Green Jobs and 9/11 Truthers: A Match Made in the Obama White House
Posted September 3rd, 2009 at 3.58pm in Energy and Environment.
This April President Barack Obama said he wanted to rebuild the entire United States economy based on a foundation of “five pillars that will grow our economy and make this new century another American century.” One of those pillars was government “investments” in renewable energy and technology that will create “green jobs” for millions of Americans. To oversee the planning for all these green jobs, President Obama tapped Van Jones, author of the 2008 New York Times best-seller The Green Collar Economy, to be his Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation.
Of course green jobs are complete fiction. For starters, nobody, including the Obama administration, even has a definition for what a green job is. Furthermore, research both here in the U.S., and abroad, has repeatedly demonstrated that subsidizing high cost renewable energies destroys more jobs than it creates.
But that is what makes Jones such a perfect fit to be Obama’s green jobs czar. It turns out that Jones is no stranger to crazy. The Washington Times Amanda Carpenter reports that along with comedienne Janeane Garofalo, ex-Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA), Code Pink founder Medea Benjamin, and Howard Zinn, Jones has signed 911Truth.org’s 9/11 Truth Statement which calls for an investigation by then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer into whether the Bush administration may have had foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks.
That’s right, Obama’s hand picked Green Jobs Czar doesn’t believe al Qaeda is responsible for 9/11, instead he accusses President George Bush. Crazy is as crazy does.

September 3, 2009 Rolando Cruz, Miami, Florida writes:
I was watching the news on FOX and this information on Jones was reported along with a whole bunch of other stuff, about this man going on record as having said, its on tape for crying out loud. Let me tell you in case you don’t know this, if this man was applying for a job in law enforcement or any job requiring secret clearance, he would have had a background check done. Based on his present and past statements and beliefs he would not have passed. He would have been denied the job. People get turned down for having low credit rating on a loan, so how did this man get so close to the President of the United States being a self avowed communist, 911 Truth Satement signer, etc..
I think this goes well beyond the right to free speech. Please explain it to me as if I was 2 years old.