Its just getting weird:
A top environmental official of the Obama administration issued a statement Thursday apologizing for past incendiary statement and denying that he ever agreed with a 2004 petition on which his name appears, a petition calling for congressional hearings and an investigation by the New York Attorney General into “evidence that suggests high-level government officials may have deliberately allowed the September 11th attacks to occur.”
Van Jones, the Special Advisor for Green Jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, is Number 46 of the petitioners from the so-called “Truther” movement which suggests that people in the administration of President George W. Bush “may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war.”
In a statement issued Thursday evening Jones said of “the petition that was circulated today, I do not agree with this statement and it certainly does not reflect my views now or ever.”
Now we are being asked to agree that a person’s signed statement should not be held against him. If Lewis Carroll had written this, the editor would have struck it out as too unbelievable.
Look, anyone with and wits at all knows darn well that Van Jones signed on to the “truther” movement – which is being played, today, as if only a few fringe kooks were involved, but which was actually running quite strong on the left right about the same time Jones signed the petition. The left is trying to do a bit of a re-write but the fact of the matter is that the left, by and large, still believes that President Bush used 9/11 as a foundation for lies to get us in to Iraq. While not one in a hundred will admit to harboring “truther” views about 9/11, itself, there is no great leap from thinking that Bush cooked the intel books on Iraq to thinking Bush had a hand in 9/11. Van Jones isn’t an oddity – he’s mainstream liberal (yes, even with his cockeyed communism – especially so!).
The Obama Administration is shot through with people like this because the Democratic party is shot through with people like this – you couldn’t heave a brick at a Democrat gathering without hitting someone who thinks that President Bush had a hand in 9/11, or some other variant of the “BusHitler” meme (Ed. Note: Blogs for Victory strongly discourages hurling bricks at gathered Democrats…no matter how fun it’d be). The Democrats invited these kooks in to the party for the 2004 campaign. Michael Moore was the tip of the spear, but once the party was opened to people like Moore, they just came flooding in…and ended up providing the core support for Obama’s candidacy.
What can the Democrats do? Conduct a purge – though they won’t do it until they’re beaten. So, we’ll have to put up with Van Jones and his like at least through November of 2010.
UPDATE: Least shocking news of the day – he’s also a supporter of the cop-killed Mumia.
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