Posted on 09/04/2009 11:35:00 PM PDT by 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.
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Silence speaks volumes.
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.
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.
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”.
But HuffPo is still growing by leaps and bounds while Daily Kos rots away.
What is controversial about Jones from a Kos perspective? They agree with him.
Wow. Now that is a very telling stat. Encouraging, as well.
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.
that’t funny
True. I think HuffPo benefited from the rotting away of Dkos.
HAHA Roaches hate light.
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...
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
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
LOL How fitting.
Fars
I now have a warm and fuzzy feeling about that website
Sign up over there and start a Van Jones thread.
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