If you don’t know who Van Jones is, don’t feel bad. Until late Saturday night, he was President Barack Obama’s “green jobs” czar. Jones oversaw a budget of billions of dollars, didn’t have to go through Senate confirmation and answered only to Barack Obama himself.

On Saturday night, Jones resigned his position – an action that finally got some of the mainstream media to report on Jones. As of Friday morning, neither ABC, CBS, NBC or the Washington Post or New York Times had reported one word on the Jones controversy. Come Sunday, they each referred to “weeks of controversy” – which none of them had deigned to cover.

Last week I posted a video of Jones calling Republicans an expletive not fit for a family newspaper. In the intervening days even more information about Jones has come out that demonstrate he is not just a liberal, but a Marxist-Communist leftist. I use that term advisedly, because that’s really what Jones was.

Jones was a founder of Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM), you can read about them here (PDF document), but let’s just say it’s not exactly the Knights of Columbus.

Jones was involved in the 9/11 Truther movement, a cadre of raging nut jobs who believe that President George W. Bush was behind the terrorist attacks of 9/11.

Jones endorsed an “anti-police day of action” in 2006 at the behest of the Revolutionary Communist Party.

And last, but not least, Jones produced an “album” featuring cop-killer and leftist heartthrob Mumia Abu Jamal.

With all of this in his background, Jones got an accountable-only-to-President-Obama job and zero scrutiny from the mainstream media. And here’s the kicker: the Obama administration is making sure that everyone knows that Obama didn’t sack Jones.

The resignation of Obama administration figure Van Jones, following controversies over a petition he had signed and his comments about Republicans, did not come at the request of the president, the White House senior adviser said Sunday.

"Absolutely not — this was Van Jones' own decision," David Axelrod told NBC's "Meet the Press" when asked if the president had ordered the resignation.

Don’t think that Obama didn’t know what he was getting with Jones, as Obama confidante Valerie Jarrett praised Jones at a the leftist “Netroots Nation” convention.

In 2008, John McCain ran as a moderate. He was one. In 2008, Barack Obama ran as a moderate. He is a leftist. Not a liberal. A leftist. President Bill Clinton was a liberal. Barack Obama is no Bill Clinton.

What does this say about Obama?

Despite his posturing as a centrist – with the collusion of the mainstream media – Obama is just fine having a communist, cop-hating, cop-killer-loving, conspiratorial hatemonger on his staff.

A random note, from the AP report:

Jones said he has been "inundated with calls from across the political spectrum urging me to stay and fight."

I get the feeling this is the same political spectrum experienced by the likes of David Corn and Eric Alterman; both the left and the far-left wanted him to stay.

UPDATE

For those who are interested, here's a good article on the same subject from tomorrow's Wall Street Journal.