{"id":76459,"date":"2017-06-28T21:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T01:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=76459"},"modified":"2017-06-28T21:01:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T01:01:12","slug":"76459","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=76459","title":{"rendered":"Even Van Jones Thinks It&#8217;s Fake News"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"title\">Project Veritas Exposes CNN&#8217;s Van Jones: &#8220;The Russia Thing Is Just A Big Nothing Burger&#8221;<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, after dropping his\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-06-27\/cnn-exposed-undercover-sting-producer-admits-russia-story-fake-news-pushed-ratings-0\">first undercover CNN bombshell<\/a>, which starred producer John Bonifield admitting that CNN&#8217;s endless &#8216;Russian meddling&#8217; crusade was\u00a0<strong>&#8220;mostly bullshit&#8221;<\/strong>directed by the network&#8217;s CEO Jeff Zucker with the sole intent of spiking ratings,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/projectveritas.com\/\">Project Veritas<\/a>&#8216; James O&#8217;Keefe promised there was more to come.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0And, all we knew was that the subject of the second video would be &#8220;someone we all knew&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, that &#8216;someone&#8217; is none other than\u00a0<strong>CNN&#8217;s Van Jones who inadvertently got caught revealing his true thoughts on CNN&#8217;s &#8216;Russian meddling&#8217; narrative,<\/strong>\u00a0namely that the whole story is a<strong>\u00a0&#8220;big nothing burger.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"quote_end\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>PV Reporter:<\/strong>\u00a0 &#8220;What do you think is going to happen this week with the whole Russia thing?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Van Jones:\u00a0 &#8220;The Russia Thing Is Just A Big Nothing Burger&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>PV Reporter:<\/strong>\u00a0 &#8220;Really?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Van Jones:<\/strong>\u00a0 &#8220;Yeah.&#8221;<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is the full Van Jones footage for your viewing pleasure:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Van Jones: Russia is \u201cNothing burger\u201d\u2013 American Pravda: CNN Part 2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l2G360HrSAs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Of course, while we&#8217;re happy that Van Jones decided to tell the truth, if only while he thought no one was listening,\u00a0<strong>we do wonder how he intends to explain his seemingly conflicted &#8216;on-air&#8217; versus &#8216;off-air&#8217; personalities to his children.<\/strong>\u00a0 As you may recall, Jones was the same distraught CNN commentator who spent election night\u00a0<strong>describing Trump as a &#8220;bully&#8221; and a &#8220;bigot&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0all while saying that his\u00a0<strong>&#8220;biggest fear&#8221; was how he could explain Trump&#8217;s victory to his children&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it&#8217;s time to think about how you can\u00a0<strong>explain to your children why you exploited your position and fame to provoke mass hysteria among a divided American electorate, over a story you knew to be false<\/strong>&#8230;hysteria which very well could have contributed to a mass shooting that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-06-14\/multiple-people-shot-congressional-baseball-practice-house-majority-whip-scalise-hit?page=5\">nearly claimed the life of Steven Scalise<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Emotional Van Jones: How do I explain this to my children?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RdgewCeLtrU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>(h\/t HH)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, here is yesterday&#8217;s video for those who missed it:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"American Pravda: CNN Producer Says Russia Narrative \u201cbullsh*t&quot;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jdP8TiKY8dE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-06-28\/van-jones\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-06-28\/van-jones<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project Veritas Exposes CNN&#8217;s Van Jones: &#8220;The Russia Thing Is Just A Big Nothing Burger&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}