Van Jones joins the Center for American Progress

John Podesta statement ^ | Podesta

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

Van Jones is an exceptional and inspired leader who has fought to bring economic and environmental justice to communities across our country.

He has chosen to resign because he believed he was serving as a distraction to the president's agenda. I respect that decision.

Van was working to build a common ground agenda for all Americans, and I am confident he will continue that work. Unfortunately, his critics on the right could find no common ground with him.

Clearly, Van was the subject of a right-wing smear campaign shrouded in hypocrisy. Van's chief tormentor Glenn Beck, who spent weeks engaged in vicious name-calling, retains his perch at Fox News after calling the president a racist who has "a deep-seated hatred for white people" Van has set a standard that Beck would never impose upon himself.

I look forward to working with Van to move our country towards a clean energy economy that empowers and lifts up all Americans.

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

I got the statement from another FR discussion, but I hope the moderators will agree that it's not only the correct headline, but a good thing to discuss.

Van joins CFAP. That might make him more dangerous now because he has direct access to soros money now.

But let's not lose focus. The VJ flap wasn't about VJ. It's about Obama and his policies. Even VJ's words make it clear that we need to focus in on:

"personnel is policy"

[varina davis]

Now the left knows how Sarah Palin feels.

[NMEwithin]

So pointing out Van Jones’s own words is a “smear-campaign”???

[cripplecreek]

And now we’re going after Holdren and Sunstein.

[JaneNC]

It was NOT a smear campaign.
Videos of him speaking is not a smear campaign. He did himself in because America is not YET a communist nation and 9-11 truthers are whackos.

[Earthdweller]

Van Jones joins the Center for American Regression

[Pete]

Clearly, Van was the subject of a right-wing smear campaign shrouded in hypocrisy.

Highlighting videos and transcripts of speeches he gave is a smear campaign?

[pnh102]

We need to kick of more of these “smear campaigns” then.

[tgusa]

The lunatic left in general, and the 0 acolytes in particular, are not interested in what’s best for America. People who vote are awaking from their extended hypnosis and discovering that they don’t like what they see. I pray that it isn’t too late.

[St. Louis Conservative]

These people really have it out for Beck now.

Do they not realize there is a different standard of behavior for high government officials and TV personalities?

[SoDak]

One commie walks out the door, another commie walks back in to take his place.

[bamahead]

Van's chief tormentor Glenn Beck, who spent weeks engaged in vicious name-calling, retains his perch at Fox News after calling the president a racist who has "a deep-seated hatred for white people"

And the complete exposure of this RACIST hatemongering 'czar' that the president himself HAND PICKED only serves to cement Beck's analysis....Podesta you idiot.

[Awestruck]

Funny how socialists and commies always use the word “progress”.. reminds me of the Great Leap Forward..that was “progress” too.

[Deo volente]

"Unfortunately, his critics on the right could find no common ground with him."

There's no common ground with Communism.

[randog]

I was wondering which rock he would scurry under.

[marstegreg]

I seriously hope that when there is a republican congress they cut all funding to any organization that pretend to be non-partisan. That would clean up the national debt pretty fast. I am sick of our money being funneled to these folks, then used for funding elections.

[yongin]

Van Jones can devote his free time to seek revenge on Glenn Beck. This is war.

[GOPJ]

Van Jones was quoted as saying Americans "deserved" 9/11.

I want to know who in the White House over-ruled the FBI warnings about this man.

[nomoremods]

I thought MSNBC would snap him up - or Huffington Post.