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Obama ‘green jobs’ adviser quits amid controversy
Washington
Barack Obama’s adviser Van Jones has resigned amid controversy over past inflammatory statements, the White House said early Sunday.
Van Jones, an administration official specializing in environmentally friendly “green jobs” with the White House Council on Environmental Quality was linked to efforts suggesting a government role in the 2001 terror attacks and to derogatory comments about Republicans.
The resignation comes as Obama is working to regain his footing in the contentious health care debate.
Jones issued an apology on Thursday for his past statements. When asked the next day whether Obama still had confidence in him, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said only that Jones “continues to work in the administration.”
The matter surfaced after news reports of a derogatory comment Jones made in the past about Republicans, and separately, of Jones’ name appearing on a petition connected to the events surrounding the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. That 2004 petition had asked for congressional hearings and other investigations into whether high-level government officers had allowed the attacks to occur.
“On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me,” Jones said in his resignation statement. “They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide.”
Jones said he has been “inundated with calls from across the political spectrum urging me to stay and fight.”
But he said he cannot in good conscience ask his colleagues to spend time and energy defending or explaining his past.
Jones flatly said in an earlier statement that he did not agree with the petition’s stand on the 9/11 attacks and that “it certainly does not reflect my views, now or ever.”
As for his other comments he made before joining Obama’s team, Jones said, “If I have offended anyone with statements I made in the past, I apologize.”
His apologies did little to quiet Republican demands that the resign.
Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana called for Jones to quit, saying in a statement, “His extremist views and coarse rhetoric have no place in this administration or the public debate.”
Missouri Sen. Christopher Bonds urged Congress to investigate Jones’s fitness for his White House position.
Nancy Sutley chair of the council, said in a statement released early Sunday that she accepts Jones resignation and thanked him for his service.
“Over the last six months, he had been a strong voice for creating jobs that improve energy efficiency and utilize renewable resources,” she said. “We appreciate his hard work and wish him the best moving forward.”
Wild Thing’s comment……
This news was released at midnight on a Saturday night of a 3-day holiday weekend? I wonder how many of the Sunday news program hosts just got a midnight phone call? “Uh, hey, boss … we’re going to need to rewrite that opening monologue.”
OK next…. now Obama needs to resign: Anyone who would appoint communists, criminals, tax cheats, liberal fascists and dyed-in-the-wool socialists to his cabinet and “czar” positions does NOT belong as President of the USA!
Thank you Glenn Beck. I wrote him and thanked him and told him to enjoy the holiday weekend. haha
me@glennbeck.com or glennbeck@foxnews.com
I wish there was a way…. and this would have to come from the elected Republicans using whatever laws or the Constitution perhaps….but if there was some way that Obama would have to get rid of every single CZAR he has. I don’t want my tax dollars paying salaries of these CZARS that answer to no one except Obama.
So the Muslim in chief appoints a SELF ADMITTED COMMUNIST and CNN and the rest of the socialist press refuse to cover it.
Now that he has resigned we shall see the ultimate in propaganda, because I am sure they will continue to fail to mention the fact that he is a communist.
I know this could have been milked for weeks in our favor. But it feels sooo good to get rid of at least one communist from this administration and a CZAR to the dictator. One thing for sure there are more like him including Obama.
And also this !!!
As boycott continues, Glenn Beck’s audience swells
Los Angeles Times
An advertising boycott against Fox News host Glenn Beck has succeeded in keeping most major sponsors from running commercials on his show even as the controversial commentator’s viewership has grown.
Beck attracted 2.81 million viewers Monday, his third-largest audience since his show launched on Fox News in January, according to Nielsen Media Research data provided by the network. On Tuesday, nearly 2.7 million viewers tuned in, his fifth-largest viewership to date.
And the conservative host got a plug from former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, who urged people to watch his program in a post on her Facebook page.
“FOX News’ Glenn Beck is doing an extraordinary job this week walking America behind the scenes of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and outlining who is actually running the White House,” she wrote Wednesday to her 800,000-plus supporters.
FOX News’ Glenn Beck is doing an extraordinary job this week walking America behind the scenes of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and outlining who is actually running the White House.
Monday night he asked us to invite one friend to watch; tonight I invite all my friends to watch.
-Sarah Palin
Color of Change, an African American political advocacy group, organized the boycott last month to protest Beck’s comment that he believes President Obama is a racist. The group succeeded in securing commitments from at least 36 companies that have pledged not to advertise on his show, including Wal-Mart and Sprint. Some, such as AT&T and Procter & Gamble, were not Beck advertisers to begin with, but their ads had mistakenly appeared on the program. Representatives from those companies reiterated their request not to have spots during his show. Later today, Color of Change plans to announce six more companies that also are declining to be Beck advertisers.
