Van Jones Plays the Victim Card

Finding his race card declined in too many places, outed communist, Van Jones has picked up the victim card.  In an op-ed piece in the NYT, Jones compares himself to the beleaguered Saint Shirley of Sherrod, yet another victim of the incorrigible Right Wing cabal’s dirty tricks.

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.

I remember it slightly differently, Van.  Were you not forced to resign because you were outed by Glenn Beck as a communist as well as a 9/11 truther?

It’s enough for me that the Baker Center, under your leadership, took over a million dollars from George Soros.  I understand that you’re trying to rebrand yourself as Mr. Nice Guy, but your history suggests otherwise.

Then there’s this catchy little ditty you produced:

The American way manufactured by white folk in office, by these rich men here to mock us. The United States; a piece of stolen land led by right-wing, war-hungry, oil thirsty … And when it’s all said and done, still can’t [garbled] the wrong place cause they got people of color playing servant to do that sh** for them; mother f***ers ready to wipe out soft targets on territories harboring terrorists? Tragedy. The true terrorists are made in the U.S.”

Normal Americans don’t want you to have power in the current administration.  You scare people.

By the late 1990s, Jones was a committed Marxist-Leninist-Maoist who viewed police officers as the arch-enemies of black people, and who loathed capitalism for allegedly exploiting nonwhite minorities worldwide. He became a leading member of Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM), a Bay-Area Marxist-Maoist collective that was staffed by members of various local nonprofits, a number of whom had ties to the Ella Baker Center. STORM would grow in influence until 2002, when it disbanded due to internal squabbles.

You weren’t fired for some cheeky words about Republicans.  If that were the standard, there would be nobody left in Washington.  You were unceremoniously dumped because you failed Alinsky 101.  Now you can try to make believe that you’re some kind of mainstream concerned citizen.  But nobody with any common sense is going to buy it. 

And the whining is really not appealing.