Carlson: Why Do the ‘Slobbering’ Media Love Jeff Bezos So Much? He Can Buy a Lot of Love
Tuesday on FNC’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson suggested outgoing Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos received such glowing coverage from CNN and other media outlets because he was able to buy it.
Carlson said the positive portrayal of Bezos’ foray into space could be linked to his decision to give CNN contributor Van Jones $100 million.
Transcript as follows:
CARLSON: So, Jeff Bezos is not having a mid-life crisis or anything like that. He just built a rocket and took it into outer space today. The rocket is called Phallus One and Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon boarded it and was outside of our atmosphere for 10 minutes. He was accompanied by his brother, Mark Bezos, as well as an 82-year-old woman and an 18-year-old student.
Now, a lot of people missed the launch. It happened just after 8:00 a.m. local time in Texas, so we want to give you a quick replay of what it looked like.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Colonel, you better take a look at this radar.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What is it, son?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don’t know, sir, but it looks like a giant —
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh my god, it looks like a huge —
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Any of your kids want another wiener?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Dad, what’s that?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don’t know son —
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CARLSON: Yes, that’s the world’s largest penile implant. We didn’t make that up. We didn’t do it. Jeff Bezos did, blame him.
We didn’t want to put that on television, but he is the world’s richest man and we have no choice but to cover his hobbies.
So, we not now going to tell you what that rocket’s actual name is. He is calling it New Shepard. Here is what we’re going to tell you, we are going to talk about his reception.
As soon as Jeff Bezos landed, he was greeted by a throng of his own reporters. Jeff Bezos owns “The Washington Post.” You tend to get good coverage when you pay the people producing it. These are people who know how bad life could be. They could be working in an Amazon fulfillment center, peeing in cans for the rest of their life.
So, they immediately asked Jeff Bezos for comment in a very respectful way. How did he respond? Here’s his quote, “Best day ever.” That was it. Not one small step for man or something along those lines, he doesn’t have time for rhetorical flourishes like that. He sells books. He doesn’t write them.
But it didn’t matter. Our media were suitably impressed. They bowed before the richest man. “Best day ever” is three syllables, but it is three syllables they can understand very well.
Plus Jeff Bezos looked a lot like them, the heavily quaffed TV anchors who spend their day getting makeup. He’d had face fillers. He was looking suspiciously puffy before he went up to space, therefore the commenters on television were unanimous. This was better than anything John Glenn ever did.
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ANA CABRERA, CNN HOST: Today was a big day, exactly 52 years since the first moon landing, another landmark moment in space exploration. Here you see, billionaire Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos and crew when they reached the edge of space and floated in Zero Gravity.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don’t know why I am like when I was nine and we stopped and watched the original John Glenn launch. I mean, I feel like that. I think that America wants to know about this very much, and I don’t blame us for doing wall-to-wall because I think this is the most — this is one of the great business stories of all time because it is private equity, private enterprise going to space.
ANDERSON COOPER, CNN HOST: And it really is obviously a big step for future space tourism, but it’s a remarkable step in a mission that began more than two decades ago when Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Your brother has been determined to advance space travel. I want to know, what did it feel like to be up there together, when you locked eyes?
(END VIDEO CLIP)
CARLSON: Houston, this is Phallus One. We’re leaving the atmosphere. Oh, they’re so impressed. It’s unbelievable. Slobbering over Jeff Bezos.
Now, why do they love Jeff Bezos so much? Well, we just found out today, Jeff Bezos is giving a $100 million no strings attached to CNN contributor, Van Jones. That’s a lot of money. It can buy a lot of love and they love him at CNN. They love him. Jeff Bezos.
Don’t ever ask, how do you treat your employees, Jeff Bezos? How does it feel to be China’s biggest retailer? How exactly do you own the capital city’s local newspaper? No one asks those questions because in the end, everyone is hoping to get money from Jeff Bezos.
People who aren’t getting money from Jeff Bezos have a very different view of him. Here’s Tulsi Gabbard’s view. She is not taking money from Jeff Bezos. She sent this today. “The only problem I have with Bezos’s rocket ship into outer space is that it’s going to come back.” You go, Tulsi Gabbard. No wonder they hated you.
