Van Jones and Glenn Beck

Glenn Beck is at war with an Obama czar, Van Jones.

Jones is the co-founder of Color of Change, the group targeting Beck's advertisers.

Jones, Obama's "Green Jobs" czar, also admits to holding communist views.

Aaron Klein, WorldNetDaily, writes:

Fox News host Glenn Beck last night continued reporting on the radical links of President Obama's "green jobs czar," Van Jones, despite a campaign led by a black activist organization founded by Jones demanding major advertisers withdraw from Beck's top-rated television program.

Beck's segments about Jones were based in part on WND's reporting that Jones was as an admitted radical communist and black nationalist leader.

Beck spent a large part of his program last night reporting Jones was a radical, quoting from Jones' own interviews in which he detailed his rise to radical politics. Jones in March was appointed as the special adviser for green jobs, enterprise and innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

"Why is it that such a committed revolutionary has made it so high into the Obama administration as one of his chief advisers?" Beck asked on his show last night.

Earlier this month, NewsBusters reported Jones, is co-founder of Color of Change, the activist organization that has been leading a furious campaign against Beck.

Jones' group says the controversy stems from Beck's recent comment while a guest on another Fox News show that Obama is a "racist" with "a deep-seated hatred for white people."

...Jones' group claims it has secured commitments from 36 companies who have pledged not to advertise on Beck's show, including Wal-Mart and Sprint.

But most of the companies did not advertise on Beck's program to begin with. They simply purchased general advertising time on Fox News. The cable network says the companies will continue their advertising on the network.

Representatives of Procter & Gamble and AT&T – listed by Color of Change as companies that had signed onto the boycott – told the Los Angeles Times last week their companies did not run spots on Beck's program to begin with.

"The advertisers referenced have all moved their spots from Beck to other programs on the network so there has been no revenue lost," a Fox News spokeswoman said.

Klein provides information on White House czar Jones' radicalism.

He was a founder and leader of the communist revolutionary organization Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM. The organization had its roots in a grouping of black people organizing to protest the first Gulf War. STORM was formally founded in 1994, becoming one of the most influential and active radical groups in the San Francisco Bay area.

STORM worked with known communist leaders. It led the charge in black protests against various issues, including a local attempt to pass Proposition 21, a ballot initiative that sought to increase the penalties for violent crimes and require more juvenile offenders to be tried as adults.

The leftist blog Machete 48 identifies STORM's influences as "third-worldist Marxism (and an often vulgar Maoism)."

Speaking to the East Bay Express, Van Jones said he first became radicalized in the wake of the 1992 Rodney King riots, during which time he was arrested.

"I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th," he said. "By August, I was a communist."

"I met all these young radical people of color – I mean really radical: communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of.' I spent the next 10 years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary," he said.

Trevor Loudon, a researcher and opponent of communism who runs the New Zeal blog, identified several Bay Area communists who worked with STORM, including Elizabeth Martinez, who helped advise Jones' Ella Baker Human Rights Center, which Jones founded to advocate civil justice. Jones and Martinez also attended a "Challenging White Supremacy" workshop together.

Martinez was a long time Maoist who went on to join the Communist Party USA breakaway organization Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, or CCDS, in the early 1990s, according to Loudon. Martinez still serves on the CCDS council and is also a board member of the Movement for a Democratic Society, where she sits alongside former Weathermen radicals Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.

Good grief.

Jones is a perfect example of why Obama has decided to circumvent the Constitution and employ a strategy of appointing czars, to avoid accountability and increase his personal power.

Robert Byrd calls Obama's czars dangerous.

Robert Byrd, the longest serving senator in history, criticized President Obama's appointment of numerous White House advisors, also called "czars," saying the presence of the czars gives the president too much power.

These czars report directly to Mr. Obama and have the power to shape national policy on their subject area. So far, Mr. Obama has recruited czars on health reform, urban affairs policy, and energy and climate change. Unlike Cabinet secretaries, they do not have to be approved by Congress.

In a letter to Obama on Wednesday, Byrd, a Democrat, said that the czar system "can threaten the Constitutional system of checks and balances," Politico reported. Byrd added that oversight of federal agencies is the responsibility of officials approved by the Senate.

"As presidential assistants and advisers, these White House staffers are not accountable for their actions to the Congress, to cabinet officials, or to virtually anyone but the president," Byrd wrote. "They rarely testify before congressional committees, and often shield the information and decision-making process behind the assertion of executive privilege. In too many instances, White House staff have been allowed to inhibit openness and transparency, and reduce accountability."

Byrd has been a longtime critic of policies that concentrate power in the executive branch.

Do you think someone like Van Jones, a self-avowed communist, would have been approved by Congress?

As Byrd points out, as a czar, Jones is only accountable to Obama. Congress is shut out.

It's disturbing that Obama would want someone as radical as Jones to be part of his administration.

Very revealing.
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