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Van Jones: Does the New York Times know what a Truther Is?
Slate ^ | Mickey Kaus

Posted on 09/07/2009 9:01:29 AM PDT by steven33442

Amazingly, many New York Times print readers still don't know why Van Jones resigned! Here's how the paper's John Broder describes his situation:

The adviser, Van Jones, a controversial and charismatic community organizer and "green jobs" advocate from the San Francisco Bay Area, signed a petition in 2004 questioning whether the Bush administration had allowed the terrorist attacks of September 2001 to provide a pretext for war in the Middle East. [E.A.]

Reading that, would you realize the petition was a Truther petition? You might think Jones simply made the standard argument that Bush shouldn't have used 9/11 to help gin up the Iraq War--as opposed to suggesting that Bush "may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war," which is what the petition actually said [E.A.] ...

P.S.: Is this a) the famous meddling liberal Times editors rewriting Broder's lede graf to soften the blow to Jones or b) Broder sanding the facts in order to make his apparent thesis--that the White House was somewhat coldy caving in to conservative attacks on a minor official--more plausible (if the petition's wording had been made clear, after all, it might have looked like the conservatives had the goods on Jones and the White House was actually doing Jones a favor by letting him resign quietly), or c) incompetence--maybe second-string editors filling in over Labor Day who permitted either (a) or (b)?

(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...


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1 posted on 09/07/2009 9:01:29 AM PDT by steven33442
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To: steven33442

I don’t like to use the word evil very often, as it is very much over-used. But the New York Times is very frequently an evil newspaper. Deliberately spreading lies and falsifications to advance its leftist agenda.


2 posted on 09/07/2009 9:02:48 AM PDT by steven33442
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Does the New York Times even care what a 9/11 Truther is? My guess is a resounding “NO”.


3 posted on 09/07/2009 9:06:23 AM PDT by LottieDah (If only those who speak so eloquently on the rights of animals would do so on behalf the unborn)
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To: steven33442

Wow, regular NY Times readers really know what is going on in the world!

LOL. Give that paper a Pulitzer!


4 posted on 09/07/2009 9:07:14 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.)
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To: steven33442

I think the most damaging thing Jones said was that you never see black kids doing a Columbine. The racist implications and comparisons would have made the Gates affair look like a pillow fight.


5 posted on 09/07/2009 9:07:20 AM PDT by y6162 (uish..)
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To: steven33442

“Amazingly, many New York Times print readers still don’t know why Van Jones resigned!”

Of course not...because you’ve never told your print readers what a ‘truther’ is...


6 posted on 09/07/2009 9:10:24 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: steven33442
Green jobs are those jobs whose promotion, funding, perpetuation and promulgation are forcibly funded by the peoples whose jobs are the very jobs 'green' jobs seek to supplant.

Green jobs have no scientific, objective criteria - only the 'feelgoodism' of its followers and the political power and control derived from its implementation.

7 posted on 09/07/2009 9:10:46 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: WKUHilltopper

You=NY Times


8 posted on 09/07/2009 9:10:56 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: steven33442
Ah. I don't care much that he is a truther, I almost expect that from the loonbat left. If there is a "D" after their name, a higher percentage of them secretly harbor the notion that if Bush and Cheney didn't actually use the remote controllers to steer the 9/11 planes themselves, then they knew about it beforehand and let it happen for political purposes.

It is indisputuable. If you are a liberal, you are more likely to believe that than a conservative would be.

What I am concerned about is his Socialist, Marxist and Racist roots, and his quotes like this: "..."The environmental justice community that said, 'Hey, wait a minute, you know, you're regulating, but you're not regulating equally.' And the white polluters and the white environmentalists are essentially steering poison into the people-of-color communities, because they don't have a racial justice frame."

9 posted on 09/07/2009 9:17:40 AM PDT by rlmorel (Mary Jo Kopechne is now available for comment.-August 25, 2009)
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Ok, I'll take a crack at it:

1. He's a Commie?

2. He's a Commie?

3. Stop me if you've heard this; He's a Commie!

10 posted on 09/07/2009 9:23:49 AM PDT by Doc Savage (SOBAMP!)
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To: WKUHilltopper

Well let’s see-Jones resigned ,but rest assured he is still in Obama’s circle of advisers. You won’t see him . That’s a given.


11 posted on 09/07/2009 9:25:30 AM PDT by Disgusted in Texas
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To: steven33442

And Van Jones is Obama’s equally “controversial and charismatic community organizer” evil twin.


12 posted on 09/07/2009 9:27:14 AM PDT by Baladas ((ABBHO))
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To: y6162
Of course they don't do Columbine's! They're too busy:

1. Doing Crack, selling Crack.

2. Beating up their ho's.

3. Doing 25 to life for murder.

4. Playing ball in the NBA after their release from prison.

5. Impregnating underage girls.

6. Drinking Colt .45 prior to drive-by killings.

How am I doing so far. I've got a million of them!

13 posted on 09/07/2009 9:27:41 AM PDT by Doc Savage (SOBAMP!)
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To: rlmorel
What I am concerned about is his Socialist, Marxist and Racist roots, and his quotes like this: "..."The environmental justice community that said, 'Hey, wait a minute, you know, you're regulating, but you're not regulating equally.' And the white polluters and the white environmentalists are essentially steering poison into the people-of-color communities, because they don't have a racial justice frame."

This is not new, and it dates at least back to the '80s. Remember the "CIA spread crack in black communities" charge during the Reagan era?

14 posted on 09/07/2009 9:30:36 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: LottieDah
Does the New York Times even care what a 9/11 Truther is?

I would guess the publisher, the editors, and 75% of the mice in the NY Times newsroom are themselves truthers.

15 posted on 09/07/2009 9:32:16 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: steven33442

bump


16 posted on 09/07/2009 9:33:47 AM PDT by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: Doc Savage

“How am I doing so far. I’ve got a million of them! “

See ..that’s what I mean Jones started another race discussion.

I would add breeding and fighting dogs to the list.


17 posted on 09/07/2009 9:38:13 AM PDT by y6162 (uish..)
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To: steven33442
Van Jones was a first class POS and his action and words proved it beyond any doubt. Why Obama chose him as a “whatever” is beyond most people. Obama knew what Jones was and still put him in a position of influence. Says allot about Obama’s judgment.
18 posted on 09/07/2009 10:32:56 AM PDT by ANGGAPO (Leyte Gulf Beach Club)
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To: nwrep

Agreed...but these people weren’t operating in a shadow government under a racist, Alinsky-radical President like Barack Obama.

But I know what you mean.


19 posted on 09/07/2009 11:02:06 AM PDT by rlmorel (Mary Jo Kopechne is now available for comment.-August 25, 2009)
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To: ANGGAPO

There is some evidence that this man had close ties to Michelle Obama . . it was she who wanted Van Jones.

These people are closet radicals. I am still so angry at George W. Bush for messing up the economy and bringing these two into power.


20 posted on 09/07/2009 11:04:17 AM PDT by steven33442
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