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While you were out this Labor Day weekend, you might have missed Sunday's resignation of Van Jones, President Obama's "green jobs czar."

Plenty of commentators noticed and, two days later, they're still chattering about all the implications.

Most see it as an example of the White House caving in to pressure from conservatives or trying to eliminate distractions from the president's renewed push for health care reform.

For some, it marks Glenn Beck's ascendance to a leading role in the media opposition to the Obama administration. The Fox News host portrayed Jones as a radical and a Communist in a broader campaign attacking Obama advisers known as "czars."

News that Jones had used a crude epithet to describe Republicans and signed a petition suggesting the Bush administration was in on the 9/11 attacks added to his troubles.

Skip over this content In this episode of Czar Wars, Arianna Huffington is casting Jones -- her friend and former employee -- as Obi-Wan Kenobi. She says striking him down just makes him more powerful -- freeing him to be a stronger force in advancing progressive causes. So

Huffington thanks Beck for thrusting Jones into the spotlight, even if it was through a "vile and vicious smear campaign."

Beck has also thrust himself in the spotlight and nobody expects him to back away now. The Daily Beast and Politico are scoping out his next targets.They include regulatory adviser Cass Sunstein, FCC diversity chief Mark Lloyd and environmental adviser Carol Browner. One conservative blog added

Ron Bloom's name to the list just hours after President Obama introduced him as "manufacturing czar" on Labor Day.

Beck tipped his hand with a Twitter post urging his followers to send him dirt about Sunstein, Lloyd and Browner.

In response, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann is calling on his viewers to dig up everything they can about Beck. Crooks and Liars is already rolling out a history of Beck's controversial statements.

While conservatives complain the Jones story has been largely ignored by the "mainstream media," the flap has drawn lots of attention to Beck's show -- the target of an ad boycott launched by a group Jones co-founded. That's why one of the five lessons True/Slant's Michael Roston draws from the toppling of Obama's czar is this: Boycott or not, Fox News isn't going away.