Fox News Has A Van Jones Problem
By Cliff Kincaid
October 1, 2009
With good reason, the Fox News Channel (FNC) led by Glenn Beck spent many hours exploring the far-left radical views of White House official Van Jones. The scrutiny resulted in Jones being forced out. But officials and hosts of the cable channel clearly failed to "vet" Marc Lamont Hill, who is being presented to the FNC viewing audience on a regular basis as just "a Columbia University professor" with expertise on a wide range of domestic and foreign policy issues.
In fact, Hill, a self-described public intellectual, is an acknowledged expert on "hip-hop culture," a category defined as including break-dancing, rapping, graffiti writing, slang, and other such activities.
Much less well-known is Hill's record of involvement in "revolutionary" causes, including support for convicted cop-killer Assata Shakur, a member of the terrorist Black Liberation Army (BLA) now living as a fugitive from justice in Communist Cuba. David Horowitz's revelation of Hill's embrace of the terrorist apparently caught FNC officials by surprise.
But desperate to appear "fair and balanced," the popular cable news channel has already given Hill the special status of "Fox News contributor," making him one of the select few who are paid to appear regularly on several different FNC programs. Hill's performances on FNC have been featured on the air for several months now. But Hill will not discuss how much he is being paid to pontificate on issues far beyond his area of expertise, such as Obama's foreign policy on Iran.
On the other hand, Hill did reportedly give an interview to "Davey D's Hip Hop Corner," (web site)
where "he talked honestly about the types of mindsets many of his colleagues like Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity have when it comes to dealing with the Left" and praised Bill O'Reilly for not accepting some of the "outlandish claims" about President Obama.
In the same way that Van Jones was exposed originally by New Zealand blogger Trevor Loudon by using Internet search engines to look into his controversial background and writings, over the course of just a few days Accuracy in Media has been able to determine the following about Hill from public sources:
- He called the notorious anti-white, anti-Jewish Khallid Muhammad a "mentor, teacher, and revolutionary hero," and believes that the black racist died not from a brain aneurysm but was assassinated. Muhammad was so extreme that he was ousted from the Nation of Islam because of his hatred of Jews.
- He gave a lecture on "The Importance of Ideological Training in the New Millenium (sic)" at the Polymathematic University's "Political Education Program for the Poor Righteous Communist Party."
- He declared on a "MySpace" page that the people he'd like to meet personally include Assata Shakur, Louis Farrakhan, Fidel Castro, and Mumia Abu Jamal, another convicted cop-killer.
- He speaks on "The Importance of the Nation of Islam to Hip-Hop Culture" and says that he once belonged to something called the Ansaaru Allah Community, an Islamic sect with doctrines similar to the Nation of Islam that has been accused of being a religious cult.
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