Van Jones Made JUST ONE Mistake?
Appearing on CNN today, Huffington Post blogger David Sirota tried defending Van Jones. Calling his attempt a miserable failure is an insult to miserable failures. It’s also a fanciful dance around the truth. Here’s Sirota’s attempted defense of Communist-Truther Van Jones:
DAVID SIROTA, SYNDICATED COLUMNIST: Van Jones is a national hero for his work on green jobs. He’s known as an expert on energy policy, on economic policy. He’s somebody who made a mistake, who acknowledged that he made a mistake a long time ago, and he was tossed out by this White House.
And I think what we can learn from what happened is what this White House values and what this White House doesn’t value. The White House stuck by Tim Geithner as Tim Geithner was involved, the treasury secretary, in a tax scandal. He’s accepted gifts from the banking industry. The White House stood by him.
It’s rather fanciful that Mr. Sirota said that Van Jones made ONE mistake. Thanks to Jim Hoft’s great work at Gateway Pundit, we know that Jones was a 9/11 Truther, someone who saw the green jobs movement as a “complete revolution away from grey capitalism“, not to mention that Jones is someone who accused “white polluters” of directing poison into minority communities.
To say that Jones made a single mistake is insulting. The fact that Jones thought of the green jobs movement as a way to move us away from a capitalist society isn’t just a teentsy little mistake. It’s proof of a revolutionist, which he’s admitted to. The thought that a cabinet-level adviser could accuse white people of “directing poison into minority communities” isn’t just a tiny little mistake that should be overlooked. It’s something that thoughtful people everywhere, regardless of race or political leaning should express disgust and outrage over.
That’s before talking about Jones’s belief that the Bush administration knowingly let the 9/11 terrorist attacks happen. That’s before talking about his admitting that he’s a revolutionary and a communist.
Sirota would have us believe that all these transgressions, any of which would be grounds for not hiring and for terminating Jones, constitutes a single “mistake”. My message to Mr. Sirota is simple: YOU CAN’T BE SERIOUS!!!
If radical progressives like Mr. Sirota, Gov. Dean and Speaker Pelosi insist on defending Van Jones, they’ll quickly lose what little credibility they have left.
This isn’t a matter of Van Jones being just a little left of the American people. It’s a matter of him being far to the left of the American people, far enough left of them to shock them.
Finally, this is surely to be the storyline that radical progressives will want to create in the victimization of Van Jones. It’s up to honest conservatives to keep the facts in front of the American people. That’s a responsibility that requires persistence but it’s a responsibility we’re totally capable of handling.
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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
September 8th, 2009 at 3:10 am
Well said, Gary. A perfect post.