Van Jones now denies he's a truther, claiming instead that he's a moron:
A top environmental official of the Obama administration issued a statement Thursday apologizing for past incendiary statement and denying that he ever agreed with a 2004 petition on which his name appears, a petition calling for congressional hearings and an investigation by the New York Attorney General into "evidence that suggests high-level government officials may have deliberately allowed the September 11th attacks to occur."
Van Jones, the Special Advisor for Green Jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, is Number 46 of the petitioners from the so-called "Truther" movement which suggests that people in the administration of President George W. Bush "may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war."
In a statement issued Thursday evening Jones said of "the petition that was circulated today, I do not agree with this statement and it certainly does not reflect my views now or ever."
He did not explain how his name came to be on the petition. A source said Jones did not carefully review the language in the petition before agreeing to add his name.
Let me get this straight... He didn't "carefully review the language in the petition before agreeing to add his name"?
What sort of lame-ass bullshit is that?
Somebody put a petition in front of Van Jones accusing the President of the United States of being complicit in a terrorist act that murders of 3,000 innocent people and he was too fucking stupid to understand what it meant?
Fine. Just fire the dumb motherfucker, Mr. President. He obviously doesn't have the brains to be running anything other than a parking lot.
Remember: These are the smart ones...
Well, once Turbo-Tax Timmy got in, what else did you expect ?
Posted by: Mike C. | September 04, 2009 at 07:19 AM
Pretty much true, Mike. Obama's appointments, with rare exceptions, have been embarrassments to his Administration.
Posted by: JeffS | September 04, 2009 at 09:53 AM
I kinda wish markg8 was still around to 'splain this to us. The double-backflips would be world class.
Posted by: twitter.com/psmith867 | September 04, 2009 at 10:36 AM
Excuse me, but that might be MY car you're putting him in charge of, buddy...
JeffS -- No they haven't. They're not bugs, they're features.
Posted by: richard mcenroe | September 04, 2009 at 03:38 PM
It's the Chicago way.
Posted by: MCPO Airdale | September 05, 2009 at 08:40 PM