It’s official. Charles “Icarus” Johnson is now a Progressive Collaborator. I have been documenting the Leftist attitude of this paranoid Conspiracy monger since May 2008. Many of you at the time thought I was exaggerating and smearing him. As time when on, the Netizens realized I was correct in my analysis that he was a Leftist. Voting with your collective feet, you assembled here and helped make this a great community. Many of you have taken me to task when my opinion was in error, for that I am grateful and hope you all continue to help me improve as a blogger.
Let us look at his lies and rebut them one by one.
1. Support for fascists, both in America (see: Pat Buchanan, Robert Stacy McCain, etc.) and in Europe (see: Vlaams Belang, BNP, SIOE, Pat Buchanan, etc.)
Fascism is a Progressive Ideology that conflicts with the Right’s individualism. RS McCain is a proud Southerner, not a Fascist. Pat Buchanan is reviled by most of the right and I have taken him to task plenty. As for the European Parties he mentioned, they are all not the same and they are around because of Islamic Imperialism and Colonialism. America is my concern, not Europe.
2. Support for bigotry, hatred, and white supremacism (see: Pat Buchanan, Ann Coulter, Robert Stacy McCain, Lew Rockwell, etc.)
Icarus is the pot calling the kettle black here. He is openly bigoted towards Christians, especially Catholics and Evangelicals. He has no right to even accuse others, when he himself is a bigot. RS McCain is NOT a White Supremacist, he is proud of his Southern heritage as I am proud of my Latin Heritage. Ann Coulter a racist? You have got to be kidding me, she has never espoused White Supremacist views.
3. Support for throwing women back into the DarkAges, and general religious fanaticism (see: Operation Rescue, anti-abortion groups, James Dobson, Pat Robertson, Tony Perkins, the entire religious right, etc.)
No Charles, that would be your side that wants to impose a Neo-Feudal dark age. It’s the collaborationist’s who support the Imperialist cause which oppresses women in their Empire. You are enabling their colonization, so you are the one who hates women’s rights. Abortion is not real women rights, equality under the law is!
4. Support for anti-science bad craziness (see: creationism, climate changedenialism, Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, James Inhofe, etc.)
It’s your side that is anti-Science. The Progressives are manipulating data for a political agenda. Does Climategate ring a bell? Of course not because you are in denial. As for Evolution, Creationism and Intelligent design, who cares! Evolution has not been proven nor has creationism!
5. Support for homophobic bigotry (see: Sarah Palin, Dobson, the entire religious right, etc.)
Give any examples of bigotry towards homosexuals? No of course not. Icarus will bring up gay marriage. That is not a right and people oppose it on cultural grounds, not because of hatred of gays! What people do behind close doors isn’t any of my business. The law protects all equally and that’s that!
6. Support for anti-government lunacy (see: tea parties, militias, Fox News, Glenn Beck, etc.)
So the Founding Fathers were lunatics? They were against the tyrannical British Colonial government of their time. We have a Totalitarian regime in power in Washington, DC now. We are not supposed to resist it and protect our rights? Clearly by his logic he is admitting he is a Fascist. We have a right to oppose tyranny in this nation and I will continue to do so. Charles really wants to throw us in labor camps it seems.
7. Support for conspiracy theoriesand hate speech (see: Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Birthers, creationists, climate deniers, etc.)
This is a joke! Charles was claiming that Multinational Corporations and the Tobacco Industry are behind the opposition to the Global Warming Hoax. As we have noted here, many corporations are supporting the AGW hoax. Icarus, you are no one to accuse others of conspiracy theories since you make them up everyday. Also Glenn beck is speaking facts and has exposed many of Obama’s advisors as Marxists. Too bad Beck damaged your idol Obama, so go cry in the corner Nancy.
8. A right-wing blogosphere that is almost universally dominated by raging hate speech (see: Hot Air, Free Republic, Ace of Spades, etc.)
Your blog is very hateful of Christians so you are no one to speak. Think Progress, Daily Kos and Talking Points Memo are way more hateful than anything coming from the Right. Remember, it was the Left that started calling Bush Hitler and using the term NeoCon to insult Conservative Jews. Look in the mirror Charles and you will see hate.
9. Anti-Islamic bigotry that goes far beyond simply criticizing radical Islam, into support for fascism, violence, and genocide (see: Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, etc.)
So resistance to Islamic Imperialism is bigotry. What is your solution Charles? You have none because you are a collaborator. Resistance is not bigotry, it’s about preserving our Nation and Civilization. If you don’t like it, go move to a Dhimmi nation.
10. Hatred for President Obama that goes far beyond simply criticizing his policies, into racism, hate speech, and bizarre conspiracy theories (see: witch doctor pictures, tea parties, Birthers, Michelle Malkin, Fox News, World Net Daily, Newsmax, and every other right wing source)
So we are supposed to blindly follow Obama? I say hell no. He is a Totalitarian Progressive Tyrant who doesn’t respect this nation. He is seeking to establish a Neo-Feudal system and we have every right to resist. If you don’t like the system this country has, which allows dissent, leave!
The American right wing has gone off the rails, into the bushes, and off the cliff.
The only one off the rails is Charles “Icarus” Johnson. Hi bigotry, collaborationist attitude and conspiracy mongering is in plain site. This blog and it’s Netizens have been vindicated by his actions. You dislike dissent and want an authoritarian regime in this Nation.
Well Charles, you can go to Venezuela. Rumor has it that Chavez needs a guitarist for his singing sessions. I’m sure you and him will get along just fine, tyrants always do!
Update: Andrew Sullivan is now praising Charles in his latest post. Charles is now officially allied with a hater of Israel. Nice friends you have there Charles, I knew you would turn on Israel and your actions of joining the side of Sullivan speaks volumes.
Update II/Roundup:
Charles Johnson Parts Ways With Reality
The Right’s Present To The Left- Charles Johnson
More Ethics From Charles Johnson…
Charles Johnson Explains The Crazy Hating
Charles Johnson Explains Himself
Say it isn’t so: Charles Johnson trivializes the Holocaust
(thanks to refugee000 for the links ^ )
A major defection in the conservative blogosphere (thanks to sprite)
Obligatory: Charles Johnson Makes it Official
You’readouch you’readouche Can You Do the Fandango [Updated by Rusty]
Driver of Crazy Train Comes Clean
Libelblogger Charles Johnson: Why I Parted Ways with Sanity and Truth-Telling
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Douche nozzle!
Perfect work, Rodan.
Good going.
@ savage:
I put in the final stake through his heart. He’s done and I’m done posting on him. I said it before but I mean it. He has no comeback from this.
WooT,well done Rodan!
I am a bit offended that the “stalker blog” was not mentioned in his screed.
cj is doing this to get revenue up and to feed his mental illnesses.
its a revenue enhancement nonversion
@ coldwarrior:
You see how I nail him point by point. I demolished his propaganda.
coldwarrior wrote:
@ Rodan:
it is a fine deconstruction of his ‘flounce’
As I’ve already said on the subject those who hang out with the enemies of Mankind shouldn’t be surprised that they are hanged with the enemies of Mankind.
http://newresister.blogspot.com/2009/10/rant-of-day.html
Good analysis, Rodan.
Whew, what a relief! Thank heaven the Left has him now. Let them all know we won’t take the Johnson back for any reason.
@ vagabond trader:
You noticed that too? I thought we’d top the list on that one!
Re-posting from lower thread so the people who say they don’t read this blog don’t miss it.
Re. the sensitive ponytail man’s manifesto:
If anyone can’t see that post for the attention seeking, hit seeking, money seeking ploy that it is then they are just plain stupid.
I tried to read the comments and gave up after hearing that Goldwater Conservatism is dead ad nauseum.
#9 is my favorite:
“So resistance to Islamic Imperialism is bigotry. What is your solution Charles? You have none because you are a Collaborator. Resistance is not bigotry, it’s about preserving our Nation and Civilization. You don’t like it, go move to a Dhimmi nation.”
vagabond trader wrote:
it was mentioned quite a bit in the 1.0 comments last night. who is stalking whom?
vagabond trader wrote:
His lack of mention is for obvious reason. Us in toto.
By that I mean, Foster is reluctant to mention us on the grounds that this is a gathering place for his rejected, and as a blog that is up and coming, perceives us a threat. And why? Because we know him better than others in the blogosphere.
Rodan, you need to go through your entry and fix the many typos.
