The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

In a column published in today's Politico, LCCR President and CEO Wade Henderson takes on the "shouting heads" in the media for stirring up faux controversies around Obama administration officials Mark Lloyd, Cass Sunstein, John Holdren, Carol Browner, and Van Jones.  Jones recently resigned from his position as special advisor for green jobs in the administration because of such controversies.

"In a more sensible world, these media firestorms would be doused by the cold water of common sense," Henderson said. "Far from being bomb throwers, Browner was the longest-serving Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Sunstein is a professor at Harvard Law School, Holdren has taught at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Lloyd was an attorney at a leading communications law firm and Jones authored a best-selling book about how to create high-skill, high-wage jobs in environmentally friendly industries."

Henderson also said that the media controversies have nothing to do with Obama's appointees, who are all distinguished public servants, and everything to do with Obama himself. 

"While his adversaries have every right to criticize his policies and offer alternatives of his own, the nation needs more constructive conservatives like the late Jack Kemp and fewer bombastic broadcasters like Glenn Beck," Henderson said.