The New York Times features an article about Chuckles and its a good one. Mentions almost everyone of note on the blogosphere, including Theblogmocracy! haha
THE QUESTIONING OF Johnson’s tactics started to come not just from without L.G.F. but also from within. Readers both casual and loyal spoke up in the comment threads to ask, sometimes diplomatically and sometimes not, whether all this casual flinging of epithets like “fascist” wasn’t maybe an overreaction. Johnson’s response, in thousands of cases, was to block their accounts and ban some of them from viewing the blog. “Get off my Web site” was a common farewell. (Johnson insists that this is not true — that no one has ever been banned from L.G.F. merely for disagreeing with him — but the anecdotal evidence to the contrary is voluminous, and the fact that the offending comments were instantly and permanently deleted makes it impossible to check others’ records against his.)
“Running a community is hard,” says Markos Moulitsas of the liberal Web site Daily Kos, “and I don’t criticize people for the approaches they take in trying to control their sites. As I tell my own disgruntled commenters, if they don’t like a site’s comment policies, they can always find greener pastures elsewhere. It’s a big Internet.”
A reasonable approach, which L.G.F.’s exiles mostly rejected. Comment threads all over the blogosphere were hijacked by people sharing stories of their banishment. Another stalker blog — this one assailing Johnson from the right — sprang up, administered by banned former “Lizards,” as L.G.F.’s registrants are known. Johnson responded by posting those former registrants’ real names and photographs on L.G.F. — an astounding breach of civility on the Internet, where anonymity is often prized above all else.
The article is an interview of Charles by Jonathan Dee of the NY Times on January 21, 2010.
Kids, we just hit the big time! Thanks to everyone that has been onboard here.
Rodan Update: I found another video of the 3rd rate Jazz Artist!
Tags: New York Times
was that us, or did he do that to others?
@ coldwarrior:
It was us they are mentioning. We were the ones outed, Savage, me and M.
Sharmuta!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
@ Rodan:
i know about that…i was wondering if he and his did that to any one else as well.
We’ve been goofing on this from the last thread. This guy really got Chuckles’ number.
Rodan wrote:
see, mata-hari was a damn fine hottie! so the un-mata hari???
@ coldwarrior:
No he didn’t!
Claims he never banned anyone for disagreeing,wtf? He then complains that there is no way the author could verify anecdotals about bannings. No sh*t since you delete and flush everything in your Stalinist purges cj.Notice he makes no objection to the fact he outed our peeps.Cuz its true.
The ice crystal?
@ snork:
So true!
Mata-Hari was an exotic dancer and courtesan, I’m trying to imagine what the opposite of that would be.
The Jazz Artist isn’t happy!
@ Mad Mullah:
Sharmuta!
@ snork:
The Templars again. Those damned Templars.
coldwarrior wrote:
Is hairy? Like a bear? It all fits!
Rodan wrote:
@ snork:
No no no! It all fists
Mad Mullah wrote:
ugly and corpulent?
@ vagabond trader:
Call me a conspiracy whako, but this is the first time I’ve heard any talk of a femme, and it all fits too neatly. The appearance of icecritter. The Britishisms on the blog. C’mon, connect the dots.
@ coldwarrior:
For some reason an old hippy hag from boobs not bombs came to mind. Gaaaaah! Hand me a glass of cheap vodka to sanitize my brain please!!!
snork wrote:
see…bearish…like the nyt dude said
@ snork:
So where does the jimmah thing fit in. Oh noes, don’t say.
vagabond trader wrote:
**hands over a shot of baker’s club vodka***
Fantabulous!! Congratulations everybody and thanks for all your hard work.
Stop on by and say hi.
@ vagabond trader:
Jimmah [cue spooky music] is a pigment of his imagination.
And I’d have gotten away with it too, if it hadn’t have been for those meddling kids!!!!!
wow! what a great week!
the gifts just keep on coming!
@ snork:
Hmmm, he appeared first, then the icehole. So why all the marriage drama? This could be truly psychotic.
@ coldwarrior:
Thats what Charles Krauthammer said too!
@ coldwarrior:
Indeed! Indeed!
vagabond trader wrote:
gmta…
On the New York Times.
Kettle
Pot
Black
CJ
Kilgore Toot Toot
Do a follow up interview with CJ, ask him what long time poster
RealWest did to be baned.
ps
As you read this NYT’s skunks, better be checking the unemployment info cause your going to need it.
Better not piss CJ off to much you may need to use his now liberal rag blog to post your lies and fraud.
It is like that.
Yours true,
free on the inter net
Banning everyone that doesn’t bow to you does that.
Just to set the record straight. The claim that Mad King Charles (MKC) never banned anyone for disagreeing with him is an outright lie. I was banned for up-dinging a poster that disagreed with MKC.
I really would like to know the story of how MKC managed to get his sorry ass thrown out of a company he was supposed to be a co-founder of (PJM). Too bad the NY Times didn’t have the guts to ask about that. It was around that time that the Lizard King began his decent into madness.
It’s funny in a sad way to watch him frail about searching for a direction when he has no moral compass. The Left will never accept him and the Right will never forgive him. He is on his own and has no one to blame but himself.
BEWARE I TFK AM A TEMPULLER.
m wrote:
you want you martini?
@ Da_Beerfreak:
He just could end up as the room mate with Lt. for life John F. Kerry in an old asshole home.
Over at
teh swamp, half-hearted, listless support for thehusky bloggervis-a-vis the NYT article: less than 30 commenters, about 150 comments but literally half of those by five people (MandyManners, windsagio, talon_262, albusteve, recusancy); Sharmuta and iceweasel nowhere to be found.@ Da_Beerfreak:
cursed into the purgatory that Benedict Arnold made so famous
snork wrote:
I hear what you are saying and i can not disagree, something smells wrong.
All the news that’s fist to print
@ coldwarrior:
It was a great week!
And I was banned for disagreeing with that nut.
@ nil stooge:
Probably back at the gated community getting the water and fruit basket together.
taxfreekiller wrote:
that quote and the avatar makes me very frightened!
@ Da_Beerfreak:
I was banned for up-dinging someone who disagreed with Cato the Elderberry.
@ nil stooge:
well it’s hard to comment when you are sucking on the 3 inch killer. hehehhe
oh almost forgot
Yo, New Yank Times here are some links you seem to have missed.
http://www.wattsupwiththat.com
http://www.blowoutcongress.com
ps
The Hap River still flows, and still Lt. for life John F. Kerry’s lies flow on your liar lines of print.
He banned mama winger for saying that somebody who had been banned wasn’t such a bad person. I was there.
@ lobo91:
Prove it.
JohnH wrote:
What did you say that it was dark at night.
