More Van Jones: A Reverend Wright moment?
posted at 10:12 am on September 4, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
Thanks to the work done by Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit, an army of Davids has begun scouring the Internet to find more about Barack Obama adviser Van Jones and his bent towards 9/11 Trutherism. Hot Air reader Geoff A digs out this nugget from 2002 at the first anniversary of 9/11 in San Francisco, when Jones appeared at the Embarcadero for a protest. Here’s the description, which sounds familiar to anyone who followed the Obama presidential campaign (emphases mine):
# Wednesday, Sept. 11, 5:30 AM – 7:30 PM
ALL-DAY SEPT. 11 PEACE GATHERING
Justin Herman Plaza, Embarcadero at Market Street
Join us in commemorating the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001, and envisioning a
world free of war and violence with a full day of art, culture, spirit,
politics, and words of hope. 5:30 AM Buddhist Peace Service
12 Noon Break Bread for Peace Lunch Program
5:30 PM Concert w/Holly Near, Michael Franti, Ram Dass and others
peace [at] globalexchange.org http://www.unitedforpeace.org
5:30 AM Buddhist Peace Service Led by the San Francisco Zen Center
(impact time at the World Trade Center)
12 Noon -1:00 PM Break Bread Lunch Program Music and words of
truth from diverse communities that have experienced violence
1-3pm United My Ass! http://www.truth-now.com
If terrorism is a form of warfare, and war terrorizes, then what
exactly is a war on terror? got freedom? God ‘Less America
5:30 PM Peace Gathering & Concert
Performers and presenters include:
Michael Franti, Holly Near, Ram Dass
Van Jones, Medea Benjamin, Dance Brigade
Sat Santokh Khalsa, Guru Singh, Rabbi Michael Lerner
Goapele, New Soul Singers, and others!
“God ‘Less America”? Sounds a little like this, doesn’t it?
Note, too, the URL on the event: truth-now.com is now something apolitical, but using the Wayback machine, one sees the incoherent political manifesto that was posted there.
Who were the presenters besides Jones?
- Medea Benjamin co-founded Code Pink, 9/11 Truth petition signatory
- Michael Franti – Signatory to 9/11 Truth petition, rock singer
- Holly Near, 9/11 Truth activist, singer
- Rabbi Michael Lerner, 9/11 Truther
Perhaps Jones can argue that he was invited to provide ideological balance to the proceedings, but that seems as unlikely as his statement that he didn’t read the 9/11 Truth petition before signing it. He has been deeply immersed in the paranoid-conspiracy movement for years.
Update: Jones also worked on an anti-war underground magazine, although it doesn’t appear to have partaken in the 9/11 truth kool-aid. It’s really just standard anti-war prattle, and it doesn’t appear to have survived for long.
Update II: Jake Tapper keeps asking questions.
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this is not the Van Jones I knew (but it really was cuz I wanted this brotha’ in my administration cuz he can really hoop and we on da same page yo.)
ted c on September 4, 2009 at 10:17 AM
There is another element to this story, the way the fashionable and elites fell over this truther, its says a great deal about the democrat political complex as well as Obama.
rob verdi on September 4, 2009 at 10:17 AM
I just called my rep/sen and the WH and expressed my feelings on this. Jones must go!!
becki51758 on September 4, 2009 at 10:17 AM
Again, why the shock? These are Obama’s peeps. He’s a radical leftist. Are some folks just now getting the memo?
Rational Thought on September 4, 2009 at 10:18 AM
So he’s a nut, Marxist, Commie, Revolutionary, traitor – those are plus sign in the Obama vetting process! And he didn’t pay his taxes………Bingo, he’s got the job!
Cinday Blackburn on September 4, 2009 at 10:18 AM
I do hope every single one of Obama’s Czars and Secretaries are given the same once over as Van Jones.
Elizabetty on September 4, 2009 at 10:18 AM
Meh, no big deal.
So he thought the federal government was involved in mass murder, conspiracy, and war crimes; wanted to overthrow our electoral system; wanted our leaders arrested for ‘treason’; was an active communist; expressed written support for domestic terrorists, SO FREAKING WHAT?
