Over The Night And In The Fog
By Mitch Berg
Saturday in the NARN, I said that Van Jones – Obama’s “Green Jobs” Czar – would step down on the graveyard shift, Saturday or Sunday, when the people are asleep and the media are playing infomercials.
Jones, who was a 9/11 truther and casual racist with a knack for reaching across the aisle – bailed out last night.
President Barack Obama’s adviser Van Jones has resigned amid controversy over past inflammatory statements, the White House said early Sunday.
Jones, an administration official specializing in environmentally friendly “green jobs” with the White House Council on Environmental Quality was linked to efforts suggesting a government role in the 2001 terror attacks and to derogatory comments about Republicans.
He never existed, Winston.
September 7th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Here’s what the NYTimes said about Jones’ resignation:
The adviser, Van Jones, a controversial and charismatic community organizer and “green jobs” advocate from the San Francisco Bay Area, signed a petition in 2004 questioning whether the Bush administration had allowed the terrorist attacks of September 2001 to provide a pretext for war in the Middle East.
What incredibly bad writing. Does ‘allowed’ refer to the ‘terrorist attacks of September 2001″ or the “pretext for war in the Middle East”?
Let me clarify:
The adviser, Van Jones, a controversial and charismatic community organizer and “green jobs” advocate from the San Francisco Bay Area, signed a petition in 2004 questioning whether the Bush administration had perpretated the terrorist attacks of September 2001 to provide a pretext for war in the Middle East.
Gimme an MFA from Columbia School of Journalism, please.
And this is from the same piece:
Howard Dean, the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, defended Mr. Jones on Sunday, saying he was being penalized for not realizing what the petition he signed in 2004 was.
“This guy’s a Yale-educated lawyer,” Mr. Dean said on “Fox News Sunday.”
The currency of being a Yale Law graduate is somewhat devalued when it is used as an excuse for signing documents you don’t understand.