Sunday, September 06, 2009
THE MASK SLIPS
If you depend on the the old-line print and broadcast media for news, you'll see a little blip this morning: One of Barak Obama's 32(?!?!) "czars," a fellow named Van Jones, resigned "under pressure from right wing groups." Jones issued a statement that he'd been the victim of a smear campaign.
OK. Again, if you read the major newspapers or watch the major TV news networks (except for Fox -- which I don't and never have), this little tempest in a teapot would come as a surprise, since there was no reporting of the "smear campaign" before yesterday.
The mainstream media focuses on only one of the last items that was uncovered in independent research on Jones, that he had signed a "911 Truth" nutcase conspiracy petition. Jones said he didn't really read it before he signed it. Sounds like one of those political, inside-the-beltway "gotcha" games. Shrug. Nothing to see here. Move on.
Move on, indeed. Back in APRIL, when Jones was first appointed, independent research had uncovered the truth about Jones in his own words, talking about his radicalization in 1992:
I met all these young radical people of color – I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was, like, ‘This is what I need to be a part of… I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary…I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th..By August, I was a communist. That's a quote from a glowing 2005 newspaper profile of him in his base in the Bay Area.
Jones' signature on a "911 Truther" document was completely consistent with the EXTREME far left world-view this man has consistently espoused and acted on for almost twenty years. It wasn't an accident, an aberration or unusual for him.
So, which is it? Did Jones "sneak in" to the White House? Did someone appoint him to a job doing what the Obama Administration explicitly considers to be a central aspect of its policies and fail to notice that he was an avowed communist whose entire political career was almost a right wing caricature of the radical left? Or did they know and not care? It can really only be one of those two things.
In either case, the mask slips. The best interpretation of the Jones incident is that the Obama administration is incompetent.
GB, THHotA
posted by Greg 11:08 AM
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