JohnH wrote:
you need a martini:
3oz snowqueen khazak vodka
1 oz french sweet vermouth
shaken, gently with ice, garnished with three black olives, served in frozen maritini glass
@ coldwarrior:
Did you notice that tfks is the only avatar that has a shadow?
i was banned for defending this place
savage wrote:
I think you are giving him way to much on that.
taxfreekiller wrote:
As much as I dislike the Lt. for life I would not wish that fate on anybody!
Wonder who got the stick for disagreeing on the scintillating thread of top loader vs front loader.
vagabond trader wrote:
his avatar cant see itself in a mirror either, nor does it have legs…it levitates
@ vagabond trader:
@ savage:
LOL
@ vagabond trader:
Of course, I’m just assuming that’s the reason.
Neither CJ nor any of his flying monkeys actually said anything about it. One minute I was posting, the next, I got a message saying my account was blocked.
I left on my own.
(later than I should have.)
I hadn’t been back there since my banning and found a new home here but I checked it out the night of “The Boston Massacre” and the day after just to see if it was as nuts as everyone said.
It was.
In spades.
By a factor of 10
I had to take two showers after that.
lobo91 wrote:
purged all of the military…yo were next on the list
@ lobo91:
I felt left out here so committed blogicide. My husband got booted with me and wasn’t even online that day,lol.
@ coldwarrior:
Hes great.
power@ vagabond trader:
Rides A Pale Horse wrote:
I too took a look that night, and found only about 6 people commenting. I haven’t been back and most likely never will be.
It’s not even a shell of it’s former self. It’s a small shell and a total bore
vagabond trader wrote:
i think he’s a vampire, like in the olde vampyre transyvania vlad the impaler style
@ taxfreekiller:
LOL! The author has it a bit more than half right. Maybe he was reading the comments at
Kirly’s The List of The banned (with the reasons why in the comments)
The Famous Ace of Spades thread
The second Ace Post – What Has Happened To Little Green Footballs?
The Third Ace Post – And There You Go: Charles Johnson Spins for Van Jones
lgfbannedandblocked
as well as here…
Really, there are SO many, just google Little Green Footballs + banned! The pattern is clear. Banned, and blocked for updinging or downdinging the wrong comment, banned for polite disagreement, banned for asking if he was ok…
The fact is that it was the comments in the threads that made it fun, interesting and informative. People shared their expertise, and their experiences as well as their opinions – some made outrageous comments but it was in good fun, and known to be in good fun. Rollicking arguments were part of the fun, and people honed their arguments for the real world.
That’s all gone now. Freedom of speech does not exist at LGF.
But lasting friendships were made – and those of us who were banned found ways to reconnect. Here – and at Table 9, and a few other places across the net. Here, free speech flourishes, and without the sniping that was encouraged at LGF.
@ lobo91:
That’s exactly what happened to me.
My Apache breeding is not 100% therefore my shapeshifting is not the best, thus the missing legs.
@ coldwarrior:
Yes please! Company was here when I got home, so it took longer than I thought! Thanks!
nil stooge wrote:
I noticed windsagio was spending time defending the honor of the New York Times on that thread. He/She/It is one of the most left of the lefties that moved in after we… left.
Fuck him. There is no way that I will be told how I should think and it really pisses me off when the left says I should be more centrist. If I wanted that kind of beating I would go to more family outings.
If they did, that article never would have been written.
This post is for you Godzilla.
@ Rose:
Well-written comment. Kudos. : )
@ savage:
You’re terrible, lol.
@ coldwarrior:
She was also a spy, but, yeah, makes you wonder.
@ Doppelganger:
And Goddessoftheclassroom for posting on a blog that disagreed with him (here ~:). Without actually saying anything about him!
@ Mad Mullah:
So you decided to go with basic black.
coldwarrior wrote:
AWWW SHUCKS!
Interesting…
BBEV wrote:
Yeah, I think that’s at the root of it.
The big boys at the Times have the little people aka stringers use the web for stories that way they call the stringers the source of the stories rather than tell the truth, which as we all know has been baned from use at the New York Times.
like that@ lobo91:
m wrote:
M’s martini:
2oz stoli appel
1 oz stoli crystal 100
just a wave of the italian vermouth
gently shake with ice and a stick of vietnamese cinamon…pour into a very frozen, frosted martini glass…garnish with said cinamon stick
enjoy
Is the hippie on some sort of “Martyr tour”? First the glowing piece in Harpers and now this steaming pile in the NYT? The guy is a childish, petty, bandwagon jumping cut-and-paste blogger who has worked hard to earn the many enemies which he now has.
I commited a big sin at LGF..I linked to Answers in Genesis
to use my socks there now, I have to do a post,
e-mail it to a vietnam bud in Caif. he has the
password and handle, he then post what I sent him
so far he has not figured it out,
in fact I’m sure iceweasle thinks
I amd one of her little gofer’s
it is a hobbie, good for spy work later
to get the goods on Lt. Kerry and the likes
m wrote:
i wanted to see what the stalker shit was all about…so i meandered over here, saw what it was and defended against the shit talkers at 1.0.
i was gonna leave…but cj beat me to the draw.
Repost from the end of the last thread.
Chucky gets 2 writeups in one day: Vanity Fair article
CJ and the article’s author are planning to launch “a two-pronged campaign by which we hope to increase both the reach and efficiency of the blogosphere, as well as to bring pressure to bear on the media at large.”
Hey did Sharmuta get banned, or something? I just wandered over there for the first time in around a month, and I don’t see ANY sharmuta posts in the 5 or 6 most recent comments sections. Or maybe I just missed them.
@ m:
Enjoying my Chorizos Ms Scorpion. Would you sting me badly?
vagabond trader wrote:
Did he get accused of being your sock?
I, along with a bunch of others from the Lounge, was banned for UPDINGING Eric Cartman’s Conscience on one of the vax threads. Eric Cartman’s Conscience was defending a Dad who dared voice his experience with his own child, who was being attacked by the GANGDINGERS. We, in the Lounge, decided to UPDING the guy back to even – you know what that means. We knew we were risking banishment.
The next day, most all of us were banned/blocked. We managed to reconnect, one by one, and we opened our own Lounge, Table 9. We set out to let our friends know what had happened and where we were – and he closed his own Lounge over it.
Were we plotting against him? No. Were we talking shit about him? I was. But others weren’t.
Slowly we managed to find a couple hundred of the banned, since then, I have lost count.
But we were banned for UPDINGING, and we are still looking for missing friends. Table 9 is in the sidebar here, and it is always good to see you guys.
@ dude:
No she must be Charle’s Fiance!
tunnelrat wrote:
sounds like it…but why…
First ban was for posting here. Most recent ban was for saying I was an AGW agnostic.
