A Democrat defends Van Jones and argues that he should not have been dismissed for apparently being a Truther, among other things:

Jones was wrong, actually, in disavowing his support for 9/11 conspiracy theory. He signed the document, which can only mean that he supports the idea that 9/11 was planned, or that the Bushies knew something more than they have said, or at least that the charge is plausible enough to require investigation.

But support for that idea is hardly unknown among people of the left – and often gestural in its own way; look one of these types in the eye and ask “Do you really think George Bush and his cabinet engineered the murder of thousands and have kept the secret for eight years?” and watch the nervous pause and the look off into the distance.

Speculations in this vein hardly meant that Jones was not sincerely committed to working within the government to do good.

Another Democrat concurs about Jones: “Now he’s been thrown under the bus by the White House for signing his name to a petition expressing something that 35% of all Democrats believed as of 2007 — that George Bush knew in advance about the attacks of 9/11.”

Where are we in this country when 1/3 of a major political party thinks that the President killed 3000 Americans and covered it up, and respectable commentators don’t think that that opinion is a tad nutty?

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