CNN: Gingrich and the Communist

This caught my eye last night in the news:

CNN announced a few schedule changes today, including the timeslot for its revamped version of "Crossfire.".....The revamped show will be hosted by S.E. Cupp, Stephanie Cutter, Newt Gingrich and Van Jones.

"Situation Room" already lost an hour of its timeslot back in February, when it was cut from three to two hours to make room for "The Lead with Jake Tapper," and there were rumors earlier this summer that new CNN president Jeff Zucker was slowly but surely trying to phase Blitzer out -- which CNN strongly denied.....(by Sarah Morrison for The Wrap)"

Yes, GINGRICH on CNN.  Conservative S.E. Cupp, too.  and liberal Stephanie Cutter and...drum roll.......VAN JONES.   Yes, Van Jones, the communist.  Here's info from a 2009 article:

Van Jones is President Barack Obama's newly appointed "Green Jobs Czar."
Jones' official title is Special Advisor on Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation for the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
The 41-year-old Yale Law School graduate and civil rights lawyer is also the founder of California's Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, "a non-profit agency for justice, opportunities and peace."
Sounds idyllic, but Jones' past isn't so pastoral.
The Ella Baker Center was connected to STORM (Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement), a "multi-racial activist collective with Marxist influences" with which Jones was involved.
In 1992, Van Jones founded another STORM project, Bay Area PoliceWatch, a "hotline and lawyer-referral service for victims and survivors of police abuse." This is fitting, perhaps, since Jones was himself arrested and detained briefly during a protest after the Rodney King verdict that same year.
Jones told the East Bay Express in 2005:

I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th [1992], and then the verdicts came down on April 29th. By August, I was a communist. (...)  I met all these young radical people of color – I mean really radical: communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of.' I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary.

Like a character out of The Big Chill, Van Jones seems to have evolved from radical activist to Establishment insider. Perhaps only a left-wing administration incapable of recognizing irony would put a self-described communist in charge of creating jobs.
Luckily for Van Jones, and Obama's many other "Czars" with dubious credentials and troubling backgrounds, his new job was not dependent upon making it through Congressional hearings. (by Kathy Shaidle of examiner.com)

Van Jones..the guy Valerie Jarrett gushed over as someone they'd watched for years as he grew and developed into someone they wanted in the White House...until the country reminded them "ssshh...he's a Communist" and oops...Jonesie was GONE. (don't worry;  he's been really active  since).   But, CNN doesn't mind if he's a Communist.   And, of course, to this day, he blames Republicans for getting him out, though liberal Bob Beckel was one of those who led the charge. 

Of course, MSNBC has Lawrence O'Donnell, self ascribed Socialist.....so......I guess the extreme nut jobs are fine for the Left. 

Z  ...I can't resist adding that I have always thought Mr. Van Jones is ONE good looking man!

The "vicious smear campaign"

I know you're all about tired of hearing about Van Jones and his resignation. I do know that. But, humor me here and, if you can take more Jones news, keep reading....

Today, HOWARD DEAN had some input today that some of you might have seen but needs more of you to know.........Regarding that Truthers petition Van Jones signed, Dean said "He was TOLD he was signing something else." He intimated that Jones should be more careful. And, of course, because we're Conservatives, we should just believe Dean....Jones told him that...SOLD! (but, no...not even close). And, after all, Dean started his tirade reminding us that "Jones went to Yale and is a lawyer" and it's really awful he was "brought down." YALE? HOW could we let that genius get away? :-)

Bill Kristol reminded America that Gateway Pundit (one of us) "did more reporting than the mainstream media on Van Jones." Juan Williams then chimed in that Jones' job was "not significant" and this was just a "way to ATTACK THE PRESIDENT." WHAT? Also, Juan, someone I used to admire for fairness, reminds us that the White House "only" had "Jones talking to young people" in speeches around the country.

Jones has quite a background...you can see it best revealed HERE. THIS is a guy who "only" "speaks to young people around the country"??? And that's okay with Juan Williams? I just wish some Conservatives on the air would discuss why they so badly wanted him out. Yes, he signed a Truthers petition and, yes, he called Republicans A Holes and that's fine......not nice, but fine. It's not like we don't get angry at Democrats, right? But, it's the ASSOCIATIONS AGAIN. ASSOCIATIONS, folks.........the group STORM which he founded. His words about having become a Communist, anti-capitalist! Which is also FINE, it's your right...but not your right to work for US, okay?

Here are Van Jones' words:

I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th [1992], and then the verdicts came down on April 29th. By August, I was a communist. (...)

I met all these young radical people of color – I mean really radical: communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of.' I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary.

Funny, the Leftwingers still screech about Joe McCarthy and a 'communist under every bed', right? No wonder they were upset, they were hoping they could pay them to advise presidents....!? The Kennedys were very close friends with McCarthy and he dated two of the Kennedy daughters. At least the Kennedys were Democrats who understood that most Americans don't honor Communism. Or didn't, anyway? Would that the leftwingers of today wouldn't be pushing to take our tax dollars and hire them for advisory work to the president. But, after all...Jones "ONLY spoke to young people." Oh, man. SO, having said all of the above, which most of you already knew....the conclusion is this: HOW could he have been in that job at the White House and how could Robert Gibbs and the rest of the crowd there dismiss his background no matter WHAT his position was?...and shouldn't that worry us for the future? Jones is gone.............it's the future I worry about. Think CZARS.

geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeZ