http://www.conceptualguerilla.com/?q=node/703Is Daily Kos a CIA operation to control the opposition?Outrageous? Not quite so much after you consider the fact that Markos Alberto Moulitsas Zúñiga, or Kos, worked for the CIA.
In an article that didn't surprise me at all entitled Daily Kos: CIA Engineered Controlled Opposition? , I find out that Kos was in the employ of the CIA.
“In a one-hour interview on June 2, 2006 at the Commonwealth Club, Moulitsas, also known as ‘Kos,’ admitted that he was a CIA employee and would have ‘no problem working for them’ in the present.”
“I applied to the CIA and I went all the way to the end, I mean it was to the point where I was going to sign papers to become Clandestine Services,” Moulitsas admits in the interview. “And it was at that point that the Howard Dean campaign took off and I had to make a decision whether I was gonna kinda join the Howard Dean campaign, that whole process, or was I was going to become a spy. (Laughter in the audience.) It was going to be a tough decision at first, but then the CIA insisted that if, if I joined that, they’d want me to do the first duty assignment in Washington, DC, and I hate Washington, DC. Six years in Washington, DC [inaudible] that makes the decision a lot easier.”
So he worked in the CIA right up until Deans campaign took off. His website, btw, had ALREADY taken off long before Deans campaign did. Meaning he set up the Daily Kos while he was with the CIA. I was there when Deans campaign got going and the Daily Kos was about as anti-Dean a crowd to run with as you could find. Markos didn't do much to support Dean on his website. Kinda strange if you ask me. Well, maybe not when you consider how the place has been run from day one.
Markos is an ex-Republican who professes to be a libertarian who set up his website to be a Democratic Party only website and who worked and possibly still does work for the CIA. What effect has the Daily Kos had on the political scene?
First off the site forbids any diaries that can be considered "conspiracy theory". A rather broad definition the effect of which is to shut down any talk of 9-11 and even other potentially explosive topics.
The site is about electing Democrats only. It's about maintaining the status quo. In 2004 that meant they were behind Kerry and Dean supporters were snubbed without mercy. It's Dems first, what the candidate stands for second. Is it any wonder, therefore, that people like Webb who got elected because of DKos support, then turn around and pass the new FISA bill? Progressives get spat on if they try to primary a centrist Democrat. The tide is turning against the DLC, but Daily Kos only hinders that tide with its Democrat first policy.
The other effect of the Daily Kos has already been touched upon here by none other than Conceptual Guerilla himself when he wrote Fuck Daily Kos!.
Here’s the bottom line -- the realization I had as a result of this. There is nothing particularly important or useful going on there -- other than assembling a group of leftwing lemmings, only distinguishable from the lemmings over at Little Green Footballs by the pitch of the dog whistle they respond to. There are “activists” exactly to the extent that they can be motivated by those dog whistles to “make noise” in response to the stimulus. Don't get me wrong, there are some original and interesting individuals around, but they mostly fail to connect with the community as a whole. Meanwhile, original and interesting writers at other places are dying out.
And that's the point, isn't it? The CIA wants to maintain the status quo. Elect Dems, just don't elect progressive ones. And while we're at it, let's direct all online progressive traffic into our little website here and make all the other websites that we don't control dry up.
Here's the thing, I don't think people get. The days of the "wide open" blogosphere are over. If you weren't on the ground floor 3 or 4 years ago, you missed the boat. Today, a half a dozen blogs dominate the market, and it's damn hard to write your way in. A lot of good writers out there have given up.
As for Kos, he's not helping. His site is a mini version of the same phenomenon. A handful of folks who got in early dominate that market, and he won't open up the place to allow some other talent to emerge. The result are a lot of writers over there who can't any traction, simply because they can't get any visibility.
Which is exactly the way the CIA wants it. Because if enough voices are drowned out, no one will realize they're being had on both ends, Democrat and Republican.
And it's no coincidence that Kos repeats the corporate talking points whenever possible. Not blatant ones, but ones that the left still buy into. Like how he reinforced the notion that Chaves gave himself dictatorial powers.
I have no love for Chavez. Despite his populist record, he's also given himself dictatorial powers usurping his nation's courts and legislature.
Nevermind, as I pointed out, that
ummm, about those "dictatorial powers"
It's their nations tradition to allow their president a period during which he has an incredible level of control. Chavez was given those same "dictatorial powers" by the government in his previous term as well. He didn't abuse them. They are temporary powers granted to every Venezuelan president. Why they do that I have no frickking clue, but no one claimed the capitalist presidents before him were "Dictatorial".
And let's not forget that he didn't "give himself" those powers, the congress did. As they've done before.
Tell me, does THIS sound like the talk of a liberal leaning libertarian?
Moulitsas considers the CIA “a very liberal institution,” never mind the agency, according to John Stockwell, former CIA Station Chief in Angola (see my John Stockwell: The Third World War video), is responsible for killing more than six million people.
This is a very liberal institution. And in a lot of ways, it really does attract people who want to make a better, you know, want to make the world a better place…. Of course, they’ve got their Dirty Ops and this and that, right but as an institution itself the CIA is really interested in stable world. That’s what they’re interested in. And stable worlds aren’t created by destabilizing regimes and creating wars…. I don’t think it’s a very partisan thing to want a stable world. And even if you’re protecting American interests, I mean that can get ugly at times, but generally speaking I think their hearts in the right place. As an organization their heart is in the right place. I’ve never had any problem with the CIA. I’d have no problem working for them.
