Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Glenn Beck Uses Express to Attack Van Jones
Media / People / Politics Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:43 AM
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Fox News whack job Glenn Beck, who is losing sponsors by the dozens because of his outlandish comments about President Obama, has launched an attack on Van Jones, claiming the White House green jobs czar is an "avowed communist," and references a 2005 Express cover story as proof. Beck went after the longtime Oakland activist and environmentalist, following the disclosure that 33 of Beck's advertisers had pulled their ads from his program. The ad boycott was spearheaded by Color of Change, a liberal non-profit that Jones co-founded but is no longer associated with.
Beck's claim that Jones is a communist comes from a short passage in the Express profile of Jones that notes that after the Rodney King jury exonerated three LA cops, he viewed himself as "a communist," and then in 1994 at the age of 26 he helped launch Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM, "which held study groups on the theories of Marx and Lenin and dreamed of a multiracial socialist utopia."
Of course, Beck ignores the rest of the Express profile on Jones' career and how he became a facilitator and conciliator who fought for the environment. Beck got in trouble with his advertisers after calling Obama a "racist" who "has a deep-seated hatred for white people," following the president's remark that Cambridge police had acted "stupidly," when they arrested a black Harvard professor in his own home.
— Robert Gammon
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I read the entire article and am not comforted by the fact that the self-described communist is also an environmentalist. He learned how to make his views more palatable, but I don't see that he changed his views.
This is sort of a "wise Latina woman" moment...critics ignore decades of service but find one quote to bash someone with.
Mr Gammon is nothing more than a socialist stooge trying to hide the fact that Van Jones is a communist. Glenn Beck simply stated facts regarding Mr. Jones' background and now his group "Color of Change" is spearheading a boycott protest against Glenn Beck??? A good amount of Beck's presentation on Jones were clips of Jones speaking. Did Jones' words beguile him?
You communists are like cockroaches, scurrying around in the dark, but when the lights come on you run for cover.
And if Jones is one of the world's last half-dozen communists, so what? How would that political belief prevent him from overseeing a push for environmentally-friendly jobs? Are you expecting him to launch an uprising of sustainable development coordinators?
What idiocy. Beck's grasping at straws.
From a "wise American citizen".... who happens to be a woman.... will REMEMBER decades of service and QUOTES.
Anthony a.k.a. "Van" Jones a co- founder of STORM promoting his communist marxist agenda and in his own words, " I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th [1992], and then the verdicts came down on April 29th. By August, I was a communist. (...) 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."
The only difference now... he's learned how to beat the system....he make's them think he's one of them as he pushes his "revolutionary" anti American radical agenda.
The most disturbing is President Obama being advised & surrounding himself with extremists that have communist, marxist, socialist views.
This might explain why this administration is in a whirlwind bent on taking over everything they can get their hands on like the automobile industry, banks & healthcare. This is exactly what a communist, marxist, socialist government does!
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