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Indefatigable blogger Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit dug up the 9/11 Truther record of Green Jobs czar Van Jones — and his research spread across talk radio, the Internet, and to the Glenn Beck show tonight. (Update: Hoft reports that Jones’s Truther proclivities were showing back in 2002).
A slew of bloggers, independent citizen journalists, and conservative activists have done the heavy lifting in exposing Jones’s inflammatory statements and radical ties over the last year — work that only conservative talk radio and Fox News have covered with due diligence. NakedEmperorNews/The BCast earlier today unearthed video of Jones ranting about Marxist “revolution” away from “gray capitalism”– also disseminated across Twitter, talk radio, and Fox News. The open-source “Army of Davids,” as blog pioneer Glenn Reynolds so aptly described it, is doing the job Obama didn’t want Congress to do.
Tonight, the White House is in full denial mode. ABC News reports:
A top environmental official of the Obama administration issued a statement Thursday apologizing for past incendiary statement and denying that he ever agreed with a 2004 petition on which his name appears, a petition calling for congressional hearings and an investigation by the New York Attorney General into “evidence that suggests high-level government officials may have deliberately allowed the September 11th attacks to occur.”
Van Jones, the Special Advisor for Green Jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, is Number 46 of the petitioners from the so-called “Truther” movement which suggests that people in the administration of President George W. Bush “may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war.”
In a statement issued Thursday evening Jones said of “the petition that was circulated today, I do not agree with this statement and it certainly does not reflect my views now or ever.”
He did not explain how his name came to be on the petition.
Maybe a unicorn, Van’s favorite mythical creature, put it there?
Allahpundit writes, “Note well: He doesn’t deny that he signed it. He denies that he agrees with it. Which means, I guess, that he’s asking us to create a new standard for public officials by which documents that bear their signature should no longer be used against them.”
And the Washington Times reports that the Truthers assert that no one’s name was put on their conspiratorial petition without his/her permission.
Here is the key — and it is highlights a leitmotif that runs through my czar, cabinet, and nominee withdrawal chapters of Culture of Corruption: Obama czardom is the deliberate end-run around transparency. Van Jones did not just accidentally slip through the cracks of the Obama vetters. They knew what he espoused before they installed him.
Take it from Obama’s own political godmother Michelle and Barack’s consigliere and Chicago powerbroker Valerie Jarrett took full credit at the nuttroots dKos blogger conference last month (August 15, 2009) for recruiting him and closely following his career:
JARRETT:. You guys know Van Jones? [Applause. Moderator injects: "This is his house apparently."]
JARRETT: Oooh. Van Jones, alright! 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.
Jarrett, as I pointed out on Sean Hannity’s radio show five weeks ago, is the self-proclaimed keeper of Obama’s urban/racial “authenticity.” The Obamas don’t make a move without her, according to their closest friends and allies. Jarrett’s praise for Jones’s Oakland activism is explicit endorsement of his race-baiting career at Ella Baker, funded by the Soros-supported Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights/Ford Foundation/Rockefeller Foundation, and his Free Mumia agitation in the Bay Area schools — where he lambasted moderate civil rights leaders for objecting to politicizing the classrooms and where his pro-Mumia allies likened supporters of murdered police officer Daniel Faulkner to the KKK.
But as I noted five weeks ago, the elites in the MSM are too busy penning 8,100-word love letters to Valerie Jarrett and her fashion sense to question her judgement, her crony deals, and power grabs in her role as the “eyes and ears” for the Obamas.
It’s the same blind and deaf media treatment they are giving Michelle Obama, John Holdren, David Axelrod, Carol Browner, Nancy DeParle, Adolfo Carrion, and
Nature, thankfully, abhors a vacuum. And so does the information-hungry public.
The Obama vetters have succeeded in short-circuiting congressional scrutiny and Washington oversight of unaccountable appointees over the last six months. No more. Quis custodes ipsos custodiet? Who is watching the watchdogs? John Q. Public. Do-it-yourself vetting is as easy as a Google search.
