by Hans Bader
September 07, 2009 @ 12:26 pm
Obama’s racist, communist, America-bashing Green Jobs Czar, Van Jones, has resigned after revelations that he was a 9/11 “Truther,” who believed that George Bush may have been behind the terrorist attacks on 9/11.
But Obama has long been aware of Jones’ extremism, wacky statements, and arrest record, which would have come to light months ago during the White House vetting process, as former White House staffer Jeffrey Lord and National Review’s Andrew McCarthy note. The Secret Service would have investigated Jones’ past and Marxist views…
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by Fran Smith
August 07, 2009 @ 4:15 pm
“The Town Hall Mob.” That’s the title of Paul Krugman’s opinion piece in the New York Times today - and it’s a doozy. In his article, Krugman opines that the citizens protesting against health care “reform” represent “something new and ugly.”
Then, in some sort of convoluted logic bordering on paranoia, Krugman asserts that the Town Hall protesters are really racists - and are probably “birthers” as well.
That is, the driving force behind the town hall mobs is probably the same cultural and…
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