The toxicity of truth: Van Jones is example of the WH failing against the rage of the paranoid right

The London Guardian ^ | September 8, 2009 | Dan Kennedy

[2ndDivisionVet]

Fellow liberals, let's be honest with ourselves. For weeks, the race-baiting right-winger Glenn Beck and his ilk had been gunning for Van Jones, a highly respected White House adviser on green jobs whose former organization, Colour of Change, is a leading force behind an advertiser boycott of Beck's programme on the Fox News channel.

Beck and company not only won, they won cleanly: they discovered that, in 2004, Jones had signed a petition calling for a probe into whether the Bush administration might have had something to do with the terrorist attacks of 11 September, 2001. The petition called "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."

Jones had to go, and he did. Barack Obama's shoeprint is still visible on his backside. It was the birthers versus the truthers, and the birthers not only prevailed, they were right.

It sucks, doesn't it?

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I'm sorry that Glenn Beck is having his moment of triumph, but it can't be helped. The larger issue is that the right is trying every day to bring down the Obama presidency by any means necessary – through lies, through racially-tinged rhetoric and through sheer nutty rants.

More than anything, Obama and his political advisers have to make sure that none of those attacks turn out to be true. This time, they failed. They won't be able to afford many more such failures.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Hahahaha!

[Dallas59]

They try really hard don’t they?

[Lyantana]

Talk about delirious with denial!

[ripley]

Will the electorate see the truth?

(Probably not.)

IMHO

[Hardastarboard]

the right is trying every day to bring down the Obama presidency by any means necessary – through lies, through racially-tinged rhetoric and through sheer nutty rants.

The Left, of course, never engaged in anything so despicable against W. They were completely honest, rational, and above board.

[ebshumidors]

“Van Jones, a highly respected White House adviser” Respected by whom?

[VeniVidiVici]

More than anything, Obama and his political advisers have to make sure that none of those attacks turn out to be true

LOL! You may as well concede already, Danny boy. The truth shall set you free!

[DGHoodini]

“You know the Left..They’re all just a bunch of whiny little bitches.”

[subterfuge]

YES!!! The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy Machine, once again trouncing the left as it has so consistently and meticulously done for the last few years! (barf!)

[maine-iac7]

Where’s Glenn Beck tonight???/

[ez]

More than anything, Obama and his political advisers have to make sure that none of those attacks turn out to be true.

Yes, the truth can be such a bitch when used in those "attacks." Since when is telling the truth an attack? Since Obama was elected.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Fellow liberals, let's be honest

Pfffftt. As If.

[TurtleUp]

The larger issue is that the right is trying every day to bring down the Obama presidency by any means necessary – through lies, through racially-tinged rhetoric and through sheer nutty rants.

I would not lower myself to the level of a liberal, nor would the vast majority of conservatives and real Americans. Fortunately, obama makes it easy to bring down his anti-American advisors - through the truth, logical and unbiased rhetoric, and through sheer rational discourse. obama has yet to nominate someone on his lunatic left fringe who wasn't easy to expose.

[hinckley buzzard]

Note my tagline.

[Jeff Head]

Actaully Van Jones is an example of what ails the entire Obama administrtion, from front to back, from bottom to top, and inside out.

Van Jones = Frank Davis = Bill Ayers = Bernardine Dohrn = Jeremiah Wright = Tony Rezko = Rashid Khalidi = Valerie Jarrett’s = Raila Ordinga = Carol Browner = Rahm Emanuel = Henry Gates = John Holdren = Rosa Brooks = Eric Holder = Ezekiel Emanuel = BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

That is OBama's problem, Van Jones (like so many others) tells us who Obama is.

OBAMA IS AN ABJECT MARXIST IDEOLOGUE

AMERICA AT THE CROSSROADS OF HISTORY

A PETITION ON FACEBOOK FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RESTORATION

ANTI-OBAMA POSTERS - FREE HIGH RES DOWNLOADS

[Jim Noble]

More than anything, Obama and his political advisers have to make sure that none of those attacks turn out to be true

If only Stalin knew!

[ETL]

Van Jones became a revolutionary communist following the 1992 L.A./Rodney King Riots (58 dead)
various sources

Posted on Sunday, September 06, 2009 10:19:07 AM by ETL

"Jones was arrested during the L.A. riots and spent a short time in jail. "I met all these young radical people of color," he recalls, 'I mean really radical: communists and anarchists. And it was, like, "This is what I need to be a part of." I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary.'..."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2333342/posts
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From David Horowitz's FrontpageMag.com /DiscoverTheNetworks.org:

"Throughout its history, one of RCP's [Revolutionary Communist Party] principal objectives has been to foment civil unrest in the United States. The most notable example of such efforts occurred on April 29, 1992, when RCP members looted and trashed the downtown and government districts of Los Angeles, triggering the infamous Rodney King riots. During the days immediately preceding the violence, RCP -- which maintained close ties to the L.A. gangs known as the Crips and the Bloods -- had circulated throughout South Central Los Angeles a leaflet featuring a statement by RCP National Spokesman Carl Dix, titled 'It's Right To Rebel' -- a quote popularized by Mao Zedong.

Encouraged by Dix, RCP activists helped lead the riots that would leave 58 people dead, more than 2,300 people injured, some 5,300 buildings burned, and $1 billion in property damaged or destroyed. On the ten-year anniversary of the rioting, RCP member Joseph Veale fondly recalled the violence as 'the most beautiful, the most heroic civil action in the history of the United States.'"
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6197

[meyer]

Wherefore art thou ‘barf alert’?

[A message]

In the utterly devoid of reality world of “progressives” truth is toxic.

Shame, shame on Glenn Beck for actually showing Van Jones in his own words.

[Little Pig]

I’m reminded of the section of the graphic novel “Transmetropolitan”, where the protagonist, a far-future journalist who actually does journalism, starts on a crusade to take down a crooked (and in the novel, literally insane) President. He warns the candidate’s Chief of Staff that he will be doing investigative journalism, and then comments that in that time, most people assume that “investigative journalism” constitutes actually reading the press releases of the administration, instead of real fact-finding, so no one ever bothers to hide things anymore (no one bothers to really look). He then is able to discover all kinds of damaging publicly available information simply by searching. The left is doing the same thing today, thinking no one will ever find out how bad their people are, because they assume the rest of will never bother to look (after all, it’s the past; who cares about that?).