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Campus ProgressVan Jones praises tea party, announces progressive 'support centers'Daily CallerVan Jones' counterpart is called Rebuild the Dream. Van Jones' speech also included a string of crowd-pleasing one-liners and served as an introduction to the varied leaders of a new progressive coalition, the American Dream movement. ...Van Jones, Donna Edwards Call on Young People to Rebuild the American DreamCampus ProgressVan Jones Staging A "Left-Wing Tea Party" MovementNews OneDespite Flaws, Van Jones a Compelling Progressive VoiceAssociated ContentThe Root (blog) -CBS News -Christian Postall 29 news articles »
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...who would surely lose their lives in subsequent U.S. attacks overseas.” The self-described “communist” and revolutionary Van Jones is also a liar; he willingly signed a 9/11 ‘truth’ petition: “He is listed with 99 other prominent signatories supporting such...
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...Jones gets it when he says that being angry at the Tea Party isn't going to be a solution to the practical problem of saving the American Dream. At the "Take Back The American Dream" summit Van Jones said: “We had the wrong theory of the presidency. We thought...
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San Francisco Chronicle (blog)Van Jones: "This is our 'tea party' moment - in a positive sense."Tucson CitizenLooks like I shouldn't have been so reluctant to make the comparison. EJ Dionne has a column today, Can the Left Stage a Tea Party? Dionne talks less about the Occupy Wall Streeters and more about Van Jones, who is leading the American Dream Movement. ...Occupy Wall St, SlutWalk, Hot Chicks, Van JonesSan Francisco Chronicle (blog)Wall Street rallies could be left's Tea Partymsnbc.comWall Street protests gather the disaffectedFinancial TimesYahoo! News Blogs (blog) -National Review Online (blog) -Huffington Postall 5,481 news articles »
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Washington TimesThe left's energy CAPWashington TimesWhen those people leave the administration, they go right over to CAP, two high-profile cases being “green jobs czar” Van Jones and “climate and energy czar” Carol M. Browner. So last week's missive from CAP was a twofer for the organization and the ...and more »
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Free Speech TV and The Campaign for America's Future Announce the Exclusive ...PR Newswire (press release)The conference will feature nationally-known speakers like Van Jones from the Rebuild the Dream movement, author Drew Westen, Former Sec. of Labor Robert Reich, the AFL-CIO's Richard Trumka, Rep. Barney Frank, Rep. Keith Ellison, Rep. ...and more »
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al-Awlaki got due processDaily Mail - Charleston (blog)The Van Jones crowd at ANSWER held its first antiwar protests two weeks before we discussed a war in Afghanistan. And so on and so forth. Members of the left — hardly all of them, but a large enough number to annoy me — have embraced al-Qaida in ...and more »
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Weasel ZippersFox Nation Invents Smear That Van Jones "Threaten[ed] Violence"Media Matters for America (blog)It's no surprise that Fox News isn't fan of former Obama green jobs adviser Van Jones. The network made it a full-time job to discredit Jones during and after his tenure in the White House -- to the point where Jones' lawyer sent Fox a cease-and-desist ...Van Jones declares October 'the turning point'Examiner.comVan Jones Calls For Progressives To Launch “October Offensive”…Weasel ZippersVan Jones Warns Of A Progressive "October Offensive" Against Tea PartyRealClearPoliticsWizbang (blog) -Dakota Voiceall 6 news articles »
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TreehuggerWhy #OccupyWallStreet May Be Progressive Turning PointTreehuggerLast night, Van Jones said yes. "I think everybody should hold on to your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back," Jones said. From the Keystone XL protest led by Bill McKibben, 350 and the Tar Sands ...Van Jones: It's time for an “American Autumn” in the spirit of the Arab SpringHot Airall 2 news articles »
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700 at rural forum demand jobs, Social Security, Medicare for allPeople's WorldIt was one of hundreds of meetings organized by MoveOn across the nation this past week in support of activist Van Jones' "Contract for the American Dream" campaign. But Clallam County MoveOn preferred to call their event the "American Awakening" and ...
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Tammerlin Drummond: Ella Baker Center celebrates 15 years fighting for social ...San Jose Mercury NewsHis predecessor, Van Jones, who helped found the Oakland nonprofit, is an internationally known human rights activist and environmentalist. Jones went on to become a special adviser to President Barack Obama on green jobs -- though he resigned after ...and more »
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...gets. Our organization is fighting to reverse both trends. Rahim Kanani: What role does the media play in this context? Van Jones: Our information system is very advanced. But our wisdom system is not. So you have this mismatch. Lots of data, but very little...
