An interesting critique of the founder of the popular progressive blog, Daily Kos that accuses him of being a former CIA trainee and of having misrepresented his background. Markos C. A. Moulitsas Zúñiga, it seems, was born in the US, and comes from a rich Salvadorean family. In the past, he’s voted for Bush and Reagan.

Of course, being a libertarian, I’ve nothing against rich Salvadoreans, right-wingers, or Republicans.

But I do have a problem with false advertising. Like most official mouthpieces of the poor, the disenfranchised, immigrants, and non-whites, Kos is run by someone who fits none of those categories.  Outlets of this type seem to be set up mostly to “herd” people in certain directions and crowd out the voices of people who  actually are minorities, immigrants, or outside the main stream in other ways.

Actually, such revelations aren’t even necessary.  Just the tone of some of the bloggers at these big progressive sites is a dead give-away.

Fortunately, I’ve never had much of an opinion of the media – mainstream and even alternative – so I can’t say I’m really all that surprised.  I can count the people I think are completely honest in the major media on the fingers of my hands.

(I’m not counting bloggers who don’t claim they’re “journalists” and ” professional activists”; the amateurs are just fine..)

At some point, I’d like to tell the “whole, whole” story of the last three-four years. But I  think people might not be ready to hear it yet. And before I do it, I’d like to put a nice length of ocean between myself and some of the characters who will figure in that narrative…