The resignation (and coming MSM/left-wing martyrdom) of Van Jones; Obama “thanks him for his service”

By Michelle Malkin  •  September 6, 2009 08:47 AM

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Bay Area Marxist/Truther/Mumia-supporting race hustler-turned-environmental justice guru Van Jones has resigned from his post as Barack Obama’s green jobs czar.

In classic Team Obama style, Jones blames an orchestrated “campaign” of “lies and distortions to distract and divide.” Get ready for the coming media/left-wing martyrdom of Jones. Never mind his own apologies and weasel excuses for his radical views.

The mainstream media, which has ignored criticism and investigative analysis of Jones in the blogosphere/Internet since the spring (see, for example, here, here, here, here) repeats the lie that Fox News Channel’s Glenn Beck targeted Jones only after the czar’s organization, Color of Change, initiated a boycott against Beck at the beginning of August:

Fox News Channel host Glenn Beck repeatedly denounced Jones after a group the adviser co-founded, ColorofChange.org, led an advertising boycott against Beck’s show to protest his claim that Obama is a racist.

The Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz also disseminated that distortion. Newsbusters’ Noel Sheppard corrected the record last month for the clueless MSM. They persist in ignoring the truth:

Howard Kurtz on Sunday accused Fox News’s Glenn Beck of attacking White House “green czar” Van Jones in response to the advertiser boycott implemented by Color of Change, an advocacy group founded by Jones.

Such a conclusion seems to stem from all the time Beck spent on his program last week chronicling Jones’s activities as well as his background.

What Kurtz conveniently ignored in this installment of CNN’s “Reliable Sources” was that Beck did two reports on Jones prior to the start of Color of Change’s campaign to get companies to end their sponsorship of Beck.

Ironically, this came as Kurtz chided Beck for not sharing all the facts with his viewers…

…Well, here’s a little detail Kurtz neglected to mention: Beck discussed Van Jones’s radical background on July 23

Obama’s new green czar, Van Jones, this is a guy who is a self-avowed communist, and he is in the Obama administration. He says in his book that has been out now for about four months, “The Green Collar Economy,” subtitle: “How One Solution Can Fix Two Big Problems,” that the best way to fight global warming and urban poverty is by creating millions of green jobs.

This guy wasn’t a radical, and then was arrested. He spent six months in jail, came out a communist. Then he was a communist-anarchist radical. And then he decided — he found the eco-movement — and decided green is the new red. He then went on to become a green expert.

A percentage of these jobs, he says, should go to the disadvantaged and to the chronically unemployed. Well, why are they chronically unemployed? “The green economy should not just be about reclaiming thrown- away stuff. It should be about reclaiming thrown-away communities.”

And again on July 28:

BECK: All right. You know, what we’re uncovering here on this program is complex, and it is — it takes a lot of our day just to figure out how to explain it to you. And it’s complex by design. You know, it’s the vast left-wing conspiracy.

The Apollo Alliance combines environmental policy, the green movement, with labor and social justice. Why is that troubling? Maybe it’s the guy behind the curtain making it all happen. He’s a former black nationalist and self-professed communist.

Here is Phil Kerpen. He is the director of policy for Americans for Prosperity.

Phil, how are you, sir?

PHIL KERPEN, AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY: I’m good, Glenn. How are you?

BECK: Good. Tell me about — tell me a little bit about Apollo and these — I have ACORN and the Black Farmers and the Sierra Club and Greenpeace and AFL-CIO and SEIU. Why are these thee categories — how are they tied to Apollo?

KERPEN: Well, the Apollo Alliance is designed to bring together the elements of organized labor with the community organizers with the green groups, the environmental groups, and to access all of the big foundation money that’s been supportive of those causes in the past. So, it’s kind of — Van Jones, who you mentioned, the self-described communist who is now green jobs czar, he described the Apollo Alliance mission as sort of a grand unified field theory for progressive left causes that ties all these things together.

Instead of compensating for their willful failure to cover Jones’s radicalism by informing their readers about the full story, Obama water-carriers are helping the administration with its own campaign of distortion.

The story is not just about Beck or Fox or us racist conservatives martyring Van Jones.

The story is not just about Jones.

The story is about Adolfo Carrion, Carol Browner, Vivek Kundra, Nancy DeParle, John Holdren, Cass Sunstein, Mark Lloyd, Obama’s education comrades, and the culture of circumvention and corruption that plagues this White House.

The story is the czar explosion, purposeful undermining of congressional oversight, Valerie Jarrett’s promotion of a two-bit Jeremiah Wright in eco-guru’s clothing, and the public vetting of unaccountable Obama appointees that Washington won’t do.

They don’t get it. They’re in the tank. Behind the curve. And slouching towards irrelevance.

***

Gotta love the lead paragraph of the NYTimes’ story on Jones today:

In a victory for Republicans and the Obama administration’s conservative critics, Van Jones resigned as the White House’s environmental jobs “czar” on Saturday.

Republicans in Washington were bringing up the rear. This was no victory for them.

Let’s rewrite that sentence:

In a victory for public disclosure and transparency over the Obama administration’s secrecy and evasion, the White House’s environmental jobs “czar” resigned on Saturday.

The Times continues:

Appointed as a special adviser for “green jobs” by President Obama, Mr. Jones did not go through the traditional vetting process for administration officials who must be confirmed by the Senate. So it was not until recently that some of Mr. Jones’s past actions received broad airing, including his derogatory statements about Republicans in February and his signature on a 2004 letter suggesting that former President George W. Bush might have knowingly allowed the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to occur in order to use them as a “pre-text to war.”

