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Van Jones is out.
The bottom line of this is going is the media is going to have to explain why Gateway Pundit could come up with all of this stuff via google and they could not with all their resources.
The question will NOW be will other members of the clique get “googled” by enterprising reporters? I’ll wager there are a lot more crazy uncles in there.
It’s a loss for the Obama administration but a bigger loss for the press.
I was looking at this post at Little Green Footballs and this statement of Charles:
When this “news” came out, I spent hours searching the web for any corroboration at all in Jones’ own words that he believes the 9/11 attacks were a conspiracy by the US government. If I had found something, I was prepared to start yelling as loud as anyone about it, because I utterly despise Truthers.
So I took up the challenge and started searching, not only for Jones but for matching links between him and known truthers such as Carol Brouillet.
I found quite a few events where they were both associated with, and a lot of the usual suspects of the VERY far left indymedia crowd seem to show up but no direct link to the truthers.
I then took a closer look at Gateway Pundit’s stuff, he has uncovered plenty of stuff that indicate Jones is loathsome and for his OTHER positions he is worthy of exclusion but one thing caught my eye in this post:
Gateway correctly shows that Jones was involved in the War Times but I decided to take a closer look at his link. It’s loaded with drivel and nonsense that would make Rosie O’Donnell and Michael Moore proud but right at the top I found this:
Prospectus
WAR TIMES
A New, Biweekly Newspaper Opposing the “War on Terrorism”The terrorist attacks of September 11 marked the beginning of a new and frightening period in our history. Thousands of people died that day, and their families along with the country as a whole are still struggling to
recover. But President Bush’s response of “permanent war against terrorism at home and abroad” has further endangered the lives and liberties of millions of people everywhere. emphasis mine
This is a direct statement made in 2002 before even the founding of the paper saying that Terrorists are responsible for 9/11 and attacking President Bush’s response, not declaring him responsible. To quote Gateway Pundit:
Van Jones was instrumental in the creation of this publication and sat on its board for at least the first year and a half of its existence.
That being true we must conclude that although Jones is connected to vile opinions and has no business being in the White House in any capacity. He can not honestly be declared a truther.
Could he have believed it and held back to gain wider support? Possible but generally true believers aren’t shy about being true. Does he have sympathy with them, it’s possible but it’s unfair to come to that conclusion.
Barring some other revelation: I must conclude; Charles you were right and I was wrong.
Unfortunately for the White House all the OTHER info about Jones is more than enough to bring weeks worth of bad press and bad attention. He is a crazy uncle and worthy of attack.
He’s just not a truther.
What a difference a Drudge link makes
Yesterday Van Jones was the invisible man to the New York Times, the Washington Post, NBC Nightly News, ABC World News and the CBS Evening News
Today after one Drudge link the Washington post
White House officials offered tepid support Friday for Van Jones, the administration’s embattled energy efficiency guru, who has issued two public apologies this week, one for signing a petition that questioned whether Bush administration officials “may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war.
and the CBS Evening News discovered the story.
The New York Times NBC Nightly News, ABC World News still can’t place the name.
Van Jones? Van Jones? Didn’t he play base guitar for the 60’s band Ian and the Chestertons?
No wonder people don’t worry about the Media’s opinion of them.
He uses fewer words to nail the Jones mindset but then again he’s a pro and I’m in my pajamas:
Jones and other Obama radicals (the more middle- and upper-middle class the pedigree, the angrier the denunications) have a strange tendency in the past to have slandered much of American society, then abruptly — once anointed into its highest echelons — to equate their own careerist ascendency with a positive referendum on America’s sudden deliverance (the “apartheid” U.S. in need of having its entire system “changed” is now okay since a Van Jones is in the White House.)
Michelle Obama articulated that view with her trope about not previously being proud of America until her husband become a serious candidate, but apparently for the next few years we are supposed to endure lectures from a variety of leftists like Jones that their own success allows us to find (temporary) redemption from them.
I’m actually not sure if the resignation will come, Jones’ type is a fighter and he is a “true believer”. Rev Wright, older and wiser knew where his bread was buttered and understood that he had to go under the bus.
But Jones primary thought isn’t the gravy train. As a crazy uncle he passionately believes what he believes. Normally it would not be a big deal to let go someone like him but with trouble and anger among his humorless base already the discharge of a true believer for true belief might be too much at this moment.
It is not charitable but I don’t mind sitting back and watching the White House twist on the vine on this one.
Update: Charles doesn’t like Jones but he still is asking where’s the beef:
When this “news” came out, I spent hours searching the web for any corroboration at all in Jones’ own words that he believes the 9/11 attacks were a conspiracy by the US government. If I had found something, I was prepared to start yelling as loud as anyone about it, because I utterly despise Truthers.
I found: nothing. Nothing at all.
So I looked around those right wing blogs this morning because I was curious to see if any of them had found real proof for this accusation, apart from the word of Truthers and hate sites, and found: nothing. Nothing at all.
Charles is an honest man. I have to say his argument is looking better, he isn’t one to miss stuff on the web.
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