@ coldwarrior:
You really do it up! Ok, you’re bartending at the meetup!
You know, if he would have said that he decided to focus on other things it would have been one thing… but he decided to be an ass instead. Whining, outing, (and his “by my real name” crap doesn’t cut it… he put his fucking name out there we didn’t), banning for disagreeing, banning for use of the rating system he put up there and so on and so on and so on…
I have screenshots out the ying yang.
THAT was what people were mad at. Idjit [the author, not you coldwarrior!].
@ dude:
Since CJ said that she was interviewed for the Times piece, but her comments weren’t used, I’d say no, she hasn’t been banned.
If she had, he wouldn’t have mentioned her.
@ tunnelrat:
You have the link to Harpers?
It’s a weird mix of new lefties and old, sold-out, self-censoring sycophants there now.
Mandy, this one’s for you
@ Rodan:
I thought you stopped drinking for awhile, Rodan!
Sharm ended up on the cutting room floor because all of her slobbering was smearing the ink.
@ m:
I’m not drinking. Chorizo’s are Spanish sausages.
Rodan wrote:
yum
@ mjazz:
lol
@ coldwarrior:
If y’all say so!
Ha ha ah, That’s a term from here!
@ m:
It is Yummy, You’d like it!
Stalker blog… pfft!
Pointing and laughing blog.
@ m:
They could of at least said our name!
Interesting. They recalculated the affinities at Quantcast. Now,
This site reaches over 120K monthly people, of which 92,470 (77%) are in the U.S. The site appeals to a more affluent, more educated, heavily male, middle aged group.The typical visitor listens to National Public Radio and reads Wired Magazine.
Audience Also Likes
The people who visit littlegreenfootballs.com are also likely to visit these categories and sites:
That’s a pretty dramatic change. And as anyone who has read my science oriented threads knows, “New Scientist” is left-wing junk, Wired is mostly junk, and livescience is pretty lightweight. I don’t know anything about ScienceDaily, but I think it’s also pretty lightweight. Like the dilettantes at 1.0.
any one know some one who works at the New York Times and has access to a computer.
putting a sock in lgf’s .00001 from there would be a hoot IMHO
after getting in and lots of updings for kissing up CJ and
post on how great Obama and Peelooseie are, then you could
interview CJ right there in the threads and then,,,,,,,,,,,,,
m wrote:
churizo is a spicy pork sausage seasoned with paprika. The spanish version uses a smoke pork and the Mexican version uses fresh pork. This sausage often comes in large links which you can break apart or leave solid to cook.
@ Rodan:
Wouldn’t you like to see the list in his “correlator tool” (actually sharmie in the corner furiously googling)?
Icarus, asshat, cj, ponytail, mad king charles, selrahC, husky blogger, chunky, chuckles, charlie, chuck, HE WHO FIGHTS WITH GIRLS!, The johnson, A johnson, ponytailed lumber jack… etc, etc, etc.
Oh, some people actually call him charles on accident sometimes too.
m wrote:
he who fights with girls is my fav
@ dude:
Dude, your avatar is really mixed up!
@ coldwarrior:
Mine too. Pure genius.
coldwarrior wrote:
I though Pam Geller was way too magnanimous.
Hahahahahahahaha, payback is a biiiiaaaaatch! I love it.
@ vagabond trader:
Yeah, man, I thought so too, specially since I didn’t pick it out or anything – it just appeared that way.
Rodan wrote:
I think tunnelrat meant Vanity Fair, not Harper’s. And the link is up in my 92.
snork wrote:
i think that geller is the reason he lost it.
Oh good Lord. I’ve just read snipets, but this piece is scathing in its blatant understatement. I wonder if the frog lovers will catch on that its not all complimentary?
dude wrote:
its like a dinoardvaarklobster…sorta like a manbearpig
@ m:
I just call him a 3rd Rate Washed up Jazz artist.
@ dude:
A 3 eyed bunny earred lobster clawed dinosaur with a vestigal trunk.
SCIENCE!!
Rodan wrote:
Why are you drinking chorizos?
@ Rodan:
Head Loozard in Charge
Oh goodness. They’re out to get him because he tells the truth! Media fatcats can’t keep an honest man down, I’ll tell you!
@ m:
Nancy,queeg,blogtator.
much ado about so much nothing. LOL What amazes me is how people managed to remain in contact and know what was going on all that time and manage to hook up to a new place.
I only found this place by chance. Never had a clue there was so much back story going on.
@ coldwarrior:
A dinoardvaarklobsterbunny ~ tip or lose a hand.
I think the only reason why the NYTimes did this interview was because they were so happy to find someone with even less credibility than they have. The schmuckie moonbat crazies were just icing.
@ vagabond trader:
CfnJ
Pheeew.
snork wrote:
I see CJ’s sandbox is down to a rank of 16,468. Back in October, it was like 9,800 – Quite a slide.
The Blogmocracy has risen to 221,015. It was around 250,000 the first time I checked (many weeks ago).
@ teacake:
Well we’re glad you found us! However it happened!
@ m:
He really is a loon!
@ m:
dinothreeeyedardvaarklobsterbunny
Are there still people here who post there without suspension or drive by quickies?
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
Good point! You know they are chortling about him at the NYT,all condescending and tsk tsking.
@ m:
That Scorpion looks scary. Does it’s sting hurt?
@ Bunk X:
*snicker* Yeah, that cracked me up too.
@ Rodan:
It’s best not to test it! lol!
m wrote:
THanks much M. I’m very happy to have made it by.
Bunk X wrote:
yeah….callin bs on that
Dude – gravatar.com and your can be whatever you wanna be! (just register there with the same email address as here and the image will follow)
m wrote:
Well, at least LGF Watch has satirically embraced the nomenclature invented by CJ, so maybe the description is now accurate. In a sort of backwardly flipped, falsely confirmed way…or something.
@ Rodan:
No, sorry that was my mistake. He linked to a Harpers article yesterday but it was some goofy conspiracy theory and not the glowing interview which I was thinking of. Not sure where I had read that now, but I will try to find it and link it to you.
@ m:
I’ll test, I’m not scared.
@ coldwarrior:
He said that? Really? I think Charles misheard Obama and inflated his Ego rather than his tires.
He says, based on no evidence…
ChenZhen wrote:
No mention in the article of “Defenseman” the stalker of the stalkers.
Rodan wrote:
Speaking as one who’s been stung by two scorpions, yes.
Nikis Knight wrote:
he was using his corelator tool
I have a feeling the one experience that everyone shared over there, that doesn’t happen here, is the dread having to walk on eggshells.
