[Peace-discuss] Fw: CNN Clip: Obama Backs Down to Threats From Political Terrorist Glenn Beck & His Lynch Mob

[E. Wayne Johnson]

I see it as a sort of "killing a chicken to frighten the monkey", as the 
Chinese say.

Van Jones becomes the guy who is put out at first while the 9-11 coverup 
gang scores at home.
He was "expendable".  Getting rid of Van Jones seems to have something 
for everyone.

What a mess.

Despite all of the nonsense that has been said about 9-11, it remains 
that the American public has
been lied to, and this matter seeks to bury the matter further under a 
facade of partisan bicker.





On 9/7/2009 12:05 PM, unionyes wrote:
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Sirota" <ds at davidsirota.com>
> To: <unionyes at ameritech.net>
> Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 11:05 AM
> Subject: CNN Clip: Obama Backs Down to Threats From Political 
> Terrorist Glenn Beck & His Lynch Mob
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>> http://www.openleft.com/diary/14966/cnn-debate-on-van-jones-obama-sells-us-out-to-political-terrorist-glenn-beck-his-lynch-mob 
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>> CNN Clip: Obama Backs Down to Threats From Political Terrorist Glenn
>> Beck & His Lynch Mob
>>
>> By David Sirota
>>
>> OpenLeft, 9/7/09
>>
>> Per my post and announcement last night, here's the clip of my CNN
>> debate with David Frum about the Van Jones affair this morning:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M56qbMoBZNw
>>
>> Notice that Frum, one of the rhetorical architects of Bush's Iraq
>> policy, has no answer for the obvious double standards. Somehow,
>> nobody gets fired for lying us into Iraq, Tim Geithner keeps his job
>> after tax evasion and gift scandals, Republican congresspeople remain
>> credible while championing the "birther" lunacy - but Van Jones must
>> be fired for carelessly signing a petition years ago, which he later
>> apologized for.
>>
>> As I said on CNN, the hypocrisy uncovers the real truth of this whole
>> affair: Van Jones was targeted by the political terrorist known as
>> Glenn Beck - the man who leads a 21st century lynch mob looking to
>> hunt down anyone (and especially anyone black) who has ever been a
>> part of progressive movement politics. I don't use that term
>> "political terrorist" lightly. According to the dictionary, a
>> terrorist is "a person who terrorizes or frightens others" - and
>> usually does so with an ideological objective. There are, of course,
>> many different kinds of terrorists, and I'd say Beck - with his
>> fearmongering, paranoia and hate - fits the letter and spirit of the
>> dictionary definition of a political terrorist quite well. Indeed,
>> just listen to this clip or look at this not-so-veiled threat and
>> then try to claim with a straight face that Beck isn't explicitly
>> using the mass media to scare and terrorize people.
>>
>> In placating the demands of this terrorist and his lynch mob, the
>> Obama administration has simultaneously empowered that terrorist and
>> that lynch mob, while abandoning its own progressive base (And yes,
>> yes - I know saying that makes the sycophants upset. I know it means
>> I'll get a lot of irritating and hsterical email saying "I guess you
>> wanted McCain!" or "you're going to get us President Romney in 2012!"
>> - as if the progressive movement exists solely to worship at the feet
>> of politicians with a "D" behind their name. That's fine - that kind
>> of cultism is everywhere in the American Idiocracy, and I've got my
>> "delete" key fired up and ready to go).
>>
>> I am at once loathe to help fuel this media-manufactured controversy
>> and eager to use this as a kind of "teachable moment" that Obama
>> talks about, but rarely delivers on. If we as a movement cannot stand
>> up for a genuine progressive hero like Van Jones, then we will not be
>> able to stand up for anything, much less major legislative
>> initiatives.
>>
>> The multi-million-dollar Washington-based "progressive" organizations
>> that previously used Van Jones to stress their environmental and
>> racial progressivism haven't strongly spoken out about Jones and
>> about the White House's failure to back him. Indeed, most of those
>> organizations have issued mealy-mouthed statements praising Jones but
>> giving their friends in the White House a pass. This is par for the
>> course, unfortunately. As I wrote in my newspaper column this week,
>> and as Jane Hamsher has so effectively shown, these institutions are
>> still too concerned with their White House access than in building a
>> real movement.
>>
>> So if I can do my own little part to take up the slack through the
>> media, I will - even if it means I will inevitably be targeted by
>> that same right-wing lynch mob.
>>
>> Of course, perhaps the Jones affair is the canary in the coal mine.
>> Maybe the White House's refusal to stand by Jones and willingness to
>> accept the demands of right-wing political terrorists is a symptom of
>> the bigger disease whereby the Obama is already selling out
>> progressives on every major priority. Perhaps, in short, Jones isn't
>> the issue - and what his firing represents is.
>>
>> I fear that is the case - certainly the Obama administration's
>> behavior on everything from health care to climate change to war
>> suggests that's what's going on. And if that's true, then we've got a
>> huge problem on our hands.
>>
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