I don’t think that was a “flounce”, its more like a “flatulence.”
I don’t know what that switch is but crazy is as crazy does. Sure makes you wonder what neuron fires off in the brain to make the crazy train go…BLAAHRHHZAHGHHH…and go screaming to the left like that. Ah well.
Good deconstruct on the crazy train.
@ song_and_dance_man:
there are a lot of typos…
3. Support for throwing women back into the DarkAges, and general religious fanaticism (see: Operation Rescue, anti-abortion groups, James Dobson, Pat Robertson, Tony Perkins, the entire religious right, etc.)
Yeah, Laura Bush was so crazy bad that she made sending little Afghan girls to school a priority.
vagabond trader wrote:
Yeah, VT, what ails him? I should have thought we’d be in one of his “bad crazy” (bad crazy? what’s with his baby-talk, anyhow?)categories, right up there with AoS, or HotAir. He probably figured (correctly, for a change) that we’d be delighted.
@ Rodan:
You want to start the Rodan and Savage radio show? I think that would be a lot of fun and it will get me out of the trucking biz.
@ song_and_dance_man:
What typos?
I am now convinced that Mr. Sensitive Ponytail Man would not allow abortion to be discussed because he knew he would lose many readers over his views on the topic.
@ savage:
I’m all for it!
Just reading through the threads there now, it really is like North Korea, with “deleted” being a common theme, constantly showing up when scrolling down the page. I find it pretty damn hilarious.
It is no coincidence that the disgusting move towards the fascist left has also brought with it a far greater level of censorship. The two go hand in hand.
@ loppyd:
Yes, without a doubt. What a bitch she was for doing that. He is such a tool.
Gypsy wrote:
bad crazy is prolly a reference to hunter s thompson’s ‘bad craziness’ quotes
I want to particularly draw attention to CiJ’s reaction to all of this. Carl has been reticent to say anything negative about Queeg up to this point, but he couldn’t ignore the obscene way that he abuses the word “denier”.
Thank you, Carl. It had to be said.
repost from the back thread with a slight edit.
The drama queen desires attention. It would have sufficed had he only touted what he really believed two years ago and posted his Contract with the Left then. We all would have left in one big ‘Flounce’ and saved him many cut and paste entries to smoke out the detractors for banishment.
It is very pleasing to know I was shown the 1.0 back door before the Madman jumped the shark completely.
Islam was created as part of a criminal enterprise, and to this day it essentially remains a racket. Furthermore Islam denies the validity of all real laws, including the United States Constitution.
On what grounds can Islam claim protected status under the very First Amendment that it denies? I simply don’t see any.
@ coldwarrior:
Where? I just fixed some.
Point them out so I can fix them.
Formercorpsman wrote:
And how DARE those Christian missions bring food and medical supplies to the sick and starving in poor countries across the globe?
@ Rodan:
Let’s do a conference call and get this started. It could be doable.
@ Mashiki:
CJ is the third instance of someone that I know or was acquainted with going off and becoming part of the problem of statism.
bbl…i needz cheezburger!
@ loppyd:
I agree. I always suspected he was far to the Left on that issue. who knew Gay Marriage was a big bugaboo for him? Only Andrew Sullivan cares that much about gay marriage and he’s..wait a minute…
Rodan wrote:
Well not many, but rather two.
As for the European Parties you have mentioned, they are all njot teh same
loppyd wrote:
And Bush gave more aid to Africa than ANYBODY before him.
What has 0bummer done for black people in Africa? He doesn’t even help his half-brother in Africa who lives in complete poverty. Actually, what has 0bummer done for black people anywhere? Black people are the group that has been hardest hit by his presidency so far, with massive unemployment figures.
coldwarrior wrote:
Yum. I know have lunch envy as I stare at my half-eaten salad.
Yea . . . what he said.
Good job, and I’m not just saying that to kiss some blogger’s ass.
(lol)
@ Rodan:
i think you got the two or three i saw
See what lack of protein does to me?
I now have lunch envy. Not know.
Duuuh
loppyd wrote:
I see this exactly the same way. Every note he posted about the tweeter hits of his blog post, my instant reaction was “Attention Whore”. It’s so obvious it’s downright laughable.
Mad Mullah wrote:
Sssshhhh. Nobody is supposed to know that.
@ loppyd:
i’ve been hitting the weights…must have protein.
bbl
i am has cheezburger soon
@ loppyd:
It is sick how these illiberal types pretend that murdering babies is the height of morality. Even female babies.
Yes illiberals are as amoral as one can get. Pond scum.
@ coloratura:
KOS hearts him now, cuz he like, re-tweeted the post.
@ coldwarrior:
Yes I fixed them! Thanks!
@ loppyd:
The interesting thing about all of this, is that most folks I mingle with of the political “right” mindset most of the time will at least deduce their opinion after debate, & discussion.
The irony of him taking a swipe at the “entire religious right” but then pointing the finger at the very same people he claims to have ODS.
When you consider it, he has such a thin skin. He is the grand wizard of of hypocrisy.
@ snork:
I would never deny that climate change happens. But I would have to point out that it occurs as the results of ongoing natural processes and has never require human initiation.
Climate change happened before the appearance of Humanity and will continue long after we have moved on into the universe.
coldwarrior wrote:
Enjoy, Mr. Muscles.
What will Sharmuta and IrishRose gonna do now?
Well this looks like a thread that will draw attention so I will go into pimp mode:
OT
UPDATE:The 2009 Weblog Awards Update
We are in the running at The 2009 Weblog Awards
The nominations have been closed for the categories we have been nominated in.
Best Blog – 7 nominations – vote 76
The first nomination is the one that counts. So far we are in second place. The blog in first place has 233 votes. But if one wanders over to the blog, there is no thread with over 30 posts. BS on this tally.
Best New Blog – 11 nominations –vote 79.
First place with no one even close.
Best New Political Blog – 6 nominations – vote 73
Second place. Again, behind a very small blog with way too many votes.
Best Online Community – 6 nominations– vote 58.
Third place.
Best Conservative Blog–11 nominations– vote 85
First place with no one close.
Best Political Blog–1 nomination– vote 35.
We are still in second place, moving past third place Ace of Spades with 5 votes.
We are getting votes daily and picked up 25 since yesterday. And. in these 6 categories we are either 1st, 2nd or 3rd. Way to go Netizens.
If you have not voted for us yet, please do. And make sure the first nomination is voted on.
@ bar:
But they have no problem with their Islamic allies killing women and children!
@ snork:
Andrew Sullivan is an anti-Semite. Charles is now associaliting with a Jew hater. Using his logic, Charles hates jews!
@ bar:
To the Leftist there is nothing wrong with aborting a child with a birth defect. Look at how they went after Trig palin. And to the chinese being female is a birth defect. So sex-selective abortions are just aborting
babiesfetuses with birth defects and that is good.That really is the way they think. Revolting, isn’t it?
loppyd wrote:
Goldwater? I voted for Goldwater (my first vote)! How DARE they?!!! Believe me, not one of those LGF noseboogers, including Charles, even read “The Conscience of a Conservative.” If they did, that batch of off-the-assembly-line Trotskyites would be calling themselves a “Goldwater Conservative.” Goldwater did have his issues with the religious right, particularly Rev. Jerry Falwell, but believe me, he’d be supporting this man-made global warming crap, Socialized medicine, or any of the other 1960′s campus commie baloney Obama is trying to foist on us.
They are bragging about traffic being up. You’re an internet freak show loozards, as in a Fellini movie, get it?
@ Gypsy:
OOOOPS! 3rd sentence should read: “if they did, none of that batch …”
@ Gypsy:
Lunacy abounds.
@ vagabond trader:
I thought their trafic never went down.
@ savage:
Rumor has it that IR announced she is soon to be wed. To the Swede with the BIG…..wallet, I presume.
@ loppyd:
Because we’d both rather have KFC.
A careful look at Mr. Johnson’s case against Robert Stacy McCain reveals that his evidence for calling him a racist rests on a a statement that some people feel a “natural” antipathy to marrying someone of a different race.
One may argue whether this antipathy is “natural” or “cultural”, but it is certainly the case that a great many groups prefer in-group marriage.
Mr. Johnson will never modify his guilt-by-association prejudices. He relies on the smear in lieu of analysis.
Rodan, your arguments against Mr. Johnson are tu quoque counter-attacks. It is undeniable that he has biases, but he would regard them as good biases. Where it is important to argue with him is on his reasoning. He thinks of himself as an enlightened “anti-idiotarian”, but he is finding idiocy more and more on the right, deliberately blinding himself to the leftist idiocy that has already been mainstreamed, and absorbed, by him.
His scorn for anti-government feeling is one of his silliest political reflexes. The state and particular governing administrations are not to be confused. To attempt politically to stop the state from growing is not the same as threatening violence to a black president. Beck, Limbaugh, Coulter are not politicians, they are polemicists. They are less idiotic then any ideologue Obama has appointed tsar.
Somewhere at the bottom of Charles political and philosophical confusion is a guilty white lad more sensitive to being called a “racist” than being called muddle-headed, naive, contradictory, ill-informed, obdurate and paranoid.
Racism has become a proxy for morality and politics and it is used to avoid thinking about either.
Rodan wrote:
I don’t read Sullivan as a regular thing, so I’m wondering what the basis for this is?
Rodan wrote:
Works for me.
Rodan wrote:
1.0 has also linked to the Daily “Screw ‘em!” Kos for a long time now, the site that mocks dead Americans being mutilated and hung from bridges. Pure scum.
bar wrote:
Liberals (as the term is presently being used) are basically believers in the Primacy of the Parasite. Such persons basically see other people as something to be used. Anything they can’t use is garbage to be disposed of. Thus their take on abortion.
We’re just livestock to them.
http://newresister.blogspot.com/2009/06/horror-quotes.html
@ vagabond trader:
That was one of turning points I knew the train went off the rails. I forget the particular blog, but when the debate skill on her end descended into qualifying the argument with sexual prowess, what else can be said?
Formercorpsman wrote:
His hypocrisy is on many levels. Chickadee posted something yesterday that was completely forgotten by me as it relates to the CRU/UEA email kerfuffle. Foster claims some sort of virtuous integrity by insisting the emails were pilfered, and that was beneath him.
Well, as many of you may recall, as I, back in Dec of 2007, a leak in a Stormfront image database was revealed and the link provided. Now what did Foster have to say about that?
There is Charles Foster Johnson encouraging the very thing he claims as inappropriate now, because the results don’t hold to his skewed world view.
Charles Foster Johnson is the worst kind of hypocrite.
Will there be a Fiskie this year?
Last year the LGF Idiotarian of the Year Award went to the Mainstream Media for their “non-stop, unseemly, worshipful, overwhelmingly biased coverage in favor of Barack Obama”.
By this rationale, surely Charles must be in the running for the 2009 Fiskie. I sincerely doubt he’ll have the sense of humor to put himself on the ballot and will probably ban anyone that dares suggest him for the award. That’s if he even runs the Fiskie this year. Since it represents disgust for proponents of the corrupt and silly liberal policies he now espouses.
12 months is a long time in politics. Especially when you do 1 180 degree spin and morph into everything you formerly despised.
Looking at this I sincerely wonder if the real Charles Johnson has been kidnapped.
@ song_and_dance_man: True to form.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Read this.
Can we call CJ’s Sciencology “Meltdown Mann”?
Have a good day folks.
Iron Fist wrote:
Well with all of that churning against facist headwinds he does with his bike, he may just be the Mr. Chezzy bunz to Mr. Milky Bunz.
What position does that put him in ….oh never mind, I starting to sicken myself
@ Overlook:
McCain never said that. That was a statement invented by a far-left troublemaker, Michael Signorile, attributed to McCain, and picked up by Charles’s racial authority, the Southern Poverty Law Center. The Southern Poverty Law Center had it in for McCain after he interviewed and wrote an article about an author of a book which accused SPLC of inventing racial incidents to raise money.
McCain came to Charles’s notice after he wrote an article defending Pam Geller.
Memo to One Once Respected: Hate to tell you, but it reads like you wrote it in that time.
Ah well. His flounce was pretty much what I would expect. Trite.
He is dull, sophomoric, and hopelessly superficial.
I thought so loooong before he jumped the shark, BTW, so to that extent I agree with him that he has not changed.
What has changed is his particular obsession, i.e., the object of the attack-dog animosity that he thrives on.
It was the commenters that made the site, and now they are gone.
Adios, LGF, para siempre. Charles, enjoy your 15 minutes.
Gypsy wrote:
They may not have read it, but I’m sure Sharmuta will be happy to cut and paste the high points.
Rodan wrote:
I used to subscribe the The Atlantic, that is, till Sullivan was hired.
What’s a Johnson? Quick. Look at this.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Hey don’t know if you saw my reply.
Here is Sullivan in his own words.
@ Formercorpsman:
Later Formercorpsman!
As my friend says, do you know what is under a ponytail? A horse’s ass…
After months of concern toll post after concern troll post smearing the right, now that he’s officially flounced to the left what’s the over/under for when CJ/LGF posts something bemoaning some ‘bad-craziness’ on the left? I propose midterm 2010 elections and I’ll take the over.
@ snork:
That is appropriate.
And I have decided to promote Mr. Johnson by referring to him as the “Wally of Swat”. This is racist, because I am demeaning a perfectly respectable dark-skinned potentate by associating him with the despot of a virtual kingdom.
@ The Other Les:
Funny you mention that, one of my best friends did the same thing and took a dive off into the fringe. She was a rather bright if eccentric girl.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Rather, that Memo has been Throbbing in his noggin pre-2004.
Must get back to work.
Enjoy the day, all.
Thinking about it, since LGF won’t do a Fiskie this year I think it’s Blogmocracy’s duty to carry on this noble tradition.
What do you think, dear fellow readers?
Shall we get this moving? Can someone from the site comment?
@ uptight:
Sure there will be. But it may be renamed, since he may like Fisk now, and the past winners not dwelt upon too much. This year’s winner will be someone from the right. Huckabee, Palin, …Beck is my bet.
OTOH, he may go for someone the left likes to say is from the right, but the right has rejected, like Buchanan. The better to demonize the right.
Charles is now siding with the Islamists (those who he spent years calling the “Religion of Peace” with a great deal of sarcasm).
Never mind the honor killings; the execution of gays; the imprisonment and execution of people (women and sometimes even men) for adultery, i.e., sex; the dictatorships; the government ownership of the press; and the cultural popularity of screaming “DEATH TO AMERICA” AND “DEATH TO ISRAEL.”
His campaign against Creationists should have told us all where he was headed. Progressive Thought Police have been targeting those who believe in G-d and who believe the Biblical story of Creation for years. It’s a witch hunt and Charles has been deeply involved in it for years.
Barking moonbats like Charles regard it as a scandal to believe the Bible. Moonbats like Charles see Creationists’ thoughts as putting the whole country in danger.
There were times all the way through the LGF Years (the years where he was respected) when people would point out that Charles wasn’t a conservative. As I recall, he didn’t speak out in favor of Bush’s re-election in 2004 until almost the last minute.
He found a way to make money and to promote himself by courting conservatives and developing a large conservative community. He thinks he can convert this fleeting success to gain for himself as a barking moonbat website instead.
The liberals will never accept him. They have their own success to think about and they still see him as a war monger anyway.
He knows how to gather some stats to himself by trashing the side he pretended to agree with for years, but he’s only making things worse for himself.
@ Rodan:
Sullivan has certainly joined the anti-Israel crowd in a big way.
@ Iron Fist:
I don’t think there is anything that is more revolting.
They murder the most helpless defenseless human beings and they brag about it and call it a virtue.
So all murders who kill helpless defenseless children are their gold standard.
They are the lowest form of life on earth.
Spit…..
@ The Other Les:
We here in Virginia experience climate change four times every year – we call it Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall (or Autumn if you prefer)!
@ savage:
Did you miss the post when sharmutant call the right, “truly evil?”
Hi all ..
went there today to look at the train wreck ..
and mad king charles wrote the following
I believe this is why he wrote what he did
gin up traffic …
What? Did I Say Something?
OPEN | Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:18:35 am PST
Well, LGF traffic is soaring this morning; nearly 6,000 visitors online as I write this. Links coming in from everywhere.
The Linux ‘top’ utility shows a load average over 80 and things are getting a bit sluggish, but so far the server hamsters are keeping up with the demand, running their furry little butts off in their little wheels. They’re starting to give me dirty looks, but I’m sending Stinky Beaumont around with chocolate bars and vitamin water. They’ll be fine, but they might demand raises after this.
The funny thing is, that post about “Why I Parted Ways with the Right?” I wrote it in about three minutes last night. It’s been brewing in my cortex for years, and something triggered the release; exactly what, I don’t really know. Guess it was time.
Here’s an open thread while I try to get through the 437 emails that came in overnight and this morning. Lots of hate mail as you might expect, dripping with venom and serving as object examples of exactly what I wrote about.
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@ Gypsy:
But even if he had said it, it is not a evidence of racism.
Choosing to believe hearsay as part of a campaign of getting back at people who side with his enemies is the Wally of Swat’s modus operandi.
@ uptight:
The Fiskie has gone the way of the Dictionary. It is too right and therefore of no use anymore for his finally revealed left leaning ways.
And in advancing the apparent hypocrisy of Foster, isn’t it queer that he bottled up his leftism and did things he must have hated. He didn’t, all of a sudden, change his spots, and so, his many threads about Islam, the Left and Terror were a smokescreen that veiled his true character.
Freakshow doesn’t come close to describing what 1.0 has become.
@ vapig:
Why does winter get to be first? Because it is white???
Racist.
@ Eliana:
Check my update.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
That’s Charles’s new ally.
@ Silhouette:
oh yeah – they’ll do a Beckie or something. All the more reason for Blogmocracy to carry on the Fiskie.
I think it’s imperative we do. Very important.
Does the site have the facility to do voting?
@ Rodan:
Aargh! Rodan!!! — I clicked on the link only to discover that I’d given that crazy, malignant buffoon a blog hit! (*sterilizing mouse and computer screen*). And Charles is having a hissy fit about hate speech? And he’s allied with this… this… little turd?
Eliana wrote:
Way back when, I posted something there about how the vast majority of American presidents was almost certainly “creationist” on some level. I could feel my computer ice up.
@ Gypsy:
I just wanted to show who his new ally is.
Now that I finished with icarus, my big next target is Andrew Sullivan.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Every God believer is at some level a creationist.
@ The Other Les:
But you know, its those crazy creationist[s] that you have to worry about.
@ bar:
Yes Creationists are controlled by the Tabacco Companies!
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What the big fat head over at (the site that shall not me named)swamp forgets is the only reason his blog was ever any good in the first place is because of the quality of his posters.
I learned a great deal over there at one time, but it surely wasn`t “the putz” doing the teaching.
It must make him completely sick to his stomach that this blog does so well.
I for one enjoy this thought, I`m so proud of this blog, the quality and dedication to truth.
The thoughtfulness of everyone here is refreshing also.
Chaz has become a raving lunatic, everyone else knew it was the posters not his blog that created the interest. me thinks he thought it was him, (it`s always about him).
I guess it`s true that “pride goeth before a fall.”
He certainly has none left.
Now his blog is nothing but a pathetic echo chambers of some of the meanest posters I`ve ever read. Everyone over there is terrified they`ll say the wrong thing.
Talk about Stokholme Syndrome!!!
It`s hard to even describe what we`ve all seen happen over there. It sickens though
sorry….rant off
“…..Charles “Icarus” Johnson is now a Progressive Collaborator.”
Hey Rodan, Why so verbose? I prefer just plain old ASSHOLE. Simple and descriptive.
Great post Roden.Too bad Chuckie don’t get it that he is wasting his bandwidth because he is not effecting anyone and only preaching to his small band of idiots.
Good article. Indeed CFJ is one sick puppy.
Some cheap advice: Watch overstatement; it weakens your argument. OBama is not yet a capital T Tyrant. He’s more like a sleazy hack liberal politician with a lot of creepy leftover sixties friends. He’s too much on the ropes to be a real tyrant or Tyrant as you say. LEave that to Mussolini and the big guys. (That doesn’t mean you don’t keep your eye on him – but clever understatement has more power. Watch how Glenn Reynolds does it, as an example.)
Regarding gay marriage, that may be the one area where Johnson is on the right side of history. Not that he would know. All he’s married to is his computer and his bike. People don’t count.
Eliana wrote:
Post 9/11 Charles had an epiphany that brought him in alliance with Bush and the War on Terror. By doing that he attracted conservatives in overwhelming numbers that made his blog appear to be a conservative site. And to many ignorants on the left and right, they still see him and his site in that same light. But, if one were to read the archives, as I did once landing there, there is no doubt that Foster was and always has been a Leftist.
As the site grew, due to the many bright conservative writers and thinkers that congregated there, it attracted even more conservatives. I’m now certain this was pebble in his left shoe.
Then somewhere between 2007-08- I don’t recall exactly- Foster began to comment, and he found that many other bright writers and thinkers there agreed with his slowly revealing and creeping Progressiveness, and he began to post entries that gave clear delineation of just who would be allowed to post there. Thus began the ‘my way, or the highway’ banning threads. And it continues to this very day.
This 1.0 Contract with the Left is the Hammer of the Cult, and serves to rid his blog of any association with the Right completely.
The Left deserves him and he will fit nicely in the Den of the Deceived.
@ notacompletedork:
Will take your advise going forward. As for Gay marriage, I think it should be a state issue. Although I’m personally opposed, it’s not something I really care about.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Pure hearsay and rumor, folks:
I know someone who worked for Sullivan when he was still (at least putatively) a conservative. This person told me back then that Sullivan had a whole lot of “street Irish” anti-semitism and Anglo-phobia in him, ala Buchanan.
Plausible.
vapig wrote:
I’ve had my writings called “satanic” by a socialist who was masquerading as a Christian minister and have been called “the embodiment of all evil on Earth” by a leftist troll calling itself a troll hunter.
So what else is new?
@ song_and_dance_man:
Good analysis and I agree 100%.
Sometimes all you can do is just shake your head…
Al-Guardian: Antarctica may heat up dramatically as ozone hole repairs, warn scientists
So you want us to bring back good ‘ol Freon-12?
Since I missed the asshole’s manifesto the other day, I looked at the dick’s site today and it is so boring. No one but No one takes any position contrary to his anymore. I think they must be having a contest to see who can stick their tongue up his ass the farthest? It’s devoid of any give and take or humor. But I wouldn’t mind running into the hippie one day if he ever comes out of hiding.
Sorry to go OT but I just wondered if anyone knows what happened to Moe Katz and No2Liberals. I haven’t seen either of them make comments for some time now.
And while I’m on the topic, I have also noticed in the couple of times I’ve ventured over to 1.0 that I don’t see anything from Salamantis. I guess he split.
One last day of high traffic as everyone goes over to watch Queen Nancy, aka Chuckles the Fudge Packed Clown flounce or whatever.
Then it is back to turning tricks on Santa Monica Blvd to buy crack and crank…
Charles is a bad habit
@ buzzsawmonkey:
On a recent AGW thread CJ, as usual, used ad hominem to dismiss various climate skeptics’ arguments on the grounds that these skeptical scientests were, to some degree, ‘creationist’. When someone pointed out the fallacy of the argument, and gave Newton as a counter-example of someone who could do science and be ‘creationist’, the LGF regulars advanced some argument that ‘creationist’ is a term that applies to only ‘recent’ people. I didn’t quite follow their argument, I got the impression that after some unspecified date people should simply ‘know better’ and so therefore deserved the pejorative ‘creationist’ (unlike Newton, who preceded this unspecified date). That’s the orthodoxy on that over there, the way I understood it.
@ Lolly Gator:
I agree it was the posters that made 1.0 so attractive. It was that very thing that caused me to sign up.
@ wolfie:
His writings give away his anti-Israel attitude.
@ snork:
Oh noes,think of the penguins!!!!
Rodan wrote:
If you believe that, it ain’t tobacco you’re smoking.
Some (slightly paranoid) speculation here re Chazz:
Years ago, I read a book about the life and career of uber-loon Lyndon LaRouche. The author traced his history as a public figure, and found out that he’d started his activist career as a middle-aged Marxist organizer and ideologue at Columbia University. Being a talented speaker and thinker, LaRouche attracted a fair number of followers, and formed a Trotskyist/New-Left fusion group to organize the people around him.
Some time in tbe mid-70s, LaRouche announced that he was abandoning Marxism, and instead pursuing a sort of statist pseudo-capitalist ideology — essentially crossing over to the Other Side. Most of his followers left, but there remained a small group who’d invested so much time, energy and emotional loyalty in the man that they too went along with the radical change, and became the core of the LaRouchite movement we see today.
