{"id":4697,"date":"2011-06-20T12:09:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T19:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4697"},"modified":"2011-06-21T01:51:39","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T08:51:39","slug":"glenn-beck-is-afraid-to-debate-van-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4697","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Beck Is Afraid To Debate Van Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday at the Netroots Nation conference, keynote speaker Van Jones
\nspoke about the new movement to Rebuild the American Dream<\/a>. In the course of his remarks he had a message for his old adversary, Glenn Beck:<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> “I issue a personal challenge to my beloved brother Glenn Beck. I will debate you anytime, anywhere, at any point. I’ll give you an hour, you give me five minutes … you got one week left before your show goes off. My phone is ringing. Call me! Call me, Glenn Beck!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I hope Van is not waiting by the phone. There is about as much chance of this happening as there is of Michele Bachmann french kissing Rachel Maddow. Even though Beck is a relentless self-promoter and this debate could earn millions as a cable on-demand premium feature, Beck will decline. In fact, he already has<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Beck:<\/strong> “There’s really not anything to talk about until you’re honest and you say you want the overthrow of the government as you have in the past. The violent overthrow for a Marxist government. When you’re honest, then people can have a debate.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s like me saying that I won’t debate Beck until he is honest and admits that he is a racist who would like to assassinate that ni**er in the White House. It’s simply a dodge to insure that he will never debate Jones. It has nothing to do with whether Jones is honest (he is) or whether he’s a communist (he’s not). Beck’s sole reason for dodging a debate is because he has a mortal fear of anyone who might engage him with intelligence, passion, and facts. That is Van Jones. And Beck is a quivering lump of cowardice who knows he would be taken apart were he to accept the challenge.<\/p>\n

Jones is now escalating the challenge he delivered at Netroots. With the help of MoveOn.org<\/a>, Jones has produced a commercial that he plans to place during Beck’s show on Fox News.<\/p>\n

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I’m a little conflicted about whether he should actually pay Fox to air this ad. Ordinarily I would not even entertain the notion of contributing to Fox by purchasing ad time from them. However, in this case the ad would be placed on a show that has already been canceled, so it wouldn’t be helping to advance the show’s future prospects. And this might be the only way that Beck’s viewers would ever learn that such a challenge has been issued, and that their frightened Messiah turned tail and ran away. Is this what Beck means by Restoring Courage<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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