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Young, Green, and Out of Work 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
What you can do

A message from Van Jones 16
Posted 2 months ago
My family and I want to thank everyone for the outpouring of love and support that we have received over the past week or so.
i lost my number, can i have yours?

A New Number For a New Era: From 9/11 to 350 3
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
Today we remember the victims and honor our heroes, but we also have a new President, new crises, and three new numbers: 3-5-0. 350.
close enough?

Joe Klein compares Van Jones to ‘white supremacist,’ ‘Nazi’ 14
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
Joe Klein, the prominent Time Magazine liberal columnist, has embraced the right-wing assault on Van Jones, the White House green jobs advisor who resigned this weekend.
Big business’s hidden hand in the smear job on Van Jones 2
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
If you thought the targeting of Van Jones for vilification by the right was about his race, his youthful flirtation with socialism, or a petition he signed about the 9/11 attacks, you'd only be a little bit right.
Fox News blurts out agenda: With Jones down, stop cap-and-trade 2
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
Having taken Van Jones down, the job destroyers and climate destroyers of the right wing most certainly smell blood.
After Van Jones resignation, Glenn Beck to go after ‘other radicals’ 3
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
Following Van Jones’ resignation Saturday night, Glenn Beck has released a statement vowing to go after “other radicals in the administration.”
Thinking outside the office

5 reasons why Van Jones and progressives are better off with Jones out of the White House 4
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
The end of Van Jones' brief career as a White House insider, in the semi-obscure position of special adviser for green jobs at the Council on Environmental Quality, is likely good for Van Jones.
Who Killed the Jobs of Van Jones and Coal Miners?

Labor Day of Infamy 0
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Less than 48 hours after a bizarre witch-hunt by right-wing Fox News commentator Glenn Beck brought down our nation's hardest-working and respected green jobs advocate, Van Jones, Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship will host an equally bizarre Labor Day spectacle--or Don-A-Pullute-Za, as West Virginia Blue activists say--in the name of union-busted jobs and climate-change denial in Logan County, West Virginia.
Does Glenn Beck also like to wear tutus?

Honoring Van Jones by reaffirming who we are 2
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
J. Edgar Hoover came to mind this weekend with the announcement that Van Jones had resigned from Obama's White House. Viewed one way, this was a victory for Glenn Beck and his Fox News patrons, and it was right out of the Hoover playbook. But with reflection, we can find solace in history.
Sunday morning hot air

Talking about Van Jones 14
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
The resignation of President Obama's green jobs adviser was touched on during several of the TV networks' Sunday morning political gabfests. Here are the relevant excerpts...
Green jobs adviser Van Jones resigns White House position 5
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
President Barack Obama's special adviser for green jobs has resigned under pressure from leading Republican politicians and revelations about his controversial past statements.
Paranoid racists ascendent

Thoughts on Van Jones’ resignation 37
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Van Jones had to resign. It became inevitable when Gibbs offered no support.

Much of the blame for this incident lies squarely on the White House. The information used against Jones was freely available on the web. All it took was a search. I thought by hiring Jones they intended to take a chance on a real left progressive, but now it appears they were simply caught flat-footed. Either Valerie Jarrett -- Jones' champion in the upper echelons of the administration -- didn't know much about him or didn't widely share what she knew. They certainly seemed disinclined to mount a vigorous defense with Glenn Beck gnoshing on his favorite new chew toy and the health care reform battle was about to heat up again.
'Let's be one country'

Van Jones seeks a ‘healing for our politics’ 5
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
White House green jobs advisor Van Jones is under attack from Fox News as an “avowed radical revolutionary communist” and from ABC News as a “truther” with a “history of incendiary and provocative remarks.”
Bile for all

Will Glenn Beck bring down Van Jones after all? 47
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
A couple days ago I ran a post defending Van Jones from some of the more absurd charges leveled at him by noted race-baiter Glenn Beck over the last month. He's not an "ex-con," he's not a communist, he's not even a czar. He's not, to pick just one of Beck's darkly hinted smears, on a top-secret mission to secure the U.S. treasury and dispense slavery reparations. He is, however, two things that scare the whitey tighties off of Beck and his tighty whitey audience: black and liberal.

It was mostly a tempest in a teabag until the last couple of days, when Jones got tagged with a few things that could very well end up being the end of his career in the executive branch.
Is that Beck going to stain?

Cleaning some of the Fox off of Van Jones 0
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
A while back I lampooned a Glenn Beck segment on Van Jones, who's an advisor to the White House Council on Environmental Quality. According to Beck, Jones is the man on the inside for a vast cryptosocialist conspiracy involving the Apollo Alliance, Color of Change, the Center for American Progress, George Soros, ACORN, Al Queda, and the Trilateral Commission. Everything that goes bump in Beck's closet at night.

Back then I still thought the Gomer Pyle meets Father Coughlin shtick was harmless, too clownish to be taken seriously. Ah, those innocent days before the nation was locked in a room with frantic teabaggers.
Van Jones on a green collar economy 0
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
Van Jones explains the “double, triple, quadruple” benefits of clean energy investment 0
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
Devious!

Glenn Beck: Van Jones is a communist intent on, er, creating private sector jobs 31
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Glenn Beck has uncovered a plot! (Yes, another one.) Turns out Van Jones, President Obama's green jobs czar, is going to coordinate a vast radical/communist/black nationalist takeover of our sweet, virginal land of liberty.
Green jobs, green future: Van Jones takes your questions 0
Posted 4 months, 4 weeks ago