'Solar Panels in the Hood' And Other Van Jones Scams

Around the same time the taxpayers were being milked in 2007, Anthony "Van" Jones was caught up in his personal conversion story from radical communist to a more benevolent career of organizing in the name of greenery. In this video from 2008, Jones contritely admits that eating green veggies at his meditation groups got him thinking about other things in life. He must have had a eureka moment: his former activist endeavors like PoliceWatch and INSwatch could never bring in the kind of green connected with the newest scam perpetrated on taxpayers--green jobs. Jones switched his focus from police brutality, prison reform, civil rights and immigration issues to "tofu."