‘Lies & Distortions’: Van Jones Cites ‘Vicious Smear Campaign’ in Resignation Statement

Washington Post: "I am resigning my post at the Council on Environmental Quality, effective today," Jones said in a statement dated Sept 5 released around midnight on Sept 6.

"On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me.They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide," he continued. "I have been inundated with calls -- from across the political spectrum -- urging me to 'stay and fight.' But I came here to fight for others, not for myself. I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future."

Editor's note: To accompany the Van Jones resignation statement we are featuring the Naked Emperor News video that debuted on Breitbart.tv and that was featured prominently on Glenn Beck's radio program Thursday morning.

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September 6, 2009 at 1:24 am - Washington Post/Naked Emperor News
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Happy Camper   September 6th, 2009 - 1:35 am

Bart strikes a home run. Way to go guys. Knocking them down one weasel at a time will get the job done.

Desiree   September 6th, 2009 - 1:36 am

Lies and distortions. Right. Glenn Beck and Michelle Malkin exposed you using your own words and speeches.
How can this van jones say it was a smear campaign. Glenn Beck urged the obama administration on air to
call his show regarding this commie pig. The obama administration was silent. They could
not defend what van jones is.

Quit lying van jones.

Calvin&Hobbes   September 6th, 2009 - 1:37 am

Thank Mr. Van Jones for doing the right thing, although for the wrong reasons, but thank you anyway.

Good riddance !!

Get Informed
Get Involved
Get the rest of the three dozen Socialist/Marxist czars out of our government

olddog   September 6th, 2009 - 1:40 am

I’m sure Obama demanded him to resign. Unless forced by the “party”, there’s not one democrat that is ever willing to resign, no matter what they get caught doing. It will be interesting to see how the MSN spin this.

Dannyoso   September 6th, 2009 - 1:42 am

Good riddance you vile hate spewing scumbag. You smeared yourself because you couldn’t keep your mouth shut and speak respectfully. What gives you the right to talk about people the way you do? How much does a Commie like you get? Dress like Chairman Mao not like a GQ political pimp.

Magyarfrau   September 6th, 2009 - 1:57 am

I am sure the race card will be pulled out soon. Gee, he’s such a nice guy, too. Adios , buddy– I guess all that real documentation of hate and evil did you in. Which one next, Mr. Eugenics or????
Van has had more than his 15 min of fame. Look for him to surface at your next Commie rally.Maybe he can go try out some of those” green jobs” in Cuba or Venezuela with El Presidente Diablo.

Drano   September 6th, 2009 - 1:59 am

That’s too bad. He convinced more voters to vote out the dems in 2010 than anything Farrakhan’s Messiah ever did. In 15 months till 2010 most people will forget all this fuss over the Messiah’s commie CZAR ever happened.

Please comrade Jones, reconsider. Stay a while longer and please do keep talking.

Of course we have the communist Chinese anniversary being celebrated at the whitehouse Sept 20 when they plan to fly the hammer and sickle commie flag on the whitehouse south lawn. That should get some attention.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=108907

Magyarfrau   September 6th, 2009 - 1:59 am

Just one more thing– who was urging him to stay and fight?? Cameron Diaz ( who just started smiling), Ashton Kutscher, Tommie Daschle, Billie Richardson???

OH SHUT YOUR TRAP AND GO AWAY VAN - THANKS   September 6th, 2009 - 2:04 am

GO MOVE YOUR SORRY AS! TO CUBA

BOO HOO   September 6th, 2009 - 2:05 am

First they play the RACE card.

When that doesn’t work, they play the VICTIM card.

Oh… Yeah: They’re both the SAME CARD with different faces on each side!

Oh well, whatever!

GOOD RIDDANCE. Let’s just hope he REALLY IS GONE!

NEXT????

mjn   September 6th, 2009 - 2:34 am

Hallelujah! Now all the other radical czarsies need to go go go!

Mohammed Never Existed   September 6th, 2009 - 2:45 am

Via Con’ Dio, El FAH GOAT!

Go to hell and take your islamic-terrorist pricks with you and be sure to go green!

