Posted on 09/07/2009 3:38:48 PM PDT by kcvl
Even when an Obama aide is forced to resign after it's revealed he's so radical he signed his name to 9/11 conspiracy theories and belonged to Marxist revolutionary groups, The Washington Post is still buttering him up as a "legendary" and "towering" figure of the environmental movement.
This leaves the question: how radical then, is the environmental movement? (And yet, notice that's the Post's indirect way of suggesting someone's a left-wing warrior.) On page 3 of Saturday's newspaper, reporters Garance Franke-Ruta and Anne Kornblut used the L word, legendary:
Jones, a legendary figure in the environmental movement, has worked for the White House Council on Environmental Quality, as special adviser for green jobs, since March.
It shifted to "towering" after Jones resigned. From the overnight story by Garance and Anne:
Jones, a towering figure in the environmental movement, had worked for the White House Council on Environmental Quality since March.
In today's afternoon dispatch by Garance and Scott Wilson, the "towering" remained, even as the radical views and alliances are explained:
Jones, a towering figure in the environmental movement, had issued two public apologies in recent days. One was for signing a petition in 2004 from the group 911Truth.org that questioned whether Bush administration officials "may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war," and the other for using a crude term to describe Republicans in a speech he gave before joining the administration.
His previous involvement with the now-defunct Bay Area radical group Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM), which had Marxist roots, also emerged as an issue.
It makes you wonder how offensive Van Jones would have to be for his reputation to come back to the environmentalists' precious Earth.
It’s Mini Van now.
How do all these city people become experts on the natural world?
May 12, 2009
Van Jones has been on a crusade to, in his words, “green the ghetto” by killing two birds with one stone: reducing poverty and saving the environment.
Recently appointed as President Obama’s special adviser for green jobs, enterprise and innovation, Jones now has an opportunity to implement his vision.
“I’ve been accused of being the green jobs czar — I consider myself to be the green jobs handyman,” Jones tells NPR’s Renee Montagne. “We’ve got about $40 billion in the recovery package that is targeted toward renewable energy, green-job training, energy efficiency, and part of my job is to help to coordinate getting all that money out into the economy, making jobs for people.”
Jones, who is author of The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems, describes green jobs as “a blue-collar job that’s been upgraded or up-skilled to better respect the environment.”
“So you think about an electrician who now knows how to deal with solar panels or a plumber who can deal with solar hot water,” he explains. “You want to think about jobs that are good for an individual’s wealth — in other words they pay well, but they’re also good for the community and the planet’s health.”
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103456763
It also helps in the conversation about what green means to include “green for your pocket” in the discussion, he says.
“When you think about green, you often think about people who have a lot of money and who can afford a certain lifestyle,” Jones says. “But really what the green economy represents is a massive opportunity for new work, new wealth and better health for all Americans.”
In response to criticism that many of the Obama administration’s proposed shovel-ready projects could hurt the environment, Jones says the efforts are focused primarily on jobs that make our buildings more efficient.
“We have millions of buildings across the country that are wasting energy,” he says.
WTF? The guy is a watermelon. Green on the outside, Red in the middle (is that racist?)
So much of this “green” economy is just a scam, as far as I’m concerned. You can bet pockets are being lined whenever you see a large “green” project. I have no problem with being good stewards of our environment, that’s common sense, but people like Jones saw an opening to make a quick buck hawking his eco ideas. I don’t believe for a minute that he is worried about the environment as much as his pocketbook.
>>>>> “We’ve got about $40 billion .... part of my job is to help to coordinate getting all that money out into the economy” <<<<<<
Just reiterating that the 95 percent unspent “stimulus fund” was predicated on a lie, and was always intended to be unaccountable “walkin’ around money” for Zer0 and the Rats.
I never heard of this “legendary”, “towering” scumbag until two weeks ago.
It doesn’t take much to be “legendary” and “towering” in this country nowadays. It does help though if you’re a power-seeking, money-hungry, commie moron though.
Has anyone thought about how dumb “Green Jobs Czar” sounds? Does Zero have a Purple Hair Czar, to help people whose kids have gone punk suddenly, or a Black Toe Czar, for people who dropped a skillet on their foot?
It is interesting to note that many years ago Robert Novak was given copies of notes found in the briefcase of former Chilean ambassador Letelier who had just been assassinated in Washington D.C. Despite a mountain of evidence proving that Letelier was a Soviet spy, the Washington Post would not publish the Evans and Novak article on the subject. Letelier was, after all, such a nice guy and Novak was a bastard. It rather reminds me of the present brouhaha with Beck.
Legendary?
Like Wiley E. Coyote?
How about Elmer Fudd?
The Naked Guitar Guy in Manhattan?
Sitting Bull?
Ghandi? Charley Chaplin? The Three Stooges (now, that’s legendary)?
Naw. Only in the feeble minds of broadcast journalists is Van Jones a legend.
The green movement is, across the world, a guise for a transformation from capitalism into socialism or communism. It has very little to do with true passion for the environment. It’s a big lie.
Chris Matthews, Dana Milbank, Anne Kornblut, Chris Cillizza
Kornblut was raised in McLean, Virginia, the daughter of Jane Kornblut and the late Arthur T. Kornblut, a lawyer with a practice in Washington, D.C. Her sister Emily is a human rights educator.
Garance Franke-Ruta (born 1972 in Cavaillon, Provence, France) is a national web politics editor/producer for the Washington Post. She was previously a senior editor at the American Prospect
And I assume that this green jobs movement is going to put to work the thousands of economically challenged who dropped out of high school and are unemployable. We’re going to train these people in sophisticated new green technology and get them off the streets and put them in the engineering departments of all the major buildings in the United States. Sounds like a winner.
I think that if I considered myself a part of the environmental movement, this story would convince me to quit....
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That is it. It does not matter that most people other than those who religiously follow the environmental movement, convinced of the pablum it espouses, have never heard of this guy.
I am quite certain they (the two women from the WaPo quoted above) are being serious about this guy being a legend. I am sure he will be mobbed at cocktail parties in Manhattan and Malibu.
He was red on the inside and the outside. Nothing green about that guy.
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