“Van Jones, in other words, was and is a watermelon: green on the outside, red on the inside.”
That needs to stick.
Makes me think of Blind Willie Johnson, Sunnyland Slim, Pinetop Perkins, Blind Willie McTell, or T-Model Ford. The difference, of course, is they were (or are) all great bluesmen, artists of remarkable skill and talent.
Watermelon Jones is just a pathetic, bombastic, failed community organizer (communist).