Van Jones, Valerie Jarrett, Barack Obama & do-it-yourself vetting Updated
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Indefatigable blogger Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit dug up the 9/11 Truther record of Green Jobs czar Van Jones — and his research spread across talk radio, the Internet, and to the Glenn Beck show tonight. (Update: Hoft reports that Jones’s Truther proclivities were showing back in 2002).
A slew of bloggers, independent citizen journalists, and conservative activists have done the heavy lifting in exposing Jones’s inflammatory statements and radical ties over the last year — work that only conservative talk radio and Fox News have covered with due diligence. NakedEmperorNews/The BCast earlier today unearthed video of Jones ranting about Marxist “revolution” away from “gray capitalism”– also disseminated across Twitter, talk radio, and Fox News. The open-source “Army of Davids,” as blog pioneer Glenn Reynolds so aptly described it, is doing the job Obama didn’t want Congress to do.
Tonight, the White House is in full denial mode. ABC News reports:
A top environmental official of the Obama administration issued a statement Thursday apologizing for past incendiary statement and denying that he ever agreed with a 2004 petition on which his name appears, a petition calling for congressional hearings and an investigation by the New York Attorney General into “evidence that suggests high-level government officials may have deliberately allowed the September 11th attacks to occur.”
Van Jones, the Special Advisor for Green Jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, is Number 46 of the petitioners from the so-called “Truther” movement which suggests that people in the administration of President George W. Bush “may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war.”
In a statement issued Thursday evening Jones said of “the petition that was circulated today, I do not agree with this statement and it certainly does not reflect my views now or ever.”
He did not explain how his name came to be on the petition.
Maybe a unicorn, Van’s favorite mythical creature, put it there?
Allahpundit writes, “Note well: He doesn’t deny that he signed it. He denies that he agrees with it. Which means, I guess, that he’s asking us to create a new standard for public officials by which documents that bear their signature should no longer be used against them.”
And the Washington Times reports that the Truthers assert that no one’s name was put on their conspiratorial petition without his/her permission.
Here is the key — and it is highlights a leitmotif that runs through my czar, cabinet, and nominee withdrawal chapters of Culture of Corruption: Obama czardom is the deliberate end-run around transparency. Van Jones did not just accidentally slip through the cracks of the Obama vetters. They knew what he espoused before they installed him.
Take it from Obama’s own political godmother Michelle and Barack’s consigliere and Chicago powerbroker Valerie Jarrett took full credit at the nuttroots dKos blogger conference last month (August 15, 2009) for recruiting him and closely following his career:
JARRETT:. You guys know Van Jones? [Applause. Moderator injects: "This is his house apparently."]
JARRETT: Oooh. Van Jones, alright! So, Van Jones. We were so delighted to be able to recruit him into the White House. We were watching him, uh, really, he’s not that old, for as long as he’s been active out in Oakland. And all the creative ideas he has. And so now, we have captured that. And we have all that energy in the White House.
Jarrett, as I pointed out on Sean Hannity’s radio show five weeks ago, is the self-proclaimed keeper of Obama’s urban/racial “authenticity.” The Obamas don’t make a move without her, according to their closest friends and allies. Jarrett’s praise for Jones’s Oakland activism is explicit endorsement of his race-baiting career at Ella Baker, funded by the Soros-supported Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights/Ford Foundation/Rockefeller Foundation, and his Free Mumia agitation in the Bay Area schools — where he lambasted moderate civil rights leaders for objecting to politicizing the classrooms and where his pro-Mumia allies likened supporters of murdered police officer Daniel Faulkner to the KKK.
But as I noted five weeks ago, the elites in the MSM are too busy penning 8,100-word love letters to Valerie Jarrett and her fashion sense to question her judgement, her crony deals, and power grabs in her role as the “eyes and ears” for the Obamas.
It’s the same blind and deaf media treatment they are giving Michelle Obama, John Holdren, David Axelrod, Carol Browner, Nancy DeParle, Adolfo Carrion, and on and on and on.
Nature, thankfully, abhors a vacuum. And so does the information-hungry public.
