Jones Resigns After Right Wing Smear Campaign
Conservatives often joke that the Left’s definition of a dirty campaign is using their words against them. That seems to fit with Van Jones’ resignation letter:
“I am resigning my post at the Council on Environmental Quality, effective today.
On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me. They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide.
I have been inundated with calls, from across the political spectrum, urging me to “stay and fight.”
But I came here to fight for others, not for myself. I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.
It has been a great honor to serve my country and my President in this capacity. I thank everyone who has offered support and encouragement. I am proud to have been able to make a contribution to the clean energy future. I will continue to do so, in the months and years ahead.”
The “opponents of reform” line is expected. Unfortunately, it isn’t particularly convincing. People who commented on Jones’ controversial statements ran the political spectrum. Liberals like Mara Liasson, Juan Williams and Bob Beckel didn’t try defending him. Conservatives like Stephen Hayes, Fred Barnes and Charles Krauthammer rightfully grilled Jones for his Truther statements.
It takes chutzpah to say that his opponents are “They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide.” What his opponents are using is his own words. Nobody’s done that better than Jim Hoft, the Gateway Pundit, who found more damaging video of Jones than all of the Agenda Media combined. AND THEN SOME!!!
The left, especially their cohorts in the media, will talk about how conservatives were out to get Jones. They’ll actually be partially right, just not for the reasons they’ll attribute to conservatives. Conservatives like myself think he should’ve been dumped because he’s a radical, a revolutionary, an admitted communist and someone who thinks that America’s entire economic structure should be changed.
Had the media done the job it’s supposed to do, they wouldn’t get away with saying this was a partisan smear campaign. They couldn’t say that with any credibility because they would’ve reported the radical things Jones said. The only way they can write smear campaign stories is because they didn’t write anything about Jones until his resignation.
This is as much an indictment of the Agenda Media as it is an indictment on Van Jones, Valerie Jarrett and the Obama administration.
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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
September 7th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
“opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me. They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide.”
Isnt that what liberals like to call being “Borked” as in Robert Bork?