More accurately, it was a source from the White House Counsel’s office:
The counsel’s office places part of the blame on the Office for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement, which is overseen by Obama Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President Valerie Jarrett. Jones’s “czar” job was created by the OIAPE, and Jarrett interviewed Jones for the position. In speeches before far-left groups over the past five months, Jarrett touted Jones’s hiring, in part, because the groups, many of which count 9/11 truthers and radical environmentalists and anti-capitalists as members, were familiar with Jones’s brand of anti-Americanism and economic radicalism.
(via Jim Treacher) Well, most accurately of all this was an anonymous shot from one faction of the White House against another faction of the White House. Welcome to Washington, DC.
It goes like this. The current White House Counsel is Greg Craig, and he is hated by progressives. Partially it’s due to him being the public face of Obama’s complete capitulation on FISA, back when it became clear that he would need to do that if he ever wanted to be elected President; partially because he’s a Washington insider who is also friends with Karl Rove; and mostly because they think that he’d make a great scapegoat for this administration’s foreign policy / counter-terrorism problems. Hence the rumors last month that he was going, probably. All of which would put him in a different faction than, say, Valerie Jarrett – who, of course, gushed over Van Jones, back in the day. An opposing faction, to put it mildly. And now that Jones is gone, and people are looking for somebody to blame… somebody in the White House Counsel’s office just happens to be available for an anonymous quote to The American Spectator that just happens to cast aspersions on somebody who just happens to be on the other side of an internal grudge match.
This is what DC calls a ‘coincidence.’
Moe Lane
PS: Preventing this sort of thing – or at least minimizing it – is the job of a White House Chief of Staff. No doubt it’ll die down, once the administration acquires a competent one.
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
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Dan Spencer
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This is what DC calls a ‘coincidence.’
blooch Tuesday, September 8th at 10:54AM EST (link)Rahm calls it “exploiting the crisis”. It’s all the rage everywhere now.
“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”
Probably why...
lurker9876 Tuesday, September 8th at 10:54AM EST (link)Glenn Beck focused on the “Death of the Small Businesses” topic yesterday. He probably saw this coming and that it’s imploding pretty much on its own.
American Spectator features an article by Jeffrey Lord about a commonality between Van Jones and Obama. It’s good.
Can’t wait to see what kind of ace Glenn has up in his sleeve this week.
Pretty sure that yesterdays Beck show was a rerun.
USNJIMRET (Diary) Tuesday, September 8th at 11:14AM EST (link)He did that show a couple of months ago, or one with some of the exact same people in the crowd.
Also, when FOX News has a rerun show, watch the FOX News bug in the corner. If it doesn’t say “Live”, it’s not.
At least that’s my opinion.
And it does nothing to take away from the validity of what Beck talked about.
The destruction of small business is NOT an unintended consequence of other government actions.
It is the intended consequence.
You are correct, Jim
TNJim (Diary) Tuesday, September 8th at 11:24AM EST (link)I watched part that show when it was live, and it was about a month ago. I agree with what you ssaid about the destruction of small busuness, too. Between Cap/Tax and health care it’ll be hard for most of them to survive.
Rerun
lurker9876 Tuesday, September 8th at 1:00PM EST (link)Ah…that makes sense. I did not see the original run and did not notice the “Rerun” icon as suggested. But this rerun is just as good as the original…unlike the reruns of those prime TV shows.
So now they shift the blame to somebody in a different department..... It's OK. We're flexible in targeting.
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Tuesday, September 8th at 11:00AM EST (link)Quick, look over there, it’s Rush Limbaugh under the rug in Valerie Jarrett’s office and he’s causing all these strange ideas and goals to emerge from the fine and upstanding citizens in the current administration.
Whoa….. Over in the corner, office near Robert Gibbs’ desk…. It’s that absolute monster Glenn Beck and he’s got a Mormon Bible in his hand……at The White House !!!….. He’s screaming “Thou shall not lie !”. He’s crazy, we don’t lie…. ever……Everybody get down before that Bible detonates !
No, better yet, look over here…… It’s Teh Eeeeevil Booooooooooosh’s memory scanning ability forcing Israel’s Foreign Minister to DEMAND Obama abide by some under-the-radar agreement between Israel and The P.A. – this one’s not snark…. Really…. Go to http://www.israelnationalnews.com and look at the headline columns for a link to what FM Lieberman is demanding from Teh Mess-I-Yah.
Comedy comes in all forms, especially when an Infidel Jewish Politician demands something from a Jihadi-Communist Dictator-In-Training-Pants POTUS.
Cheers !
Hey, I thought we were supposed to be "respectful!"
yoyo (Diary) Tuesday, September 8th at 11:10AM EST (link)Kenny, I almost fell out my office chair! The “Dictator-in-Training-Pants” part just did it!
The mental picture that this paints…GET IT OUT! I just see a toddler Obama, dressed like Qaddafi (w/ fake medals and all), sucking his thumb.
I am so screwed for the rest of the day…..
Thanks, Kenny!
Nemo me impune lacesset
“No one will provoke me with impunity!”
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The ‘yoyo’ replaced my cigarettes January 22, 2006….
Teh Eeeeeevil Booooooosh Admin
Warrior (Diary) Tuesday, September 8th at 3:41PM EST (link)Uproarious! I suspect we will be hearing about the Eeeeevil Booooooooooooooooosh Admin for some time to come, i.e. whenever a handy scapegoat is needed for the failures of Teh Mess – I – Yah.
