Super Van? WaPo Describes Van Jones as 'Legendary' and 'Towering' Figure of Environmental Movement

Newsbusters
Sep 7, 2009

Even when an Obama aide is forced to resign after it's revealed he's so radical he signed his name to 9/11 conspiracy theories and belonged to Marxist revolutionary groups, The Washington Post is still buttering him up as a "legendary" and "towering" figure of the environmental movement.

This leaves the question: how radical then, is the environmental movement? (And yet, notice that's the Post's indirect way of suggesting someone's a left-wing warrior.) On page 3 of Saturday's newspaper, reporters Garance Franke-Ruta and Anne Kornblut used the L word, legendary:

Jones, a legendary figure in the environmental movement, has worked for the White House Council on Environmental Quality, as special adviser for green jobs, since March.

It shifted to "towering" after Jones resigned. From the overnight story by Garance and Anne:

Jones, a towering figure in the environmental movement, had worked for the White House Council on Environmental Quality since March.

In today's afternoon dispatch by Garance and Scott Wilson, the "towering" remained, even as the radical views and alliances are explained:

Jones, a towering figure in the environmental movement, had issued two public apologies in recent days. One was for signing a petition in 2004 from the group 911Truth.org that questioned whether Bush administration officials "may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war," and the other for using a crude term to describe Republicans in a speech he gave before joining the administration.

His previous involvement with the now-defunct Bay Area radical group Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM), which had Marxist roots, also emerged as an issue.

It makes you wonder how offensive Van Jones would have to be for his reputation to come back to the environmentalists' precious Earth.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2009/09/06/super-van-wapo-describes-van-jones-legendary-towering-figure-environment

Comments: Beyond comprehension that writers at the Washington Post are still defending this Communist being in the Administration. Guess according to their standards, we shouldn't have objected to a Communist being paid with our tax dollars. How far left are some writers at the Washington Post?

What Happened to Journalism?

Excerpted from AIM Article on The Obama "Birth Certificate" Scandal by Cliff Kincaid

What Happened To Journalism?

"Journalism used to ask who, what, when, where, why and how," said Kincaid. "But today's pro-Obama journalists want to ignore those questions when it comes to the constitutional eligibility of the current occupant of the oval office. They would rather accept what the Obama campaign (and now administration) wants them to believe. The Obama document may reflect what is in another document, but we really have no way of knowing. The only way to address these questions is to identify where exactly he was born, in what hospital, and what doctor was present. All of this information should be on an original birth certificate."

Kincaid continued, "It is not unreasonable to ask questions about Barack Obama's birthplace. Anybody who has an original copy of their own birth certificate, or a certified copy of their own original birth certificate, should immediately understand that the Obama version is lacking in basic information that should be publicly available."

Kincaid asked, "Whatever happened to the public's right to know?"

Comment: We agree 100% with Cliff Kincaid. Freedom of the Press which is guaranteed means they are free from Government control. Today's White Press Corps except for a few might as well be part of state run media because all they do is spin and cover for this Administration and the Democrat Leaders of Congress.