Glenn Beck’s next targets
by Alex Evans | Sep 8, 2009
Former White House chief of staff John Podesta (now at the Center for American Progress) is far from happy about the ejection from the White House of Van Jones, Obama’s adviser on clean energy. He had this to say about Jones’s persecutors:
Clearly, Van was the subject of a right-wing smear campaign shrouded in hypocrisy. Van’s chief tormentor Glenn Beck, who spent weeks engaged in vicious name-calling, retains his perch at Fox News after calling the president a racist who has “a deep-seated hatred for white people.” Van has set a standard that Beck would never impose upon himself.
Over on Glenn Beck’s twitter feed, the next targets are already being lined up:
Watch Dogs: FIND EVERYTHING YOU CAN ON CASS SUNSTEIN, MARK LLOYD AND CAROL BROWNER. Do not link before burning to disc. 7:48 AM Sep 4th from web
Carol Browner’s the Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change; Cass Sunstein’s the author of Nudge and head of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (and also Samantha Power’s husband); and Mark Lloyd’s the Associate General Counsel and Chief Diversity Officer at the Federal Communications Commission.
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Alex Evans is founder of Larger Us, which explores how we can use psychology to reduce political tribalism and polarisation, a senior fellow at New York University, and author of The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren’t Enough? (Penguin, 2017).
He is a former Campaign Director of the 50 million member global citizen’s movement Avaaz, special adviser to two UK Cabinet Ministers, climate expert in the UN Secretary-General’s office, and was Research Director for the Business Commission on Sustainable Development.
Alex lives with his wife and two children in Yorkshire.
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