The America-hating communist
9/11 “truther” Van Jones has an ally in his fellow Huffington
Post writer
David Roberts.
Roberts of Grist, a misanthropic far-left environmentalist
webzine bankrolled by many of the same funders who have backed
Van Jones’s nonprofit ventures, is currently in contention
to be the most shameless liar of the left-o-sphere.
We already know that Jones
believes George W. Bush hates black people.
Jones founded Standing Together to Organize a
Revolutionary Movement (STORM) and the Ella Baker Center both of
which participated in a vigil the day after Sept. 11, 2001,
“mourning the victims of U.S. imperialism around the world.”
Jones sounded like Ward Churchill when he
released a statement Sept. 12, 2001, mourning only
“the deaths of innocent working class people” and “those who
would surely lose their lives in subsequent U.S. attacks
overseas.” It seems anyone who died in the terrorist attacks who
wasn’t working class deserved to die, according to Jones’s own
words.
Roberts, like his idol Van Jones, spews leftist hate from
Grist and the Huffington Post on a regular basis.
In a recent post,
he deliberately distorts evidence to falsely claim that green
jobs czar (and
Arianna Huffington pal) Van Jones renounced communism.
Roberts should win the
Walter Duranty Prize for writing
Sept. 2 that “Jones is not a black nationalist or a communist.”
While it is true that Jones distanced himself from his past as a
“rowdy black nationalist,” he has NEVER renounced communism.
Roberts performs this sleight-of-hand by basing his argument on
an interview in 2005 that Jones gave to an alternative newspaper
called East Bay Express.
Jones said that he came out of jail after the Rodney
King riots and “spent the next ten years of my life working with
a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a
revolutionary…I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then
the verdicts came down on April 29th,” Jones said. “By August, I
was a communist.”
In the same interview
Jones explained how he changed his public image Alinsky-style
but retained his core radical beliefs. “I’m willing to forgo the
cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction
of radical ends,” Jones said. The article also details the
evolution of Jones as a coalition-builder and dealmaker but never
indicates that his core beliefs have changed. More
importantly, Jones himself has never indicated that his core
beliefs changed.
The evidence that the now-mature community organizer Jones still
believes in communism is EVERYWHERE. Google “communism” and “Van
Jones” and the
ever-expanding oceans of research from credible sources burst
forth. Much of the evidence comes right out of Jones’s own mouth.
Roberts’s propaganda platform, Grist, is funded by some of the
same extremist foundations that have funded Van Jones’s
revolutionary activism over the years. Grist took in $1 million
from the Kendada Fund in 2008. It has also received $175,000
from the Tides Foundation since 2004.
According to philanthropy databases, Green for All, another Jones
creation that is part of
a cynical Obama administration effort to use 9/11 for political
purposes, has received charitable contributions from the
Kendada Fund ($1 million in 2008). A major donor to the Ella
Baker Center is Tides Foundation ($891,168 since 2000).
Meanwhile, more America-hating radicals are speaking out in
support of Van Jones. Useful idiot
Josh Nelson announces that a website called StandWithVan.com has been created.
