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UPDATE: Obama’s “green jobs czar” a Truther, a bigot, and a commie

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But aside from all that, he’s just a peach.  Details:

A top environmental official of the Obama administration issued a statement Thursday apologizing for past incendiary statement and denying that he ever agreed with a 2004 petition on which his name appears, a petition calling for congressional hearings and an investigation by the New York Attorney General into “evidence that suggests high-level government officials may have deliberately allowed the September 11th attacks to occur.”

Van Jones, the Special Advisor for Green Jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, is Number 46 of the petitioners from the so-called “Truther” movement which suggests that people in the administration of President George W. Bush “may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war.”

In a statement issued Thursday evening Jones said of “the petition that was circulated today, I do not agree with this statement and it certainly does not reflect my views now or ever.”

He did not explain how his name came to be on the petition. A source said Jones did not carefully review the language in the petition before agreeing to add his name. 

Oh, if I had a dime for every time I signed a petition that I didn’t read, I would…um, not have a dime.  It’s like he’s trying to say “I was never really that involved with the Troofer movement, I just kinda signed a piece of paper someone stuck in my grill without really eyeballing it.”  There’s just one problem with that defense: it’s a friggin’ bold-faced lie.  Allahpundit gets it right when says “Note well: He doesn’t deny that he signed it. He denies that he agrees with it. Which means, I guess, that he’s asking us to create a new standard for public officials by which documents that bear their signature should no longer be used against them.”

Continuing:

With a history of incendiary and provocative remarks, many of them dealing with his view of how whites exploit minorities, Jones has emerged as the subject of much conservative scrutiny in recent days, particularly from Fox News’ Glenn Beck. (Jones defenders point out that most of Beck’s criticism came after a group Jones helped found, Color of Change, began pushing advertisers to boycott Beck after he accused President Obama of being a racist.)

Is it considering exploiting a minority by electing him president?  I’m just sayin’.  Actually, I think this is what the paranoid race-baiter meant:

“We’re really entering a third wave of environmentalism in the United States. The white polluters and the white environmentalists are essentially steering poison into the people of color communities.”

Nice to see the “post-racial” president adding this dude to his “post-racial” administration.  Rumor has it that Eric “nation of cowards when it comes to race” Holder has a Matthews-like thrill in his leg with the new czar.

Here’s a funny mea culpa:

Jones also said in his statement that “In recent days some in the news media have reported on past statements I made before I joined the administration – some of which were made years ago.  If I have offended anyone with statements I made in the past, I apologize.”

Yeah…”years ago”. Because four years is practically a generation ago, no?

In 2005 Jones told the East Bay Express that the acquittal of Rodney King’s assailants in 1992 in that infamous police brutality case changed him significantly. “I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th,” he said. “By August, I was a communist.” Jones told the East Bay Express

Jones and other young activists in 1994 formed a group called Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM, rooted in Marxism and Leninsm. Two years later, Jones launched the Ella Baker Center, an Oakland, Calif., based “strategy and action center” which states that it tries to “promote positive alternatives to violence and incarceration.”

Bets are already circulating as to how soon he’ll be tossed under the B.O. bus.  Over/under is 2 - 3 days.

How’s that Hopenchange hiney tasting now?

UPDATED (09/05/2009 – 02:02 PM EST): More words of wisdom from Van Jones, appointee of the post-racial president:

December 2, 2005: “You’ve never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, ‘We can’t believe it happened here. We can’t believe it’s these suburban white kids.’ It’s only them. Now, a black kid might shoot another black kid. He’s not going to shoot up the whole school.”

But that was four years ago, practically in the black-and-white-TV days.

Also, wanna guess the total combined number of occurrences of the word “Van Jones” appearing in the NY Times, Washington comPost, CBS Evening News, NBC Leg Thrill Nightly News, and ABC ObamaCare Informercial World News?  Answer: 0.  Nope, no liberal media bias!

UPDATED (09/06/2009 – 09:02 AM EST): And he’s out, just like most people thought he would be.  The GOP is now beginning to wake up and realize, “Hey, you know what?  Maybe having nearly three dozen ‘czars’ isn’t a good thing!”

By the way, Jones said he was a victim of “lies and distortions” and “smears”.  As Allahpundit puts it: “In this case, the “vicious smear campaign” consisted of (a) accurately quoting Jones and (b) citing documents he signed.”

September 6, 2009 Posted by crushliberalism | bigotry, media bias, moonbats, Obama, socialism | 2 Comments