UPDATED: Glenn Beck Goes After Color of Change Co-Founder Van Jones

LATimes ^ | August 24, 2009

[Steelfish]

UPDATED: Glenn Beck goes after Color of Change co-founder Van Jones

August 24, 2009

Glenn Beck used his popular Fox News show this afternoon to attack the background of Van Jones, a White House environmental advisor who co-founded an African American political advocacy group that organized an advertising boycott of his program.

During his 2 p.m. PDT show, Beck did not address the boycott spearheaded by Color of Change to protest the talk show host’s remark last month that he believes President Obama is “a racist.”

Instead, he spent a large share of his program suggesting that Jones, who co-founded Color of Change in 2005, is a radical. Jones now serves as a special advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

During a six-minute biographical profile, set to ominous music, Beck said Jones was twice arrested for political protests and has described himself as a "rowdy black nationalist." The talk show host cast the piece as part of a broader examination of Obama's "czars," special advisers to the president who "don't answer to anybody."

"Why is it that such a committed revolutionary has made it so high into the Obama administration as one of his chief advisers?" Beck asked.

Christine Glunz, a spokeswoman for the White House Council on Environmental Quality, noted that Jones has been lauded as an environmental hero and said his entire focus is on “building clean energy incentives which create 21st-century jobs.”

“Glenn Beck is trying to change the subject,” said James Rucker, executive director of Color of Change, who noted that Jones has not been active with the group in almost two years. “The issue is his baseless fear mongering.”

Beck has gone after Jones in the past.

[WVKayaker]

...I shared with you yesterday my heartfelt and candid reasons for this change; I’ve never thought I needed a title before one’s name to forge progress in America. I am now looking ahead and how we can advance this country together with our values of less government intervention, greater energy independence, stronger national security, and much-needed fiscal restraint. I hope you will join me. Now is the time to rebuild and help our nation achieve greatness!

God bless you! And I look forward to making a difference – with you!

Sarah (-Happy 4th of July from Alaska!)

The best defense is a good offense!

Get on board! Let's go fishing! Click pic for link to SarahPac...

[junta]

Anyone who advocates for AA is by textbook definition a “racist.” That is as easy as opening a dictionary. And as easy as opening Obama’s first book that he directs his ire against “his mother’s race.” Nuff said.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[beachn4fun]

WAS ALMOST UNWATCHABLE DUE TO THE FAR TOO LOUD MUSIC TRACK.

I've found this to be true on a number of shows I watch. I put it down to my poor hearing.

[SteamShovel]

You forgot Obama is putting the brakes on domestic oil drilling and actively using "Global Warming" in an attempt to cripple our economy with "necessarily skyrocketing" energy prices.

Yes, I think something big is happening. I don't think it is going to be a single event. I think we are just being choked into submission to the communist coup.

[Dick Bachert]

Nope, it’s crappy and/or rushed production and/or production newbys who don’t know what the hell they’re doing.

[MozarkDawg]

YOU HAVE TOO IMPORTANT A MESSAGE FOR IT TO HE OVERSHADOWED BY THAT SORT OF DISTRACTION.

Thanks for sending that -- either Glenn didn't review pre-air or it wasn't as noticeable when he did, because you are correct, it was unbearable. Only the information contained and the fact that Glenn posted on the screen the words, the direct quotes he was reading had me hang in to the end. I wish to send my mother the shows this week on VHS, (she does not get cable/satellite), I will have to warn her of this particular.

I'm hoping that you were not the only one to send a note to Glenn during broadcast, that someone in the studio made note as well, that this will not continue with the rest of the bio-pieces. As you say, this information is too important to injure dissemination in any way.

[MozarkDawg]

During a six-minute biographical profile, set to ominous music, Beck said Jones was twice arrested for political protests and has described himself as a "rowdy black nationalist." The talk show host cast the piece as part of a broader examination of Obama's "czars," special advisers to the president who "don't answer to anybody."

Is Beck in error, LATimes??

[presently no screen name]

See post #16.

[Canadian Outrage]

You are not wrong at all!! America got herself a FRAUDULENT DICTATOR and it is going to take WAR to rid herself of these brutal THUGS!! CO

[WOBBLY BOB]

Amazing a black man can go to Yale in such a racist country.