Van Jones Apologizes for Republican 'Assholes' Remark
Charlie Gibson
Source: Fox News
Van Jones, the Obama administration's "green jobs" adviser, apologized
Wednesday for calling Republicans "assholes," saying the comments were made
before he joined the administration and "were clearly inappropriate."
Jones had told a group of listeners earlier in the year that the
reason Republicans are stonewalling the president is because they're
"assholes," remarks that were recorded in a video and posted to YouTube.
"I apologize for the offensive words I chose to use during that
speech," Jones said in a written statement to Politico. "They do not reflect
the views of this administration, which has made every effort to work in a
bipartisan fashion, and they do not reflect the experience I have had since
I joined the administration."
He made the remarks in February during an energy lecture in Berkeley,
Calif., after a woman in the audience asked him why President Obama and
congressional Democrats were having trouble moving legislation -- even
though Republicans, with a smaller majority, didn't have as much trouble
earlier in the Bush administration.
"Well, the answer to that is, they're assholes," Jones said, to
uproarious laughter. "That's a technical, political science term."
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The really proper apology would be "I'm sorry THE MEDIA MADE AN ISSUE of the
fact.....
that Republicans are assholes".
That's the only kind of apology that is appropriate, considering 8
years of the Bush enabled the dumbed-down border-line religio-nuts and Tards
to have a voice.
Former Ohio Congressman Jim Traficant called his colleagues 'prostitutes' on
the House floor.
It caused such an outrage that he was advised to deliver an apology.
So, Traficant took the mike before the House and apologized---to prostitutes
for associating them with congressmen.