Martel: Jeff Bezos Exploited Cuban Father to Promote Amazon but Silent on Protests
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is dominating global headlines on Wednesday for spending ten minutes in space. While previously vocally proud of his Cuban heritage, he has found no time in his publicity campaign this week to support anti-communist protesters in his father’s home country.
Cuba has endured 62 years of brutal communist repression under the currently still-ruling Castro family mafia. Pro-democracy dissident groups have spent years organizing peaceful marches and other assemblies against the regime, culminating last year in a massive protest in front of the Cuban Ministry of Culture over a regime law that made it illegal to write, paint, or engage in any artistic activity without first obtaining a government permit.
That momentum led to an eruption of protests in dozens of municipalities and every major city nationwide on July 11 demanding an end to the Communist Party regime. While the regime actively repressed reporting from the island – including gang-beating an Associated Press photographer – observers estimate that thousands of people took the streets and that police arrested or forcibly disappeared many as 5,000 were either arrested or forcibly disappeared.
In response, the Castro regime issued an “order of combat” to pro-regime civilians, urging them to physically assault anyone suspected of participating in protests. The Communist Party also shut down access to the internet, making it much more difficult for Cubans to share videos of the repression with the outside world.
The Cuban diaspora has responded passionately to these protests. Nearly every major city in America has hosted rallies and protests urging the U.S. government to intervene. Cubans on multiple continents –in Italy, Japan, and Argentina, among other countries – organized displays in solidarity with the movement against communism at home.
Yet the world’s wealthiest man, once eager to celebrate his father’s story as a Cuban refugee, has remained silent on the issue – despite embarking on the biggest public relations tour of his life.
Blue Origin’s New Shepard crew (L-R) Oliver Daemen, Mark Bezos, and Jeff Bezos hold a press conference after flying into space in the Blue Origin New Shepard rocket on July 20, 2021 in Van Horn, Texas. Mr. Bezos and the crew were the first human spaceflight for the company. ( Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Jeff Bezos has issued an unprecedented number of interviews this past week on his company Blue Origin, which is working on facilitating space travel. Bezos and brother Mark, among other hand-picked explorers, took to the skies for ten minutes on Tuesday, enough to somehow fascinate the world despite the dozens of space missions undertaken by multiple nations in the past half-century.
Bezos spoke off-topic in a presentation following the short flight on Tuesday to announce two $100-million donations to leftist activist Van Jones and chef José Andrés, the first two recipients of his “Courage and Civility Award.” The chef was part of a wave of leftist celebrities who enjoyed vacations to Cuba – despite them being technically illegal under the barely-there “embargo” – during the Obama era, expressing hope that tourism profiting the Castro regime would soon boom there. Jones has a very small record of comments on Cuba, but notably condemned socialist Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for defending dictator Fidel Castro last year – more than Bezos has weighed in on the topic.
During his press tour this week, Bezos said nothing about Cuba. Nobody bothered to ask. The only public person who apparently remembers that Bezos is Cuban is Cuban-American rapper Pitbull, who published a video calling for global solidarity against communism and explicitly requested that Bezos contribute.
“All world allies get together to help. Global businesses get together to help,” Pitbull said in the video published last week. “People that we’re so proud of people such as Jeff Bezos — Cuban-American — graduated from a high school in Miami, built one of the biggest companies in the world, the richest man in the world. He’s somebody that can get involved and really help us.”
Things were not always this way for Bezos. In 2019, Bezos published a promotional video celebrating his father’s “grit, determination, and optimism” in making his way in America.
Miguel Bezos came to the United States in 1962 as part of the Peter Pan program, which allowed desperate Cuban parents to send their children to America alone to escape communism. Bezos admits his parents were some of the few people on the island who supported Fidel Castro (though he falsely claims Castro was popular at the time, he never won an election and had to kill thousands of people to maintain power in the early days of the Revolution). The elder Bezos has boasted that his children, including Jeff, love Cuban food and for years partook in stable Cuban cultural activities like Christmas Eve pork roasts.
