After Van Jones

What's Next After Taking Out Van Jones? Fox News Blurts Out Agenda to Sabotage the Environment

Having taken Van Jones down, the job destroyers and climate destroyers of the right wing most certainly smell blood.

Now Phil Kerpen, policy director for Americans for Prosperity, has laid out the right-wing strategy for how "the Van Jones affair could be an important turning point in the Obama administration," in a piece on FOXNews.com. AFP is "pro-tobacco industry" group that "worked around the U.S. in recent years to defeat" smokefree workplace laws (as SourceWatch notes) — and is now fighting for the big corporate polluters to block climate and clean energy action. Brad Johnson at WonkRoom has documented how Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is a front group for billionaire polluters, pushing the most inane pro-pollution ads you'll ever see (here).

But what Fox News and AFP would like to achieve is no joke:

The Van Jones affair is, as President Obama likes to say, a "teachable moment," and we need to put not just him but the whole corrupt "green jobs" concept outside the bounds of the political mainstream.

Battle lines are being drawn. Shots have been fired and one casualty already. The problem is that if they continue their campaign the biggest casualty may be our environment.