Add "traitor" to Van Jones's resume as well

The Van Jones situation has now officially deteriorated from embarrassing to downright disgusting.

(By the way, how embarrassing is it that bloggers have had to do all the heavy lifting in researching and publicizing this story, as Byron York handily points out:

"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."

But we're constantly being told that mere bloggers can't hold a candle to the mighty Mainstream Media when it comes to journalism. Hmm. Tell that to Dan Rather and Mary Mapes.)

Verum Serum's Morgen managed to dig up an interview with Jones that appears on an anti-Iraq war album ("hosted" by Mumia Abu-Jamal, of all people) put out circa 2004 by a record label named Freedom Fighter Music, which was funded by an organization Jones founded and headed. Here's some of what Jones spewed on that record:

"We see violence against poor people and poor people of color within the U.S. border, at the U.S. border, and beyond the U.S. border, and you see U.S. tax dollars funding all of it, and so we have, you know, now this global struggle against the U.S.-led global security apparatus and military agenda"

Jones, a self-admitted Communist, makes a blatantly racist and inflammatory statement on a record featuring a convicted cop-killer (which means Jones tacitly supports him, as well) which basically accuses America of systematically injuring and killing people who don't happen to be rich white folk, and the Messiah rewards him for it by appointing him to a cushy White House gig?

Yep, that counts as truly disgusting in our book.

Oh, and the Messiah had to have known about Jones's background, according to this American Spectator piece by Jeffrey Lord, a former Reagan White House aide. Lord states that a person with Jones's obvious radical political and criminal background would almost certainly have been denied clearance to the White House by the Secret Service, necessitating a personal intervention by either the President or someone very close to him in order to allow Jones to assume his "green jobs czar" position. Lord's describing someone on the level of Rahm Emanuel, Obama's Chief of Staff, or Valerie Jarrett, one of his closest and longest-tenured advisors.



Speaking of Ms. Jarrett, here's an interesting and very well-researched and documented article from a blog out of New Zealand, of all places (since our news media apparently can't be bothered to research any of these "unimportant" matters) that clearly connects Frank Marshall Davis, Obama's Communist mentor in Hawaii, with Vernon Jarrett, a left-wing Chicago journalist with close ties to the Communist Party in that city (and Valerie Jarrett's father-in-law until his death in 2004). The New Zealand blog confirms that Davis and Jarrett knew each other and worked closely together, and provides ample evidence that Jarrett himself was in fact a Communist Party member. The Kiwis then reach the following conclusion:

"Frank Marshall Davis works closely in communist causes with Vernon Jarrett in Chicago. Davis moves to Hawaii where he eventually meets and mentors a young Barack Obama. Then Obama moves to Chicago where his career is promoted by both Davis's old colleague Vernon Jarrett and the Communist Party. Vernon Jarrett's daughter-in-law employs Barack Obama's fiance, befriends the family and becomes one of President Obama's most trusted advisors. The Communist Party throws its entire weight behind Obama's presidential campaign.

Are we expected to believe that this is all mere coincidence?"

We here at the Muckraker certainly don't, and we are now looking forward to watching the Messiah's many apologists once again try to claim with a straight face that Obama isn't really a Socialist, or that his lifelong associations with radicals such as Davis, Jarrett, Ayers, Dohrn, Wright and now Jones are mere happenstance, or that he really doesn't want to remake our country into another failed "Worker's Paradise", beginning with our financial markets, auto industry and health-care system.

Those apologists have quite a job ahead of them, and it's getting harder by the day.


(Thanks to Scott Jordan and Allan Favish for providing the above links)