Bezos’ celebration of his father in 2019 did not explicitly mention Amazon, but the message was clear: Amazon was, in many ways, the crowning jewel of the “American dream” – which Miguel Bezos shouts out by name in the video – because its founder came from a family where the head of the household was a refugee.
“My dad’s journey to the U.S. shows how people come together to help each other,” Bezos said in the video.
That message was clear pushback to the mounting evidence that, rather than evidence of the American dream, Amazon has all but destroyed it. The mega-corporation’s dominance of sales of everything from books to home goods to medicine and groceries has wreaked havoc on American businesses small and large, drawing calls for anti-trust action by the government.
“I think if you look at Amazon, although there are certain benefits to it, they’ve destroyed the retail industry across the United States so there’s no question they’ve limited competition,” former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said two months after Bezos published his video tribute to his father. The Trump administration, Mnuchin said at the time, would investigate potential action against Amazon in defense of small businesses, but it never acted in any significant way to protect small Amazon competitors.
The Chinese coronavirus pandemic has significantly escalated concerns about Amazon’s corrosive effect on the American economy. According to the New York Times, as of April 2021, Amazon increased its profits 220 percent from April 2020.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, left, arrives with his father Miguel Bezos at the Statue of Liberty Museum opening celebration at Battery Park on Wednesday, May 15, 2019, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
“Revenue from merchants listing items on its website and using its warehouses was up 64 percent, to $23.7 billion. Its ‘other’ business segment, which is largely its lucrative advertising business, increased 77 percent, to almost $7 billion,” the Times observed.
“I’ve been walking around the city nonstop talking to small businesses owners and every story is sadder than the next,” Rory Cox, the founder of the San Francisco Small Business Alliance, told the San Fransisco Chronicle in December. “Everyone is like, ‘I wake up every day and I don’t know how much longer I can do this. I had 60 employees but now all I have is six, or now it’s only me.'”
A businessowner speaking to the publication, Tony Granieri, observed, “the only businesses that win in these close downs are the big ones. Amazon, Safeway, Taco Bell, etc.”
With a public relations disaster on his hands and a non-controversial, and close to home, political movement waiting for support, Bezos’ silence and inaction are somewhat baffling. Yet, like the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, it is clear that Amazon is one of the few entities that could benefit from an expansion of U.S. business in Cuba – something the Cuban-American community is energetically campaigning against, asking instead for more, not fewer, sanctions on the regime.
The Cuban “embargo” allows Americans to travel to the island. It allows shipments of food and medicine, despite false Communist Party assertions that it does not. It allows the sale of telecommunications equipment and even “green” technology. During the Obama era, the “tourism” ban was nearly non-existent thanks to a “people to people” travel exception and permission for cruise companies to use stolen American property to dock in Havana and Santiago de Cuba.
Essentially the only ones hurt by the embargo are the Castro regime and corporations like Amazon, which cannot do business directly with the regime. The embargo prevents the Communist Party from generating more funds to torture, imprison, starve, and otherwise abuse the Cuban people at the expense of “victims” like Jeff Bezos and José Andrés.
There is no guarantee that Bezos’ silence on the issue – after exploiting it to make Amazon look like a friendly refugee family business – is tied to hopes of doing business with the Castros. After all, he hasn’t said a word about the issue. But his compatriots have taken note even when a doe-eyed media are too busy indulging his space travel fantasies and the campaign to free Cuba appears to have no end in sight, potentially posing a liability for Bezos’ public image.
Martel: Jeff Bezos Exploited Cuban Father to Promote Amazon but Silent on Protests
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is dominating global headlines on Wednesday for spending ten minutes in space. While previously vocally proud of his Cuban heritage, he has found no time in his publicity campaign this week to support anti-communist protesters in his father’s home country.
Cuba has endured 62 years of brutal communist repression under the currently still-ruling Castro family mafia. Pro-democracy dissident groups have spent years organizing peaceful marches and other assemblies against the regime, culminating last year in a massive protest in front of the Cuban Ministry of Culture over a regime law that made it illegal to write, paint, or engage in any artistic activity without first obtaining a government permit.
