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MARK HEMINGWAY ON THE VAN JONES STORY: ?Remember Chas Freeman? This is actually the second time an ?

By Glenn Reynolds

MARK HEMINGWAY ON THE VAN JONES STORY: “Remember Chas Freeman? This is actually the second time an Obama appointee has been sunk due to a protracted controversy over past statements and the NYT didn’t write a single word about the controversy until after the fact.”

UPDATE: Well, according to Politico, Van Jones was pretty well connected: “Jones has deep ties to the current liberal elite: He was a top aide to Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington?s 2003 campaign for governor of California, and Sunday won praise from, among others, former Vermont Governor Howard Dean.” So it makes sense they’d keep mum. Some news isn’t fit to print.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on September 07, 2009 (boomark / email).