And we should add an important fact to that paragraph, too:

Appointed as a special adviser for “green jobs” by President Obama, Mr. Jones did not go through the traditional vetting process for administration officials who must be confirmed by the Senate. The New York Times and other mainstream outlets did not want to touch the radical past and inflammatory statements of Mr. Jones reported on the Internet in the spring of 2009, when Mr. Jones’s appointment was first announced. So it was not until recently that some of Mr. Jones’s past actions received broad airing, including his derogatory statements about Republicans in February and his signature on a 2004 letter suggesting that former President George W. Bush might have knowingly allowed the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to occur in order to use them as a “pre-text to war.”

***

Update: Sen. Lamar Alexander on Fox News Sunday this morning: “He’s not the issue; the czars are the issue.”

The light bulb in the GOP establishment’s head is finally turning on!

Update: Via George Stephanopoulos, here is Robert Gibbs’s “first official response:”

GEORGE: Does the president believe that he is the victim of a smear campaign or does the president think that Jones actions and words merit resignation?

GIBBS: “Well what Van Jones decided was that the agenda of this president was bigger than any one individual. The president thanks Van Jones for his service in the first eight months helping to coordinate renewable energy jobs and lay the foundation for our future economic problem…The president accepted his resignation, but Van Jones as he said in his statement he was going to get in the way of the President.”

GEORGE: So the president doesn’t endorse in any way the things that Van Jones said before but the president doesn’t want him to go?

GIBBS: He doesn’t but he thanks him for his service.”

***

Update: Glenn Beck’s statement here.

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  1. #101
    On September 6th, 2009 at 12:51 pm, Roland said:

    congress needs to come down on them like swarm of African Bees.

    Democrat Congresscritters going after Obama czars? You have a rich imagination.

    Those guys would rather raise a beer to Van Jones than to Ronald Reagan. It’s not even close.

  2. #102
    On September 6th, 2009 at 12:53 pm, Wayfaring Stranger said:

    GEORGE: So the president doesn’t endorse in any way the things that Van Jones said before but the president doesn’t want him to go?

    GIBBS: He doesn’t but he thanks him for his service.”

    Just noticed two things: first, that Georgie-boy did his usual in trying to explain away another of Obama’s poor choices of supporting actors staff, and secondly, that Gibberer answered a two part, either/or question with one answer: He doesn’t… Doesn’t what? [Doesn’t] endorse in any way the things that Van Jones said before or doesn’t want him to go?

  3. #103
    On September 6th, 2009 at 12:54 pm, right_on said:

    Did the Obama Administration ever answer thos questions raised and asked by Glenn Beck?

    I’m sure they’ll get Robert Gibbs to smirk, ridicule the questions as “baseless” chatter, then attempt to belittle Mr. Beck and anyone who tunes him in…please, please, Bobby….do that…please! Show us with clarity, and in no uncertain terms, what the President of the United States (truly) thinks (if that’s possilbe) about the American voter.

  4. #104
    On September 6th, 2009 at 1:05 pm, Chief RZ said:

    Many comments on this I see.

    Here is another small victory. One I was personally involved with.

    No More Trump Cards!

  5. #105
    On September 6th, 2009 at 1:13 pm, moonshot said:

    On September 6th, 2009 at 12:39 pm, Mach1Duck said:

    Van Jones resigned…That may be, but, Mr. President, you are who you associate with.

    Yes, indeed.

    Cincinnati Tea Party Organizer: A Truther

    http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/34602_Cincinnati_Tea_Party_Organizer-_A_Truther

  6. #106
    On September 6th, 2009 at 1:15 pm, graysonret said:

    The first recipient of the new medal, “Hero of the USSA”.

  7. #107
    On September 6th, 2009 at 1:18 pm, dadinseattle said:

    Instead of compensating for their willful failure to cover Jones’s radicalism by informing their readers about the full story, Obama water-carriers are helping the administration with its own campaign of distortion.

    The media should be renamed from the general moniker of “the MSM” to the-
    L.I.E. Alliance
    (Let’s invent everything)
    Goals of the LIE Alliance-
    Like a game of capture the flag, but in reverse.
    The game is to hide the flag(truth)from people. An alternative truth flag “stand-in” (like a Saddam Hussein body double) shall be employed at all times.
    To prevent any possibility of discovery of the real flag location the alternate flag will be displayed boldly, or it shall be reported that anyone looking for the flag is nuts, or the “wounded killdeer” technique will be used. In all cases the flag shall remain unseen, and when actually discovered it shall be named as a false copy manufactured to deceive the people by the other side.

    Silliness of course, yet this is what we are left with for a media. They treat their role as watchdog of abusive governance as if it is a child’s game.

  8. #108
    On September 6th, 2009 at 1:23 pm, California Red said:

    The internet and Fox news rightfully discredited Van Jones and forced him out without one single word about Jones’ radicalism from NYT, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, AP, etc.

    Meanwhile, Obama’s HelathCare “plan” is tanking despite heroic efforts by the dead media to prop up the notion of socialized medicine.

    These two points show me how powerful “we” have become. I thank Michelle and Glenn and the rest of those speaking power to truth for showing us what is behind the curtain. We are winning despite having the media against us.

