Posted on 09/10/2009 6:45:49 PM PDT by pissant
You probably never heard of Van Jones, and you may never hear of him again. Until last week, he was President Obama's adviser on "Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation" in the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
But he is no longer. Now he's out of a job. And therein lies a tale that should make all of us angry or nervous.
One man railroaded Jones out of his job: Fox News anchor and radio talk show host Glenn Beck. You remember him. He's the nut who called President Obama a "racist" on "Fox and Friends" last July 28.
There was a time, not so long ago, when calling the president of the United States a "racist" on national television would get an anchor fired. But that was before Fox News. At Fox, archenemy of President Obama, Beck was not only not fired he was treated like a folk hero -- even though some 60 major corporate sponsors stopped advertising on his program in protest.
Rather than apologize to President Obama, the decent thing to do, Beck went berserk, accusing Obama of staging a quiet coup d'etat to turn this country into a Cuba-like communist dictatorship. "There is a revolution," he warned his gullible audience, "and they think they can get away with it quietly. ... Most of America doesn't have a clue as to what's going on. There is a coup going on." (Cue the Black Hawk helicopters!)
And, to help him carry out that coup, fumed Beck, Obama has surrounded himself with a gang of communist agitators known as "czars." Beck's first target: "Green Jobs" czar Van Jones.
(Excerpt) Read more at courant.com ...
You forgot the barf alert. :-)
Who is Bill Press and why did they let him out of the psycho ward he was living in? He’s clearly not ready to be turned loose on an unsuspecting public.
Some people should never be allowed exposure on this or any other site, Bill Press is the poster boy for that sentiment. Can’t read his name, let alone his diatribes.
That's important to remember.
Wasn’t McCarthy proven to be correct about his suspicions that we were being infiltrated by Commies?
McCarthy never had video on his alleged commies. Beck has it.
If I remember correctly, the Hartford Courant is the oldest newspaper in the U.S. and last I heard it was on its last legs. No great loss—very leftist paper.
Yep.
Bill Press made these charges? What a POS Obamabot.
The country was lousy with them.
Joe “acted stupidly” in assuming the State Department would do a thorough job of following up on the leads he generated. They didn’t, and many commies got a pass.
Bill Press is a complete idiot....
What else do you expect to spew forth from Bill Press?
First of all, it wasn't Beck's word against Jones' -- Beck merely dug up Jones' own words and deeds. But even if it were word vs. word, I'd take the word of a conservative recovering alcoholic over that of a communist community organizer any day.
What a stretch.
Ah, Bill Press...definitely not smarter than Trig Palin.
Yes. McCarthy was correct back then about the State dept. being shot-through with communists, and Beck is correct about radical marxists surrounding obama’s administration.
He looks just like Maddow too!
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