Unbelievable: Van Jones says 9/11 petition didn’t reflect his views

Hot Air ^ | SEPTEMBER 03, 2009 | ALLAHPUNDIT

[RobinMasters]

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.

Imagine the contempt you’d need to have for the intelligence of your audience to try a non-defense like this:

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.

“My work at the Council on Environmental Quality is entirely focused on one goal: building clean energy incentives which create 21st century jobs that improve energy efficiency and use renewable resources,” Jones said in his statement tonight.

Jones also said in his statement that “In recent days some in the news media have reported on past statements I made before I joined the administration – some of which were made years ago. If I have offended anyone with statements I made in the past, I apologize.”

[hosepipe]

What happens when Americans stop laughing about Barry Half-White being a Marxist?..

[Deo volente]

He was for the petition before he was against it.

[kalee]

Saying I am sorry if you are offended is not the same as saying I am sorry for what I said or did to cause that offense.

Jones issued a typical democrat non-apology apology.

[Freddd]

Call the White House tomorrow and DEMAND he be fired or resign!!! 1-202-456-1414

[FromLori]

what a liar how come he is now apologizing then?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2331772/posts

[jveritas]

The audacity of these liars to lie in such incredible brazenness is simply shocking. However they lie because they can. They lie because they know that 90% of the media will hide their lies, will defend their lies, will protect them, and will savagely attack anyone who criticizes them.

YES THEY CAN.

[pke]

Headlines: RACIST APPOINT RACIST AS CZAR

[RichInOC]

He lied to the petition.

[CaptainK]

"(Jones defenders point out that most of Beck's criticism came after a group Jones helped found, Color of Change, began pushing advertisers to boycott Beck after he accused President Obama of being a racist.)"

Beck is proving to be a formidable opponent to the Chicago mob.

[OrangeHoof]

This wasn’t the Van Jones that Van Jones thought he knew...

[ryan71]

Where DOES Obamunist find these wonderful friends?

Does he have ONE friend we all would consider an American patriot?

ONE?

Maybe American patriot is setting the standard too high?

ONE friend who is not a traitor?

ONE?

[Jo Nuvark]

You may be onto something.

We can now ignore crazy, corrupt, controlling bills
that politicians sign and just do what’s right because
“documents that bear signature of representative should
no longer be used against them”.

[THX 1138]

He lied to the petition.

...or maybe the petition lied to him.

Yeah, that's the ticket. He's the victim! /s

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

It would appear that Obama’s Advi-Czars have the anoying problem of shooting off their mouths before their brain is in gear.

[VRWCTexan]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/back-story/2009/sep/03/green-jobs-czar-signed-truther-statement-in-2004/
>9/11Truth.org spokesman Mike Berger told the Washington Times over the phone that all of the signers had been verified by their group. He said 9/11Truth.org board members “spoke with each person on the list by phone or through email or individually confirm they hae added their name to that list.”

“I think in most cases they spoke to them personally,” he added. “No one’s name was put on that list without them knowing it.”

[libbylu]

I tried the white house number tonight .... “hours 9-5”. I can’t freaking believe they don’t leave a message line open 24/7.

[LeonardFMason]

How much are “We The People” paying this TURD? I want my money back!!!

LOL! If he is forced out he will become the most bitter black man in America. He will blame: RACISM, RACISM, RACISM!

Popcorn please!

[Deo volente]

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2406

Jones says that he first became politically radicalized in the aftermath of the deadly April 1992 Los Angeles riots which erupted shortly after four L.A. police officers who had beaten the infamous Rodney King were exonerated in court. "I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th," says Jones, who is black, "and then the verdicts came down on April 29th. By August, I was a communist."

Jones was arrested during the L.A. riots and spent a short time in jail. "I met all these young radical people of color," he recalls, "I mean really radical: communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of.' I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary."

...After the demise of his anti-Prop 21 movement, Jones decided to change his political tactics. Specifically, he toned down the overt hostility and defiant rage that he previously had worn as badges of honor. "Before, we would fight anybody, any time," he said in 2005. "No concession was good enough; we never said 'Thank you.' Now, I put the issues and constituencies first. I'll work with anybody, I'll fight anybody if it will push our issues forward.... I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends."

[muawiyah]

Obama attended the crazed Rev. Wright's church "to get street cred" in the community he preyed on. What we have here is Jones signing a document "to maintain street cred" with the extreme elements who are part of the conduit bringing him an income from the bowels of the foundations Bernie Madoff was ripping off.

As capable as some of these guys might be, they've ended up putting too much stock in the need "to get and keep street cred" and too little into "learning how to get along with everybody else".

That's why they'll all end up as short timers in their jobs (and have to do malt liquor advertisements as I suggested earlier).