"Beck has successfully ousted an Obama appointee"..."progressives disenfranchised by the Glen Beck show".

As usual, it's a bit more complex than Mudcat firebrands picture it.

I assume you refer to Mr. Jones.

Mr. Jones, over his career, has made some spectacularly bad moves for anybody who wants a job in the Federal government.

1)   signing a petition stating that "high level officials may have deliberately allowed" the 11 September attacks. That sort of leftist paranoia may be fine on Mudcat. Not fine elsewhere.

2) told reporter he became a Communist while in jail

3) white environmentalists "steering poison into" the communities of "people of color"

I gather he also described Republicans by one of Greg R's favorite scatological terms.

Source:   WSJ 5 Sept 2009


He now disavows these. But the damage is done.   

Also, from my reading, he himself thought it amazing he would be asked into the Obama administration.   He should have volunteered his inflammatory past. And the Obama administration should have pressed him.

At a minimum, Mr. Jones has shown spectacularly bad judgment.    He was a goner no matter what, as soon as this stuff came out. Could have been the Washington Times, National Review, Drudge, etc. Any number of possibilities.

And it's his own doing.

He could easily have been a millstone around the President's neck.

Especially since, as you may have noted, enough people are already trying to type-cast President Obama as "socialist".   And in the US, unlike the UK, lots of people associate "socialist" with the "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics".

But Mr. Jones' departure is not precisely grounds for rending garments.

I also note with interest that the people yelling the loudest about how the sky is falling seem to be those who predicted that Obama had no chance in the primaries, and then had no chance in the general election.

Whereas those of us who believed all along he had a good chance still can see that the vast majority of the sky is still there.