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Sunday, September 06, 2009

Freedom of Speech Unless You Say What You're Thinking

Somebody pointed out the elephant in the room, so he got fired to make room for more Right thinking people.

In a victory for Republicans and the Obama administration’s conservative critics, Van Jones resigned as the White House’s environmental jobs “czar” on Saturday.

Controversy over Mr. Jones’s past comments and affiliations has slowly escalated over several weeks, erupting on Friday with calls for his resignation.

Appointed as a special adviser for “green jobs” by President Obama, Mr. Jones did not go through the traditional vetting process for administration officials who must be confirmed by the Senate. So it was not until recently that some of Mr. Jones’s past actions received broad airing, including his derogatory statements about Republicans in February and his signature on a 2004 letter suggesting that former President George W. Bush might have knowingly allowed the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to occur in order to use them as a “pre-text to war.”

Mr. Jones’s involvement in the 1990s with a group called Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement prompted recent accusations by conservative critics that he associated with Communists...


We haven't heard that one in awhile. It's once again assuring to note that only Bu$hCo can go to China.

5 comments:

constant gina said...
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kelley b. said...

What Digby said about it.

james williams said...
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Lisa said...
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kelley b. said...

Incidently, I removed three comments because they all linked back to a commercial site.

Three different individuals linking back to one ad.

Nice, spammers.