Today's Washington Examiner has an article by Byron York on the resignation of Van Jones as Green Jobs Czar. In submitting his resignation Mr. Jones cited a "vicious smear campaign" and stated that "opponents of reform" had used "lies and distortion" to drive him out of office. The problem with those statements is that the words used against him were his own words found on YouTube and various other places. One of the 'problems' with the internet is that everything you have ever posted anywhere is there for the world to find. The major media chose not to look very far for these things; the 'new' media went searching.
Evidently Glenn Beck at Fox News uncovered a lot of evidence that Mr. Jones was not representative of mainstream American thinking and showed videos and quotes on his program. This may explain why ColorofChange.org is trying to get advertisers to boycott Glenn Beck. When I first heard of the campaign by ColorofChange.org, I wondered why they were going after Glenn Beck and not Rush Limbaugh. Now I understand--I believe Rush Limbaugh reaches a larger audience, but he goes after the entertainment factor as much as the hard news factor. Glenn Beck has connected the dots on a number of Czars in the Obama Administration, exposing the radical past of more than one Czar. He is more of a 'threat' to the Administration than Rush Limbaugh. Color of Change.org has close ties to the Obama Administration and would be more interested in protecting the Administration than in just driving a conservative off the airwaves.
Although I am sorry to see anyone lose his job, I believe the structure of czars that President Obama has set up is unconstitutional. More than that, I believe the fact that the czars are not accountable to Congress or subject to Congressional confirmation hearings is simply not the way the American government was designed to run. I would like to see all of the czars resign. There are at present at almost 40 czars--that is nearly half the number of Senators. That is just not appropriate.
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