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Kevin Jennings: Van Jones, Take 2
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When the dust settled after the whole Van Jones scandal in the Obama administration, Obama supporters were quick to shift the blame from Obama to his “staff” for not properly vetting the “green jobs” czar. In their haste, they missed the point that Van Jones was chosen because of who he is, not in spite of who he is. And the one that picked him because of his radical politics was Obama himself, the radical political wolf in some flimsy post-partisan sheep’s clothing.
This explanation is further substantiated by the fact that this is not an isolated incident. David Limbaugh takes a very close look at Kevin Jennings, Obama’s personal choice to head the Education Department’s Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools:
I continue to be amazed at the naivete of people who keep giving President Barack Obama the benefit of the doubt concerning his radical appointments, saying his administration isn’t doing its job in vetting the appointees. When will they wake up to the reality that Obama is deliberately picking people, such as Kevin Jennings, who share his radical values?
It’s not Obama who didn’t vet Jones, but the MSM who have never vetted Obama. Had they vetted Obama, they would have realized that he is Van Jones.
…when the radicalism of “green czar” Van Jones came to light, the left’s reflexive reaction was that Jones was being victimized by an extremist element on the right and that the Internet itself had now been exposed as “an open sewer of untreated, unfiltered information.” It was only when Jones’ own extremism became too obvious to deny that the left shifted its line of defense to: Obama’s team let him down by failing to vet Jones.
As I wrote at the time, “It’s not Obama who didn’t vet Jones, but the MSM who have never vetted Obama. Had they vetted Obama, they would have realized that he is Van Jones.”
…Indeed, with his appointment of Kevin Jennings to head the Education Department’s Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, Obama has vindicated those of us who said that the Jones selection wasn’t a failure of vetting, but about Obama’s appointing a like-minded radical.
Now that Jennings’ radical homosexual activism has been exposed, the Obama administration hasn’t said: “Oh, sorry, another one slipped through our relatively new vetting process. The president will fire him, and we’ll pick someone who reflects the president’s values.”
The Washington Examiner’s Byron York reports that Jennings seems to have the full backing of the White House. Press secretary Robert Gibbs defiantly referred Jennings’ critics to the statement of Education Secretary Arne Duncan — no centrist himself, by the way — who stated: “Kevin Jennings has dedicated his professional career to promoting school safety. He is uniquely qualified for his job and I’m honored to have him on our team.”
Well, America, are you honored to have yet another far leftist on your team and in a position to influence the education of your children, no less?
Kevin Jennings’ focus hasn’t been safe and drug-free schools, but gay activism, which is why Rep. Steve King of Iowa has called on President Obama to fire him. According to York, King insists that Jennings has no experience in anti-drug work and that his background has not been school safety, but promoting homosexuality in public schools, including at the elementary level.
Jennings not only ran the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network but also founded it, in 1990. Sure, GLSEN purports to be primarily interested in preventing discrimination and violence against gays and lesbians in schools. But promoting homosexuality and demonizing those who don’t embrace its values more fairly describes its mission. Karen Holgate of the Capitol Resource Institute put her finger on the MO of such groups when she said: “This whole movement is not about tolerance. It’s about redirecting the hate towards anyone who does not agree that homosexuality is a normal, positive and healthy lifestyle.”
In 2000, GLSEN, along with the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, co-hosted a “Teach Out” at Tufts University, in Boston, where organizers instructed public-school teachers how to incorporate positive messages about homosexuality into their curricula. At this conference, GLSEN also led a youth workshop, “What They Didn’t Tell You about Queer Sex & Sexuality in Health Class,” which was advertised to “youth only, ages 14 to 21.”
During the session, one instructor explained the process of “fisting” to the students. Fisting is the consensual insertion by one person of his hand and arm into another person’s anal cavity. How is this instruction helpful in preventing bullying?
I’m not sure how the Obama administration will attempt to explain away Kevin Jennings’ sordid associations, any more than it can rationalize his admitted failure, as a high-school teacher, to notify the parents of a 15-year-old boy who told him he had had relations with an older man, instead telling the boy, “I hope you used a condom.”
How much longer can Obama partisans deny who Obama really is?
Tip of the ol’ fedora to my Dad, who found this great piece.
Thanks for the acknowledgement, Son!