Posted on 09/04/2009 6:50:02 PM PDT by 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.
Hope ya took a shower.
Pure genius, Mr. H!
Jones is not a communist. I'm not even going to explain this.
Then, why did Jones spend two years in San Quentin?
Where he himself has said he became a Communist?
Kessler is either a fool or a liar.
What a shock. The fact he cannot refute (because Jones himself admitted it) he dismisses as too silly to refute. Classic Alinsky.
Mark
Kessler is either a fool or a liar.
The reason this brainiac won't explain this is because in order to do so would make Becks point.
It’s in the “hotness” for them. Liberals want to have omnipotency with retardedness... and they want government control of their sins, because they precisely are so afraid of each other with guns. Crazed little drugged up fascists and street corner drug pimps cons without faith who admit so much.
Daniel Kessler is a Senior Press Officer for Greenpeace
activists place themselves between the whaler's harpoons and their prey or invade nuclear facilities dressed as barrels of radioactive waste
The origins of Greenpeace lie in the peace movement and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament generally, and particularly in the Don't Make A Wave Committee co-founded by Jim Bohlen, Patrick Moore, Paul Coté, and Irving Stowe, followed by an assortment of Canadian and expatriate American peace activists in Vancouver in 1970.
Greenpeace has been variously criticized for being too radical, too alarmist and for using methods bordering on eco-terrorism, for having itself caused environmental damage in its activities, for taking positions which are not environmentally or economically sound, and for valuing non-human causes over human causes.
Early Greenpeace member Canadian Ecologist Patrick Moore left the organization in 1986 and argued that Greenpeace today is motivated by politics rather than science and that none of his "fellow directors had any formal science education"
Shouldn't PBS be “Fair and Balanced” since Taxpayers from all Political persuasions are footing the bills?
I haven't heard from the Reality Based Community for awhile, but this writing got Comedy Central all over it.
That's it Mr. Kessler, just plug your ears, cover your eyes, and say "nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah, I CAN'T HEAR YOU! NAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!"
Useful, useless idiot.
Must suck to be Kessler in the era of YouTube.
I must assume that anyone writing for something called "Treehugger" is an environmentalist. In my professional experience, environmentalists are either delusional, or they are liars - and neither condition provides a foundation for criticizing Glenn Beck...
Van Jones is like this one homo who tried to rape your neighbor at a drinking party. He is not a communist/rapist, but he still belongs to the same party and diet of rapists, he does not have to change/repent from his chosen “lifestyle” and “sexual preference”.
As one freeper mention regarding 1984, there are goodfacts and true facts. Liberals cannot admit anything. It’s a national humanborne disaster.
Funny!
Hey Van-Jones-idiot, what part of those videos of you proving that you have the IQ of a tomato was faked?
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