World Net Daily Targets Valerie Jarrett

In this past Sunday's liveblog, I made note of the fact that Fox News contributor Bill Kristol "set up Valerie Jarrett as the right's next target of insane hounding." And lo, as predicted, here are your friends at World Net Daily leading the way:

Was Valerie Jarrett, one of President Obama's closest advisers, introduced to the president's political circles by her father-in-law, a communist sympathizer who worked with the radical Obama mentor Frank Marshall Davis?

Was she? WAS SHE? World Net Daily sure thinks so! There's no real attempt to divine crypto-Communism from Valerie Jarrett's own words, actions, or opinions, other than the fact that she supported the appointment of Van Jones. Instead, they assert that Jarrett's "family background and her initial introduction to Obama may tie her to [Van] Jones' radical ideology." And then, what follows is a laundry list of people associated with Jarrett's father-in-law and places where he might have encountered liberal people.

The best part of the article is the way it seamlessly shifts from alarmist concern that Valerie Jarrett might be connected in some way to known Communists to alarmist concern that Valerie Jarrett might be connected in some way to known black people!

In 1948, Jarrett started a radio show, "Negro Newsfront," and went on to become the Chicago Tribune's first black syndicated columnist.

A Washington Post obituary of Jarrett notes he "stoked the political embers in Chicago that led to the 1983 election of the city's first African-American mayor, Harold Washington."

"Vernon Jarrett was a key influence in Washington's decision to run for the Chicago mayoralty and remained a key supporter through his four-year tenure," the newspaper reported.

In other words: BETTER DEAD THAN RED, ER...BLACK...UHM...RED, no...uhm...CHECKERBOARD COLOR!

In other news, there's mounting suspicion that Glenn Beck's next target will be FCC "Diversity Czar" Mark Lloyd. Conservatives are driven by the fear that Lloyd, having co-authored an article titled "The Structural Imbalance Of Political Talk Radio" may want to reinstate the so-called "Fairness Doctrine." Over the past year, I've labored hard to explain just how totally, totally, totally, unfounded and bogus these fears are. But make no mistake! Mark Lloyd may not want to reimpose a failed piece of legislation that nobody wants to see reinstated, but, like Jarrett, he is very connected to black people!

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Comments

[alwqb]

12:29 PM on 09/12/2009

Another character assassination from the right. Do they have no decency? What does her father in law doing something in the 40's have anything to do with her? Notice how the Republicans go after good people but stand by bad people?

[nicole473]

01:09 PM on 09/12/2009

She has become their "Black Person of the Week". If Obama were to give in to this, I shudder to think of the possibilities.

He must draw a very, very heavy line here.

[yancydrew]

07:20 PM on 09/11/2009

Valerie Jarrett seems like a nice, intelligent lady and a good friend to the Obama's. But so is Oprah and I don't see her in the West Wing.

[nicole473]

07:47 PM on 09/11/2009

What exactly does one thing have to do with another?

Oprah is not qualified to act as his senior adviser. Valerie Jarrett is imminently qualified.

[yancydrew]

12:32 AM on 09/12/2009

Really? I read her bio, and I don't see that..Board of This and That..overseer of Slum Housing sounds like more of the usual Chicago "window dressing" to me..
and it's eminently...with an e not an i,,,,,

[fedupinfla]

11:01 PM on 09/11/2009

Probably cuz Oprah makes more money than everyone in the WH put together...whats your point?

[nicole473]

09:56 AM on 09/12/2009

Good point. :)

[SoccerNana]

06:17 PM on 09/11/2009

"Was Valerie Jarrett, one of President Obama's closest advisers, introduced to the president's political circles by her father-in-law, a communist sympathizer who worked with the radical Obama mentor Frank Marshall Davis?" The answer is no.

Ms. Jarrett met Mrs. Obama first; it was during an interview for a job at Chicago's City Hall. Ms. Jarrett offered Mrs. Obama the job. Ms. Jarrett was introduced to the Obama Family through Mrs. Obama.

[nicole473]

07:47 PM on 09/11/2009

Your point?

[imfedup]

08:24 AM on 09/12/2009

The point is, the answer is no.

[blood1]

05:30 PM on 09/11/2009

There is a post that does accurately point out the Not all Republicans are extremists, just that the majority of extremists are Republicans.

Point taken...unfortunately, it takes to many words to type that disclaimer each time some radical rightwinger says something crazy (which is most of what is on the web), so those rational Republicans need to understand we are not targeting them.

An attack on Valerie Jarrett is stupid, but this is the not so subtle way of the extreme Right telling anyone who will listen that all Blacks are subject to extreme scrutiny...and outrageous lies are just part of that investigation and okay.

For the GOP legislators to passively allow this to continue just shows who is in charge of their party...and the answer is NOT THEM!

[nicole473]

08:20 PM on 09/11/2009

well said.

[WowJones]

03:57 PM on 09/11/2009

If I make no mistake everyone the Right Wing fringe is going after is black or Je-wish. An old Progressive political alliance considered the nexus of American Communism then and now.

[nicole473]

07:48 PM on 09/11/2009

You are exactly right.

[waverly]

02:33 PM on 09/11/2009

The stain in America's history is back in full force once again. Let's call all of this monstrous activity that is flying from the Right exactly what it is..……MCCARTHYISM!!!!!!!! It was notoriously wicked then and it is equally wicked now. Maybe we can attach a more modern phrase for it but it is being modeled after McCarthyism.

