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FNC's Beckel: Obama Must Do With Jones What He Did With Wright -- Cut

"Obama has been accused during the campaign of associating with people who were radical, whether it be Bill Ayers or Reverend Wright. He has to do with Jones what he did with Wright, which is to cut his relationship off."So said liberal Fox News contributor Bob Beckel about the growing controversy surrounding President Obama's "green jobs czar" Van Jones.In this segment aired Friday evening…
Noel Sheppard

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NB Staff

Stand by Your Van? SF Chronicle Politics Writer Notes Toxic Effect of

As noted by John Stephenson of NewsBusters, much of the media has been ignoring the enormous Van Jones controversy. However, Joe Garofoli, the politics writer and blogger for Jones' hometown newspaper, the liberal San Francisco Chronicle, has just written about the toxic effect of Van Jones and who is standing by their Van and who isn't in his Politics blog:The Bay Area's Van Jones -- the Special…
P.J. Gladnick

Your Taxes at Work: Max Blumenthal Promotes New Book Saying GOP Based

Tim Graham

Harwood: Opponents of Obama's School Invasion 'Not Smart Enough' To Ra

A new high-tech Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. Racism.  And parents too dumb to raise their children.  That was how NBC sought to explain away opposition to Pres. Obama's planned speech to schoolchildren.Andrea Mitchell narrated a segment on this morning's Today on the subject.ANDREA MITCHELL: Other presidents have faced opposition.  But experts say it's now more organized, from cable television to…
Mark Finkelstein

Newspapers Facilitate Gun Sales without Background Checks

Mithridate Ombud

HuffPo Shilling For Old Huffington Pal Van Jones

Matthew Vadum

ABC & NBC Continue Van Jones Blackout, Instead Tout Obama's 'Transpare

ABC and NBC on Friday night, even after White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was forced to address the topic, continued their blackout of the radical and America-hating conspiracy views of Van Jones, the “Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation” on the White House's Council on Environmental Quality. Instead of taking up how five years ago Jones signed the 911truth.org…
Brent Baker

Matthews, Walsh Unsubtly Accuse Obama Opponents Of Racism

Terry Jeffrey walked away the winner on Hardball this afternoon. Despite being double-teamed by Chris Matthews and Salon's Joan Walsh, the editor-in-chief of our sister publication CNSNews.com had the others admitting that the Obama admin has gone too far with the cult-of-personality way it's pitched the president's speech to schoolchildren.But that didn't prevent Matthews and Walsh from unsubtly…
Mark Finkelstein

NYTs' Friedman Was Big Fan of Green Job Czar Jones in Oct

The Jolly Green Pliants Well, some in the media weren't ignoring avowed Communist and Barack Obama Administration "Green Jobs Czar" Van Jones after all.The New York Times' Thomas Friedman was lauding him. In print on October 17, 2007, Friedman offered up a Van Jones paean entitled "The Green-Collar Solution."  In which Friedman offers nary a hint as…
Seton Motley

Still Bitter: White House Goes After Santelli Again, but Santelli Fire

It's been nearly seven months since CNBC reporter Rick Santelli took a stand against the Obama administration, which inspired the tea party movement - and the White House hasn't forgotten. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was asked by CNBC Washington correspondent John Harwood why the administration decided to go after Santelli after his Feb. 19 call for a metaphorical revolt over…
Jeff Poor

MSNBC's Shuster Compares Obama Speech Controversy to Nancy Reagan's 'J

Discussing the concern of some parents' about their children being a captive audience to President Obama's planned speech next Tuesday, MSNBC's David Shuster today scoffed at conservative activist Michael Leahy by asking if Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" anti-drug campaign was "indoctrination" (audio available here):MICHAEL LEAHY:  This is from the lesson plan, the old, the original lesson plan.…
Ken Shepherd

CNN's Martin: 'Insane' Objectors to Obama Speech to Kids Acting Childi

On Thursday’s Campbell Brown program, CNN’s Roland Martin berated the critics of the accompanying lesson plan for President Obama’s upcoming speech to school kids, calling them “insane parents.” He later complimented Mr. Obama for the planned speech and made another insult: “I’m glad we have a president who’s willing to speak to children, because maybe these same parents were acting like children…
Matthew Balan