The signing of the 9/11 Truth petition had been seized upon by right wing activists, among of course many other things Van Jones had done as a left activist, to oppose his consideration for the Obama administration position. According to Corn: "... perpetuators of the 9/11 nonsense launched a virus in left circles, and Jones was not savvy enough to keep clear of it. ... In a way, I tried to prevent this from happening." The tone and discussion in David Corn's article is like reading an eighth-grader carp about having lost a beauty pageant.
Corn goes on at length to describe his own writing "career" in having "debunked" 9/11 Truthers over the years, making it sound as if 'this is the last straw':
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"I even debunked a book promoting an unfounded 9/11 conspiracy theory that was published by Nation Books when I was Washington editor of The Nation magazine."
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Van Jones and the 9/11 Conspiracy Theory Poison
— By David Corn | Mon September 7, 2009 5:27 PM PST
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