Is it possible that Chazz did this as well? I don’t think he pursued such a strategy consciously – he’s too obviously flaky and mercurial for such cold-blooded cadre-building – but the parallels are obvious. The difference here, of course, is that LaDouche did this to create an absolutely loyal following of hardened activists and organizers, whereas all Chazz has to show for his conversion is the online adulation of a handful of borderline-Aspergers cases.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
Me too!
Rodan wrote:
And anything remotely pro-Israel is only 25 posts long
@ Rodan:
Rodan, you issued CJ a smackdown point by point.
He will never ackowledge that it happened & I am sure would
ban anybody over there who might mention it.
It is just a matter of time until Chuck overtly sides against Israel.
He has already supported the denial of medical care for newborns who
survive abortion attempts.
CJ is a despicable human being.
Ed Mahmoud wrote:
Moe Katz quit posting after his ridicule of the faithful was brought to bear by some here, and n2l can be found at Nuke Ginrich’s site.
OT
Muslim translators working for the US at Gitmo: Guess where the loyalty lies.
If Syrian and Egyptian members of the US military are working for al Qaeda, perhaps we should borrow some Arab speakers from the IDF.
I know, crazy thought.
snork @128 wrote:
Regular and High Octane
@ Runner:
Not sure about Moe, but n2l gets tried of all the 1.0 talk. He moved past 1.0 along time ago.
He does have this site
http://nukegingrich.com/
and this one
http://urbangrounds.com/2009/11/and-now-comes-michael-mann/
Check them out, both are great reads.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
If you’d put the words “Founding Fathers,” “Deism,” and “Enlightenment philosophy was heavily based on Deism” in a sentence together, you would have felt a Lizard Blizzard.
Of course, a central tenet of Deism is that a Supreme Being created the universe.
Ruh roh, Charles!
@ Rodan:
Yes, they do.
And, just as with Buchanan, the more he has distanced himself from the “right,” the more open he has been with his anti-Israel stance.
Rodan,
There is still one typo left in the entry.
It should read ‘rebut’ of ‘refute’. Take your pick, because both words will work.
MikalM wrote:
It’s much more simple than that.It’s called Amazon biscuits for a big fat ass. And tricyle tires.And let me not forget kindle.
Why I Parted Ways with Charles Johson – the Wally of Swat.
1. Support of socialist collectivist totalitarians.
2. For smearing by association.
3. Support for political fanaticism.
4. Support for religious fanaticism in AGW.
5. Support for state usurpation of the family.
6. Support for state smothering liberty.
7. Support for blatant Democrat propaganda and slander of broadcast personalities.
8. For selective reading and mis-reading in the blogosphere.
9. Supporting Islamists for slandering anti-Islamists as genocidal fanatics.
10. For affirmative racism.
And
11. For being a despot.
@ Ed Mahmoud:
there are plenty of Arabic Christians who can do the role as well.
The day will come when Nekama’s Troll Hammer will be used on Foster.
@ Overlook:
Don’t forget “Post Burning” it’s right up there with “Book Burning” on the Fascist hitlist
song_and_dance_man wrote:
IIRC, n2l was in a huff over discussing Queeg here.
@ BuddyG:
Rodan wrote:
Yeah but you got to careful if their relatives are still living on the West Bank or Gaza
@ song_and_dance_man:
Concur. Would one of the forum members here mind re-posting the Troll Hammer ? thank you in advance.
@ snork:
He was not alone with that. A few of us had a problem with the Foster bashing. But when it is on a level like this, where his very own words are used for critical analysis, the discourse is warranted.
It seems I’ve gotten over it.
@ bar:
Thanks bar, S&D, and snork. I had suspected the reason that n2l left but wasn’t sure about Moe Katz. I hope n2l comes back though. And I found Moe pretty comical at times although I disagreed with him over his putdown of Rush. I’d like to see both of them making comments here again.
We have a scalp, Chuckster.
Yeah, I know. The oil-funded denialist machine, blah blah blah.
Stick that in your bong and smoke it.
What? Did I Say Something?
Open | Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:18:35 am PST
Well, LGF traffic is soaring this morning; nearly 6,000 visitors online as I write this. Links
The title of CJ’s new open thread. Self-satisfied little pecker isn’t he?
He has garnered interest in much the same way that a man standing on a ledge does or the village whore does. You don’t actually admire them, but you have some interest.
@ Nevergiveup:
Count that under his despotism.
Heh, Phil Jones stepping down….temporarily.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j_dt9Bjj5yVV7k1PAyDnVHKvKtgAD9CAM0VG0
@ Runner:
I actually liked Moe’s contributions, but he’d get this chip on his shoulder sometimes, and insist on fighting everybody. I don’t know if substances were involved, but it really did seem odd how it would just come out of nowhere late at night.
@ MikalM:
That’s an interesting point. I doubt that’s the reason he did it, but it’s certainly a side-effect that he’s now identified a loyal cadre of followers who’ll follow him anywhere, online anyway.
@ vagabond trader:
Van Jones and Phil Jones – both stepping down from nontroversies.
@ Rodan:
I read that.
What a piece of shit.
Have fun with your new friends LGF.
Military academy students protest ‘Shalit deal at any price’
Published: 12.01.09, 20:10 / Israel News
Students of military academies called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to thoroughly examine the many sides of a possible prisoner swap deal for kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit before approving it.
In letters sent to Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, the students wrote, “We must not release prisoners ‘at all costs’, out of a long-term vision and concern for the safety and national strength of Israeli society.” The letter adds, “Despite the pain, we believe a country that loves life must not capitulate to the worst of terrorists.” (Hanan Greenberg and Kobi Nahshoni)
Sure makes sense to me
@ RIX:
And registration is open. Hear ye, hear ye, minions of the Left, the swamp has been prepared for thee.
I’ve not been able to keep up with all of Banana Brain’s idiotic pronouncements, so perhaps I’m filling in:
My sense of it was that he has spent the last two years vehemently denying that he’d changed his stances (making him an “opinion-change denier”). At the very least he was quick to ban anyone who suggested he had changed. Now suddenly he feels the need to announce that he’s changed.
1. Is he the last to find out?
2. We have always been at war with Eastasia.
@ Runner:
I hope they come back too. I think in time n2l might, because I really think the CJ theme is winding down.
Moe may just be taking a break. I hope he will come back at least to say howdy every now and then. He may approach this site as a contrarian, but he often has insightful things to say. And, as you point out, he’s got a great sense of humor.
So yesterday.
http://www.weaselzippers.net/.a/6a00e008c6b4e58834012875fa20aa970c-pi
song_and_dance_man wrote:
Well said, song_and_dance_man. As long as he stayed away from his own site, it grew and grew. Where once people begged for open registration, now it is embarrassing to admit one once posted there.
@ snork:
No it’s the Tabacco companies funding it!
/
Gotta wipe-up after taking a Charles
@ Crusader Rabbit:
Ha!
I remember the days when he claimed the Right left him.
Either way, he is a solipsist.
@ song_and_dance_man:
Yes, I’m wondering how long sharmutta jimmah-ice and the other shameless butt munchers will be allowed to dine above the salt once he replenishes the ranks with new lefturds.
@ loppyd:
mmmm eating left over london broil … on toasted rye … with swiss …
and horseradish sauce ….
and making lunch for tonite …. turkey potpie …. hmmmmmmm
@ jimash:
That’s his allies.
Predication you will see in coming weeks, Why I broke with Israel.
He will say their government are Rightwing Fascists. Especially is Avigdor Liebramn meets with Vlaams Belang officials. Chucky will come open about his dislike of Israel.
Nancy’s post has been linked by huff-po,Sullivan,kos etc.
It won’t last,couple of days and it will be back to normal traffic over there.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
It’s one of those “suffer little children to come unto me” moments.
@ Rodan:
Yup, hes waiting for a “rightwing” incident involving Israel to use as his breakaway excuse.
Crusader Rabbit wrote:
re: #101 AJStrata
I’m not bitter and I’m not angry. Just finished with the hatred, fed up with the anger, and not interested in being associated with it any more.
And the idea that James Inhofe — a Dominionist fanatic — is a “reasonable” person? Well, I couldn’t possibly disagree more.
The only hate I see is coming from Charles.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
And verily I see to thee, the tired addled masses of the Left shall flock to Sir Ccharles of Pacific Coast Highway.
They shall bask in the glow of his photography skills.
