What Does Van Jones Resignation Really Say About Mainstream Media

Van Jones, Baraclk Obama’s so-called Green Jobs Czar resigned late last night, Sept 6, 2009 as a result of the truth being brought to light. The bigger story and what every American should realize is that all the information about his radical views were not reported by the New York Times, the Washington Post, CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, and MSNBC.

How could this be?

The answer is very simple.

These so-called news organizations have become stenography centers. Their mission statement used to be to objectively report the news to the public. This endeavor however is so important that it is constitutionally protected by the 1st amendment. A free press is a vital component to a successful democracy.

However, we no longer have a free press.

The mainstream media in this country is enslaved by Left Wing ideology. The days of objectively reporting the goings on of government are long dead. Get used to it because those days won’t be coming back if they ever existed at all.

The resignation of Van Jones is a minor detail. He won’t be even a footnote in history. What really matters is why he got the job in the first place. And the answer to that is simple too.

President Barack Obama and Van Jones are one in the same. They are both ideological brothers-in-arms who believe America needs to be remade into a socialist Utopia.

These facts have always been out there. But it took WorldNet Daily, an Internet site, who for the past five months dug into Van Jones’s radical history and reported the facts to the public. Then Glenn Beck picked up the story and was attacked by Left Wing bloggers for simply doing what the mainstream media USED TO DO!

The real story about Van Jones is that the mainstream media is on life support. They no longer have a monopoly on the public’s trust.

Unfortunately, millions of Americans still trust the mainstream media for their news. And President Obama will continue to use his stenographers (mainstream media) to deceive the public from his true intentions.

But, that’s beginning to crumble too.

Thank God for that.

Yes, I said it!

Samuel Gonzalez, The Last Tradition, 9/6/09

White House to Raise Red China Flag in Celebration of Regime That Murdered Millions

The administration of President Barack Obama, whose official blogger while Obama was a candidate came under attack for hanging a Communist Party flag in his Harvard apartment, apparently has given permission to raise the emblem of Communist China over the south lawn of the White House.

The plan, reported by several English-language Chinese media outlets
, has raised concern among those who are working to guard the United States from outside influences that could be threats.

According to the Global Times English-language edition, the national flag of the communist People's Republic of China on Sept. 20 will be raised for the first time on the White House's south lawn – a secured area seldom available for public events – in recognition of the Chinese anniversary.
"The ceremony has gotten official approval," Xiao Shuigen, secretary of the Union of Chinese American Professional Organizations, told the Times.


"It was always my dream to raise a Chinese flag in the center of Washington, D.C.," Chen Ronghua, chief of the U.S.-Fujian Association, told the newspaper. "This year, my motherland's 60th birthday, is the perfect time for it."
According to China Daily, Chinese associations in the United States applied to have a ceremony.

Such emblems were an issue during Obama's presidential campaign, when a Houston Fox TV affiliate captured images of a volunteer in an Obama campaign office working in front of a flag featuring the image of Che Guevara, the South American revolutionary who became Fidel Castro's executioner after the communist takeover in Cuba.

At that time, the Obama campaign issued a statement calling the flag "inappropriate" and noting that the office where it was displayed was funded by "volunteers" and was not the official campaign headquarters.
However, it was Sam Graham-Felsen, a journalist-on-leave from The Nation, who joined Obama for America in 2007 and worked as the official blogger. He, according to a 2003 article in the Harvard Crimson, adorned one corner of his shared student apartment with "a Communist Party flag ... bought on their trip to Russia the summer after sophomore year."

The proposed event at the White House was condemned on the forums page on Fox News commentator Sean Hannity's website.

"People could understand if there was a Chinese visitor at the White House and the Red flag was placed on the stage behind the speakers, but to hoist the commie pinko flag in 'honor' of the founding of the People's Republic of China is absurd," the forum participant said. "This only goes to prove the Obama administration is out-of-touch with the American people."