Whose next?

mark   September 6th, 2009 - 3:14 am

Mr Van jones hass CLASS, unlike your Senator Vitter having hos put him in diapers and publicly embarrassing his wife, or Senator Ensign having his parents pay his mistress’ family, or Governor Sanford on the Appalachian Trail wink wink.

If you somehow see this as a victory against Obama you’d be mistaken, he can replace a Green Jobs czar in a minute.

Roger   September 6th, 2009 - 3:16 am

Yep, progressives know nothing about personal responsiblity!

Shane99   September 6th, 2009 - 3:26 am

Next on our list and we do have a list is CASS SUNSTEIN. So everyone get your Googles going lets do some vetting this is fun! Cass wrote the great Amerikan classic (DEMOCRACY AND THE PROPLEM OF FREE SPEECH) and he’s a Communist. YEPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! MARXIST=DEMOCRATS=TERRORIST All the same.

EricX   September 6th, 2009 - 3:38 am

1 down 31 to go!
Obama is ABUSING this “czar” crap to bypass the Constitution and appoint radical leftists to what amounts to a cabinet level position. Put this RACIST and COMMUNIST Jones up against a Senate confirmation? Not a chance! So Obama bypasses that Constitutional process and creates “czars”.
Wrong… just plain wrong!
Fight back Amerika, while there’s time!

Gandhi's Fist   September 6th, 2009 - 3:56 am

Yessir, truth has outed a racist and radical communist. America has just been made a little better, a little safer. Chalk up one for the good guys. Called this one as soon as the commie goods came out on him. Now to go after the other pinkos.

Bill   September 6th, 2009 - 5:13 am

Na na na na hey hey hey goodbye. You scumbag.

GEORGE BUSH   September 6th, 2009 - 5:28 am

Doesn’t this guy remind you of a black Montell Williams? He loves that camera, and since his audience was a bunch of racists like him, applauded everything he said. So he thought: “Wow! I m goood! Let me say this to more applause! now this…boy they loved that one…yeah, now this one abbout white boys needing love so they don’t kill people at school…” Yeah….man I’m good….mys act ought to work on the national stage….what? I’m a racist and people don’t buy my communist garbage? You all a bunch of white devils!

mark   September 6th, 2009 - 5:30 am

Mr. Van Jones has class! Just watch his classy videos on the internet and how he glassily talks about people. Now THAT’S class. And if you disagree, you are a white racist cracker.

claspur   September 6th, 2009 - 5:50 am

Laffs w/ Geo. Bush @5:28

I wish Montell would catch another of those life-threatening nose bleeds. lmao

look at the details   September 6th, 2009 - 7:39 am

What a farce! Joke of a man.

His words: “I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past.”

YOUR former albeit brief, colleagues wouldn’t HAVE HAD to expend precious time to defend YOU if there was nothing to NEEDING to be defended, stupid! The rest of us don’t need your words explained to us, only the ones in your camp are needing to be told what to think.

And some more empty words from the would be eco warrior
“We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.”

Yeah and a special thank you to the NON-MAIN STREAM MEDIA, as great posters listed above: Glen Beck, Michelle Malkin, this site breitbart, and etc for telling the truth.
– THIS IS THE PEOPLES CHOICE. These people and those at the tea parties are the ones fighting for the future. NOT the MSM and their OB-czar buddies.

Eric   September 6th, 2009 - 7:39 am

Who would put someone in charge of “green jobs” with the name ‘Van’ anyway?

I say he should change his name to Van Go.

As in Go Away.

elrushbo   September 6th, 2009 - 8:23 am

Van Jones gone!
The time for Obama to resign is coming fast and furious.
Impeach!! will resound all over America soon.

Hickok   September 6th, 2009 - 8:40 am

The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. is looking down 41 years after leaving us and saying:
“All the crap I personally went through, and this is what passes for Black intellectuals and leaders in 2009? If I’d have known this is how it would turn out, I’d have sold insurance. Sheeeeet.”

