and what Obama was and is…they called out their opinions only to be discarded for any reason conjured.

Obama is nothing more than a “mac daddy” which is street for pimp. See the black minister from the Atlah (sp?) church in Harlem for finer details.

Sep 9, 2009 - 5:32 am 67. Pelaut:

Excellent analyisis of the genre around Obama, Professor!

However, we vastly underestimate their power.

Think: one Ayres, one Jones, etc., whose name we don’t even know, could be our Ché Guevara.

They’re out there in their hundreds of thousands and many, like Ché, mask murderous, psycho-sociopathic demons that can bubble up to the top of the heap with catastrophic societal results as was the case with Ché.

These Huns are no longer at the gates. They are in the palace.

Sep 9, 2009 - 6:02 am 68. Thomas_L......:

Right on, as usual, Doc! It took the trolls quite a while to find a “rebuttal” but one of the morons managed to zing us with an I’ll give you Van Jones and raise you Sarah Palin. Keep watching their respective trajectories, smart guy!

Sep 9, 2009 - 6:26 am 69. Dan Rampage:

Great article. Hypocrisy is the Administration’s number one currency. – one correction though – Obama put $80 billion in stimulus funding available to Jones for green jobs, not $80 million. Unbelievable.

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Sep 9, 2009 - 6:29 am 71. Anonymous:

One of their own – Camilla Paglia:

“If the left is an incoherent shambles in the U.S., it’s partly because the visionaries lost their bearings on drugs, and only the myopic apparatchiks and feather-preening bourgeois liberals are left.”

Sep 9, 2009 - 7:05 am 72. Tomp:

A quote from one of their own, Camilla Paglia:

“If the left is an incoherent shambles in the U.S., it’s partly because the visionaries lost their bearings on drugs, and only the myopic apparatchiks and feather-preening bourgeois liberals are left.”

Sep 9, 2009 - 7:13 am 73. Robert Winkler Burke:

No dissention in the ranks?
For this, who gives thanks?
The big hairs, the dandies,
The posers, the grandees,
And their big banks!

Why no dissention at all?
That no leader shall fall?
Thank the broadcasters, front men,
The take-the-money-and-run sin,
And the over culture cabal!

Who are these masters?
These liberty blasters?
Those who’ve all agreed, that we sow to their need,
We pay tribute glad hearted, keeping what’s started,
These freedom disasters.

Who takes from us?
That we be blessed?
The brazen chosen few,
With big ego doings do,
Rape all to be richest.

Is it literal slavery?
Or mental knavery?
It matters much not,
They get what they got,
By their say-so bravery.

Reality is defined by what they say?
Nothing else matters, they say, anyway?
Forget Bible or Constitution,
So busy with cash restitution,
That the big take from the little, Hurray!

So we bend the knees of our mind,
Such that forever we on earth find,
Us evermore prostrated,
Our progeny castrated,
That moral enlightenment be thus defined?

Tell me it ain’t so,
That them with mojo,
Captured religion,
And Western reason,
No prophet saying, No!

Sep 9, 2009 - 7:20 am 74. Now and Then:

50. AtheistConservative:
“Why work hard and accomplish when you can shoot your mouth off and make millions?”

That is EXACTLY what Palin did. She didn’t like going to work everyday, saw she could make millions shooting off her mouth, and so that’s what she’s doing. Destroying healthcare? She hasn’t convinced anybody of anything beyond the right wing extremists who agreed with her already. You’ll be whining a different tune when healthcare reform passes. After that – repeal DOMA, repeal DODT, legalize medical marijuana – all kinds of good whine-worthy stuff coming your way. Enjoy.

Sep 9, 2009 - 7:40 am 75. genghis:

Yes, yes, yes. The appointment of Van Jones as a czar in the Wizards administration is outrageous. The fact that this incident has been so thouroughly buried by the MSM is more outrageous. Criminally negligent, in fact..Well, move on foks. No story here.

Sep 9, 2009 - 7:52 am 76. Rashputin:

BrainTrust – (56)

“Then, a full court press to change governmental immunity to incorporate the “business judgment rule” and suddenly ….. logic and responsibility.”

