Van Jones, President Obama's so-called "green jobs czar," resigned. In order to limit the news coverage, and the damage to Obama, the resignation came in the dead of night over Labor Day weekend.
In his resignation statement Jones falsely claims he was smeared:
I am resigning my post at the Council on Environmental Quality, effective today.
On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me. They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide. [Emphasis added]
It was the truth about the radical extremist things Jones himself said and did that made it necessary for him to leave Obama's administration.
In 2004 Jones signed the "9/11 truther" statement which alleges government complicity in the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. Jones is listed as signer number 46 -- "Van Jones, executive director, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights." Popular Mechanics has scientifically debunked this now very tired myth perpetuated by the 9/11 Truther conspiracy mongers.
After his association with 9/11 truthers came to light Jones issued an unbelievable statement in which he asserted he did not agree with the 2004 Truther petition and it "does not reflect my views now or ever."
ABC's Jake Tapper reports about another Link between Jones and 9/11 Truther movement:
On Friday a 2002 document emerged in which Jones was on the "organizing committee" of a newspaper called WAR TIMES -- "A New, Biweekly, Tabloid Newspaper Opposing the 'War on Terrorism.'"
The WAR TIMES document asserts that the "world's most powerful nation has mercilessly bombed Afghanistan and is installing a neo-colonial government of its own choosing, although that country has never attacked the U.S. Millions of Afghans have been displaced and face starvation this winter. The administration has also green-lighted massive Israeli assaults on Palestine, and it threatens to attack Iraq, Lebanon, Somalia, and other countries. The agenda seems clear: to remake the world in the right-wing image with little regard for human consequences."
WAR TIMES's announcement appeared with the announcement of a protest march demanding a congressional inquiry into whether and how much the Bush administration may have played a role in the September 11, 2001 attacks.
In the New York Times, Sarah Wheaton tried to downplay the fact that Jones was an admitted communist. She writes, "Jones’s involvement in the 1990s with a group called Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement [STORM] had prompted recent accusations by conservative critics that he associated with Communists. In fact, on November 2, 2005 Jones was quoted in the East Bay Express admitting he was a communist:
But in jail, he said, "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.'" Although he already had a plane ticket, he decided to stay in San Francisco. "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." In the months that followed, he let go of any lingering thoughts that he might fit in with the status quo. "I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th," he said. "By August, I was a communist." [Emphasis added]
According to the East Bay Times, STORM held study groups on the theories of Marx and Lenin and dreamed of a multiracial socialist utopia. They protested police brutality and got arrested for crashing through police barricades.
More recently video was discovered of Jones calling Republicans a**holes.
Even more of Jones' vile hate filled rants have surfaced that make Jones look as outrageous as Obama's hateful former spiritual adviser Jeremiah Wright and Obama's Terrorist associate Bill Ayers, including a hate-filled record album and a video of Jones calling President Bush a crackhead.
Van Jones was not smeared. He was ousted by the things he said and did.
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