{"id":1157,"date":"2009-09-05T16:35:14","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T16:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1157"},"modified":"2009-09-05T16:35:14","modified_gmt":"2009-09-05T16:35:14","slug":"a_few_comments_about_van_jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1157","title":{"rendered":"A Few Comments About Van Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t really have a lot to say about Van Jones.&nbsp; My two sources for my comments are both articles at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2009\/09\/024443.php\">Power Line<\/a>&nbsp;(also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2009\/09\/024444.php\">Power Line<\/a>).&nbsp; It was reported last week that in addition to openly professing to be a Communist, Van Jones was a 911 truther.&nbsp;&nbsp; He also supports&nbsp;cop killer Mumia Abu Jamal.&nbsp; This is not a wonderful resume.<\/p>\n<p>The articles point out:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;Jones also signifies the cooperation of the mainstream media in Obama&#8217;s machinations. The nonfeasance of the mainstream media in the performance of their job has been virtually complete. They have left it to the likes of the indomitable <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/gatewaypundit.blogspot.com\/\"><strong><font color=\"#4b61a7\"><em>Gateway Pundit<\/em><\/font><\/strong><\/a><em> to reveal what a man we have in Jones, and therewith the project in which the Obama administration is engaged. The mainstream media have Obama&#8217;s back. Yesterday Byron York ran a Nexis search on Van Jones and posted <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/blogs\/beltway-confidential\/The-Van-Jones-non-feeding-non-frenzy-57271402.html\"><strong><font color=\"#4b61a7\"><em>the resutls<\/em><\/font><\/strong><\/a><em>:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Total words about the Van Jones controversy in the New York Times: 0.<br \/>Total words about the Van Jones controversy in the Washington Post: 0.<br \/>Total words about the Van Jones controversy on NBC Nightly News: 0.<br \/>Total words about the Van Jones controversy on ABC World News: 0.<br \/>Total words about the Van Jones controversy on CBS Evening News: 0.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>&#8220;As of today, I think York&#8217;s calculation still obtains for the New York Times, but the Wshington Post has contributed a few words on the White House&#8217;s <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/09\/04\/AR2009090403563.html\"><strong><font color=\"#4b61a7\"><em>&#8220;tepid support&#8221;<\/em><\/font><\/strong><\/a><em> of Jones. A reader is more or less left to fend for himself in figuring the the substance of Jones&#8217;s statements or views that have produced this &#8220;tepid support.&#8221;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Van Jones is one of President Obama&#8217;s czars.&nbsp; That means he did not have to go through the confirmation process in his search for a position at the White House.&nbsp; Is there anyone who actually believes he would have been able to get through the confirmation process?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The fact that Van Jones has a&nbsp;position in the White House shows that our system of government is breaking down.&nbsp; Czars are not a part of the US Constitution.&nbsp; They are a way of avoiding the checks and balances that are supposed to be built into the system.&nbsp; We need to find a way to put those checks and balances back in!<em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t really have a lot to say about Van Jones.&nbsp; My two sources for my comments are both articles at Power Line&nbsp;(also Power Line).&nbsp; It was reported last week that in addition to openly professing to be a Communist, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1157\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}