William Gheen, chief of Americans for Legal Immigration, the pre-eminent organization battling against illegal immigration, said it's the message that is sent to the world that will be significant.
"Our concern is that sovereign wealth funds, like the Chinese, now control the executive branch more than the American people," he said. "China is not our friend. China is our enemy. Our enemy is coming and raising their own flag in a type of proclamation.

"I expect the Chinese media will make a big thing of it," he said, saying something like, "'Look how strong and powerful China is, raising our flag on the White House.'"

He said it conveys the same message as if Old Glory would be raised on the property of the Kremlin.
Gheen said the issue becomes clear "why the new water stations at illegal alien crossings into the United States have instructions in English, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese."

At the Red County blog, the author said, "Celebrating Americans of Chinese descent is one thing. Celebrating Communism is another. Now our president will hoist the Communist flag over the White House. How fitting and in sync with his political belief system."

A spokesman for the American Legion told WND that if the proper protocols are followed, there should be no issue with the actual display of a Chinese flag, especially since diplomatic visits routinely include the display of foreign flags.
But those with obviously U.S. leanings on the Global Times forum page were outraged.

•"Another public short coming and failure by the Obama administration."

•"UNBELIEVABLE!"

•"It can now be official – leave the flag there."

•"So let me get this straight – the Chinese are going to celebrate the founding of their country on the south lawn of the White House! Did we celebrate the 4th of July in Beijing in front of their Leader's House? What other proof do you need that Obama is the Manchurian Candidate."

•"Oh Crap, Have the Chinese foreclosed on us already?

Bob Unruh, WorldNet Daily, 9/5/09

Step-N-Fetch It Media Conveniently Silent on Obama Appointed Czar Van Jones

ABC & NBC Continue Van Jones Blackout, Instead Tout Obama's 'Transparency' and Rue Attacks on Him

ABC and NBC on Friday night, even after White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was forced to address the topic, continued their blackout of the radical and America-hating conspiracy views of Van Jones, the “Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation” on the White House's Council on Environmental Quality.
Instead of taking up how five years ago Jones signed the 911truth.org petition calling for an “immediate inquiry into evidence that suggests high-level government officials may have deliberately allowed the September 11th attacks to occur,” a revelation to which FNC's Special Report devoted a full story on Thursday, on ABC's World News fill-in anchor George Stephanopoulos trumpeted the Obama White
House “transparency” in the “unprecedented” decision to release visitor logs, which Jake Tapper described as an “historic” move before Stephanopoulos fretted over how Obama “is facing this liberal revolt over the public health insurance option, and the President decided to take it head-on today.”

Over on NBC, Brian Williams bemoaned: “A back to school speech by the President. How did it get branded as an attempt to brainwash America's children?” He also conveyed liberal disappointment Obama-defenders aren't tough enough: “Some are asking how the White House message got hijacked before the speech was delivered and why more people aren't pushing back.” Andrea Mitchell asserted that “it's only the latest example of what the White House calls the silly season -- town halls where disabled speakers are shouted down....From charges of death panels to the birthers...”

So, NBC Nightly News rued the impact of the “birther” believers but still didn't find newsworthy how the Obama administration picked for a prominent White House position a guy who believes the nation's leaders committed mass murder.
Only the CBS Evening News, of the broadcast network evening newscasts on Friday night, mentioned Van Jones -- in a full story from Bill Plante that also featured several other wacky and hateful utterances from Jones. (Scott Whitlock's earlier post: “All Three Morning Shows Skip Any Reference to Radical Obama Czar and 9/11 Truthers.)

CNN also caught up with FNC on Friday with a full story on The Situation Room by Kate Snow who highlighted how, angry at the non-guilty verdicts for the police officers in the Rodney King case 15 years earlier, in 2005 Jones told the San Francisco-area East Bay Express: “By August, I was a communist.”