@ Opilio:
Thank you Opilio!! Yes, that is the article I was referring to. Had my lefty magazines mixed up….
@ ChenZhen:
Ha ha ha ha ha!
These are must see videos:
All about the healthcare bill
And a simple explanation of the banking/housing crisis:
teacake wrote:
nope, not here.
the only way u get banned in this joint is to outright lie or get violent…
coldwarrior wrote:
BS? That Platypus Dooky.
tunnelrat wrote:
Look up at my 92. It was an article in Vanity Fair.
So much drama tonight. lol When I left earlier I had no idea what was in store.
anyhow, nite all.
WHY would they talk to that trainwreck??
@ teacake:
night teacake
typicalwhitey wrote:
rehabilitation of cj among the left so he can be a useful tool of the proggies, most likely
From the article:
CJ was a genius to be able to create an animated .gif of images sent him by other lizards. I’ve changed my opinion of him. He’s up to the level my daughter was in 5th grade.
That NYT article is spot on in many ways, though.
@ coldwarrior:
Actually he get’s trashed in this article.
@ coldwarrior:
They sure didn’t whitewash him like LAT did.
Rodan wrote:
the other articles are not.
something else is going on.
@ Bunk X:
They nailed him!
snork wrote:
Never forget: We’re all fuldkommen gak.
@ coldwarrior:
Might have been the intent, but unless the left is being more open about their love of despots, I don’t think that’s the angle they ended up with after talking to him.
Let’s see – we ‘stalk’ LGF, and LGF certainly stalks Hot Air, so if Hot Air began to stalk us would that complete some sort of stalking feedback loop that would disintegrate the inter-tubes into a black hole of stalking, or something???
When I found that out years ago, I quit eating it.
Other then that, I was really good stuff.
snork wrote:
something bigger than these articles is going on…i dont know what. but for once the left wing papers are not in step on the same topic. why?
bar wrote:
then you never want to see any sausage (including hot dogs) get made!
Bunk X wrote:
fuldkommen gak
that needs to go on a blogmocracy tee shirt!
nil stooge wrote:
dude, that’s how black holes are created…the black hole at the center of our galaxy is made of ancient bloggers that eventually stalked each other into infinity.
Bunk X @ 138:
The soothsayer is three hours behind the east coast and he knew who was responsible for 9-11.
Meanwhile the millions of people who was watching that on live TV or on the scene had no idea who was behind the attack.
Give me a break the guy trips way too much.
@ coldwarrior:
He really got trashed at the NY Times!
It’s too funny!
@ Beltfed:
Hey I had Chorizos tonight!
nil stooge wrote:
Whoa. Dude. You’re harshing my mellow. Like what if Neil Young was a baritone?
Rodan wrote:
and was softballed in LAT, then in vanity fair…
something bigger is up.
coldwarrior wrote:
Heh. I’ll forward a mockup. (I just did one for AmyOops.)Remind me.
@ Beltfed:
I like how they pretty much call him a liar when he said that no one was banned for disagreeing with him.
I posted ONCE on a blog he disapproved of and poof! I was blocked.
Rodan wrote:
hey, i need to make some latin american chicken on sunday (explain later) text me some names of dishes that i can look up.
Bunk X wrote:
really?
whats it cost for a run?
I call bullshit on that one! He had KKKillgore send it.
Now, Charles. Come on.
typicalwhitey wrote:
the book of the banned (which is a brilliant idea) tells the real story
@ Rodan:
Yea, that line bugged me. The compelling reason is now typing, after all.
m wrote:
there is no doubt that kkkkilgore sent that…the MO is the same as the racists posts he did at hot air
@ coldwarrior:
Hey, I had a couple of Cupids chili dogs for lunch.
Its old time LA, they have been around since 1947.
But you are right.
ChenZhen wrote:
typing is, in fact the compelling reason! i didnt look at that line like that.
Sigh. I checked out that “True Slant” thing. There’s a liberal name for ya. Anyway, CJ is actually posting his photos there.
Apparently they don’t allow comments on his articles. Probably a good choice, that.
@ bar:
cant remember who said it but i will paraphrase: never watch sausage or government being made
coldwarrior wrote:
Surprisingly cheap, depending on the shirt quality and style. The folks that do that kinda stuff buy in bulk, so you can get a decent quality tee for $4-$6 apiece, including printing.
coldwarrior wrote:
Might “They” be using Mad King Charles and lgf 0.0001 as a way to setup the rest of the blogasphere as being an unreliable source of news and information?
In other words, if you want the truth, stay with the lame stream media.
(And don’t trust crazy bloggers for any news.)
@ Bunk X:
we will need to get together in a month or so…
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
i think you have hit the target!
@ coldwarrior:
Otto von Bismarck
coldwarrior wrote:
Lemme know. You know where to find me.
@ Da_Beerfreak:
thanks…its been a while since i had to quote the kaiser
@ Nikis Knight:
hahaha! They did [before] because someone said they had one deleted on one of his threads~ I guess they don’t allow dissent either (at least in chucks place).
@ Bunk X:
Sure the crew at CRU could plug the theoretical baritone Neil Young into their equations and answer that for you.
@ coldwarrior:
What do you think is up?
@ Bunk X:
no doubt on that. i would like some marketing
Rodan wrote:
go read 202
@ m:
Yup, it’s a false flag!
@ coldwarrior:
Very valid point!
Rodan wrote:
You think he even has the hint of an inkling of a clue about the trashing?
Rodan wrote:
beerfreak nailed the most obvious reason.
i mean, since when is the msm not in lock step on a topic as volatile as blogs and chuckie and politics?
Tell Your Story About Being Banned at LGF
nil stooge wrote:
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
Yes he responded to it!
Blogosphere | Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:56:04 pm PST
Shrieking harpy said what? “He’s a traitor, a turncoat, a plant. We may not know for years what actually happened.”
Insert sigh.
I have a few significant disagreements with the angle taken by Jonathan Dee in his profile for the New York Times, most of all his willingness to accept unverifiable anecdotal information from people who post comments on the Internet under fake names, to claim that their LGF accounts were blocked simply for disagreeing with me — a claim which, in the vast majority of cases, is simply not true.
It’s a little odd to point out at the beginning of the article that there were extremist comments posted at LGF in the early days of the blog, but then turn around and imply that I’m over-reacting today by taking a firmer hand toward policing said comments and commenters. Damned if you don’t, then damned if you do.
Another nitpick: Dee implies that I link too much to blog posts and articles about myself — does that mean I shouldn’t link to his NYT article? Since I’m the guy whose name is on this blog, should I just ignore everything written about me? Or should I occasionally respond to the posts on other blogs that call me out by my real name?
