Victor Davis Hanson:
“New Communique from the Ministry of Truth
At one point, the Obama administration was bragging about bagging one Van Jones; Valerie Jarrett, in fact, even gushed that they had been scouting the erstwhile mostly unknown Jones for quite a while. The word czar was employed of his new responsibilities, and we were subsequently lectured that “over $80 million” in stimulus money was going to be under Jones’s control—given his innovative “green jobs” approach that married civil rights with radical environmentalism.
And now? The ministry has downgraded that now inoperative statement, and insisted that Jones, after all, was not really an unexamined czar, but rather a mere informal “advisor”.
Himself—or in the Stars?
Jones himself, without any introspection, alleged that some vicious “smear campaign” did him in, but did not elaborate on what he meant…”
The Rest of the Story: Works and Days » Deconstructing the “Whup Ass”.