In his Thursday night FNC piece (Brad Wilmouth's item), James Rosen reported:
And within hours after the Twin Towers collapsed, the groups Jones founded and led lashed out at U.S. police and intelligence agencies for using 9/11 as a, quote, “cash cow.” The manifesto for one of these groups equated those killed on 9/11 with, quote, “the victims of U.S. imperialism around the world.”

Friday night, Stephanopoulos teased World News with an upbeat spin on the highest unemployment rate in 26 years: “The unemployment rate nears 10 percent, but the numbers aren't all bad.”
He then turned to Jake Tapper at the White House and covered three topics, but not Jones despite the fact Tapper had used his ABCNews.com “Political Punch” blog on Thursday night and Friday to take up Jones:
From the Friday, September 4 World News:

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Let me bring in Jake Tapper now from the White House, and Jake we have a lot to cover tonight. But let's begin with the economy. Wall Street shrugged off these unemployment numbers today, went up about 100 points, solid gains for the week and it seemed like the core message from the White House today is that this could have been a lot worse.

JAKE TAPPER: That's exactly right, George, the message from the White House is that the last time that the job loss numbers were this low was a year ago and while they know they have a lot of work to do, they are on the uptick. They say this is because of the recovery plan, the stimulus bill, which has meant good news out of the housing sector, and for manufacturing jobs and, of course, for consumer confidence.

STEPHANOPOULOS: And there was a major announcement today on the issue of transparency from the White House as they announced that going forward, they are going to release the public the names of virtually all the visitors to the White House, and that is unprecedented.

TAPPER: It's unprecedented, it is historic. There are some exceptions. They will not release the names of individuals, disclosing information might cause some national security issues or individuals who are conducting personal visits with the first or second families, the Obamas or the Bidens. And they also will temporarily withhold information about any sensitive political visits, like a Supreme Court candidate.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Finally, looking ahead to the President's health care speech next week, the White House is facing this liberal revolt over the public health insurance option, and the President decided to take it head-on today.
TAPPER: That's right. He had a conference call with major House liberal leaders who wanted to push the President to include what they call a robust public option, a government-run health care plan in the health care reform bill. The President listened, but the bottom line, George, is he hasn't made any decisions, he has to listen to all the Democrats in the House and Senate, and for him, the public option is a means to an end. It's a way to make sure costs are contained, to have competition with insurance companies, and, of course, to keep insurance companies honest. He is not committed to a public option, therefore there could be any number of ways to achieve what he wants to achieve.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Okay, Jake Tapper from the White House, thanks very much.
From the CBS Evening News:

JEFF GLOR'S TEASE: Conservative outrage, the uproar after a presidential advisor attacks Republicans.
....
JEFF GLOR: Chances are that until this week you'd never heard the name Van Jones. He's a presidential advisor who suddenly finds himself in the middle of an uproar over what he said about Republicans and his views on 9/11. Now some in the GOP say it's time for Jones to resign. Here's senior White House correspondent Bill Plante.
BILL PLANTE: Van Jones is a White House advisor for environmentally friendly jobs, but provocative statements he made before he joined the administration have sparked conservative outrage. In a speech last year, Jones joked about what he called President Bush's addiction to oil.

VAN JONES, JUNE 28, 2008: I hope I don't offend anybody, but the President of the United States sounded like a crack head when he said that. Like a crack head trying to lick the crack pipe for a fix.

PLANTE: Jones' take no prisoners rhetoric is no ricocheting around the Internet. In this meeting from February, just before he joined the White House team, Jones responded to an audience question about why Democrats were not as successful as Republicans.

JONES, FEBRUARY 11: Well, the answer to that is they're [bleep]holes and Barack Obama's not a [bleep]hole. So some of us who are not Barack Hussein Obama are going to have to start getting a little bit uppity.

PLANTE: Jones has long been an outspoken advocate for liberal causes, lashing out in 2007 against unequal justice for African-Americans.
JONES, JANUARY 5, 2007: You don't have to call somebody the "n" word if you can call them a felon.