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Smarmy Sanchez part 9:Completely Confused on March for LifeDavid Horowitz's NewsReal Blog (blog)Over the years, the show has changed from political news and gags, to serious tutorials on Van Jones, Anita Dunn, Marxism, Progressivism, Communism, ...and more »
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National Review Online (blog)Obama Versus ObamaAINAThen, in the euphoria of early 2009, it was to be cap-and-trade and the solar/wind vision of Van Jones. Now there is a nothing-and-everything energy policy, ...Obama versus Obama -- By: Victor Davis HansonNational Review Onlineall 3 news articles »
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Media Matters for America (blog)Beck's broken recordMedia Matters for America (blog)Former White House adviser Van Jones and former White House communications director Anita Dunn have been out of the administration and out of the news for ...
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Van Jones just keeps popping up everywhere...
Most people best remember Van Jones as the Obama administration Green Jobs Czar who resigned his position after being exposed as having helped to found a communist revolutionary organization.
It was
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Obama’s “brain” Valerie Jarrett is on tape as saying “they” have been watching Jones for years and were happy to recruit him.
If the Van Jones resignation is blamed on his controversial statements about Republicans and 9/11, a great lesson will have
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Accuracy in Media
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Apparently, General Jones would have us believe that President Obama wasn't aware that we were fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan when he promised to lift the gay ban during the campaign in exchange for our votes. So, Jones tells us today, Obama
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Beltway Blips
http://beltwayblips.dailyradar.com/story/national-security-adviser-obama-won-t-lift-gay-ban/
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...ago — I have not posted it, but have been following the Van Jones story. Late on a Saturday night during a holiday weekend, Van Jones, the Communist truther who was named as “Green jobs Czar” quit: Notice how the WaPo headline frames the resignation as “controversy”,...
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Beltway Blips
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Madison County Commissioner Gary Deaton told the commission Monday that he wants the county's official historian, Linda Higgins, to explain her sympathetic comments about Jackson native and former White House green jobs adviser Van Jones. If she is
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The Jackson Sun
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...report: After her presentation to a group of reporters, The Chronicle was able to snag a moment with her to talk about the Van Jones controversy. Sutley wouldn't comment on the vetting process or on the White House's support -- or lack thereof -- of Jones...
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San Francisco Chronicle
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Back-Story: Van Jones and Yosi Sargent, two of President Obama's advisors, recently resigned from their positions as head of the administration's Green Energy initiative and communications director of the National Endowment for the Arts, respectively,
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Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barton-kunstler-phd/flash-glenn-beck-forces-p_b_287162.html
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In “Conservative witch hunt hounded Jones from office” (Page B11, Thursday), Clarence Page accused the Republicans of being on a witch hunt and running Van Jones out of Washington. With all due respect to Page, Jones made his own bed and fortunately
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Houston Chronicle
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For those interested in finding out how a real communist got a White House job, the Van Jones scandal isn’t over.
When the list of donors to the Van Jones "Green for All" organization is examined, one name stands out-the Open Society Institute of
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Accuracy in Media
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So Van Jones, the defenestrated White House green-jobs czar, once called Republicans "a-holes." Big deal. I've said worse about Democrats. I've said worse about Republicans. I've said worse about members of my family (you know who you are).
How prissy
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Philly.com
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For example, if someone published an article and claimed I had been in prison, even though I had only spent a few hours in jail for a crime I never not convicted for, I could have a libel suit. Whether they knew they were defaming me or not does not
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What a difference two weeks make.
On August 30, CNN's Howard Kurtz accused Glenn Beck of attacking former green jobs czar Van Jones in retaliation for the advertising boycott the Jones-founded group Color of Change had organized against the Fox News
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Newsbusters
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...of the left and to stop the huge power-grab now taking place in the name of green jobs. It's also one of the most ... Van Jones is history anotherblackconservative.blogspot.com 7 days ago — From The Washington Post : White House environmental adviser Van...
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Beltway Blips
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Around midnight on the Saturday of the Labor Day weekend, the White House announced Van Jones had resigned as President Obama's "green jobs czar."
"On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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As usual, the Register has lifted an article from some other source that puts the best possible face on a major embarrassment for the Obama administration. I am referring to the Sept. 7 news, article, "Obama adviser on 'Green Jobs' quits," which
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The Orange County Register
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Van Jones, who resigned from the Obama administration earlier this week.
