Good - Thank God Beck Exposed this Radical
Angry - I Hate Glenn Beck
I Hate Glenn Beck & Faux News but this Bozo had to go
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Don Surber: Why wasn’t Van Jones fired?
The White House said Van Jones was not fired as Green Jobs Czar.
Why not?
The public has learned in recent weeks has learned much about Van Jones that should have gotten him fired.
Apparently, it is OK with the White House that Van Jones is a supporter of Mumia Abu-Jamal, who killed a police officer in 1981.
Apparently, it is OK with the White House that Van Jones agreed with Kanye West’s assessment that “George Bush doesn’t care about black people.”
Apparently, it is OK with the White House that Van Jones is a self-avowed communist.
Apparently, it is OK with the White House that Van Jones founded Standing Together to Organize a Radical Movement, with the goal of “mobilizing young people of color into militant direct action.”
Apparently, it is OK with the White House that Van Jones founded Color of Change, which leaned on corporations to stop advertising on the TV show of a frequent critic of the White House.
Apparently, it is OK with the White House that Van Jones said, two days after 9/11, “The bombs the government drops in Iraq are the bombs that blew up in New York City. The US cannot bomb its way out of this one. Safety at home requires justice abroad.”
WSJ: Jones Resignation Deals Blow to Obama and the Left
While media predictably blame Obama adviser Van Jones's resignation on a right-wing smear campaign, the inconvenient truth is that this episode says a lot about the current White House resident and how he was just as poorly vetted by news outlets during the campaign last year as his administration members are now that he's the Commander-in-Chief.
More to the point: if so-called journalists had done their job in 2008, voters might have known just how radical Obama was BEFORE they went to the polls instead of finding out after it was too late.
According to an editorial in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal, this is just one of the lessons from Jones's resignation (h/t Jack Coleman):
Glenn Beck KOs Van Jones: The Future of Media and Politics?
For six weeks, while virtually every mainstream media outlet ignored "green jobs czar" Van Jones, Fox News's Glenn Beck exposed the radical background of President Obama's environment adviser.
On Saturday, Jones resigned, and most of the same news outlets that ignored the shocking nature of this White House representative are coming to his defense predictably claiming that he was the victim of a right-wing smear campaign.
One so-called journalist is even asking his viewers to dig up dirt on Beck.
Somewhat bucking this disgraceful trend was Politico in its Monday article "Glenn Beck Up, Left Down and Jones Defiant":
SF Chronicle: Obama Knew About Van Jones' Radical Background in Advance
There is a charge floating around out there that President Barack Obama knew in advance about the radical background of Van Jones before appointing him as his "green jobs czar." So where is this charge coming from? Glenn Beck? Nope. Fox News? Nope. This revelatory charge was made on the pages of the liberal San Francisco Chronicle in an article on the Jones resignation written by Joe Garofoli:
The middle-of-the-night resignation Sunday of longtime Bay Area activist Van Jones as a White House environmental adviser left many progressives angry at the Obama administration for buckling to conservative criticism of Jones' controversial past comments and actions.
...Supporters say the administration surely knew his background when they appointed Jones, the first African American to write a best-selling environmental book, as special adviser for green jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality. In fact, agents interviewed at least one of his former supervisors in San Francisco - Eva Paterson - when the FBI vetted his appointment.
Olbermann to Daily Kos Audience: 'Send Me Everything You Can Find About Glenn Beck'
Guess who's not pleased about Van Jones middle-of-the-night-on-a-holiday-weekend resignation? Perhaps you never would have seen this one coming, but no other MSNBC "Countdown" host and provocateur Keith Olbermann himself.
Bitter and seeing red? Perhaps. In a post on the Daily Kos dated Sept. 6, Olbermann urged the half-crazed liberal Kos readers to go digging for dirt on Fox News host Glenn Beck, Beck's radio producer Stu Burguiere and Fox News president Roger Ailes. (h/t Morgen of Verum Serum)
"I don't know why I've got this phrasing in my head, but: Find everything you can about Glenn Beck, Stu Burguiere, and Roger Ailes," Olbermann wrote. "No, even now, I refuse to go all caps. No, sending me links to the last two Countdowns with my own de-constructions of his biblical vision quality Communist/Fascist/Socialist/Zimbalist art at Rockefeller Center (where, curiously, he works, Comrade) doesn't count. Nor does sending me links to specious inappropriate point-underscoring prove-you're-innocent made-up rumors."
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