A quick rummaging will show you, for example, that Jones’s immediate boss at the Council on Enviromental Quality, Nancy Sutley, was a special assistant to document-destroying Clintonite Carol Browner — whom Mark Levin’s Landmark Legal Foundation nailed for deleting files in defiance of court orders. Browner’s EPA was held in contempt of court for the systematic file destruction. The socialist-tied bureaucrat is now Obama’s energy czar.
Throughout the Culture of Corruption book tour, I’ve repeated two simple mantras:
Knowledge is power.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
Spread it. It’s working.
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Update: White House spokesman Robert Gibbs tries to put out the fire. Jones is still working for the administration, but Gibbs says 9/11 Trutherism is not something the president agrees with. Try to square that circle.
This is why I have been saying that a corrupt press, as we have here in the USA, is the single biggest threat to sustaining our democracy. In a “normal” world, the free press would be all over this (and the other people that you named Michelle) like white on rice. But they self-censor because they are in Obama’s pockets. Obama would not have even been elected were it not for the corrupt press.
this is where i found my job... 
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Bill would give president emergency control of Internet
Unfortunately, they do not define what constitues an emergency.
TaSS | 09.06.09 - 4:19 pm | #
Yup. And also note that they bury the fact that "internet" includes private networks - like your bank or your inhome private computer network or the private network at your place of employment.
Granny | 09.06.09 - 4:31 pm | #
No, Glenn Beck Didn't Rape Anyone
—Ace
This is some attempt to get a slander to go viral. Supposedly a parody of Glenn Beck's "just asking questions" style of rhetoric (which, to be honest, I lapse into myself sometimes but find a bit cheap), some jokers are going around asking "Is it true Glenn Beck raped and murdered a little girl?"
See? Parody or something.
They are spam-bombing the internet with this crap.
No, it's not true.
Posting this as I see people asking about it.
Ted Kennedy *did* kill a girl, and his nephew, Michael, is a rapist and likes to hit women.
The more the left goes nuts over Glenn Beck the more people tune into his show to see what all the fuss is about. They tune in the show and hear some serious WTF stuff about Obama they never knew. Only think, beck doesn't make this stuff up. He used video and audio tape. They damn themselves by their own words.
When they tried to boycott Beck, his audience doubled overnight. Now they will rty this bs and it may well double again. Keep it comin fools. Pwnage.
Overnight Open Thread – (genghis)
—Open Blog
As always, thanks to Maet for taking over and providing you kittehs whenever Comcast decides I don’t need to have a working connection. He’s also helpfully provided this week’s commenter stats (below the fold) so we know which of you are least likely to actually step away from the computer in order to go to work, bathe or make love (though the last is sort of a given around here).
Item #1: Here’s a kind of somber thing, so let’s get it out of the way early. With the 8th anniversary of the Bush cabal/junta/regime blowing up things on 9/11 (source: former Obama administration official) it’s not a bad idea to listen once again to a live account of events as they happened, as broadcast and recorded by KOMO (Seattle) reporter/host Tami Michaels and her husband Guy Rosbrook. They were staying in a room on the 35th floor of the Millenium Hotel across the street from the WTC as Vice President Richard Cheney flew two separate planes into the buildings before parachuting to the ground (source: ibid.). The audio clip is very long and part of a documentary. (hit the "listen" link at the top of the article)
The documentary has been aired several times on national broadcasts. It can’t be heard enough.
Item #2: In brighter news, Gizmodo has an article we could all use on this Labor Day weekend: Extreme Leisure: 10 Ultimate Ways to Spend That Extra Day Off. The “beer bath” in a hot tub looks entertaining, but I’m not about to drink anything my junk (or yours) has been soaking in. This sounds a little more like it:
Note: Tonight’s ONT will be my final one. I won’t gloss things over: I’m leaving due to differences over recent changes to the blog. It’s not my house though…I’m just a guest here. I’ve very much enjoyed the opportunity to annoy you on a near-nightly basis and appreciate that Ace has allowed me to post here and put up with all my b.s. It’s more than I would have done had the situation been reversed. I assume the ONT will live on under the wise and drunken stewardship of Maetenloch. Best wishes for the continued success of Ace and the blog,
Tracy (aka genghis)
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