Thoughts On Van Jones' Resignation. By David Roberts, Grist, September 6, 2009. "Van Jones had to resign. It became inevitable when Gibbs offered no support. Much of the blame for this incident lies squarely on the White House. The information used against Jones was freely available on the web. All it took was a search. I thought by hiring Jones they intended to take a chance on a real left progressive, but now it appears they were simply caught flat-footed. Either Valerie Jarrett -- Jones' champion in the upper echelons of the administration -- didn't know much about him or didn't widely share what she knew. They certainly seemed disinclined to mount a vigorous defense with Glenn Beck gnoshing on his favorite new chew toy and the health care reform battle about to heat up again. No distractions... On substantive grounds, the resignation is not that significant. Part of the absurdity of all this is that Jones was basically a low-level functionary... By all accounts he was frustrated by the difficulty of getting even the smallest things done from the bottom of a massive bureaucracy... But policy, reality, that's not what bottom-feeders like Beck care about... They don't care what Van Jones does, they care what he is. Beck peddles a message that's been around since America was born: They're taking your country away. They -- the non-white races, the immigrants, the urbanites, the communists, the elites -- are stealing the country from nice, simple white Christians. They're taking what rightfully belongs to us, to Real Americans."
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