Glenn Beck goes after Color of Change co-founder Van Jones

LA Times ^ | 8/24/09 | Matea Gold

[maggief]

Glenn Beck used his popular Fox News show this afternoon to attack the background of Van Jones, a White House environmental advisor who co-founded an African American political advocacy group that organized an advertising boycott of his program.

During his 2 p.m. PDT show, Beck did not address the boycott spearheaded by Color of Change to protest the talk show host’s remark last month that he believes President Obama is “a racist.”

Instead, he spent a large share of his program suggesting that Jones, who co-founded Color of Change in 2005, is a radical. Jones now serves as a special advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

During a six-minute biographical profile, set to ominous music, Beck said Jones was twice arrested for political protests and has described himself as a "rowdy black nationalist." The talk show host cast the piece as part of a broader examination of Obama's "czars," special advisers to the president who "don't answer to anybody."

"Why is it that such a committed revolutionary has made it so high into the Obama administration as one of his chief advisers?" Beck asked.

[kittymyrib]

I guess she missed the part about him being a proud Communist. What a liar.

[nathanbedford]

In this article the LA Times attempts to deflect what amount to really earth shattering charges made by Glenn Beck against radical Van Jones and his organization, Color of Change, which he cofounded and with which he was associated as recently as 18 months ago, by insinuating that Beck was motivated by retaliation for the boycott campaign against Glenn Beck's advertisers mounted by Color of Change.

Next, I expect that will be criticized as a McCarthyite for his criticisms of self acknowledged Communist Van Jones.

After that, we can expect the race card to be played because Van Jones is black.

The problem for Obama , the LA Times and Mr. Jones is that Glenn Beck's polemic just made a feature article in one of the nation's biggest newspapers. Beck's audience is growing so fast that he simply cannot be ignored by the mainstream media. The deflections will only deflect more viewers to the Glenn Beck show.

Eventually, the story will go viral.

[Freddd]

How is pointing out facts, and old video clips of the ‘Green Czar’, communist an attack????

[TNdandelion]

How do they run governments in many African nations?

[Bigg Red]

Whoever added that annoying and distracting piano music to the clip should be slapped. I almost changed the channel.

[backhoe]

Atlas has more about this group- excerpted, use the links for more:

Coming to 911: The Desecration

 

The president signed into law a measure in April that designated Sept. 11 as a National Day of Service............

But 9/11 has become a brand name. A Republican campaign slogan. Propaganda of the lowest form. 9/11 has become 9/11 with a trademark logo. "9/11 TM" has sustained a president who long ago should have been dismissed, or impeached. It has kept him and his gang of financial and constitutional crooks in office without -- literally -- any visible means of support. "9/11 TM" has made possible the greatest sleight-of-hand in our nation's history.

On August 7, I alerted Atlas readers to Obama's 911 proclamation of his mandatory civilian service on 911, his private army -- the "Civilian Community Service Corps" on 9.11 in LaFayette Park.  Very bad.

If you were considering going to DC for a 912 rally, please g0 and take family members. March for America.

911, what should be a somber day of mourning and reflection (on how the hell we got here), will be a day when Obama - in a celebratory mode - makes his big announcement. The whole thing is depraved. It's like telling a brutally raped victim that it was the best sex she ever had. Shame on the left. Shame on them.

 

Obama's Plan to Desecrate 9/11 By Matthew Vadum (hat tip Cathy)

The Obama White House is behind a cynical, coldly calculated political effort to erase the meaning of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks from the American psyche and convert Sept. 11 into a day of leftist celebration and statist idolatry.

This effort to reshape the American psyche has nothing to do with healing the nation and everything to do with easing the nation along in the ongoing radical transformation of America that President Obama promised during last year's election campaign. The president signed into law a measure in April that designated Sept. 11 as a National Day of Service, but it's not likely many lawmakers thought this meant that day was going to be turned into a celebration of ethanol, carbon emission controls, and radical community organizing.

The administration's plans were outlined in an Aug. 11 White House-sponsored teleconference call run by Obama ally Lennox Yearwood, president of the Hip Hop Caucus, and Liv Havstad, the group's senior vice president of strategic partnerships and programs.

Yearwood, who uses the honorific "Reverend" before his name, has been in the news in recent years, usually for getting arrested. After Democrats took back Congress, the rowdy activist was handcuffed outside a congressional hearing in September 2007 when Gen. David Petraeus was to testify. Yearwood told the "Democracy Now" radio program that he wanted to attend the hearing to hear Petraeus give his report. "I knew that when officers lie, soldiers die," he said.

