Bloggers simply played videos of Van Jones in his OWN WORDS, and that is a problem because it hurt someone on their side. The Meet the Press panel said nothing of Van Jones ties to Black Nationalism, nothing on whites committing Columbine style crimes, nothing of his impersonation of Bush as a crack head and that he's a self professed Communist...

TOM BROKAW on internet news, this coming from a guy who's news organization chose not to touch the Van Jones story...

"Well, I've--one of the things I've been saying to audiences is this question comes up a lot, and a lot of people will repeat back to me and take it as face value something that they read on the Internet. And my line to them is you have to vet information. You have to test it the same way you do when you buy an automobile or when you go and buy a new flat-screen television. You read the Consumer Reports, you have an idea of what it's worth and what the lasting value of it is.