A while back I decided it’s best to occasionally respond, especially when there are factual issues at stake (not just ad hominem nonsense), because the best way to deal with defamatory statements on the Internet is to make sure your defense shows up in a Google search too.
Note that if you go through the articles that appear on LGF’s front page, only a very tiny percentage fit Dee’s description; I consciously try to keep those “meta” posts to a minimum.
Guess I shouldn’t complain too much, though; I expected a negative tilt after some of the things I’ve written about the New York Times over the past decade. Could have been worse.
there is a movement in the journalism fields that hates the blogs.
they hate the blogs because we can do the same job as them without the bias, and they think that we steal their work.
i say that blogs like this are in fact nothing more than columnists, aggregating the news and bringing a fresh outlook to it. blogs are a threat to the left and cupcake degreed journalists…because it does not take a degree in journalism to write an article.
coldwarrior wrote:
The Vanity Fair thing suggests that he’s going to get involved in another PJM-like enterprise. Maybe that was a part of the realignment; so he could be part of a lefty consortium. As if the market needs another one of those.
With Air America finally croaking, I can just see where this is going to be in a couple of years.
fuldkommen gak
fuldkommen gak
fuldkommen gak
kukkuk!
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
wow thats a big cat!
snork wrote:
on a tee shirt near u soon!
@ Bunk X:
Ha ha ha, I found another clip of The Jazz Artist!
m wrote:
That’s what I said. And the exact same thing “happened” when the LAT guy was there. Riiiiiight.
bar @ 177:
That wiki article is bullshit, Chorizo (Spain) or Chouriço Linguiça (Portugal) Is traditionally made from the shoulder or butt, certain varieties are smoked and others are cured for long storage without spoiling.
Families get together in the fall for the annual matanza (slaughter)of several hogs most of the meat is turned into different varieties of sausages including morcela (blood pudding) and smoked chops and hams.
I have several pounds of the sausage here I pick up once a month in Newark NJ in the Iron Bound Section, (Little Portugal)
Just about every other day I enjoy a link or two of Chouriço, either fried with eggs grilled wrapped in aluminum foil to keep the juices in or just plain raw, yes raw, with hot sauce.
snork wrote:
another valid point.
there is something else going on here.
@ Rodan:
According to nancyboy everyone is still out to get him, LOL!!!
coldwarrior wrote:
I think there are several something elses we’re not being told about. Including the non-Mata Harri.
coldwarrior wrote:
To me blogs like this one are more like a coast to coast water cooler that we all stop at a couple of times a day just to chat about what is going on and to share bits of news and insights that others might have missed.
This unregulated activity can lead to free thinking and that is an unforgivable crime as far as the Left is concerned.
Rodan 2 184:
I’ll make some tomorrow and takes photos for Bar to see how good it is.
Lips and lymph nodes. I don’t want to know what kind of lips.
New pics:
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m263/christie44/100_2142.jpg
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m263/christie44/100_2143.jpg
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m263/christie44/100_2152.jpg
@ typicalwhitey:
Oh.My.Goodness! ~:D
@ m:
Ain’t he a cutie!
Dummy is engaged now to mr wife beater
She “hangs out” with his daughters, mainly because they are almost the same age LMAO!
Goodnight all!!!
@ typicalwhitey:
Geeze. I’m so glad he has you!!!
It looks like “truth/slant” is just taking stuff from lgf and reposting it, with permission of course.
Old link that has link to places like the ace of spades 1.0 shellacing.
http://fluidoz.wordpress.com/
@ m:
Me too!
Getting him tomorrow!
OMG GOD! Jesus H. Tap Dancing Christ on popsicle stick! The NYT, of all people! The gran doyenne, la dame grey herself taking CJ over her knee and paddling him without mercy.
This is a clear renunciation by the left of CJ. He has zero credibility with them and they don’t want him playing in THEIR sandbox. Ever.
Pity about them bridges CJ burned over the past year. Good luck getting back to the right.
BTW, how is he spinning this?
Rodan wrote:
Kinda missed the whole point, didn’t he? Kinda forgot about calling Rush Limbaugh a racist based entirely on hearsay, didn’t he? Kinda forgot about his baseless and petulant bannings, didn’t he?
And further signs that the end is near, Chris Matthews (see Hot Air) bitch slaps Alan Grayson about how all the talk of Reconciliation is little more than a bluff.
Maybe the media knows which way the wind is blowing.
snork wrote:
That’s on the back of the shirt!
@ Rodan:
Has he banned the NYT from his site? Has he stopped linking them? Mercy.
@ calcajun:
NYTimes and LATimes handled the same volatile/political subject in very different ways. this never happens, so why did it happen over cj?
@ coldwarrior:
Maybe he can cancel his LA Times subscription.
Otherwise, it’s the same reason Chris Matthews now sounds nearly reasonable– the press is “realigning” after Tuesday’s election.
Rodan wrote:
Honestly, I can’t knock him musically. That’s some tough stuff they’re cranking.
calcajun wrote:
another good theory.
calcajun wrote:
I agree.
And watch the Dems start expressing their displeasure with Obambi.
Massachusetts breached the dam.
It is now safe to criticize the Won LOL
I can’t believe I just read a whole NY times article, they do take him to task towards the bottom
OT, got a nice photo of a waterspout near the Huntington Beach Pier. We had weather this week.
http://tackyraccoons.com/2010/01/22/we-got-weather/
hold on there, blogmocrats…
the healthcare fight is not over, nor are the rest of the 0 agenda.
no sireee, the 0 even said himself that hew would rather enact his agenda than be a 2 term president. the proggies know that this is their only chance for many years to come to get something into law to build on.
stay vigilant
@ Bunk X:
That’s why he should stick to Jazz Music and not Politics.
@ coldwarrior:
yep!
http://redeemthetime.net/2010/01/21/abortion-machine-aborted-national-health-care-dead/
Bunk X wrote:
lol @ ‘boat slips and trailer parks’
typicalwhitey 2 232:
Ahhhhh, cute pics.
@ davehm:
They rip him apart!
davehm wrote:
this fight with the proggies never ends. the right inst winning either.
govt always gets bigger, never smaller.
@ Rodan:
If he thinks he can get in buddy buddy with the left then he’s lost his mind.
Charles does ban people who disagree with him. I watched him do it many times. Some deserved it many definitely did not. Charles had a sense of HIS blog, he did not have a sense of the community active there.
If you disagreed with him about a subject matter that he held closely like creationism, or something he over broadly latched onto as racists or fascist, then you became a target. The cronies would work the angles.And some day he found the reason to get rid of you as a poster.
