Charles Johnson wrote this brief post a day ago in response to an essay on Booman Tribune and My Left Wing: Palestinian Enablers Hopping Mad at Kos
Pro-Palestinian activists are hopping mad at Booman Tribune – A Progressive Community, where the logo is a pathetic frog in handcuffs, too oppressed to hop.
And the target of their rage is Daily Kos, if you can believe that. Apparently, Kommandante Markos is a right-wing Zionazi after all (Charlie missed the same essay on My Left Wing.).
Charles Johnson, the well known and highly criticized antiArab, antiMuslim, and antiPalestinian racist owner of Little Green Footballs, finally ingratiated himself to become an advocate of Daily Kos. That change occurred when Daily Kos made the decision to follow Charles’ trajectory into right wing Zionism as the wisest and most profitable decision: getting the Palestinian advocates off his site.
Charlie, continually berated as an antiArab/Muslim/Palestinian bigot, wrote this, paraphrasing an essay about the pending censorship of a Palestinian peace activist, Sabbah, whose family was exiled during Israel’s ethnic cleansing of 1948.
Charlie went on to say,
Who knew?
The kind of censorship I am about to describe can only occur in America, sadly to say, in the freedom of speech capital of the world.
When Daily Kos, the largest left wing Democratic site on the internet, made a decision earlier this year to ban advocates of Palestinian freedom and self-determination, it did so at the behest of a cabal of right wing Zionists that monitor the site.
Administration even worked with this cabal to eventually purge over twenty bloggers, including Palestinians and Palestinian-Americans, Israeli and Jewish American peace activists, and a host of advocates for Palestinian human rights (see Is Daily Kos a “Zionist Occupied Zone?”, Two Peace Activists Banned From Daily Kos, Daily Kos Bans Two Palestinian Peace Activists, and Jewish American peace activist banned from Daily Kos) (see this essay for links to these essays: Will Facebook censor a Palestinian human rights activist? UPDATE).
A portion of the 20 or more bloggers banned from Daily Kos were also featured in this British cartoon:
Charles Johnson and LGF were undoubtedly approving of Kos’ actions. Most interesting to read were some of the comments from LGF racist hate mongers, who replied to Charlie’s post, and who saw an issue upon which the Daily Kos community could join the LGF crowd. Here’s just the first 20 of those comments and the last one. You will get their drift.
Sharmuta 11/17/07 5:46:27 pm reply quote report
When Daily Kos, the largest left wing Democratic site on the internet, made a decision earlier this year to ban advocates of Palestinian freedom and self-determination, it did so at the behest of a cabal of right wing Zionists that monitor the site
Hey- we’ve been called worse.#2 Don Miguel 11/17/07 5:46:48 pm reply quote report
I really liked that “advocates of Palestinian freedom and self-determination” line. LOL!
#3 Noam Sayin’ 11/17/07 5:48:30 pm reply quote report
Of course, the Kos/Rove Newsweek pairing seems to make a little more sense, now. Has Kos been a false flag operative all this time?
#4 song_and_dance_man 11/17/07 5:49:13 pm reply quote report
When does MarKOS start getting his checks. That’s what I want to know.
#5 juan 11/17/07 5:49:16 pm reply quote report
Whisper — Karl Rove.
Brilliant strategy, Karl.
Right Wing Conspiracy, of course.#6 Killgore Trout 11/17/07 5:51:34 pm reply quote report
I’ll give Kos credit on this one. Antisemitic rants and open support for terrorists used to be almost daily occurrences over there. They’re cleaned up there act pretty well.
#7 Dr. Shalit 11/17/07 5:51:42 pm reply quote report
re: #1 Sharmuta
When Daily Kos, the largest left wing Democratic site on the internet, made a decision earlier this year to ban advocates of Palestinian freedom and self-determination, it did so at the behest of a cabal of right wing Zionists that monitor the site
Hey- we’ve been called worse.“Sharm” –
Are they alleging that:
- Markos Has A BS Detector
- That it is turned ON
- That He USES it
HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, – SILLY Boychicks!
#8 rightwinger3 11/17/07 5:51:51 pm reply quote report
Are we talking about that ultraconservative reichwing site Daily Kos?
#9 Charles 11/17/07 5:52:41 pm reply quote report
“Shergald” was banned from LGF too, by the way.
#10 abu_garcia 11/17/07 5:54:09 pm reply quote report
Can you imagine what those freakazoids had to say to get the ban stick from Kos?
I’m not gonna look, but if someone does, please post it here.
#11 Charles 11/17/07 5:56:04 pm reply quote report
In fact, a lot of the people you see in that little illustration above have been featured at LGF, some as part of our “Protocols of the Daily Kos” series.
#12 jaunte 11/17/07 5:56:23 pm reply quote report
re: #1 Sharmuta
Cabal is one of those words that tells you to be on the lookout: ‘oppression’ “silencing of dissent” and “jackbooted” may soon make an appearance.Well, I was a little off: actually reading down to the bottom of the page yielded this gem, hyperventilating bolded:
A warning that your site has been falsely deemed an anti-semitic hate site gives food for thought here, and whether Sabbah will be guillotined by the right wing Zionists, who have stalked his site, remains to be seen.
#13 Kragar (proud to be kafir) 11/17/07 5:56:43 pm reply quote report
ROOOOOOOOOOVE!
/William Shatner mode#14 slartybartfast 11/17/07 5:57:12 pm reply quote report
…a cabal of right wing Zionists that monitor the site.
“monitor” = I’ve been dumpster diving.
BWHAHAHAHAHAHA!
(My check is late this month.)
