I swear I posted my earlier comments on the advertiser boycott of Glenn Beck without realizing he'd exposed one of the founders already. While Beck didn't directly attack the boycott, he did spend much of his show focusing on Van Jones, the Green Jobs Czar (seriously, we have a green jobs czar), avowed Communist (I met all these young radical people of color -- I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of.' I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary. I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th. By August, I was a communist), and co-founder of Colorofchange.org. It is unclear if Beck was truly attacking Jones as part of a rebuttal of the Colorofchange.org boycott, especially given that it appears to have had no real impact as the 36 advertisers mostly never slotted time on his program according to the Los Angeles Times article.
That Van Jones quote (from when he was in jail) reminds me of something familiar:
"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist Professors and the structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. " Barack Obama, "Dreams From My Father", 1995.
I encourage anyone who is interested to read through this set of quotes.
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