Then to cement the deal there would be a post about how many socks you had trying to get back into the blog. And that you sent him a nasty gram that he couldn’t publish. The majority of the time that was just fiction.
coldwarrior wrote:
I think with a Republican house and Senate this might stop for awhile, but you’re right, the gov never gets smaller only bigger.
coldwarrior wrote:
My garage smells like wet cats, too.
@ orangecrush:
I think even the NY Times knows that, not a good reputation to be banning people because you disagree
unlike chuck norris who doesn’t sleep, he waits, i have to get some shuteye.
g’nite
Ditto that CW. Gunnite.
@ coldwarrior:
That goes for me too, I’m going to go wait until the morning.
@ mjazz:
lol! I should have waited another day.
So is the NYT a stalker newspaper now?
Excellent article. Very much spot on.
As for my banning, it was due to disagreeing with Sharmuta on how she handled the CiJ banning. Their reason for that was simply untruthful, but then again, they can ban for whatever reasons. What I did object to was the behaviour unbecoming to someone in position of authority. The language was foul. And… so I was banned.
Johnson looks a bit like the porn star john holmes in that music video.
He was a pathological liar as well.
@ coldwarrior:
It might be some red meat for the nutroots. The Representative and Senators need to look to their own houses now. If they pass this bill, it’s a virtual certainty their jobs are in peril come the fall.
Now, what we need to do is look at the objective lessons of Mass. and Brown’s victory. How much was due to Brown’s charm (of which there was a lot), the fact that Coakley was an awful candidate (beyond dispute) and/or a repudiation of BHO’s policies.
@ Bunk X:
Mine smells like wet dogs–cause that’s where the Akitas sleep.
Just one tiny point I noticed (and I haven’t read all of these comments so this may be old hat.) In a recent L. A. Times article they mentioned that they interviewed Chuck at his “office.” This surprised me since having a real office implies a level of success that I hadn’t imagined Chuck had attained. So it was interesting to read here that his “office” is really just a room in his house.
Rodan wrote:
wonder how long he had to prepare his ‘set’ complete with fake woman for that interview. Yeah that piece called chucky just what he was with grace. Couldnt happen to a better ponytail fat ass.
@ Mad Mullah:
Mata-Hari was an exotic dancer and courtesan, I’m trying to imagine what the opposite of that would be.
http://www.maskworld.com/pix/costumes/large/95406-bauchtaenzer-fat-suit-belly-dancer-fat-suit.jpg
Good morning. That reporter issued Chuck a smackdown with civility.
224 Sharmuta
Sat, Jan 23, 2010 12:59:08am replyquote 1downupreport
What can one say?
223 moradali
Sat, Jan 23, 2010 12:30:48am replyquote 0downupreport
I haven’t posted for years, but just read the NYT article – but I wonder what CJ has to say about the article saying he posted names and pictures of his critics?
This is a serious charge. How come CJ did not respond to this?
And “usually I don’t censor if I disagree with the post”? And what sort of answer is that?
Am I going to be banned now? Please clarify.
Also – I am a Muslim apostate. Am I allowed to criticize Islam and Mohammed here?
DtP is, of course, on the apparent PJM II deal…
http://dennisthepeasant.typepad.com/dennis_the_peasant/2010/01/as-if-progressives-dont-have-enough-troubles-already.html
Good morning, y’all.
I and many others were banned because we posted on sites Charles had forbidden.
He is a liar.
Oh, BTW, you can comment on Chaz’ posts at the “True/Slant” place. You have to register, but that’s it.
A list to add to:
Must not disagree without being willing to surrender and grovel before other’s opinions immediately.
Must not visit or quote alternate opinion sites.
Must not defend anything not deemed multicultural enough.
Must not refer to earlier LGF quotes or subjects before the Gran Mal seizure.
Must not be Christian enough to actually believe in your faith and endure the mockery of others.
Must not espouse genocide unless it is directed toward most of the Republican Party, the Palin family or teabaggers.
Must not question settled science, I mean, I said it’s settled dammit!
Must not ding the undingable
Must not challenge or downding owner, ever.
Must not have an opinion unsupported by links (in triplicate) from approved sites only.
Must not post concise reasons for leaving, no matter how polite.
Must not upding “flouncers.”
Must not question stealth banning or refer to such in subsequent threads.
Must not make others uncomfortable by using words such as patriotic.
Must not think that Kos is all that bad anymore.
THE QUESTIONING OF Johnson’s tactics started to come not just from without L.G.F. but also from within. Readers both casual and loyal spoke up in the comment threads to ask, sometimes diplomatically and sometimes not, whether all this casual flinging of epithets like “fascist” wasn’t maybe an overreaction. Johnson’s response, in thousands of cases, was to block their accounts and ban some of them from viewing the blog. “Get off my Web site” was a common farewell. (Johnson insists that this is not true — that no one has ever been banned from L.G.F. merely for disagreeing with him.
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How can anybody have any respect for that lying scumbag after reading that last sentence.
WTF is a stalker blog?
Speranza wrote:
Charles calls this a stalker blog, because pople here view it for laughs.
Let me claify, view LGF for laughs.
@ Mike C.:
Ahhh,so its going to be media matters for the “thinking” lefturd? ha ha ha.
Good morning!
@ Speranza:
Defenseman?
224 Sharmuta
Sat, Jan 23, 2010 12:59:08am replyquote 1downupreport
re: #48 Charles
I know that both Thanos’s and Sharmuta’s comments were left on the cutting room floor.
I’m disgusted by this piece, and frankly quite glad to have been cut from this trashy piece of tabloid journalism.
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disgusted and heart broken by reading about charlie’s soon to be bride.
quite a few people have speculated that the change in chas must have been caused by another person in his life,
and i think it’s the case.
he has shacked up with a hard core lefty. ex hippy girl lol.
Charles, you are just flat out dishonest.
Like TFK mentioned up thread, you banned Realwest for no reason whatsoever. Because him, and some other folks were thinking about starting their own blog? I can defend him unequivocally, they were looking for another place to meet, with the rules being no mention of LGF. You still banned him. As well, your neurotic butt kisser was bitching and moaning about all you did for him, and this is the respect that Charles Johnson gets?
Go to hell Charles.
You banned numerous people who did nothing at all. I dare you, if you are a man of your word, state why you banned me. Don’t get me wrong, I know I was not really posting too much during the last few weeks before I could not log on anymore, but I never got a reason why my account was blocked. (Or the very simple email I sent to you asking, “what did I do”.)
I have some very good ideas, and still wonder why Chatham Breezes never made it off the ground. (Well, I don’t to be honest, I could really care less)
Nonetheless, you are a liar. You are dishonest. You refuse to debate the facts.
Just like Sharmuta on an open thread, it becomes me, me, me, me. You bellyache when you get a little critical press, and everyone is out to get you.
I think your bride is short changing you on the Ativan.
