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Sunday, September 06, 2009

Assholes Hound Van Jones Out of Public Service for Identifying Them As Assholes

Green Jobs Advisor Van Jones resigns to avoid more of the endlessly ramifying spectacle of right wing faux outrage and scandal-mongering associated with his off-hand signing of a petition with which he did not entirely agree and making off-the-cuff comments that are true but contain the word "asshole" which presumably make Aunt Pittypat reach for her smelling salts providing any pretext for further corporate media distraction from actual issues that actually matter to actual citizens like healthcare reform and clean energy policy. The resignation will of course have zero impact on corporate media distraction and phony serial uproars and giggling gossip in defiance of actual issues, meanwhile the same media outlets will continue to ignore actually elected Republicans who condone and celebrate declarations that our President isn't a citizen of this country, that he secretly means to murder senior citizens and install a fascist dictatorship, and so on, without any outrage or uproar at all. When all is said and done, however, this really is a minor position and the resignation doesn't deserve a fraction of the national attention is has gotten or will continue to get, quite apart from the fact that most of the attention it is getting represents the rankest imaginable hypocrisy and stupidity.

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