Recently, netizens across the blogosphere were treated to an interesting piece on the NYT‘s website, which made an attempt to summarize the drama that has played out over the past couple of years in our little corner of the interwebs. As I sat and read it, I noted that while there were many points made by the author (Jonathan Dee) that hit the nail on the proverbial head, there were others that seemed like trivial criticism (if one can call it that). One example of the latter was this pronouncement:
L.G.F. still has more than 34,000 registered users, but the comment threads are dominated by the same two dozen or so names.
I say trivial because, well, the bolded section probably characterizes virtually every blog and message board out there. Given the context of the site in question (it’s popularity, and the time span involved in generating the numbers), I wasn’t sure that it really meant anything. I basically shrugged my shoulders, and read on. There were certainly juicier nuggets in there, as it turned out.
However, today, I couldn’t help but notice (and who wouldn’t; it’s highlighted in pink at the top of the page) that CJ took issue (<–that link should work, BTW) with that particular line. I guess I shouldn’t be that surprised. After all, as we’ve learned, in CJ’s world, he is special. He wants everyone to know he’s special. And if necessary, he’s willing to pull out his MySQL search kung fu in a hilarious attempt to try to prove it.
Out of all of the scathing stuff posted in Dee’s piece, only a straw-grasping egomaniac would venture a rebuttal by posting this:
Of course, one doesn’t need to be Nate Silver to know that this attempt at a “fact-check” is an utter load. Heck, I gotta think that anyone who posesses more than a pair of firing synapses could see that. With no reference to the total number of comments, threads (i.e. “discussions”), or the prominent 24 commenters, an excersise that concludes that there are a bunch of netizens that average a mere 3 comments per day on his blog doesn’t refute what Mr. Dee stated at all. Not one bit. Sure, the mouth-breathing sycophants that still inhabit the site might eat it up, but by ”fact check” standards, it amounts to nothing more than a statistical smokescreeen.
Judging by the pseudo-NUMB3RSesque response, one would think that CJ would have no problem addressing the -again, rather meaningless- assertion directly. But he didn’t. Why?
So, since Dee threw out the number “two dozen”, and since LGF’s memory apparently expands to at least the last 30 days, I hereby present the obvious, junior high level, fill-in-the-blank question to CJ, in the true spirit of “fact-checking”:
In the past 30 days, the top two dozen posters at LGF have contributed ___% of the total comments.
Not exactly requiring an essay.
Exit question: In the unlikely event that CJ actually divulges this, can anyone guess the number?
What was that phrase? Fact check, my ass?
eleventy?
And note, btw, that Johnson pulled that 30-day period out of his posterior. Dee said absolutely zero about any period. And it matters, a lot. If you use the more reasonable per-thread basis, you get less than one dozen making over 50% of the comments.
snork wrote:
Turns out that was a typo that self perpetuated, in fact it was ‘fist check my ass.’
REPOST FROM LAST THREAD:
To satisfy my insatiable curiousity, I just did a quick census on 3 of the more heavily commented recent threads at the other place.
THREAD 1
comments: 298
total commenters: 52
8 commenters made >50% of the comments
THREAD 2
comments: 568
commenters: 58
8 commenters made >50% of the comments
THREAD 3
comments: 1750
commenters: 114
15 commenters made >50% of the comments
OVERALL
comments: 2616
commenters: 152
16 commenters made >50% of the comments
Shall we play “name that top 16″?
About half are pretty familiar.
ooh,ooh,ooh!
can we guess?
68.3487%
@ snork:
The Jazz Artist crashed and burns again.
Opilio wrote:
Umm, umm, umm, KKKilgore Kleagle?
For the record, my guess is 85%.
snork wrote:
Indeed, KKKKKT limps in at 14th.
Ok, Bagua, Ice, Jimmah, Cato, Prolly Sharm, but she’s been absent recently, maybe LVQ, but I hear he’s also AWOL, reine.whatever, umm…umm…Chuckles himself? Walter, San Fran Zio, oh, crap. How many is that?
Opilio wrote:
where do mandy and hoosierhoops rank?
The real question is, how many in that top 16 are TFK’s sox.
I forgot about hoser.
Asswhistle is way up the shute as well.
OT, but Rodan, you may be interested in this.
oh and just as an fyi
another nugget in the climategate saga
The London Times continues to follow the glaciergate story–and it keeps getting worse.
The latest disclosure: Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN’s (formerly) prestigious Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (known as the IPCC), may have raised millions of dollars for his New Delhi institute on the basis of the totally bogus ‘glaciergate’ claim by the IPCC that the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035
@ snork:
Sharm, but she’s been absent recently,
She’s being Un Mata Hari like and serving water for the Jazz Artist and his Guests!
@ snork:
In fact, this would make an interesting thread; this is the US tea party movement in a couple of years.
@ rain of lead:
Even the Times of India is after his ass. He’s an embarrassment to India!
@ snork:
Good a Venezuelan Tea Party! Great find Snork!
@ snork:
Yes it would.
Watch for tomorrow night!
snork wrote:
Rodan, don’t you just hate it when your thread goes off-topic before it hits comment #10?
Well, you waited until after ten. (I’m just kidding)
@ snork:
Hugo needs Obama to go down and help out as a consultant.
mjazz wrote:
OT in 10. I like it. Overnight photo of seagull feet coming up.
Venezuela oil ‘may double Saudi Arabia’
Hmmm…. look for Obama to declair them off-limits.
@ Rodan:
Who do you think CJ is engaged to marry?
It’s hard to imagine any of the usual female suspects at 1.0 waiting on CJ and the NYT guy hand and foot with fruit and stuff.
Sorry. Stepped away momentarily. I shall review the submissions…
Maybe CJ has an email order bride.
Eliana wrote:
Let’s see… His right hand has a permanent headache, and his left hand doesn’t have a grip. That narrows things down a bit.
now this I like
Be sure to crack open a cold one on Jan. 24, the day canned beer celebrates its 75th birthday
happy birthday to beer
happy birthday to beer
happpy biiiirrthhaaaaayy to beeeeeeeer
happy birthday to beer
*sniff* I’m so happy
Eliana wrote:
That’s ‘cuz “He’s so much cooler on-line.” …I drive and old Hyundai I still live with my mom…
@ mjazz:
Nah, I really don’t care. It’s you guys blog,
Let’s see,
1.
2.
3. MManners, 106 comments
4.
5.
6. Cato the misanthrope
7.
8.
9. Bagua
10.
11.
12. HHoops
13.
14. KKKKKKT
15. SFZ
16.
The weasel is around 20th.
Sharm tied for 152nd with 1 comment.
Of course, this is just 3 threads from the last day or so. Some regulars are missing.
@ BenZacharia:
his Fiance is Sharmuta.
@ Rodan:
Seriously?
@ Bunk X:
I was busting snork cuz that’s what he said in the last thread. Hope I don’t get a ‘time out’/
@ Bunk X:
I’m still puzzling over the “un-Mata Hari like” remark. She’s not spying on Chuckee or she’s hideous.
@ Bunk X:
As you wish…..:)
mjazz wrote:
there is an old saying in the south
“ugly as a mud fence covered in tadpoles”
“Moving right along…”
Everyone who knows who I am quoting, a show of hands, please.
@ Eliana:
Don’t know. It mentions a Un Mata Hari like Woman. Ive seen pics of Sharm and she’s ugly. Who else would engage to the Bear like Jazz Artist?
@ Eliana:
Charles is now calling Rush anti-Semite becasue the ADL attacked him!
Politics | Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 7:54:54 pm PST
Yes, Rush Limbaugh again.
This time he’s embroiled in a controversy over statements about “Wall Street bankers” (aka “Jews”).
Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League issued a statement calling Limbaugh’s comments “borderline antisemitism.”
Now Ben Smith reports that Norman Podhoretz has ridden to Limbaugh’s defense and accused Foxman of ‘chutzpah’.
Oh my achin’ head.
I’ll take Norman Podhoretz over the Jazz Artist’s opinion anyday!
@ Rodan:
Me, too!
He sure picked a hell of a time to “part ways with the Right”. That oasis called the “Left” is a mirage.
Talking about fact checking…..
So you haven’t read two major works about progressive thought. Reading third party dissections though means that you are up on it. R..i..g..h..t……
So, Cj was excited to point out how wrong the article writer was, because over a month, 836 people in the entire world-wide interwebs came to his blog?
