Talk about lunacy, this comment defends the Ayatollah regime.

Tell that to the people of Iran!

Van Jones on the Sherrod Debacle

Opinion | Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:15:37 am PDT

Obama’s former “green jobs” adviser Van Jones (another person who was forced to resign after a dishonest right wing smear campaign) has an op-ed in the New York Times about the zero-sum politics of personal destruction: Shirley Sherrod and Me.

UNDERSTAND how Shirley Sherrod, the Agriculture Department official who was forced to resign last week, must have felt.

Last year I, too, resigned from an administration job, after I uttered some ill-chosen words about the Republican Party and was accused — falsely — of signing my name to a petition being passed around by 9/11 conspiracy theorists. Partisan Web sites and pundits pounced, and I, too, saw my name go from obscurity to national infamy within hours.

Our situations aren’t exactly the same. Ms. Sherrod’s comments, in which she, a black woman, appeared to admit to racial discrimination against a white couple, were taken far out of context, while I truly did use a vulgarity.

But the way we were treated is strikingly similar, and it reveals a lot about the venal nature of Washington politics in the Internet era. In my case, the media rushed to judgment so quickly that I was never able to make clear that the group put my name on its Web site without my permission. The group finally admitted that it never had my signature, but by then it was too late.

Fortunately, Ms. Sherrod has been offered a new job. But our stories offer cautionary tales to anyone interested in taking a job in national politics.

The crazy smearing of Van Jones was one of several major breaking points between LGF and the entire rest of the right wing blogosphere; I refused to jump on this bandwagon, and did my best to point out that Jones was being railroaded — and received a deluge of hate mail and attacks from wingnut bloggers as a result. They were in full-out lynch mode and didn’t want to hear anything that might put a crimp in their hate buzz.

And it should be noted that the person behind this dishonest hatchet job on Van Jones, who Googled up Jones’s name on a 9/11 Truther petition (and then ignored all evidence that the signature was added without his knowledge) was none other than religious fanatic Jim Hoft.

This post is well up there in the ridiculousness department. So. Where doe the link take us? To a google search page for the search string:

Is Charles Johnson of LGF a secret Muslim?

Now “Charles” represents “him”self as one of great computer-fu. So it should be obvious to one of great computer-fu that that without putting quotes around the string, google will start matching snippets of the string. So it’s no surprise that that string gets 2,150,000 matches. The only problem is that only the top two of them are exact matches. So let’s do things a little differently, and put quotes around the string:

“Is Charles Johnson of LGF a secret Muslim?”

Now what do we get? Two pages. The first is a piece at Avideditor’s site. The second, third, and fourth point to the first. The fifth is this actual thread at LGF, and the rest either point to the first, or to the fifth. So no, Chuck. You’re not that important. The internet isn’t abuzz with rumors of your muslimitude.

The question is, do you know that, and are being disingenuous, or is your google-fu really that bad? Tell us. We’re dying to know which one it is.

As an almost ex-lizard, one of the regular memes at the Stalker Blog touts that The Diary of Daedelus and The Blogmocracy are filled with disgruntled posters who were banned, and that they are “butthurt” for it. I gather that most of the posters here and on The Blogmocracy were banned years ago for various reasons.

Since this is my first post here (thanks for the invite), let’s try this and see where it goes. Multiple answers are allowed.

Obviously this unscientific poll is open to readers of HotAir, Michelle Malkin, Atlas Shrugs, Ace of Spades, The Other McCain, and all other blogs that the Lizards disparage as “Stalkers,” including The Blogmocracy.