Van Jones: On the 9/11 Attacks, Not Just a ‘Truther,’ a ‘Deserver’ (AmeriKKKa "deserved" attack!)

NewsBusters ^ | September 7, 2009 (23:49 PM ET) | Tom Blumer

[2ndDivisionVet]

The "resignation" shortly after midnight on Sunday morning of President Obama's "green jobs czar" Van Jones has generally been seen as a convenient holiday weekend move.

By Friday, after White House Secretary Robert Gibbs would only say that he still was a part of the administration, it was obvious that Jones's resignation was only a matter of time. The 9/11 truther and other evidence accumulated by Glenn Beck, Gateway Pundit, and others was simply overwhelming.

But it seems to me that it would have been more convenient had the White House waited until early Sunday afternoon to announce Jones's resignation. Given the establishment media's near blackout of his past statements and actions, it's likely that the Sunday morning network talk shows would have avoided Jones completely, or would have given the topic very short shrift. A Sunday afternoon resignation would have been much more invisible -- except for something that came out on Saturday evening.

I believe that Jones's resignation may have been moved up by 12 hours or so. That's because on Saturday evening, Scott Johnson at Powerline presented proof that roughly 40 hours after the 9/11 terrorist attacks occurred, avowed Communist Jones publicly declared that the U.S. deserved what happened. I'm not kidding.

Jones's statements are the functional equivalents of Jeremiah Wright's outrageous "America's chickens coming home to roost" rant at Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ. They need to be more widely known.

Here they are, as reported by a far left web site early in the morning on Wednesday, September 13, 2001, covering an event in Oakland held on the evening of September 12:

(Screen shot at link)

Let's repeat: "The bombs the government drops in Iraq are the bombs that blew up in New York City."

Keep in mind that Jones had to be referring to either the first Gulf War or no-fly-zone incidents, as the war to remove Saddam Hussein did not begin until 2003.

Charleston Daily Mail blogger Don Surber had this reaction to Powerline's post a short time later: "(This is) the smoking gun that will either bring down Van Jones or Barack Obama. It is President Obama’s choice." That choice was obvious.

From a White House media strategy standpoint, Jones's dead-of-night resignation unfortunately ensured that he would be a topic of conversation Sunday morning, but it minimized the chance of Powerline's bombshell becoming part of the discussion. Sure, David Axelrod had to go through the discomfort of laughably claiming that "this was Van Jones' own decision. That's a mere occupational annoyance. Given the chattering class's reluctance all along to tell viewers the full truth about Jones, his resignation gave them an opening to change the topic from "What did he say and do?" to "Whose fault is it?" (meanie bloggers, talkers, and Republicans, not necessarily in that order) and "How will this hurt the administration?" (of course, in their view and with their weeks of help, not much). No additional information about Jones himself was necessary to fuel that discussion.

The White House did the best it could with a bad situation suddenly made much worse by Powerline, and the media met the White House's see-no-new-evil wishes/expectations. Mission accomplished: Few people know that Jones believed, and still presumably does (in the context of everything else, why shouldn't we?), that America deserved the 9/11 attacks. You can make book that the Associated Press, the New York Times, and the rest of the establishment press will ignore what you've seen here.

One thing we don't know is how aware of Jones's "deserver" views Obama close left-hand adviser Valerie Jarrett was when she made this statement in mid-August:

So, Van Jones. We were so delighted to be able to recruit him into the White House. We were watching him, uh, really, he’s not that old, for as long as he’s been active out in Oakland. And all the creative ideas he has. And so now, we have captured that. And we have all that energy in the White House.

If we're to believe Jarrett's boast, the answer is "very."

Note: I did not include a 9/11 picture of the Pentagon only because of space limitations, and I intend no slight to the memory of that attack or those who lost loved ones it.

[TaxRelief]

The content of this article is good, but the grammar and sentence flow is terrible. I hope someone else writes something similar so I do have something to forward to people.

[TaxRelief]

Jews vote Democrat because of peer pressure from the NY Times.

[MrB]

0bama knows, and agrees with, Van Jones’ ideology.

[EyeGuy]

“0bama knows, and agrees with, Van Jones’ ideology.”

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Indeed.