That was his moment of excitement? 838 people in a month?
more and more he reminds me of the aging actress, hanging onto the memory of popularity and fame, as they disdainfully smoke a cig and drink yet another 8am martini… talking about the good old days and name-dropping in an attempt to appear relevant.
@ LanceKates:
You nailed it with that description.
IkeChuck, you can beclassBlogs President.(hey, it’s late)
@ LanceKates:
FIFY!
@ Rodan:
Not Venezuela, but Nicaragua. Folks there are none too happy with the saintly Daniel Ortega, it seems.
http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb222/gordintrochu/Nicaragua/NicaPix029.jpg
Not the only such defaced billboard I saw there.
PaladinPhil wrote:
Action shot:)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2142/2223599294_dbdda221ae.jpg?v=0
Dark Falcon our #1 Fan!
rain of lead wrote:
“..so ugly she’d gag a buzzard on a gut truck.”
@ Alberta Oil Peon:
You read that term, El Pueblo. That means the People!
Rodan wrote:
The left always take Rush out of context. If he’d fart on the air they’d try to claim that he was calling Pelosi a piece of crap.
@ Rodan:
Oh, he claims to be of the people, but he has morphed into a sort of a Somoza-lite. Even Sandinistas are muttering that he has abandoned the principles of the Sandinista movement, and is now principally interested in feathering his own nest, and those of his cronies.
@ Rodan:
“Favoured”?
mjazz wrote:
Quite Concur.
@ Alberta Oil Peon:
Sounds like the plot of a book I read a long time ago- Animal Ranch?/
@ Possum:
Here is Dark Falcon sad about people leaving LGF for here!
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re: #289 iceweasel
Please excuse the downding, but that’s not it at all. Let me try to explain it from a sane conservative perspective:
There are some people unhappy with the changes here who aren’t mad at Charles. We know that he had to make it clear that the GOP was falling into the grips of fundies and conspriracy loons. I approve of that objective and I support Charles in so doing 100%. However, some of us (me included), are fairly bummed out that so many of the conservative lizards decided to flounce. The change in the poster’s ideological makeup has also made this a tougher room for conservatives. I wish my former friends had decided to think about who they were supporting, instead of flouncing, but they didn’t. So its not butthurt, but a real sense of anxiety over some very painful changes.
ROTFLMAO at comment number 2 on the Overnight Open Thread at the stalker blog.
I have not been around much but I hope you have all seen the latest video.
Lizard Lounge:New York Times Meltdown
It is good.
@ Rodan:
That makes as much sense as the people who voted for Brown were angry at Bush.
@ Rodan:
I hope all those over there like Dark_Falcon in that CULT realize that they could register here and comment on threads like adults.
Hey! they can even just come over here and chat with us when we have a football/gun/knife/chorizo thread!
But, you and I and they know the honest truth. If they come here and say one word they will be banned for life from Little Green Footballs.
Charles Foster Johnson: “My way or no way…..”
Hi Falcon!
Um, did you all see this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWctRsJuHfc
@ Possum:
A Flounce!
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Charles, come one, give a rest. As for me, vacation is over and now I resign forever and a bit longer beyond that.
So, Lizoids and Charles, live long and try to prosper in this time of toil and hardship. I shall so endeavor too, well outside this now strange community.
It’s been a ball.
Cheers, and one last time: bwahahahahahahahahahahaha.
@ Rodan:
This is utter and complete horse manure!!!
Nothing special was going on with the Republicans except for losing control of Congress and the White House. CJ was digging up creationism stories from local school districts whose policies were NOT national news.
CJ HIMSELF is the biggest conspiracy loon in the blogosphere (including what he does with his six-degrees-of-separation obsession with who is linked to what on the internet).
Yo, Dark Falcon -- if you have to swallow every single word CJ tells you as the unquestionable truth no matter what, then you are his SLAVE.
@ Rodan:
Nice one!
@ Eliana:
He has no original thought.
Hey Thanks for all your work on this blog. I love your posts and hope to see more great work out of you!
Rodan wrote:
This interesting bit of legerdemain from one “Obdicut” (#13; 20 updings): “First of all, it’s an accusation against Obama that he’s using ‘the bankers’ to mean ‘The Jews’-- while simultaneously Rush is endorsing the stereotype, when he immediately says a lot of the people on Wall Street are Jewish.”
