There’s so much more, but just a line or two on the Professional Left’s heroes:
Glenn Greenwald (founding member of the ‘OMG! Obama is a Torturer!’ fan club): A Libertarian, a supporter of GOP/Libertarian 2012 candidate Gary Johnson (who wants to end child labor laws and thinks President Obama’s election signaled the end of racism in America), also works for the Cato Institute, which was co-founded by Charles Koch. Decided to become a ‘progressive’ – now a media star.
Jane Hamsher (Queen of the Firebaggers): Her CommonSense Media company works with Republicans in their efforts to defeat Democrats, and did online advertising for BP in the aftermath the Gulf oil disaster. Decided to become a ‘progressive’ – now a media star.
Arianna Huffington (Tiresome twat): Where do you start? A hardcore supporter of conservative causes such as Newt Gingrich’s ‘Republican Revolution’ and Bob Dole’s 1996 candidacy for president. Then decided to become a ‘progressive’ – now a media star.
Ed Shultz (Good grief): A former Republican, he admitted to being “far right” until the late 1990s, the ‘homeless’ often the target of his right-wing rage. Decided to become a ‘progressive’ – now a media star.
John Aravosis (King of Hysteria): Worked as a foreign policy adviser for corrupt Alaskan Republican senator Ted Stevens, who died in 2010. Aravosis, a leading gay rights campaigner and scathing opponent of President Obama’s record on gay rights, was a paid employee of Stevens when he voted for a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage and against a bill adding sexual orientation to the definition of hate crimes. Then decided to become a ‘progressive’ – now a media star.
Cenk Uygur (Yawn): A former Republican, and self-confessed Reagan fan, he admitted to voting for the first George Bush and …. Bob Dole. “I was so conservative judicially I went to Federalist Society meetings.” He dismissed President Obama’s Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which guaranteed equal pay for women, as “a minor bill”. Decided to become a ‘progressive’ – now a media star.
Markos Moulitsas (DK mogul!): A former member of the Republican Party. During the 1988 presidential election, he served as a Republican precinct captain and assisted with the re-election campaign of Illinois Congressman Henry Hyde – the same Henry Hyde who, as a member of the congressional panel investigating the Iran-Contra affair, vigorously defended the Reagan administration, and a number of the participants who had been accused of various crimes, particularly Oliver North. Later, Hyde argued that “the House had a constitutional and civic duty to impeach Bill Clinton”. Hyde voted in favor of the Marriage Protection Act of 2004, which attempted to prevent federal courts from ordering states to recognize same-sex marriages that are permitted by other states. Moulitsas then decided to become a ‘progressive’ – now a media star.
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