This, too, shall pass   September 6th, 2009 - 8:45 am

Conservatives are finally taking a page out of Obamas favorite book-Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. You punch us (attacking Glenn Beck by going after his sponsers) and we’ll punch you back, right in the mouth, not twice but 4 times as hard, you commie b@stards! Poll numbers are tanking for this so called president (he’s not my president) and the school address is simply a way to halt the bleeding. It won’t work, even after the text has been changed and made softer. Call your county’s school board and email them today…we need to reverse this travesty also.

GringoBob   September 6th, 2009 - 9:04 am

the assholes got you huh commie ?

Craig Allen   September 6th, 2009 - 9:05 am

Because of what he thinks and believes Van gone smears himself with dung, then blames everyone else.

The ways and means of a racist, a black racist!

Shane99   September 6th, 2009 - 9:10 am

BIZ-CZARS R US how many can we destroy. Let’s start working on the Communist Cass Sunstein. He wrote the infamous book called (DEMOCRACY AND THE PROBLEM OF FREE SPEECH). MARXIST=DEMOCRATS=TERRORIST All the same.

Web Runner   September 6th, 2009 - 9:25 am

Washington Post — Van Jones Resignation Statement:

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

Hey VJ,

We are using the Saul Alinksky playbook Mr. Jones!!!!

How do you like the results, you commie pinko racist bigot?

More resignations to come!

You’re just the beginning.

P.S. By the way VJ, we are using your very words
against you!!!

dontflagmebro   September 6th, 2009 - 9:45 am

Yea all hands on deck cause the Ship is going DOWN in upcoming elections. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA3XkDWg8N8

doogle   September 6th, 2009 - 11:03 am

DO NOT forget the organizations that supported Van Jones and “Color of Change” by joining the Boycott Glenn Beck/Fox News efforts.

The companies listed below followed in lockstep WITH THIS COMMUNIST, and cancelled their ads on the Glenn Beck Show!:

Cancellations [Beck/FOX], per:
http://www.democrats.com/boycott-fox-news-advertisers

Allergan
Ally Bank (GMAC)
Ancestry.com
Applebees
AT&T
Bank of America
Bell & Howell
Best Buy
Binder & Binder [Beck]
Blaine Labs
Brez (Airware)
Broadview Security
Campbell’s Soup
Capital One [Beck]
Clorox
Closing.com [Beck]
CLR Cleaner (Jelmar) [Beck]
CVS
Dannon [Beck]
Diabetes Care Club (Simplex) [Beck]
DirecTV
Discover [Beck]
DITECH.com
Farmers Insurance
FreeCreditReport.com
Geico
General Mills
Healthy Choice (Conagra)
HSBC [Beck]
ICAN Benefit Group [Beck]
Infiniti [Beck]
Johnson & Johnson
Jordan McKenna Debt Counseling [Beck]
Kraft Foods
Lawyers.com
Lowe’s
Mens Wearhouse
Mercedes-Benz USA [Beck]
Nutrisystem
Proctor & Gamble
Progressive Insurance
Radio Shack
Re-Bath
Regions
Roche
S.C. Johnson
SAM (Store and Move)
Sanof-Aventis
SpendOnLife.com [FOX]
Sprint
State Farm
Sargento Cheese
TheElationsCo
Travelers Insurance
Travelocity
Tylenol
UPS
Verizon Wireless
Vonage
Walmart

Eileen for Freedom/Liberty   September 6th, 2009 - 11:09 am

America…again…the spin of the Democratzi.

What forced this man to resign, rightfully so, was not due to “lies and distortions” they were the result of his own WORDS.

Remember, America, when Bilderberg Bush-Obama gave that first speech that was copied from another? He said they are “words” “just words”!

Well…Van Commie Jones…that is what killed your credibility as an American and supporter of all things American…WORDS….YOUR OWN WORDS!

He was, he is, an avowed COMMUNIST…his own words!

You underestimated the patriotism of the “real” Americans in this country!

We do not want a Communist in our government…you had to go…try Cuba…Venezuela or Russia!

America…now onto the other appointees who are also a danger to our government!

