Van Jones in the sunlight

The Obamissariat Van Jones

“ Where did Van Jones suddenly come from. Has anyone else noticed that Van Jones seems to have suddenly emerged in the media as an Obama campaign operative? He was relegated to relative obscurity when Glenn Beck outed him as an unrepentant Marxist agitator. He suddenly "resigned" his position as White House green energy czar and we didn't hear a whole lot from him. Yes, he was occasionally in the news. But in just the last week or so, he seems to be everywhere, all the time in the news media, commenting and being quoted on key presidential campaign issues. He was on the Stephanopolous show on Sunday, commenting on the SCOTUS Obamacare issues on equal footing with George Will. If I am perceiving this correctly, I'd like to know, how did he suddenly re-gain legitimacy? Who is he working for?  [Full post from a dude called JewishRighter] Lest you think JR'a charges specious, or hyperbole: “ .Former Obama administration green jobs czar Van Jones said Saturday the Occupy Wall Street movement essentially “saved the entire country from destruction.” Jones made the comments in Los Angeles ahead of his appearance at an “All in for the 99%” training event, saying Occupy “disrupted the narrative” as both parties “barreling toward more austerity.” “[The] Occupy movement pretty much saved the entire country from destruction,” Jones said in an interview posted online. “Both political parties were barreling toward more austerity, more cutbacks, more pain for the people and more — basically both political parties had managed to converge on this idea of basically no rules for the rich, no rights for the poor, no middle class to speak of. That was basically the agenda, the question was just how much pain how fast.” “Occupy Wall Street came on and completely disrupted the narrative,” he said. All the ‘austerity, austerity, cut, cut, cut’ stuff went away and suddenly even Republicans had to talk about income inequality and that whole theme.  [Blaze  April 2012] ” They are a committed lot, and have the helm of state.  Now,  with  the end to their occupation looming, it's balls-out, as the saying goes.  Look at what's going on. ”