Who laundered Van Jones?

progressing america ^ | 3/2/12 | progressingamerica

[Nachum]

I have in the past written generally about progressivism and people laundering, here. But instead of ideas and generalities with a few specifics, this time I will be more detailed.

So how do you take a revolutionary and shine them up like a bright shiny new car? How do you go from this:

A jeans wearing, unpolished, rugged revolutionary, to this:

Understanding how progressives use positions of power, authority, and "pure" non profits as a position to re-brand their own as palatable members of society is an extremely important thing to understand. This blog post could just as easily be written about Bill Ayers, or any number of other revolutionaries. But my focus is on Jones because of his high profile nature, as well as the 'newness' of all this.

So who laundered him? It's a process, not an event. Step by step, institution by institution, award by award. Let me count the ways:

As you have noticed(I really hope you read the above link, because STORM itself has some people laundering details in it's handbook) the Ella Baker Center is on this list. All they did was change the name from Bay Area "f--- them pigs" Cop Watch to something that sounded more respectable. But outside of the attempt to self-launder, you have Princeton University for one. I have written in the past about progressives' and their 'invisible governance' as well, people laundering and invisible governance are very much connected. Non profits, the media, academia, corporations, hollywood and many other sectors of life have become important parts of this progressive invisible governance, and all of which I will discuss more later.

[Nachum]

The list, Ping

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http://www.nachumlist.com/

[Nachum]

The Van Jones file I have compiled

http://www.nachumlist.com/vanjoneslaugh.htm

[Munz]

good stuff, thanks