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Van Jones: ‘Occupy…Saved the Entire Country From Destruction’
The Blaze ^ | 4/1/12 | Madeleine Morgenstern

Posted on 04/01/2012 9:37:36 AM PDT by Nachum

Former Obama administration green jobs czar Van Jones said Saturday the Occupy Wall Street movement essentially “saved the entire country from destruction.”

Jones made the comments in Los Angeles ahead of his appearance at an “All in for the 99%” training event, saying Occupy “disrupted the narrative” as both parties “barreling toward more austerity.”

“[The] Occupy movement pretty much saved the entire country from destruction,” Jones said in an interview posted online. “Both political parties were barreling toward more austerity, more cutbacks, more pain for the people and more — basically both political parties had managed to converge on this idea of basically no rules for the rich, no rights for the poor, no middle class to speak of. That was basically the agenda, the question was just how much pain how fast.”

“Occupy Wall Street came on and completely disrupted the narrative,” he said. All the ‘austerity, austerity, cut, cut, cut’ stuff went away and suddenly even Republicans had to talk about income inequality and that whole theme. Occupy Wall Street really kind of, like, helped us to hit a reset in the country.”

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To: Eva
Handing out skittles and selling gray hoodies, with the words, Obama - 2012!

From UrbanDictionary.com:

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Not that it necessarily has anything to do with this incident (likely not), but just for the record.

21 posted on 04/01/2012 9:58:02 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: ETL

“experience the rainbow”


22 posted on 04/01/2012 10:02:36 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Nachum

Just when you think he’s out of the picture....

The fact that van jones, personally, wants to be the star of some leftist something (anything) makes him a fool and a narcissist. The fact that the leftists want him to be the star and their leader (of something - anything) makes him one dangerous sob.


23 posted on 04/01/2012 10:06:58 AM PDT by babyfreep
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To: Nachum
feh...
24 posted on 04/01/2012 10:08:19 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Nachum

If you buy this I’ve got another Stimulus package to sell you.


25 posted on 04/01/2012 10:08:43 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: rdl6989

You beat me to it!


26 posted on 04/01/2012 10:10:27 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class!)
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To: Nachum

Sounds like it though ~ looking at my calendar it’s about time eh!


27 posted on 04/01/2012 10:12:48 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: unkus

UFO’s don’t transport Communists. Satan does that./

Satan was to busy sitting on obamas shoulder telling him what to do and say.


28 posted on 04/01/2012 10:20:14 AM PDT by mardi59 ( Go Newt!!)
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To: Nachum
(Van Jones overthrowing the nation...)

(more revolution talk)

(Obama's Van Jones)

(Ex-Obama green adviser Van Jones & Barack Obama's other Communist advisers)

29 posted on 04/01/2012 10:20:52 AM PDT by yoe
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To: Nachum
OBAMA EXCUSES DUMMIES, OBAMA EXCUSES FOR DUMMIES
30 posted on 04/01/2012 10:25:34 AM PDT by FrankR
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To: babyfreep
Van Jones has always been dangerous and Valery Jarrett, Obama's most trusted adviser is his great friend....Obama was raised a Marxist, has many Communists in his life, sought them out in his adult years and with ( them) now in place is really doing the only thing he promised during his election....HE IS TRANSFORMING AMERICA. Michelle even went so far as to say it "would mean giving up some of our traditions.........." Apparently like being Americans and proud of being Americans.
31 posted on 04/01/2012 10:30:04 AM PDT by yoe
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To: Nachum
Even the MSM has had to report about OWS crime and violence. Yet the radio shows (no TV) I listen to that claim to be "non-partisan" never mentioned the Tea Party but regularly speak well of OWS, primarily through praise by guests.

To wall, street occupiers!

From an old Time back when it was a real news magazine -- but because you have to pay to read the whole article I will not provide the link.
"From the hoarse throats of 250,000 Cubans jammed before the presidential palace in Havana rose the chilling cry: 'Pa-re-don! To the wall! To the firing squad!' By whipping up a frenzy of hatred, Fidel Castro last week got mob approval for a resumption of the drumhead justice that earlier put to death 551 Cubans accused as supporters of ex-Dictator Fulgencio Batista. Now the blood purge would be aimed at defectors in the band of barbudos (bearded ones) who lifted him to power, of whom hundreds are now in prison." That is the Castro that I remember and his admirers here want to send fellow Americans "To the wall!"

32 posted on 04/01/2012 11:05:43 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Lazamataz

Van Jones is, I am sorry to say, representative of avaricious and deceitful Elitists who were they of another race would be sent to prison for trying to Overthrow their nation. Alas because of teachers, unions, professors, and politicians who are totally indoctrinated in Political Correctness, honest Americans are now the victims of Hate Crimes in the guise of Political Correctness.


33 posted on 04/01/2012 11:06:00 AM PDT by yoe
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To: Nachum
Uh, did I miss something? Are tarps and tents REALLY a major part of the economy? Or a defense against ICBMs? Earthquakes? Hurricanes? Tsunamis? The plague? Rats? Malaria?

Come to think of it, I have seen more tornadoes since the tents came down.

34 posted on 04/01/2012 11:07:35 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: WilliamofCarmichael
Sorry, Fidel.. I meant

To the wall, street occupiers!"

35 posted on 04/01/2012 11:10:32 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Nachum

what about the occupy slimes destruction of property and destruction of lives by rapes and murders around the country? that was good for the country?


36 posted on 04/01/2012 11:33:04 AM PDT by blueplum
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To: Nachum
Photos of OWS saving the entire country by, $hiting on, dancing on, burning and graffitiing the American flag:


37 posted on 04/01/2012 12:00:22 PM PDT by drpix
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To: detective
The Occupy movement was phony and it was was directed by the Obama Administration to distract from the out of control spending and corruption in the government. It was used to change the MSM narrative from the actual problems facing this country to idiotic discussions about the “99%” etc. And it worked to a degree. The MSM spend no time discussing the actual problems facing this country. All the discussion is about dividing America. By race, by income, by gender etc. All the MSM discussion focuses on victims and entitlement. Occupy was about the Obama Administration propaganda campaign.

Absolutely spot on. These serial media flareups - Occupy, Sandra Fluke/Rush Limbaugh, attacks on the Koch brothers, the Trayvon Martin hysteria, etc. - all stem from this very source.
38 posted on 04/01/2012 12:22:04 PM PDT by rockvillem
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To: cripplecreek

By crapping on police cars


39 posted on 04/01/2012 1:14:45 PM PDT by Munz (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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To: WilliamofCarmichael
Thanks for the excerpt. From that paragraph, I found a link with the five paragraphs that followed (though not the entire article). It continues...
"Castro's younger brother, Raul, was detailed to warm up the crowd before Fidel himself appeared."

time-demo.newscred.com (1959)

The very same brother who now inherits the throne and the leftwing MSM is trying to portray as the man who will humanize that bloodthirsty tyranny.
40 posted on 04/01/2012 2:01:59 PM PDT by drpix
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