The Obama vetters have succeeded in short-circuiting congressional scrutiny and Washington oversight of unaccountable appointees over the last six months. No more. Quis custodes ipsos custodiet? Who is watching the watchdogs? John Q. Public. Do-it-yourself vetting is as easy as a Google search.
A quick rummaging will show you, for example, that Jones’s immediate boss at the Council on Enviromental Quality, Nancy Sutley, was a special assistant to document-destroying Clintonite Carol Browner — whom Mark Levin’s Landmark Legal Foundation nailed for deleting files in defiance of court orders. Browner’s EPA was held in contempt of court for the systematic file destruction. The socialist-tied bureaucrat is now Obama’s energy czar.
Throughout the Culture of Corruption book tour, I’ve repeated two simple mantras:
Knowledge is power.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
Spread it. It’s working.
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Update: White House spokesman Robert Gibbs tries to put out the fire. Jones is still working for the administration, but Gibbs says 9/11 Trutherism is not something the president agrees with. Try to square that circle.
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It would be more apropos to watch “The Man Who Would Be King” with Sean Connery and Michael Caine. It is a prescient Kipling story.
You are projecting, fool. Thanks for the look into the inner workings of your twisted mind – NOT. …and it’s “Sphere”, not “The Sphere” You must have gotten it confused with “The Idiot” as you are known around here.
This is getting good.
Flame war-esque.
You guys wanna be the next monster thread?
Oh…..how deep can we get. Watch a si-fi movie to explain the complexities of life.
Read the Bible, lgm. Your hero loses.
Van Jones…a lot like Gates the racist…I don’t wee why not.
On September 5th, 2009 at 6:18 pm, lgm said:
As Jet Jaguar said, you are projecting.
And to be precise, I didn’t say I hated you. I hate what you advocate, which is slavery to the collective, to the State.
As such you are an enemy to liberty.
On September 5th, 2009 at 9:24 pm, jangar said:
Yes, and “Sphere” was a terrible, execrable sci-fi movie at that.
On September 5th, 2009 at 2:26 pm, robhic said:
Black Panthers don’t change, either.
On September 5th, 2009 at 3:50 pm, lgm said:
Obama called his grandmother a “typical white person”.
OK, let’s roll with that, but see how it looks when you apply that “logic” to both his grandmother and his father…
Obama’s grandmother was a “typical white person” who cared for a young man who had been abandoned by his “typical black person” father – a male who had children by four different women and wasn’t a proper father to any of his children.
Correction:
Obama is a lying, pilfering, militant, egotistical, maniacle, stuffed-shirt, marxist, dirty rotten politician from Chicago.
And he’s a racist as well.
ITookTheRedPill said:
He played pro ball? Wow, I didn’t know that.
jangar,
There is a good reason why I put “logic” in quotes.
I judge people by the content of their character, not the color of their skin.
Don’t take the text you quoted as being truly representative of the way I think…it’s not. It was meant to take Obama’s racism and show what it looks like when turned around. That doesn’t mean I endorse racism.
I believe we are all one race anyway…
The Human Race.
I don’t care how much melanin someone has, or doesn’t have, in their skin.
I care about the content of their character.
On September 5th, 2009 at 2:26 pm, robhic said:
ITookTheRedPill said:
I follow, and agree. Just having a light-hearted moment.
Has anyone seen right4life? Did he get the boot?
jangar,
I last saw right4life on September 3rd, 2009 at 9:13 pm
Pill -
It’s amazing the bile that spills when the topic shifts to eternal issues. Always has been, always will.
AP and others reporting that Jones has resigned.
The wheels on the bus go …
Yep, AP has reported RACIST JONES has resigned. Good Riddance! Now on to the next lunatic corrupt Czars and Cabinet heads.
FCC Diversity Czar Mark Lloyd and his statments about government control of media in Venezuela put him high on my list.
Obama aide Van Jones resigns as environmental adviser amid controversy over past statements.
oh cool. just like blinky – the longer vj is a “czar” the more sloping for zero.
