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Van Jones: Victim of Right-Wing 'Terrorists'?
That's right. If you have a problem with Marxists as policy "czars" in the White House, you're a terrorist and a member of a lynch mob, says one Obama supporter in a blog rant that speaks directly to the president:
I'm heartbroken over Van's departure because it's these little meaningless concessions that undermine people's faith in the system. You get folks all riled up about change. You empower a man who embodies that change. And they you let him be run out of office by [epithet] Glenn Beck? So Glenn Beck is running the White House now? . . .
How do you expect folks to continue to go to the mat for your agenda, when you so easily sacrifice our best and brightest at the whim of an illegitimate lynch mob? How do you expect the next generation to invest themselves in the political process when they see that despite their good works, they can be taken out over nonsense, especially when the double standard is so abundantly clear? How can you ask from us what you won't do for us? And when will you realize that you cannot negotiate with terrorists?
The liberal Firedoglake blog offers a similar portrayal of Jones as sacrificial victim. Hat-tip to Dan Riehl, who says:
They're beginning to panic because the American people are rejecting their new messiah. . . . Somehow they believed Obama was going to be able to hide who he was during the election, but everything would be good if he could only win.
Meanwhile, I've taken a stab at explaining what the Van Jones story is really about.
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"an illegitimate lynch mob"?
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ConservativeWanderer| 9.6.09 @ 9:49PM
akr, in that lefty blogger's mind, a legitimate lynch mob is probably any lynch mob going after a conservative. It's only when the lower orders start to question the self-anointed lefty elite that they become illegitimate.
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