I.e., it’s “anti-semitic” to accuse Obama of latent antisemitism but it’s okay to accuse Rush of antisemitism for pointing out possible anti-semitism in Obama. Same game as calling anyone racist for accusing Obama of racism. The underlying assumption never to be questioned is that “of course” Obama can never be guilty of any such attitudes and how dare one even THINK that he ever might be.
And yes, a lot of people on Wall Street (as in Hollywood) ARE Jews for good or ill. Of course, calling a Jew a Jew is automatically anti-semitic since you’re not supposed to make note of the obvious unless (and this is even an iffy tactic) the observation is combined with simultaneous praise and obsequious gratitude.
More laughs from 1.0:
#6 Alouette: “Ayers and Wright were never invited to the White House.”
#8 jamesfirecat: “How dare those people exercise their god given right as American citizens to visit the white house!”
#10 iceweasel: “The visitors on the WH guest logs were not the same Jeremiah Wright, not the same William Ayers.”
(They need to get their stories straight)
Has anybody noticed a lack of comments by Sharmuta? Could it be that she finally has a job?
@ tunnelrat:
Irish Rose is also not as there as much.
The die hard long timers that have no life are being squeezed out by Ice and her dildo.
@ Possum:
That is a good thing-- they really needed to get a life anyhow!!
@ 61 Rodan: Gah, Can I call Dark Falcon clueless? What turned me off LGF was Swami Johnson’s bigotry. What kept me from going back is the dopes that jumped on board.
orangecrush wrote:
Well anyone who is 33ish and hooked on fantasy games and worshiping Charles and stalking us, the stalkers, has got to be a few fries short of a happy meal.
Just my opinion!
Hi Darkie!
Dark Falcon?
More like a Dim Gnat…
One of the many dark-winged fungus gnats.
They are known to be a pest of mushroom farms and they feed mainly on fungi and animal faeces.
I read this. Then I went over and read his post where he shows off his leet SQL skills.
Uh-huh.
Answering the question by changing the conditions doesn’t answer the question. But, then, I’m not surprised he would resort to that, given he practically worships the same behaviour exhibited by the global warming scam “scientists”.
Oh yeah, during that visit I noticed that there aren’t any more super seekrit threads any more. Bwahaha!
Rodan wrote:
Oh bullshit. If one is a conservative why would one want to hang out on Daily Kos Lite? Also if the “fundies” wre controlling the GOP,how the **** did the Repubs wind up with McCain? LGF was my cyber home for 6 -7 years because I felt comfortable there with my ideological kind. Why would I wnat to spend my time there now with iceweasel, wrenchwench, Gus 80s, talon_62 and other leftists who have invaded the place? I (and scores of others) were responsible for making LGF a great right/center place and have no desire to debate leftwingers at what used to be my “home”. If lefties took over theblogmocracy I would leave this place too. Bad enough I have to deal with liberals at the office every day.
Sharmuta must post 10% of the comments every day at LGF.
Good morning. I noticed that Dees said that CJ lives in a “Modest Home” in a “Gated Community.”
The LA County Jail has modest homes in a gated community.
I thought that maybe he got busted for vagrancy.
@ Speranza:
What was “the word” mentioned in #53 “we” use to describe progressives, any idea?
snork wrote:
add lawhawk, Slumbering behemoth, Thanos, Cato, MandyManners
@ Speranza:
@ Speranza:
Dark Falcon syas that Consevatives flounced from LGF , willfully ignoring all of the bannings. My observations were that the vast majority of Consrevatives were banned merely for having an opposing opinion.
The bigger question is why did me & others not leave before the banning?
vagabond trader wrote:
Charles is singularly responsible for the changes at LGF.I am not interested in debating Lefties at LGF, there were other more neutral sites on the internet where I could debate them. Charles went out of his way deliberately to get rid of the vast majority of his old time posters because they were too conservative. He was the one who stifled debate. People walk around on eggshells and Jonathan Dees was right, there is an “Animal Farm” atmospheres (I think “Lord of the Flies” is just as appropriate.
Alouette says:
Really? You have impeccable inside sources? Because those names sure as he11 appeared on the WH visitor logs.Prove to me they weren’t the 2 Jew haters.