That momentum led to an eruption of protests in dozens of municipalities and every major city nationwide on July 11 demanding an end to the Communist Party regime. While the regime actively repressed reporting from the island – including gang-beating an Associated Press photographer – observers estimate that thousands of people took the streets and that police arrested or forcibly disappeared many as 5,000 were either arrested or forcibly disappeared.
In response, the Castro regime issued an “order of combat” to pro-regime civilians, urging them to physically assault anyone suspected of participating in protests. The Communist Party also shut down access to the internet, making it much more difficult for Cubans to share videos of the repression with the outside world.
The Cuban diaspora has responded passionately to these protests. Nearly every major city in America has hosted rallies and protests urging the U.S. government to intervene. Cubans on multiple continents –in Italy, Japan, and Argentina, among other countries – organized displays in solidarity with the movement against communism at home.
Yet the world’s wealthiest man, once eager to celebrate his father’s story as a Cuban refugee, has remained silent on the issue – despite embarking on the biggest public relations tour of his life.
Blue Origin’s New Shepard crew (L-R) Oliver Daemen, Mark Bezos, and Jeff Bezos hold a press conference after flying into space in the Blue Origin New Shepard rocket on July 20, 2021 in Van Horn, Texas. Mr. Bezos and the crew were the first human spaceflight for the company. ( Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Jeff Bezos has issued an unprecedented number of interviews this past week on his company Blue Origin, which is working on facilitating space travel. Bezos and brother Mark, among other hand-picked explorers, took to the skies for ten minutes on Tuesday, enough to somehow fascinate the world despite the dozens of space missions undertaken by multiple nations in the past half-century.
Bezos spoke off-topic in a presentation following the short flight on Tuesday to announce two $100-million donations to leftist activist Van Jones and chef José Andrés, the first two recipients of his “Courage and Civility Award.” The chef was part of a wave of leftist celebrities who enjoyed vacations to Cuba – despite them being technically illegal under the barely-there “embargo” – during the Obama era, expressing hope that tourism profiting the Castro regime would soon boom there. Jones has a very small record of comments on Cuba, but notably condemned socialist Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for defending dictator Fidel Castro last year – more than Bezos has weighed in on the topic.
During his press tour this week, Bezos said nothing about Cuba. Nobody bothered to ask. The only public person who apparently remembers that Bezos is Cuban is Cuban-American rapper Pitbull, who published a video calling for global solidarity against communism and explicitly requested that Bezos contribute.
“All world allies get together to help. Global businesses get together to help,” Pitbull said in the video published last week. “People that we’re so proud of people such as Jeff Bezos — Cuban-American — graduated from a high school in Miami, built one of the biggest companies in the world, the richest man in the world. He’s somebody that can get involved and really help us.”
Things were not always this way for Bezos. In 2019, Bezos published a promotional video celebrating his father’s “grit, determination, and optimism” in making his way in America.
Miguel Bezos came to the United States in 1962 as part of the Peter Pan program, which allowed desperate Cuban parents to send their children to America alone to escape communism. Bezos admits his parents were some of the few people on the island who supported Fidel Castro (though he falsely claims Castro was popular at the time, he never won an election and had to kill thousands of people to maintain power in the early days of the Revolution). The elder Bezos has boasted that his children, including Jeff, love Cuban food and for years partook in stable Cuban cultural activities like Christmas Eve pork roasts.
Bezos’ celebration of his father in 2019 did not explicitly mention Amazon, but the message was clear: Amazon was, in many ways, the crowning jewel of the “American dream” – which Miguel Bezos shouts out by name in the video – because its founder came from a family where the head of the household was a refugee.
“My dad’s journey to the U.S. shows how people come together to help each other,” Bezos said in the video.
That message was clear pushback to the mounting evidence that, rather than evidence of the American dream, Amazon has all but destroyed it. The mega-corporation’s dominance of sales of everything from books to home goods to medicine and groceries has wreaked havoc on American businesses small and large, drawing calls for anti-trust action by the government.
“I think if you look at Amazon, although there are certain benefits to it, they’ve destroyed the retail industry across the United States so there’s no question they’ve limited competition,” former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said two months after Bezos published his video tribute to his father. The Trump administration, Mnuchin said at the time, would investigate potential action against Amazon in defense of small businesses, but it never acted in any significant way to protect small Amazon competitors.