Sept. 11, 2009 | Thanks in large part to his association with the 9/11 Truth movement, Van Jones is no longer a member of the Obama White House. Jones resigned last week amid a
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Salon
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It's kind of like the organ grinder and the monkey. The guy with the music box gets the monkey to dance and act out for the people. And when huge corporations, media interests, and high-priced consultants unleash desperate distortions on public policy,
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The recent resignation of Van Jones, Obama’s Green Jobs Czar, confirmed not only Jones’ lack of fitness for the position from which he resigned but also the changing political fortunes of the Democrat Party. And since some czars, such as Mark Lloyd,
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HumanEvents.com
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KELLY: Well, more of Obama's
special advisers are now under scrutiny following the resignation of his green
jobs czar.
KELLY: And now ,questions are
being asked about his so-called science czar, John Holdren. Now, he is under
fire for a textbook
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Media Matters for America
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A few days ago Van Jones, President Barack Obama's adviser on ‘green jobs,’ resigned his post -- apparently in the middle of the night during the Labour Day holiday weekend -- after a series of astonishing comments he had made came to light. As the
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Spectator Blogs: Melanie Phillips
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Van Jones's extremist convictions, quick departure, and the refusal of the administration to mount a defense all lead one to assume that no reasonable mainstream figure would stand against Jones's exit. Yet Newsweek is now questioning Jones's
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NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112667276&ft=1&f=1057
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Van Jones's extremist convictions, quick departure, and the refusal of the administration to mount a defense all lead one to assume that no reasonable mainstream figure would stand against Jones's exit. Yet Newsweek is now questioning Jones's
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NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112667276&ft=1&f=1057
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Jerald Ogg was there for Van Jones when he got acceptance letters from five of the best law schools in the country. In recent weeks, he has been trading e-mails with Jones as pressure mounted to remove him from the White House based on his past
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The Jackson Sun
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I've long questioned not only Obama's inexperience but also his lack of judgment (and veracity) because of some of his questionable associations. One or two radical associations (e.g., Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright) might just have been "guilt by
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Town Hall
http://ja-js.blogtownhall.com/2009/09/09/now,_just_a_darn_minute!_who_the_hecks_really_in_charge_of_this_cluster_er,_ah_fluke,_anyway.thtml
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Score one for the right wing. Conservative witch hunters, notably Fox News' Glenn Beck, are claiming victory for hounding President Barack Obama's green jobs czar out of office. Yet the victory also highlights a gaping deficit in America's
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Chicago Tribune
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He'd used the a-word to refer to some Republicans.
Van Jones, an administration official specializing in environmentally friendly "green jobs," is seen at the National Summit in Detroit, in this June 16, 2009 file photo. The White House issued a
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Inside Bay Area
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Of course, it is past due for our media to start the investigation of Obama that they should have launched during the Democratic primaries and the general election campaign.
If you want some indication of the disarray that the "progressives" find
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Accuracy in Media
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Hot Air
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/09/08/video-glenn-beck-on-the-medias-suppression-of-the-van-jones-story/
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Rabbi Michael Lerner of Berkeley, co-chairman of the Network of Spiritual Progressives and editor of Tikkun magazine, published a column today calling Jones’ forced resignation “a huge defeat for the forces of sanity and humanity, and represents a deep
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Inside Politics with Lisa Vorderbrueggen
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Obama and the Left
The lesson of the rise and fall of Van Jones.
The abrupt resignation of White House aide Van Jones, deep in the news hiatus of Labor Day weekend, will probably be forgotten in a few days. But it's a story that still deserves
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Osi Speaks
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Hot Air
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/09/08/video-msnbc-whitewashes-van-jones-truther-petition-of-course/
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Van Jones bit the dust. Officially, he “retired” (at about 40) from federal service. He did not retire; he was pushed out by the Obama administration. He and they did not want their finger prints on the event, so the thought up this story to cover the
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Town Hall
http://reviesramblings.blogtownhall.com/2009/09/08/one_down,_36_to_go.thtml
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Searching for an angle to Van Jones resignation, the Politico adopted its trademark breathless style and announced [emphasis added]:
When President Barack Obama's green jobs adviser, Van Jones, submitted his resignation this weekend, he became the
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Media Matters for America
http://feeds.mediamatters.org/~r/MediaMattersForAmerica-CountyFair/~3/J52xee8Crac/200909080030
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The video above shows the visionary Van Jones speaking from the World Economic Forum at Davos. I was astonished when I learned over Twitter this weekend that Van Jones was stepping down from his position as special adviser for green jobs at the White
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Jack & Jill Politics
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When FOX News' Glenn Beck called President Barack Obama a "racist" and claimed that he had "a deep-seated hatred for white people" an African-American netroots group, ColorOfChange.org, organized a successful boycott of Beck's corporate sponsors. It
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Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-a-palermo/glenn-beck-vs-van-jones-m_b_279416.html
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