Van Jones Resigns!

Simply Googling 'Van Jones,' I came across these two articles, here and here, from the past day or so. I only caught on to the furor with this post last Friday. Just in time, apparently.

Bret Baier of Fox News wrote about how the liberal-leaning major print media and networks studiously avoided mention of Jones' resignation. Especially coming, as it did, in the middle of Labor Day weekend, apparently late one night,

"The resignation of President Obama's green jobs "czar," Van Jones, might have come as a shock if you do not watch cable news. In fact, the "big three" evening news casts and two of the nation's most-prominent newspapers barely covered the story.

There was no mention of Jones by CBS, NBC, ABC, The Washington Post or The New York Times on Wednesday — the night Jones' first issued an apology for past statements.

The same was true on Thursday, although a Washington Post blog picked up the story. That night Jones again apologized for a slew of old remarks and the signing of that petition that alleged the Bush administration was behind the 9/11 attacks.

ABC and NBC failed to cover the story on Friday, although CBS finally did.
There was no mention from the "big three" evening newscasts or The Times print edition Saturday. But The New York Times blog finally addressed the story as did the print edition of the Post.

And on Sunday — the morning after Jones' middle-of-the-night resignation — it was too late for the papers, but the three evening newscasts filed reports.

The New York Times print edition finally ran its first mention of the story on Monday, on the lower-half of the front page."

The other website to which I linked is, in my opinion, very revealing. A Chicago Sun Times column, written by Mary Mitchell, a black woman, seeks to goad Glenn Beck as impotent, if 'this is the best he could do.'

Being a black woman writing in one of Wonderboy's hometown newspapers, it's not surprising that the columnist sees nothing wrong with Jones' speeches or positions. In fact, she implies Beck dug up a written speech, when, in fact, as my prior post shows, the video of Jones' incindiary verbiage is on YouTube. Style and context counts for a lot. Mitchell deliberately turns a blind eye to what is obviously the problem about Jones.

That is, Jones, a black in the administration of the first black president of the US, is decidedly and proudly partisan and venal. Hardly the sort of guy who would lend credibility to Mr. 'post-racial politics.'

Then there's the 9/11 Commission petition. Jones is a loon. If any Republican administration had a guy who had signed that petition, you can bet the New York Times and NBC would make it front-page, prime-time news.

I also found it funny that Mitchell seems to think that, less than a year into Wonderboy's term, losing a fairly high-profile, radical administration member is the end of his troubles.

I think, on the contrary, it's only the beginning.