There is no god but Obama & Charles is his bitch.
@ Rodan:
Refer to my piece a month ago. It’s Big Chicken. They really make oil from chickens, and they want to prevent hemp from displacing tobacco, and…how did that go again? Something about steel melting and the second gunman?
I feel duped by this announcement.
First, who cares. Seriously! I don’t know anyone named Charles Johnson and the “charles” I do know is a petty, uneducated, moron. So who cares?
Second, responding is exactly what he had to have wanted. No one was paying attention to his sadist playground, so he had to do something to get people to notice – he sends out red meat…we bite.
LGF is leftist….great! So what’s new?
I don’t get my science information, or that regarding politics from an uneducated ex-musician. If he is giving out guitar lessons, sign me up, but other than that…..
windybon wrote:
Thank you for the nice words.
It’s amusingly ironic that Foster is finally coming out of the closet, when we knew for some time now where he hung his tin foil hat.
@ wolfie:
I do hope that the CJ theme is not winding down. This site is the divorced spouse – paying acrimony regularly, and resenting it.
WrathofG-d wrote:
Pick, pick, pick.
@ Rodan:
Is this a veiled warning to his bickering posters? hmmmm.
@ vagabond trader:
Andrew Sullivan is his buddy and they are gleeful he is supporting Charles. Sullivan is a bigot and a Jew hater. Charles now associates with Jew haters.
Rodan wrote:
Where does he find these big words?
The fact that the obsessed blogs are actually following this only give further credence to my 178 above.
The nobody is looking for attention and we gave it to him.
We should instead be discussing things that matter, not some long haired musician in his pajamas surrounded by linux books, and sycophants.
Like the Car Swarm not too long ago in Gaza.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
I wonder if there was a noticble drop in revenue from ads when the traffic went down over the past year or so, since the bannings started in earnest.
@ Rodan:
“Just finished with the hatred, fed up with the anger, and not interested in being associated with it any more.”
So, he is not interested in being associated with his own straw men?
@ WrathofG-d:
This is my last post on him. The other blogs responded and people here wanted a thread on it. I had to destroy his line of resoning.
He’s finished and is now in Art Bell Conspiracy land.
Andrew Sullivan is my next target.
Stay tuned, I’m going to destroy Sullivan!
@ Overlook:
LOL!
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/6233/charlesjohnson.jpg
snork @177 wrote:
Growing meat in the laboratory
/really
@ snork:
1.0, the new grassy knoll.
wolfie wrote:
Yes, sometimes Moe would be quite the contrarian but he never failed to crack me up at least once or twice per thread. But pretty much everyone here has some pretty witty remarks fairly often. As serious as some threads can be there is always someone making a comment that brings a smile to my face.
@ snork:
Wiki, the preferred go to source for cut and paste jobs on lgf.
@ Rodan:
Never say “last post”.
@ wolfie:
Every time I go to e-mail n2l and say its safe now. It just goes right back to the same old thing.
I don’t blame folks for wanting to discuss it, n2l left 1.0 long ago and he is the type of guy who doesn’t look back. I admire that, because I myself keep falling into the trap of giving 1.0 attention. And I myself get tired of it so I stay away and don’t comment.
One or two posts I did here, I actually put a no talk about 1.0 disclaimer, trying to keep some posters here that don’t want to talk about that place.
Agree and agree. It’s a personal tipping point for me, now that CJ no longer claims to be one of us on the right there’s no longer the need to expose that lie.
snork wrote:
Isn’t that in Marietta, GA?
Rodan wrote:
Foster is revving up the bus for Israel.
@ WrathofG-d:
If you need guitar lessons it could be more fun. He was good and all but average Joe does not aspire to play like that.
Wow open registration ?
Nah, I would like my “flounce” though.
@ Overlook:
No this is it. I have bigger fish to fry now.
I’m aiming my guns at Andrew Sullivan. I am digging up stuff on him as we speak.
Stay tuned!
Overlook wrote:
Golly. If he’s finished with sanctimonious outrage, label-pasting smears, name-calling, sneering, poo-flinging, and all those other manisfestations of hatred and anger that routinely fill his blog, what will he post about?
Maybe he’s trying to tell folks he’s decided to post nothing but photos of the ocean now. Maybe the calendar is a hint of things to come!
@ Rodan:
Good deal. Nail the scum.
It is all up from here.
@ Silhouette:
Foster chased away most of the really bright folks that frequented his site and his former advertisers probably realize this one way or another. As a former member there, I contributed to help maintain his site, and have an inkling that many others did so as well. Maybe he thought others would do the same as we once did, and that is not happening anymore, so he now begs for moola.
WrathofG-d wrote:
That reminds me, it’s time for a Gibson.
Overlook @194 wrote:
How ’bout it’s a wrap ?
OT- I usually hate “celeb” stories (If they didn’t care when I got married, why should I care if they do?) but Tiger will be charged with careless driving, and the case is closed.
Moving on….
@ nil stooge:
Exactly, we can all move on and go after people like Andrew Sullivan and others.
Icarus will hosting Coat to Coast AM with Art Bell in years. He’ll be railing about Dobson, Tabacco Companies, Vlaams Belang to pot heads having a laugh!
@ Rodan:
Check out this site.
http://patterico.com/
Pat has ripped Andrew a new on more than one occasion.
nil stooge wrote:
Yes! That is why I think it will die down now.
Rodan
Little hard on Art Bell doncha think?
song_and_dance_man wrote:
I thought that was “shills for mullahs.”
@ Rodan:
If it is what the people wanted then that is that. I am for giving the Netizens what they want.
Also, it wasn’t really a criticism of the post, and especially not you, but just a statement that we probably gave him what he wanted, and boosted a failed blog.
I wish the Loozards realized where they were now a days, and how their “King” treated them…but I’m loosing hope that they ever will.
@ WrathofG-d:
Come on Wrath, you can do better than that! I’m sure there are better teachers!
@ WrathofG-d:
But Wrath, I’ve found soooooo many lizard mockery images to share !
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
The axe Foster recommends is an Epiphoney.
@ WrathofG-d:
The fact that the obsessed blogs are actually following this only give further credence to my 178 above.
The nobody is looking for attention and we gave it to him
Yeah, but now he has done it, I don’t know that there
are many more attention whoring stunts that he can pull.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
I am quite fond of my acoustic Martin I bought approx 6 years ago. I really should play it more.
@ Silhouette:
Actually, I was going by the calender year – and it’s always Winter in January – at least where I live. The Aussies might take issue with that and start their year with Summer!
But you can still call me a racist! I wear those ist banners with pride!
Rodan wrote:
It’s funny you should say that, I remember when I use to smoke a lot of pot I got so paranoid that I had eventually gave it up.
*Remember just because your paranoid doesn’t mean no one’s watching you*
@ WrathofG-d:
we did give him some attention. but this is a defining moment in the ‘relationship’ between 1.0 and blogmocracy. chuckie has stated exactly where he stands now. we do not need to point out the big lie that lgf is a conservative site. it is not, and it is now official. the blog owner has spoken.
he will get an increase in hits over the next few days and then the downward slide will continue until his next stunt.
we knew and hoped this day would come, now we can be done with him and the lizards, they can be filed under KOS.
@ WrathofG-d:
Foster has no where to go now. The egghead timer is now winding down to minute 1.
@ wolfie:
In a nut shell, it is hate-filled crazy threats when the right says, “I don’t like at all what the left is doing and will do what I can to stop it. I hope they don’t succeed. I will now call them names.”
It is merely moral ‘activism’ and a natural response when the left says, “I don’t like at all what the right is doing and will do what I can to stop it. I hope they don’t succeed. I will now call them names.”
Delurking to state I was a long time reader “over there” but never registered because I do not care for the silly way he ran his site and his inability to handle discourse and the way he banned people who dared to disagree with him. I too have seen him unravel even more than he already was for a long time. The hypocrisy makes me LMAO, you can go back and read archives where he blatantly contradicts himself. He has become nuttier than a fruitcake. I have also found myself wondering if he has taken up with a black, male, lover, who is a staunch athiest and a “scientist” who works in the field of climate change, lol. I am going to stick with clinically insane though. I finally found someone who cries “racist” more than Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton combined. To bad he is a white dude without a clue.
@ WrathofG-d:
6 years?
isn’t even broken in.
Martin still rules. I have had my D35 since 1973. It is a strain to play( compared to say, a Taylor) but the sound is worth it.
