By Mr. Curmudgeon
“Last year I, too, resigned from an administration job, after I uttered some ill-chosen words about the Republican Party and was accused – falsely – of signing my name to a petition being passed around by 9/11 conspiracy theorists. Partisan Web sites and pundits pounced, and I, too, saw my name go from obscurity to national infamy within hours,” writes former “green jobs czar” Van Jones in a New York Times Op-Ed.
Funny, he forgot to deny co-founding the San Francisco Maoist organization Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM). No wonder Obama tapped Jones for a czarist position in his administration…Jones is quite the community organizer.
Jones forgets that a copy of the “911 Truth Statement,” which demanded an “… immediate inquiry into evidence that suggests high-level government officials may have deliberately allowed the September 11th attacks to occur,” is easily obtained online…he’s number 46 on the honored roster of signatories.
Jones, of course, was claiming victimhood ala Shirley Sherrod, Georgia’s former rural development director for the Department of Agriculture, who was forced to resign when an edited video surfaced in which she admitted past racism.
“Life inside the Beltway has become a combination of speed chess and Mortal Kombat,” complains Jones, “one wrong move can mean political death. In the era of YouTube, Twitter and 24-hour cable news, nobody is safe. Even the lowliest staff member knows that an errant comment could wind up online, making her name synonymous with scandal.”
Jones is still living in his Maoist utopian dream. Here in America, government officials look constantly over their shoulders for a reason. The basic civics lesson lost on Jones is that everyone in government serves at the pleasure of “We the People.” Jones’ former boss, President Obama, with his steadily dropping approval ratings, is beginning to realize what happens when the voice of the people is ignored.
The reason guys like Jones have such an affinity for Mao, is that the Chinese mass murderer could perpetrate his long lamentable list of crimes with no interference from the victims of his community organizing.
Jones then blames the real culprit threatening the forward-looking cadre of the people in the White House. “The high standards and wise judgments of people like Walter Cronkite once acted as our national immune system, zapping scandal-mongers and quashing wild rumors. As a step toward further democratizing America, we shrunk those old gatekeepers — and ended up weakening democracy’s defenses.”
As the recent JournoList scandal proved, the mainstream media’s “immune system” is far worse than the disease. No one in the mainstream media thought it in the public interest to report Jones’s Marxist affiliations. Only Fox News’ Glenn Beck thought it note worthy. And, as the scribblers at JournoList will tell you, Beck is no Walter Cronkite.
Gatekeeper Cronkite is the one who told Americans on February 27, 1968, “…for every means we have to escalate [in Vietnam], the enemy can match us, and that applies to invasion of the North, the use of nuclear weapons or the mere commitment of one hundred, or two hundred, or three hundred thousand more American troops to the battle.” Cronkite’s remarks, of course, are laughable, unless your loved ones were Vietnamese boat people who perished at sea or a domino that fell in Pol Pot’s killing fields. No wonder Jones misses the “national immune system” provided by the longtime CBS News anchor. Cronkite believed resisting Southeast Asia’s community organizers was futile.
“When it comes to politics in the age of Facebook,” continued Jones, “the killer app to stop the ‘gotcha’ bullies won’t be a technological one — it will be a wiser, more forgiving culture.”
Back in the day, the disgruntled community organizer would don US surplus army fatigues, gather his Marxist-Leninist manuals and hide in the jungle with his merry band of followers, there to plot the toppling of the old regime and who would lead the firing squads in the new. That, however, was the old-school community organizer.
Today, a jungle environment would only soil his power tie. And besides, he likes that corner office – with the view of the park – at the tax-exempt foundation. In short, today’s community organizer has been Oprafied.
When confronted with opposition, he gets an Op-Ed in the New York Times and whines like a little girl.
0 comments on "Maoist Community Organizer Sets us Straight"