Podesta forgets that Democrats loved Jim Jones and the whole Peoples Temple/Jonestown thing.
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First Lady-to be Rosalynn Carter and her husband’s running mate Walter Mondale held private meetings with Jim Jones. California Gov. (then and now) Jerry Brown spoke at the Peoples Temple. California Lt. Gov. Mervyn Dymally thought Jones “one of the finest human beings” and a visit to his Guyanese colony left the Golden State’s highest-ranking African-American officeholder “tremendously impressed.” Radical lawyer Charles Garry, himself barely escaping Jonestown alive, had once exclaimed of it: “I have seen paradise.”
What effect did legitimizing the cult and its leader have on Jones’ sycophants in the Democratic Party, the press, and academia?
Willie Brown proclaimed that he believed Jim Jones was part Martin Luther King, part Albert Einstein, part Angela Davis, part Mao Zedong. “When somebody like Jim Jones comes on the scene,” Brown ironically gushed, “that absolutely scares the hell out of most everybody occupying positions of power in the system.” Liberals subsequently elected Brown as the longest-serving speaker of the California state assembly and then mayor of San Francisco for two terms.
Dianne Feinstein along with her colleagues on San Francisco’s board of supervisors awarded a “Certificate of Honor” to Jim Jones. Liberals subsequently elected Feinstein mayor of San Francisco and then U.S. Senator from California.
Angela Davis contributed to Jonestown’s paranoia by telephonically informing the inhabitants over the concentration camp’s loudspeakers that “there is a conspiracy — a very profound conspiracy designed to destroy the contributions which you have made to the struggle. And this is why I must tell you that we feel that we are under attack as well.”
Liberals subsequently awarded tenure to Davis at the University of California-Santa Cruz, bestowed upon her the UC system’s highest academic award, and paid her thousands to speak at Harvard, Stanford and Princeton.
San Francisco Chronicle writer Herb Caen maintained that Jones was “doing the work of the Lord” in South America and awarded him the cloak of victimhood by portraying him as the “target of a ceaseless media barrage.” Liberals subsequently awarded Caen a Pulitzer Prize in 1996 for his “extraordinary and continuing contribution as a voice and a conscience of his city,” proclaimed a “Herb Caen Day” in San Francisco, and ordered the city’s flags at half-mast when he died.
Harvey Milk lobbied President Jimmy Carter not to intervene in an international custody battle between Jones, “a man of the highest character,” and two former cultists whom Milk portrayed as blackmailers. He characterized the accusations that Jones had kidnapped a small boy from his parents as “bold-faced lies.” Carter didn’t intervene, and the 6-year-old whom Milk pleaded to be left with his kidnapper was murdered at Jonestown with more than 900 others. Liberals subsequently produced the hagiographic, Oscar-winning biopic Milk and established a California state holiday in the San Francisco city supervisor’s honor.
http://www.humanevents.com/2011/01/19/blood-liberals/
Maybe Milk had a different type of “interest” in the 6 year old boy.
The left lionized Jones like National Review lionized Nelson Mandela
Much more detail than I subsequently provided but same message!
Bingo. The democrats fell for Jim Jones hook, line and sinker. They own Jonestown; Podesto knows it, and so he projects.
Well, at least they killed themselves. Something I highly recommend to all Democrats.
I do have one good thing to say about Jonestown. I turned 21 after they all committed “suicide” and my birthday party was called “Guiana Party” because of the pure grain alcohol “killer punch” we made.
A good time was had by all and I was BMOC at the U of Ark for a few weeks.