“Full court press” is more than just a phrase in this case, or at least it should be. I don’t understand why the conservatives shy away from the courts and allow them to be the tool of the left. Just like the 2nd Amendment was kept out of court by conservatives for a long time because they feared the ruling would go against them in spite of several earlier rulings that confirmed the 2nd as an individual right, conservatives fail to use the courts to fight the courts the same way liberals do. Liberals successfully moved public debate and legislation out of the public domain and into the courts decades ago and it’s time the conservatives wake up and engage them in that arena. Spending decade after decade trying to remove activist judges isn’t really working out, is it?

Where is it written that the Congress and the Executive branches have no fiducial responsibility at least equal to that of a corporation? Our representatives function on our behalf and when it can be shown that they are no longer acting in our interest they should have the same problems that corporations that defy their shareholders have rather than simply staying in place until their term us up. Just what is the sanction for those who renege on their oath? When has it been fought out in court that there is an implicit recall right of the people that supersedes election law so that violations of an oath of office could lead to a recall election whether that is in the state constitution or not? It is implied in the oath itself, not in the contract represented by the election law that specifies a term of office, but in the oath that specifies the terms of service.

Here we have people who have “discovered” that health care is a right. Well, I woke up yesterday and discovered that officials have no right to remain in office if they’ve violated their oath or have failed to put those they represent ahead of their own interest. They have carefully avoided going to court over whether or not health care is a right, we shouldn’t carefully avoid that issue and the issue of who these fools are responsible to. When did it become reasonable or even legal for our elected representatives to put loyalty to their party ahead of their oath of office that commits them to represent the voters? Where in state or federal law do they find the rationale that their party affiliation is superior to their oath of office?

That some of these issues have been addressed in the past doesn’t mean that newly “discovered” rights of the people have been litigated and have been shown to have no greater weight than those issues that were similar but litigated in the past. All the PAC money in the world won’t keep them from being tied in a knot if they’re facing dozens of court cases rather than the single occasional case or a class action case they can delay forever. Actions taken by any branch of government that can be shown to be financially irresponsible if taken by other governments throughout history should be fought in the courts as betraying the responsibility and oaths taken by those in office. If nothing else, it would force the left to argue for their failed policies in an open court and explain why failed policies from the past are expected to work now. No matter how many times you lost on the way to the Supreme Court, you would each time be awakening people to the predictable outcome and how many times the same approach had failed in the past. And there’s always a way to rephrase an argument and keep it moving along.

I’m sure there are attorneys who could shepherd these and many other things into court, many more restraints on government remain unlitigated than there can possibly be newly discovered liberal empowerments. Think about it, the vast majority of the Constitution is restraining in nature but we sit and wait on the next liberal expansion attack rather than fighting what they assume they already have. Almost all liberal court cases rehash the same few grounds over and over while conservative issues could be fought on a wide variety of grounds. Liberals need to be on the defensive on the constitutional law front, the financial responsibility front, the terms of service front, and anything else that can even force them to answer the matter. At present, they pick and chose their battles which gives them the advantage. Over and over again, the left wins by exhausting the majority who hate to go before the legal system for a resolution. That has to stop just as funding for their academic underpinnings has to stop. You must fight fire with fire, that’s obvious after decades of trying to put fires out while the left runs rampant with cans of gasoline and boxes of matches. I’d estimate that four fifths of those running around with a law degree and a Molotov can’t even understand a routine legal document without help. Why are we hiding from illiterates with the fake degrees on their wall?

Regards

Sep 9, 2009 - 8:39 am 77. Ron Kean:

55. Vivo

“The Republicans are adept at hiding money.”

Ha Ha Ha. We know the people who are hiding things and they’re not Republican. What was Obama’s GPA at Occidental? Columbia?

Sep 9, 2009 - 8:43 am 78. scott:

Can’t help but enjoy the lack of troll mess on this thread. The tards have no comeback on this one. If only the know nothing Americans could somehow apprehend the plain, simple and irrefutable truth of this article.

I’ve been traveling this summer and meeting way more people than at any time in the previous many many years. I’d have to say that at least 50% of the folks I’ve encountered have ZERO political awareness and don’t wish to have any. They just don’t care and this is why we are losing our country.

Sep 9, 2009 - 9:13 am 79. B Dubya:

There is an entire raft of “progressive” cottage industries built around pandering to a permanent victim class. What Obama is attempting is the mainstreaming of these industries in order to ensure his incumbency.

