Slinking Away

In the dead of the night on a holiday weekend a government "official" resigns his post and sneaks out of town. Hooray! That communist, racist, environmentalist, ex-convict Van Jones is no longer a Czar in my government. I know the tree huggers love him as well as the black nationalists, but certainly no one else did. I got offended almost every time he opened his mouth. This is one conservative ***hole that is happy he is gone.

I had thought that we had spent 50 years or so fighting communism. Then this country elects a socialist for a president and seems surprised when he appoints radicals to positions in our government. But notice that Jones was in a position that needed no approval other than that of Uncle Barack.

Jones mentioned in his resignation that the media had been engaged in a smear campaign against him. Really? The liberal mainstream media? Against Uncle Barack or anyone in his administration? I find that hard to believe. It was conservative talk radio that was speaking out against Van Jones. Since when does he consider those voices to be those of the media?

The mainstream media, and by that I mean ABC, CBS, NBC, and certainly the liberal New York Times, hardly said a negative word about Jones. It was only in the last few days did CBS even mention the things that had folks concerned. Even if they had provided more coverage to him, I don't think that reporting the facts can be considered a smear campaign.

The fact that he is a 9/11 truther, or that he said that republicans are ***holes, or that he said that white polluters were poisoning neighborhoods of color, that he is an admitted communist are not slanderous. He is on tape saying these things and there is a letter with his signature on it concerning the 9/11 attacks. He later said that he misunderstood what was in the letter and that it did not really reflect his views, then or now. My response to that, BS.

As I'm sure you have gathered, I am not a fan of Van Jones. I do not agree with one word I have heard the man say. But I will defend to the death his right to say it. After all this is America. If Mr. Jones hates this country so much he should move to another. I'm sure Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro would welcome him with open arms.

Then there is the matter of how he left his position. To me this says all I ever needed to know about the man. He is a coward along with everything else. He couldn't take the heat of a little media scrutiny and he runs away in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. Hoping no one would notice, I'm sure.

I am surprised that Van Jones didn't have had the guts to stand before the press and announce his resignation like a man. He didn't have to take questions afterwards. He says that he didn't want to be a distraction for Uncle Barack. What the hell does he thinks he's just become? The mainstream media wont say much about it, but the guys that put the pressure on him to begin with, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are going to make him look even worse in the coming weeks and give the president nothing but grief over it. As they should.

Smooth Van, real smooth.