Posted on 09/05/2009 12:41:21 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Everything in San Francisco is “well setttled.”
Contrary thought there is, by definition, depraved.
Bt the standards of of peace and social justice, of course.
Yes, we are in a different world. Thank God.
At least we can confine the perversity in Ameica to that one centralized, concentrated, anything goes area, rather than have it diffused too much around the nation. It needs a fence around it, if you ask me.
Whacko? Nuts? They are talking about Van Jones, right?
It needs a fence around it, if you ask me.
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It can drop off into the Pacific Ocean for goodness sake.
so it’s okay to question the attack on 9/11, which we all watched on tv as it happened, but it’s racist to want to see Zero’s birth certificate and school records. What planet are we on?
Obama explicitly seeks to bring 16% of the nations economy under the direct control, nay ownership of Government - but no, that's not communism.
Yes. Reality matters in this universe.
“in fact, there really aren’t a whole lot of communists left”
That’s because they now call themselves community organizers.
Exactly. Different name, same ideology.
10.0, 10.0, 10.0, 10.0!
Yeah...brings up images of rifle butts smashing heads, barbed wire and minefields at borders, torture chambers and mass graves. Wonder why anyone would want to indentify themselves with that. And how anyone who supported that got in the White House.
Van Jones, Barack Obama's Green Jobs Czar, produced a record album entitled "WarTimes: Reports from the Opposition" a few years ago that was narrated by convicted cop killer Mumia Abu Jamal and featured a clip of an interview Jones did where he slammed the United States and Israel and proclaimed his stand with a "global struggle" against the United States...
The Daily Kos creeps got upset because Redmond said this in an article: "The fact that Kos, who is a professional political consultant, was on the Dean payroll for a while was hardly a secret". Then he apologized for it.
Tim Redmond (ponytail)
TIM REDMOND, editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. The Guardian says it has lost hundreds of thousands of dollars due to unfair competition for ads since the two competing alt-weekly chains merged. How can the little guy compete when the "alternative" press is corporate controlled?
Tim Redmond says he is a fan and supporter of the Daily Kos.
"Before the folks in the blogosphere go and savagely attack someone who is your friend and supporter --- and I am a friend and supporter"
The truth is, as I wrote, I like DailyKos. My entire piece was about defending Markos and the site. I am on your side.
Tim Redmond
Tredmond@sfbg.com
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Proof of Marcos Moulitsas' Involvement with the CIA After Forming Daily Kos
Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas says in fact he was speaking to the CIA up until 2003 about employment and long after he started Daily Kos in May of 2002.
He states that in 2001 "I was underemployed, between jobs so I applied to the CIA" and later in reference to ANOTHER POINT IN TIME ...he made a decision to work for Howad Dean instead of working for the CIA. That decesion could only have taken place in 2003. That is when he went to work for Howard Dean.
Moulitsas discloses to the Daily Kos community that he had decided to work for the Dean Campaign in June of 2003 http://www.dailykos....
In January 2003 he formed a political consulting partnership with Jerome Armstrong. Sometime later in 2003 he joined the Dean campaign.
Moulitsas says he talked to the CIA about his website. His website was begun in May of 2002.
By his own account, Marcos Moulitsas at least interviewed with the CIA AFTER he formed Daily Kos, not (only) before.
He says he went "all the way to the end". Does this mean he had compeleted training? If he started a 6 month interview process in 2001 it would have long ended by late June of 2003 when he made his decision to work for the Dean campaign.
He formed his partnership as a political consultant in January 2003 with Jerome Armstrong.
In January of 2003, Markos Moulitsas joined Jerome Armstrong in a political consulting partnership called Armstrong Zuniga, before being formally dissolved in December 2004. Howard Dean hired them for a time as technical consultants in 2003.
It would be interesting to know more about Jerome Armstrong ( he was indicted for securities fraud). He went to work for Dean after forming the partnership...so it must be at THAT point that he made the decision he discusses to work not for the CIA but for Howard Dean and that occurs in June 2003.
Therefore, according to his own statements, we can conclude that while Markos Moulitsas was proprietor of Daily Kos, he was also involved in at least discussions with the CIA for employment.
Wall Street Journal. The Journal’s lede: “Howard Dean’s presidential campaign hired two Internet political ‘bloggers’ as consultants so that they would say positive things about the former governor’s campaign in their online journals, according to a former high-profile Dean aide.” The “high-profile aide” is Zephyr Teachout, the former head of Internet outreach for Dean. Teachout earlier this week blogged on the subject of “Financially Interested Blogging.” She wrote, in part, “In this past election, at least a few prominent bloggers were paid as consultants by candidates and groups they regularly blogged about.”
Teachout named two prominent bloggers in particular: Jerome Armstrong of myDD.com and Markos Moulitsas Zuniga of Daily Kos. “On Dean’s campaign, we paid Markos and Jerome Armstrong as consultants, largely in order to ensure that they said positive things about Dean. We paid them over twice as much as we paid two staffers of similar backgrounds, and they had several other clients,” Teachout wrote. “While they ended up also providing useful advice, the initial reason for our outreach was explicitly to buy their airtime. To be very clear, they never committed to supporting Dean for the paymentbut it was very clearly, internally, our goal.” In the past, Teachout has also fingered Matthew Gross for writing about Erskine Bowles while Gross was on the candidate’s payroll.
The New York Times Magazine’s cover story on the liberal blogosphere discussed Moulitsas’ awkward place in “the established machinery of the Democratic Party” and noted that the Dean campaign “in fact employed Moulitsas for several months.” In April 2004, the Weekly Standard called him “a Democratic political consultant on the make.” In December 2003, USA Today noted that “some candidates have hired him as their Web consultant.” Despite all this, the Times Mag somehow convinced itself that Moulitsas was one of the “amateurs” on Dean’s “thrill ride.” NBA ballers get to play in the Olympics now, but calling Moulitsas an amateur shows how far the standards have fallen since the days of Jim Thorpe.
Moulitsas took money from other, undisclosed, political clients. And while he may have disclosedin 2003that he wouldn’t disclose them, that’s not good enough. DailyKos raised money for a dozen congressional candidates this past election. Which, if any, of them paid Moulitsas for the honor of directing his grassroots minions to part with their wallets? If you gave one of Moulitsas’ preferred candidates money, wouldn’t you like to know if Moulitsas’ endorsement was purchased?
Political campaigns and consultants are becoming increasingly skillful at manipulating the mainstream press by planting stories in the blogosphere.
Never knew that Kimberly Guilfoyle was married to mayor Gavin Newson. Strange bedfellows and all that.
Mary Matalin and James Carville?
One of the peculiarities of the female mind is that a woman can meet a man and think, “I can change him.”
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