Daily Kos Has Nothing About Van Jones Controversy. Kinda Funny, Eh?

Kossacks ^ | 9-4-09 | Joinedafterattack

[joinedafterattack]

Daily Kos has it head in the sand trying to ignore the Van Jones Controversy. I guess if they pretend there is no Van Jones Controversy then it will go away. Very funny.

[joinedafterattack]

Daily Kos has it head in the sand trying to ignore the Van Jones Controversy. I guess if they pretend there is no Van Jones Controversy then it will go away. Very funny.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Libs like when Jones says republicans are a**holes and lick their crack-pipes wanting a little bit more... just a little bit more.

[UCANSEE2]

Silence speaks volumes.

[Mojave]

Daily Kos is dying. It has lost over half it’s readership in the last year. A year ago it had 500,000 more visitors that FR, now it has 400,000 less.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Daily Kos is dying. It has lost over half it’s readership in the last year. A year ago it had 500,000 more visitors that FR, now it has 400,000 less.

It met it's stated purpose last year.

[kevao]

I guess if they pretend there is no Van Jones Controversy then it will go away.

And right they are. Jones will be gone by the end of next week, and the controversy (such as it is) will be gone.

We're going to hear about Bush/Cheney/Haliburton/No WMD/Abu Graib/Gitmo/waterboarding/CIA torture/etc., until the day we die.

But never again a peep about Van Jones after next week.

[Windflier]

The little kossaks would be the first to go, if Obama and his homies really got control of this country.

More and more, the useful idiots are finding out what hardened racists Obama and his ilk are.

Must take a LOT of dope and alcohol to drown out that knowledge and keep believing in “Change”.

[Mojave]

But HuffPo is still growing by leaps and bounds while Daily Kos rots away.

[donmeaker]

What is controversial about Jones from a Kos perspective? They agree with him.

[Windflier]

Daily Kos is dying. It has lost over half it’s readership in the last year. A year ago it had 500,000 more visitors than FR, now it has 400,000 less.

Wow. Now that is a very telling stat. Encouraging, as well.

[FARS]

Finally I cannot resist sharing this about Daily Kos:

The word “kos” in Persian/Farsi has exactly the same prejorative meaning as a woman’s private part referred to as “c*nt” when used in English so Daily Kos is Daily C*nt every time I see it mentioned and gives me a chuckle, which now you can have, too.

[joinedafterattack]

that’t funny

[BigSkyFreeper]

True. I think HuffPo benefited from the rotting away of Dkos.

[Danae]

HAHA Roaches hate light.

[PugetSoundSoldier]

Exactly right! The only controversy is that we neanderthal, knuckle dragging, mouth breathing, inbred conservatives don’t like his enlightened, wise positions.

There’s nothing wrong with Van Jones; there is something wrong with us! At least that’s how the Kos Kid will think...

[wita]

Perhaps why, but only perhaps.

If one goes to the following link you can participate in the poll found below... or not.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/9/5/777313/-Will-I-Be-Banned-for-Defending-Van-Jones

Will I Be Banned for Defending Van Jones?
by pragprogress
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Fri Sep 04, 2009 at 10:20:10 PM PDT

Recently, White House Green Jobs Czar Anthony “Van” Jones has come under fire from Glenn Beck and others for signing a 2004 911Truth.org petition calling for an inquiry into “evidence that suggests high-level government officials may have deliberately allowed the September 11th attacks to occur”.

This raises an obvious question for us here at Daily Kos: can we defend Van Jones without running afoul of the Daily Kos ban on 9/11 CT? Here’s the text of the ban from the FAQ:

DailyKos accepts that the 9/11 attacks were perpetrated by agents of Al-Qaeda. It is forbidden to write diaries that:

refer to claims that American, British, Israeli, or any government assisted in the attacks

refer to claims that the airplanes that crashed into the WTC and Pentagon were not the cause of the damage to those buildings or their subsequent collapse.

Authoring or recommending these diaries may result in banning from Daily Kos.

* pragprogress’s diary :: ::
*

Van Jones is IMHO the most exciting Obama Administration appointment so far, in terms of both the person himself, and the position to which he was appointed. He’s a committed and effective progressive activist, a great writer and speaker, and has his finger on the pulse of where things need to go. “Green Jobs” is also the imperative of the day — this is something that can provide hope to the tens of millions of people without jobs right now, address the global warming crisis and lay the foundation for a new economy based on energy efficiency and independence.

