TRUE BELIEVERS? OR COVERING THEIR OWN ASSES?

Let's just keep track of the truth tellers about Van Jones' resignation.

ABC News' Jack Tapper, "Under Fire, Presidential Adviser Van Jones Resigns"
Written September 06, 2009 8:20 AM
Link
No mention of the September 13, 2004 meeting \.
No mention of controversial CD he appears on.
No mention that bloggers uncovered the Truther Statement.
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Bloomberg News, Dick Schumacher and Gregory Viscusi, "Van Jones, Obama Environmental Aide, Resigns (Update1)" Link
Written September 6, 2009 09:44 EDT
" Van Jones, an environmental adviser to U.S. President Barack Obama, resigned, following criticism from conservative commentators that he’d made derogatory remarks about Republicans." and "was a “strong voice” for creating jobs that improve energy efficiency and use renewable resources, Nancy Sutley, the chairwoman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, said in an e-mailed statement today."
No mention of September 13, 2004 meeting nor any of the above that ABC neglected.
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San Francisco Chronicle, Cameron Scott (Chronicle Blog, Thin Green Line) "Life and times of Van Jones" Link
September 06 2009 at 10:52 AMB

Basically, it boils down to this: Van Jones is an activist. Activists sign a lot of petitions, so Jones' statement that he wasn't informed of the final language of the 9/11 petition could well be true.

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London Telegraph, by Toby Harnden in Washington, "Barack Obama aide resigns over claim that 9/11 was a pretext for war" Link

The ousting of Van Jones, a Left-wing activist appointed by Mr Obama as his "special adviser for green jobs", is a victory for Republicans and a sign of growing weakness within the White House.

And, "The White House chose the very early hours of Sunday morning on the Labour Day holiday weekend to make the resignation announcement, a sign that it wanted to bury what had become a major distraction to the battle over health care reform."

And this,

The racial overtones of many of his past utterances were a particular liability for a president whose election campaign was nearly derailed by the rantings of his former pastor Jeremiah Wright and has since been anxious to distance himself from black extremism.

Mr Jones had accused whites of using pollution as a weapon against blacks, stating that "the white polluters and the white environmentalists are essentially steering poison into the people-of-color communities, because they don't have a racial justice frame".

The episode has drawn attention to the large number of czars appointed by Mr Obama - many more than in previous administration - and a haphazard system of vetting appointees that allowed such an obviously controversial figure to get through.
"Curious how he made it that far into the administration when a google search could have told you he believed that the Bush Administration had allowed 9/11 to happen," Dana Perino, President George W. Bush's press secretary, told the Politico website.
"It'd be like the Bush White House having a former clansman or Holocaust denier in the West Wing."