Grist has Van Jones' Back As Beck Continues His Smear Campaign

Treehugger ^ | 9/3/09 | Daniel Kessler

[Sig Sauer P220]

Grist's David Roberts has done a service to journalism by taking some time to help clear the air around Van Jones, special advisor for green jobs, enterprise and innovation at Council on Environmental Quality. Ever in search of a bogeyman, Glenn Beck, among others, has tried to paint Jones as some sort of evil mastermind, conspiring to make the U.S. the new U.S.S.R. by championing green jobs. Roberts' debunking deserves a look, especially after Beck again went after Jones on his Fox show Tuesday night. Watch the clip above to see Beck's feeble, paranoid mind at work. In this clip he attacks Jones for his social justice work.

Beck, ever allergic to facts, has painted Jones, the man who helped create the Apollo Alliance and Green for All, as communist/black militant/ex con who is bent on undoing the American system from within. As Roberts points out, Beck has mislead the public on at least three crucial points.

Jones is not a criminal: While at Yale Law School, he volunteered as a legal monitor at a protest following the Rodney King trial. Jones was detained at the rally but was let go after four hours. He was never convicted of a felony. If he was, he would have a hard time getting past the California Bar.

Jones is not the green jobs czar. There is no such thing. His title is special advisor for green jobs, enterprise and innovation at Council on Environmental Quality. If he was the green jobs czar, however, there would be no shame in that title. It was Richard Nixon who began the trend of naming czars, appointing a drug czar, Jerome Jaffe, in 1971. Reagan continued the trend by naming his own drug czar. Surely Beck doesn't believe Nixon and Reagan were communists or Nazi sympathizers, does he?

Jones is not a communist. I'm not even going to explain this. It's too silly even to justify a moment's thought.

Beck is a demagogue and Rupert Murdoch should consider taking him off the air. Sponsors are already jumping ship, but instead of taking that as a sign that playing loose with the facts is wrong, Beck has instead chosen to continue to spread lies and create straw men in place of helping educate his viewers about the real environmental threats we face. Shame on Beck.

[linn37]

Someones underoos are a bit tight!

[Jedidah]

Love it!

[The Wizard]

jones smeared himself...

[ElayneJ]

Yep. If they don’t like it it’s a smear. I wonder if they’re so indoctrinated that they honestly don’t understand logic or if they just don’t care.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Amazing. Beck shows Jones using his own words, and somehow that is a ‘smear’.

[DTogo]

Ho-ho-ho, Green Job Czar!

[blam]

"Amazing. Beck shows Jones using his own words, and somehow that is a ‘smear’."

And...and, just Mean Spirited too.

[melancholy]

Jones is not a communist. I'm not even going to explain this. It's too silly even to justify a moment's thought.

Of course, you can't explain it because you can't spin the truth. You are incapable of thinking for a moment.

Your Kenyan is going to impress you and your moonbats by dumping Van Jones under the bus, soon. 0b0z0 and his MSM allies don't have the "collective" spine to keep this POS.

Hope you like "collective", your warm and fuzzy Kommie speak.

[nufsed]

.......and racist.

[mancini]

The comments there were funny. Silly, deluded people. Van Jones is hot. So what, LOL. He’s also a liar, a racist, and a friend of Obamalamadingdong. Sad man, really.

[Charles Henrickson]

jones smeared himself...

He got all wee-wee'd up.

[norwaypinesavage]

"I have become a little concerned about Beck, not for what he has been saying; but, because he does seem to have lost some sponsers"

Don't worry about the second most viewed show on cable TV.

[Intolerant in NJ]

... has tried to paint Jones as some sort of evil mastermind...more like an incompetent whackjob - so dumb that he believes we're dumb enough to believe he's too dumb to know what that truthers petition he signed was all about.....

[Jedidah]

Are you responsible for this? I want to send it to friends, and the author deserves credit.

[kittymyrib]

“Jones is not a communist.”

Then he’s a liar, because Glenn Beck has Van Jones on video saying that he was a “committed Communist.” These propagandists are having a very hard time twisting the facts to save this man’s Leftist hide.

[jennyjenny]

Going to Yale, shaving your head, making it shiny, putting on a suit and tie and excess cologne doesn't mask the stench of ones beliefs. We smell it and it makes us gag.

[Doogle]

KIesslr’s some big wig with Greenpeace...figures

[Cincinna]

“smears”? Jones has a 911 Truther bumper sticker on his car and signed the truthers petition.

The way we know he is a Communist is that he told us so himself.

[Charles Henrickson]

Are you responsible for this? I want to send it to friends, and the author deserves credit.

Guilty as charged. See tagline.

And here's the other one I wrote on the subject:

ME AND MR. JONES
Tune: "Me and Mrs. Jones" Original

Me and Mr. Jones
I took a green commie on
They all say that it's wrong
But I'm much too strong
To let him go now

We meet every day at the bust of Che
6:30, I know, I know he'll be there
Raising fists, making all kinds of lists
While we read a page of Mao Zedong

Me and Mr.--Mr. Jones, Mr. Jones, Mr. Jones, Mr. Jones
I took a green commie on
They all say that it's wrong
But I'm much too strong
To let him go now

I gotta be extra careful
That he won't give our secrets away
'Cause he won't postpone revolution
But me, I need till May

Me and Mr.--Mr. Jones, Mr. Jones, Mr. Jones, Mr. Jones
They want my green commie gone
They all say that it's wrong
Well, it won't be long
I'll let him go now

Well, it's time for me to relieve him
It hurts so much to pull the bus outside
Now I'll throw him under, and he'll resign
But tomorrow we'll tweet, the same plans, the same time

Me and Mr.--Mr. Jones, Mr. Jones, Mr. Jones, Mr. Jones
I took a green commie on
I gotta be extra careful
I can't afford to give our secrets away

I wanna meet and talk with Van
With the same plans, the same old Che, the same time
And we're gonna raise fists like we used to
We're gonna talk it over, talk it over

We know, they know, and you know and I know that it was wrong
But I'm hangin' strong
I gotta let 'em know now
That I kept a green commie on, a green commie on . . .

[hocndoc]

How to “smear” a liberal: show a video of them speaking.