Posted on 09/05/2009 9:09:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Van Jones is President Obama's green-jobs "czar," and a highly respected figure in his field. He recently invited the unflinching scrutiny of Glenn Beck when the group he co-founded, Color of Change, began pressuring advertisers to drop their support of Beck's Fox News show. In retaliation, Beck's supporters unearthed an old video a few days ago in which Jones refers to Republicans as "@$$holes." Yawn, right? What else you got? Well, plenty! It turns out this Van Jones character was either not vetted at all, or vetted but seemingly without any concern for the skeletons that turned up (which really defeats the purpose of vetting in the first place). In 2005 Jones told a newspaper that after the 1992 Rodney King trial, he became "a Communist." In 1994, he helped found an activist group called Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM. Since a sizable faction of Americans already believe that Obama wants to turn the country into the new Soviet Union, you might expect these revelations to raise a red flag. But perhaps those were simply the actions of a younger man, one who would eventually mature into someone more palatable to the American mainstream?
Actually, no. The most damaging disclosure about Jones is that he might just believe 9/11 was an inside job. The Washington Times discovered that in 2004, Jones attached his name to a petition that "calls for immediate public attention to unanswered questions that suggest that people within the current administration may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war." (Some other notable signatories include Ed Asner, Daniel Ellsberg, Janeane Garofalo, Richie Havens, Cynthia McKinney, Ralph Nader, and Howard Zinn.) "I do not agree with this statement and it certainly does not reflect my views now or ever," Jones now claims, and an administration officials says Jones "did not carefully review the language in the petition before agreeing to add his name." Which is never a good idea, for anyone! Hopefully he learned a valuable lesson here. And maybe the Obama administration did as well. Perhaps next time they'll go the extra mile and Google the names of their new hires.
Judge Obama by his actions and not his words.
But then, hey who doesn't? I mean, if you're a dyed in the wool Obamist. That whole Mumia thing is just icing on the cake.
Maybe Van Jones just slept through all those meetings, sort of like Obama apparently slept through all of Rev. Wright’s sermons — for 20 years.
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I don’t know the timeline on this, but wasn’t it Glenn Beck that first highlighted Van Jones, the communist, and then Color of Change attacked Beck?
Silly boy. Of course they knew about him. Obama, Jarrett & Co. overrode the FBI/Secret Service report. They thought no one would find out or publicize the dude's background. Obama himself has gotten away with so much, after all.
Maybe the FBI/CIA turned Beck onto some “stuff”. Ya know payback for the torture investigations.
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Jones highly respected by whom? By other obamunists maybe.
“Maybe the FBI/CIA turned Beck onto some “stuff”. Ya know payback for the torture investigations.”
Ask Dubya what happens when your security depts (NSA, CIA, etc) get p*ssed off. All sorts of stories end up in the NYTimes, or perhaps now, on Fox.
Why oh why did the Atty General pick this fight? I assume that means that Obama okay’d this fight, which then raises the issue, “Why oh why did Obama pick this fight?”
The whole administration are a bunch of amateurs...and what’d he think Americans would do....nothing???....Thank You, Glenn Beck....
........so to speak. (chuckle)
........so to speak. (chuckle)
I watched that tv special last night about the truthers vs the facts. No matter how much proof was presented to the truthers (their conspiracy theories fell apart under tests), they refused to relent. These people desperately want to believe.
Jones’ claim that he didn’t read the petition carefully before signing becomes a moot point with the further revelation that two years before that petition, in 2002, he was on the organizing committee for a 9/11 Truther event.
I first saw reference to this last fact on the ABC News web site.
I agree that the comments to the article are worth reading. No one is coming to Van Jones’ defense.
It seems that being “respected” in this “field” is earned by promoting more and more boondoggles that the market will not support and that interfere with the market and distract us from drilling for and producing oil here and now and advancing oil technology in its use, its refining and its prodcution. We believe its because the “field” is a field of boondoggles and little else. Why prodcue an actual crop when you can grow weeds and pay people for doing it and call them “respected?”
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