Charles Krauthammer at his best in identifying how a Van Jones can happen in Obama’s world:
It’s a reflection of the boss. The boss also had a history before he became a candidate of being around and friends with the likes of Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers. The liberals scolded us last year on how irrelevant all that is and how it’s a smear campaign against Obama. But, if you live in that environment and you find nothing inherently wrong with that kind of radicalism. Then a Van Jones will show up. You’ll watch him years and years and you’ll think this guy is perfectly mainstream.
We’ve been saying this very same thing for over a year now. What did we hear from the left when Obama’s associations with nuts and racists was brought up? Why, we’re all just racists ourselves….nothing to see here.
We all railed against the MSM bias in not covering the associations, and now we need no clearer proof of this then the Van Jones story. If you received your news from the MSM you had no idea who Van Jones was, Andrew Brietbart:
…the American mainstream media – ABC, NBC, CBS, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, et al – must be held to account for sitting on the sidelines as this major story kept building without them, went viral on YouTube, and then became so large that a key appointee of President Obama was forced to step down.
But with their decision to ignore the Jones story, they may have actually done Mr. Obama far more harm than good: Who vetted this guy? How did he get past the FBI? What did he say, and how did he answer the infamous seven-page questionnaire that all Obama appointees were required to fill out? Inquiring Freedom of Information Act minds want to know.
For most people in this country, the resignation was the first they had heard of Van Jones. For this sin of journalistic omission, there’s institutional media blame. Bias is too tame a word for the utter shamelessness on display: Only Republican scandals – real and imagined – matter.
~~~…the Jones narrative hurts Mr. Obama because it underlines how the mainstream media helped elect the president by glorifying him instead of vetting him.
Just as Mr. Obama was not even cursorily investigated, Van Jones, a fellow “community organizer,” was not given the slightest media attention when named as an unaccountable “czar” selected to oversee billions in taxpayer money for the ambiguous purpose of “green energy.” And that despite having a body of damning evidence that could be found with a single Google search by an ADHD-addled high-school journalism student.
Andrew details a couple more stories about this administration that the MSM is silent on:
One of the stories is that ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, a massive radical organization, is poised to receive billions from the Obama “stimulus.”
ACORN’s voting division is currently under investigation in multiple states for fraud. And its housing division exists to fulfill an unclear mandate that has been accused of using funds to pay for political protests. If the alternative media digs further and finds out ACORN is guilty as charged, and as corrupt as its ample critics say it is, the onus is those who didn’t question when the Obama team decided to allocate billions to expand the group’s reach.
Brian Williams, the ball is in your court.
Another story not making the evening news is that of artist Patrick Courrielche, who has shown that the National Endowment of the Arts is seeking to use government funds to promote Obama administration initiatives. On Sunday’s “This Week,” George Will pierced the mainstream media veil.
“Recently there was a conference call arranged by the National Endowment for the Arts, with a representative of the White House, for potential grantees or actual grantees of the federal government, getting subsidies – the theme of it was how the arts community could advance the president’s agenda. Now I don’t know how many laws that breaks, but I am sure there are some.”
What are you waiting for, Katie Couric?
We know what she’s waiting for. She’s waiting for it all to blow over, for the left to come to the rescue, so she and her fellow “reporters” don’t have a hand in damaging their messiah. As the saying goes, the cover up is always worse then the crime. Hell, why didn’t she just try to excuse Van Jones and his beliefs like another nut…ahem…Democrat tried today. (h/t JustOneMinute)
Now he’s been thrown under the bus by the White House for signing his name to a petition expressing something that 35% of all Democrats believed as of 2007 — that George Bush knew in advance about the attacks of 9/11.
Nope, that’s not a The Onion piece….that’s Jane Hamsher who just made Krauthammer’s point. You surround yourself by nutcases and you start to think being a nutcase is normal.
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Yay! I got the First View. 🙂
Van Jones is just the tip of the iceberg. This can’t all be dismissed as campaign hype from the Republicans.
I hear inklings that as more and more stories of corruption and political dealings, along with waste and fraud from the stimulus bill come to light it will be impossible for the “news” media to ignore.
Combine that with Independents who now realize that Obama isn’t the messiah they were expecting and things are going to get really interesting over the next year.
Is it possible that Obama is so inexperienced that he needs to have so many “advisers”? Obama finds no problem in “hiring” nutjobs like Van Jones, whose thinking is exceedingly defective, because Obama himself thinks in the same way.
Or, could it be that Obama is “stacking-the-deck”, placing “key” people in various departments so that he can circumvent laws requiring the vetting of essential people in his administration. Obama’s plan may be to have as many “czarinos” and others reporting directly to him and thus avoid congressional or other oversight.
My guess is that Obama may never be pictured on the front of any monetary unit like the rest of those others. Obama is flagrant on radicalism, socialism and hypocrisy.
