The political smear campaign against Van Jones didn’t begin in the paranoid brain of Glenn Beck. The wildly distorted attacks that ultimately brought down President Obama’s green jobs czar on Saturday were fed to Beck by Phil Kerpen, the little-known policy director for the polluter front group Americans for Prosperity. Taking credit for the effort in jubilant, surprisingly frank blogs and tweets, Kerpen describes Jones’ resignation as the first blow in a new fight to derail the climate bill.
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