- Glenn Beck Isn't Crazy After All

There is no one on the political right who has more credibility than Andy McCarthy. Here he lays out, with the help of Hot-Air's Ed Morrisey, some of the details behind the Obama administration's machinations with the erstwhile 'green jobs czar' Van Jones.

Here is an excerpt in case the NRO folks haven't fixed the link yet:

The point, of course, is that Obama vetted Jones just fine. President Obama is not Mr. Magoo — haplessly gravitating to Truther Van and Ayers and Dohrn and Klonsky and Davis and Wright and the Chicago New Party and ACORN, etc. Jones is a kindred spirit. Obama knows exactly who he is. Jones was given a non-confirmation job precisely because that circumvented the vetting process. This isn't one of those things that just happen. This is Barack "Transparency" Obama gaming the system.

As former Reagan staffer Jeffrey Lord explains at the Spectator, the Secret Service carefully scrutinizes the background of everyone who works at the White House. With his background, Van Jones couldn't possibly have gotten into the White House, much less had physical access to the president, unless the top echelon of the administration (I'd wager, the very top) overrode any objections.

The issue here isn't process. It's that Obama picked Van Jones because Obama adheres to Jones's Alinskyite views and tactics, and is entirely comfortable with what most of the public would see as the horrifying specter of Jones managing how billions of public dollars are spent. Note the Times's account of Jones's time at STORM:

Mr. Jones’s involvement in the 1990s with a group called Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement prompted recent accusations by conservative critics that he associated with Communists. The group, according to a post-mortem written by some of its founders, was an anti-capitalist, antiwar organization committed to achieving “solidarity among all oppressed peoples” with “direct militant action.”

Hold on there. Direct-action? The use of intimidation and extortion tactics, including law-breaking, to achieve political results? Where have we heard that before? Well, there was ACORN, which happens to be both a stalwart Obama ally and "an anti-capitalist, antiwar organization committed to achieving solidarity among all oppressed peoples with direct militant action.”


All of these details either confirm or support all the worst things that Glenn Beck has ever said on his show about the Obama administration.

When it comes to Beck, some of my friends watch him with a jaundiced eye and say "I like Beck, but sometimes he goes too far." Well if what Mr McCarthy writes is true, and it always is, then maybe Glenn Beck hasn't gone far enough.

Glenn Beck is taking a huge chance by facing off against team Obama. I'm sure he knows that and he's still out there, saving the country he loves, one American hating Communist radical at a time. And I admire him greatly for having the courage to keep at it.