On the Aug. 11 call, Yearwood and other leaders kept saying repeatedly that they wanted 9/11 to be used for something "positive," "forward-leaning," and "productive," said a source with knowledge of the teleconference.

The plan is to turn a "day of fear" that helps Republicans into a day of activism called the National Day of Service that helps the left. In other words, nihilistic liberals are planning to drain 9/11 of all meaning.

"They think it needs to be taken back from the right," said the source. "They're taking that day and they're breaking it because it gives Republicans an advantage. To them, that day is a fearful day."

A coalition including the unsavory left-wing pressure group Color of Change and about 60 far-left, environmentalist, labor, and corporate shakedown groups participated in the call. Groups on the call included: ACORN, AFL-CIO, Apollo Alliance, Community Action Partnership, Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, 80 Million Strong for Young American Jobs, Friends of the Earth, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Mobilize.org, National Black Police Association, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, National Council of Negro Women, National Wildlife Federation, RainbowPUSH Coalition, Urban League, and Young Democrats of America.

Color of Change is the extremist racial grievance group that isn't happy that TV's Glenn Beck did several news packages on Van Jones, the self-described "communist" and "rowdy black nationalist" who became the president's green jobs czar after jumping on the environmentalist bandwagon. The White House may be behind a push to destroy Beck by convincing advertisers to stop buying time on his show. Jones was also on the board of the Apollo Alliance, a hard-left environmentalist group that is now running large chunks of the Obama administration. The group has acknowledged that it dictated parts of the February stimulus bill to Congress.

With the help of the Obama administration, the coalition is launching a public relations campaign under the radar of the mainstream media -- which remains almost uniformly terrified of criticizing the nation's first black president -- to try to change 9/11 from a day of reflection and remembrance to a day of activism, food banks, and community gardens.

"The organizing term is to 'go dark.' You don't tell the press, don't tell people you think will tell the press," said the source.

Of course, the annual commemoration of the 2001 terrorist attacks belongs to the entire nation, but President Obama and the activist left don't see it that way.

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Coming to 911: The Desecration

[Fred Hayek]

Glenn Beck confirmed that Obama admin doesn’t use the the FBI to vet.

And who ordered the vetting process to be bypassed? Really folks, having someone not properly vetted close to the President (regardless who the President is) places the President at risk. Thus my speculation that the threat to the current President could well be from the left.

[Bernard Marx]

The bigger news is that LA Times is watching Beck in real time and writing about his current stuff so quickly.

The author of the piece engaged in a procedure known in newsrooms as "writing around" the topic. She spent much more effort documenting the phony case against Beck than she did reporting anything substantive he said about Jones. The presstitutes at the L.A. Times are watching Beck hoping to pick up any of his comments they consider "inflammatory" so they can further demonize him. He will never receive fair treatment in that sick joke of a newspaper.

[Marty62]

OK, I thought I must have missed something. thanks for the info.

[Marty62]

Unless a Repub is in the WH. Clintons and all their cronies and now this mess, although I will say that these guys are actually dangerous.

[J40000]

Yes! Wasn’t Glenn really on fire with his senseless, hate-filled SCREAMING tirade today??? ;-)

I crack up every time I hear this... especially from the right.

[ElayneJ]

obama and crew are probably astonished at how easily they can get away with whatever they want. I don’t think a single congresssman or senator has challenged obama on appointing these unvetted czars. Why not?

[orinoco]

The czars probably cannot get a security clearance and so they cannot get access to classified material (supposedly anyway).

[Mark17]

After that, we can expect the race card to be played because Van Jones is black.

Isn't that the first thing these scum sucking snow lizards do? I don't think it bothers Beck very much. He just says "whatever," when they do.

[leenie312]

Actually Glenn said the WH did the vetting.....

[leenie312]

Actually Glenn said the WH did the vetting.....

[SaraJohnson]

Mack Daddy.

[SumProVita]

Thank goodness that SOME people are going after these radical leftists!!!!!!

It’s frankly amazing how very dangerous many of these CZARS are. ;-/

[kimla]

This Day of Remembrance for our Nation has already been proclaimed!

” By a joint resolution approved December 18, 2001
(Public Law 107-89), the Congress has designated
September 11 of each year as ``Patriot Day.’’

Not bogus national day of servitude by the middle class!

[MsLady]

No kidding!!! My guess is Van Jones will quietly be moved out of the limelight but, still be somewhere in the background.