The Chinese coronavirus pandemic has significantly escalated concerns about Amazon’s corrosive effect on the American economy. According to the New York Times, as of April 2021, Amazon increased its profits 220 percent from April 2020.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, left, arrives with his father Miguel Bezos at the Statue of Liberty Museum opening celebration at Battery Park on Wednesday, May 15, 2019, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
“Revenue from merchants listing items on its website and using its warehouses was up 64 percent, to $23.7 billion. Its ‘other’ business segment, which is largely its lucrative advertising business, increased 77 percent, to almost $7 billion,” the Times observed.
“I’ve been walking around the city nonstop talking to small businesses owners and every story is sadder than the next,” Rory Cox, the founder of the San Francisco Small Business Alliance, told the San Fransisco Chronicle in December. “Everyone is like, ‘I wake up every day and I don’t know how much longer I can do this. I had 60 employees but now all I have is six, or now it’s only me.'”
A businessowner speaking to the publication, Tony Granieri, observed, “the only businesses that win in these close downs are the big ones. Amazon, Safeway, Taco Bell, etc.”
With a public relations disaster on his hands and a non-controversial, and close to home, political movement waiting for support, Bezos’ silence and inaction are somewhat baffling. Yet, like the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, it is clear that Amazon is one of the few entities that could benefit from an expansion of U.S. business in Cuba – something the Cuban-American community is energetically campaigning against, asking instead for more, not fewer, sanctions on the regime.
The Cuban “embargo” allows Americans to travel to the island. It allows shipments of food and medicine, despite false Communist Party assertions that it does not. It allows the sale of telecommunications equipment and even “green” technology. During the Obama era, the “tourism” ban was nearly non-existent thanks to a “people to people” travel exception and permission for cruise companies to use stolen American property to dock in Havana and Santiago de Cuba.
Essentially the only ones hurt by the embargo are the Castro regime and corporations like Amazon, which cannot do business directly with the regime. The embargo prevents the Communist Party from generating more funds to torture, imprison, starve, and otherwise abuse the Cuban people at the expense of “victims” like Jeff Bezos and José Andrés.
There is no guarantee that Bezos’ silence on the issue – after exploiting it to make Amazon look like a friendly refugee family business – is tied to hopes of doing business with the Castros. After all, he hasn’t said a word about the issue. But his compatriots have taken note even when a doe-eyed media are too busy indulging his space travel fantasies and the campaign to free Cuba appears to have no end in sight, potentially posing a liability for Bezos’ public image.
BOZOSHEAD IS THE FUCKER WHO DESTROYED EVERY BOOK STORE IN AMERICA TO CREATE HIS AMAZON MONSTER!
Jeff Bezos Phallic Rocket Ride Lasts Mere Minutes in Space
Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos has landed safely after leaving Earth for just over 10 minutes aboard the New Shepard rocket. The total elapsed time from launch to touchdown was less than 11 minutes, meaning the trip for Bezos, his brother, and two other passengers spent mere minutes at the edge of space.
CNBC reports that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has touched down safely after an eleven-minute trip to space aboard the New Shepard rocket developed by his space exploration company Blue Origin. Bezos was joined on the flight by his brother Mark Bezos, a private equity executive, pioneering female aviator Wally Funk and recent Dutch high school graduate Oliver Daemen. Daemen’s seat on the ride was purchased by his wealthy father.
The New Shepard rocket took off from Blue Origin’s Texas launch pad and 7 minutes later the rocket’s capsule was officially in space. The rocket booster returned to Earth, firing its engine to slow down its descent, and slowly landed on four legs. The booster will be reused for future launches.
A short while later, attached to a set of parachutes the Blue Origin spacecraft returned to land. The spacecraft briefly fired its thruster to cushion its touchdown for the passenger’s return. Blue Origin crew members quickly rushed to the capsule to open the spacecraft’s hatch from the outside.
Speaking to members of the media, Bezos described the launch as the “Best day ever.”
Social media wags have noted the curiously phallic shape of the New Shephard rocket, leading to considerable jokes at the billionaire’s expense.