  9. #109
    On September 6th, 2009 at 1:25 pm, Ron said:

    This is a textbook example of why we cannot say the MSM is simply incompetent, but rather that its biases are fundamental and intentional. They know the facts, but refuse to report them. CNN completely obscured the radical left background of Jones in reporting the resignation and gave full credit to the “right-wing smear” allegation Jones threw at Fox and Glenn Beck. Remember, Beck came to Fox News from HNN, a subsidiary of CNN. They hate his guts. And why shouldn’t they? He’s been eating their lunch ever since his show started on Fox and started attracting huge numbers of viewers. I read about how people hate Glenn Beck, but I have not found anyone who can show me one example of where he was factually in error on any of these yahoos Obama has stuffed in his administration. This nonsense about quoting out of context is just so much weasel wording. Hey, since the advent of the small, portable video camera, its a lot harder to lie and get away with it. Just ask Hillary. Beck may be emotional, and he may at times be very pessimistic about the future, but I think many of us have shared those feelings in the past year. What more can I say in his favor? He supports the Second Amendment, actively.

  10. #110
    On September 6th, 2009 at 1:32 pm, bansharia said:

    having not read up thread:
    Do a jig celebrate today and let us all get back to work purging these antiAmericans come monday, hell why even give them the window to scrub the
    net. keep poking the commies ;)

  11. #111
    On September 6th, 2009 at 1:35 pm, Ron said:

    On September 6th, 2009 at 12:36 pm, vinny said:

    This Van Jones was sacrificed to make the trail less obvious, but his promoters are still in charge and this is where the story should focus.

    Very, very true. Just because he’s officially out of the White House doesn’t mean his influence will be less. He’s still part of the Apollo Project and other far-left groups that are writing Obama’s policies and giving him his ammunition. As Mark Levin noted this past week, focusing on Van Jones is really a distraction. What we really need to focus on is the top of the food chain, the head of the movement.

  12. #112
    On September 6th, 2009 at 1:51 pm, curiozities said:

    I wonder if the AP will publish a picture of Van Jones’ “career” as it was taking its last few breaths?

  13. #113
    On September 6th, 2009 at 1:52 pm, bansharia said:

    is charlie whiner moaning at lgf? po pituful tool on wrong side of yet another issue. hwat happeend charlie nobody did the work for you this time?

  14. #114
    On September 6th, 2009 at 1:54 pm, bansharia said:

    Valkerie Jar-rot has got to go she backed him to the hilt.

  15. #115
    On September 6th, 2009 at 2:05 pm, BrianNY said:

    So this guy, Van Jones, thinks that I’m an “a$$h*le” and that my former President is a “crackhead” who may have formulated the events on 9/11.

    What am I supposed to think of a man like Obama after he “thanks” a man like Jones for his “service?”

  16. #116
    On September 6th, 2009 at 2:06 pm, robhic said:

    Seems everything and everyone O touches is tainted in some way. And the majority are all Black.

    Maybe there is/was a good reason for not electing a Black man previously…

  17. #117
    On September 6th, 2009 at 2:21 pm, Regulus said:

    On hearing this wonderful news this morning, were she present I would have removed my hat with a flourish and bowed deeply to Michelle (or offered a “terrorist fist bump,” her pick). She wasn’t alone in exposing this hateful specimen, but she was one of the few who rose to the challenge of breaking through the donkey media’s wall of silence.

    All that is required for evil to flourish is for good men — and women — to do nothing, and to stay quiet. If we ever institute something like Japan’s practice of identifying “Living National Treasures,” I already know who I’d nominate first.

  18. #118
    On September 6th, 2009 at 2:31 pm, MacEamonn said:

    Many here keep talking about how bad it is that “The One” has surrounded himself with all these Marxist thug Czars and advisers as if these people were not there then everything would be rosy. “The One” surrounds himself with these Marxists because he is a Marxist. Any thoughts that Barrack H. Obama is really just a misguided moderate who would “do the right thing” if he only had the right advisers should have disappeared a long time ago.

  19. #119
    On September 6th, 2009 at 2:42 pm, oldcollegeguy1980 said:

    I see from a quick read at the daily kook that Olberman is trolling for dirt on Glenn Beck. Expect hit piece after hit piece coming soon.

    The obvious point this nit-wit olberman misses is that van jones and cass sunstein and the others beck has documented is that they are no longer just private citizens. They are holding public positions and have influence inside our government.

    Of course a zero like olberman would miss that, he is lock stock and barrel owned by and beholden to the looney left.

  20. #120
    On September 6th, 2009 at 2:48 pm, Danceswithdachshunds said:

    CBS news radio is laughable. They report about Van Jones resigning after a ‘growing controversy’, over ‘a tumultuous week’.

    There simply HAVE TO BE some loyal democrats out there who listen to CBS or other alphabet news, (except FOX), wondering… WHAT controversy? This has been going on for a whole WEEK and I’m just finding out about it after he already resigned?!

    Yep, hopefully more than a few will realize that it’s past time to turn the dial…

  21. #121
    On September 6th, 2009 at 2:49 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    There are Two Things Obama Won’t Do:

    1) Confess with his mouth, “Jesus Christ is Lord”.

    2) Confess with his mouth, “I disown Karl Marx and all of his teachings”.

  22. #122
    On September 6th, 2009 at 2:57 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    On September 6th, 2009 at 2:42 pm, oldcollegeguy1980 said:

    I see from a quick read at the daily kook that Olberman is trolling for dirt on Glenn Beck. Expect hit piece after hit piece coming soon.

    Van Jones was the “Rosetta Stone” of the Islamic/Communist alliance to “fundamentally transform” the USA into a Sharia/Socialist state.

    And remember that Obama said “57 states… and one left to go”.

