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The Spectacle Blog
News: Van Jones was there at the beginning of the Truther movement.
Bruce F. Webster over at And I Still Persist alerts that there is still more pouring forth about Van Jones. It seems that in January of 2002 - mere months after 9/11- Van Jones signed onto a statement calling for a march on the San Francisco office of Senator Dianne Feinstein. Read this…Mr. Webster’s site will lead you appropriately to the original source, keyed to us all by the folks at Gateway Pundit. Here also is the direct link to the original posting in case efforts are made to “disappear” this now hot site.
This is truly nutty stuff from the outer precincts inhabited by the tin foil brigades, beginning with demands for an investigation into the ties between Osama bin Ladin and then-President Bush.
But our man Van was right there at the the Truther takeoff. Does the Obama White House understand that Jones will be detracting from the POTUS health care speech to Congress?
We’ll see.
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DrTomVoter| 9.4.09 @ 1:26PM
I'm sure the White House understands. I agree with Bob Beckel (maybe a first) on Fox this morning that he will be gone by the end of unwatched Labor Day weekend news cycle. "Van, do you want to lay down gracefully in front of, or do we need to throw you under the bus?"
Daisy| 9.4.09 @ 1:28PM
But, but....Obama is so BRILLIANT. Ha hahahaha.
Jeremiah| 9.4.09 @ 1:30PM
Tin Foil Hat Czar.
Nobama| 9.4.09 @ 1:56PM
Where's Jeremiah/LibReader; stalwart astroturf defender of all things Obama? Not a lot for the troll to gloat about these days. Loser.
jppr| 9.4.09 @ 2:24PM
Not just Van Jones or Valerie Jarrett but when is Hussien Obama going to be asked to step down?
Hussein is the radical who hired all these other radicals. He is unfit to be the American President.
Deborah D | 9.4.09 @ 2:31PM
Oh, Mr. Lord...I didn't see this blog post of yours. Jake Tapper's blog has mentioned the 2002 march that Jones helped organize. So, at least ABC has something on this story. Here's the link: http://blogs.abcnews.com/polit.....ement.html
PRAVDA| 9.4.09 @ 2:46PM
Comrade Jones laughs at your feeble asshole Republican threats!
Tim| 9.4.09 @ 3:52PM
Charles Johnson at little Green Footballs claims that Jones was duped.
"As people dig around for incriminating evidence on Van Jones at 9/11 Truther sites and crazy conspiracy sites like the antisemitic, Holocaust-denying rense.com (which, by the way, is not a credible source of information about anything), here are a couple of tidbits that tend to back up Jones’ claim that he is not a Truther and signed that infamous document under false pretenses."
http://littlegreenfootballs.co.....ere_Misled
citizen222| 9.4.09 @ 4:22PM
Dear Pravda,
Wrong, wrong, wrong! The Republicans aren't threating anyone including Mr. Jones. It's the American people who are twittering and blogging about this guy - so please get your facts straight!
Americans don't take kindly to a nut like Jones within 100 feet of our Acorn president.
We don't understand why the Secret Service and the FBI didn't vet this guy, or did they? Of course they did. So who told them to look the other way? Americans would like some answers from this President.
As for Van Jones the public has a problem with anyone who believes that 9/11 was inside job that killed 3,000 of our citizens.
We want nothing to do with his radical leftist ideas. We don't want him to have access to our tax dollars to re-make this nation into his idea of eco- progressive socialism. Because we know who is trying to give us the middle finger and who it is that is trying to bite off our pinky!
Everyone is sick of the cut & paste AP Astrotruff press corp and talking head political leaders who act like they are working for Putin. So please find your seats quickly because THE Donald is about to walk into the board room.
muddy| 9.4.09 @ 7:30PM
Van Jones.......the first Def Jam Communist Czar
4months| 9.4.09 @ 8:02PM
Er..... if you were demanding an investigation of 9/11 back in January 2002, this didn't make you a "Truther". It just made you interesting in having the attacks investigated because they hadn't been and the government was resisting doing so.
Given that not one of you is going to complain about the 9/11 commission being created, nor would have opposed this at that time when the government was resisting creating it, I guess we can only wonder as to WTF the point of this discovery is other than to tell us you've forgotten which year the attacks were. Oh and that most people were truthers, what with this not being the only polling of the public that occurred.
"I have a lot of questions about the moon landing, it just doesn't make sense" is a very different statement 4 months after the fact and now.
Nobama| 9.4.09 @ 9:54PM
4months; doesn't matter, commie 'truther' troll--the moron is gone anyway. Get over it, a$$hole (in Jones' vernacular). Ha ha.
You folks are fallin' apart. Pity.
