Stanford Alumni Critique Jarrett

AIA-FL Blog ^ | November 16, 2009 | Bethany Stotts

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Stanford Alumni Critique Jarrett

Bethany Stotts, November 16, 2009

Stanford University alumni are voicing their objection to their Alumni Magazine’s September/October softball treatment of the leftist White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett.

Here’s some of Accuracy in Media’s reporting on Jarrett and the Van Jones scandal.

These alumni aren’t too pleased.

From Ward S. De Witt ’62:

When I saw the cover photograph of Valerie Jarrett, I was reminded of the school fight song referring to “Stanford Red.” I am quite dismayed that this radical leftist is featured (”I Want Her Inside the White House,” September/October). She is, as you might recall, the one who recruited the self-avowed communist, Van Jones, to be part of President Obama’s inner circle. [Jones was special advisor on green jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality from March 2009 until his resignation in September.]

Some have also likened her to a slumlord, er, lady…

From Pete Holzmann, ‘79

How timely to see Valerie Jarrett on the cover. You have highlighted the woman who has just been exposed as one of the most vocal advocates for Van Jones, an avowed communist and public supporter of a cop-killing murderer [death row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal], now exposed and removed from government.

What a great lesson: Valerie’s Stanford education did not provide her with a moral compass sufficient to recognize that Jones would be bad news in any administration. I’m left wondering if Jarrett, or Stanford, can recognize the immoral shamefulness of her actions?…

From Tom Flood, ’66:

You cannot imagine my dismay to learn that the architect of the Van Jones debacle is a Stanford graduate....