    “57 states” of the OIC, and one left to go (the USA).

    The radical revolutionaries on the left have been exposed for who they are, and yes, we should expect “hit piece after hit piece coming soon”.

    The previously stealth war is now out in the open.

  23. #123
    On September 6th, 2009 at 3:03 pm, cicerokid said:

    How many czars? We need to print a deck of cards with the face of each criminal, just like we did for Iraq.

    Van Jones rated a jack of clubs.

  24. #124
    On September 6th, 2009 at 3:04 pm, jamesgreenidge said:

    On September 6th, 2009 at 1:35 pm, Ron said:

    On September 6th, 2009 at 12:36 pm, vinny said:

    …Very, very true. Just because he’s officially out of the White House doesn’t mean his influence will be less. He’s still part of the Apollo Project

    Oh? He’s an astronaut??

    Sorry, I had to hit on that one — but it underscores a bitter educational truth in the black community and black world views; Ask a black student about “Apollo” and they’ll think of the theater and entertainers long before the historical lunar missions or a sun god.

    As for Van Jones & Co., hey, buckle in folks! This circus is just the appetizer! La Bama’s 1st year isn’t even close to wrapping up yet! Hope all the single-issue political-purist stay-at-homes from last November feel all puffy vindicated now!

    James Greenidge
    Queens, NY

  25. #125
    On September 6th, 2009 at 3:05 pm, DesertLover said:

    We have to permanently put an end to czars or tsars, whichever spelling you prefer … the practice has become nothing more than a way to bypass the congressional vetting and approval process as required by the U. S. Constitution …

    That then needs to be followed by the implementation of Congressional term limits to begin putting an end to the influence peddling in DC …

    The U. S. Constitution calls for the election of “citizen” representation … not “career” politicians …

    We must take back Congress now …

  26. #126
    On September 6th, 2009 at 3:08 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    I love this Keith Olberman quote from Legal Insurrection regarding Obama caving to Dem moderates on the government option:

    “What good does it profit a man to win a bill and lose the base of his party?”

    Two words: John McCain who lost on similar efforts to pass bills Americans found obnoxious and lost the base of his party.

    I say, this will leave both wings of the United Establishment Party adrift in their shrinking sea of ignorance and arrogance.

  27. #127
    On September 6th, 2009 at 3:39 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    I have to mow my 5 acre yard once a week. Do I qualify as well?

    You are a Green Machine jangar .

  28. #128
    On September 6th, 2009 at 3:41 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    Van Jones rated a jack of clubs.

    Nicely done-hard to catch–very good!

  29. #129
    On September 6th, 2009 at 3:42 pm, WaterBoyz said:

    Dime to a donut that Van Jones will be involved/connected somehow somewhere within ear shot of Obama.
    Just because he is no longer a “Czar” that he is going away. He will be a paid consultant directly or indirectly.

    1 down 31 to go.

  30. #130
    On September 6th, 2009 at 3:51 pm, Wayfaring Stranger said:

    On September 6th, 2009 at 2:31 pm, MacEamonn said:

    Many here keep talking about how bad it is that “The One” has surrounded himself with all these Marxist thug Czars and advisers as if these people were not there then everything would be rosy…

    Mac, I can only speak for myself, though I think that quite a few here are of the same mind; I don’t think that Obama’s czars and advisers are the problem. But they are part of it.

    Of course you’re correct in pointing out that the Problem in chief is the One himself.

    But shining the unrelenting spotlight of the truth on those people with whom he chooses to surround himself is a good thing.

    Seeing them for who and what they are may help those who have, to this point, deluded themselves that Obama is worthy to be POTUS, finally recognize that he has already forsworn his oath to “…preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

  31. #131
    On September 6th, 2009 at 3:59 pm, jsmiddleton4 said:

    We need to watch for the rope=-a-dope. While we don’t agree with these folks politics, they are not stupid.

  32. #132
    On September 6th, 2009 at 4:09 pm, swede said:

    A little freudian slip from the Gibbster?

    The president thanks Van Jones for his service in the first eight months helping to coordinate renewable energy jobs and lay the foundation for our future economic problem

    So, as I read it, the “green job” racket lays the foundation for further decimating the economy. Is Gibbs finally stumbling toward the truth?

  33. #133
    On September 6th, 2009 at 4:17 pm, Tazed and Confused said:

    If Barack had an ounce of honor, he too would resign and step down.

    Barack’s attributes…
    • racist
    • incompetent
    • immaturity
    • prevaricator
    • supports infant genocide
    • opaque
    • divisive
    • immoral
    • coke head
    • godless
    • perversionist
    • anti-capitalist
    • hatred for anything that represents the values upon which this country stands upon

    … ooops… better stop here before I hijack this thread…

  34. #134
    On September 6th, 2009 at 4:27 pm, swede said:

    Tazed and Confused – Let’s be fair. He also has some positive attributes.

    Great abs and, umm…is a snappy dresser. (except when wearing mom jeans)

  35. #135
    On September 6th, 2009 at 4:42 pm, jbirish said:

    Reporting today is that Keith Olberman has called in his “workers” to dig up all they can on Glenn Beck & Stu. I’m sure the top loons from Huff Po and Kos will get right on that.
    Not so much fun being on the receiving side of their own tactics I guess.
    The difference being, we “research” before we take it public.

  36. #136
    On September 6th, 2009 at 4:43 pm, Danceswithdachshunds said:

    Well I’m not satisfied with just some Obama-like czar resigning – I want the REAL THING!