[edit: transcript of original statement deleted]

I’m not going to mount a defense for the statement here, but I think it should be at least an open question as to whether that statement is such an unforgivable sin that it can’t even be defended here at Daily Kos.

Can we consider at the least a temporary lifting on the 9/11 CT ban at least for the duration of this controversy? Should we reconsider the ban on CT now that we are keenly aware of just how far the right is willing to go to destroy a Democratic President?

Again, Van Jones is one of our brightest lights, and his position is so key right now — what could be more important than building a new green economy that can bring us good jobs, environmental healing, and energy independence. Shouldn’t we be able to give him a full-throated defense, no?
Poll

Van Jones
Valuable Part of the Obama Administration
47% 25 votes
Under the Bus He Goes . . .
53% 28 votes

| 53 votes

[4rcane]

they’re coming up with a defence and once they got their talking points ready, the media will start reporting on it using the material from kos

[TigersEye]

LOL How fitting.

[woofie]

Fars

I now have a warm and fuzzy feeling about that website

[saganite]

Sign up over there and start a Van Jones thread.

[ETL]

From David Horowitz's
FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org
PROFILE: VAN JONES

• Became a Communist in the aftermath of the 1992 "Rodney King riots" in Los Angeles
• Founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in 1996
• Was active in the anti-Iraq War demonstrations organized by International ANSWER
• Served as a board member of the Rainforest Action Network and Free Press
• In March 2009, President Barack Obama named Jones to be his so-called "Green Jobs Czar."

Born in 1968 in rural West Tennessee, Van Jones earned a B.A. degree from the University of Tennessee at Martin and then attended Yale Law School. During his years at Yale, Jones served as an intern with the San Francisco-based Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights (LCCR), which views the United States as an irredeemably racist nation and "champions the legal rights of people of color, poor people, immigrants and refugees, with a special commitment to African-Americans."

Jones says that he first became politically radicalized in the aftermath of the deadly April 1992 Los Angeles riots which erupted shortly after four L.A. police officers who had beaten the infamous Rodney King were exonerated in court. "I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th," says Jones, who is black, "and then the verdicts came down on April 29th. By August, I was a communist."

Jones was arrested during the L.A. riots and spent a short time in jail. "I met all these young radical people of color," he recalls, "I mean really radical: communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of.' I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary."

After earning his Juris Doctorate from Yale in 1993, Jones relocated to San Francisco, where he helped establish Bay Area PoliceWatch, a hotline and lawyer-referral service that began as a project of LCCR. In 1996 he founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, which, claiming that the American criminal-justice system is infested with racism, seeks to promote alternatives to incarceration. According to the Baker Center:

"Decades of disinvestment in our cities have led to despair and hopelessness. For poor communities and communities of color it's even worse, as excessive, racist policing and over-incarceration have left people even further behind."

By the late 1990s, Jones was a committed Marxist-Leninist-Maoist who viewed police officers as the arch-enemies of black people, and who loathed capitalism for allegedly exploiting nonwhite minorities worldwide. He became a leading member of Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM), a now-defunct Bay Area Marxist-Maoist collective that was staffed by members of various local nonprofits, a number of whom had ties to the Ella Baker Center.

In the early 2000s, Jones and STORM were active in the anti-Iraq War demonstrations organized by International ANSWER, a front group for the Marxist-Leninist Workers World Party. STORM also had ties to the South African Communist Party and it revered Amilcar Cabral, the late Marxist revolutionary leader (of Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands) who lauded Lenin as "the greatest champion of the national liberation of the peoples." (In 2006 Van Jones would name his own newborn son "Cabral" -- in Amilcar Cabral's honor.)

During his tenure with STORM, Jones collaborated on numerous projects (including antiwar demonstrations) with local activist Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez, who served as a "mentor" for members of the Ella Baker Center. Martinez was a longtime Maoist who went on to join the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS), a Communist Party USA splinter group, in the early 1990s. To this day, Martinez continues to sit on the CCDS advisory board alongside such luminaries as Angela Davis, Timuel Black (who served on Barack Obama's 2004 Senate campaign committee), and musician Pete Seeger. Martinez is also a board member of the Movement for a Democratic Society, the parent organization of Progressives for Obama. Martinez and Van Jones together attended a "Challenging White Supremacy" workshop which advanced the theme that "all too often, the unconscious racism of white activists stands in the way of any effective, worthwhile collaboration" with blacks.

