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[Van Jones]Denies Being Part of 9/11 "Truther" Movement, Apologizes for Past Comments
ABC News ^ | September 3, 2009 | Jake Tapper

Posted on 09/04/2009 5:43:28 AM PDT by libstripper

[Title was edited to comply with space requirements. Full, accurate title is: "Controversial Obama Administration Official Denies Being Part of 9/11 "Truther" Movement, Apologizes for Past Comments"

A top environmental official of the Obama administration issued a statement Thursday apologizing for past incendiary statement and denying that he ever agreed with a 2004 petition on which his name appears, a petition calling for congressional hearings and an investigation by the New York Attorney General into "evidence that suggests high-level government officials may have deliberately allowed the September 11th attacks to occur."

Van Jones, the Special Advisor for Green Jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, is Number 46 of the petitioners from the so-called "Truther" movement which suggests that people in the administration of President George W. Bush "may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 911truthers; apology; denial; jones; obama; tapper; vanjones
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To: Rappini

It took about a week in the waiting at FOX, before the other talking heads there started to touch the issues that Beck has now dugged up!!!


41 posted on 09/04/2009 7:08:21 AM PDT by danamco
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To: libstripper
Except for FOX news, ABC is the ONLY major LSM source I can find that has anything on this dude, and notice how they won't even put his name in the headline! They've got another earlier article on him and NO name in the headline either!

You know, you wouldn't want to point out who you're actually talking about in the headline... It might actually attract some attention!

I looked for NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC... Nothing!! Not even a mention of him.

42 posted on 09/04/2009 7:17:22 AM PDT by RogerWilko
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To: RogerWilko

It is rather a bit much how I had to edit the headline, something that’s usually, and quite properly so, a super no-no here on FR.


43 posted on 09/04/2009 7:22:35 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: libstripper
"I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends." -Van Jones

Translation: " I'm lying when I apologize for calling Republicans a**holes, and I'll be lying any other time I try to sound like a rational, sane person."

44 posted on 09/04/2009 7:54:15 AM PDT by mancini
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