Tim| 9.5.09 @ 12:38AM
Only in the American Spectator is a Bush - Bin Laden link, "nutty stuff"...lol. AP reported it, BBC reported it.
Osamas Pajamas| 9.5.09 @ 12:49AM
@ 9.5.09 @ 12:38AM Tim comments ---
"Only in the American Spectator is a Bush - Bin Laden link, "nutty stuff"...lol. AP reported it, BBC reported it."
Answer --- If I wanted 10% of the truth on any subject, I would consult the "news" as reported by AP and the BBC, who have spent decades jerking us off.
4months| 9.5.09 @ 1:22AM
"doesn't matter, commie 'truther' troll--the moron is gone anyway. "
I don't care whether he lives or dies, it doesn't make you any less retarded.
"The President has been assassinated in Dallas."
"OMG I wonder who killed him"
"What are you some conspiracy nut who rejects the Warren Commission"
"You mean the Commission that is several years away from occurring, clearly that's not possible you retard"
There's generally 2 sides to any argument. If yours goes against the space-time continuum, you can assume it's the wrong one.
Nobama| 9.5.09 @ 1:58AM
4months, I think you need to bust out some new tin foil--your hat is worn out now. Look out for them black helicopters comin' your way, Truther.
Freak.
4months| 9.5.09 @ 8:38AM
You appear to be suggesting the concept of linear time is a conspiracy. Wow.
Kind of puts that article about whether the Birthers are bad for business in perspective, don't it.
natty| 9.5.09 @ 11:00AM
Jones is probably a racist but 9/11 should be investigated, not white washed. Why did NORAD stand down and can i get a refund at least?!?
Nobama| 9.5.09 @ 12:41PM
4months, some of us have lives and don't live in mommy's basement with our bongs. Spend the rest of your life contemplating your navel--it's your time to waste.
Nobama| 9.5.09 @ 12:45PM
Natty, you'll never investigate 9/11 enough (how many tens of millions did we spend on the 9/11 Commission?) to satisfy conspiracy freaks.
JFK's assassination is just one example: We still don't know what really happened that day in Dallas.
John Bailo | 9.5.09 @ 4:41PM
Are you a Bulber:
http://you-read-it-here-first......78afea7f5a
Missy| 9.5.09 @ 11:54PM
John, Truthers pre-dated birthers. Get your facts straight, babe.
4months| 9.6.09 @ 3:54AM
"JFK's assassination is just one example: We still don't know what really happened that day in Dallas."
Is this like in a metaphorical sense?
Because they did arrest an assassination hobbyist, recover his rifle at the scene and discovered 50 other pieces of evidence implicating him and nobody else. Outside of California that's generally an open and shut case against a celebrity.
4months| 9.6.09 @ 4:01AM
"4months, some of us have lives and don't live in mommy's basement with our bongs."
Then what's your excuse for living in a fantasy world where you are incapable of acknowledging the sequential nature of history?
If it's not drugs that make you see and time-traveling communists where there are none, we're just left to assume it's a mental disorder.
Nobama| 9.6.09 @ 5:56PM
But, but, but , but...what about the GRASSY KNOLL, 4months? There are still freaks like you out there whining about JFK's real assassin.
Time traveling communists? Is that what the voices in your head are whispering to you, 4months? Perhaps you need a change of meds or another round of electro shock.
Someone called, 4months--your rubber room is ready! LMAO!
NanoNano| 9.6.09 @ 11:28PM
Google Nano Thermite 911 ; This is the best evidence to support inside job demolition of the twin towers and building 7. There is no question that there is nano-thermite in all the dust from the demo. No Question. Perfect chips of nano-thermite all over in it. Military Grade Nano-Thermite. Hmm Military Grade; go figure. Van Jones was right about 9/11 being a demolition anyways; now we just need to find out exactly WHO placed all that NANO-THERMITE throughout the buildings from top to bottom; floor to floor.
Nobama| 9.7.09 @ 2:05PM
Nano, you liberal freaks need to make up your minds: Either George W is the most stupid incompetent in the history of the world, as many of you have screeched for years, or he's the most brilliant evil mastermind the world has ever known.
Which is it, moron? You can't have it both ways.
Get a life and get out of your mommy's basement--you've got way too much time on your hands. Get off welfare and get a job!
Sir Laughs a Lot| 9.7.09 @ 2:21PM
Get 'em Nobama.
Bill Jenkins | 9.9.09 @ 3:58PM
Charles Johnson is progressive lefty acting like he is an independent. He voted for Al Gore in 2000 and jumped on the 9/11 bandwagon for a short time before leaping off and claiming his lefty roots again.
The guy is the Saddam Hussein of the blogosphere and runs his website like a concentration camp.