{"id":446,"date":"2009-09-02T18:27:19","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T22:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=446"},"modified":"2009-09-03T14:40:51","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T18:40:51","slug":"video-obamas-green-jobs-czar-says-republicans-are-aholes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/446\/video-obamas-green-jobs-czar-says-republicans-are-aholes\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Obama&#8217;s Green Jobs Czar Says Republicans Are &#8220;A**holes&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much has been written about President Obama&#8217;s new Green Jobs Czar, Van Jones.\u00a0\u00a0 Indeed, it is no secret that he is an unapologetic liberal.\u00a0 But did you know that, according to Jones, the reason Obama&#8217;s progressive agenda is\u00a0faultering is because Republicans are&#8230; &#8220;A**holes?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right.\u00a0\u00a0But have no fear progressives;\u00a0\u00a0Jones\u00a0claims\u00a0that he\u00a0can be an &#8220;a**hole&#8221; too.\u00a0 In fact, Jones states that he and other progressives\u00a0advising the President\u00a0&#8220;are gonna have to start getting a little bit ugly&#8221; in order to advance their agenda.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Jones during a lecture he gave at Berkley back in February:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yt66eWnjoTo&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yt66eWnjoTo&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much has been written about President Obama&#8217;s new Green Jobs Czar, Van Jones.\u00a0\u00a0 Indeed, it is no secret that he is an unapologetic liberal.\u00a0 But did you know that, according to Jones, the reason Obama&#8217;s progressive agenda is\u00a0faultering is because Republicans are&#8230; &#8220;A**holes?&#8221; That&#8217;s right.\u00a0\u00a0But have no fear progressives;\u00a0\u00a0Jones\u00a0claims\u00a0that he\u00a0can be an &#8220;a**hole&#8221; too.\u00a0 In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[91],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-van-jones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}