Oh, and Van Jones Is a TERRORIST, Too

Here are the facts about Van Jones and the "Swift Boat" slander campaign led by Glenn Beck:

1) Van Jones is not a "communist": That's a completely fabricated charge in classic McCarthy style.

2) Van Jones was never in jail: This didn’t happen. His enemies made this story up.

3) Van Jones is a strong advocate of economic growth that is tied to protection of the planet and our natural resources. He has been a brilliant leader in this area, praised by Republicans and Democrats alike; he has many business allies.

4) Van Jones never claimed that "9/11 was an inside job" or anything remotely like that. He did sign a petition---that he admits was poorly worded when he read it again, years later---that asked our government to appoint another 9/11 type of commission to investigate facts that may have been overlooked in the first official inquiry. (And now learning that Karl Rove was on the phone daily with people who ran the first 9/11 inquiry, trying to influence them, is reason enough to question some of their work.)

5) Van Jones did call some Republicans "assholes" in a public forum and has acknowledged this and publicly apologized for it. In that same talk, he also called himself an "asshole". This tells you something about the tongue-in-cheek tone of that discussion.

Dick Cheney and George W. Bush called Adam Clymer of the New York Times an "asshole" in 2000 when they thought the microphones couldn't pick up their voices. They never apologized for that. Cheney also told a US Senator, to his face, to go "F..K yourself". And of course, Cheney never apologized for that either.

What this is REALLY all about is the rage and bitterness of the far-right extremists after they lost last year's election. They want to destroy President Obama's administration and they see Van Jones as their current target. Next month it will be someone else.

The REAL reason for these vicious and personal attacks on Van Jones is that he is three things the right-wing despises: liberal, black, and an environmentalist. They can't admit that publicly, so they have to invent slander like "communist". It's pathetic and shameful.

The facts demonstrate that this is nothing more than a savage attack from extremist elements. They're only confirming why people no longer trust them to hold political power.

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Men don't have to be black to be scary....some men's ideas and policies transcend the color of their skin. Look around and open your eyes. Hard to believe people, especially people who are supposed to be "journalists" (what a joke), can't take the blinders off. Wake up, quit sucking up to people because of the color of their skin and look beneath the color.

Everyone knows that if you have a problem -- any problem -- with a black man, it must be because of the color of his skin. Never mind the fact that HE calls himself a radical, an anarchist, and a communist. :)

Van Jones IS a Communist. Read his own words in this four-year-old article:

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/gyrobase/the_new_...

You people can not even draw a breath without pulling the race card out! Its a tired old card that everyone can see through. Get some new material! (Lefty)

This is a hissy fit stemming from Jones past association with Colors of Change and their campaign to get sponsors to drop the ads during Glenn Beck's show, dovetailing nicely with the nutty material Beck seems to be getting stovepiped directly from WND.
Circular, incestuous, and predictably absurd.

Here's the article. Can anyone who's more grown-up that Spencer Ackerman spot anything false or misleading in it?

24Ahead once walked down the same street as Charles Manson. I think that says it all.

"WND’s reputation for diligence with the truth speaks for itself."
Loudly, too.

Do they really think this nonsense is going to work? Were they in a cave during the entire '08 presidential campaign?

No. They were at Sarah Palin rallies.