But you do have to play the sound into it.
@ song_and_dance_man:
Huff Po is the top blog. I imagine that LGF realized this and sold out. Can’t blame someone for trying to emulate what works I guess.
coldwarrior @220 wrote:
Oh yeah, down the tubes.
WrathofG-d wrote:
Martins are fine guitars, but overpriced. Taylor makes guitars that have as good, if not better, sonics as most of the high end makers.
I found a beautiful sunburst mottled maple top Les Paul at a pawn shop about six months ago. The price was amazingly low. $230. That was a steal.
Good thang WLover already changed her nic, otherwise she’d have to change it to WHater now. Mandy is about to get that nervous look of revelation that she may be the only mortal in a room full of vampires.
*gulp
LGF 1.0 is hemoraging readers daily it is just a matter of time before he is gone. Gone as in completely irrelevant.
@ jimash:
Yea, I am very happy with my Martin, and the infrequency that I play it, it is surely nowhere near broken in yet. I love the sound…and it would really be great if I were to ever tune it.
CJ, we hardly knew ya . . . now that we do, we don’t want to.
Have fun in oblivion, chuckstermeister.’
What a maroon.
CJ, we hardly knew ya . . . now that we do, we don’t want to.
Have fun in oblivion, chuckstermeister.’
What a maroon.
Rodan wrote:
I think you’re thinking Space Ghost Coast to Coast. The problem he’ll have is finding someone with Brak’s IQ to work with him.
@ WrathofG-d:
I 100% agree with you and didn’t take it as criticism at all! We have won, our pressure on him caused him to crack and reveal he’s a Progressive. It’s done, we won he lost!
I’m just upset you couldn’t think of a better guitar teacher!
Prince Albert (of Monaco) and LGF have a lot in common.
So I think I’m going to put up an Open Thread now….
@ Rodan:
Yea, Jimmy Hendrix taught himself so so can I.
I’m putting up an open. Hope I am not stepping on scheduling.
@ WrathofG-d:
Hey I updated my Minaret Post with teh Temple Mount. I didn’t see your email until late.
song_and_dance_man @227 wrote:
Okay, more guitars less lizards
@ WrathofG-d:
I can’t imagine learning anything, even guitar from him. His mind is just too full of disconnects.
My guitar instructor is a pretty solid guy and not some brain-addled hippie.
@ Rodan:
Well I have to admit I have a guilty curiousity to see if the focus of his posts changes any at all, now that he’s no longer supposedly trying to reform the right. My guess is the LGF post content will continue same as before – smearing the right – but without the faux concern for it. Like I said above, I’ll take no sooner than a year from now for the first LGF post bemoaning some ‘bad-craziness’ on the left, tacking right following the prevailing (I hope) political headwinds. But on the whole I think he’s given us a lot less to talk about now that he’s officially added his inconsiderable intellect to the leftist brain trust.
WrathofG-d wrote:
1.0 has been emulating lefty blogs for quite some time now, attacking the right using leftist sources and links.
1.0 will never be as big as Huff Po or some of the other lefty blogs. Huff Po has topics which have thousands and thousands of comments on them.
1.0 is now merely another run of the mill, hateful lefty blog which practices censorship on an unprecedented scale. There is a real nasty atmosphere over there with constant infighting, bickering, intolerance and bigotry in every topic.
Stormfront is bigger and more influential than 1.0 is. There is no reason for 1.0 to be proud of temporary traffic just because they’re being linked to by numerous leftist sources at the moment, including anti-American and anti-US military/Pro-terrorist blogs such as the Daily Kos.
You’re shittin me.
This is the most unbelievable thing out of the emails yet:
Climategate: Imminent Demise of Glaciers Due to … a Typo!
Oh, well. Just a couple digits switched around. No biggy, right Chuckles? I know. It’s oil/tobacco disinformation machines.
@ nil stooge:
Agreed, he now an admitted Collaborator so there is nothing more to discuss. he’s done and finished.
@ snork:
Sometimes aging hippies are too into looking cool to wear the bifocals. (Unless they can get those Lennon ones of course.) Couldn’t be helped.
@ snork:
Don’t forget James Dobson and teh Vlaams Belang as well! They are behind it all!
I don’t know, the comparison to Lyndon LaRouche somebody posted doesn’t seem that bad. LaRouche went from a Marxist nut to a neo-Nazi antisemitic nut while retaining some elements of his socialist beliefs, and demanded absolute loyalty from his followers.
@ snork:
Don’t forget James Dobson and the Vlaams Belang as well! They are behind it all!
@ Rodan:
Ok, i’m out of here, but I leave you all with this on topic:
I knew LGF was what it is when I was having difficulty differentiating it from Pacifica Radio on most issues.
I would hear the LGF argument, then not too much later hear the same tired nonsense on KPFK. If you sound like Pacifica….something is wrong. When your viewpoints are also echoed by the Communist Party U.S.A., well……
I documented this in my Strage Bedfellows posts here.
snork wrote:
Since we don’t have a dinger (thank goodness) I’ll give you
& a 
instead.
@ WrathofG-d:
Does that mean you were not joking about tuning up ?
There are online tuners and $15.00 korgs that will help. But even tuned with a tuner there is some tweaking involved.
You can teach yourself, but… I caught my poor niece using the wrong fingers for everything and it
looked painful, and bad habits are persistent.
I took lessons from a very good guy who was completely mad. Started when I was eight.
He really tried to do me right, but I cannot read music well. I could never read above and below the staff fast enough to play it.
So I would make the teacher play it first and I would copy him from memory.
This has been a good skill to have .
@ snork:
Interesting.
Seen this Climategate link? It’s good.
Phil Jones of Bad Climate Data.con is off his feed and home to play cards and cheat his way with nickel antie poker.
To bad so Sad.
He can compare lies with John kerry.
http://www.wattsupwiththat.com
You go Aussies down under, you go India, walk out on the U. N. crap and tax cult.
Fight back with truth.
My. Goodness.
Think I used to revere this man.
Only sad part is, I owe somebody money because I put in for a betting pool on when this would happen…
Attn Charles Johnson,
With friends like you, who needs enemas.
Signed,
The conservative movement
PS: you won’t be missed
Sorry I missed this topic all day.
Anybody want to draw a paralell between the maniacal downward spiral of Dan Rather and Charles Johnson.
Oh the sweet irony. Charles played a large part in bringing down that tired old hack Rather ( and he ought to get some credit for that) but Charles also played a very very very large part in bringing down that tired old hadk Charles Johnson.
and in the end, both men were ranting like Captain Queeg.
Delicious irony!!!
Dingo ate a long post about just turning our backs and moving forward.
here’s about a fourth of it, the intro:
don’t contribute much to this or any blog. I didn’t over at the other place either. I stumbled upon it in late ’03 when I was so pissed at the left coming out overtly against American interests and GB. I decided to start surfing blogs to see if there was a place for fellowship or at least comfort in knowing that there were like minded people of consequence in the world, and that all was not lost against the leviathin. I found such a place there amongst those off you who made your internet homes there.
I primarily spent the bulk of my time as an LGF habituite looking for information. It served as a clearing house for information on the WOT and all things ME studies without having to surf my favorites. There are many other sites of significance now that can serve the same informational ends and I gravitated toward them when he started commenting and shiting on his guests. I still went there daily for the link list index thing and stayed away from comments. For the most part I stopped reading them altogether when the assault on people’s faith began. I wasn’t aware of this place or the extent of the trend toward shuning, attacking, and banning when I found the witch doctor thread to be so ludicris and irrational that I thought fuck this asshole and posted in the threads comments eith the expectation of being tossed. My feelings were not hurt, I felt liberated.
Now to the present. We all need to forget about him, it, and them and move on. I would think everyone over there is aprised of this site and will come on over if they are of the diposition to appreciate uswill it. I obsessed over a divorce for nearly three years until I finally left the country to challenge my facilities to the point that my thought would be otherwise occupied. I sugest as much here in that we need to face the challenge that lay before us in restoring this Republic and forget about the figurative whore that has made a cuckold of our sympathies and dedication.
