Well, there was ACORN, which happens to be both a stalwart Obama ally and “an anti-capitalist, antiwar organization committed to achieving solidarity among all oppressed peoples with direct militant action.”

Remember the name Madeline Talbott? Stanley Kurtz tried (Inside Obama’s Acorn) to tell the country about her before the election—back when conventional Beltway wisdom nuanced itself into the notion that Obama, a five-alarm radical, would govern from the center Talbott is the Chicago ACORN leader who was so impressed by Obama’s organizing skills that she brought him in to train her staff. And what sort of stuff was she into? Here’s Stanley: Talbot turns out to have been a key leader of ...

Well, there was ACORN, which happens to be both a stalwart Obama ally and “an anti-capitalist, antiwar organization committed to achieving solidarity among all oppressed peoples with direct militant action.”

Remember the name Madeline Talbott? Stanley Kurtz tried (Inside Obama’s Acorn) to tell the country about her before the election—back when conventional Beltway wisdom nuanced itself into the notion that Obama, a five-alarm radical, would govern from the center Talbott is the Chicago ACORN leader who was so impressed by Obama’s organizing skills that she brought him in to train her staff. And what sort of stuff was she into? Here’s Stanley: Talbot turns out to have been a key leader of that attempt by Acorn to storm the Chicago City Council (during a living-wage debate)…. The details are worth a look: On July 31, 1997, six people were arrested as 200 Acorn protesters tried to storm the Chicago City Council session. According to the Chicago Daily Herald, Acorn demonstrators pushed over the metal detector and table used to screen visitors, backed police against the doors to the council chamber, and blocked late-arriving aldermen and city staff from entering the session. [...] but almost certainly a deliberate bit of what radicals call “direct action,” orchestrated by Acorn’s Madeleine Talbot. As Talbot was led away handcuffed, charged with mob action and disorderly conduct, she explicitly justified her actions in storming the meeting.

Despite the paper-trail purge, though, Stanley did manage to unearth one small episode of what anyone with eyes willing to see could have told you was the Obama way: the time Obama sent an intimidating group of protesters on a “surprise visit” to a meeting of local officials. The protesters surrounded the table while one of their number dressed down the officials, after which the group filed out of the room en masse. Message sent: Do what we say or prepare to be harassed.

A few months back, Obama and his mouthpieces tried to whip the public into a frenzy about the banks and high corporate salaries. The president then summoned the bank CEOs into his White House woodshed, where he bluntly to...

Despite the paper-trail purge, though, Stanley did manage to unearth one small episode of what anyone with eyes willing to see could have told you was the Obama way: the time Obama sent an intimidating group of protesters on a “surprise visit” to a meeting of local officials. The protesters surrounded the table while one of their number dressed down the officials, after which the group filed out of the room en masse. Message sent: Do what we say or prepare to be harassed.

A few months back, Obama and his mouthpieces tried to whip the public into a frenzy about the banks and high corporate salaries. The president then summoned the bank CEOs into his White House woodshed, where he bluntly told them, “My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.”

Think of Truther Van as the guy passing out the “Free Mumia” tee-shirts and the green pitchforks.


Andrew C. McCarthy is a former Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He was most notable for leading the 1995 terrorism prosecution against Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and eleven others.

— National Review’s Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and the author of Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad (Encounter Books, 2008).

The Real Van Jones Scandal: Why Glenn Beck Is Right By Jeffrey Lord

As I had personally experienced -- as every single one of my colleagues had experienced -- if you work for the president, you assent to making your life an open book. In my case, and that of my Reagan colleagues of the day, very thick forms had to be filled out that recounted, specifically for security purposes, almost every single aspect of your personal life. As I recall, I had to supply the literal address of every home where I had resided since birth. Really. They wanted everything.

As I had personally experienced -- as every single one of my colleagues had experienced -- if you work for the president, you assent to...

The Real Van Jones Scandal: Why Glenn Beck Is Right By Jeffrey Lord

As I had personally experienced -- as every single one of my colleagues had experienced -- if you work for the president, you assent to making your life an open book. In my case, and that of my Reagan colleagues of the day, very thick forms had to be filled out that recounted, specifically for security purposes, almost every single aspect of your personal life. As I recall, I had to supply the literal address of every home where I had resided since birth. Really. They wanted everything.

As I had personally experienced -- as every single one of my colleagues had experienced -- if you work for the president, you assent to making your life an open book. In my case, and that of my Reagan colleagues of the day, very thick forms had to be filled out that recounted, specifically for security purposes, almost every single aspect of your personal life. As I recall, I had to supply the literal address of every home where I had resided since birth. Really. They wanted everything.

That's it. There was then, and surely is now, no other way.

Which is to say, Van Jones is in the White House this minute because someone -- or several someones -- knew his problems and quite deliberately overruled the Secret Service. That would be someone of very considerable power.

So. It's about time for some answers.

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