#15 rightwinger3 11/17/07 5:57:52 pm reply quote report
where the logo is a pathetic frog in handcuffs
Lizard drinkin’ margaritas or frog in handcuffs, tough choice.#16 rightwinger3 11/17/07 5:59:18 pm reply quote report
re: #11 Charles
Charles, please tell me you’ve also banned them all.#17 gman 11/17/07 5:59:35 pm reply quote report
Some positive news from Daily Kos. I don’t agree with amost everything they do, but this is a step in the right direction.
#18 Canadian Guy 11/17/07 5:59:40 pm reply quote report
That post used the word “zionist” 12 times. Holy zionists, Batman!
#19 song_and_dance_man 11/17/07 6:00:16 pm reply quote report
MarKOS probably dumped these guys (gals) for cough respectability in light of his new gig.
Can’t have that baggage when he’s moving on up to the East side.
#20 Maine’s Michael 11/17/07 6:00:17 pm reply quote report
Anna Baltzer, Richard Silverstein – advocates of ‘Palestinian Freedom’ (to murder Jews)?
They obviously skipped ‘World Zionist Conspiracy 101’.
#21 Kragar (proud to be kafir) 11/17/07 6:00:36 pm reply quote report
advocates of Palestinian freedom and self-determination = Palis get to lie and shoot Israelis at will with no repercussions
Palestinians = trouble wherever they go.
There isn’t a government in the world that wants any of them. Even their muslim brothers don’t want them. Lebanon hates them. Syria kills them. Jordan doesn’t want them. Egypt wants them to go away.
#147 rorschach 11/18/07 9:48:06 am reply quote report
It’s a cryin’ shame when Jew-hating, child-murdering advocates aren’t free to proselytize.
Life is so unfair.
You have to appreciate the power of the Israel Lobby in its efforts to censor not only the American press but the blogosphere, where until now it was considered an avenue of truth and reality. Not any more. Daily Kos, a so-called “liberal” blog, the left wing of the Democratic party, made that clear not too long ago.
Sorry about this tipjar. Most of the kudos belong to Sabbah and the left wing advocates, like Eileen Fleming.
Keep up the publicity for the Palestian cause. That’s all I can recommend. Fuck Kos and all those like him who are in it for the money.
It makes it look like DKos took the initiative in this “rapproachment”. I think I speak for much of DKos when I say that most of us would rather eat raw earthworms than have any “rapproachment” with the Late German Fascists.
DKos users seem in general to favor the two-state solution. LGF favors a one-state solution in which that one state is Israel, as if you can draw Israel’s borders anywhere without having angry Arabs on the other side of them.
Dude, shiny side out.
Dude? Every time I hear this term I think that I must be talking to a young college student. No I don’t work on on a cow range and ride horses. Sorry. Nonetheless I will respond.
Every time I hear that right wing Zionists are for two states, I am almost ready to hear criticisms from them as to why the Palestinians should NOT have a state. Mostly it is theme and variations on “blame the Palestinians” because they could have had a state years ago. Yet, the reality is that Israel was NEVER interested in talking about peace. Check Jeff Halper’s article, The Problem With Israel, written by an Israeli professor who understands the right wing and even left wing abrogation of any Palestinian aspiration to freedom and independence. The so-called left wing party when under Peres did not subscribe to a Palestinian state in its political agenda. Just the opposite.
You do know of course that the Palestinian people have been living under a 40 year military occupation for the sole purpose of confiscating their lands, ultimately to attain the Greater Israel dream of an Israel from the Jordan River to the sea. What possible reason could they be confiscating, today, the Jordan Valley if that were not the case.
So this dude would say this to you. When right wing Zionists proclaim they are for a two state solution, if they do not mean a Bantustan state of Palestine, as Jimmy Carter predicted (see below, available at any bookstore), that mean no state. The Daily Kos Zionists are just slick in making such statements, then fighting like hell to keep out of sight any information about Israel’s behavior that contradicts it. They are disingenuous in this claim, obviously.
And if you don’t know how subtle Israeli propaganda can get, you have been taken in. That you repeated the nonsense about “two state” advocacy by right wing Zionists suggests that is the case.
Getting educated about this conflict requires more than just believing everything you read.
what’s wrong with hearing both sides of the issues, how does one think there will be Peace in the middle east unless there is communication of the good and bad from both sides???
If dkos would ban Armando, then nobody’s safe.
Just some reflections on what you said, and perhaps why the Armandos of the world get bumped.
Kos is first of all not representative of the Left Wing of the Democratic party. He is an entreprenuer at heart and a libertarian rather than a liberal-socialist, and he has even done essays on his position. It was not just when Hillary appeared to be taking the lead as the Democratic presidential candidate; it was earlier when it became evident that most of the Congress, Senators and Congresspersons, were beholden to, and/or feared, AIPAC, that Kos took the position that he had to provide a comfortable place for the DLC-AIPAC moderate crowd. That decision was made even though most members of Daily Kos were of the Left Wing persuasion. Several prominent Senators and Congresspersons were actively writing essays on Daily Kos and many achieved recommended status, meaning they were read by large numbers of blog members.
Back in 2006, a decision was made to scale down and eventually purge the antiZionist, proPalestinian bloggers, something that was intimated a few months before the 2006 elections, and executed several months after the elections, in anticipation of the presidential primaries.
What you had happening, therefore, was political maneuvering based on what scheme would maintain or even increase the sites visitor statistics, a correlate of advertising dollars. It was inevitable. Just as many Democrats fear AIPAC’s power, Kos would likewise fold out of fear of losing the site’s money making capability.
Everything else one can hypothesize seems to pale before the almighty dollar that drives the Daily Kos site.