[2ndDivisionVet]

It's like we live in a different universe from these people.

[Talisker]

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.

[unkus]

Yes, we are in a different world. Thank God.

[SolidWood]

Whacko? Nuts? They are talking about Van Jones, right?

[crazyhorse691]

Another pathetic defense of the indefensible.

[agere_contra]

Calling someone a communist these days doesn't even qualify as red-baiting

Obama explicitly seeks to bring 16% of the nations economy under the direct control, nay ownership of Government - but no, that's not communism.

[TigersEye]

It's like we live in a different universe from these people.

Yes. Reality matters in this universe.

[kik5150]

“in fact, there really aren’t a whole lot of communists left”

That’s because they now call themselves community organizers.

[BigCinBigD]

10.0, 10.0, 10.0, 10.0!

[Brugmansian]

And, um, self-avowed communist? Kimberly, that's so 50s.

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.

[kcvl]

Kristinn found this...

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...

[kcvl]

This should tell us all we need to know about the integrity and honesty of Tim Redmond.

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

Press Here

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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.

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[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Never knew that Kimberly Guilfoyle was married to mayor Gavin Newson. Strange bedfellows and all that.

[DainBramage]

"I know some communists and Van Jones is not a communist."

Uhmm..how people in the world know an actual communist? Its not like saying "I know a Methodist".

[ElayneJ]

“But what amazes me is how quickly people who aren’t typically considered wackos have bought into this “

Yes, foolish people - believing that Van Jones actually meant what he said and did what he was caught on tape doing. Don’t right-wingers know that they should only “buy into” what the San Fran elite tell us to believe?

[MNJohnnie]

Yeah, it really “weird” that we actually take Van Jones words seriously as opposed to this author’s mindless adoration of all things associated with 0.

[RoadKingSE]

In the 1980s, I used to see the Revolutionary Communist Party types at political events, but you hardly ever hear from them any more.

I'm sure this is likely what the enlightened Mr. Redmond sees at the political events he attends. I love your "Tim Redmond - Ace Reporter" hat. It's quite the ensemble dude.

[Scanian]

And the “Fox All-Stars” actually think that Zippy is going to axe someone who is that kind of icon to the left?

I really don’t think so! He’s already made the lefties mad enough by offering to compromise on Obamacare. He needs them and their money amd will not further alienate them.

[relictele]

It's actually not that radical a letter

Says a radical.

[Kimberly GG]

From the comments: ;)

“Rick H.:

Not being able to recognize van jones for the kook that he is more or less brands you as a kook yourself.”

[driftless2]

I remember back in the sixties when a number of leftist radicals were asked if they were simply commies. Of course they all denied it. As it turned out, a great many of them were actual communists. In short, they were communist liars.