Posted on 09/10/2009 9:34:52 AM PDT by Rufus2007
If your rely only news sources were the three major broadcast networks, or one of the top major national papers, the name "Van Jones" might prompt you to say, "Who?" But, while the media had difficulty reporting on Van Jones the embattled member of the Obama Administration, it had no such trouble covering Van Jones the anti-Iraq War protestor.
Jones, who was President Barack Obama's so-called "green jobs czar" resigned in the middle of the night on Sept. 6 - a Saturday night/Sunday morning on Labor Day weekend. He had for weeks been embroiled in controversy after revelations that he had signed a petition demanding an investigation into whether the 9/11 terrorist attacks were an inside job by the U.S. government, was a self-described communist and had publicly derided Republicans as "a**holes." But the story had gotten little coverage from the mainstream media.
However, take a look at this video (1:25 in). Jones shows up in a CBS March 23, 2003 "The Early Show" segment touting the efforts to protest the 2003 invasion into Iraq by shutting down the city of San Francisco.
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So they can find foul-mouthed racist Communists when it serves their purposes but can’t when it doesn’t? Nah, there’s no media bias!
“News” becomes a relative term in 2008-09.
Van Jones is a black nationalist, self-proclaimed Communist and the media loves him.
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