I was wrong about Van Jones

[redstateblues]

I though he was a voice of reason and someone in the media who would be a truth teller. He really shit the bed with his "he became President tonight" BS after Trump's successful TelePromter reading last Monday. I can't watch him anymore. He has shown his true soul and has lost all credibility.

[madaboutharry]

1. He humiliated himself.

He'll never live it down. Now he will just be the guy who made a fool of himself on tv.

[kstewart33]

40. He'll live it down, eventually.

Jones has paid a high price for his mistake - Twitter is loaded with criticisms on his thread. He should simply apologize and move on. But he insists on clarifying his statement which makes his situation worse.

[pkdu]

2. Me too. nt

[dchill]

3. He thought he had found his next unique twist...

for self-aggrandizement. Thank you Van, for curing that little buzzy thing I felt whenever you were on my teevee. Problem solved.

[bravenak]

6. +1000

[jalan48]

4. He's still nursing his chapped lips.

[bravenak]

7. Yep.

[dalton99a]

28. Our country is in grave danger, and he decided to kiss Trump's ass.

[lpbk2713]

5. I'm gagging here.

It amazes me that anyone would think Trump was reading something other than a prepared statement put together by a team of stooges. Trump is not even capable of making a coherent sentence on his own.

[tblue37]

20. Trump's bragging about the record-breaking applause for the widow was definitely his own words. nt

[KittyWampus]

8. Sad!

[applegrove]

9. Cocktail sausages anyone? We have guests.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

10. At the end of the day I don't think he's malevolent. I do think he's a dupe.

[Lotusflower70]

11. So sad

I really liked him before that. I sent a tweet to him after that. I was stunned by what he said. I mean seriously? I understand about giving people the benefit of the doubt but that doesn't apply here. Trump has been absolutely ridiculous and people were fawning over him for one speech? I was like no not happening.

[dhill926]

12. totally agree....

he showed us who he is....

[CousinIT]

13. Yea me too. He's off my list as anyone remotely credible. n/t

[FrenchieCat]

14. Yep, or...

How could anybody be so wrong when they should really know better? It's either baffling or his paycheck depended on it! Whichever one it was, it was a terrible career move among other things!

He tried to rationalize that he really meant something else… But at the time he said "Period", after his amazingly superficial insane political statement of epic reality TV type analysis! He should be embarrassed!

[Mendocino]

15. He was Van,

now he's Alex.

[LenaBaby61]

16. Always had an uneasy feeling ....

About him, so I never really was into him.

HAPPY I saved myself some time and energy not having to get off his bandwagon.

[Alice11111]

31. Uneasy feeling, hits it.He was impressive &no one gets it right 100%, but I was, "who is he, really"

It's like he didn't know, and he was still trying to figure out who he was. He couldn't resist trying to be loved by all. Tweety's problem...smoozer, sycophant, but worse than Van Jones.

[geek tragedy]

17. just like Tweety when W landed on that aircraft carrier nt

[colsohlibgal]

18. Yes!

The Tweety gushing over Dubya's fake aircraft landing was sickening....I remember thinking good grief, just get a room!

Van did not gush as much but it was still sickening and I lost all respect for him.

[Chevy]

26. Or when Bush cleared shrub on his ranch

Tweety was drooling.

[solara]

30. Or when tweety fell

in love with pence when he was chosen as trump's VP. tweety went on and on about how pence was so presidential. pence looked presidential, sounded presidential ad nauseum. I think he was actually drooling, but then he does that a lot.

That was the end of tweety for me

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[Alice11111]

33. or Tweety's full hr smoozing CONway immediately b4 Hillary & DT debate. Millions Free ad $$$

[GWC58]

19. Giving kudos to Trump for acting

Presidential, something the President is supposed to do, is something I don't understand. 99.9% of the time he doesn't "act the part." Sorry, Mr. Jones! No credit is due that man!!🤣 Mr. Jones, feeling a bit like this 🤡 guy?

[Lucinda]

21. Clearly the things with the seal widow moved him. Still he should know better! n/t

[zentrum]

22. Yes, he seemed so

.....valuable to the causes he cares about. So this is a real loss.

Did he forget what 45 had done and said just last week? The baiting of Muslims? The treatment of dreamers? The harm to the idea of America that 45's racism does? And that cabinet? And that White Supramicist advisor in the Oval Office?

Jones actually fell for that long clapping. Didn't see how deeply cynical and manipulative it was on 45's part.

Jones has lost all credibility. Any "rehabilitation" of 45, based on one reading of a tele-prompted speech, is unforgivable.

[dalton99a]

23. Admiration for Trump is admiration for fascist savagery.

[elmac]

24. They are all mouthpieces for the propaganda networks

don't ever fall for their "we are on your side" hype. Just like their corporate bosses they are just in it for the money.

[Chevy]

25. Could be Zucker related as per merger

regardless he can climb aboard his love train and take a hike.

[Scruffy1]

27. I remember W's speech in 2000.

Maybe the same speechwriter. Having worked on many campaigns I don't do speeches. They are written by pros to have an effect and have nothing to do with reality. All they have to do is get up and read it. When I was a member of the press we often got the scripts ahead of time so I didn't have to sit for it. On the campaign trail we know all the speeches already.

[Jim Beard]

29. He is going to be back on with his special one hour program, Wednesday 8-9 Central time.

I think it has been on before, it named The Messy truth with Van Jones. He acts like he just discovered the way Trump voters act. A lot of high income liberals just don't get it while most of us have to put up wit it at family occasions and unfriending them.

You can watch it, all he does is talk to unemployed in the Midwest.

[akbacchus_BC]

32. All I can say is that I dislike any person of colour who defends trump!

To helll with all of them, as if trump gives a shit about people of colour! Not only that, let's see if he will bring back the coal miners job, they too are screwed with fake promises and trump does not care about poor white Americans either!

[Jim Beard]

34. 50% of the Hispanics voted for Trump in my area.

Those who have been here a long time do not like the new arrivals.

[akbacchus_BC]

35. I do not think it is 50% but those assholes who are poor, non white

who voted for the dictator are not going to get any benefits from the trump presidency! Too bad they fell for his bull shit.

[Jim Beard]

36. They don't think about the future. When I mentioned they may change Social Security,

the Hispanic woman thought it was OK since it would not affect her. I ask her, What about your children? She didn't have much to say but she voted for Trump anyway. To them its OK since they have theirs. At least they voted this year.

[akbacchus_BC]

37. Good that they voted, it is their civic right but unfortunately they voted for a dictator!

Let's see how that roll out. To tell the honest truth, I have no sympathy for a trump supporter who gets deported or lose their medicare. They are fucked up and fuck them. They had an opportunity to vote for a person (Mrs. Clinton) who had their backs and would fight for them but instead they voted for the pussy grabber.

[Jim Beard]

38. I agree.

[no_hypocrisy]

39. "He became presidential tonight" is something I would have expected from

Armstrong Williams, not Van Jones.