The AP and Van Jones: Stuck on Stupid

The Associate Press informs us that, “Obama advisor Van Jones resigns amid controversy.” According to their article,

Van Jones, an administration official specializing in environmentally friendly “green jobs” with the White House Council on Environmental Quality was linked to efforts suggesting a government role in the 2001 terror attacks and to derogatory comments about Republicans.

and,

The matter surfaced after news reports of a derogatory comment Jones made in the past about Republicans, and separately, of Jones’ name appearing on a petition connected to the events surrounding the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. That 2004 petition had asked for congressional hearings and other investigations into whether high-level government officers had allowed the attacks to occur.

The fact that Obama threw Jones under the bus, and that with alacrity, must come as rather a rude shock to those who rely exclusively on the legacy media for their news. When he was appointed the President’s “Green Czar,” their “Ministry of Truth” apparently concluded that all citizens needed to know about Jones was that he was Mr. Sunshine.

However, as readers who follow Glenn Beck’s program on FOX News are aware, the “derogatory comment” so coyly referred to by AP was “assholes,” and, as can be seen in the Youtube pull below, Jones actually had a few other issues in addition to making “derogatory comments” and suffering from a rare nervous disorder that causes him to sign 9/11 “truther” petitions while he’s asleep.

AP informs us that, in Jones’ resignation statement, he said,

On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign agains me. They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide.

Judging from Beck’s video clips, that’s a bit of a stretch unless Glenn somehow managed to turn up the most convincing Doppelgänger of all time. Presumably the “vicious smears” Jones refers to are similar to the “vicious smears” John Kerry complained about when the Swift Boat veterans told us the truth about him.