In 2005 Jones and the Ella Baker Center produced the "Social Equity Track" for the United Nations' World Environment Day celebration, a project that eventually would evolve into the Baker Center's Green-Collar Jobs Campaign -- "a job-training and employment pipeline providing 'green pathways out of poverty' for low-income adults in Oakland."

Soon after attending the Clinton Global Initiative in September 2007, Jones launched "Green For All," a non-governmental organization "dedicated to building an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty … advocating for local, state and federal commitment to job creation, job training, and entrepreneurial opportunities in the emerging green economy - especially for people from disadvantaged communities."

In 2008 Jones published his first book, The Green Collar Economy, which focused on environmental and economic issues. The book received favorable reviews from such notables as Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi, Laurie David, Winona LaDuke, environmentalist Paul Hawken, and NAACP President/CEO Ben Jealous.

Jones has served as a board member of numerous environmental and nonprofit organizations, including the Rainforest Action Network; Free Press; Bioneers (which accepts the United Nations Millennium Ecosystem Report's warning that "[h]uman activity is putting such strain on the natural functions of Earth that the ability of the planet's ecosystems to sustain future generations can no longer be taken for granted"); the National Apollo Alliance (which seeks "to catalyze a clean energy revolution that will put millions of Americans to work in a new generation of high-quality, green-collar jobs"); the Social Venture Network (which aims "to build a just economy and sustainable planet"); and Julia Butterfly Hill's "Circle of Life" environmental foundation.

Jones was also a Senior Fellow with the Center for American Progress and a Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences.

In March 2009, President Barack Obama named Jones to be his so-called "Green Jobs Czar." Jones' formal title is "Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation" for the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

In a July 2009 interview with Newsweek magazine, Jones said he could not explain exactly what a "green job" is:

"Well, we still don't have a unified definition, and that's not unusual in a democracy. It takes a while for all the states and the federal government to come to some agreement. But the Department of Labor is working on it very diligently. Fundamentally, it's getting there, but we haven't crossed the finish line yet."

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2406

[Sparko]

Seeing as how men and women frequent ‘kos’, I’d prefer to think of kos as some word from a previously undiscovered unexpurgated Dictionary of Borg Speak meaning smegma, as in the Daily Kos.

[SunkenCiv]

Heh... thanks FARS! Good to know.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

RE: "What is controversial about Jones from a Kos perspective? They agree with him."

That's correct!

The 1960s Marxist-Alinsky hippie street rabble and their ideological issue (children)-cum-Rat Party (formerly the traditional, patriotic Democratic Party) do not understand why there is a fuss about Jones' statements. It's the people who are against "the struggle" to "fix" America that's the problem.

(That ain't name calling. The Sixties Marxist-Alinsky hippie street rabble really have taken over the traditional, patriotic Democratic Party. Under the hail of "neo-con" taunts many Democrats fled the Party.)

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Jones "Became a Communist in the aftermath of the 1992 "Rodney King riots" in Los Angeles"

So Jones is a CNN baby?

[stephenjohnbanker]

Well, at least they know what they are : )

[SuzyQue]

This isn’t a controversy for them. Van is just a “guy-next-door” type for the Kos kids. It’s those mean, rancorous conservatives who are trying to make it a controversy and smear the reputation of a good man. Or, something along those lines.

[null and void]

Kewl. Now I know more that zip about Farsi...

[sweetiepiezer]

Maybe they do not know of him.

Total words about the Van Jones controversy in the New York Times: 0.

Total words about the Van Jones controversy in the Washington Post: 0.

Total words about the Van Jones controversy on NBC Nightly News: 0.

Total words about the Van Jones controversy on ABC World News: 0.

Total words about the Van Jones controversy on CBS Evening News: 0.

[melancholy]

>>>>so Daily Kos is Daily C*nt every time I see it mentioned and gives me a chuckle, which now you can have, too.<<<<<<<<<

Yep, me too, and it’s not only in Persian/Farsi!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/1966220/posts?page=36#36

[melancholy]

The MSM is a exercising is in a “Ban”-Jones-news mode. Maybe like Spanish speakers who sometimes mix up the letters “b” & v” in English.

[melancholy]

Correction:

The MSM is a exercising is in -—> The MSM is in a

Boy, more coffee required.

[BradyLS]

Down the Memory Hole!