So if it is Politically driven, what is the truther Agenda then? Are they asking for government positions? Are truthers all running for office this year? Do you have any kind of proof of Politically driven truthers who just want to gain power in politics?
Its not political at all IMO. People just want the truth, and they all know that what the USG said happened is NOT truth.
yes there are truthers running
one of the presidents own appoitees is an admitted comunist and 9/11 truther
when this was discovered there was an outcry and he resigned
but he is still a big played in obama admin but in the backround
his group is the one that wrote the stimules bil if you can believe that:
White House Adviser Van Jones Resigns Amid Controversy Over Past Activism
Van Jones, pictured at the National Clean Energy Summit 2.0 on August 10 in Las Vegas. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
Updated 2:52 p.m. 9/6/09
By Scott Wilson and Garance Franke-Ruta
White House environmental adviser
Van Jones resigned late Saturday after a simmering controversy over his past statements and activism
erupted into calls for his ouster from Republican leaders on Friday.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs on Sunday explained the resignation on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," saying, "Van Jones decided was that the agenda of this president was bigger than any one individual." The president does not endorse Jones's past statements and actions, "but he thanks him for his service," Gibbs said.
A White House official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a personnel matter, said Jones's past was not studied as intensively as other advisers because of his relatively low rank.
Jones's position did not require Senate confirmation, so he avoided the kind of vetting Cabinet officials were subjected to. In addition, as an adviser to the Council on Environmental Quality, rather than to Obama directly, his past was not reviewed to the same degree as the more senior "assistants to the president" and other top advisers inside the West Wing.
The result was the revelation of a controversial past that, administration officials acknowledge, caught the White House off guard.
"He was not as thoroughly vetted as other administration officials," the official said. "It's fair to say there were unknowns."
The announcement that Jones was stepping down came minutes after midnight Sunday morning. "On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me," Jones said. "They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide."
He continued: "I have been inundated with calls -- from across the political spectrum -- urging me to 'stay and fight.' But I came here to fight for others, not for myself. I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future."
Jones, who joined the administration in March as special adviser for green jobs at the CEQ, had issued
two public apologies in recent days, one for
signing a petition in 2004 from the group 911Truth.org that questioned whether Bush administration officials "may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war" and the other for using a crude term to describe Republicans in a speech he gave before joining the administration.
His one-time involvement with the Bay Area radical group Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM), which had Marxist roots, had also become an issue. And on Saturday his
advocacy on behalf of death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted of shooting a Philadelphia police officer in 1981, threatened to develop into a fresh point of controversy.
Fox News Channel host Glenn Beck launched the drive against Jones and all but declared war on him after a group Jones founded in 2005, ColorofChange.org, led an advertising boycott against Beck's show to protest his claim that Obama is a racist.
Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) called on Jones to resign Friday, saying in a statement, "His extremist views and coarse rhetoric have no place in this administration or the public debate."
Senator Christopher S. Bond (R-Mo.) urged Congress to investigate Jones's "fitness" for the position, writing in an open letter, "Can the American people trust a senior White House official that is so cavalier in his association with such radical and repugnant sentiments?" On Saturday, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, wrote on his Twitter account, "Van Jones has to go."
Jones's resignation was foreshadowed Friday when Gibbs gave only tepid support for him when pressed, saying that Jones "continues to work for the administration." He declined to state that the adviser enjoyed the full support of President Obama, instead referring questions to the environmental council where he worked.
Jones, a towering figure in the environmental movement, had worked for the White House Council on Environmental Quality since March. He was a civil-rights activist in California before turning his focus to environmental and energy issues, and he won wide praise before joining the Obama administration for articulating a broad vision of a green economy Democrats could embrace.
White House adviser David Axelrod, on NBC's "Meet the Press," said Sunday he had not spoken with the president about Jones. "The political environment is rough, and so these things get magnified. But the bottom line is that he showed his commitment to the cause of creating green jobs in this country by removing himself as an issue, and I think that took a great deal of commitment on his part," he said.
On FOX News Sunday, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich declined to criticize Jones directly, though Alexander did question why the Obama administration had appointed so many issue czars.
"I don't think he's the issue," Alexander said. "I think the czars are the issue."
Former Vermont governor Howard Dean rallied to Jones' defense, saying he had signed the controversial 9-11 "Truther" petition by mistake.
"I think he was brought down. It's too bad," Dean said. "I think it's a loss for the country."
Staff writers Anne E. Kornblut and Juliet Eilperin contributed to this report.
heres a truther who is running for office that glen beck just fucked now her poll numbers crashed and she was in the lead!!!
Debra Medina self-destructs on Glenn Beck radio show
Texas gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina appeared on the Glenn Beck radio show this morning and made a lot of news when she wouldn't take a position on whether the US government was behind the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.
Texas Republican gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina (not pictured) appeared on Glenn Beck's radio program this morning and could have shot herself in the foot when offering no opinion on whether the US was involved in the 9/11 attacks.
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Texas Republican gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina imploded on the Glenn Beck radio program this morning when she said she didn't have an opinion on whether the US government was behind the 9/11 attacks.
Medina, who has literally come out of nowhere to quickly become a legitimate candidate in the Republican primary, first laughed when Beck said he had received emails from listeners saying she was a "9/11 truther."
"That's the first time I've heard of that accusation," she said, not exactly denying the charge.
Government conspiracy?
So Beck asked her straight up: "Do you believe the government was in any way involved in the bringing down of the World Trade Centers on 9/11?"
Easy answer, right? Nope.
"I think some very good questions have been raised in that regard," Medina replied. "There are some very good arguments, and I think the American people have not seen all of the evidence there, so I have not taken a position on that."
That answer caused a stir in the studio. Beck quickly followed up by asking her if she would disavow any of her staff if they were "9/11 truthers."
"Well, you know, that's a federal issue. We're very focused on issues in Texas, on Texas state government," she said. "I'm certainly not into mind control or thought policing people. "We've got a very diverse team in this state and that's because Texans are standing shoulder to shoulder to support and defend the Constitution. I frankly don't have time, you know, to go through and do psychological testing on people and know every thought or detail that they have."
Buh-bye
After that, Beck politely thanked Medina for appearing on his program and dismissed her future political hopes.
"I think I can write her off the list," he said. "Let me take another look at [candidate] Kay Bailey Hutchison, if I have to."
"Rick, I think you and I could French kiss right now," he said of Texas's current governor, Rick Perry who is running for re-election.
"Wow," Beck continued. "Wow. The fastest way back to four percent," he said of Medina's one-time standing in the polls. A
recent survey showed her only four points behind Hutchison with 24 percent of the vote.
What I meant to say was...
Medina quickly put out a
statement clarifying what she meant, which just so happens not to sound anything like what she said.
"I was asked a question on the Glenn Beck show today regarding my thoughts on the so-called 9/11 truth movement. I have never been involved with the 9/11 truth movement, and there is no doubt in my mind that Muslim terrorists flew planes into those buildings on 9/11. I have not seen any evidence nor have I ever believed that our government was involved or directed those individuals in any way. No one can deny that the events on 9/11 were a tragedy for all Americans and especially those families who lost loved ones."
So, how was I?
How'd the response go over in Texas? Well, if the opinion of Dallas Morning News blogger
Colleen McCain Nelson is any indication, about as well as The Who performing at the Super Bowl.
"...To me, this sounds like an effective way to put your campaign on the fast track back to the fringe," Nelson writes.
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