We’re starting to make an impact! It’s starting to work and the cracks are starting! Yeah, baby. Now that we’ve got it up, we need to keep it up! Pressure, pressure, pressure! Let’s get rid of Holdren next! That man is a nut job who wants to put my 7year old on birth control and she hasn’t even hit puberty yet! His ideas are sick in the head.
The only lies and distortions came out of his mouth and it’s all on video.
WHAT JOBS? Oh, you mean those affirmative action patronage jobs wrapped up in green box.
Glenn is working on Jarrett, Holdren and that other idiot who thinks animals should be allowed to sue.
If you have Twitter, you can follow Glenn @glennbeck and the site defending him against the boycott and other stuff @defendglenn.
“Over the last six months, he had been a strong voice for creating jobs that improve energy efficiency and utilize renewable resources,”
Where are the jobs. Since obama has been in office, lost jobs, is almost 2 Million. Van Jones was not about energy as Health Care is not about Health Care. He was all about the ‘redistribution of Wealth’. Jones is typical of obama’s close friends, they all have one thing in common. They hate America.
Obama says, “this is the greatest nation in the world.” Yet, when he visits a foreign country he apologises for America. He says he’s interested in green energy, yet sends Billions to South America to help drill for oil.
Obama’s a communist, his friends are communists. We got rid of one, one down and 33 to go, actually including him, 34.
Way to go Mark, you are dead on right.
I’m with Mark on this one. One worthless, commie scumbag down and 33 to go. I would love the next one to be holdren and then zeke emanuel, in that order. They all need to crawl back under the rocks that they came out from under.
As with alot of the guys who comment on this site that were in Vietnam probaly think, none of these scumbag, lower than whaleshit “czars” are good enough to shine our shoes or more appropriately, kiss our asses.
I don’t care if anyone takes offense. What are they going to do. I may have cancer on my left kidney. Chrissie has the details.
Again Chrissie, sorry for the language.
USN 1973-1993. Yeah, I had a lottery number in the last draft. So I will continue to tell any obambozo appointee exactly what I think.
Van Jones, (not his real name), resignation was faulted only in that he did not take the rest of the crooks with him as he left. And, won’t he be but a cell phone call away from b. Hussein Obummer?
The liberal left made much noise about how illegally George W. and Dick Cheney were doing things but none of the claims ever proved valid. These guys brag about how criminal they are and if we bitch, we are called racists. Good for them! You can tell when the other side is in the wrong- they have no decent rebuttal to our claims. They only want to shut down the messenger. Long live the Glenn Becks of the USA!
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As they’ve done many times in the past several decades, they resign, then get a position in another government job and keep working for their Party. How many more communists did he appoint while he was in office? Like termites, we close off one tunnel and they just make another and keep eating our house.
Va-whooooooosh!! The toilet flushes and another commie hits the bricks! LOL. What smear campaign? The words that damned him came from his own mouth. His own biggotry and hate caused his downfall….geez, blame it on anyone but the face in the mirror. I can’t wait for the press release from the POTUS distancing himself from Jones by stating he didn’t know of Jones’ previous statements/beliefs/biggotry/communist leaning/etc…Maybe Jones can change the oil while he’s under the bus? LOL Da svidonya, tavarish!
Random tweet:
Van Jones Sat night resignation? I hope this wasn’t a drunk-dial to Obama. “Dude, I totally quit. But I really love you man.”
Good riddance Van Jones. I think that as long as the pressure continues obama may lose a few more czars and there will be at least some restriction put on his cabinet’s dealings.
People like Glenn Beck are one of the reasons obama wants to control radio programming. You can bet blog sites like this one are one of the reasons he also wants to control the internet.
obama is assuming the ruling powers of a king and not the serving duties of the US President. Our First Amendment free speech is getting in his way.
BTW, has anyone else noted that when he gets on and off the helicopter or AF1, that he salutes the guard in a feminine way?
I agree with WT and all you guys. And Glenn, I hope you don’t and wish you the best. I’m going through serious health issues with my wife and can understand the apprehension about what may come.
“On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me,” Jones said in his resignation statement. “They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide.”
This POS smeared himself. He is nothing more than a racist communist pig trying to put the blame on everyone that sees him for what he is. Good riddance.
I love Mormon Glenn Beck! Hey, how about BYU’s upset over Oklahoma too? Can’t wait until the 9-12
Tea Party rolls into Washington DC CCCP! Bye bye Commie Van Jones. More to follow?
Darth, speaking of Mormon’s, there’s some great stuff on communism at latterdayconservative.com specifically the articles by W. Cleon Skousen. Look up “current communist goals” 1958. You can put check marks by about half of them.
Bob–best of luck to your wife and you.
Jim–I just sent a copy of that list that was included in the Congressional Record in 1963 to Chrissie yesterday, and she knew about it, too.
Here’s a link. http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm
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You all are the best!!!!!!!
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