@ Speranza:
Gus666
RIX wrote:
Rather then give him the pleasure of banning me I just left on my own. Most conservatives remained (thinking of Iron Fist) because they had been there so long I think there was an element of denial as to what was happening. Charles had every intention of getting rid of people who reminded him of what LGF used to be. By purging us he figuratively could purge the old Charles and start anew. He hangs around on the threads lie ea dock yard union bully enforcing “party discipline”. IF LGF were “On the Waterfront” then Charles would be the Lee J. Cobb character (“Johnny Friendly”).
vagabond trader wrote:
Hoosier Hoops, Honorary Yooper.
Irish Rose came back after her self imposed exile protesting bullies. She said after she and Lars get married they have a list of places they would want to visit but Paris is not one of them (which to me is foolish).
Excellent rebuttal to the “blame Bush” for the economy crowd.
http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/01/for-2010-election-strategy-dems-decide-to-blame-bush-for-their-failed-economic-policies/
RS McCain has a very thorough piece finally deconstructing Johnson, including comparisons to another rather more infamous Charles, with the conclusion that everything Charles Johnson has done is ultimately about Charles Johnson.
I think that your analysis is spot on , or in Sharmutas words, “I so totally agree with that.”
I really thought that things would straighten out over there , while planning my flounce if they didn’t.
Oops too late, got banned first.
vagabond trader wrote:
Not sure. Dark_Falcon is an odd bird.He was banned by selrahC and then begged to be reinstated. Claims tobe a conservative but is as much a conservative as lawhawk and Ben Hur as far as I am concerned.
From RS McCain,this sums it all up perfectly.
RIX wrote:
Teh Correspondene COmmittee people also were in denial thinking that somehow they cold change LGF back to what it once was (or still hope today that CJ wills ee the light). Up until the moment he left, realwest was being charming and kind to Irish Rose and Sharmuta. His reward for quietly leaving to a blog where any mention of LGF is forbidden was to be banned, trashed and to receive a vicious email from Irish Rose 9a woman whom he raised money for so she could visit her son in San Diego and stay in a nice hotel). No good deed, yadda yadda, realwest sent an email to me telling me that he was not redy to turn LGF over to the likes of iceweasel,Jimmah, Killgore -- I told him “Dude Charles makes that decision and his decision is that the LGF we used to love is as dead as the Holy Roman Empire”. NY Nana got banned and publicly humiliated in the process then went over to C.C. and still is in denial about Charles (in another email sent to me). Classic battered wife or Stockholm Syndrome.
Chales debunked the idea that the Ayers & Wright that visted the White House were THE Ayers & Wright.
His proof, “THe White House said so”
See? End of story , now let’s move on to those pesky deniers.
@ RIX:
I know, crazy X 11ty.
Oh yeah almost forgot, Alouette, your Obama is a Jew hater and you are an enabler.
RW was in denial. I mentioned something about a Birther article & he let me know that the subject was now forbiden & I need to “Report” myself. Report?
I pointed out that we are adults & CJ can just delete it.
RW is one of my favorite people from over there & his comment really bothered me , Beacuse he is a stand up guy in general.
Creeping conformity.
CJ did pretty much the same thing for Van Jones, that he really didn’t know that he was signing a Truther petition. Never mind that is what it said on the petition heading.
@ RIX:
The mind of a libral.
RIX wrote:
He gives Van Jones the benefit of the doubt that he would never give any right wing or center-right person. that is why he got rid of all of us, we reminded him of what he used to be.
Frankly I have problems with RW and the lie he told about his father being killed in the WTC 9see 3/11/05 archive on LGF).
“Report your self”? Is this Stalin’s U.S.S.R.? In my opinion although a gentleman, RW was every bit a part of the problem at LGF the past two years.
vagabond trader wrote:
That woman is the maroon who asked if she should rip out the recipes of banned LGFers which made it into their stupid cookbook.
@ Speranza:
I’ve no use for any Jew who supports Hussein.She can put that in her casserole dish.
From LGF Watch (why does that blog even exist any more since LGF is more left wing then LGF Watch?)
1/24/2010 12:30:00 AM
@ Speranza:
Frankly I have problems with RW and the lie he told about his father being killed in the WTC 9see 3/11/05 archive on LGF).
“Report your self”? Is this Stalin’s U.S.S.R.? In my opinion although a gentleman, RW was every bit a part of the problem at LGF the past two years.
