Cash for clunkers - NoBama trades in his Van

The prize for Van Jones’s scalp should go not to the US talk show hosts but to the sleuth who first dug out the facts about Van Jones and his radical circles. Last April Trevor Loudon – the New Zealand blogger who has been indefatigably mapping the web of ultra-left radicalism that brought Obama to power -- revealed:

A few short years ago Anthony (Van) Jones was a Bay Area radical agitator-a committed Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, waging war on the police and capitalist system. Today Van Jones holds a key position in the US government and has the ear of President Barack Obama.

Two days later, Loudon disclosed that not only had Van Jones been the leading light of a revolutionary organization called STORM (Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement) but he had been linked to the Weather Underground terrorist organisation (erstwhile stamping-ground of Obama’s disavowed ex-comrade, Bill Ayers) and to a network of other revolutionaries who in turn gave rise to the campaigning group Progressives for Obama. Loudon also discovered that Van Jones had been a fellow at the no less radical George Soros-funded Centre for American Progress.

On August 17, Loudon further revealed that in September 2008, several weeks before Obama was even elected, two staffers at the radical Institute for Policy Studies, Phyllis Bennis and Chuck Collins, posted on its website 22 names they thought would make suitable appointments for an Obama administration – of whom one was Van Jones,