If there is one thing the last two years has shown us is that the American political class, which includes the likes of Van Jones and Bill Maher, is the perfect example of spineless grift and depravity.

Last night, Jones and the gin-soaked, D-list comedian Bill Maher, had their audience in stitches about dead children in Gaza. Jones was peddling a debunked, unhinged and idiotic far-right conspiracy theory that Iran and Qatar are behind the online “disinformation campaign” regarding Israel’s genocide in Gaza. He claimed young people are being brainwashed when they open their phones and see “Dead Gaza baby, dead Gaza baby, dead Gaza baby…”

Aside from his outright disdain for the younger generation, one that exposes him for the coward he is, Jones has no curiosity about how those babies actually died. Of course not. And neither does Bill Maher. I doubt either of them has seen even one photo or video of a dead baby or child in Gaza. To them, it is all a plot designed to divide and subvert the West by “foreign adversaries.”

The two were joined by the perpetually wrong Thomas Friedman and all three offered banal and debased excuses for why IDF soldiers had no choice in committing atrocities. They had to murder those Palestinian children (and completely destroy Gaza) because of October 7th.

Yup. That’s it. The IDF had no choice but to annihilate hundreds of thousands of people. The three would never dare talk about decades of Israel’s apartheid and ethnic cleansing that led to its climax in genocide. And they would never have an actual Palestinian at one of their fireside chats.

Jones realized how disgusting his commentary was in the morning and he quickly posted his regrets online:

“I made a comment on Real Time with Bill Maher about the war in Gaza that was insensitive and hurtful. I apologize. The suffering of the people of Gaza — especially the children — is not a punch line. I’m deeply sorry it came across that way. I’m praying and working for an immediate end to this war — and for peace and safety for every family caught in its path. I was trying to raise awareness about foreign adversaries creating chaos online – which is undermining democracy everywhere. But what I said was easily misunderstood.”

But Jones wasn’t “misunderstood.” He was seen for the genocidal apologist he is. A ghoul who believes its all just “politics.” One who soaks up his notoriety on a mountain of corpses.

If you know anything about me, you know what I think he can do with his “apology.”

Kenn Orfanos, October 2024