If you are black, you are assumed to be prime fodder for this con. Only the (progressive) white man can raise you up (that is actually in the language of the 1965 civil rights bill). If you are black, you must always assume the posture of the entitled victim, you must immerse yourself in the gangsta sub-culture, you must denigrate the intellectual., scholastic and professional accomplishments of any black person who has found traditional American success. You must resign yourself to the fruits of affirmative action and have your credentials, even if they are hard won, automatically devalued by your peers because they see another Van Jones or Barrack Obama. You must accept (and ignore) black on black violence as the leading cause of death of your young males and never ever understand that it is your choices that make that condition inevitable.

If you are Hispanic or Asian, not so much. Sorry, wrong ethnicities, incorrect value systems, unfairly talented (read hard working at personal improvement) for you to be a proper PC victim. Maybe next time.

Womyn with a y, always. At least until your particular brand of victimology meets it’s Darwinian end. Or, god forbid, until your phoney university womyn’s studies programs are de-funded. Meanwhile, you have nothing to say about the half billion women kept in religious and physical bondage in the Islamic world.

You want health care reform and you won’t even talk about the vulture class of ambulance chasing lawyers who feed off this system, you won’t even consider tort reform? John Edwards and his fellow tort law conmen thank you. Where ever the progressive left thrives, there also is a friendly court environment for the bogus class actions brought by these people; the purpose of the cases is not justice for the alleged claimants, but the harvest of billions per year for lawyers in padded hours charged to the case or outright impoundment of the lion’s share of the settlement as their contingency fee.

Don’t even get me started on the nannyhood industry.

Sep 9, 2009 - 11:06 am 80. Instapundit » Blog Archive » VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: New Communique From The Ministry of Truth. “What we are now seeing with Obama…:

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Sep 9, 2009 - 11:39 am 81. Jeff P.:

This might be the best piece published to date on who Obama (and his fellow travelers) really are. Congratulations, Mr. Hanson.

But no, I DON’T think it is OK for Soros and the Tides Foundation to subsidize this crap while getting a tax exemption.

Sep 9, 2009 - 12:24 pm 82. frank grimes:

73.PDS patient:cannabis should be decriminalized NOT legalized…..do you want corporations being able to do with weed what they did with tobacco,gambling and booze?

decriminalizing would keep big money out of it-no billion dollar marketing campain(targeting mostly children) and it would make it financialy unfeasable for cartels to smuggle it,freeing up valuable manpower at the border.

after visiting europe and spending enough time in LA county,CA.i am picking the lesser of two evils(prohibition vs. decrimialization)

Sep 9, 2009 - 12:53 pm 83. Biker Trash:

” Ward Churchillism
What do I mean by “representational”?

There is a strange pseudo-culture in America, of which Obama is a perfect example. Millionaire Michael Moore announces, “Capitalism is evil” as he hypes promotion of his moneymaking new movie. Oliver Stones praises Chavez, as the dictator shuts down voices of dissent—yet Stone himself could not make a movie in Venezuela as he does here. So too the murderer Che becomes a popular T-shirt emblem among the college elite. Van Jones calls Bush a “crackhead” but then in self-important style flashes on his website, “As a tireless advocate for disadvantaged people and the environment, Van helped to pass America’s first ‘green job training’ legislation: the Green Jobs Act, which George W. Bush signed into law as a part of the 2007 Energy Bill.” Bush is a crackhead in front of some audiences, compliant supporter to others?”

I have devised a label for these kinds of situations; Physical Realizations of Oxymorons ( PRO ).

Moore’s recent case is almost unbelievable; making money while denouncing capitalism. That’s plain stupid. Let him set his shop up in Cuba. And Stone, too.

One of my favorite PRO are discussions of challenges to capitalism in Starbuck’s coffeehouses.

Sep 9, 2009 - 12:57 pm 84. logdon:

We’ve had ten years of this nonsense in Britain and an electorate, seduced by the real opium of the masses, money, once subdued are now waking up to the clarion call.

You guys loved the gloss and easygoing smarm of Blair whilst we faced the reality of the wasteland he was turning our once great country into.

Then came clunking fist Brown, the thin glittering glister removed and we saw that, yes, the king was indeed as buck naked as a new born babe.

The cycle of spin is smashed and, at last we will emerged bruised and battered yet still clinging on to what at heart is the essence of our old land.