    Obama should resign, (Biden can’t be worse can he?)

  37. #137
    On September 6th, 2009 at 4:45 pm, jbirish said:

    I think all those who voted for Obama should have a website, where they could leave a note for the rest of us, apologizing for their part in putting America in this place.
    God help us, this will be an intense battle back to ethics and morals, and away from Marxism.

  38. #138
    On September 6th, 2009 at 4:54 pm, USMCgramma said:

    What good news! A hole in the dike at last…may the flood begin.

  39. #139
    On September 6th, 2009 at 5:04 pm, jsmiddleton4 said:

    “may the flood begin.”

    Part of what I expect will drive the response from the left we have yet to fully see will be circle the wagons and protect The One strategy.

    The problem of course is some of the czars are lunatics as Jones was/is.

    The left under Obama continues to self destruct in ways we could not have ever dreamed of.

  40. #140
    On September 6th, 2009 at 5:07 pm, Bogtrotter said:

    How sad. And here he thought he would get to write the laws on the side of the barn with the rest of Obama’s Orwellian pigs.

  41. #141
    On September 6th, 2009 at 5:09 pm, Danceswithdachshunds said:

    He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

  42. #142
    On September 6th, 2009 at 5:24 pm, right_on said:

    It just occurred to me…did anyone, anyone being the Secret Service. FBI, or Capitol Police, check Jones’ socks and underwear as he egressed from a secured area?

    I wonder what secrets, documents, or both he retained copies of…I guess it doesn’t really matter. All he has to do is ask for the information, and he’ll no doubt get it?

  43. #143
    On September 6th, 2009 at 5:31 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    Robert Gibbs is now TV now telling us we will ALL support ObamaCare after the President’s speech. Can we PLANT some evidence on Mr. Gibbs or just let the fool hang around?

  44. #144
    On September 6th, 2009 at 5:33 pm, Laree said:

    The Matrix Runs On Window’s XP, and be sure to click on
    down the rabbit hole with you to see the latest Olbermann Paranoid antics.

  45. #145
    On September 6th, 2009 at 5:41 pm, Marine_NCO said:

    One down……
    Unknown numbers to go.

  46. #146
    On September 6th, 2009 at 5:55 pm, Speakup said:

    Van Jones wasn’t some hidden background unknown quantity and the President had every intention of hiring people like him, because like Sotomayor, Van Jones is Obama.

  47. #147
    On September 6th, 2009 at 6:05 pm, RogerCfromSD said:

    Is there some need these idiots on Obama’s gang have to “look Chicago Tough” in their photos?

    V.J. always looks so mad dog in his photos.

  48. #148
    On September 6th, 2009 at 6:33 pm, Wayfaring Stranger said:

    Great – now ABC is following the Glen Beck went after Van Jones after the call to boycott Beck trope.

    Idiots.

  49. #149
    On September 6th, 2009 at 6:36 pm, ex-expat said:
  50. #150
    On September 6th, 2009 at 6:53 pm, jsmiddleton4 said:

    “Great – now ABC is following the Glen Beck went after Van Jones after the call to boycott Beck trope.”

    Actually I think it is great. The information about Jones is clear. Most of America does not go along with Mr. Jones. The more ABC sides with Mr. Jones against Mr. Beck, the more it hurts ABC and affirms what Mr. Beck and others have been saying about ABC.

  51. #151
    On September 6th, 2009 at 7:01 pm, Storybec said:

    Any good musicians out there that can do a knock off of Queen’s “Another One Bites the Dust” but change it to “Another One Under the Bus”… And another one’s gone, and another one’s gone…. another one under the bus. Hey! We’re gonna get you, too! Another one under the bus!

  52. #152
    On September 6th, 2009 at 7:06 pm, travlinman said:

    Let’s get the rest of the garbage taken out and get this country back on track to greatness.

  53. #153
    On September 6th, 2009 at 7:08 pm, Wayfaring Stranger said:

    On September 6th, 2009 at 6:53 pm, jsmiddleton4 said:

    …The more ABC sides with Mr. Jones against Mr. Beck, the more it hurts ABC and affirms what Mr. Beck and others have been saying about ABC.

    With those of us who know the whole story, yes, what you say is true.

    But what about those who aren’t paying attention, or who get their news solely from the MSM or the two-second bits and bytes of radio station news at the top of the hour?

    Did you see the Meet the Press story at Hot Air? Sadly there are people who still think Brokaw is trustworthy.

    I hope I’m wrong, but I know too many people who simply don’t want to be bothered to look any further than the the MSM for their news (when they actually bother with the news) – but they’ll still go vote. How do you think we ended up with a choice between McCain and Obama?

  54. #154
    On September 6th, 2009 at 8:11 pm, By Choice said:

    Between the Town Hall meetings and the exposure of Van Jones and who/what he is, and the cabal of obamaczars do you thing that Congress will finally understand that we, the people, cannot be fooled with their chicanery any longer. From the President on down we are watching, we are listening and, on September 12th, we are coming!!!

  55. #155
    On September 6th, 2009 at 8:38 pm, jsmiddleton4 said:

    “or who get their news solely from the MSM”

    Don’t forget that is an ever shrinking group.

  56. #156
    On September 6th, 2009 at 8:45 pm, skysoljr82 said:

    On September 6th, 2009 at 2:06 pm, robhic said:

    Seems everything and everyone O touches is tainted in some way. And the majority are all Black.

