Posted on 09/07/2009 8:52:40 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
There is a charge floating around out there that President Barack Obama knew in advance about the radical background of Van Jones before appointing him as his "green jobs czar." So where is this charge coming from? Glenn Beck? Nope. Fox News? Nope. This revelatory charge was made on the pages of the liberal San Francisco Chronicle in an article on the Jones resignation written by Joe Garofoli:
The middle-of-the-night resignation Sunday of longtime Bay Area activist Van Jones as a White House environmental adviser left many progressives angry at the Obama administration for buckling to conservative criticism of Jones' controversial past comments and actions.
...Supporters say the administration surely knew his background when they appointed Jones, the first African American to write a best-selling environmental book, as special adviser for green jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality. In fact, agents interviewed at least one of his former supervisors in San Francisco - Eva Paterson - when the FBI vetted his appointment.
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FYI
"Swift-boated? Please. The man was YouTubed."
“left many progressives angry at the Obama administration for buckling to conservative criticism of Jones”
Libs get pissed when they get feedback that their views, or heroes, are whacko and politically unacceptable. It reminds them of the parental rejection they have all suffered.
All Mr. Jones has is a record of radical leftism --- there's nothing else that he could have been hired on. There's no record of any type of ordinary job, or any actual executive experience in running anything except his mouth.
Every thing that he has written or speechified over has been unadulterated leftism. There was absolutely nothing else in his record to judge him by.
Ditto!
Fox News reporting that the administration is now trying to say that Van Jones did not fill out the WH questionaire...???
WTH?
LIARS!! This article clearly states that someone from the FBI met with this ‘associate’ of Van Jones.
Exactly. The media will spin this as a problem with vetting, when the obvious truth is that it's a problem with our hard left, revolutionary, blatantly anti-American president.
The FBI guys responsible for vetting Obama's picks must be wondering if there is even a point to it. If they prevented the people who hate America from having White House access, Obama would barely have an administration.
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