Call/email/write your reps and tell them you want a vetting system and a confirmation system much like Cabinet members and Supreme Court Justices.

We should have more control over who holds “executive” positions in our White House and under what allegiance they swear!

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THE REVOLUTION OF THE SILENT MAJORITY – SILENT NO MORE!

1. GETTING INFORMED
2. GETTING INVOLVED

DON’T TREAD ON US…WE PAY YOUR BILLS IN WASHINGTON AND IN YOUR HOMES…BUT WE WON’T BE STARTING IN 2010 AND BEYOND…GUARANTEED!

IMPEACHMENT OR THE ‘ORIGINAL’ KENYAN BIRTH CERTIFICATE…IT IS JUST A MATTER OF TIME!

ARKANSAS MAN   September 6th, 2009 - 11:23 am

WELL I HOPE THEY INVESTIGATE HIM AND I HOPE HE SINGS ON OBAMA AND MICHELLE CAUSE I THINK IF THE PRESSURE HIM ENOUGH HE WILL SING LIKE A BIRD THANK YOU GLEN BECK

Bill   September 6th, 2009 - 11:30 am

This is bad news for Mugabe.Oops, i mean Obama.

Eileen for Freedom/Liberty   September 6th, 2009 - 1:02 pm

America…again…the spin of the Democratzi.

What forced this man to resign, rightfully so, was not due to “lies and distortions” they were the result of his own WORDS.

Remember, America, when Bilderberg Bush-Obama gave that first speech that was copied from another? He said they are “words” “just words”!

Well…Van Jones…that is what killed your credibility as an American and supporter of all things American…WORDS….YOUR OWN WORDS!

He was, he is, an avowed COMMUNIST…his own words!

You underestimated the patriotism of the “real” Americans in this country!

We do not want a Communist in our government…you had to go…try Cuba…Venezuela or Russia!

America…now onto the other appointees who are also a danger to our government!

Call/email/write your reps and tell them you want a vetting system and a confirmation system much like Cabinet members and Supreme Court Justices.

We should have more control over who holds “executive” positions in our White House and under what allegiance they swear!

===============================
THE REVOLUTION OF THE SILENT MAJORITY – SILENT NO MORE!

1. GETTING INFORMED
2. GETTING INVOLVED

DON’T TREAD ON US…WE PAY YOUR BILLS IN WASHINGTON AND IN YOUR HOMES…BUT WE WON’T BE STARTING IN 2010 AND BEYOND…GUARANTEED!

IMPEACHMENT OR THE ‘ORIGINAL’ KENYAN BIRTH CERTIFICATE…IT IS JUST A MATTER OF TIME

dontflagmebro   September 6th, 2009 - 1:20 pm

And Andrew Breibart, bcast and the rest we where all part of history. One step done more to come. The fight for the Constitution has just begun.

Cooperscopy   September 6th, 2009 - 2:21 pm

Well, it looks like the tables have turned. Mr. Jones has smeared just about every institution we have, and now he is reaping what he has sown….Only difference is what’s being said about him is true…http://cooperscopy.blogspot.com/

lee333   September 6th, 2009 - 3:28 pm

Bye, Jonesy.
Sorry that cushy job went away. Not fair at all. Your leanings will be appreciated at http://www.careerbuilder.com/venezuela .
your bud, hugo

Jennifer   September 6th, 2009 - 7:14 pm

So let’s see, what happened for blacks from 1964 to 1968, the social revolution to help bring equality was a BAD thing ? Wow does that show the latent racism of this video or what, to point out the civil rights movement as a BAD thing ! The green job revolution is NECESSARY if you want to get rid of dependence on foreign oil.

Heads out of your fat *sses people, and stop being afraid of intelligent black men who want to change things for the better ! I hope that Van continues on and helps get the green jobs agenda through in other ways and that the president still looks to him for advice on future changes.

Impeach Obama ? On what grounds ? We didn’t impeach Bush or Cheney when they actually in a proven way LIED to the American people about WMD in Iraq in order get us to invade another nation (one that had not even attacked ours), and that actually broke a constitutional law which REQUIRED impeachment – that my friends is TREASON.