America will too and those Townhallers deserve many tips of many hats for what was raw and uncompromising courage in the face of a massive political machine.

Unfortunately we don’t go in for much of that kind of firestorm, yet the embers glow quietly and are now catching the dry tinder of dissatisfaction.

Conflagration awaits our Obamalike Labour party which talks socialism yet like the Yaleys and pampered Democrats in the US pocket anything which comes their way.

By the way, a great article.

Sep 9, 2009 - 1:08 pm 85. JimmyNashville:

In Jimmy’s defense, “you can’t choose yer kin”; but as time has proven, Jimmy’s plenty bad enough on his own.

Obama, however, has no such crutch. As the mist continues to rise many of this man’s poor choices will finally be revealed.

Sep 9, 2009 - 1:10 pm 86. Trouble:

You’ll be whining a different tune when healthcare reform passes. After that – repeal DOMA, repeal DODT, legalize medical marijuana – all kinds of good whine-worthy stuff coming your way. Enjoy.

I am enjoying; that’s really funny. My advice for the Democrats on medical insurance reform (which is what this really is) would be to pass something – anything – then declare victory, and get out while the gettin’ is good.

BTW: there are several of us here who are Jeffersonian liberals, and regard medical MJ and DOMA as states’ rights issues. Getting the Feds out of the business of regulating marriage and medical practice is, on principle, no bad thing.

Sorry, but, whenever Federal power is curtailed, I (for one) rejoice.

“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.” – Jefferson, 1791

Sep 9, 2009 - 1:13 pm 87. myth buster:

Now and Then, it wasn’t that Sarah didn’t like coming to work every day, it was that she couldn’t afford to keep her job. She was paying more in legal bills to fight frivolous lawsuits than she was earning.

As for the state universities, the same rule applies as it does to the Ivies- hard science degrees are quite sound.

Sep 9, 2009 - 1:15 pm 88. Subotai Bahadur:

#12. David Thomson

I will agree that someone whose degree is in hard sciences from Yale or the other Ivy’s may be technically competent in his/her field. However, in the course of getting that degree, he would still be fully immersed in the Marxist fantasy world of the Left for at least 4 years, accountable to its judging of his speech, thought, and behaviour during that time. He would either acculturate and adopt its mores and thought patterns, or be suffering from cognitive dissonance and somewhat schizophrenic thought patterns at the end of it.

There may be exceptions. But if you were hiring, would you want to risk picking up a functioning enemy of capitalism and the country who at best would be a PC pain in the tuchus and at worst might sabotage your company from the inside?

A degree from the Ivy’s now carries the taint of a degree from Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow. It is convenient, I admit, that they will proudly list their degree on their c.v.; not realizing that it is, if not a “scarlet letter” a bright red star [Krasnaya Zvezda]. It is even worse than hiring someone whose degree field contains the word “studies” in the title.

[on a 1-10 scale of sarcasm, this piece is about a 2]

Subotai Bahadur

Sep 9, 2009 - 1:34 pm 89. Skeej:

Thanks Professor Hansen.

As long as there are writers like yourself, Sowell, Krauthammer, and bloggers like Reynolds, Malkin, to spread the word, so that the major outlets like Fox and talk radio re-transmit it, then we on the principled right have hope.

The hope that the vast mid-wing conspiracy of that silent majority of independents and thoughtful liberals who act upon facts (rather than hype and self-referential belief systems built by folks like Moore, et all) will be given the thoughtful, factual, insightful analysis that puts it into perspective, for later action at the voting booth.

Keep up the good work.

Sep 9, 2009 - 1:38 pm 90. Works and Days » Deconstructing the “Whup Ass” « TotalTerry:

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Sep 9, 2009 - 1:56 pm 91. JE:

Is it $80M or $80B?

Sep 9, 2009 - 2:33 pm 92. proreason:

I don’t know about you guys, but I’m getting a little tired of working 6 months out of 12 to support con artists.

My “empathy” for their angst about what happened generations ago is wearing a bit thin.

I don’t seem to have VDH’s placid acceptance of carny barkers getting rich on my dime.

Sep 9, 2009 - 3:31 pm 93. Beth in Texas:

Speaking of racism, has anyone seen the cover of this week’s Newsweek? The headline reads “Is Your Baby a Racist?”, and is accompanied by a picture of a baby – a white one, of course.