That was like all the way back in 2004. That was Playstation 2 America. This is Playstation 3 america.
battleoflepanto1571 on September 4, 2009 at 10:18 AM
Swarming.
Love it.
aquaviva on September 4, 2009 at 10:18 AM
Next whackjob up,..Carol Browner
a capella on September 4, 2009 at 10:18 AM
Depressing truth: @jaketapper appears to be the only non-Fox member of big media willing to cover the Van Jones story
How sad indeed.
Lance Murdock on September 4, 2009 at 10:19 AM
C’mon, he didn’t know this about the guy, okay? You guys just expect waay too much from Barack. Talk about hyper critical, man.
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Bob's Kid on September 4, 2009 at 10:19 AM
Exactly. I hope some people with the time and skills can search for stuff on others. Jones is cooked, move on to the others
BuckNutty on September 4, 2009 at 10:20 AM
This guy definitely needs to be thrown under the Obama bus.
bopbottle on September 4, 2009 at 10:20 AM
Jones and Wright are two peas out of the same pod, the Marxist “black liberation” theology/ideology pod.
petefrt on September 4, 2009 at 10:21 AM
This gets better and better. Exactly when will Rosie O’Donnell jump out of the cake?
joedoe on September 4, 2009 at 10:21 AM
birds of a radical feather…
ted c on September 4, 2009 at 10:22 AM
It is hard to survive, when you are under the bus, Mr. Jones.
Johan Klaus on September 4, 2009 at 10:22 AM
Does anyone think there might be some scrambling at the White House this morning? Or, would that delay tee time?
joedoe on September 4, 2009 at 10:22 AM
I called by two senators regarding all these appointed czars. One office told me that this issue is coming up and the senate is going to address it. I hope they do. If they don’t, then us un-American, hate-monger, racist, stupid citizens need to find a way to put a stop to it.
bopbottle on September 4, 2009 at 10:22 AM
Lance Murdock
From Al Gore, to Friedman, to Pelosi, to Obama. The heart of the political elites embraced this guy, to expose it all would be a political embarrassment of the highest magnitude.
rob verdi on September 4, 2009 at 10:22 AM
“I am a Communist” wasn’t enough for you folks?
faraway on September 4, 2009 at 10:23 AM
Just another ObamaCommie
faraway on September 4, 2009 at 10:23 AM
Chickens coming home to roAst
seven on September 4, 2009 at 10:25 AM
True, but slowly and surely the liberal media is losing its power. They can’t salvage the rancor over healthcare, Palin’s voice is stronger than ever, and Van Jones has been marked and there is no recovery for him. The voices of the people are moving towards drowning out the voice of the media.
sherry on September 4, 2009 at 10:25 AM
That was a painful visual image, too close to lunchtime. Thanks.
bookman on September 4, 2009 at 10:26 AM
With his apologies, does he need some sort of conflicted postmodern disclaimer before he opens his mouth?
“The views expressed and supported by me are not necessarily my views.”
mwbri on September 4, 2009 at 10:26 AM
Hey Ed,
How about some credit where credit is due? Gatewaypundit and all the rest of the bloggers would have never started this firestorm were it not for Glenn Beck.
Glenn just put himself in the history books and I don’t think he’s close to being done with the dismantling of the thugs in the White House.
Knucklehead on September 4, 2009 at 10:26 AM
This is a new slant on the taxation without representation angle. It is more like taxation to pay for too much un-vetted representation.
joedoe on September 4, 2009 at 10:26 AM
sherry on September 4, 2009 at 10:25 AM
nicely put, very nicely put.
ted c on September 4, 2009 at 10:26 AM
This doesn’t embarrass Obama. Frank Marshal davis Raised Obama. Frank was a commie and a pedophile.
seven on September 4, 2009 at 10:26 AM
How many more of these left wing nuts must Obama hire and collaborate with before the brain dead mainstream media comes out of its coma and exposes them for what they are . . . I know, I know, that’s a rhetorical question.
rplat on September 4, 2009 at 10:27 AM
THIS JUST CANT BE!!! CHARLES JOHNSON AND LITTLEGREENFOOTBALLS SWORE THAT BECAUSE CHARLES COULDNT FIND ANYTHING FROM TYPING ONE PHRASE IN GOOGLE LAST NIGHT THEN VAN JONES IS INNOCENT!!!!!!
