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Where was the 'watchdog' media during the lead-up to the Van Jones resignation? Andrew Breitbart takes the MSM talking heads to task...

Now that White House "Green Jobs Czar" Van Jones has resigned, what's next?

Inevitably, the American mainstream media - ABC, NBC, CBS, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, et al - must be held to account for sitting on the sidelines as this major story kept building without them, went viral on YouTube, and then became so large that a key appointee of President Obama was forced to step down.

But with their decision to ignore the Jones story, they may have actually done Mr. Obama far more harm than good: Who vetted this guy? How did he get past the FBI? What did he say, and how did he answer the infamous seven-page questionnaire that all Obama appointees were required to fill out? Inquiring Freedom of Information Act minds want to know.

For most people in this country, the resignation was the first they had heard of Van Jones. For this sin of journalistic omission, there's institutional media blame. Bias is too tame a word for the utter shamelessness on display: Only Republican scandals - real and imagined - matter.

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Just as Mr. Obama was not even cursorily investigated, Van Jones, a fellow "community organizer," was not given the slightest media attention when named as an unaccountable "czar" selected to oversee billions in taxpayer money for the ambiguous purpose of "green energy." And that despite having a body of damning evidence that could be found with a single Google search by an ADHD-addled high-school journalism student. [emboldenings mine]

Read the rest of it.

Andrew Breitbart shames Katie Couric, Brian Williams, and every other "Big Media" talking pompous head who ignored this story. The credit for Van Jones' abrupt departure goes to FOX News' Glenn Beck, Gateway Pundit (Jim Hoft), and my favorite BCaster, the lovely Liz Stephens (oh, and that guy she VLOGS with, what's his name... )

Obviously we must vet the media.

Oh, this quote from an article on Politico deserves some attention, framing the crying, crying from the Left...

"If Jones left under pressure from the Obama administration then we are in for a very long and painful four years,” said Melissa Harris Lacewell, a political science professor at Princeton University.

Ya think? What, did you forget the last 8 years, wherein President Bush was castigated almost daily for his 'crimes' (which seem, in retrospect, and compared to BHO's endeavors, quite harmless)?

Never to forgive, never to forget.

Yes, Melissa, it's going to be a very, very long and painful 1231 Days, 03 Hours, 25 Minutes, and 13 Seconds. And counting, down.

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