NOTICE OF HEARING TODAY (TUESDAY, September 8th, 2009):
Attorney Orly Taitz has filed:
Hearing: Motion for Discovery of records showing relevance to eligibility
Location: Federal Court building in Santa Ana, CA
Time/Date: 8:00 AM Pacific Tuesday, September 8th 2009
Judge: David O. Carter
The above news of hearing was reported on KFI 640 on September 5th, 2009. She (Orly) claims Obama is a fake and that she has in her possession, what she calls, the original, genuine, certified Barrack Hussein Obama birth certificate from ….. KENYA.
http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/
Time to KICK more butt out of the Obama administration:
EXCLUSIVE: Obama nominee omitted ties to biotech (Washington Times 09-08-09)
“President Obama’s nominee at the Department of Homeland Security overseeing bioterrorism defense has served as a key adviser for a lobbying group funded by the pharmaceutical industry that has asked the government to spend more money for anthrax vaccines and biodefense research.
But Dr. Tara O’Toole, whose confirmation as undersecretary of science and technology is pending, never reported her involvement with the lobbying group called the Alliance for Biosecurity in a recent government ethics filing.
The alliance has spent more than $500,000 lobbying Congress and federal agencies — including Homeland Security — since 2005, congressional records show. ”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/08/obama-nominee-omitted-ties-to-biotech/
COMMENT: KICK BARACK OBAMA OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE NOW. SAVE AMERICA!
Just as in chemistry, Sooner or later, these stories of corruption and radicalism are going to saturate everone elses awareness. At that point, Obama is finished. The same MSM that actively got him elected is going to crucify him.
Honestly, even a couple weeks back, I did not hope that the Obama love fest might be over. Now, after this one with VJ, I see the looks in the O supporters at my place of work. Ever see a puppy rapped on the nose by their beloved? This is what these folks look like now. Hurt, betrayed and Confused (with a capital C).
And here is an example of the end result of Obama’s radical plan:I find this information chilling. We have another “Czar” saying that Sharia Law would be just fine in some cases in our legal system; Minnesota (WTH is wrong with them?) apparently has a large Somali Muslim population already trying to get the courts to cede to this…along with special treatment from employers for the 5 x a day prayer, etc.
Genocide: How Islamic Colonisation Destroys Your Heritage (UK)
The bloodless genocide and ethnic cleansing of the British people and culture continues apace with the latest example being the ripping up of a century old Christian cemetery to make way for a mosque in Manchester.
The grave desecrations, being carried out with a large Komatsu earthmover in the graveyard of the St John the Apostle and Evangelist church at the corner of Holmfirth Street and St John’s Road, is part of the re-opening of this nineteenth century church as the Dar-ul-Ulum Qadria Jilania “Islamic Centre.”
A sign on the door says clearly that the “Islamic Centre” is already “open for prayer” — showing that by Islamic centre the colonisers actually mean mosque.
The conversion of this church (founded in 1845 on a site donated by Sir J. W. H. Anson) into a mosque has been made possible by the displacement of the local indigenous British population by waves of Third World immigration into Manchester.
As this policy gathered pace under successive Tory and Labour governments, the numbers of Third World colonisers grew to the point where they have now totally displaced the indigenous population.
As there were no more white British people in the local area, the Grade II listed status church closed down — only now to be re-opened as a mosque.
This church — formerly the largest Church of England parish in Longsight, was the only one in the area with a graveyard.
These Christian British graves — the only remnant of the now ethnically cleansed British people in the area — are obviously offensive to the Muslim colonisers, who have brought in the earthmoving machine to smash up the gravestones which are being literally crushed to rubble.
For photos and more, link to article:
h… bnp.org.uk/2009/09/genocide-how-islamic-colonisation-destroys-your-heritage/
New Guy:
Here are four articles that run along that vein.
Van Jones Scandal Threatens Obama Presidency
Van Jones Mystery Solved?
Valerie Jarrett’s Show
Here’s that last part again. I want to emphasize it:
A White House source in the counsel’s office released information to the press anonymously “in the hopes that information about concerns raised by the counsel’s office about Jones might push him out of the Administration.”
I find that stunning.
Someone, or several someones, in the White House knew what was in Jones’ background and he was hired anyway, over the objections of the WH counsel…absolutely stunning. Some reports I’m reading say that Michelle O and VP Biden are among those who gave the thumbs up.
Had Enough? Obama’s John Mitchell Strategy
Unless Obie and the gang can create some sort of diversion or, in some other way stanch the bleeding in the polls, and in the exposure of their vulnerable underbelly, my gut tells me we are quite possibly seeing the beginning of a Great Unraveling.
Good round up of links Aye! It’s been abundantly clear to me from the beginning that the problem here wasn’t Van Jones radical past, but the radical past, present and future of the man at the top.