COGNITIVE DISSSSONANNNNNCCCCCEEEEEEEE
battleoflepanto1571 on September 4, 2009 at 10:27 AM
Glenn Beck is the media equivalent of an SF operator–kicking in doors and turning over furniture.
He’s doing the job he was made to do.
ted c on September 4, 2009 at 10:27 AM
If Jones weren’t black, none of you would care; black people can’t be racist and can’t be morons, that’s a fact.
Bishop on September 4, 2009 at 10:28 AM
Obama is going to need a bigger bus, must be pretty crowded under there.
farright on September 4, 2009 at 10:28 AM
MAKE SOME ROOM UNDER THE O BUS!
gotta feeling someone is about to be thrown under…..if not, can’t wait for the 2012 debates to hear his Czars questioned….>LOL
SDarchitect on September 4, 2009 at 10:28 AM
Palin seems to be missing some real opportunities lately. Is she getting out of the game, or just getting some very bad advice?
joedoe on September 4, 2009 at 10:28 AM
The biggest surprise …..
Why haven’t Van Jones disgraceful quotes been scrubbed off of the internet by the friends of Hussein?
I hope y’all are making copies while they still exist.
fogw on September 4, 2009 at 10:28 AM
I think it would be better for all of us if he remained around Obama’s neck as the albatross to remind us all just how perverted O-idiot truly is.
larvcom on September 4, 2009 at 10:29 AM
Exactly, I believe that it is very naive to think that Obama didn’t know the background of Jones or any of the other lefties he appointed to fill his newly created socialist offices.
I smell the rancid odor of Rahm Emanuel in this too.
docdave on September 4, 2009 at 10:29 AM
With so much coverage from the alternative media, the story seems to be breaking into MSM at last.
At cbsnews.com: For Van Jones, A Week Already Feels Like A Year
petefrt on September 4, 2009 at 10:29 AM
It’s ironic that Jones’s dangerous and destructive policy ideas are not really a political liability. But if we can nail him with his wacky beyond the left field bullpen beliefs, I’ll take it. In my experience this is typical of Washington. What gets a dangerous man fired is not really what is dangerous about him.
jwolf on September 4, 2009 at 10:29 AM
Will Obama fire him? I think he is afraid of giving Glenn Beck credibility in the MSM.
cubachi on September 4, 2009 at 10:30 AM
Diamondback, Timber, Sidewinder…..all the same critter.
Limerick on September 4, 2009 at 10:30 AM
Hey obama media,wake up!There is no way on God’s green earth that you do not see what is going on! O is using you,he will throw you under the bus as quickly as he can say I AM THE PREZ;I WON!when he is through w/you. You look like fools and everyone in the world sees it.
ohiobabe on September 4, 2009 at 10:30 AM
That really is the great point in all of this. Wasn’t that enough?
aquaviva on September 4, 2009 at 10:30 AM
hence glenn beck’s latest tweet:
battleoflepanto1571 on September 4, 2009 at 10:30 AM
I like to see Charles Johnson over at Little Green Football to spin out of this… He’s leftist fraud and a hypocrite…
ZoneDaiatlas on September 4, 2009 at 10:30 AM
I view the Van Jones Moment as something that has almost nothing to do with Van Jones, but everything to do with Barack Hussein Obama.
Is Van Jones the tipping point for confirmation of the pre-election issues about Obama and leftist/Marxist radicals?
Bill Ayers
Bernie Dohrn
Jeremiah Wright
Calypso Louie Farrakhan
Mikey Pfleger
Cass Sunstein
Samantha Power
Van Jones
That’s a lot of straws on Obama’s camel.
Jaibones on September 4, 2009 at 10:31 AM
The really cool thing is this …
Obama is afraid of this guy.
