Midnight Self-Massacre
Gutless wonder of a conspiracy theorist quits gutless wonder of a White House in the wee hours of Sunday morning, Labor Day weekend. Good work, Rahm. It’ll be out of the papers by Tuesday. Given that the Van Jones Truther scandal was barely covered in the first place, it’s like it never happened.
Washington Post’s 44 blog here. NYT here. AP here. OK, that’s the news. Here’s the story:
Gateway: Communist leaves White House! Maguire, meanwhile, awards the scalp to Gateway.
The Other McCain is multiple-update blogging the hasty exit.
Legal Insurrection: Can’t a blogger get a full night’s sleep around here?
Powerline: He was the Jeremiah Wright that almost didn’t get away.
Malkin: “Bay Area Marxist/Truther/Mumia-supporting race hustler-turned-environmental justice guru Van Jones has resigned from his post as Barack Obama’s green jobs czar.” Wow, when she puts it that way …
HotAir, hurtfully: “Vicious smear campaign” was comprised of actual quotes.
Reynolds, even more hurtfully, links to C-SPAN video of Van advising high school kids on careers in government. Updating that might actually be a good follow-on gig for Van.
Some quick Van jokes.
Riehl: Van goes under bus!
Surber: Don’t worry, he won’t be living in a van … down by the river. Taking one for the team has its rewards.
Meanwhile, Steyn, who hurtfully smeared Obama for his Saddam/Kim Jong Il style “cult of personality,” really owes the White House an apology. This airbrushing was worthy of Stalin. Other NRO commenters at the link admire the assist the Politburo has gotten from the state-controlled media.
The Moderate Voice: A case of poor vetting …
Funny, that’s how I feel about the Obama administration, too.
Aww, this is cute. Fellow-traveling Think Progress, wielding an aribrushlet: Racist right-wing conspiracy/hate campaign drives out smiling, well-intentioned, plucky environmental advocate. It’s an interesting presentation that makes no mention of you know what.
Andrew Sullivan, to his credit, notices why Van was hounded out, but finds the gleefulness unseemly. Hey Andrew, your thoughts please on the unseemliness of a White House that didn’t want to talk about it and quietly brooms him in the middle of the night on Labor Day weekend?
Whatever. You know, it’s one thing to be a crazy, destructive, self-loathing, America-hating conspiracy theorist. But I have a hard time summoning up any respect for crazy, destructive, self-loathing, America-hating conspiracy theorists who don’t even have the conviction of their own crazy, destructive, self-loathing, America-hating conspiracy theories. Or for their bosses who try to pretend like none of that ever happened. The gutlessness is truly wondrous.
OK, moving on … when does the White House quietly, in the dark of night, on a holiday weekend, when no one will notice, put two in the hat of Van Jones’ other crazy, destructive, self-loathing, America-hating conspiracy theory? The one now euphemistically known as “climate change” that holds we must destroy our economy to stop the Earth from doing what it has been doing for the past 4.5 billion years.
Topics: Obama, clowns, moronocy, warmalism
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:08 am on Sunday, September 6, 2009
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September 6th, 2009 at 11:43 am
[...] –Jules Crittenden: Gutless wonder of a conspiracy theorist quits gutless wonder of a White House in the wee hours of Sunday morning, Labor Day weekend. Good work, Rahm. It’ll be out of the papers by Tuesday. Given that the Van Jones Truther scandal was barely covered in the first place, it’s like it never happened. [...]
September 6th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
If things go well for the country, the next one with tire tracks on the face will be Valerie Jarrett.
September 6th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
[...] Update: It’s Sunday and should be a day of light posting. So, to get all the news you want on Jones, the latest innocent victim of the deranged right [wink, wink], go to Jules Crittenden, Midnight Self-Massacre. [...]
September 6th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
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September 6th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
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September 6th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
[...] appreciate the irony in experiencing what it’s like to be airbrushed from history. Jules Crittenden writes: Gutless wonder of a conspiracy theorist quits gutless wonder of a White House in the wee hours of [...]
September 6th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
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September 7th, 2009 at 5:24 am
[...] Jones Truther scandal was barely covered in the first place, it’s like it never happened.– Jules Crittenden sums it [...]
September 7th, 2009 at 7:23 am
[...] shitbag commie resigned. For roundups, see Ed Driscoll, Bernard Goldberg, Jules Crittenden, and Donald Douglas (here, here and here). But the best recap and explanation of this train wreck [...]
September 7th, 2009 at 10:35 am
I think we can celebrate without the cursing and invective. One down, but way too many to go.
But, as you say Jules, it is truly like it never happened.
September 13th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
[...] reaction of the left (and the liberal media) to this story? Portray Van Jones as railroaded. He was the victim of disinformation (that was, you know, actually true)! It’s a victory for the open sewer of Internet [...]