So not only do we read today that “Winds turbines may hasten extinction of endangered vulture in Spain,” but it turns out that there was good reason, to the minds of some Spaniards, for their “vicious smear campaign” against the authors of the study exposing “green jobs” as a bit of a costly scam.

According to Spain’s El Mundo, courtesy of translation software and my own pidgen efforts at further clarification:

But Van Jones crashed against a wall short after becoming Obama´s environmental “court favorite” [valido in Spanish, like the El Duque de Lerma who was the valido of Phillip the III]. From Spain came the much-discussed/very controversial ‘report,’ written by Gabriel Calzada and entitled ‘Effects on public employment of renewable energy’, that found a tremendous echo in conservative media and dynamited/blasted Obama´s green job policy.

I hasten to add that Gabriel’s team did not bring about Jones’ demise – Jones did. But the climate in Spain in recent weeks has been one of renewing the attacks on Calzada, which this theory (by a writer who claims to have known and has indicated an admiration for Jones) is simply a part of.