PLANTE: What's prompted the most outrage is Jones' signature on the 2004 petition of a so-called 9/11 truth organization, calling for “immediate inquiry into evidence that suggests high-level government officials may have deliberately allowed the September 11th attacks to occur.” In a statement issued by the White House, Jones said: “If I have offended anyone with statements I made in the past, I apologize. As for the petition, I do not agree with this statement and it certainly does not reflect my views now or ever.”

Friends say Jones told them he had not read the petition before he signed it. But angry conservatives say remarks made last month by White House senior advisor Valerie Jarrett suggest that the White House was very familiar with Jones' activism.
VALERIE JARRETT, AUGUST 15 in C-SPAN VIDEO: Van Jones, we were so delighted to be able to recruit him into the White House. We've been watching him really for, he's not that old, for as long as he's been active out of Oakland and all of the ways that he has, the creative ideas that he has. So now we have captured that.
PLANTE: White House spokesman Robert Gibbs today would say only that Jones continues to work at the White House. Not exactly a full embrace. But it is classic Washington speak for “let's see how this all plays out.” Bill Plante, CBS News, the White House.

Brent Baker, NewsBusters, 9/5/09

Look at Yourr Kids Text Books

You may be shocked to find what passes for education in your kids text books. Leering about what happened in the past has becoeme a haven for revisionist history by every special interests group on the planet. Everybody wants a piece of the politically correct pie. What we're left with is children damaged to the point of literate ignorance.

Amazing!

Samuel Gonzalez, The Last Tradition, 9/4/09

Time to Indoctrinate the Kids

GET READY FOR 'ALL BARACK'S CHILDREN'

'ABC" stands for All Barack's Children. On Sept. 8, young students across the country will be watch ing TV. Yes, they'll be parked in front of boob tubes and computer screens watching President Obama's address on education.

Instead of reviewing multiplication tables or diagramming sentences, America's kids will be lectured about the importance of learning. Then the schoolchildren, from pre-K through 12th grade, will be exhorted to Do Something -- other than sit in their seats and receive academic instruction, that is.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan dispatched letters to principals nationwide, boasting, "This is the first time an American president has spoken directly to the nation's schoolchildren about persisting and succeeding in school."

But the goal isn't merely morale boosting. White House event-related guides developed by the US Department of Education's Teaching Fellows say elementary students will be told to "listen to the speech" and "think about the following":

* What is the president trying to tell me?

* What is the president asking me to do?

* What new ideas and actions is the president challenging me to think about?

* Students can record important parts of the speech where the president is asking them to do something. Students might think about: What specific job is he asking me to do? Is he asking anything of anyone else? Teachers? Principals? Parents? The American people?

After the speech, teachers will ask students:

* What do you think the president wants us to do?

* Does the speech make you want to do anything?

* Are we able to do what President Obama is asking of us?

Obama's White House Teaching Fellows include Chicago high-school educator Xian Barrett, a fierce opponent of charter schools who founded a "Social Justice Club" and bussed students to protests, as well as Michelle Bissonette, a Los Altos, Calif., teacher who is "focused on developing my leadership as a more culturally and racially conscious educator."

The activist tradition of government schools using students as junior lobbyists can't be ignored. Teachers unions have enlisted captive schoolchildren as letter-writers in their campaigns for more education spending. Activists have enlisted their secondary-school charges in pro-illegal immigration protests, gay marriage ceremonies, environmental-propaganda stunts and anti-war events.

Last year's presidential campaign saw disgraceful abuses of power by pro-Obama instructors. In New Rochelle, elementary students were given an in-class assignment to color in drawings of Obama -- including a picture of a campaign button featuring his face and the slogan "Students for Obama 2008." In Cumberland County, NC, a fifth-grade teacher turned a "civics" discussion into an unhinged harangue against a girl who said her family supported John McCain.

