Posted on 09/06/2009 9:09:25 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free
Beyond that, it is the MSM playing propaganda arm for the DNC as it spins and obfuscates and covers for the communist it so dearly loves. Thank God for the internet, radio and Fox News.
It makes no sense to post a link so I am just going to link to FreeRepublic so my post is accepted. Hope that works.
Sorry folks, looks like I screwed up my links, which I thought would self html.
So here are the links to the above articles:
WASHINGTON POST:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/09/06/van_jones_resigns.html
CHICAGO TRIBUNE:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/sns-ap-us-obama-adviser-resigns,0,7496882.story
LOS ANGELES TIMES:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/09/obama-adviser-van-jones.html
USA TODAY
USA Today links to “Politico” article:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/26809.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL:
Link to ABC News website:
Link to NBC News:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32712017/ns/politics-white_house/
Link to CBS News:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/06/politics/main5290652.shtml?tag=cbsnewsSectionContent.6
Link to CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/06/obama.adviser.resigns/index.html
Link to FOX News main article (you can find the rest):
I think all these make Obama/Jones look bad.
On Fox News tonight, I think it was Bill Crystal who pointed out that the White House BRAGGED about getting this guy, and that the WH KNEW, full well, who Van Jones was.
I posted a thread with is a technical vanity, but it is a compilation of articles on the Van Jones story from various sources.
To achieve this, I had to embed all of the links in the body and in a post below (to get them to work) so I ended up just linking the URL back to FreeRepublic.
My point is, I used very brief excerpt and summaries. The news sources are The Washington Post, the NY Times, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and FOX News.
I just want to make sure I did not violate any of the copyright rules of the forum, and I am requesting if I have, please edit my post as needed. My excerpts are very brief and sometimes summaries and I am not aware that I violated any of the forum excerpting or linking rules. I would appreciate your confirming that.
Thank you.
The ABC comments were from Jake Tapper, who is the only person in the White House press corps to call it like it is.
Why in the world shouldn't Republicans be doing this? These are people that could have a major effect on legislation, yet they have not been vetted in the least. Frankly, shame on the media for simply rolling over and not doing their own homework on these guys. But this isn't a surprise, of course.
I see no problem. Good job!
Good job, thanks for posting!
I agree. And may I add, Well Done Glenn Beck!
Good job!!
BTTT !!
Not a single other news source will admit to that truth. A few blame poor vetting while the rest ignore the question entirely.
Glenn Beck has asked the question “Did Obama know about Van Jones radical communist background or is he ignorant about all the radical czars surrounding him?”
This is the fulcrum that Beck is going to beat on, and correctly. This is not about Van Jones. This is all about Obama surrounding himself with radical communists. The die has now been cast, as a few of the MSM sources covering for him are calling it a matter of bad vetting. So that is going to be the “official” reason.
As Glenn Beck and Rush, Hannity, Savage, FOX and all the rest begin to expose more and more radical communists surrounding Obama, he is going to look very stupid for having not vetted these dozens of personal advisors so close to him and he will look incompetent.
Obama chose the right way to go. He could not admit “OK you caught me. I’m a communist and I’m trying to move the USA there and here is my army to do it.” He had to throw Van Jones under the bus with a “oops, we didn’t vet this obscure underling.”
Now Obama is trapped. As more and more radicals are exposed close to him, he is going to have to start explaining why he missed so many of them being unvetted, and that will lead to the obvious question, “Mr President, how could you recruit so many radical communists? Just coincidence?”
Some Congressmen are already calling for vetting his remaining czars and advisers, based on Van Jones “slipping through”. This is the opening the Republicans in Congress need to out the other czars. “Mr. President, if Van Jones wasn’t competently vetted, you better let us vet the others competently so we can be sure you don’t have any other accidental radical communists slip through.”
Obama is trapped. Check and mate.
If the Republicans are aggressive enough at this, it puts Obama on the defensive and he has to abandon even pursuing socialized medicine until he can get through the entire process of vetting all of his advisors.
Not that this will happen automatically. The Republican Senators and Congressmen have to demand this, with the help of the public demanding this. The Republicans need to go on the offensive immediately and demand that the backgrounds of all of Obama’s czars be rechecked, on the suspicion that others may have oops slipped through. If Obama didn’t vet this czar, then it stands to reason there are others he didn’t vet either, and so the Congress is right to demand it. If Obama refuses, then he is caught in “what are you trying to hide, Mr. President? Are you saying you know there are others who can’t pass being vetted?”
