Connecting the “media justice” dots

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 3, 2009 01:50 PM

I’ve been spotlighting various members of the speech-stifling “media justice” mob over the past few weeks (here and here).

They are Marxist-inspired activists seeking to crack down on conservative political speech under the guise of combating “hate” and crusading for “diversity.”

Remember:

“Social justice” = redistribution of wealth and economic “rights.”

“Media justice” = redistribution of speech and First Amendment rights.

Noel Sheppard digs deeper into the Center for Media Justice and finds some very familiar worms.

Putting the pieces together, an organization that Jones is on the board of founded the Youth Media Council which is now the Center for Media Justice. A representative of CMJ is the contact person for this new coalition looking to target Limbaugh, Beck, Dobbs, et al.

Coincidence?

Not likely, for a look at CMJ’s Facebook page revealed an interesting post on September 29 (emphasis added):

Tell Fox News to Stop the Witch Hunts! Join CMJ and Color of Change to stop Glenn Beck’s program!

As NewsBusters reported on August 12, Jones was a founding member of Color of Change, the group that started an online petition calling for advertisers to stop sponsoring Glenn Beck’s television program.

But this gets better, for CMJ’s Facebook post sent readers to its “Actions” page. There, readers can find a September 11 headline, “Tell Fox News to Stop the Witch Hunts!” The embedded link sent readers to — wait for it!!! — Color of Change’s Beck petition.

This was posted at CMJ’s website just five days after Jones was forced to resign as Obama’s green jobs czar.

Now, roughly seven weeks later, a new coalition has been created using the same phrase “Stop the Witch Hunt” for its name, and its contact person works for CMJ which was not only founded by an organization whose Board of Directors includes Jones, but also worked with Jones’s Color of Change to get advertisers to stop sponsoring Beck.

If you still think this is all just a coincidence, might I interest you in some swampland?

Know your enemy.

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  1. #1
    On November 3rd, 2009 at 1:56 pm, Craig said:

    The liberal media, the self-appointed, self-aggrandizing arbiters of the English language, all dialogue and national discourse.

    All rise…Judge John Q. Liberal presiding.

  2. #2
    On November 3rd, 2009 at 1:57 pm, Rob said:

    How did such people form? How did this nation sink to the level that slime like these socialist even exist? I saddens me. They MUST be stopped!

  3. #3
    On November 3rd, 2009 at 2:10 pm, tarpon said:

    Familiar worms … That has got to be the day’s classic.

    Anything with justice in the name think Marxist.

  4. #4
    On November 3rd, 2009 at 2:12 pm, Cogs said:

    We got your number dinosaur media!

  5. #5
    On November 3rd, 2009 at 2:17 pm, vinny said:

    i am more interested in how they get funded for this crap? they don’t seem to work for a living, nor are they associated with anyone who can hold down a job.

  6. #6
    On November 3rd, 2009 at 2:21 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    This was posted at CMJ’s website just five days after Jones was forced to resign as Obama’s green jobs czar.

    Jones was hung by his own words. It’s a “witch hunt” when you show video of Marxists speaking to a friendly crowd?

    Sunshine is the best disinfectant.
    More, Please!

  7. #7
    On November 3rd, 2009 at 2:23 pm, beenthere said:

    I’m so glad that Mr. Jones has found something resembling work and a steady paycheck. It’s a tough economy out there and the demand for communist-truthers isn’t as great as it used to be. I don’t know about you, but the thought of Mr. Jones being on unemployment, struggling to pay his bills just leaves me overcome with emotion. I mean even an Oprah gig doesn’t seem likely for now. Maybe a book contract with a big advance someday, but in the meantime this will do.

  8. #8
    On November 3rd, 2009 at 2:27 pm, Papa Louie said:

    Tell Fox News to Stop the Witch Hunts! Join CMJ and Color of Change to stop Glenn Beck’s program!

    If Glenn Beck was conducting a “witch hunt” on Van Jones, why did Jones resign? Beck had no power to fire Jones. The legacy media didn’t even report on Jones until after he resigned. And then it was mainly to report on how Fox was unfairly picking on Jones and Obama.

    All Beck did was expose Czar Jones for what he was. Jones then quickly scurried out of the light and back to the dark side to join Soros and Podesta at the Center for American Progress. Exposing roaches to the disinfectant of sunlight is not a witch hunt, it’s providing health care for the nation. I thought democrats were all for that.

  9. #9
    On November 3rd, 2009 at 2:40 pm, MTNEER said:

    The next administration is going to have to buy bleach by the barrel to disinfect the people’s house.

  10. #10
    On November 3rd, 2009 at 2:59 pm, battleaxe said:

    Time to bring back McCarthy.

  11. #11
    On November 3rd, 2009 at 3:01 pm, Truesoldier said:

    Tell Fox News to Stop the Witch Hunts! Join CMJ and Color of Change to stop Glenn Beck’s program!

    Talk about hypocrasy in action.

  12. #12
    On November 3rd, 2009 at 3:20 pm, maisy said:

    Why do these groups get funded…and NUMBERSUSA,ALIPAC, FAIR and groups like them have to beg for money from the citizenry. I would love for my tax money to go to Numbers and these others to protect this country from the invasion!

  13. #13
    On November 3rd, 2009 at 3:22 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    On November 3rd, 2009 at 2:59 pm, battleaxe said:

    Time to bring back McCarthy.

    Indeed.

    Drawing on primary sources—including never-before-published government records and FBI files, as well as recent research gleaned from Soviet archives and intercepted transmissions between Moscow spymasters and their agents in the United States—Evans presents irrefutable evidence of a relentless Communist drive to penetrate our government, influence its policies, and steal its secrets. Most shocking of all, he shows that U.S. officials supposedly guarding against this danger not only let it happen but actively covered up the penetration. All of this was precisely as Joe McCarthy contended.

  14. #14
    On November 3rd, 2009 at 3:31 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    On November 3rd, 2009 at 1:57 pm, Rob said:

    How did such people form? How did this nation sink to the level that slime like these socialist even exist?

    The answer to your question lies in what happened to the education system. We removed the Bible and allowed in people like Bill Ayers who infested the education system with Marxism.

    “The philosophy of the classroom in one generation will be the philosophy of the government in the next.”

    - President Abraham Lincoln

    The most important business in this Nation–or any other nation, for that matter-is raising and training children. If those children have the proper environment at home, and educationally, very, very few of them ever turn out wrong. I don’t think we put enough stress on the necessity of implanting in the child’s mind the moral code under which we live.

    The fundamental basis of this Nation’s law was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings which we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul. I don’t think we emphasize that enough these days.

    If we don’t have the proper fundamental moral background, we will finally wind up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the state.

    -President Harry S. Truman

  15. #15
    On November 3rd, 2009 at 3:35 pm, txvet2 said:

    If they don’t like witch hunts, maybe they should turn in their brooms and pointy hats.

  16. #16
    On November 3rd, 2009 at 3:52 pm, dan708 said:

    We have met the enemy and he is…cynical!

  17. #17
    On November 3rd, 2009 at 5:11 pm, cheapseat said:

    i dooo so love how these commies scream for peace, justice, freedom of speech, “what do we want…, when do we want it, now” right up until it is the other guys peace, justice and freedom of speech. then it’s “hate speech”. you can be a cracker, a honkie, a redneck, and blacks with sense enough to come in out of a hailstorm can be oreos, but …..

  18. #18
    On November 4th, 2009 at 12:33 pm, PhredE said:

    The speech which is most likely to offend is that which demands the most protection. The 1st Amendment says so.
    No one has a right NOT to be offended by things they might see, hear or read. Why can’t the wingnuts admit as much?

  19. #19
    On November 14th, 2009 at 1:49 am, dadinseattle said:

    The emotional hook of fighting “hate speak” is to draw in the easily duped to get them involved doing this-
    The source info on the stop the witch hunt( a proxy site) takes one to this Democrat site
    for fighting for key election fights for redistricting apportionment across the country.
    http://redistrictingfacts.com/

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