I think he is shocked that he had to fire him. I suppose he is finding our that not all whites cower in guilt and subservience before his in-your-face blackness.

Quite frankly, given the limited OldMedia coverage of the anti-American, race opportunist Jones, I’m a little surprised myself.

Thrilled, but surprised.

[VRWCmember]

Let's repeat: "The bombs the government drops in Iraq are the bombs that blew up in New York City."

Wait, I thought it was Bush and Cheney that tried to tie Iraq to 9/11.

[MrB]

I think we’re seeing that even those who were formerly cowering in guilt are not doing so any longer.

Electing the first “black” president was supposed to buy atonement. At least, that’s what they were sold.

They got ripped off. Everything this guy has done has been de facto reparations and getting back at whitey.

[GOPJ]

0bama knows, and agrees with, Van Jones’ ideology.

If Obama is the person who over-rode the FBI's warnings, you are right.

[Liz]

.......recording by Van Jones and the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights: " The American way, manufactured by these white folks in office......The United States is a stolen land led by right-wing, war hungry, oil thirsty......

Cong Waters musta went weak-kneed (/snic)-----

Waters threatened to nationalize the oil industry, warning Shell Oil president in a House committee hearing:

"And guess what this liberal would be all about. This liberal will be about socializing ....uh, um....." The congresswoman paused to collect her thoughts. "Would be about, basically, taking over, and the government running all of your companies......"

The oil executives responded that they'd seen this before, in Hugo Chavez's Venezuela. (Fox News)

[GOPJ]

The oil executives responded that they'd seen this before, in Hugo Chavez's Venezuela. (Fox News)

I guess the message is that if they're not careful - they'll be nationalized like the auto industry...

[a fool in paradise]

Van Jones is a truth-bagger.

[MNDude]

So, we deserved it, but he’s against Bush for planning the 9/11 attacks?

[BJClinton]

From Tom Maguire of JustOneMinute:

September 07, 2009

No Loony Lefty Left Behind

They loved him and left him - Firedoglake founder Jane Hamsher excoriates the cut-and-run liberals who loved Green Czar Van Jones when he was up but abandoned him in his moment of trial. I especially like her "He wasn't any crazier than the rest of us" defense:

Now he's been thrown under the bus by the White House for signing his name to a petition expressing something that 35% of all Democrats believed as of 2007 -- that George Bush knew in advance about the attacks of 9/11.

Good point!  Ms. Hamsher also criticizes her comrades on the left with a point we hear more often from the right:

"no coherent liberal critique was offered..."

Truer words.

As to her basic message, which is that Obama needs to govern more like a lefty - well, you go, girl!

NO TRUTH ABOUT TRUTHERS:  The NY Times tries to glide past the 'Truther' controversy in their follow-up coverage.

CAN'T SPELL 'CRAZY' WITHOUT C-Z-A-R:  “Democrats worry that Van Jones is only the first of Mr. Obama's so-called policy czars...that will be targeted by Republicans.”

We'll file that under "Ya think?"

Posted by Tom Maguire on September 07, 2009 | Permalink

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So Van Jones thinks that Bush ordered 9/11, but at the same time we deserved 9/11... ?

Proves the irrationality of lunatic liberals...they'll get on EVERY side of any argument as long as it is one that disparages America or President Bush, it matters not if those arguments are in total conflict!

[NavVet]

Do all of Obama’s friends believe 9/11 was just a case of our “Chickens coming home to roost.” Sure seems like it.

[potlatch]

Beautiful 9/11 graphic devolve. I remember when you made it!

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

do you have a link? i am interested in reading that. thx

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

>>So Van Jones thinks that Bush ordered 9/11, but at the same time we deserved 9/11... ?<<

Brilliant catch!!!!

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

>>So Van Jones thinks that Bush ordered 9/11, but at the same time we deserved 9/11... ?<<

Brilliant catch!!!!

[montag813]

All true, however Newsbusters' source is inaccurate, since the website DefendGlenn.com had the story first, not Powerline. Powerline also had the date wrong (9/13) for 2 hours.

[kaizen]

He’s much more dangerous than Cynthia McKinney. She is not that bright and is a misguided dupe. Van Jones is smarter, evil and a popular leader in the communist movement.