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

[wiggen]

really. perhaps the author never read a disparaging word about van in the NYT so simply decided it must be so!

[Carl LaFong]

Ah, the Guardian-who thinks Leon Trotsky was a right -winger.

[wac3rd]

Video is not good enough for the Commies, nor are facts. Only feelings count and as long as ODummy and the Marxist idiots are in power, there is no peace.

[timetostand]

“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”

Lies?? show me the lies! The racist sits in the oval office!

[bamahead]

[Nahanni]

What did you expect out of a paper owned by Communists?

[Flag_This]

[Chode]

he's got more than a little in common with this guy...

[ElayneJ]

Sounds like this writer actually believes obama’s rhetoric. I’m guessing he’ll see the light before too long.

[marron]

They have this trick where they deny and admit in the same sentence, at the same time. We keep making these nutty charges that turn out to be true.

Nothing Beck has done has been “racially tinged.” But he’s been called a racist by everyone who disagrees with him. These days its Standard Operating Procedure. Jones is a self-admitted communist. Beck’s a racist for noticing.

[calex59]

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

By communists of course, and since the guardian is a communist paper they respect him also. Telling the truth about some one is now a "smear" tactic, a "nutty" rant by "right wing wackos".Amazing how that works.

[RobinOfKingston]

I'm not paranoid ... the s.o.b. IS out to get me.

[Domandred]

WND's wild charges against Jones ("an admitted radical communist and black nationalist leader") soon made their way onto Beck's show.

Wild charges? FROM VAN JONES' OWN MOUTH! Even quoted in a liberal Berkeley news article praising him!

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/gyrobase/the_new_face_of_environmentalism/Content?oid=290098&showFullText=true

Amazing the article hasn't been scrubbed yet, it's been two weeks since Glenn read much of it on air.

Really hard to say it's a lie when their own side printed it back in 2005.

[Mr. Silverback]

“Finley’s the name...Chuck Finley.”

[Publius6961]

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...

The toxicity of truth?
I stopped reading right there.

Race-baiting right winger?
Hellloooo?

I guess this limey hasn't bothered to view the dozens of race-baiting hate-filled diatribes by the "highly-respected" thug, Jones.

These people really do live in an alternate universe!

[Publius6961]

...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.'"

Awwww C'mon!

A little Anarchistic, Communist arson, mayhem and murder never hurt anybody!

Where's your Christian tolerance?

< /sarc >

[PapaBear3625]

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?).

It's more like the Left assumes they utterly control what people get to see and read. To a large extent, they are correct. They've been in control of the MSM, and conservative media has been marginalized, for so long that it hasn't fully registered that enough people are getting their news from Fox and the Net that their news embargoes are no longer as effective as they used to be.

[ApplegateRanch]

Respected by whom?

Barack, Valerie, Al, Jesse, Louis, OJ, Mumia...

[screaming eagle2]

This is what you get when things aren’t checked out properly