Posted on 09/04/2009 11:57:38 AM PDT by kingattax
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs offered few signs of support at his daily briefing Friday for embattled White House adviser Van Jones, saying only, "He continues to work for the administration."
Jones, author of "The Green Collar Economy" and, since March, the special adviser for green jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), has come under withering criticism from conservatives in recent weeks for his activist background. Fox News host Glenn Beck has been a leading voice in the criticism. (Notably, Beck's advertisers are facing boycott calls from a group Jones helped found.)
The blog Gateway Pundit reported Thursday that Jones signed in 2004 a petition from 911Truth.org. The petition questioned whether Bush administration officials "may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war."
On Thursday, Jones apologized for signing the petition
(Excerpt) Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com ...
How’d that happen? ..How’d that happen?
lol...lol
The WH is going to attempt to ignore and downplay as an initial response. Don’t think it will play very well. I’m sure they’re telling Jones just to sit quietly, say nothing and just lay low (like 0).
Robert Gibbles is truly between a rock and a hard place, looks good on him, the obnoxious little prick.
Did reporters actually ask about Jones? Have any other news outlets besides FOX even talked about this? I doubt it.
Racist, communist, 9/11 truther? He’s the perfect Obama commissar. (I prefer “commissar” to tsar. Much more modern)
As Glenn pointed out last night on TV, he's apologized for using rude language re: Republicans, now he apologizes for signing that petition, however, NO APOLOGY for his self-avowed Communism, no apology for his ridiculous assertion that white ecologists were specifically targeting neighborhoods of color with poison, no apology for the claim that immigrants are being poisoned with the wrong agriculture system, etc., etc., etc.
Well and good that his snotty attitude about Republican senators on tape, that his name is in black and white on the petition, fine. Those things reduce his credibility. He should have ZERO credibility with ANYONE after we have, on tape, his one words, Jones laying out the plan for taking over and fundamentally transforming the free-market system of America. He has exposed the procedure and goal in extremely vivid terms, why are people all bananas over him being one of these nutty conspiracy guys when his being and out-and-out, confessed Commie who, along with these others that Glenn has been able to demonstrate in their own words, has infiltrated our White House?
Look there's not much point asking Gibbs for a comment/statement, frankly, I don't see 0bama doing anything until and unless the people get loud and active. But really, it's time (and then some) that the other people in Washington who took an oath to protect this nation and the Constitution from domestic enemies, ie, CONGRESS, be asked about this. They have the Constitutional mandate to oversight of the White House, they are obligated to exercise checks and balance, where are these people? I want THEM on the record, in particular, all those people who said we were hyperbolic, imagining, wrong-headed last fall -- will someone please sit McCain down, play him the video where he told the guy at the rally, "No, you have nothing to worry about" in regards to an 0bama administration and then ask him, "Well, how about now we find that 0bama has surrounded himself with these people who have publicly espoused this idea and this and this" ??
Remember Colin Powell, his oh-so-timely endorsement of 0bama on MTP, he railed against McCain, criticizing the selection of Gov. Palin, question McCain's judgment, lauding the judgment of 0bama and really getting up-in-arms about people "trying to tie 0bama to a guy who just happens to live in his neighborhood" what he thinks now of 0bama's judgment in appointing not only Jones, but the rest of the gang he has? Will someone please ask him if he still has no problem with 0bama being a friend of Ayres (they finally admitted this AFTER the election), and although Ayres did not receive any presidential appointment, is it not oddly convenient that Ayres' co-founder of the Weather Underground, Jeff Jones, has been appointed a member of 0bama's administration?
Mark Levin is right on this one.
Van Jones is merely a symptom of the real problem: Obama knows Jones, likes Jones and shares the same ideology and beliefs of Jones, which is why he appointed him to the post.
Obama should be held accountable for Van Jones. Van Jones himself is small potatoes and only a distraction from the REAL problem:
Barack Obama
What’s Jones doing? Sending jobs to Canada?
Did you read the linked WaPo article? He's not named, but Jake Tapper of ABC asked Gibbsey the pertinent questions.
And the WaPo article is surprisingly on target, factually. An indication that Jones will more than likely feel the bus wheels run over him soon.
Our dear leader, and his hopey-changey minions, really do think that no one's paying attention to the extremists with which he's populated the Executive branch -- since they are all quite sympathetic to Marxists, or are Marxists themselves.
Thanks to Beck, people are paying attention.
I’m glad it’s getting reported somewhere else. Beck is a saint for doing this.
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