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If you want some indication of the disarray that the "progressives" find themselves in, consider that disgraced broadcaster Dan Rather will be keynoting a September 23 event (web site) sponsored by The Nation magazine on "What Will Become of the News?" The Nation calls Rather "legendary," ignoring how he was put out to pasture by CBS News after he used fake documents in 2004 to smear then-President Bush. Tickets to hear and see Rather are $200 each.

Rather is a legend in his own mind―and apparently the minds of those left-wingers who appreciate his effort to defeat Bush's re-election bid and throw the election to Senator John Kerry. However, the effort backfired, thanks to conservative bloggers who exposed Rather's anti-Bush documents as fake. If liberals want to understand "What Will Become of the News?," they first have to understand what Rather & Company did to it. They seem ignorant.

Similarly, there are many "progressives" who pretend not to understand why Van Jones had to resign.

One is John Nichols, writing on The Nation website, who says that Jones' signature on a 9/11 truth statement is comparable to a Republican congressman speaking at a teabagger rally with controversial signs in the audience or a talk-show host agreeing with callers claiming Obama wasn't born in the U.S.

Liberal blogger Jane Hamsher is mystified as well by the Jones exit, saying she remembers only about a year ago going to a Campaign for America's Future conference and noticing how Jones "was being swarmed by all of the liberal institutional elite..." But now, "he's being thrown under the bus..." There are photos (web site) of Jones posing with such luminaries as Bono, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama.

On the left-wing website AlterNet, Adele Stan insists that Jones was done in by oil interests. A variation on this theme was offered by Harvey Wasserman on the Rag Blog website, who claims Jones was a victim of "King CONG," standing for coal, oil, nukes, and gas.

Don Hazen and Arianna Huffington, who, it turns out, once employed Jones, are trying to put a happy face on his ouster, saying that he'll do better on the outside of government than on the inside. Huffington, who acquired her wealth from her ex-husband, Michael Huffington, who turned out to be a secret homosexual, was one of those whose endorsements had been featured on the back of Jones' book. She's got egg all over her face.

(We still need to find out how a sister company of Fox News published the Jones book, The Green Collar Economy).

Nichols and Carl Davidson, also writing on the Rag Blog site, insist that "McCarthyism" did Jones in, which only serves to prove that the left finally understands that Senator Joseph McCarthy did go after real communists.

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