[Van Jones]Denies Being Part of 9/11 "Truther" Movement, Apologizes for Past Comments

ABC News ^ | September 3, 2009 | Jake Tapper

[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."

[libstripper]

Jones has learned well from the Illegal Alien--just lie as hard as you can when caught and you'll be able to get away with whatever you want.

[Dr. Ursus]

I apologize to all you white MF’s out there!!!

[rovenstinez]

NOT ACCEPTED! He is what he WAS. Trust is broken, time to find a new job Van Jones...

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

All his lies are finally catching up to him, now. ;)

[all the best]

So he apologizes for letting everybody know what he actually thinks. No need to apologize, Van. We should know. Thanks.

[mainepatsfan]

Is there an unlimited amount of material proving what a whack job this guy is? Glenn has been leading his show with new stuff on him for over a week.

[FormerACLUmember]

Not a word passes the lips of this monster
(or any other Obama czar) that is truthful.

Oh, and thanks ABC, for your usual deceitful cover-up.

[ontap]

Just another Obama hater who has to lie through his teeth to convince us he is not what he proudly past himself off to be. Just like his president he is a lying POS!!!!!

[tatsinfla]

so we have a muslim that propably isn’t even an American in the white house, we have a tax cheat running the treasury, we have a racist as the green czar...we have had how many appointees step down due to tax problems etc..??..oh ya and lets not forget rham...

[ozark hilljilly]

So he just slaps his John Hancock on any ol’ thang, not even bothering to comprehend what it says??!!
(and they call us ‘ig’nert’!)
And he is now in charge of 30 BILLION of our dollars to dole out willy nilly to whomever!!

Niiiii-iiice.

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A top environmental official (a Czar - someone appointed outside of the normal bounds of checks and balances who operates outside the normal bounds of accountability that true cabinet members are historically held to) of the Obama administration...

[y6162]

Countdown until the Kenyan throws Van Jones under the bus. 3...2....

[libstripper]

GREAT CATCH!!! This shows he was on the organizing committe. Everybody needs to read it.

[MsLady]

These people really don’t have a problem with lying, do they?

[Centaur]

Same ole same ole with these guys: “I was there but I didn’t know that’s what they/it stood for. I’m sorry. I was misunderstood/taken out of context.” From the top on down. And they haven’t realized that “that tractor don’t pull no more”....thankfully.

[Rapscallion]

The apology just is not enough. The man is psychotic. He needs to be gotten away from the president ASAP. Seriously. Where is the Secret Service and where is Congressional oversight?????

[erkyl]

Cop-out, carefully worded apology that means nothing:

“If I have offended anyone with statements I made in the past, I apologize.”

Note, he doesn’t apologize for making the statements. He only apologizes IF he offended people by them. Typical double speak coming out of these communists in the WH.

Also, he denies signing the petition. Then administration officials say he didn’t read it. Which is it? He didn’t sign it, or he didn’t read it before he signed it.

[libstripper]

Here's another whopper from Jones' defenders, FTA:

With a history of incendiary and provocative remarks, many of them dealing with his view of how whites exploit minorities, Jones has emerged as the subject of much conservative scrutiny in recent days, particularly from Fox News' Glenn Beck. (Jones defenders point out that most of Beck's criticism came after a group Jones helped found, Color of Change, began pushing advertisers to boycott Beck after he accused President Obama of being a racist.)

I've watched all of Beck's shows for the last few weeks. The attacks on Beck actually began shortly after he pointed out that Jones was a communist and began digging into his background.

[LRS]

Sorry, Van. My credulity is currently occupied waiting for my Nigerian millions...