Earlier this month, billionaire Sir Richard Branson became the first space tourism pioneer to ride into space, making the journey aboard a rocket plane that his company has been developing for 17 years. Branson called the trip the “experience of a lifetime.”
Branson reached a height of 282,000 feet in the rocket plane known as Unity. Branson was accompanied by the vehicle’s two pilots, Dave Mackay and Michael Masucci, and three Galactic employees; Beth Moses, Colin Bennett, and Sirisha Bandla.
Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter @LucasNolan or contact via secure email at the address lucasnolan@protonmail.com
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Gives $100 Million to Van Jones for ‘Courage and Civility’
Jeff Bezos announced he is giving away $100 million each to activist Van Jones and humanitarian José Andrés during a press conference Tuesday morning following his ten minute space flight with his company Blue Origin.
At the end of the press conference, Bezos said, “I have a little surprise for you. I am announcing today, a new philanthropic initiative … The Courage and Civility Award. It recognizes leaders who aim high, and who pursue solutions with courage, and who always do so with civility.”
Bezos said that “we should question ideas, not the person. … We need unifiers and not vilifiers. We want people who argue hard and act hard for what they truly believe.”
“We do have role models,” Bezos said before the slideshow introduced Jones as the first recipient of the $100 million award. The award is designed for the recipients to give to charities of their choice.
Bezos has a net worth of more than $204 billion, a fortune he built through online retail giant Amazon. Bezos also owns the Washington Post.
Watch:
After being announced as the winner, Jones came on stage and said, “I appreciate you [Jeff Bezos] for lifting the ceiling off of people’s dreams.”
The self-avowed communist did not specify how he intends to use the money.
The press conference then aired a video praising Jones for bringing together “climate justice and racial justice.”
Bezos said, “I bet Van Jones is going to do something amazing with that $100 million. I don’t know what yet. I bet he doesn’t know what yet, but it’s in your hands Van Jones.”
The second $100 million award was then given to Andrés, a Spanish chef who founded World Central Kitchen to provide meals during natural disasters. The video about Andrés featured Hillary Clinton praising him: “He is bigger than life, a force of nature, and a real gift.” Andrés is also a vocal critic of former President Donald Trump.
The former Green Jobs Adviser to Barack Obama, Jones signed a “9/11 truth statement” in 2004, asking for an investigation to if the Bush Administration knew about the World Trade Center Attacks before they occurred. Jones defended his signature in 2009, explaining that the petition did not reflect his personal views and that he did not read the petition closely.
He then stepped down from his position in the Obama Administration.
Jones also came under fire at that time for calling Republicans “assholes.” He also later claimed that conservatives have “cheap patriotism” and are willing to “kill” children for jobs.
In 2016, Jones called Trump’s victory in the presidential election a “whitelash against a black president.”
Later, Jones admitted that Trump “has done good stuff for the black community,” and even worked with the Trump administration on criminal justice reform.
On election night 2020, however, in support of now-President Joe Biden, he said, “The fact that it’s this close, I think is — it hurts. It just hurts.”
He later tearfully celebrated Biden’s win on CNN:
In 2020, Jones also called former Vice President Mike Pence the “mansplainer-in-chief” during his debate with then-Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA).
Andrew Breitbart memorably criticized Jones in 2009:
What do we know about Van Jones? We know that he was a community organizer who left an elite college, Yale Law School, to become a community organizer.
…
What I know about Van Jones’s community organizing is that he went to Oakland, one of the most impoverished cities in the entire country, and this educated man took advantage of the underclass, just like we saw in ACORN. And what did this man do but organize people? People who needed help around the conspiracy theory that Abu-Jamal, Mumia Abu-Jamal, is somehow innocent. Preying on the inner city’s believe that every single police officer is white and racist and that somehow this guy somehow got setup.
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He [Jones] preys upon the fear that resides on the far fringes of the left that believe that 9/11 was an inside job and that George Bush and Dick Cheney were behind 9/11. This person was not vetted for his position, yet we’re the bad guys for bringing this up.
Watch:
Abu-Jamal was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of a police officer in Philadelphia. Jones was a member of Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM), which advocated on behalf of Abu-Jamal.
Jones has also said policing is “dumb and dangerous and discriminatory.”
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