Van Jones and the Anti-Tea Party

by Matt Kibbe:

Despite the violence, property damage and lack of a coherent “set of demands,” occupy Wall Street has been celebrated by the media as a legitimate counter-balance to the Tea Party. All of the accusations wrongfully hurled at us, having occurred time and time again at OWS protests, are dutifully ignored in deference to the morally superior cause of this protest movement. But the media coverage doesn’t change the fact that OWS is destined to fail.

Van Jones​, the former green jobs czar in the Obama administration and now a top a community organizer, says we should ignore the lack of policy clarity. “They’ve got moral clarity,” Jones says. “They’re as clear as a bell, and that’s what’s been missing. You should not ask folks who have been hurting, sitting on a white hot stove for three years… to holler properly.”

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