Whoa! He said that about his father? Something seriously wrong with that.
Yeah, he did tell me to report myself. It was actually a shock. I wasnot hanging out thare that much then, so I did not get the word from the Husky Blogger
@ Speranza:
Thinking the same.The fiance was also serving up water and fruit. Very Near East.
RIX wrote:
Yes he did. and it was the “stalkers” on LGF Watch which called him out on it. Check out the March 11, 2005 archive on LGF (a 9/11, WTC thread). Iron Fist claims he knows the reason why rw did that but to me there is no excuse when real heros died that day. He also claimed that his dad was an Iwo Jima veteran.
from discarded lies (a site run by former lgfers)
http://discardedlies.com/entry/?42817_
#15 [get my email address] Point of Order at 1:46 am on Sep 12, 2008 quote | reply
realwest is being very quiet regarding 9/11 on LGF. Someone wanted to trade reminiscences about the day, and here’s what he had to say:
I was living and working in mid-town Manhattan -- still my hometown though I now live in North Carolina -- that day and thereafter, and very honestly, I’m too emotionally spent to talk about it anymore.
I’m sorry about that.
I’d say he’s spent all right.
#16 [get my email address] Smit at 8:16 am on Sep 12, 2008 quote | reply
I never got to the bottom of the realwest kerfuffle.
#17 [get my email address] Point of Order at 9:00 am on Sep 12, 2008 quote | reply
He claimed his dear old da -- the veteran of Iowa Jima no less, died at the WTC while attempting to help people from the building. Unfortunately it was all a lie.
vagabond trader wrote:
She and SanFrancscioZionist (how many Zionists does she think are at LGF these days anyway?)annoy the shit out of me.
How ironic almost 4 1/2 years ago
#
realwest says:
August 12, 2005 at 10:57 pm
I am a regular reader and frequent contributor to LGF. Yes there are some genuine looney-tunes on that blog with the whole “nuke-mecca” bit, but the OVERWHELMING majority of commentators do not support that (and say so rather vigorously)virtually every time one of the looney-tune arm chair generals gets going with his nuke ‘em ideas. There are scientists, doctors, lawyers, accontants, farmers, ranchers, office workers, police and military types, fire and rescue workers and others who post at LGF from literally all around the world. And we “fact check your ass” every time you make what appears to be a nonesense or hate statement. I’ve never read a blog that stands up more for homosexual, african-american, Latino American rights than the commentators at LGF. If some commentators go over the top, Charles does his best to delete them and if they are repeat offenders, bans them from LGF. But he averages 85,000 unique hits a day, with an average of 4,000 comments per day; that a few sneak in under the radar screen is hardly a surprise. And if you don’t enjoy a blog which genuninely celebrates free speech, where people disagree with you (and usually in a non-disagreeable tone) then please, please stay away from LGF. We neither need nor want you there.
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John Bartley says:
August 13, 2005 at 10:23 pm
Ah… “Realwest”, the frequent poster at LGF who claimed his father died at the WTC on 9/11, “a hero”. A little “fact checking” proved this is a lie, although the “lizards” gave him a pass, being a senior “minion”.
Oh man , He is not who I thought he is.
Kind of a reverse “I was at Woodstock” thing.
RIX wrote:
He is a very nice man and a gentleman, just not the saintly character everyone claims that he is.
vagabond trader wrote:
yeah according to the claims 2,000,000 people (many who were born after 1969) claim to have been at Woodstock.
@ Speranza:
lol.
i have seen this quote around recently….
Obama said, “People are angry, they are frustrated. Not just because of what’s happened in the last year or two years, but what’s happened over the last eight years.”
i would like to point out….one of the last 8 years was under Obamao’s leadership….
by continually referring to the last eight years, now, hes blaming himself.
@ maxhdrm:
Congress has been controlled by Ds since 2007.
I wish someone had a screen shot of the explanation for why Goddess of the Classroom was banned. Something on the order of she couldn’t be trusted because she posted at the stalker site. I’m wondering if people who give themselve’s nick names eventually live up the name? Icarus….If so I’m changing my nick to extremely rich and handsome.
vagabond trader wrote:
There are some pretty slick graphs around that show how things went to shit shortly after the D’s took over. Course you have to insert the takeover yourself. DJ, for one, unemployment for another. Usually takes a few months for their asinine policies to wreak havoc.