Obama is doing no such thing – he is trying to fix the economy and messed up society of this great nation. You conspiracy theorists are going to have to realize that just because you disagree with someone on political grounds does not mean you can impeach him, and that more than half of the rest of the country voted for this man because they WANTED these changes.

By the way, communism is a political philosophy (which is btw just as idealistic and impossible to achieve in a pure form as free market capitalism). It is not treason or against the law to say that that is your political philosophy, same as socialism, anarachism or any other political belief. Many young people who see the inequalities in our society and want to change them will pass through a radical idealistic stage before moving into more grass roots liberalism and working within the 2 party system (as it’s in the end the only way to get anything done unless campaign reform is passed and elections are no longer a corporate sponsored event). It’s hardly strange, unique or worth foaming at the mouth about.

Bush was a coke head and drunk in his youth, but it didn’t seem to get in the way of his being loved by conservatives later — what does that say about the right ? Personally I would rather support a man with political idealism about social justice in his past than one who was a self centered drug taking drunk as a youth.

Shunery   September 6th, 2009 - 9:00 pm

Someone needs to tell Jennifer that she’s lost. She knows it that is why she is here trying to defend her half/half pres. Give it up sweetie, he’s a loser and a imposter and just like Van Jones he will also be exposed. We won’t expose the black side of him we’ll strike the white side so you can’t call us racists LMAO

Jerold   September 6th, 2009 - 9:05 pm

I’m loving this moment in our country. We are taking down the thugs one by one. It feels great to know we have people digging up the trash on these people who mean to do us harm. This scumbag Jones is racist to the core. They act offeded when they think others are racists but they have the green light to spew hate and race. The race card has backfired on Jones and exploded his white house career! YEAH we win again.

joesnopy   September 6th, 2009 - 9:33 pm

You people are sick and stupid at the same time. Just think about this people you are picking on the GREEN CZAR. What a joke from JOKERS. Obama will be helped by this because it comes from NUTS. GREEN CZAR. HA HA HA HA. The right wing is scared of the Green Czar. How funny.

joesnopy   September 6th, 2009 - 9:50 pm

Hey GOP wussies the GREEN CZAR is coming to your house to plant a tree so run and hide.

Baaboo   September 6th, 2009 - 10:02 pm

Hey Jennifer listen up…….keep drinking that kool aide and the taxpayers will keep supporting you and all your family. By the way, Bush is gone at least he had a birth certificate !!!!!!!!!

joesnopy   September 6th, 2009 - 10:09 pm

Hey Baaboo, Obama has one too. I see you are one of the birth nuts. Yes, you will stand up for a RICH person like Bush who stole all your money in the name of protecting you by going to war for IRAN.

Conservative in Dayton   September 7th, 2009 - 12:55 am

Attended the Voice of America rally this past Saturday with 18,000 other Real Americans who were not afraid to question the four politicians who had the courage to show up and take the heat in the town hall. For us, it has become a matter of accountability and we will hold each and everyone in Washington DC, along with the media, accountable for what they do and say.

The sleeping giant, We The People, has awakened.

Looking forward to 9/12.

One Czar down, a whole lot more to go. We must see the vetting questionaires as submitted by all administration appointments. After all, we were promised transparency.

George Bin   September 7th, 2009 - 12:05 pm

IMPEACH THE KENYAN!!! is THE CRY OF THE LAND!!!
Here is proof Obama was born in Kenya
http://freedomtalk.lefora.com/2009/09/07/here-is-the-original-obamas-kenyan-birth-certifica/page1/

Fnexio Farse Fark B Fonds fhatfhatfhat   September 7th, 2009 - 3:49 pm

It all came out of your own mouth you liberal communist racist pig.

fennifer farse fark b fonds fhatfhatfhat   September 7th, 2009 - 3:57 pm

I wonder which party voted for the Civil Rights Act? I wonder which part voted against the Civil Rights Act? I wonder which one of them used to wear a hood and sheet?

Communist Liberals are Racist Pigs.

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