    Maybe there is/was a good reason for not electing a Black man previously…

    Seriously?? How did this even make it onto this board? Seems rather overt…

  57. #157
    On September 6th, 2009 at 9:12 pm, Bulldogger said:

    Don’t put your hammer back in the tool belt yet there is another BIG nail to drive.
    OT> UK sources: Obama knew about the Lockerbie bomber every step of the way

    http://hotair.com/archives/2009/09/06/uk-sources-obama-knew-about-the-lockerbie-bomber-every-step-of-the-way/

  58. #158
    On September 6th, 2009 at 9:23 pm, Marc said:

    It shouldn’t be a surprise that the New York Times would spike the story about Van Jones radical, fanatical background. The New York Times is the same newspaper that gave us Walter Duranty and his wonderful Soviet Union series. The New York Times is the same newspaper that spiked news of the holocaust. The publisher at the Times back then was one Arthur Ochs, who chose not to publish news of the holocaust and was stridently opposed to the creation of the State of Israel. Back in 1947 and 1948, The Times wrote numerous editorials against the creation of the State of Israel. In the late 1950s, The Times was a cheerleader for Fidel Castro and the Times had a reporter named Matthews (not Chris but similar in ideology) who referred to Castro as “Dr. Castro”. The New York Times also published details about the upcoming Bay of Pigs invasion just to make sure Castro could stop it. Then the NY Times Roger Cohen has been a cheerleader for Ahmedinejad and Khameini. So it should be no surprise that the New York Times would whitewash Van Jones. Jones is a conservative in comparison with the editorial department at the New York Times.

  59. #159
    On September 6th, 2009 at 10:19 pm, Atlanta Media Guy said:

    Until this administration comes out and speak the truth on how Van Jones got this close to advising the president and put in charge of 30 to 80 Billion dollars I am NOT going to believe another word Prompterbama says.

    DON’T BELIEVE A WORD OBAMA SAYS TO CONGRESS WEDNESDAY. He will come out and speak of a compromise. Time to say NO to everything this guy stands for. Time for Liberty and Freedom to take this country by storm. See you 9/12 on the MALL!

    As long as ABC, NBC and CBS speak against Glenn beck and Fox they are only digging their own grave faster. Check out every advertiser on the alphabet media and send them an email saying enough! As long as you are going to support the Bias media I will decide to support someone else.

    Sorry Obama your 15 minutes of fame are up!

  60. #160
    On September 6th, 2009 at 10:58 pm, beenthere said:

    T. Coddington von Vorheese the VII returns!

    Proper, mannered, appropriate, and oh-so-civil conservatism is saved.

  61. #161
    On September 6th, 2009 at 11:02 pm, Trollman said:

    I was so disappointed when my wife told me that Van Jones had stepped down. It ruined my day.

    I kept hoping that Obama would continue to stand by Van Jones, since there were new video clips & quotes of him turning up every day.

    Van Jones was Jeremiah Wright all over again.

  62. #162
    On September 6th, 2009 at 11:05 pm, curiozities said:

    Marc, don’t forget Jayson Blair.

  63. #163
    On September 6th, 2009 at 11:44 pm, RetFireman said:

    How did a Communist get into the Obama Administration? how did a Communist gain access to the White House? How did a Communist work as an unanswerable “Czar” in the Administration of a sitting U.S. President?

    It is all part of the Hope and Change ‘WAVE’” that has taken over this country and corrupted the “Watchdogs” of our society…the Press. It is a “WAVE” that has taken over the people of this country.

    Watch this. It is true. It happened. And it has been happening for the last 20 or so months and gaining power…the WAVE is growing to tsunamic proportions, and it must be stopped before the parallels become a mirror.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVRXXbU-z7U

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXi71XBdh1o

  64. #164
    On September 6th, 2009 at 11:49 pm, Bruce said:

    Keep in mind that the resignation of Van Jones doesn’t mean that the problem is solved. We have 31 more czars that are just as evil or worse infesting the White House.

    Of course the real problem is Barry Soetoro (Barack Obama) the fraud who has illegally usurped the office of President. From Jeremiah Wright to Van Jones to Osama Bin Laden, to the other 31 czars: Obama is JUST LIKE THEM, only WORSE. He is our enemy. He aims to destroy our country, our constitution, our way of life, our liberty. Our enemies are ruling over us and NO ONE is doing anything to solve the REAL PROBLEM.

    So it’s great to see Van Jones go… but until every one of these filthy, vile people are extricated from our government, we will never be free.

  65. #165
    On September 6th, 2009 at 11:59 pm, RetFireman said:

    There was a time when allowing an avowed Communist even close to the position that this man held was grounds for treason. The fact that the President of the United States is the person to have appointed him, an avowed, unapologetic Communist amongst other arguably un-American things, not just to a position in his Administration, but to a position which garnered so much power and was answerable to none but the man who appointed him has got to list amongst the most corrupt, un-American acts performed, and in my mind, is beyond cause for impeachment.

  66. #166
    On September 7th, 2009 at 12:24 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    OT> UK sources: Obama knew about the Lockerbie bomber every step of the way

    Was there any doubt? I am pretty sure President Obama, Secretary Clinton and Attorney General Holder were as shocked about the release as they were the sunrise.

    These are true Radical Chic/Progressives. The dead of Pan Am 103 were but collateral damage, unimportant little people who after all “did fly commercial”. Important people do not fly commercial do they?

