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WASHINGTON -- So Van Jones, the defenestrated White House green-jobs czar, once called Republicans "a--holes." Big deal. I've said worse about Democrats. I've said worse about Republicans. I've said worse about members of my family (you know who you are).
How prissy have we become? Are we allowed no salt in our linguistic diets?
Having once written a column praising Vice President Cheney's pithy deployment of the F-word -- on the floor of the Senate, no less -- I rise in defense of Jones. True, Jones' particular choice of epithet had none of the one-syllable concision, the onomatopoeic...
The Van Jones Matter
For one thing, I don't believe that Van Jones has been "banished" from the White House. He may have been removed from his position as "Green Czar", but I believe Obama will place him in a less visible position within Obama's administration to get him out of the limelight.
Furthermore, can anyone imagine how the Democrats would have responded had Bush 41 or Bush 43 appointed an openly Communist member to their administrations? They would have called for impeachment and for riding them out of town on a rail, along with the usual tar and feathering.
No, Van Jones was simply an "obvious" example of the corrupt and...