Nor can the Democrats' strategy of using kiddie human shields to advance their legislative agenda be overlooked in the context and timing of Obama's speech. Children have been front and center of the left's push for an ever-increasing government role in health care.

So when the Department of Education directs schools to gather children 'round the TV monitors for Obama's pep talk and then have them do this . . .

* Create posters of their goals. Posters could be formatted in quadrants or puzzle pieces or trails marked with the labels: personal, academic, community, country. Each area could be labeled with three steps for achieving goals in those areas. It might make sense to focus on personal and academic so community and country goals come more readily.

* Write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president. These would be collected and redistributed later by the teacher to make students accountable to their goals.

. . . parents have every right to worry about their children being used as Political Guinea Pigs for Change.

Michelle Malkin, NY Post, 9/3/09

Memo to the President: E.I.T. Worked and Saved Lives

'TORTURE' WORKS
INTERROGATIONS FOILED PLOTS

IF Dick Cheney had a fantasy scenario for how the Bush administration interrogation program worked, it might go like this: A top al Qaeda operative is captured, but resists traditional interrogation. He's then waterboarded, after which he becomes an invaluable resource. Eventually, the terrorist conducts tutorials on al Qaeda doctrine and operations for the benefit of US intelligence officers.

Except it's not a fable. It describes the course of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed's post-capture career, according to The Washington Post. The Post report, together with CIA documents released in the last week, demolishes a key argument of opponents of so-called enhanced interrogation techniques -- that " 'torture' never works."

This contention always betrayed an insecurity. For all their thundering about the immorality of coercive interrogations, opponents never dared admit that they could have elicited important, perhaps lifesaving, information. They treated it as a kind of metaphysical impossibility.

In so doing, they left a hostage to fortune. They had to hope that Cheney was wrong when he said that classified documents proved the interrogations' effectiveness, or that the documents would never be declassified. The release of the 2004 Central Intelligence Agency inspector general's report -- declassified thanks to an ACLU lawsuit -- has been a disaster for them. In the intelligence business, it's called blowback.

The IG report said detainees in the interrogation program made the CIA aware of plots to attack the US consulate in Karachi, Pakistan; to fly hijacked aircraft into Heathrow Airport; to derail a train in America; to blow up US gas stations; to fly an airplane into the tallest building in California; and to collapse bridges in New York. If any of these attacks had come off, many of the same critics braying about the CIA's interrogations would be outraged about its failure to "connect the dots."

The IG report doesn't flatly assert that the interrogations were responsible for this intelligence haul, but the facts make it obvious. Top terrorists were withholding information before the application of the toughest techniques, but compliant afterward.

The report says KSM was "an accomplished resistor," who gave mostly "outdated, inaccurate or incomplete" information until he was waterboarded. Afterward, he became the "most prolific" source of important leads.

The IG report says KSM's cooperation led to the arrest of a truck driver in the US named Iyman Faris who was plotting attacks on New York landmarks; of a sleeper operative in New York named Saleh Almari; of an operative named Majid Khan who had easy entree into the US; and of two Pakistani businessmen whom KSM "planned to use to smuggle explosives into the United States."

Overall, according to another CIA document released last week, "detainees in mid-2003 helped us build a list of 70 individuals -- many of who we had never heard of before -- that al Qaeda deemed suitable for Western operations." In the War on Terror, learning these operatives' identities is almost the equivalent of the ULTRA program breaking German codes in World War II.

The former CIA Inspector General John Helgerson tells The Washington Post that "waterboarding and sleep deprivation were the two most powerful techniques and elicited a lot of information." Such extreme methods should obviously be used only in a carefully controlled setting against top detainees harboring information about ongoing plots. Detainees like KSM and a few of his confederates, who provided intelligence valuable enough to justify their harsh treatment.