Sep 9, 2009 - 4:04 pm 94. Ken:

I recall reading that a poli-sci professor in the early 60s predicted that in every democracy there would arise among the elite a group that was utterly opposed to democracy.

I never was able to find exactly who said it, and why he said it, but it appears to be true: Red Brigades, Symbionese Liberation Army, Baader-Meinhoff, etc. and the current crop of White House “buddies” (I don’t know what else to call them).

Another name I read for them whilst living in Germany was “chili-linki” – cool leftists. It’s just plain cool to be young and opposed to everything. Or as Tom Petty called them “Rebels without a Clue”.

Sep 9, 2009 - 4:08 pm 95. Gerald Arcuri:

Words matter. Unfortunately, they are also devalued by the likes of Van Jones. The trick is knowing when they matter, and when don’t. So much of the rhetoric of Barack Obama doesn’t matter. As Thomas Sowell advises, listen to what they say, and then really pay attention to what they do.

Sep 9, 2009 - 4:14 pm 96. tioedong:

Jones portrayed the LA riots as rage against “Whitey” but they actually were rage against hard working Korean immigrants who ran the local stores.

Our local Korean channel (here in the Philippines) once had a discussion of “discrimination” against Koreans in the US…and most of the discussion was about police refusing to protect them or prosecute gang members who attack them and rob their stores.

Asians are too polite to say this, but every time a “minority preference” loses them a job or a scholarship, they get angry.

Poor whites feel the same when they lose opportunities for racial reasons, but of course they are “bitter” (racists) who “cling to their guns and religion” so don’t count.

Sep 9, 2009 - 4:17 pm 97. deguello:

Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson:race baiting poverty pimps ,meet your post racial successor:Van Jones:industry baiting ecology pimp.

Sep 9, 2009 - 6:20 pm 98. phifl63:

Excellent post calling out these con-men for what they really are: clever, deceitful frauds and buffoons. However, that makes them no less dangerous since they occupy positions of power in our government.

Sep 9, 2009 - 8:08 pm 99. TLM:

“One major reason Obama’s polls have dropped is the public resentment of this spate of allegations of racism.”

True. True. And related. It was one thing to allege latent racial animosity toward Obama during the election. It’s quite another to now slander millions of Americans as overtly racist merely because they disagree with the President’s blatantly socialist plans. TEA Partyers… raaaaacists. Townhall protesters…raaaaacists. Van Jones demagoguers…raaaaacists. Obama and his media lackeys beat that trope to death a long time ago. Keep floggin’ it and pretty soon no one will even think the Klan was racist.

And, yes we “really mean it this time.” Been there. Done that. Had enough of their bullsh*t. Like the Congressman from SC said during Obama’s speech tonight:

“LIAR”

Sep 9, 2009 - 8:38 pm 100. Charles Kirtley:

Exactly what does a “Green Jobs Czar” do? How does he create green jobs? I suspect the only jobs he would have created would be some affirmative action appointments on his staff.

I am sure the “Green Jobs Czar” would be as effective creating jobs as the Department of Energy has been in finding alternative energy sources and getting us off oil.

The “Green Jobs Czar” would create jobs as well as the Department of Education has brought up test scores. Thank you Washington. Thank you Barack.

Sep 9, 2009 - 9:10 pm 101. gs:

Thanks for another devastatingly effective critique, VDH.

If the Republicans heeded your views, they would recover the Oval Office and Capitol in a cakewalk. (And they would not have lost the last two elections.)

I’m not holding my breath.

Sep 9, 2009 - 9:42 pm 102. Robohobo:

Cathi @ 1:

This article is spot on! … pointed out the fact that all these faux agiteurs are just that — phony. … Ayers. This man is so effete that I cannot imagine anyone takes him seriously, all the while still living off daddy’s money. … Hanson sums up Van Jones and Obama quite well. Both seem like mythical creatures with cobbled together life stories.

Nicely said. I doubt that Ayers would have much to say should he run up against real tough men. I think I know the outcome of that one. I know guys that would make Ayers, Jones and 0bama cry with a look.

The crappy part is that 0bama has the supposed leadership of the country. A leader he is not. As time marches he seems more and more the buffoon. Tonight’s performance, and it was a performance, was weak.

We heard I….I….I…I ad nauseum.

Steve Sampson @ 4:

Being a contemporary of Ayers, I often wondered about the future of kids who were recruited into the SDS and the Weathermen without Trust Funds waiting for them at the conclusion of their revolutionary play acting. Obviously many lives were ruined while they were used by Communists like Ayers, a dyed in the wool trust fund baby, whose future was never in doubt.

I saw the wreckage by those trust funder’s in the communes above Taos. They left behind hepatitis, VD, drug addled locals, etc. – all for their play at social experimentation. They are execrable specimens.

The likes of Van Jones, BHO, Rahmbo Emmanuel, Axelrod and others can only exist in the Ivy Leagues. If they had to make it in the rough and tumble real world they would have their tuchus’ handed to themin short order.

Dr. Hanson gets it because he bridges the two worlds. The one of letters and the one of practical farm management.

Sep 9, 2009 - 9:44 pm 103. cfbleachers:

VDH, you know…it’s funny, but the tone of your piece is more weary than wary…or perhaps I am just projecting.

Racism in America is a two way street, but one’s ability to shout “racism” and be heard…or at least have a prefab soapbox upon which one may stand (the entrenched media, academia, Hollywood as enablers and everpresent partners in the stage construction)…has a very low barrier to entry. You simply may not be of Western European heritage…and you have to be able to fog a mirror, I suppose.

This leftist “rear guard attack” is constantly in play and fomented with regularity, not because it is true or not true at its core, but because it does what leftist ideology…dogma, really…sets out to do.

Deconstruct America. Take away the base foundations of any nation, …divide and conquer. Create “us” vs. “them”. Class, race, creed…just as good.

EVERY spoken, written, uttered word from the left, lefter, leftist Trilogy of Divisiveness and Blame…is an act in furtherance of this deconstruction. Buying into the divisiveness from EITHER side, simply feeds the beast. Like wily stockbrokers…solidaritybreakers make currency on the short or long call. Whatever divides us works just as well for them.

Western European descendants simply make easy fodder, nobody will feel sympathy for their plight as “whupping boy”…so they are universal recipients in the game of “blame THEM”. It’s cheap, easy, free theater. Republicans? Extra points for cheap shots.

The “play victim” is not the real loser, however. We have lost our national conscience. Real racism is now a parody.

Left,lefter, leftist strategists have grabbed the reins of our national dialogue, our national debate, our national consciousness. They own the very words we use (”mainstream” media) and we therefore, are wrestling the crocodiles in the water, not on land.

Splintered, outmaneuvered, communications cut off and wholly divided…we can snort and paw the ground all we like..waiting for the picador to deliver the lance to keep our heads bowed…and all the while waving the red cape of “racism” amid taunts and torments… for their blood sport enjoyment.

Sep 10, 2009 - 4:07 am 104. vivo:

77. Ron Kean:

‘The Republicans are adept at hiding money.’

“Ha Ha Ha. We know the people who are hiding things and they’re not Republican.”

Deflecting the subject is admission of guilt.

Sep 10, 2009 - 4:12 am 105. Moho:

(Re: on the one hand, we are supposed to believe that Jones was a brilliant Yale law graduate,* on the other that he did not understand the simple English wording of the petition?), he might have survived the other inanities.

Are you implying he didn’t graduate from Yale? Or are you just too stupid to get your meaning across? Others have complained about the petition as well, including Tikkun’s Lerner:

What the Right did, with the help of the 9/11 “truthers,” was to distort the intention of at least some of us who were asked to sign the statement. The “truthers” published that statement with their own speculations of the role of Bush, and the way that it appears on their website makes it possible for someone to imagine that the signatories to the statement were all agreeing to their framing–and that is simply not true. Conversely, the Right used that deceptive form of publicity by the “truthers” to affirm something that Van Jones and others made clear we never intended to sign, ….

I was asked to sign a letter that I was told had four demands:

1. An immediate investigation by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer
2. Immediate investigation in congressional hearings.
3. Media attention to scrutinize and investigate the evidence.
4. The formation of a truly independent citizens-based inquiry.

I did not authorize my name to be used for all the other stuff that I now see was included surrounding the letter, namely the sponsors of that 911truth.org, and would not have had I been aware that all that stuff was presented in ways that suggested that I agreed with it, and though I do recognize a few of the people I’d consider “nut cases” among the list of signatories, my guess is that most of those who signed were, like me, unaware of the context in which our names would appear.

