I’ve been twittering a lot of late, and as such the number of pure blog style entries here have dropped off. I don’t see that as a problem to be honest. However, occasionally there is something worth a long form comment.
Enter our hero, Van Jones.
I am sure Van is a man who passionately believes the craziness he believes. He probably means well. In a way, that’s sadder. He is a self described communist, author of the deeply crazy “The Green Collar Economy” and a key figure in the more fringe areas of the “eco” movement. As with other close allies Obama as thrown under a bus Van Jones was sacrificed as soon as it became clear what kind of fool he actually is.
Van Jones is the perfect Obama hanger on. The concept of signing stuff because it sounds good without actually reading is a core virtue for this administration.
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. An administration source said Jones says he did not carefully review the language in the petition before agreeing to add his name.* Van Jones statment
Before Van Jones was a “I didn’t mean it” truther signing petitions wondering if President Bush was a 9/1 conspirator, he was firmly in the camp of “we deserved what we got”. On September 12th, 2001 just one day after the 9/11 attacks Van Jones stood in front of a rally of far left activists and had this to say:
“The bombs the government drops in Iraq are the bombs that blew up in New York City,” said Van Jones, director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, who also warned against forthcoming violence by the Bush Administration. “The US cannot bomb its way out of this one. Safety at home requires justice abroad.” Obama “Czar” Van Jones
In a way, he was being fairly circumspect in his comments. Many of those who were at the rally were much more open with their feelings and hatred.
“A young Filipino human rights activist said that “when we found out what kind of place got hit, we were kind of glad to see the Pentagon burning. But we also know that thousands of Puerto Ricans, Haitians and other workers were in those buildings.” – source
In a larger sense the Van Jones incident is a summary of the entire media treatment of Obama and his administration. The damaging information has been available for months on the internet, the subject of much discussion on political blogs and eventually the voting public. However even as the furor got so loud that Obama had to put Van Jones down like an ailing farm animal in most of the “main stream” media you heard and read not one single peep about it all. As soon as it became clear that the problem wouldn’t go away they turned their attention to the common Obama apologist checklist.
- Those evil right wing bloggers, they made a mountain out of a molehill
- ___________ (insert name of victim under bus here) didn’t mean what they said
- Obama had no idea that ____________ said anything of the type
- While Obama totally supports ___________ and thanks them for their service, they have decided to resign
- Poor Obama, how could he be expected to be responsible for the views of the people who appoints to positions of power?
- Republicans are mean
- Anyone who speaks against Obama or _____________ is clearly a racist
Watch for the checklist in the weeks ahead! In the meantime, bye bye to Van Jones!
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