re: #109 freetoken

Indeed, the more I think of it the even less I like this whole development, for a couple of reasons.

1) There is now an official martyr for several different groups of people. Of course this is partly up to Van Jones - how he wants to play his future. From watching his videos he is very winsome, very well educated, and does much better without a teleprompter than many politicians.

2) The neo-McCarthyists (Beck, a whole bunch of uber-right blogs, etc.) have just received a massive dose of positive feedback (queue LVQ…).

3) From what little evidence I could gather, Van Jones was doing his job well. Now, you may believe that his job should never have existed in the first place, yet the fact remains the we have someone losing their job not based on the performance of their job but on items in their past that have yet to be shown to have affected his job performance.

The lesson to be learned here is: Don’t associate with extremists!
This lesson is sadly lost on the wingnuts who exposed this idiot. He may have been doing his job well but his past associations with extremists sunk him. The people like Beck, Malkin, etc who exposed him are associating with extremists themselves. Fuck them all.