Posted on 09/08/2009 1:37:23 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The "resignation" shortly after midnight on Sunday morning of President Obama's "green jobs czar" Van Jones has generally been seen as a convenient holiday weekend move.
By Friday, after White House Secretary Robert Gibbs would only say that he still was a part of the administration, it was obvious that Jones's resignation was only a matter of time. The 9/11 truther and other evidence accumulated by Glenn Beck, Gateway Pundit, and others was simply overwhelming.
But it seems to me that it would have been more convenient had the White House waited until early Sunday afternoon to announce Jones's resignation. Given the establishment media's near blackout of his past statements and actions, it's likely that the Sunday morning network talk shows would have avoided Jones completely, or would have given the topic very short shrift. A Sunday afternoon resignation would have been much more invisible -- except for something that came out on Saturday evening.
I believe that Jones's resignation may have been moved up by 12 hours or so. That's because on Saturday evening, Scott Johnson at Powerline presented proof that roughly 40 hours after the 9/11 terrorist attacks occurred, avowed Communist Jones publicly declared that the U.S. deserved what happened. I'm not kidding.
Jones's statements are the functional equivalents of Jeremiah Wright's outrageous "America's chickens coming home to roost" rant at Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ. They need to be more widely known.
Here they are, as reported by a far left web site early in the morning on Wednesday, September 13, 2001, covering an event in Oakland held on the evening of September 12:
(Screen shot at link)
Let's repeat: "The bombs the government drops in Iraq are the bombs that blew up in New York City."
Keep in mind that Jones had to be referring to either the first Gulf War or no-fly-zone incidents, as the war to remove Saddam Hussein did not begin until 2003.
Charleston Daily Mail blogger Don Surber had this reaction to Powerline's post a short time later: "(This is) the smoking gun that will either bring down Van Jones or Barack Obama. It is President Obama’s choice." That choice was obvious.
From a White House media strategy standpoint, Jones's dead-of-night resignation unfortunately ensured that he would be a topic of conversation Sunday morning, but it minimized the chance of Powerline's bombshell becoming part of the discussion. Sure, David Axelrod had to go through the discomfort of laughably claiming that "this was Van Jones' own decision. That's a mere occupational annoyance. Given the chattering class's reluctance all along to tell viewers the full truth about Jones, his resignation gave them an opening to change the topic from "What did he say and do?" to "Whose fault is it?" (meanie bloggers, talkers, and Republicans, not necessarily in that order) and "How will this hurt the administration?" (of course, in their view and with their weeks of help, not much). No additional information about Jones himself was necessary to fuel that discussion.
The White House did the best it could with a bad situation suddenly made much worse by Powerline, and the media met the White House's see-no-new-evil wishes/expectations. Mission accomplished: Few people know that Jones believed, and still presumably does (in the context of everything else, why shouldn't we?), that America deserved the 9/11 attacks. You can make book that the Associated Press, the New York Times, and the rest of the establishment press will ignore what you've seen here.
One thing we don't know is how aware of Jones's "deserver" views Obama close left-hand adviser Valerie Jarrett was when she made this statement in mid-August:
So, Van Jones. We were so delighted to be able to recruit him into the White House. We were watching him, uh, really, he’s not that old, for as long as he’s been active out in Oakland. And all the creative ideas he has. And so now, we have captured that. And we have all that energy in the White House.
If we're to believe Jarrett's boast, the answer is "very."
Note: I did not include a 9/11 picture of the Pentagon only because of space limitations, and I intend no slight to the memory of that attack or those who lost loved ones it.
I would think many Americans are now (finally) wondering to themselves the following question:
Does Obama himself think we deserved the 911 attacks?
Yes...but the 'we' does not include obama...he's sees the USA as 'they'.
Jones is just one czar down. I hope Glen will start doing expose`s on all the czars. The focus should be on the fact that these “CZARS” exist in the first place. What other President had them? None! Throw them all out!
SCUM!
(this applies to Van Jones AND Obama)
Interestingly, I read an article yesterday in the Chicago Sun Times which was not only balanced, but was the only mass media newspaper that I know of that made a point of observing that everything Jones said can be easily googled by anyone.
“Americas Chickennnnnns
Are-a comin’ home to Roost!”
Or so I have heard...
What really bothers me about all of this is the nutjobs that Zero is putting into high govt. 9/11 ‘Truther’ nutjobs abound and there’s nothing you can do about people that choose to “think” like this. The biggest problem I have is giving official relevance to people that deserve nothing more than to be on the back page of a tabloid, if that.
Van Jones is the type of people that Zero gives a place at the table. Who cares if he “resigned”? There will be another nutcase in his job slot this time next week.
As a matter of fact, Obama ought to call them "Overseers" instead of "Czarz". Definition of Overseer: One who keeps watch over and directs the work of others, especially laborers.
Purist Liberals don't see those two positions as mutually exclusive.
Just as Muslims can believe two mutually exclusive things, emphasizing whichever one kills more Joos, so do the other servants of Satan.
The Czar or Tsar was autocratic head of all the Russias, and subject to no law. The similarly autocratic and despotic ‘Kaiser’ - also comes from Caesar.
“He knew that if the congressional investigation were to go forward, he would have been toast.”
What congressional investigation?
If Bush had ordered 9/11, San Francisco would have been the target.
San Francisco is the Great Satan, the source of sin, the abomination.
Yeah, you’re right. Sorta like he ordered Katrina to destroy New Orleans.
get out that the White House Counsel had problems giving him National Security Clearance...
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/09/08/valerie-jarretts-show/
So who else is in there that the White House Counsel had a problem with..
They better worry about what happens when they are booted out in 2012 and a Republican President can call for investigation of the whole stinkin’ bunch.
Isn’t he still “working with” Øbama? Now he has gone behind closed doors to do his “advising”. Every single thing about this “administration” (regime) is a lie. The “resignation” of Van Jones is just one of them.
Posted on Sunday, September 06, 2009 10:19:07 AM by ETL
"Jones was arrested during the L.A. riots and spent a short time in jail. "I met all these young radical people of color," he recalls, 'I mean really radical: communists and anarchists. And it was, like, "This is what I need to be a part of." I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary.'..."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2333342/posts
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From David Horowitz's FrontpageMag.com /DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
"Throughout its history, one of RCP's [Revolutionary Communist Party] principal objectives has been to foment civil unrest in the United States. The most notable example of such efforts occurred on April 29, 1992, when RCP members looted and trashed the downtown and government districts of Los Angeles, triggering the infamous Rodney King riots. During the days immediately preceding the violence, RCP -- which maintained close ties to the L.A. gangs known as the Crips and the Bloods -- had circulated throughout South Central Los Angeles a leaflet featuring a statement by RCP National Spokesman Carl Dix, titled 'It's Right To Rebel' -- a quote popularized by Mao Zedong.
Encouraged by Dix, RCP activists helped lead the riots that would leave 58 people dead, more than 2,300 people injured, some 5,300 buildings burned, and $1 billion in property damaged or destroyed. On the ten-year anniversary of the rioting, RCP member Joseph Veale fondly recalled the violence as 'the most beautiful, the most heroic civil action in the history of the United States.'"
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6197
I think this FCC Lloyd guy needs to be the next one to go, then maybe Sunstein or the idiot who wants animals to have lawyers.
Sunstein is THAT idiot.
btw, I agree with your order - First Llyod, then Sunstein.
And then Dr Death, Zeke Emanuel.
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