The return of Van Jones (or, as right-wingers like to say: Scary black man is comin' to get you!)

[LuckyTheDog]

Head fer da hills, ma!

As an unabashed and high-profile liberal on President Barack Obama’s White House staff, former “green energy” czar Van Jones was to Republicans what a red cape is to a snorting bull: an irresistible target.

So when he resigned in 2009 under withering fire from the right — triggered by a video of him disparaging the GOP, followed by revelations of a tenuous connection to Sept. 11 conspiracy theorists — few doubted Jones was finished in Washington. He acknowledged as much a year later, writing in The New York Times that politics has become “a combination of speed chess and Mortal Kombat: one wrong move can mean political death.”

What a difference two years can make.

While still a high-value target for conservatives, the charismatic Jones has rebounded from his messy departure to become a superstar of the resurgent left, founding — with MoveOn.org — the American Dream Movement, a grass-roots political force modeled after the tea party. His issue is no longer just green jobs, but to push back against the right’s domination of economic policy and social issues that he dates to the 2010 election.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/69083.html#ixzz1es15DLhc

[tabatha]

1. Good, Van Jones !

[WildNovember]

2. I came across Van Jones on the list of people involved with an organization

I would characterize as "rightist". I was really surprised. I didn't boommark the site and I can't remember the organization -- does anyone know the group I'm referring to?

[Historic NY]

3. He has popped up around OWS too.

[gratuitous]

4. Are the media chuckleheads starting to come around?

They've been arrested and maced, just like the dirty fucking hippies they like to look down on. It turns out that having a press credential and going to swell cocktail parties might not get you entree into the upper circles. A positive article on Van Jones?! What's next - an article or two that detail just what a disaster Republican economic policies have been for the country?

Okay, now I'm talkin' crazy.

[Bluenorthwest]

5. I will always think of Van as the guy who, with a straight face, tried

to get me to vote for Arianna Huffington to be Governor of California, because that was what he was paid to do at that time.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

6. With his gorgeous self!!! :)