…While the Gettin’s Good: Van Jones Resigns « NewsReal Blog

…While the Gettin’s Good: Van Jones Resigns « NewsReal Blog

This just in: Van Jones has “resigned” his post as the Obama administration’s Green Jobs Czar.

In his statement, released early this morning — over the Labor Day weekend, curious timing that — he made the dubious claim he had been “inundated with calls — from across the political spectrum — urging me to ’stay and fight.’” But black-hearted “opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me.[1] They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide.”

Now, he finds himself under the bus, with Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers, and other Obama associates who embarrassed the president by leaving a paper trail of the extremism that unites them. But his departure can’t bring closure. Jones is a racist, anti-American, self-described Communist with a soft-spot for cop-killer Mumia Abu Jamal and an unshakable notion that 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina were conspiracies. (Read my piece “Conspiracy Czar” in the weekend issue of FrontPage Magazine.) He once likened his rage to those who join guerrilla forces. He was so devoted to Messianic statism that he once said green jobs would “repair our souls.” (I feel defiled even quoting that line on a Sunday.) Everyone who voted for Barack Obama has to ask himself how he managed to tap Jones as “czar” over an entire sector of the U.S. economy.

Obama could begin by kicking out Valerie Jarrett who boasted Team Obama was “so delighted to be able to recruit him into the White House. We’ve been watching him really for — he’s not that old — for as long as he’s been active out in Oakland and all of the creative ideas that he has and so now we have captured that.” (Jones’ ideas were creative in the sense that they were unconstrained by reality.)

Of Course CNN makes van Jones a victim and never once talks about his extremist roots and how he wanted to overthrow the government. See their piece here for the propaganda version from the White House