Van Jones signed a petition urging investigation into allegations that the Bush administration was in some way responsible for the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Also a Communist, this is the same Van Jones who called Republicans "a**holes."
Nevertheless, Obama White House official Valerie B. Jarrett, Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement, is quoted by Power Line as follows:
Oooh. Van Jones, alright! So, Van Jones. We were so delighted to be able to recruit him into the White House. We were watching him, uh, really, he's not that old, for as long as he's been active out in Oakland. And all the creative ideas he has. And so now, we have captured that. And we have all that energy in the White House.According to Michelle Malkin, it turns out that the bloggers at Gateway Pundit dug up Jones' petition signature, and that finally brought this loser down. Until the last day or so, the only mainstream news organization that reported the problems was Fox News. Conservative talk radio and the conservative blogosphere were also instrumental in Jones' defenestration.
This is a victory for those of us who labor in the vineyards of the right. It is also an enormous setback for the mainstream media, which resisted until the eleventh hour reporting this story.
