So...Van Jones thinks that both He and Obama had No Idea about RW Media Control? WHAT!
(You have to read the Transcript or view the Video to understand how angry this makes me feel. Van Jones is being interviewed on "Democracy Now" about his new book on leaving the Obama Administration and it's his "TELL All" but, this inteview made me feel sick. Like Obama and Jones (a long time activist) weren't aware of how powerful the RW/MIC Controlled Info-Tainment Media had grown? How much influence they had after they had been complicit in trying to impeach a Dem President for years...and led us into TWO WARS with countries who had nothing to do with those 19 who attacked the WTC? Please view the Video or read Transcript ...in case I've just over reacted... My snips can't tell the whole story...so check it out for yourself, please!Former Obama Adviser Van Jones on Life Inside White House and Right-Wing Smear Attack
Amy Goodman
Democracy Now! / Video Report
Published: Sunday 8 April 2012
"I am probably the only person in American life who was a grassroots outsider, who became a White House insider.”
(From Transcript Video of "Democracy Now" Interview)
AMY GOODMAN: Let me ask you, though, about the White House, what many perceived outside as abandoning you, not being there, not standing up. I mean, you were saying, "I’m not the issue, so I am just going to step aside."
VAN JONES\ Yeah, yeah.
AMY GOODMAN: But for many, I mean, they saw Shirley Sherrod not originally stood up for. And then you see the difference now. For example, when Rush Limbaugh goes after Sandra Fluke, who was the young woman who was going to testify before Congress about the importance of contraceptives being covered by health insurance, when Planned Parenthood did not back off, when even the White House, when Congress did not back off, it was Rush Limbaugh who became the target himself instead of this young woman, and this young woman became stronger.
VAN JONES: Yeah.
AMY GOODMAN: While you’re saying, "Well, I didn’t want to be the issue," many other people saw you as an example of a very—coming out of movements, and that movements were being abandoned.
VAN JONES: Sure, but you have to remember, this—we’ve learned. I mean, this is two-and-a-half years later. We’re all a lot smarter. We’re all a lot tougher. This was a moment of change, an inflection point in the way the media system was operating. Up until then, you know, the concern that you might get sued for libel, for instance—I mean, he says I’m—not only—he called me a felon, all kind of stuff, which—you know, I know a lot of people who are felons; I just happen not to be one. But, you know, there was a sense that, well, geez, no big corporate media structure would allow libelous—well, it turned out that they made a calculation, apparently, they would rather have the lawsuit, if they could go after the President. That was new. So you have to give movements and you have to give White Houses opportunities to learn and to grow. Nobody in that building asked me to resign. Everybody in the building said, "We’ll fight ’til the last dog barks." I didn’t think that was the right way to go at that time.
AMY GOODMAN: Did you talk to President Obama at that time?
VAN JONES: I’m not going to talk about those kinds of things. But what I will say is this. I thought, and I think most people in the same situation—I thought, look, I know what they’re trying to do here. The President is about to reset the national conversation on healthcare. We had gone through the whole month of August with the town hall meetings, etc. He’s going to reset this conversation on healthcare. They need a distraction. They’re desperate. They’re going to go through every single position statement I’ve ever made in the history of my colorful left-wing career every day to try to keep us from having a discussion on healthcare. I thought that it was more appropriate for me to step back, take that away from them, and let the President move forward.
Now listen, to the extent that people wanted some other thing to happen, I don’t agree that that was the time and the place to have that fight. I think it was better for us to focus on the healthcare fight at that time. However, moving forward, now that we know more about how this thing works, I do agree that we’ve got to be tougher. I do agree that we’ve got to stick up. But you’re talking about a brand new playbook being created on the spot in real time with healthcare hanging in the balance.
Video and Transcript at:
http://www.nationofchange.org/former-obama-adviser-van-jones-life-inside-white-house-and-right-wing-smear-attack-1333900538
AYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!
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with a rusty-nail-studded 2x4, and they're only now starting to figure this out?
but,I'm getting tired of crying me eyes out over our (to me) Clueless Dem Party..for years....and now...just into "QUESTIONING"....
What else is there to know abut how Obama and his Dem Handlers who groomed him for years....just "DIDN'T KNOW" HOW evil the MIC,INFOTAINMENT ADVERTISING CONGLOMERATE...and THE REST...WERE?
GREAT EXCUSE...Not much to back it up, though... If one digs DEEP into History... 
Given the dire circumstances we were in at the time, I think that they counted on, albeit naively, that the Republicans would roll up their sleeves and get down to the business of helping clean up the absolute clusterf**k that Bush/Cheney left in their departure. I myself had thought- or perhaps hoped- that there was still some semblance of pragmatism and/or moderation left within the GOP or at least that they would recognize the need of putting aside petty disputes to deal with the unfolding economic disaster. It became pretty clear to me that, towards the end of that first year, however, the party had decided to go en masse with Limbaugh's policy of "want Obama to fail and do what they can to make it happen" and had created the so-called "Tea Party" to serve as its new foot soldiers to keep the moderate and potentially treasonous GOPers (the ones most likely to, you know, actually do their job and whom didn't believe in their scorched earth policies) in line, slow and/or stop the advance of President Obama and Democrats' agenda, and set the stage for the 2010 midterm elections and, they hoped, the 2012 Presidential Election.
"Out Here" for years?