  67. #167
    On September 7th, 2009 at 1:22 am, RetFireman said:

    No…there was no doubt. Just some really deep seeded denial by the true, die-hard Obama cultists who still actually believe that what he is doing and has done is both correct and beneficial to this nation and Her people, as well as who believe there is a large conspiricy of racists who are speaking out against what he is doing and has done merely on the basis of the fact that some portion of him is black, and not for the damage it is and has done and will do along with the fact that they are against Socialism/Marxism in all its forms and practices. Instead, it is purely the tradition of racism and that alone which makes people speak out against him and his Marxist/Socialist/Liberal/Progressive/thuggish/race-baiting/hateful/hate-filled ways.

  68. #168
    On September 7th, 2009 at 1:36 am, ThunderHawkk said:

    Jones is an “environmentalist?”

    Ha, that’s a laugh riot. Does anyone here think he’s ever been hiking on a mountain trail in his life? Ever gone camping? Fishing? Hunting?

    What a fraud. He’s just a Marxist piece of garbage, nothing more. Among the worst this nation has ever produced.

  69. #169
    On September 7th, 2009 at 2:36 am, atheling said:

    Jones is a QUITTER!

  70. #170
    On September 7th, 2009 at 3:31 am, dadinseattle said:

    Van Jones may be gone from sight (not really gone), but this guy is even worse-
    Harold Koh, Mr. Obama’s choice as legal adviser to the State Department.

    The anti-American president has a whole swamp full of creatures.
    Quotes from FSM article

    Koh is on record for decrying America, as he did in the Berkeley Journal of International Law in 2004 when he wrote:

    “What role can transnational legal process play in affecting the behavior of several nations whose disobedience with international law has attracted global attention after September 11th — most prominently, North Korea, Iraq and our own country, the United States of America? For shorthand purposes, I will call these countries ‘the axis of disobedience.’”

    This is the man brought in to make all else moot by destroying the restraints of the US Constitution-

    “This is international imperialism. Under Koh’s plan, the Constitution would become secondary and international law would take precedence regardless of what Americans said about the matter.”

    We are getting a much closer look at “fundamental transformational change” in America, it looks like an 18 wheeler bearing down on you at high speed, with the grill of the truck showing our reflection.

  71. #171
    On September 7th, 2009 at 4:12 am, Hangfire said:

    “Ding, ding. Ding, ding.”

    “Green Jobs Czar, Departing.”

    DooooooooooooWheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeOOOHwheeeeeeee

  72. #172
    On September 7th, 2009 at 7:38 am, Lockstein13 said:

    STEPHANOPOULOS: So the president doesn’t endorse in any way the things that Van Jones said before but the president doesn’t want him to go?

    GIBBS: He doesn’t but he thanks him for his service.”

    Sooooooooooooo……….

    …let me get this straight:

    Obama hires a guy with an abhorrent record. CHECK

    Obama lets guy do next to nothing on his watch, only to let him go shortly thereafter. CHECK

    Obama bears no culpability for bringing this guy on board. WTF?

    As someone else wrote, here are a few good questions to ask:

    http://spectator.org/archives/2009/09/04/the-real-van-jones-scandal-why

  73. #173
    On September 7th, 2009 at 9:00 am, b-cat said:

    The president thanks Van Jones for his service in the first eight months helping to coordinate renewable energy jobs and lay the foundation for our future economic problem

    Did anyone notice this yet? Sorry, I’m late to the party.

    Future economic problem?

  74. #174
    On September 7th, 2009 at 9:21 am, rooster said:

    Van Jones is Barrack Obama. As Glen Beck pointed out, BO said, “If you want to know my policies, look at who I surround myself with.”
    With only one news organization trying to be honest, we are all fu@#&$!
    Americans today are no different than the East Germans of the Berlin Wall era.
    Most are fully indoctrinated and too cowardly to speak out against the status quo.

  75. #175
    On September 7th, 2009 at 9:25 am, jangar said:

    rooster said:
    Van Jones is Barrack Obama.

    Only half of him is.

  76. #176
    On September 7th, 2009 at 9:33 am, shanimal said:

    LOL:

    0 articles for “van jones” from Boston Globe Stories published in the past

  77. #177
    On September 7th, 2009 at 10:20 am, TigerLady said:

    RetFireman said:

    Watch this. It is true. It happened. And it has been happening for the last 20 or so months and gaining power…the WAVE is growing to tsunamic proportions, and it must be stopped before the parallels become a mirror.

    Thanks for sharing the links to this film. It’s scary to see how herd mentality is so easily adopted. It’s a shame we can’t show this nationally to the sheeple.

    I’ll be forwarding the links around to everyone I email.

  78. #178
    On September 7th, 2009 at 10:22 am, prendad said:

    Ah, Mr. Jones, who is the asshole now?

  79. #179
    On September 7th, 2009 at 11:38 am, jsmiddleton4 said:

    Was posting some comments on Daily Kos to offset the Olbe dude attacking Beck. All deleted. Daily Kos folks can not tolerate opposing points of view. No wonder folks there think America thinks like they do. They don’t allow themselves to be exposed to anything but their own echo thoughts. Sad.

  80. #180
    On September 7th, 2009 at 12:09 pm, conservativesRus said:

    And now we have a “manufacturing czar”. The only possible thing a manufacturing czar could do that would be positive would be to tell the president and congress to get out of the way. My observation is that over my lifetime the president and congress (of either party) has demonstrated a “reverse midas touch” to anything they have worked on.

  81. #181
    On September 7th, 2009 at 12:10 pm, Thomas B. said:

    Shame on the media for willingly and intentionally ignoring the extreme radicalism of Van Jones, while trumping up dubious claims against Palin. What they are doing is nothing more than PROPAGANDA. I guess that is why you need a four year degree; to learn how to deliver propaganda and engage in psy-ops.

