Video: Glenn Beck Pushes Back On Van Jones Story

It’s unfortunate that we have to revisit the Van Jones story, because everything you need to know about him has already been said (by he himself), and is readily available on YouTube. But there is now a concerted effort in the media to change the narrative and resurrect his reputation.

In other words, they’re lying as usual.

Katrina vanden Heuvel demonstrates:

Van Jones, who resigned from the White House Council on Environmental Quality last fall in the face of a coordinated smear campaign by conservative activists, has reemerged from his self-imposed exile. He’ll be teaching at Princeton University and taking up a senior fellowship at the Center for American Progress, where he will head a “green opportunity initiative.”

It was a coordinated smear campaign, huh? Coordinated by whom, I wonder? The mythical leader of the tea party movement? Rupert Murdoch? And how is bringing peoples’ attention to the man’s own words and past deeds, “smears”? We’re not allowed to know he’s a commie, so to say so is a smear, apparently.

Vanden Heuvel goes on:

In giving him the NAACP’s President’s Award, Jealous referred to Jones’s missteps, including political statements made years ago. Yes, it was a misstep to sign a 911truth.org petition. But Jones repudiated his signature and said the petition’s wording didn’t then and doesn’t now represent his views. In a saner political environment, that would have been the end of it. Or, as the NAACP’S Jealous put it, “we can never afford to forget that a defining trait of our country is our collective capacity to practice forgiveness and celebrate redemption. This is a nation built on second chances.”

So she focuses on one “misstep”. As if that was the main issue. How about the misstep of him being a self described Communist revolutionary?

“Clownish demagogue”, Glenn Beck, bless his heart, is having none of it. He made Jones the subject of his show, yesterday, again:

Part one: