2009-09-07 5 Reasons Why Van Jones and Progressives are Better Off With Jones Out of the White House

2009-09-07 Don Hazen AlterNet \Obama-Biden administration\Van Jones\progressivism http://www.alternet.org/story/142460/5_reasons_why_van_jones_and_progressives_are_better_off_with_jones_out_of_the_white_house/?page=entire 5 Reasons Why Van Jones and Progressives are Better Off With Jones Out of the White House 5 Reasons Why Van Jones and Progressives are Better Off With Jones Out of the White House  The end of Van Jones' brief career as a White House insider, in the semi-obscure position of special adviser for green jobs at the Council on Environmental Quality, is likely good for Van Jones and very good for progressives.

Yes, currently it seems as if Fox News' Glenn Beck -- who spent the past few weeks viciously smearing Jones -- has won one. In fact, Beck has done Jones, and all of us, a mitzvah.

And considering that the White House, and for that matter Washington's liberal establishment, failed to come to his defense in the face of relentless attacks by the right-wingers at Fox (very similar to what Fox did to Barack Obama leading up to the election), Jones's liberation should make him a happy camper.

&ldquo;Yes, currently it seems as if Fox News' Glenn Beck -- who spent the past few weeks viciously smearing Jones -- has won one. In fact, Beck has done Jones, and all of us, a mitzvah.&rdquo;   