Look – put yourself in Ogabe’s shoes here …
First – the guy is a distraction – he’s gotta go – he’s killing the administration every second he remains a part of it.
But …
Van Jones can be a VERY loose cannon. He’s not a stabile individual. He’s a radical. If he’s forced to resign – he’ll go on the offensive to do damage to the Obama administration. What does he know that could do that?
Oh – I’m sure he could explain a lot about the vetting process he went through. I’m sure he could confirm to us that not only did the Ogabe administration know he was a communist – they recruited him because of it. I’m sure he could share a lot of little juicy details about private conversations he’s had with Ogabe.
So firing Van Jones will have to be done delicately – and it’ll come – no doubt – with a “pay off” for him remain silent. No doubt us taxpayers, already paying Van Jones’ salary – will soon be paying for his hush money.
HondaV65 on September 4, 2009 at 10:31 AM
What does Rev. Jeremiah Wright have to say about all of this? He has got to be about ripe to let his ego explode once more.
joedoe on September 4, 2009 at 10:31 AM
And your proof of that is???
docdave on September 4, 2009 at 10:31 AM
Holy Crap. Bob Beckel is on Fox News admitting Jones has to go. He claims not to believe Jones “passed” any kind of a vetting process.
Whatever the case, if you got Beckel saying you have to go, you have to go.
BuckeyeSam on September 4, 2009 at 10:32 AM
Ed, AP,
Here’s your Van Jones screencap: giving the commie raised fist salute.
aquaviva on September 4, 2009 at 10:32 AM
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Bishop was just channeling liberal343/liberal4eva
Limerick on September 4, 2009 at 10:33 AM
Maybe Van Jones does not work for Obama but he works for the guy who pulls Obama’s strings.
Soros?
Elizabetty on September 4, 2009 at 10:33 AM
Glenn Beck has boxed Obama into a corner. Barry will not allow Beck to become a hero.
Knucklehead on September 4, 2009 at 10:34 AM
OK Time to move on to the next czar: Cass Sunstein. Let’s keep the heat on until Van rides off into the sunset but start gearing up for Sunstein.
red131 on September 4, 2009 at 10:34 AM
Just thinking how John McCain had to throw John Hagee under the bus for an anti Catholic statement.
fourdeucer on September 4, 2009 at 10:34 AM
I’m watching. Did you see how it was labeled an “alert”. As in pigs are actually flying.
sherry on September 4, 2009 at 10:34 AM
Think Clinton. Think Vince.
What problem?
fogw on September 4, 2009 at 10:34 AM
Jones will have to resign and state that during these difficult times he does not wish to be a distraction, yada, yada, yada….
There is no delicate way Obama can fire the dude and turn it to his political advantage.
joedoe on September 4, 2009 at 10:35 AM
no one respond to this guy.
Bishop has admitted before MULTIPLE times he’s actually a white college kid from Cali. He’s a dailykos plant.
battleoflepanto1571 on September 4, 2009 at 10:36 AM
Is that the Afghan/Pakistan border behind him in that picture?
fogw on September 4, 2009 at 10:37 AM
Why is Bob being so racist with all that H8 speech? Doesn’t he know that “green jobs” are vital and Van Jones is preeminently qualified for this position–just ask him.//sarc
ted c on September 4, 2009 at 10:38 AM
Here’s a bit of non-violent resistance for you, Mr. Jones, that I’m sure you’ll recall from your indoctrination classes: I did not vote for you. I do not recognize your false authority. I find your political beliefs to be incompatible with any office within my country and I demand that you resign immediately or I will begin legal action to have you removed from office.
BackwardsBoy on September 4, 2009 at 10:38 AM
Jones will resign, start an environmental consulting firm and get the first billion dollar contract from the Green Job initiative.
joedoe on September 4, 2009 at 10:38 AM
Mike Tyson blows that theory all to he!!.
thomasaur on September 4, 2009 at 10:38 AM
Stay safe, Glenn. Watch your back. We can’t lose you now.
petefrt on September 4, 2009 at 10:39 AM
I predict he will not be fired. Instead, he will leave ‘voluntarily’ because the right-wing bru-ha-ha has become a distraction to the president and his agenda. He will be a savior…a hero, paying the biggest sacrifice for obiwambo.
