The Van Jones Brouhaha

The title of this Blog is Me and Glenn Beck. As I have said before that is the title of the blog but it is really not about Glenn Beck or his show. I admit I am a fan and I do watch his show regularly, as I do much of the programming on Fox News and other Fox broadcasts. With few exceptions I think their coverage is by far the best.

I do not care for Sean Hannity that much as he is a biased Republican and never sees anything worthwhile in any Democrat living or dead. I am a Conservative now, but have been a Democrat most of my life until the Democratic party took a sharp turn to the left, my support departed with that event.

If you do not believe the power of Fox news, what other network has even the President noted as talking about other things, bringing up fear tactics and other derogatory remarks? Nobody not even the President of the US likes people criticizing them. President Obama, is very thin skinned and does not take to anyone in the press saying anything other than complementary statements.

Fox News tells it like they see it and he can not stand that. He seldom calls on their reporters for questions during speeches he makes on TV. He has had ABC and NBC in the White House and given exclusive interviews. Why not Fox News? Is he afraid they will ask some hard questions?

If I were him, I would have them in and talk about the issues and explain to that audience why he feels like he does. I would ask for their input and what I could do to represent their audience better. Wouldn’t that snuff out the fuse if he actually asked for their help? He could shut up some he disagrees with during that time. I can not understand why he ignores the critical media instead of meeting it head-on. Is he afraid?

The recent brouhaha over Green Czar Van Jones is a perfect example of why I like Fox News and Glenn Beck specifically. Why in the hell did it take so long for people in Congress and the main stream media to uncover this radical advisor to the president.

Until he resigned under pressure, much of the nation had not heard of him and his background. Glenn had been doing everything he could to bring his past to light for weeks with video of Mr. Jones’s speeches and links to his other activities.

Where was the mainstream press in all this. After he resigned I watched the Sunday morning news shows and they finally talked about him and asked others notable people their opinions about him. Some of the main stream media tried to paint him as a minor player, with little influence. Also that he made all these statements a long time ago in his youth. Bull crap, he made many of them recently.

Calling Republicans assholes. Saying that WHITE PEOPLE had purposely poisoned people of color with pollution. That WHITE PEOPLE had knowingly sprayed emergent workers in fields with pesticides. That the Bush administration had conspired in the 9/11 attack and had approved it.

He admitted that he got in with other black radicals while in jail and after that he was a communist for 10 years. 10 years from the date he said that would be 2005, not really in his youth is it? But the press, Howard Dean, and even Joe Biden our VP said the loss of Van Jones in the administration was a loss to the country.

Can you imagine what would have happened if even a low level advisor to President Bush had a background something like this man had but on the other side. Lets say he had been a member of the Klu Klux Klan in his youth. While in jail he met white supremacists and for 10 years had been a white extremist. He claimed that Democrats were assholes and that black people where sending poison into white areas of the city and killing emigrants by spraying them with chemicals. And that Bill Clinton had encouraged the bombing of our embassies.

The networks would have found him, put permanent satellite feed trucks outside his home. Identified every living and dead relative of this person. All the talking heads on the nightly news and morning shows would have sermonized for hours about this national menace. Nightline would have probably had a 2 hour special. Time magazine and Newsweek would have had his photo on the cover and the New York Times would have his picture on the front page with exhaustive remarks about him and his close ties to the Bush administration.

Now of course the media is not giving positive remarks about Glenn Beck or Fox News. They are still painting him as a lunatic and fear monger. They are not apologizing about their ineptness but they must be embarrassed that with all their supposed expertise and investigatory resources that they blew it.

Just consider this fact. You can at this time go to the NBC official gift shop and purchase Obama, merchandise of all kinds. I know you can get a Chea Pet head of our great leader, along with tennis shoes, T-shirts, basketballs, and many other items. Do you remember all those same things for George Bush? Ya right!!!

I have blogged about this before, and no need to talk about it anymore, but the mainstream media of all kinds are just lap dogs to Obama. They ask him softball questions, and offer mostly positive stories and features. Even when something is obviously screwed up they put a positive spin on the event.

I will continue to watch Glenn Beck. Some things he says I do not agree with. Some things he talks about are a little out of context and over the top, but many many things he investigates I have checked out myself at other resources I have found and he is right on with most of what he talks about. He is sometimes over the top, but his show is supposed to entertain as well as inform so I have no problem with some of the things he does.