Check and mate.
Gotta love how the media blames “poor vetting” by the Obama Administration, while they themselves did no vetting of Jones at all (or, if they did, failed to report their findings).
I always fear that the Republican are just the other side of the coin. Remember, when they hold power over a socialist USA, it is still their power over us. So I don’t see them fighting too hard.
We need true conservatives and there are damn few among the Republicans who are.
Your point is spot on, of course. Why aren’t the Republicans fighting to get back power by exposing who Obama’s radical communist character and agenda. Does Hillary still have those 900 FBI files? I would like to see the Republicans get a spine and fight for their return to power. This is a golden opportunity. Come out swinging, only they have to have FACTS. Hard facts. Not innuendo or leads. Beck exposed Van Jones on the hard facts.
My fear is the country club republicans don’t want to be kicked out of the clubhouse.
Thank you. I sought to not violate your policies or create trouble.
Remember, this is NOT about the MSM. This is about Obama. The golden boy, the annointed one, the Messiah who can go no wrong, has now shown some incompetence in vetting his people.
Glenn Beck has nailed him down. He had to either reveal his communist character or show his incompetence at vetting his advisors. He chose incompetence. That is now the angle of approach. Who else did he incompetently fail to vet and how many radical communists infiltrated his administration as a result of sloppy or negligent vetting?
You and I know he was intentionally recruiting communists so as to transform the US government into a socialist body. Now he has been caught at it. He has chosen to look incompetent rather than reveal it, and it is this opening that Republicans and conservatives at every level must seize. “Who else did you fail to vet. We’ll do that for you just to be sure”. As more radical communists are revealed close to him, the public will start to ask why and how this could happen. It won’t be his downfall, but he could lose support among the wishy washy middle and independents that he needs to implement his communist agenda.
If the Republicans get off their butts and seize this opening, Obama will be the one on defense instead of the Republicans, and they could turn this into many picked-up seats in 2010. But they have to do in deep. They have to demand to vet all the czars and they have to expose all the communists and the crazies therein. They don’t even have to call on Obama to fire them. All they have to do is reveal them for the people to see. That would be enough. Guilt by association.
Glenn Beck hammered home the point that Obama said, “judge me by those around me”. Well, lets expose them and judge them. The Republicans need to vet every single one of Obama’s advisers. Every one. Do they have the constitutional authority? I have no clue. But if Obama refuses to let them, they can play the “what are you hiding from the American people, Mr. President”. Not checkmate, but certainly, “check”.
It is time for the Republicans to start playing offense and not just reacting to the avalanche of socialist legislation and policies Obama and Pelosi have been drowning them with.
My hat is off to Mr. Tapper. He showed no fear of his fellow newsmen. I didn’t think I would ever see anyone in the MSM use the words Communism, Marxism and Leninism to label a Democrat, let alone one of Obama’s inner circle.
Wow, we have an actual JOURNALIST at ABC. Just when I thought journalism was completely dead, one appears. Very cool.
[”Jones’s position did not require Senate confirmation, so he avoided the kind of vetting Cabinet officials were subjected to.”]
Oh, now that they have finally brought the subject up, doesn’t our “watchdog” press consider Barak Obama’s position important enough for him to be subject to the kind of vetting that his Cabinet officials were subjected to?
When I applied for even a job as a low level engineer I had to produce college transcripts. For a low level security clearance one has to produce a real birth certificate.
We know that Van Jones matriculated through Yale, even if it was, as he has acknowledged, a boolsheeatt program. But this Obama character! Was he even born? Maybe he was hatched from an egg. It’s beginning to appear that we’ll never know for sure.
Keep working at it, watchdog press. Let us know as soon as you find something. The suspense is killing us.
I think that your last post only further serves to point out that it is as much about the MSM’s failure to honestly report Obama’s radical connections as it is about Obama’s radical connections themselves.
There is no way Obama could have been elected with an honest media. In fact, there is no way Bill Clinton could have. It took 60 minutes to save his candidacy and have Hillary “stand by her man”.
The MSM is the DNC. They are one and the same. At least, they are a propaganda arm of the DNC. But the time has past for how Obama seized power. The problem now is how to stymie him — expose him — drain his popular support so he cannot push through his socialist agenda. We need to pick up a lot of Republican seats and get back either the House or the Senate. In the meantime, he has AT LEAST 15 more months with a willing legislature to keep ramming his agenda through, and possibly 39 more months.
We need to stymie him in the meantime and that means exposing his radicalism so as to drain his popular support.
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