The Van Jones (non) feeding frenzy
By: Byron YorkChief Political Correspondent09/04/09 11:30 AM EDT
From a Nexis search a few moments ago:
Total words about the Van Jones controversy in the New York Times: 0.
Total words about the Van Jones controversy in the Washington Post: 0.
Total words about the Van Jones controversy on NBC Nightly News: 0.
Total words about the Van Jones controversy on ABC World News: 0.
Total words about the Van Jones controversy on CBS Evening News: 0.
If you were to receive all your news from any one of these outlets, or even all of them together, and you heard about some sort of controversy involving President Obama's Special Adviser for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, your response would be, "Huh?" If you heard that that adviser, Van Jones, had apologized for a number of remarks and positions in the recent past, your response would be, "What?" And if you were in the Obama White House monitoring the Jones situation, you would be hoping that the news organizations listed above continue to hold the line -- otherwise, Jones, who is quite well thought of in Obama circles, would be history.
9/5/09 UPDATE: The New York Times, ABC and CBS hold the line
After the Jones controversy reached a boiling point on Friday, the Washington Post published a story, "White House Says Little on Embattled Jones," on page A-3 of its Saturday edition. But the New York Times remained silent on the story.
Likewise, on Friday night the "CBS Evening News" reported the Jones matter, but ABC's "World News" and "NBC Nightly News" again failed to report the story.
5 comments:
Every administration has a few people who are later found to have said some things, which should have been better vetted but were not. At least Van Jones knows assholes when he see's them.
BTW, in case you missed it, a major new study in "Science" about global warming:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/03/AR2009090302199.html
I know you're all about the science (so long as it supports your predetermined conclusion anyway.)
once again gary you either don't understand the post or you choose to ignore the point.
The bottom line is that all of the czars we have now, like 37 of them, are all radical leftists who only answer to the president. Say goodbye to America as we know it.
gary, if every administration "has a few people who are later found to have said some things, which should have been better vetted but were not.", then why when a republican does it does the left cry bloody murder but not when their own do it??
Van Jones is GONE!!!!!!
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