A good reporter, even one with a malicious intent like yours, would have at least included such statements, and then found a way to undermine them. But you don’t; you’re a coward.

Sep 10, 2009 - 7:13 am 106. John Reece:

As an occasional resident since 1972 of the People’s Republic of Berkeley and the People’s Republic of Santa Cruz, not to mention a former longtime member of the Sierra Club, I’d say VDH’s narration of how people like Van Jones and Barry Dunham got ahead is DEAD ON. Van Jones got to his position because lily-white Green groups like the Sierra Club are wracked with white-liberal-guilt over their lack of diversity and are therefore desperate to throw high-profile gigs at any minority member who has more polish than a 1968 Black Panther. And I’ve met Bobby Seale…

Sep 10, 2009 - 8:44 am 107. scott:

cfbleachers,

Dang! That was excellent!

Sep 10, 2009 - 10:07 am 108. Subotai Bahadur:

96. tioedong

Amen. As an American of Asian ancestry [not Korean, though] I took great pleasure in seeing the L.A. Chapter of the Korean Marine Association stand post guarding the businesses of their fellow Koreans. It appealed to me as a fellow Asian and as a supporter of the Second Amendment.

Growing up, my dad told me that I would have to work twice as hard as a white person to get the same deal. He meant it because of discrimination against those with Chinese blood. And from his point of view it made sense. When he came over, we literally were not human beings under Federal law and the laws of many states.

I caught the tale end of the discrimination of that sort [The first time I had to carry a gun was in high school in Hastings, Nebraska, because my fellow students decided that having epicanthic folds meant that I was VC; despite being Chinese and aiming at the time for Annapolis.], and saw it shift. Led by refugees from SE Asia, who by hard work built a new and successful life, Asians became top achievers in school and in business. And for that they faced discrimination again, for a different reason. Universities began defacto quotas limiting Asians to accomodate affirmative action placements of Blacks and Hispanics. I remember seeing actual functional illiterates being admitted to CU-Boulder under affirmative action, and them rioting and taking over Regent Hall when they flunked out, claiming racism. I later remember my daughter being bussed all the way across Denver to a different school, because she was Chinese while my stepson wasn’t.

Until the United States remembers that individual merit and achievement count more than racial origin; we are doomed to a succession of demogogues like Obama.

Subotai Bahadur

Sep 10, 2009 - 11:27 am 109. deguello:

#105MOHO Dear, take your enema,and use the text of Jones lies to wipe yourself…or not.Of course Jones graduated from Yale;with a meretricious Affirmative action/lowered standards degree.The only believable part of his exculpatory drivel,was his admitting to having poor reading skills.This flaw is ,of course, typical of the affirmative action graduates of our standards-challenged,guilt ridden Ivy League “universities”.When Obama loses his re-election bid, he’ll soon refer to his poor skills at public speaking(when not using his teleprompter,,as an excuse for his failures.

Sep 10, 2009 - 12:04 pm 110. deguello:

MR.HANSON:Deconstructing this,poverty pimp and would-be commissar is easy,just take out the “whup”,and you’re done!

Sep 10, 2009 - 1:30 pm 111. Norman Rogers:

But as Jones relates, it was far easier to be a “hell raiser” at Yale. What that meant I think was that in lieu of studying (“Yale didn’t have any grades”), Jones knew that he could say and do almost anything he wished among rather wealthy (and to be honest, rather nerdy) white and Asian people, playing on both their guilt, and on their vicarious sense of adventure and cutting-age revolutionary romance—and do pretty well.

Oh, the nerds at Yale were full of contradictions. I am so glad I never went there. I suppose if I had tried harder, I might have gotten in, but even in the early 1960s, the people there were insufferable.

Sep 10, 2009 - 8:47 pm 112. Deguello:

Get in? Only if you have money to donate (upper-class twit),or an affirmative action admission,or are/were a terrorist. If you are white,and merely intelligent,FORGET IT!

Sep 11, 2009 - 5:31 am 113. Dred Scott:

More throwing themselves under the Beck bus!

Sep 11, 2009 - 5:37 pm 114. Boogeyman:

If Obama is Geraldo then when do we get to the opening of an empty vault and everyone turns away from him?

Sep 12, 2009 - 4:55 pm

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