Posted on 09/07/2009 11:08:10 AM PDT by wingsof liberty
Now that White House "Green Jobs Czar" Van Jones has resigned, what's next?
Inevitably, the American mainstream media - ABC, NBC, CBS, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, et al - must be held to account for sitting on the sidelines as this major story kept building without them, went viral on YouTube, and then became so large that a key appointee of President Obama was forced to step down.
But with their decision to ignore the Jones story, they may have actually done Mr. Obama far more harm than good: Who vetted this guy? How did he get past the FBI? What did he say, and how did he answer the infamous seven-page questionnaire that all Obama appointees were required to fill out? Inquiring Freedom of Information Act minds want to know.
For most people in this country, the resignation was the first they had heard of Van Jones. For this sin of journalistic omission, there's institutional media blame. Bias is too tame a word for the utter shamelessness on display: Only Republican scandals - real and imagined - matter.
And it's not just those the Democratic-Media Complex dub as "mobs" or "tea baggers" that are taking notice. Diminishing audience and evaporating subscribership reflect widespread consumer dissatisfaction. Eventually, the money will run out.
But until then, the growing alternative media of Internet and talk radio and a burgeoning mass of justifiably angry Americans will make every effort to expose the sham that is mainstream journalism.
Obviously, it's not that the Jones story wasn't newsworthy. His racist rants, his radical background and his membership in a 9/11 "truther" group made for heavy-rotation YouTube viewing that would have immediately destroyed other mere mortals if the shoe were on the right - or white - foot.
Compounding the problem, the Jones narrative hurts Mr. Obama because it underlines how the mainstream media helped elect the president by glorifying him instead of vetting him.
Just as Mr. Obama was not even cursorily investigated, Van Jones, a fellow "community organizer," was not given the slightest media attention when named as an unaccountable "czar" selected to oversee billions in taxpayer money for the ambiguous purpose of "green energy." And that despite having a body of damning evidence that could be found with a single Google search by an ADHD-addled high-school journalism student.
Instead, talk-radio host Glenn Beck and Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit, as well as Breitbart.tv editors Scott Baker and Liz Stephans, led the charge forcing the mainstream media's hand while the usually reliable George Soros-funded "netroots" media defense mechanism couldn't fend off the growing body of charges.
Calling Mr. Jones' critics "racist" was their best play, and that gruel gets thinner with every passing scandal cycle. In this case, the Jones "Swift Boat" already had left the harbor.
Much of America has started to realize that not only was Mr. Obama not vetted before he became president, he and his fellow unvetted cohorts continue to be given a pass by the Fourth Estate.
Two more stories demonstrate how the Democrat-Media Complex, the natural alliance of the Democratic Party and the mainstream media, is more concerned with trying to figure out how to destroy Glenn Beck - "he's nuts!" - than to follow his methodical, accurate reporting. This dynamic - used against all potent critics and off-the-reservation journalists - shows that not only is the media ignoring all the negative things coming out about the Obama administration, it is acting like President Richard Nixon's henchmen, making life difficult for its whistleblowers.
One of the stories is that ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, a massive radical organization, is poised to receive billions from the Obama "stimulus."
ACORN's voting division is currently under investigation in multiple states for fraud. And its housing division exists to fulfill an unclear mandate that has been accused of using funds to pay for political protests. If the alternative media digs further and finds out ACORN is guilty as charged, and as corrupt as its ample critics say it is, the onus is those who didn't question when the Obama team decided to allocate billions to expand the group's reach.
Brian Williams, the ball is in your court.
Another story not making the evening news is that of artist Patrick Courrielche, who has shown that the National Endowment of the Arts is seeking to use government funds to promote Obama administration initiatives. On Sunday's "This Week," George Will pierced the mainstream media veil.
"Recently there was a conference call arranged by the National Endowment for the Arts, with a representative of the White House, for potential grantees or actual grantees of the federal government, getting subsidies - the theme of it was how the arts community could advance the president's agenda. Now I don't know how many laws that breaks, but I am sure there are some."
What are you waiting for, Katie Couric?
If the mainstream media continues down the path of covering up the sins of the Democratic Party and the Obama administration, in particular, while it continues to exert its still powerful weapons to destroy those who would dare do their jobs for them, then eventually, perhaps in the near future, those "mobs" that have befuddled the Democratic Party at health care town halls and at tea parties will take their pitchforks to media row.
When the next big scandal hits - and it will, and it most certainly won't come from traditional journalism - all eyes will be on "Pinch" Sulzberger to see if he does his job.
All eyes are on the media. We are judging them by the standard they taught us during Watergate: "The cover-up is worse than the crime."
I’ve been waiting since last night for someone to post this. Breitbart posted tons of videos on Jones.
He is funny too.
If it would make her sick that would be fine, but she probably would just smile and laugh and tell herself what a great person she is.
Both of the women in her audience still swear by her.
Katie by the Door. Buh BYE!
I’m sure Diane Sawyer will be much better at exposing stories like this when she takes over Gibson’s chair. </sarc>
Every time we pretend Obams’s appointments are incompetent we let him off the hook. He didn’t choose Van Jones because he wasn’t aware of his radicalism. He chose him FOR his radicalism. He believes he can get away with anything. And why shouldn’t he? For this miserable piece of despicable humanity to have been elected in the United States of America is such a perversion of what should be....well it still sickens me to think about it.
On another note. I kinda like this Breitbart guy but I gotta say that his suggestion in the heading is pretty cruel.
“BREITBART: Couric should look in mirror”
If she does, she’ll see where they should put the tube for her next colonoscopy.
Excuse me! There is no bottom beneath which the punk will not pull out and employ human debris to further his ends. No matter what he knows about them, it will be "I want him anyway."
Yeah I agree, who will hold them to account, themselves? No, they are not going to shoot themselves in the foot. What will be the story line on Jones, probably that he was hounded out of his job by a vicious confederacy of right wing zealots like Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity and Levine.
The Democratic news media showed no interest in Jones background before he resigned, and they’re showing no interest in it now. We probably can’t get them to drop their bias, but at least we can stop calling them journalists, and stop expecting real news out of them.
"Pinch" is too busy playing Camelot with Princess Caroline.
Last night The Times (UK) had a front page story on Van Jones resignation with all the usual WH/MSM spin.
There was comment at the bottom from an Oakland resident who said he would welcome Jones to run for mayor of that city.
I posted a reply that was not published, to wit: The 9-11 blame on the Bush Administration was hardly the only reason for the resignation. Jones is a self avowed Communist. There were published multiple YouTube videos and statements/articles in Jones own words showing his socialist, rsacist and Black Liberation Theology beliefs.
The Times article was pulled and can be found nowhere in its archives.
I did not capture the screen.
However, I would appreciate anyone going to The Times website and finding any mention of Van Jones resignation.
yitbos
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