An ex-Republican, left-leaning libertarian calls the CIA "liberal"? It's like finding that piece of the jigsaw puzzle that snaps into place and then everything else suddenly makes perfect sense. Of course DKOS is drying up the blogosphere of writers. Of course frontpagers like Miss Laura are defending Hillary Clinton with polls from Fox News. Of course they rip into anyone who says Nader was right about Dems and Repugs being identical. Of course they're Dem first, progressives, well, if you don't vote Dem you'll get a Repug. Beware the boogey Repug man! Of course they were all about Kerry and putting down Dean despite the fact that Kos alleges it was the Dean campaign that made him not join the CIA.
Yet if he HAD become a spy he wouldn't out himself would he?
Of course they want to control both sides, that's what they're all about.
http://www.thehollywoodliberal.com/2007/08/11/more-on-the-daily-kos-cia-connection/http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.comThe CIA Truth About Markos Moulitsas (DailyKos) Will Come Out
Cross-posted verbatim at Now Public.
Dear Anonymous:
What you're saying makes a lot of sense. The "mainstream media" won't touch Truth about Kos (TAK), except about lack of diversity in the whitosphere, which is a topic they can address. But, the press has a sometimes tacit and sometime explicit agreement with the Government not to "out" CIA agents, assets, trainees and programs until and unless they become public knowledge.. That's why you still see discussions of Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas Zúñiga (MAMZ) in the mainstream media, without them mentioning his contact with the CIA, even though he confessed in an audio interview to having been trained for two year by the CIA at the same time he was starting DailyKos.
Still, the mainstream media will not address the 24,500 hits for "Moulitsas" + "CIA" at Google. Normally, the press loves controversy with facts to back it up, but this in an exception with a reason.
As the US Congress outs these programs, then it will become possible for the press to talk about them, and then the Truth About Kos story might be told. The story of Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas Zúñiga will eventually told, and then WhitesRoots Nation will disappear as quickly as Co-Intel-Pro. Have you noticed that as the Congress begins to investigate "torture," the New York Times and Washington Post have begun to use the word "torture" and to abandon the Bush-years euphemism of "harsh treatment"?
However, MAMZ may still part of an ongoing program that the Government has perhaps no intention of stopping. In fact, without having read the details, the headlines say that President Obama is talking about a widened "cyber-security" effort. Who knows if that will include people like MAMZ or not?
Anyway, like Co-Intel-Pro, this story will eventually be told and become of common knowledge about the facts of this era. I spoke with the press about Iran-Contra a few years before it became front page news. I told them the Contras were funded by the US Government. They didn't want to touch it. I told them Israel was providing advanced helicopters to the military in Guatemala after the US Congress had forbidden that. They wouldn't publish my letters to the editor making that accusation. That eventually was widely acknowledged to be true.
The important thing is that with the Internet we can spread these stories far and wide long before the mainstream press is willing to touch them. In fact, the more we discuss them in the blogosphere, the more the media is compelled to discuss it in the mainstream media, if only because our "chatter" become major news. (Of course Government-sponsored chatter will always become major news much more quickly.)
Sometime probably paid online assets stalk those of us who tell the truth and try (mostly in vain) to discredit us or distract our audience from the facts. I would worry about them. I know I've been cyberstalked because the people who have done it have proudly admitted it. But you can leverage the attention they give you into more attention for the realities you're talking about, as you have seen in the comments at DailyKos and MyLeftWing.
One of the reasons that people have spread the news of Truth About Kos far and wide is that it's obvious to them that I'm not a Republican who would be stalking Kos. I'm coming at him from the left, and my record of leftist activism goes much further than the public advent of the Internet. It's much easier to believe that I am a leftist than it is to believe that Ronald Reagan-supporting, Henry Hyde activist, Salvadoran oligarchy, fake immigrant, two-years CIA-trained, virulently homophobic, Latino denying MAMZ could be a leftist. LOL
The idea that MAMZ could be a leftist is absolutely farcical, as if it were part of a script for that 1960's television series, Get Smart! In fact, MAMZ is a lot like Don Adams, when you think about it, not because he's funny but because he's laughable.
One thing I've learned about the American public, however, is that most people believe that whatever they read in a newpaper must be true, unless they are shown indubitable facts to the contrary. And the press has been telling the public that MAMZ is a "liberal" "leftist" while ignoring all of the copious facts above to the contrary. (This sort of coverage has slowed as the real facts about him have become known in great detail.) I believe the glowing storie have slowed because any "journalist" who presents MAMZ as a "leftist" now is headed for the sort of embarrassment that that female writer from the New York Times received for knowingly parroting Bush's lies about Iraq.
I encourage online journalists to ignore their stalkers, those intentionally stupid government employees, assets and agent provocateurs. Do your research and find someplace to print what you find, even if it's only at your own blog. I've learned that as much as many white people don't believe in Blacks, they can't resist the explosiveness of the Truth About Kos reality and they don't care about the skin color of the person whose research has revealed this reality.
I only get an average of 35 hits a day at Truth ABout Kos (TAK), but Kurt Nimmo gets many more hits on my information, as does The Hollywood Liberal and the at-least-six-dozen other blogs who have quoted The Truth About Kos. (See sidebar for partial list.) Sometimes people mention my name or my blog when they out MAMZ in the comments at other blogs, and sometimes they don't. Since I'm not motivated by money or even fame, I don't care as much about the hits I get at TAK; I care much more about the hits that "Moulitsas" + "CIA" get at Google, which is up to 24,500 so far, and many more if you search for Kos and CIA or DailyKos and CIA.
I continually challenge the media to discuss MAMZ and the whole TownHouse thing.