Here’s the story:
Obama ‘green jobs’ adviser quits amid controversy
Hows that buss feel Van?
Ok, it’s time to show the rest of the Communists the door.
Van Jones was the tip of the iceberg.
36 Czars are cleared to annoy
36 Czars cleared
If one of those Czars should happen to fall
35 Czars are cleared to annoy
Bye bye Mr. Jones
From the U.N. declares Castro a “World Hero of Solidarity” comments…
On September 5th, 2009 at 6:36 pm, Roland said:
Keep that anti-capitalist, freedom hating agenda of the Collectivist/Islamic Alliance in mind as you read the following:
Why were the World Trade Centers targeted? Could it be because they were the biggest symbols of capitalism in this country?
Someone needs to look very carefully into whether people like Van Jones and Bill Ayers played a role in the 9/11 attacks.
I rarely curse, but crap like this sure tempts me…
In my opinion, it appears that you are the liar and distorter, Van Jones!
If you intend to act like a victim who has been “swiftboated”, I remind you that being “swiftboated” means others told the truth about you.
The resignation, announced early Sunday…
“Early Sunday”?
WOW, that must have been some all-nighter!
So yet again they are forced to fold. But is all of this just some sort of diversionary tactic? Is one hand intentionally offering up people like Jones as red meat while the other hand gets a little closer to grip our necks?
Link to story
Now, IMPEACH Obama for… incompetence – appointing an enemy of the USA to a position of government authority.
I’ve been reading the comments at the left wing websites. The comments are mainly obscenity laden attacks on Glenn Beck and a general wailing and gnashing of teeth. LOL! What a great Saturday night. Wait it gets better….they are already speculating that Cass Sustein wil be the next target of conservative attention.
A great conservative comment I read elsewhere made me laugh big time. It equated going after Obama’s czars to a “Whack-a-mole” game. LOL!
OUT? Vanny out? That is terrible! Who is going to create all those Green Jobs for us, stop dumping all the green house gasses in the black neighborhoods and explain why black kid do not shoot up their schools the way white kids do?
Wheels on the bus go thump, thump thump?
Ol’ Vanny will be missed-he was a marvelous target.
I saw that.
Lies and distortions???? Smear campaign??
Every single word is on video!!!!!!
Yeah, I was counting on him to fuel the next monster thread.
Perfect green job. Heh
Now if His Royal Odopeyness would resign it would be a perfect day.
See or wee weed?
Van Jones just resigned. We won.
Who’s next? Keep up the good work.
He will be gone in the same way Tom Daschle is gone. Obama wants his continued involvement. There is a back door to this White House.
Stay vigiliant.
Finally!!!!
Someone in the Odopey Admin did something good.
DLTDHYOTWO
That was an honest mistake for not proofing…but it fits so well!
I am sorry I missed lgm’s racist rant yesterday. I wonder if the free black that owned slaves (approx 3800 in the 1830 census) were also racists?
Icebergs are white and melting because of the White Man’s Global Warming Green House Gasses. So not only are your a racccist but a Global Warming Denier racccist. Now in this recession isn’t it rather insensitive of you to hold two positions at once?
Share the Wealth RedPill, Share the Wealth. President Hussein Obama will have an after school special on Share the Wealth and do not be a Raccist and Global Warming Denier at the same time during this Terrible Recession.
Quitter, Quitter, Quitter…..Or was he fired. 1 down and 40 to go. I hope he finds a nice rock to hid under.
I read the AP articles and nowhere did it mention the “C” word…Communist. When with they ever get it right?
Oh, dumb question.
BTW, http://www.jbs.org/jbs-news-feed/2509-the-russian-bear-hasnt-changed-its-spots was an interesting read. Thanks….
I was thinking the same thing. What is the REAL agenda and who are the REAL players? Get as many Communists in “power” as possibe while circumventing the Constitution, manufacturing yet another crisis until there ARE riots in the streets and martial law has to be applied, etc.”
Stay vigilant? Absolutely.
Van Jones resigned as Green Jobs Czar – but still works for Admin?
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So they just change his title, and the commie gets to stay on. What kind of BS is that?