What a tool.
@ justin case:
I’m so sorry Charles.
Sharmutta
@ vagabond trader:
Yeah, sing it Connie.
How right you are – Animal Farm is a great analogy.
Mike C. wrote:
True, but they have edited several of mine out. No cursing, on topic but apparently too biting for chuckster to handle.
Here’s the money quotE
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That is an admission that he does it at least sometimes. We all know that is standard ops for him, but he is at least admitting to some censorship
I want the square footage for the house which Chuckie lives in the gated community. Mr. Global Warming can’t be living the low carbon lifestyle when a powered gate needs to be used to allow one to drive into the street near your house. The gated communities I have been in do not exactly have small homes, so what is it? Another “Do as I say, not as I do, libtard?
Secondly, where do these hate mails and threats come from that show up in a timely fashion whenever a reporter drops by?
RIX wrote:
I mean it is such a stupid term. The Internet is open to all. Was he a stalker when he used to post the Daily Kos ravings?
lawhawk gets his 2 cents in
31 lawhawk1/22/2010 7:17:21 pm PST
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@ Crashnburn01:
Why am I not surprised ? Well, looks as if the whole site’s toilet fodder anyway.
@ Speranza:
He seems to know about what happens here – would that make LGF a stalker blog of the his self-defined stalker blog?
@ Mike C.:
Well. I challenged him to delete me in one comment and his Stalinist instincts couldn’t be dealt with, I suppose! LOL
Incoming!
@ Bunk X:
Man that was dead on, I’d never seen it – lots of cognitive dissonance for the first 90 seconds trying to grok what I was watching, lol. If he’d had big sideburns and another couple dozen verses (e.g. “Candy Mountain”) I may never have figured it out.
Oh damn I made a mistake. Please delete post 303
Speranza wrote:
Implored? More like “tow my thought line or suffer the consequences”… I’m wondering if that KoolAid still tastes like grapes, Lawhawk?
@ Speranza:
He is one that still posts there, and I don’t know why.
There are a few folks still there who I would say I think are very smart, and held in regard, but it is obvious Charles is not really about being honest.
Thus, why stick around.
A lot of terms over there are stupid, ‘Flounce” “Bad Crazy” “Nirther”,
The list goes on.
Now he reaaaaaly likes Kos & Andy Sullivan new BFF’s
@ RIX:
You think Kos would trust The Husky One(TM) any further than he could throw him?
As someone that has spent over half my life playing guitar, it makes me happy to say that the video I just watched was a prime example of poorly written music. Not catchy, rhythmic, or interesting in any way. That was disorganized chaos.
Awful. Just awful.
@ RIX:
We all suspected it was about a woman and I am pretty certain now that it is. Tehy interviewed Sharmuta and Thanos? I cannot stand Thanos.
I wonder if Sharmuta’s and Thonos’ parents were OK with reporters going into their basements to speak to their 42 year old children?
So Charles Nodickens thought they’d show him love? lol!
Nodickens lies. I was banned for apologizing for writing opinions for years on lgf that he intensely disliked [unbeknownst to me]. I said I wouldn’t have written on those subjects if I had known and that he may want to remove my opinions.
Nodickens promptly deleted my apology and laced with profanity, told his kissasses that I was un-fucking-believable and making un-fucking-believable demands.
They pegged Nodickens as uncivilized and it is true.
Ummm ummm ummm. All this week lefturds sniping at each other; smells like victory.Unless we snatch defeat out of its jaws.
The lefturds won this week. They made it legal for themselves to spend 1.9 trillion dollars on virtual issues and turn it into hard cold enslaving debt for you and me. Its all legal.
Hmmm. The
New YorkSaddam Times. They better Love a Good Fisting.@ waldensianspirit:
Not so fast. Let this blathering yutz continue taking his party of fellow travelers down.Small victories then the prize.
Why is C. Everett Koop sitting behind the ONE?
Not at all, there is really no trust for Charlie anywhere.
There is something seriously wrong with the guy.
That could be the answer & would explain a lot.
Bunk X wrote:
This statement tells you everything abt. the arrogant sob and why no one can stand to be around him.
Everyone of merit has abandoned this pompous jerk.
Oh this is sweet, MSM in a snit because Tea Party convention didn’t invite them. Hint: show the American people 1/10000 of the respect you lavish on Hussein the Liar and maybe you’ll get an interview with a low level insider at the next Inaugural Ball.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/01/tea_party_crashers.html
OK folks…who all saw Caprica’s premiere on Skiffy last night?
chickadee wrote:
As soon as the attack happened I knew it was Bin Laden. You did not need to be a genius to figure that out.
@ Speranza:
oh he’ll be banned for sure
@ Speranza:
Incoming? Post 303 was a B52 carpet bombing! LOL
Ace chimes in
Oh My: NYT Profiles Charles Johnson
I know what you’re thinking, as I thought that too — Funny, but why is it when LGF was getting 500,000 hits a day on the right, he wasn’t worth a profile, and now that he’s getting 100,000 or less and on the left, he is?
Yeah, that’s true. That’s probably why they commissioned the piece.
A funny thing happened on the way to publishing it, though.
And oh dear: Check out this dead-bang center shot at the target:
Peter wrote:
I made it a mistake. It will be deleted.
RIX wrote:
Actually, the reporter did CJ a favor by not mentioning the deranged statements of chuckles’ craziest sycophants. Just imagine what sharmie was saying abt. his majesty. I bet she even cried as she talked abt. him walking on water etc.
An utterly meaningless number. I suspect that’s everyone that ever registered since registration started minus those actually banned. Most of them are years and years old and never posted a single comment. Power Line Forum had pages and pages of such people. I personally clean them out every so often at GCP because otherwise it distorts the membership numbers.
How about Ice Weasel’s greatest hits? You could put a swat team of shrinks on that.
RIX wrote:
FTFY
@ Doppelganger:
That Weasel is one nasty critter.
RIX wrote:
jimmuh is even dumber than I suspected, hooking up with that Gorgon skank
so the tool has a press agent?
Just for the record…….True/slunt does indeed run interference for chucky.
I posted a pretty mild criticism of chuckles and it never made it past the censors.
I posted on his wonderful desert photo thread…..and it never made it out of the moderators pen.
i have a screenshot, but I don’t know how to post it.
what’s the web address again if I want to change my avatar?
@ chickadee:
no kidding…..i’m sure she oooooozed nothing but creepy love for him and self hatred for herself
Doppelganger wrote:
You all might disagree but I believe Jimmah=iceweasil=Hen Johnson.
Did anyone notice the art work next to the article?
