Media Whitewash on Van Jones [Updated with Beck video]
By Larry Johnson on September 6, 2009 at 2:42 AM in Current Affairs
[Note--It is important to acknowledge the work of Gateway Pundit and journalists like Aaron Klein who started on this issue before Glen Beck picked up the cudgel. A further reminder of how pitiful and ignorant the mainstream media are.]
Jesus! How frigging dishonest can they be? To portray Van Jones as a “civil rights” activist is like portraying Fidel Castro as a mere cigar afficionado. Here’s the typical Main Stream pablum (Memeorandum has a full rundown as always):
President Barack Obama’s adviser Van Jones has resigned amid controversy over past inflammatory statements, the White House said early Sunday.
Jones, an administration official specializing in environmentally friendly “green jobs” with the White House Council on Environmental Quality was linked to efforts suggesting a government role in the 2001 terror attacks and to derogatory comments about Republicans.
The resignation comes as Obama is working to regain his footing in the contentious health care debate.
Jones issued an apology on Thursday for his past statements. When asked the next day whether Obama still had confidence in him, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said only that Jones “continues to work in the administration.”
Van is a coward. The man is on the record as a self-professed communist.
He signed on to the 9-11 Truthers statement and then tried desperately to pretend he did not know what the hell he signed.
I know I’ll never be in an Administration given some of the things I have said and written. The difference is that I stand by what I have said and written. I am not ashamed. Van Jones? Ashamed. He ran from his self-professed convictions.
What is really entertaining is to visit Big Orange (aka KOS). Those folks are in meltdown and denial. They are eating each other alive. Here’s a taste:
give them an inch and they will take a …. (28+ / 0-)
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God is a process not a person
by Dhirty on Sat Sep 05, 2009 at 09:57:50 PM PDT
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Definitely the most cowardly administration (11+ / 0-)Recommended by:
ccr4nine, sloopydrew, VictorLaszlo, riftt, 0wn, Badabing, lenzy1000, around the way girl, JerichoJ8, tier1express, JC7most of my generation (twentysomethings) have seen so far.
“All wars end with talking.” – CKendall.
by haruki on Sat Sep 05, 2009 at 10:25:09 PM PDT
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I would not make (9+ / 0-)Recommended by:
dlcox1958, hhex65, Winnie, bsmechanic, krllos, Just Bob, xsonogall, BrighidG, amk for obamasuch assessment without knowing the facts.
This is a War between Good and Evil, a fight we must win.
by Leftside Defender on Sat Sep 05, 2009 at 10:27:11 PM PDT
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facts?? the fact is we have another quitter!! (1+ / 0-)Recommended by:
harukiHe couldn’t stand behind his words and caved. That’s being a fucking coward.
by owendebanks on Sat Sep 05, 2009 at 11:12:29 PM PDT
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It is NOT COWARDLY! (12+ / 0-)Recommended by:
hamletta, Christin, dbsf, FunkyEntropy, VictorLaszlo, haruki, krllos, Aerials, pekkla, Jyrinx, Kordo, DhirtyIt is making a real effort at bipartisan consensus on the thorny issues that bedevil our age, and it will not stop until every last effort has been made to win over Republican support on those very difficult issues.
See the difference?
by MrJayTee on Sat Sep 05, 2009 at 10:29:28 PM PDT
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OK I nominate you as the stand in for Obama (3+ / 0-)Recommended by:
MrJayTee, Aerials, Jyrinxyou are subtle
God is a process not a person
by Dhirty on Sat Sep 05, 2009 at 10:31:03 PM PDT
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Like banging your head against a brick wall n/t (0+ / 0-)Sink Specter!
by joanneleon on Sat Sep 05, 2009 at 11:32:02 PM PDT
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Yes tough guy. We know you are no coward, (4+ / 0-)Recommended by:
krllos, Just Bob, BrighidG, amk for obamaMr. fighting keyboardist. What is with people who like to throw that word around casually?
open your mind or someone else will open it for you, but be careful you don’t open it too much for you brain to fall out.
by carlos the jackal on Sat Sep 05, 2009 at 10:44:40 PM PDT
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What does this even mean? (3+ / 0-)Recommended by:
greeseyparrot, 0wn, JC7Do you have to go out and kick some ass before you’re qualified to state the POTUS has a spineless penchant for sacrificing ideals and teammates under partisan pressure?
“All wars end with talking.” – CKendall.
by haruki on Sat Sep 05, 2009 at 10:47:42 PM PDT
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more cowardly than Bush (1+ / 0-)Recommended by:
greeseyparrotYou think the administration really bought their own bullshit?
Obama: “Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.”
by BrighidG on Sat Sep 05, 2009 at 10:47:56 PM PDT
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Van Jones is no coward. (4+ / 0-)Recommended by:
Christin, dlcox1958, greeseyparrot, buranaThat much, I’m sure of from his record.
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
by SouthernLiberalinMD on Sat Sep 05, 2009 at 11:03:33 PM PDT
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Glen Beck, regardless of whether you like him or not, kicked some well-deserved ass on this. He exposed more Obama carelessness is failing to thoroughly review Van Jones’ positions and beliefs. Of course the sloppiness with Jones has been the rule for Obama. Tim Geithner forgot to pay taxes and was put in charge of the IRS. Tom Daschle was a tax cheat and was nominated to serve as Secretary of Homeland Security, etc., etc., etc.
Here is Beck’s initial piece on Jones. Devastating.
Yet the key elements of the media is trying to portray Van Jones as just a misunderstood male-version of Rosa Parks. Fuck him and good riddance.
UPDATE–LA Times, to its credit, gives a pretty good rundown of some of the issues that fueled the fire lit under Van Jones. See here.
Van Jones, the onetime Marxist whose controversial statements about Republicans and 9/11 have made him a distracting lightning rod as Barack Obama’s environmental jobs czar in recent days, resigned tonight.
Now, the Sunday morning political talk shows (guest listings here) will have something really hot to talk about.
On Wednesday, as The Ticket reported here, Jones was forced to apologize when a video surfaced of his February remarks in Berkeley, of all places, using a reference to a lower anatomical orifice to describe Republicans.
The next day Jones again had to apologize for having his signature on a petition to then N.Y. Attorney General Eliot Spitzer seeking an investigation into the 9/11 attacks as possibly an inside job planned by then-Pres. George W. Bush to soften opposition to a war in Iraq.
On another video here Jones was seen mocking Bush physically and rhetorically as “a crackhead” for his addiction to petroleum.
Too bad the Times did not lay out in detail that Jones is still a Marxist and has never renounced his past beliefs.






