I went on in length about how emotionally wretching it is for some at blogmocracy, but that this ongoing emotionally driven intercourse feeds him, it, them and how it isn’t healthy and a waste of our talents and vigor. How it is best to stand down with this obsession and move forward at this pivtol moment to regroup and set bearings around the swamp to firm ground where we can confront and defeat the real enemy and not feed its milk maids with our effort. That and should be out of our conscious for they are fallen (nephilim)and beneath our noble mission, and would in due time be consumed by their own nature when they turn upon theirsleves and it shouldn’t concern us when they do.
and on and on but I guess you may get my drift.
it was just the humble opinion of a past and present infrequent poster, but a concerned observer of what has/is transpiring.
I’ve decided he did his little drama queen manifesto because he’s just an attention whore.
He has no real principals. Most of what he wrote between 2002 and 2008 would get him banned on his own blog now. ( Saint Pancake, Islamonazis, moonbats, car swarm, mosques as jihad recruitment centers, etc).
His main theme today was about how much attention he’s gotten.
It’s all about him.
So he goes to all the trouble banning over 1500 conservatives and letting his fuckstick trolls bash us when it was a matter of his not having the balls to admit he is a barking moonbat? What a waste of air this turd is.
I’ve recently figured out that you cannot reason with ‘progressives’.
Jonah Goldberg was right that ‘liberals’ are fascists. We must never allow them to spin history. Totalitarian, progressive, Nazi, progressive; different skins on the same rabid animal.
Rodan wrote:
By now this has probably already been said but opposition or outright hostility to Israel is not necessarily anti-semitism and its non productive to reasoned debate to equate the two.
For the record I’ve very pro democracy and therefore unabashedly pro Israel. I also find overt racism (including anti-semitism) deeply against my religious faith in addition to vile on the face of it.
Johnson is a shameless opportunist, who “lucked into” 9/11 and used it to turn his obscure little blog into a quite popular one. Over time he’ll sink back into his prior obscurity.
Who cares about a washed out hippie? He won’t change us… All he wilol do is lose any respect from anyone…
vapig wrote:
In Minnesota we only have two seasons, Plowing and Road Repair.
(Before the white man came here it was Stomp Path Through Buffalo Grass and Stomp Path Through Snowdrift.)
Does Charles Nodickens own the rights to the remember 9/11 material on his blog?
@ The Other Les:
but the taxes were lower and a man had more time to think and practice procreation
@ Gypsy:
You too? Great! It’s good to know I’m not the only one.
Loved him, thought Reagan was pretty good, too. I’m now holding my breath that Palin can keep her principles and run again.
Hmmm, I voted for Goldwater also. Its a small world.
That is absolutely correct! He is a real sleazebag. When the Democrats got back in power, he turned against the people he was trying to attract. There are plenty of Leftists blogs around. The Leftists don’t need another immitator of Huffpo. They can find and read more honest leftist blogs than his. I notice each post of his begs for donations. He is really having trouble even if Soros or some equivalent gave him some sort of bonus. @ joeb:
Just an observation.
“Why I (insert self-centered sissy-ass leftist drivel here)”
is the standard title for most of the DKos diaries.
Hmmmm.
#9 is especially ironic.
“Anti-Islamic bigotry”? Are you kidding me?
After 9/11, which web site was the definitive anti-islamic blog on the entire internet?? LGF!!
I remember even writing to Johnson saying that while I agreed with him on most issues, his anti-Muslim tone was putting a lot of people off. It was also the number #1 complaint about LGF at left-leaning blogs. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!
And Andrew Sullivan praising him? Please… he never even knew LGF existed until the switch.
Charles Johnson Jumps the Lizard – from Saber Point
271 John Rohan
My thoughts exactly. For several years, LGF was strongly anti-Islamic to the point that liberal blogs would accuse it of being “anti Muslim.”
As for Johnson’s list of reasons as to why he abandoned the right.
First of all, apart from being strongly in support of the War on Terror for a few years, Johnson was never truly “on the right” to start with.
The rest of his list is littered with misrepresentations of those with whom he disagrees, and I spotted a few double standards, too.
There are several points on his list that are true of him, true of LGF, and true of his main blog contributors that he says are his quibbles with the right wing.
I see “hate speech” coming from him, Killgore Trout, and the overall tone of his blog.
Said Johnson:
I am a woman and don’t view the legalization of abortion as necessarily a “pro woman” or “feminist” practice.
If anything, some women who have undergone one say they deal with physical ramifications and regrets afterwards.
Some of the babies aborted are female. How is one female permitting the murder of a female who is residing in her womb “feminist?”
Lastly, as some have mentioned before, some liberal males support abortion because they would rather pay the $200 abortion fee than spend a life time paying child support. Liberal males do not have altruistic motives for their pro-abortion stance.
Said Johnson:
I can only wonder how he defines “homophobic bigotry.”
These days, with progressives such as Johnson, it’s not enough to “live and let live,” or “agree to disagree,” you’re expected to toss your own convictions and morality out the window
-and-
completely applaud, support, and agree with morals, lifestyles, and choices of those who adhere to an entirely different world view, one that you oppose.
“Tolerate” has been twisted and perverted by those on the left to mean “agree with” or “embrace.” Anything less than your full support is branded as being “bigoted.”
A person can disagree with homosexuality and disagree with homosexual marriage and not be a “bigot” who “hates” homosexuals.
Johnson wrote,
Being in support of creationism is not ‘anti science.’
Funny thing is, some creationists are either scientists themselves or are fascinated by science and spend hours studying related topics (reading scientific journals, etc).
Johnson keeps begging the question on this point anyway. Nobody has ever demonstrated to me that macro-evolution is 100% true and beyond scientific scrutiny and questioning.
He’s assuming that macro-evolution is science, that it is scientific, or that it is “accepted, settled science.”
In my view, M.E.(macro-evolution) is based more on a naturalistic, atheistic world view and presuppositions from those vantage points- as well as wishful thinking, hope, and speculation- than it is on “science.”
Johnson said
Johnson has himself supported various conspiracy theories (e.g., supposedly the Discovery Institute is out to sneak I.D. into classrooms), and at some points Johnson has defended Obama appointees who dabbled in conspiracy theories (see Van Jones).
Johnson fully supports conspiracy theories if they line up with his own opinions.
Said Johnson:
This one makes me laugh the hardest.
It was Johnson’s bestest LGF buddy, Killgore Trout, who went on to another blog to refer to Michelle Obama (and black people in general) as “n*gg*ers” – and Johnson defended that!
The staggering amount of hypocrisy coming from Johnson on so many different topics is amazing.
@ CloudyDay:
As a woman I couldn’t agree with your more. Abortion and feminism have absolutely nothing at all to do with women. It has more do do with women who hate other women for reasons too numerous to mention.
Those I know that bought into the abortion scam have seriously regretted their decision when they were old enough to understand and certainly when they finally had children. They couldn’t believe, when they looked into the eyes of their children, that they had done what they had done. Others who never had children and no longer can, wonder what if…
Abortion has always been about “free sex”, “free love”, and all that other 60′s bullshit. We’ve always had free choice…to have sex or not to have sex and suffer the consequences either way. And feminism and it’s aftermath have created generations of women who now have to work to support their families when that used to be done on one salary. And others now raise the children while both parents are off working long hours just to get by. But then that was always the lefts plan, now wasn’t it?
Like minorities, women were just another tool to be used and discarded.
Excellent post,Rodan.And ill add,anyone on LGF who sticks around after this load of extremely laughable lib talking points,is as empty as the head frogger himself.And those who were there years ago,and stick around are just as fake.
I agree this was Chuckles’ last attempt to generate traffic since his traffic chart looks worse than global cooling the last 10 years.
His blog is dying and this is his way of trying to drum up new business. It will backfire. He’ll get a small blip for a couple of days and then back to the normal freefall (we can smooth that blip out later with a few tricks learned from Phil Jones and Michael Mann).
Today was the death of LGF 1.0. Good riddance.
I am sure someone has brought this up but I guess Chuck does not remember how many posts he started with ROP strikes again.
Pot meet kettle indeed.
Wow. I won’t go there and give him a site hit, but he is obviously blind to his own flaws. Many of those flaws are cited as reasons to split with the conservative population of this country. I also am confused as to why it’s okay for the left to protest – but not the right. His logic is gone.
LGF is a microcosm of his ideal society it seems.
No dissent. Paranoia leading to total control.
Jeez what a sick bastard that Andrew Sullivan is now. Funny but several years ago LGF and The Daily Dish were my first reads every morning when I turned on my computer.
“Rumor has it that Chavez needs a guitarist for his singing sessions.”
LMAO!