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2010/01/24/magazine/24Footballs-1.html
MKC is a liar…
I was banned for disagreeing with him on Geert Wilders…
I don’t know if I’ve ever been prouder to have been banned from Chuckle’s crap site!
shadowman wrote:
it’s a rainbow explosion………..
Charles Foster Johnson? You have been PUNKED!
And the punking was set up by a woman you hate, Pamela Geller!
waldensianspirit wrote:
rats! foiled again!
RIX wrote:
Which is probably why they seem to like the leftard phrase “butthurt” which seems to imply anal rape.
Iceweasel seems extremely fond of the term which I’ve noticed on other lefty sites such as Kos and DU. Unfortunately some people on our side seem to think it is cute as well. I’ve noticed a few posters at Ace starting to use it. Why do lefties have to use degrading sexual terms in political arguments?
The Osprey wrote:
Because lefties usually are sexually degraded
@ The Osprey:
Some of us use it to mock them. Mocking is a good tactic.
The Times piece was devastating, a body blow to his reputation he will likely never recover from. When I first read it, it reminded me of an obituary for a blog, if you will. If there such a thing as a living obituary, that was it.
CJ made a conscious decision to attract the liberals to his site, and there was a major barrier in that plan.
Liberals will never gather in large numbers on a site that is considered conservative and heavily populated by conservatives.
That meant a heavy purge had to be committed, and it was.
CJ banned large chunks of his registered users at once, sometimes the numbers were small, but sometimes they were devastating.
Posters that had not commented in months were simply vanished, and well respected posters were banished simply for having political views abhorrent to liberals.
What was left after his rampant nuking was a few pet conservatives for his new ravenous moonbats to pile on and down ding.
Many of us were not banned for disagreeing openly, we were banned so his libtards audience could be attracted and or empowered.
We will never know how many of the meeker lizards that seldom if ever posted were vanished, but you can bet the number is in the thousands, as they could be flushed with little if any notice or fanfare.
The price has been paid, what is left of a once powerful blog, is now a smorgasbord board of smug intolerance.
hey everyone! Congratulations M, Rodan and Savage–vindication is sweet–especially coming from the NEW YAWK Times!!!
Sorry not to have been posting too much lately–just can’t shake the flu and its hideous aftermath…tired blood.
But wanted to say how happy I am for the success of this blog! I remember when there were only one or two comments–and I was afraid to post under my regular posting name because of the stalker blog–we know who that is, don’t we!
Must go get my little guy from art class. See you later, blogmocrats!
I don’t know if he outed me, but I hope he gets some legal trouble for this.
SerlahC also is a liar when he claims he doesn’t kick people out for disagreeing with him.
Underzog wrote:
Oh he is a massive liar.
@ katemaclaren:
Hi Kate
Where have you been lately?
I wonder when the reporter got banned and what his nick was.
I thought gated communities were raaaaacist.
Just spotted this one over at A.O.S.
Not sure if it’s already been posted?
Charles was totally played by the NYT.In researching him, they discovered what we know, Charles Johnson is a petty and mean spirited person.The proof is in his awful internet outing of rodan and savage and m.
I just found out that I also have been banned from LGF, not that I want to go back. But I gave him a fairly large donation back in 2007, I figure at $25/year I should get $125/150 back. Sent him a request and may ask paypal if I have any grounds
Proud member of the “500 Club”. The Bloodbath banning of September 2009.
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re: #425 iceweasel
Oh fuck…I forgot we linked HuffPoo here now.
I give up…you win weasel. Who could win an argument against a story out of Austin from Hufftard.
Do you have any links coming from KOS?
Hey Charles are we officially quoting Media Matters and Huffington Post here as fact.
LGF has gone to shit…bye bye!
@ shadowman:
Priceless!
yeah jorline! took you long enough!
Josephine wrote:
Not in Chazland. Haven’t seen you around lately.
rgranger wrote:
Money poorly spent.
FishOrCutBait wrote:
Welcome. Now that was a good flunce!
You know it’s bad when the New York Times thinks a leftie is nuts.
I am one of the latest posters to be banned from Charles Johnson’s site, Little Green Footballs. I removed him from my blogroll and will no longer link to or visit his site. Charles was never a really a conservative… he is a 9/11 Democrat.
About 2 years ago, he got on an anti-creationist tangent that pretty much consumed his daily life. I’m agnostic, so it didn’t bother me.
But since then, he’s gone into the abyss of a pre-9/11 mindset, and it’s flooded every niche of his blog.
It’s a shame because LGF used to be a good site. Johnson was one of the bloggers who exposed Dan Rather’s ‘genuine’ George W. Bush National Guard memos, and the enhanced Iranian missiles fauxtography.
I was booted for supporting the Tea Parties, and critiquing the downward spiral of his site:
I watch Glenn Beck and visited LGF for basically the same reasons: to get commentary, information, and news on politics and issues that as a Republican, I feel are important.
I’m not sure when the turning point was, but LGF has morphed from a site where united conservatives could gather against the lunacy of the MSM, to something unrecognizable. It’s now comprised of a lot of backbiting targeted at people who take national security, Islamofascism, and the socialist Obamanation seriously. There are some people on here who think because I’m an Iraq War/Army veteran, outspoken Obama critic, anti-illegal alien, and a gun owner, I’m a “security threat” to the Obama State.
It’s sad and pathetic.
His erratic behavior has alienated him from people like Pam Geller of Atlas Shrugged and Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch. (http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025667.php) He’s also attacked other prominent sites and bloggers: Ace of Spades, Michelle Malkin, Hot Air, Protein Wisdom, Powerline, Mark Steyn, Geert Wilders, and Dennis Praeger.
He tolerates no dissent, real debate is forbidden, and his enemies list rivals Bill Clinton’s FBI files. He sees nazis behind every door, and probably hiding under his bed. And those are just the people who don’t agree with him 100%. He’s been known to ban people for disagreeing with him on other sites. The man’s paranoia level is skyhigh.
Johnson has become increasingly sycophantic towards Islamofascism, which is ironic given the fact that he received death threats from jihadis, right around the time when CAIR wanted to get LGF classified as a “hate site”.
He has whole-heartedly embraced Janet Napolitano’s idiotic “right-wing” threat assessment, assigned creationists to be bigger villains than terrorists, and disparages ordinary citizens who protest Obama’s socialist policies.
Just what the leftwing needs; an Andrew Sullivan clone.
I went there today out of morbid curiosity, and it’s like watching a trainwreck. He’s sitting there like Captain Queeg rolling the ball bearings between his fingers.
He’s become an internet laughing stock.
Thank you for your service to this great country, SFCMAC.
Now Chuckmeister’s joined the enemy within.
For once, only once, thanks to the NYT for the smack down on good old Charlie.
FLU!!!!
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