I did a search on CNN to see how many articles regarding the van Jones controversy were published. Answer — ONE. Just one titled “White House adviser” resigns.
http://search.cnn.com/search.jsp?query=van%20jones&type=news&sortBy=date&intl=false
Yes.
The cover-up by CNN of Van Jones is just as bad. In fact one can make the argument that it's worse.
Add to that Van Jones is gone, whilst CNN continues on its merry way.
Lou Dobbs covered it last Thursday:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0909/04/ldt.01.html
SYLVESTER: A new controversy tonight threatens to become another public relations crisis for the Obama administration. A high level Obama appointee, Van Jones, the special advisor for green jobs, is at the center of the controversy. Mary Snow has this report.
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MARY SNOW, CNN NEWS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Van Jones may not be a well-known administration figure as an adviser for green jobs, but he’s been thrust into the forefront over questions surrounding this 2004 petition he signed on the 9/11 Truth.org Web site demanding “... a call for immediate inquiry into evidence that suggests high-level government officials may have deliberately allowed the September 11th attacks to occur.” Van Jones is listed as “Signer 46.”
Asked why his name is on it, an administration source tells CNN that Jones did not carefully review the language in the petition. And in a statement, Jones said, “I do not agree with this statement and it certainly does not reflect my views now or ever.”
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was asked about Jones’ name appearing on the petition, responding, “It’s not something the president agrees with,” and that Jones continues to work in the administration.
Jones has also gained attention for comments he made before his White House job, including this one now on YouTube when he was talking about Republicans.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: How were the Republicans able to push things through when they had less than 60 senators but somehow we can’t?
JONES: Well, the answer to that is they are (EXPLETIVE DELETED).
(LAUGHTER)
JONES: That’s a political science technical term.
And Barack Obama is not an (EXPLETIVE DELETED).
SNOW: In 2005, he was quoted in the “East Bay Express” saying, “By August, I was a communist” when explaining about his radicalization following the acquittals in the police beating case of Rodney King in 1992. Jones said, “If I had offended anyone with statements I made in the past, I apologize.”
The green jobs guru has come under scrutiny by conservatives.
Before this, Jones was primarily known for his environmental work. Back in May, in comments on The San Francisco Chronicle’s Web site, Jones even won the praise of former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, now a Republican candidate for governor in California.
MEG WHITMAN, FMR. EBAY CEO: He’s done a marvelous job.
SNOW: Whitman now says she didn’t know Jones well and is distancing herself, saying it’s clear he holds views she entirely rejects.
SNOW: And tonight, Republican lawmakers are turning up the heat. The chairman of the House Republican conference, Congressman Mike Pence, is calling on Jones to either resign or be fired. And he wants a congressional hearing before any more czars are appointed since advisors like Jones don’t have to go through a Senate confirmation —
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“And he wants a congressional hearing before any more czars are appointed since advisors like Jones don’t have to go through a Senate confirmation —”
Obama has installed a shadow government, avoiding top people, policy makers, money spenders (Jones had a 30 billion $ checkbook to control!) from congressional approval as cabinet members would have to be.