  82. #182
    On September 7th, 2009 at 12:19 pm, jsmiddleton4 said:

    Obama seems to have no sense of context. By pushing the czar thing today he is adding weight to the argument that the appointment of czars needs examination.

  83. #183
    On September 7th, 2009 at 12:33 pm, purealchemy said:

    On September 7th, 2009 at 9:21 am, rooster said:
    Van Jones is Barack Obama.

    I said exactly the same thing on another thread.
    Van Jones says everything Obama really wants to say but knew he couldn’t get elected if he scared the white folks.
    Obama’s number one presidential election strategy was to first prove to blacks he could get whites to vote for him. Once he had enough white folks hypnotized, then he shifted to focusing more on blacks.

  84. #184
    On September 7th, 2009 at 12:47 pm, shooter said:

    Gibbs; “The president thanks Van Jones for his service in the first eight months helping to coordinate renewable energy jobs and lay the foundation for our future economic problem.

    Communist Van Jones isn’t going anywhere. He’ll just get a ride to the white house with Daschle on his daily trip to see the ‘o-wizard’. (might be the ONLY green thing van jones actually does, carpool.)

    lets play the game: How many criminals can we get in one car at a time?
    Hey, we might have found a new use for the obamabus.

  85. #185
    On September 7th, 2009 at 1:15 pm, Lindsay said:

    My thanks to American heroes like Michelle, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity,and bloggers like Jim Hoft (who uncovered the 9/11 truther for who he is). These heroes continue to reveal the Obama administration that journalists won’t attempt for the public. I am grateful for you all. Keep fighting for our country. I am so thankful,too, there is still freedom of speech.

    I am wondering if Obama is getting “wee-weed up” about now…

  86. #186
    On September 7th, 2009 at 1:37 pm, BrianNY said:

    #800744 said:

    Jones is a QUITTER!

    Now THAT’S funny.

  87. #187
    On September 7th, 2009 at 5:45 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    As we pick off a few, hopefully take back some seats these Czars and other unaccountable types should be remembered: They do not belong in a republic. Van Jones was a prefect fit for anybody who listened to Obama in the elections-primary and general. Comrade Community Organizer DID talk about the redistribution of wealth, he did say

    We can’t drive our SUVs and, you know, eat as much as we want and keep our homes on, you know, 72 degrees at all times, whether we’re living in the desert or we’re living in the tundra and then just expect every other country is going to say OK

    We have to give up our life styles and wealth for “them”. Oh yes, Van Jones and Obama were the perfect match. When you have a communist in the White House all the other is side show.But Czars have to go no matter who we have. Little Nicky the Last ring a bell?

  88. #188
    On September 7th, 2009 at 6:21 pm, sbw999 said:

    On September 7th, 2009 at 2:36 am, atheling said:

    Jones is a QUITTER!

    True. He is a quitter…a communist, racist, America-hating, paranoid, delusional, vulgar, lying, whining quitter. If only his philosophical soulmate in the WH would follow suit, then Id really be happy. Even nut ball Biden is better than BO.

  89. #189
    On September 7th, 2009 at 6:45 pm, TigerLady said:

    sbw999–let me add that I think he’s lazy. He strikes me as someone who has never done an honest day’s work and gotten his hands dirty.

  90. #190
    On September 7th, 2009 at 7:35 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    sbw999 said:
    Even nut ball Biden is better than BO.

    Then you better PRAY BIG TIME for Stumblin’ Joe’s health because after him it is–yes I am sorry to say-right out of the D-grade Whore Horror movies:

    BOTOX NANCY, the Nun-chuck of San Francisco. Being bitten by a Diamondback or a Mohave rattler is still snake bit, not that I am saying BOTOX NANCY, the Nun-chuck of San Francisco is a snake, no, I would not do that.

  91. #191
    On September 7th, 2009 at 8:13 pm, purealchemy said:

    Nancy “Stretch” Pelosi

  92. #192
    On September 7th, 2009 at 8:19 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    that 2 ;)

  93. #193
    On September 7th, 2009 at 10:57 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    It’s interesting how the left and the MSM (Marxist Socialist Media) is framing the resignation as being over his signing the 9/11 truth statement.

    They completely ignore the real reasons… that Van Jones is the “Rosetta Stone” that completely reveals the agenda of the radical revolutionary left: an Islamic/Collectivist alliance that seeks “change at a revolutionary level”.

    This MP3 is not easy to listen to (and NSFW), but it is truly the “Rosetta Stone” of understanding the radical revolutionary left.

  94. #194
    On September 8th, 2009 at 12:20 am, Rob Roy said:

    Van Jones. That name – it should be in the urban dictionary.

    Man, I got vanjonsed the other day.

    Dude, I was vanjonzing all over the place.

    It was cool until the cops vanjonesed me…

    Seriously, the blue dogs vanjonesed the public option.

  95. #195
    On September 8th, 2009 at 1:51 pm, spaceycakes said:

    Rob Roy–that’s pretty awesome.

    And why have none of the collectivist trolls defended Jones on this thread?

  96. #196
    On September 9th, 2009 at 7:45 pm, jwm said:

    Here’s an example of what a jerk Van is and has always been. He attended a meeting conducted by the San Francisco Police Commissioner’s Office. Prior to the start of the meeting, he spoke up and said “let us bow our heads in a momemt of silence to remember the innocent people who were killed by the police.” True story.

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