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Podesta apologizes for Jonestown crack
The Hill ^ | December 18, 2013 | Justin Sink

Posted on 12/18/2013 10:51:03 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

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1 posted on 12/18/2013 10:51:03 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

The appalling part is that he made this comment while arguing that everyone needs to blindly follow a charismatic leader.


2 posted on 12/18/2013 10:58:36 AM PST by thorvaldr
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Podesta should apologize for using oxygen.
3 posted on 12/18/2013 10:59:39 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

For such a scrawny little fascist, Podesta sure talks tough.


4 posted on 12/18/2013 11:00:15 AM PST by Bedford Forrest (Roger, Contact, Judy, Out. Fox One. Splash one.<I>)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

He’s always respected Boehner...that tells you something.


5 posted on 12/18/2013 11:00:52 AM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Translation: I wasn't suppose to quote the big guy and what all of us think....made the mistake of telling the truth of what we believe, it hasn't happened before in this administration and will never happen again.”
6 posted on 12/18/2013 11:02:10 AM PST by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

“In an old interview, my snark got in front of my judgment. I apologize to Speaker Boehner, whom I have always respected.”

LOL! C’mon John! No need to apologize to your lap-dog, John Boehner. I mean he’s demonstrated just this week that he’s really on your side.


7 posted on 12/18/2013 11:03:25 AM PST by Tallguy (between taglines...)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Podesta forgets that Democrats loved Jim Jones and the whole Peoples Temple/Jonestown thing.

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First Lady-to be Rosalynn Carter and her husband’s running mate Walter Mondale held private meetings with Jim Jones. California Gov. (then and now) Jerry Brown spoke at the Peoples Temple. California Lt. Gov. Mervyn Dymally thought Jones “one of the finest human beings” and a visit to his Guyanese colony left the Golden State’s highest-ranking African-American officeholder “tremendously impressed.” Radical lawyer Charles Garry, himself barely escaping Jonestown alive, had once exclaimed of it: “I have seen paradise.”

What effect did legitimizing the cult and its leader have on Jones’ sycophants in the Democratic Party, the press, and academia?

Willie Brown proclaimed that he believed Jim Jones was part Martin Luther King, part Albert Einstein, part Angela Davis, part Mao Zedong. “When somebody like Jim Jones comes on the scene,” Brown ironically gushed, “that absolutely scares the hell out of most everybody occupying positions of power in the system.” Liberals subsequently elected Brown as the longest-serving speaker of the California state assembly and then mayor of San Francisco for two terms.

Dianne Feinstein along with her colleagues on San Francisco’s board of supervisors awarded a “Certificate of Honor” to Jim Jones. Liberals subsequently elected Feinstein mayor of San Francisco and then U.S. Senator from California.

Angela Davis contributed to Jonestown’s paranoia by telephonically informing the inhabitants over the concentration camp’s loudspeakers that “there is a conspiracy — a very profound conspiracy designed to destroy the contributions which you have made to the struggle. And this is why I must tell you that we feel that we are under attack as well.”

Liberals subsequently awarded tenure to Davis at the University of California-Santa Cruz, bestowed upon her the UC system’s highest academic award, and paid her thousands to speak at Harvard, Stanford and Princeton.

San Francisco Chronicle writer Herb Caen maintained that Jones was “doing the work of the Lord” in South America and awarded him the cloak of victimhood by portraying him as the “target of a ceaseless media barrage.” Liberals subsequently awarded Caen a Pulitzer Prize in 1996 for his “extraordinary and continuing contribution as a voice and a conscience of his city,” proclaimed a “Herb Caen Day” in San Francisco, and ordered the city’s flags at half-mast when he died.

Harvey Milk lobbied President Jimmy Carter not to intervene in an international custody battle between Jones, “a man of the highest character,” and two former cultists whom Milk portrayed as blackmailers. He characterized the accusations that Jones had kidnapped a small boy from his parents as “bold-faced lies.” Carter didn’t intervene, and the 6-year-old whom Milk pleaded to be left with his kidnapper was murdered at Jonestown with more than 900 others. Liberals subsequently produced the hagiographic, Oscar-winning biopic Milk and established a California state holiday in the San Francisco city supervisor’s honor.

http://www.humanevents.com/2011/01/19/blood-liberals/


8 posted on 12/18/2013 11:03:27 AM PST by smoothsailing
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To: thorvaldr

Puts the administration back on track to prove they are not incompetent?

Screwed up day 1.

Another great Obama pick.


9 posted on 12/18/2013 11:04:01 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: Bedford Forrest

“For such a scrawny little fascist, Podesta sure talks tough.”

For a seasoned political operative he sure stumbled out of the gate, didn’t he?


10 posted on 12/18/2013 11:04:36 AM PST by Tallguy (between taglines...)
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To: thorvaldr
I think the Democrats do things so ugly and sleazy that even they can hardly believe it. It is a form of psychological projection for the Democrats to accuse the Republicans of the utter evil they are doing.

Maybe it is a by product of the Demorats following the devil worshiping Saul Alinsky. Alinsky did dedicate a book too Lucifer, after all.

11 posted on 12/18/2013 11:05:11 AM PST by Stepan12
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Jonestown was a bunch of socialist. It’s leftists who are cultish, Obama is their messiah


12 posted on 12/18/2013 11:06:50 AM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: smoothsailing

Maybe Milk had a different type of “interest” in the 6 year old boy.


13 posted on 12/18/2013 11:08:07 AM PST by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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To: smoothsailing

The left lionized Jones like National Review lionized Nelson Mandela


14 posted on 12/18/2013 11:08:47 AM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Tweet://
John Podesta @johnpodesta
// In an old interview, my snark got in front of my judgment.
I apologize to Speaker Boehner, whom I have always respected.
10:04 AM - 18 Dec 2013
Heck, why should HE respect *HIC* Boehmer?...
(we don't; it must be earned..not just given. :)
maybe it's only b/c he *HIC!* supports the Marxist
Establishment/pResident 0'BlahBlah agenda

15 posted on 12/18/2013 11:09:44 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi :-)
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three days in and he already needs to apologize. liberals are the eighth wonder of the world.


16 posted on 12/18/2013 11:10:35 AM PST by willywill
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Considering the fact that he was basically saying that Obama should just ignore conservatives and rule by decree, the Jonestown comment was the least offensive thing he said.


17 posted on 12/18/2013 11:13:57 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; GeronL; Revolting cat!

Jim Jones was a bisexual Democrat linked to Democrat Congressmen, Mrs. Carter, and Harvey Milk.

Nice try Rats. He’s YOUR posterboy for blind allegiance to Socialist Utopias.


18 posted on 12/18/2013 11:16:41 AM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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apology NOT ACCEPTED...

PODESTA IS JUST ANOTHER CLINTON CRACK HEAD.


19 posted on 12/18/2013 11:18:27 AM PST by haircutter
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bump

Barbara Walter even said “we” (leftists, elite, msm) thought Obama was a new messiah.


20 posted on 12/18/2013 11:18:30 AM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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