printSpare me a repeat performance of the Jeremiah Wright farce, only with Van Jones, the Special Advisor for Green Jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, substituting for the Obamas’ preacher; and surfacing in YouTube clips while delivering Wright-like jeremiads lambasting white men and Western civilization, as every liberal lunatic and wimpish WASP pretends Obamby hardly knew the jejune Jones.
Can we skip this? Can this country’s anointed cognoscenti at least pretend to be familiar with the concept of a learning curve?
To quote ABC News Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper:
Van Jones,
“[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.”
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. A source said Jones did not carefully review the language in the petition before agreeing to add his name.
It’s one thing to have voted for Obama; it’s quite another to walk around in a daze pretending the man has no relationship to the entourage of crazies that has been catapulted to power with him.
Incidentally, I am less perturbed by Jones’ affinity with 9/11 conspirators than with the vertiginous ignorance of economics that accompanies his green faith. The man’s mandate is to do serious damage.
Just as Obama intended.
Here’s a prophetic prediction (NOT): There are many Van Jones’ in the Obama administration. You’ll meet them in the fullness of time. Quit feigning surprise when they crawl out from their dank corners.
Update I (Sept.4): I TOLD YOU SO. The predictable LiveLeak and YouTube clips are surfacing showcasing this apparent anomaly in the Obama administration: a black man who is every bit as cynical and smug as Jeremiah Wright, and like him is consumed by savage rage and envy. But like Obama’s confidant and reverend of 20 years, Van Jones is somehow treated atomistically. Conservatives too are positing only whether he has a future; will he be fired, and what kind of vetting did he undergo. It is manifestly obvious to these pundits that Obama could not possibly have approved of such a man.
Once again, “The Real Slim Shady” slithers away successfully.
Update II: THE REAL STORY is this, courtesy of Byron York:
Total words about the Van Jones controversy in the New York Times: 0.
Total words about the Van Jones controversy in the Washington Post: 0.
Total words about the Van Jones controversy on NBC Nightly News: 0.
Total words about the Van Jones controversy on ABC World News: 0.
Total words about the Van Jones controversy on CBS Evening News: 0.
Update III (Sept. 6): JONES FALLS ON HIS SWORD so that Obamby may retain his porcelainized image. My Way News:
“President Barack Obama’s adviser Van Jones has resigned amid controversy over past inflammatory statements, the White House said early Sunday.
Jones, an administration official specializing in environmentally friendly “green jobs” with the White House Council on Environmental Quality was linked to efforts suggesting a government role in the 2001 terror attacks and to derogatory comments about Republicans.”
“wimpish WASP”
Most WASPs voted McCain (not that that is much better!). They are one of the few “ethnic” groups that vote overwhelmingly for the Right. The Irish, Jews, Scandinavians, and non-whites are much more likely to be “wimpish” Obama supporters.
“It’s one thing to have voted for Obama; … ” Ilana
I wrote in Ron Paul. It is frightening to me that people could vote for anyone who did vigorously deny being the Messiah when portrayed as such.
“I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, you will receive him.”
a rule of thumb:
1. Good ideas do not need to be forced on others.
2. Bad ideas should not be.
3. We often do not know in advance what is a good idea and what is not.
4. Hence the need for liberty and patience and a very limited government at most.
Drat! Scripture cited is John 5:43
ilana Mercer writes
“There are many Van Jones’ in the Obama administration. You’ll meet them in the fullness of time. Quit feigning surprise when they crawl out from their dank corners.”
Hell yea, Turn it up, Right on !!!!!!!
We all might remember that Mr. Obama’s new Science Czar is John Holdren, one of the people who advocated radical population control in the 1960’s and 70s. He and numerous other “social scientists” advocated abortion, forced sterilization, and any other means possible to not only stop population growth but reduce it world wide. Which reminds us that though the right to die has its good points, if Mr. Holdren should should endorse Jack Kevorkian,we could see the death panels. There are a lot more like him lurking in the dank corners.
Van Jones and many of his clones often say “Environmentalism is the new civil rights issue!” I also hear “immigration is the new civil rights issue!” How many more “civil rights issues” will we get “czars” for? They might as well just say “God is on OUR side on this issue” because whenever they invoke “civil rights” they’re implying as much since the actual “civil rights” period has attained mythological status in the Great Public Religion. It also means that issue is off limits for debate. Maybe I’m just a cynic…
Most WASPs voted McCain (not that that is much better!). They are one of the few “ethnic” groups that vote overwhelmingly for the Right.
McCain is emphatically not of the Right.
Van Jones is a well-known communist, not an environmentalist. A true environmentalist must necessarily be an immigration restrictionist.
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2005/12/edward-abbey-immigration-and-liberal.html
‘ “They might as well just say “God is on OUR side on this issue” ‘
Perhaps, the generic “God” needs to be dropped since we (US) no longer worship a common one. I suggest Baal and Moloch for the opposition.
Van Jones is a Green, a.k.a. “watermelon.”
Green on the outside.
Red on the inside.
“Van Jones is a well-known communist, not an environmentalist.” Van Wijk
“Green is the new Red”.
Van Jones Quits
But the choice to uphold liberty and defeat tyranny is far from over!
This van Jones character is just the sort that we should have expected to pop up in the Obama administration. Obama’s entire history consists of him befriending one racial, anti-white, anti-American leftist after another. Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers aren’t the excepts, but the rule. For people (esp. conservatives) to act shocked that Obama would bring in a self-proclaimed Marxist like van Jones is absurd in the extreme. I have news for them, Obama doesn’t just associate with anti-American, socialist radicals, he is one.
How important must Obama not be to some shady characters if a hard line communist is willing to commit career-seppuku for him?
I do love Vox Day’s remark about the absurdity of Jones crying foul because he was quoted verbatim.
“How important must Obama not be to some shady characters if a hard line communist is willing to commit career-seppuku for him?”JP Strauss
‘ “Damien, this is for you!” she says smiling brightly before she leaps.’ from The Omen ( http://www.helium.com/items/87753-recommended-non-slasher-horror-films )