LEBA on September 4, 2009 at 10:40 AM
Don’t get overwrought over a little sarcasm. I think he’s just trolling for trolls but they are usually MIA on threads like this.
a capella on September 4, 2009 at 10:40 AM
It’s funny to see how this administration blames all kinds of crap on Bush, when it was Bush who ran the cleanest and most scandal free administration ever. Bush is making Obama look like bush league as Ron Burgundy would say.
Makes one wonder. If these liberals are so smart, why do they act like such jackasses and constantly fight themselves into ideological wet paper bags they can’t fight their way out of. Throws into question the definition of “intelligent” when used in the context of the left.
ted c on September 4, 2009 at 10:40 AM
Yep, and then we move on to the next ObamaCzar.
petefrt on September 4, 2009 at 10:41 AM
Oh my. Just now watching Fox News. Bob “Blowhard” Beckel says Jones will be gone by Monday, but then the talking head says “what about the other czars?” Now the backgrounds of all of ‘em are going to become front and center. This should suck the oxygen out of Obama’s agenda for at least the next month. And if he offloads Jones, what about the next one who’s uncovered as a radical, ex-con, communist, truther, etc.? You just know that there will be at least a few in there who are even worse than this guy. Groundswell alert!
Rational Thought on September 4, 2009 at 10:41 AM
sho nuff. I’ve said it before. The same as blue dogs that get voted out next year will slide right into healthcare “jobs” made for them, just for voting for it.
ted c on September 4, 2009 at 10:42 AM
I have it on in the background around a corner. Sadly, Fox has that goofy Andrea Tantarros for the conservatives. More and more, she reminds me of a younger, more ethnic (Greek?), female version of Sean Hannity. I really wish Fox could come up with a better fallback conservative. I say more Jeri Thompson.
Anyway, I’m stunned to see Beckel–who defended Obama to the hilt regarding Obama’s associations with Wright, Ayers, et al.–cave on Jones so easily. He didn’t even put up a fight. In fact, he questioned the vetting process so firmly that it raises the same question for all these other Czars, as well as Valerie Jarrett.
Paging Glenn Beck.
BuckeyeSam on September 4, 2009 at 10:42 AM
There is an old book by Taylor Cauldwell called “Captains and Kings.” It’s written as fiction, but she says in preface that she wrote it in hopes of waking the young people of this country up as to what’s happening within our country. The book was published in early seventy, I believe. I read it while in college in the late seventies. It literally is a script for what is happening. Throughout my live, I’ve seen what she laid out in the book happen little by little, but no one wanted to listen, family and friends, etc.
To think that Obama and his crew care about Van Jones is foolish. They are Van Jones; they want the same things and hate with the same level of hatred as he and his kind do.
If you can get a copy of that book, I encourage you to read it. She breaks it down, and you will be amazed at how on target she was.
texanpride on September 4, 2009 at 10:42 AM
Whitey’s victim and proof Jim Crow still carries the day.
a capella on September 4, 2009 at 10:42 AM
FIFY.
conservative pilgrim on September 4, 2009 at 10:43 AM
Could it be that Obama really believed all the hype and press about himself and he believed (mistakenly) that the American voters gave him a mandate to dismantle the capitalist- and Christian-based USA and remake it into the radical socialist vision of Obama?
Common sense says that no administration would put a person like Van Jones in a position close to the President. That is unless the President wanted and needed the Van Jones-types in positions of power to carry out the Obama tear down and remake America.
With his drop in the polls and the uprising against anything Obama, is Obama taking these longer vacations because he is in shock? Perhaps Obama realizes now he totally misread his reason for being elected. And deep down, in his socialist gut, he can´t be the President of the United States (for a capitalist, democractic, Christian founded country) that the people really want?
albill on September 4, 2009 at 10:44 AM
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the_nile on September 4, 2009 at 10:44 AM
Glenn is acting like an armored cavalry regiment commander. Sending the troops on an end run around the static administration who can only play defense. He is fixing his targets and raining hell fire down on them.
ted c on September 4, 2009 at 10:45 AM
Speaking of qualifications, Jones has none. Given his position, I’d expect this guy to have some impressive credentials in economics or in energy (that is, earth science). But Jones’s qualifications are limited to the ability to start a race riot.