[nicole473]

02:49 PM on 09/11/2009

ANOTHER comment removed. for NO REASON.

[Anthro]

11:16 AM on 09/12/2009

I have decided that their software just doesn't work. I have made totally innocuous comments that never get posted and rather vitriolic ones that do! Go figure.

[Andie Mock]

04:10 PM on 09/11/2009

Neo-McCarthyism

[biglover]

02:28 PM on 09/11/2009

Jarrett was born to American parents James E. Bowman and Barbara Taylor Bowman in Shiraz, Iran, where her father, a pathologist and geneticist, ran a hospital for children as part of a program where American doctors and agricultural experts sought to help jump-start developing countries' health and farming efforts. When she was five, the family moved to London for one year, returning to Chicago in 1963.

[OdaNobunaga]

07:47 PM on 09/11/2009

"Jarrett was born to American parents James E. Bowman and Barbara Taylor Bowman in Shiraz, Iran"

OHES NOES! SHAY'S A SACRAT MUSLEEM!

How do you like my Wingnut impression?

[imfedup]

08:26 AM on 09/12/2009

She's an ARAB!!!

[biglover]

02:28 PM on 09/11/2009

VALERIE JARRETT - WIKIPEDIA

Jarrett was born to American parents James E. Bowman and Barbara Taylor Bowman in Shiraz, Iran, where her father, a pathologist and geneticist, ran a hospital for children as part of a program where American doctors and agricultural experts sought to help jump-start developing countries' health and farming efforts. When she was five, the family moved to London for one year, returning to Chicago in 1963.

[gintheb]

02:27 PM on 09/11/2009

obama had better draw the line here!

[postman66]

03:52 PM on 09/11/2009

Don't worry, Valerie Jarrett is top drawer and close to Obama.

[gvnn688]

08:12 PM on 09/11/2009

No, it is time for us to draw the line. How absurd is this, questioning Ms. Jarrett's character because of her father-in-law?

[Anthro]

11:22 AM on 09/12/2009

She's been divorced for years anyway. I would hate to have to answer for what my ex gets up to.

[hillaryj]

02:24 PM on 09/11/2009

I love this Gal................She Is A Class Act!

Why are we letting these third graders run off some of our best and brightest?????

[mcmutter]

02:23 PM on 09/11/2009

WorldNutDaily should be a humor magazine.

[Chinacat Sunflower]

02:12 PM on 09/11/2009

I am so glad that she will be the next to go.

[nicole473]

02:41 PM on 09/11/2009

but she won't. of course, being a political know-nothing, you don't see that.

[jazabelz]

03:55 PM on 09/11/2009

Why? Do you have women? or Do you hate people of color? This is just pure stupidity! .

[madashellvoter]

02:02 PM on 09/11/2009

I can tell you ALL ONE THING, The righties can blow as loud as they can, Valerie Jarrett WILL NOT GO ANYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[masso435]

01:03 PM on 09/11/2009

The only thing good about the Rethuglican Party's hate of people of color, is that it has such an irrational amount of fervor attached to it, that they will never be able to contain themselves enough to not allow it to reveal itself, in one way or another. The more they are provoked, the more unhinged they become.

Anecdotal situation;
While in conversation with a gentleman I had met prior to last Novembers election, who for all intents and purposes seemed quite intelligent and stable, when once provoked by the conversation where he could take it no more, just blurted out the fact that "In no way could I ever vote for a Ni**er".

I know it's anecdotal, but I rest my case. I saw it, and heard it,many times before.

[nicole473]

01:16 PM on 09/11/2009

Their r.a.c.i.s.m is most of the problem. They are ignorant, and mostly uneducated. They are trying to d.e.s.t.r.o.y our country.

[masso435]

01:29 PM on 09/11/2009

Not to be nit-picking, Nicole, but I disagree with it being "most" of their problem.
My contention is that it is the BASIS of their problem. Not just as exemplified
in their irrational hate and suspicion of people of color, but it is also based in
the supremacy of those of White, European, and Protestant extraction. Add
to that the wack-a-doodle Evangelicals, and you have their foundation.

All else that they are, and they aspire to be, are rooted in this.

[masso435]

01:32 PM on 09/11/2009

Not to be nit-picking, Nic0le, but I disagree with it being "m0st" of their problem.
My contention is that it is the BA$I$ of their problem. Not just as exemplified
in their irr@tional h@te and $uspicion of people of c0l0r, but it is also based in
the $upremacy of those of White, European, and Protestant extraction. Add
to that the w@ck-a-d00dle Ev@ngelicals, and you have their foundation.

All else that they are, and they aspire to be, are rooted in this.

[hackerblaster]

04:35 PM on 09/11/2009

One person I work with (not in the same office) said the same thing to me. It caught me off guard and shocked me. There are a lot of incredibly close minded racist people surrounding us and sometimes you don't even know it.

And a couple of facts.

The entire GOP is not made up of racists but most racists are in the GOP

Hitler was a right winger

[Estreet1964]

12:30 PM on 09/11/2009

It's strange how Republicans get so bent out of shape over these far fetched and insignificant connections to Obama.

Yet they had no problem with Bush and his family who had well documented and concrete connections to people like Ken Lay, and the Saudi royal family, and the bin Ladin's, and numerous other notorious people over the years.

[LiberalUnderYourBed]

02:36 PM on 09/11/2009

Not strange at all, considering repubs = hypocrites.

[JanSP1971]

02:47 PM on 09/11/2009

republicans also = right wing fringe.