The Van Jones Matter by Charles Krauthammer on National Review Online
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Having once written a column praising Vice President Cheney’s pithy deployment of the f-word — on the floor of the Senate, no less — I rise in defense of Jones. True, Jones’s particular choice of epithet had none of the one-syllable concision, the onomatopoeic suggestiveness, the explosive charm of Cheney’s. But you don’t fire a guy for style.
Another charge was that Jones is a self-proclaimed Communist. I can’t get too excited about this either. In today’s America, to be a Communist is a pose, not a conviction. After the Soviet collapse, Marxism is a relic, a pathetic anachronism reduced to its last redoubts: North Korea, Cuba, and the English departments of the more expensive American universities.
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