BuckeyeSam on September 4, 2009 at 10:45 AM
This whole administration is left of Putin, Chavez and Castro. We have Moscow on the Potomac.
Everything they propose must be defeated or we’ll have no America as we have always known it to leave to our children.
txdoc on September 4, 2009 at 10:45 AM
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powerpro on September 4, 2009 at 10:45 AM
Bob Beckel asked the best questions. The vetting process of the Secret Service and O admin.
We should stick to this point imho….
LurkerDood on September 4, 2009 at 10:45 AM
obiwando
That really cracked me up.
fogw on September 4, 2009 at 10:46 AM
First Wright, then Ayes, then Jones. I don’t like the president, and I never believed that he had no connection to those people, but I gave him the benefit of doubt because saying otherwise would do nothing. Now that more people are coming out of the woodwork, I think it is worth looking at them ALL to see who he has gathered as his disciples.
SnKArcbound on September 4, 2009 at 10:47 AM
Who else has these radical backgrounds? Who else are committed communists? What are their nefarious intentions for America?
ted c on September 4, 2009 at 10:48 AM
How can you say Jones has no quals? Heck, he’s a convicted felon, isn’t he? That has to be almost as good as being a community organizer.
petefrt on September 4, 2009 at 10:49 AM
ummm……All the kings horses, and all the kings men couln’t put Humpty together again.
mobydutch on September 4, 2009 at 10:50 AM
Where are the Democrats? Will any Democrat leader come forward to defend Van Jones and tell us of his credentials that he should be in charge of $30 Billion of stimulus?
Will Obama speak on behalf of Van Jones?
*crickets chirping*
TN Mom on September 4, 2009 at 10:52 AM
It’s un-American to question the motives of the Obama “administration” while they’re crapping on the American flag.
I mean, everyone has to take a dump and on the American flag is just a convenient place for it.
Hey, they’re busy people.
NoDonkey on September 4, 2009 at 10:52 AM
No wonder Obama and the FCC want to get control the airwaves–Beck, bloggers, and informed, curious citizens are searching for facts and exposing everything. I’m very thankful for the people who are fighting against this takeover of our country and blatant Marxist shift.
Somehow, I don’t think Hillary would’ve been as bad as Marxist Obama.
Thankfully all the people who ignored the warning signs and exposes during the election are waking up. It’s crazy.
conservative pilgrim on September 4, 2009 at 10:53 AM
Most definitely yes, his mentality is the true mark of a narcissist, and his psychosis will not permit him to acknowledge the negative side, that there are many who vehemently dislike him and his policies.
docdave on September 4, 2009 at 10:53 AM
I think you’ll need aleast 100K it is a great program and there are plenty of deep pockets. Thanks for the link!
HoustonRight on September 4, 2009 at 10:53 AM
Go Glenn for door number 2………
mobydutch on September 4, 2009 at 10:54 AM
Little Boy, Blue
Come blow your horn.
The sheep’s in the meadow
The cow’s in the corn
Where is the Little boy
Who looks after the sheep?
He’s under the haystack
Fast asleep!
TN Mom on September 4, 2009 at 10:55 AM
“I do hope every single one of Obama’s Czars and Secretaries are given the same once over as Van Jones.”
The only way they will be vetted is by you, the American people – annointing these hangers-on as Czars was Barry’s way of ensuring they got access to the trough and the opportunity to spread his message of socialism.
Want to know about the Czars – many of them anyway – I suggest reading Malkin’s book “Culture of Corruption” – it’s guaranteed to cause sleepless nights as you wonder what’s coming next from this administration that seems hell-bent on destroying America from the inside. . . .
karra on September 4, 2009 at 10:56 AM
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