“Racial criteria are irrational, irrelevant, [and] odious to our way of life.” — Thurgood Marshall for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in the 1950 Supreme Court case of McLaurin v. Oklahoma
worried
scared_of_the_blacks testfirewater@hotmail.com Tuesday, September 8th at 11:05AM EST (link)I’ve heard that Glen Beck broadcasts from NYC. What a brave man to set foot in that town! I heard there are over 100 murders committed there each year! But what REALLY worries me, is that Mr. Beck hasn’t denied committing them! I’m worried that Glen Beck has been murdering people in cold blood. Why won’t he deny that he is a mass murderer? That only makes him more guilty in my book. I hope Mr. Beck, a self-confessed drug addict, will come clean and put my fears to rest, but I fear the worst.
I wasted an account for this?
TROLL ALERT
Jack_Savage (Diary) Tuesday, September 8th at 11:07AM EST (link)And this is what passes as leadership and debate on the left?
Glen must have hit a nerve. Good for him.
Hopefully just somebody who thinks they're funny.
Achance (Diary) Tuesday, September 8th at 11:25AM EST (link)They’re not!
In Vino Veritas
User name say it all
Greg (Diary) Tuesday, September 8th at 11:12AM EST (link)I’m scared of this black and all the white honky’s out their that want to remake this country versus failing back to what the founding fathers had planned for this country.. Smaller government….
Hinz Rule
blooch Tuesday, September 8th at 11:28AM EST (link)Moderators will be along shortly…although that username has Moe written all over it. A custom sig line would seal the deal.
“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”
I wasn't going to bother, until you asked.
Moe Lane (Diary) Tuesday, September 8th at 12:07PM EST (link)These people are weird.
The Kim Kardashian of blogging.
Check out my blog at http://moelane.com/.
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HINZ RULE! nt
TNJim (Diary) Tuesday, September 8th at 11:28AM EST (link)Wow, highly literate. Clean-up, aisle 5.
nessa (Diary) Tuesday, September 8th at 11:28AM EST (link)nt
“If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
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teh twitter
WST
wolfster38 (Diary) Tuesday, September 8th at 1:48PM EST (link)“A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
” The Declaration of Independence
“A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
The Declaration of Independence
WST
wolfster38 (Diary) Tuesday, September 8th at 1:52PM EST (link)Bruce Thornton, a professor of Classics at American University of Cal State Fresno wrote:
Lenin called them “useful idiots,” those people living in liberal democracies who by giving moral and material support to a totalitarian ideology in effect were braiding the rope that would hang them. Why people who enjoyed freedom and prosperity worked passionately to destroy both is a fascinating question, one still with us today.
“A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
The Declaration of Independence
WST
wolfster38 (Diary) Tuesday, September 8th at 1:53PM EST (link)“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism’, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” – Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948
“A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
The Declaration of Independence
Glenn Beck on Fox and Friends 2day
wolfster38 (Diary) Tuesday, September 8th at 11:28AM EST (link)Glenn Beck said today on F&F more to come this week “PEOPLE WILL GO TO JAIL!!!”. Go get um Glenn!
WST
“A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
The Declaration of Independence
...more to come...
lurker9876 Tuesday, September 8th at 1:04PM EST (link)Yahoo! Can’t wait!
But, I understand that when Glenn was over at CNN, Glenn was not nice to Bush and wanting to see Bush impeached for the NSA/FISA/Patriot Act.
If he goes after a conservative president after Obama, I won’t watch Glenn after that.
went after Bush
wolfster38 (Diary) Tuesday, September 8th at 1:46PM EST (link)Glenn went after Bush after Bush fell off the left end–patriot act, spending like a lib
“A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
The Declaration of Independence
If he goes after a conservative president.....
Greg (Diary) Tuesday, September 8th at 1:48PM EST (link)When will any Conservative get nominated? I’m still waiting…
Everyone gets a pass
greyfire Tuesday, September 8th at 1:48PM EST (link)Valerie Jarrett was Obama first pick as his chief of staff as a senator to take his Senate Seat. When that didn’t happen she got a nice job in the white house She might be at fault but I wouldn’t hold my breath that she is going to get thrown under the bus.
She is one of the puppetmasters....
azred (Diary) Tuesday, September 8th at 4:29PM EST (link)And she is from the hood, so all things will be made good. That would be like Pinnochio throwing Gepetto under the bus. Obachio couldn’t get out of the way of his oak tree size nose to even attempt it.
Bad analogy, but the picture is clear.
Forget about Valerie
Warrior (Diary) Tuesday, September 8th at 3:47PM EST (link)We were lucky to get rid of VJ
“Racial criteria are irrational, irrelevant, [and] odious to our way of life.” — Thurgood Marshall for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in the 1950 Supreme Court case of McLaurin v. Oklahoma
More on VJ and VJ...
RME KRNL Thursday, September 10th at 2:12PM EST (link)Valerie Jarrett and Van Jones, that is.
See my Just askin’ – Just sayin’ blog article ( http://ja-js.blogtownhall.com), entitled: Now, just a darn minute! Who the heck’s really in charge of this cluster… er, ah …fluke, anyway?
RME KRNL