Years of bombast and distortion have nonetheless killed the enhanced-interrogation program. The Obama administration has put the CIA out of the interrogation business and will henceforth endeavor to limit itself to the minimalist methods in the Army Field Manual. Thus it enshrines an interrogation regime that wouldn't have gotten KSM to cooperate so quickly, if at all. And turns its back on what worked.

Rich Lowry, NY Post, 9/2/09

Poll Dropping Languishing President Out for Patriot’s Blood

PUNISHING PATRIOTS
WITCH HUNT AT CIA ENDANGERS US

THE Obama administration's determination to hold witch-hunt "investigations" of CIA interrogators who did their patriotic best to keep us safe endangers us all.

Castrate the CIA, and Americans will die. But the Obama White House wants vengeance against those who don't fit its ideology. Your family's safety comes a distant second.

And let's get real: Attorney General Eric Holder (whose top career achievement was finessing the presidential pardon of a criminal Clinton donor) is not acting independently.

Anyone who believes that Holder didn't pre-brief the president and get the nod prior to announcing his determination to crucify high-achieving CIA agents probably believes that government-run health care will balance the federal budget.

I followed this travesty as I worked with our military at various bases last month. I could have been listening to old BBC World Service reports from the Third World. This is the sort of politicized retribution that prevails in backwater countries when regimes change.

Our wise tradition has been for new administrations to accept that their predecessors did their best, however disagreeably, and move on. Gerald Ford sacrificed himself to that end, and even Jimmy Carter understood that presidencies are not for domestic revenge.

And the lesson the left should draw from its own wretched global history is that those who stage the show trials this time may wind up in the dock themselves when the wheel turns.

But Obama's political base wants blood. American blood. This inquisition isn't about justice. It's about punishing those who fought terror with all their might.

What have we come to when our attorney general frees terrorists, then threatens to prosecute patriots who treated butchers too harshly for left-wing tastes?

What Holder intends -- with Obama's blessing -- isn't about cleaning up a rogue agency, but cleaning out those who believed that protecting our country trumped all else in wartime. This ideological purge promises to do more damage to the intelligence community than even the crippling Carter-era shenanigans -- whose effects are still felt today.

For his part, Obama's trying to have it both ways: letting Holder wear the black hat to advance an extreme-left agenda, while the president poses as if he's a disinterested party high above the fray.

But Washington doesn't work that way. And we all know it. If the president disapproved of the Holder witch-hunt, he could fire the attorney general today.

He won't, though. Because, in this administration's hard-left cosmos, the CIA is evil. For that matter, America is evil. Americans need to be punished and forced to face the evil our country has done.

So terrorists are "liberated," Gitmo will be closed, and the careers and lives of patriots will be shattered.

This matters. After serving in and around the intelligence world for decades, I can tell you that we're far better off with intelligence operatives, from interrogators to analysts, who show too much zeal than with timid bureaucrats who dread making any slight error.

You can't do useful intelligence work on a choke-chain. Yes, the intel community needs oversight and guidance. But it's vile for armchair critics, safe at home, to damn the earnest efforts of those who broke the likes of arch-terrorist Khalid Sheik Mohammed.

And some hard-core terrorists do have to be broken. Patiently playing to the prisoner's vanity works best in run-of-the-mill interrogations, but there are always exceptions. In those cases, our intelligence warriors must feel confident that our government's behind them -- and not waving an indictment.

The American people get this. The left's obsession with the rights of terrorists finds no support among sensible citizens. But the issue's been hijacked by the America-hating zealots who shaped our president's worldview and by media scoundrels whose credo comes from Grace Slick's 1960s lyric "I'd rather have my country die for me."

For the rest of us to live in peace, patriots must stand at the edge of darkness where our enemies dwell. This is a war. And it is sometimes necessary to do evil in war to achieve a greater good. Fighting Islamist terrorism isn't about campus theories. It's about the fate of millions.

In this bitter struggle that has been forced upon us, the Obama administration stands for creeping surrender.

Ralph Peter, NY Post, 9/1/09