@ maxhdrm:
Congress has been controlled by Ds since 2007.
My point was only that his refrain about the last 8 yrs is now beginning to include his time as well.
@ Rodan:
practically nothing, I had to change my shorts. twice.
(Yes, I’m kidding)
…..
…..
three times.
@ maxhdrm:
he blames the last 8 years…. specifically trying to blame the Bush administration…… but until the Dems took over in January of 2007, things were actually pretty good.
We’d had 9/11 attacks, but were successfully fighting terrorism in two countries, stopped any repeat attacks, economy was doing well, etc.
things really didn’t start going downhill until 2007, when the D’s took office.
@ LanceKates:
I know about the dem’s gaining control in 2007. I would even go so far as to postulate that the financial meltdown we saw just prior to the election was stagemanaged by the dems. After all, they never want to pass up a good crisis, so what better way to do that than to initiate the crisis themselves.
registered users………..that number is including the banned…..
Notice how he had to play the victim card, showing nasty emails he gets. Like no one else ever gets nastygrams in email.
Boo hoo hoo, poor me, just trying to run a blog, and look at all those nasty wingnuts who call me names.
You are an effeminate boy, chuck. Man up.
@ maxhdrm:
yep. I’ve been convinced for some time.
I know many have made the point of not hearing about LGF anymore, more specifically Charles Johnson, and they have a valid point being he’s obviously shallow and callous. But Johnson provides me so much humor and curiosity, that is virtually impossible to not comment when he is in the news.
Seldom do I bother to psychoanalyze anybody or anyone. But I must admit that Johnson is such an oddity, for me it is like putting together the pieces of a puzzle of a badly constructed picture, or maybe like to trying to complete a crossword puzzle developed by a mad man.
I think I am now better at understand why people rubber neck during a wreck. Morbid curiosity always gets the better of me and is getting worse as I get older.
One thing I was not naive about during my stay at LGF. I was always sure that Johnson was a religious bigot, a big-time pro-choicer, and a narcissist. He tolerated me and many like me because was willing at the time to accept these fundamental differences in order to attract notoriety for himself -- even if he hated our guts. And he did. The one saving grace for me is that after 10,000 comments, I still hadn’t given him a dime, though out of guilt, I was tempted for a time.
But my biggest guilt? Though it may be completely coincidence, it was very shortly after my public slam on his own blog of his real nature of bigotry that he apparently went off the deep end. I really am sorry if I helped push him over the edge, because there is no doubt he has so damaged himself, unless medical reason there is no way he will recovery his mojo.
Here it is, the top 16 posters from 3 recent threads at The Animal Farm™.
1. albusteve
2. Aceofwhat?
3. MandyManners
4. Varek Raith
5. Obdicut
6. Cato the Elder
7. Gus 802
8. Fat Bastard Vegetarian
9. Bagua
10. RacerX
11. sattv4u2
12. HoosierHoops
13. brookly red
14. Killgore Trout
15. SanFranciscoZionist
16. Dragon_Lady
More than half of the comments came from these 16 posters.
This NYT piece is actual reporting, unlike that LAT junk that simply spit up what Shmuck fed to them, including the almost certainly canned threat Johnson received during the “reporter’s” visit.
Importantly, I think it shows the kind of reception he’s received and will continue to receive from liberals. He’s another Rosie O’Donnell, who the liberals liked at first because of her slobbery sentimentality, but then they mostly abandoned her over time because she’s an ignorant boob.
I like how the reporter essentially said that Johnson was lying, and censoring to cover up that fact--of course he said so in a manner that wouldn’t allow for a successful libel lawsuit, or even tempt him to try for one.
Chuckles certainly misjudged the people he decided it would pay to suck up to. If he was an embarrassment to much of the right in the past, he’d be far and away a worse embarrassment to liberals, who mostly like his recent “conversion” (opportunism is the real word for it) because it affirms that they were right (or “right”--I’m not fighting issues here) all along.
“Thanks for saying so, Charles, now get your ignorant dictatorial ass down the road,” is the response he’s getting from liberals--at least aside from a few ignorant trolls at LAT and HuffPo (the latter is about as censorious as Chuckie), and they’ll end up following NYT in the end (they almost always do).
So much for moving up to a higher level of friends.
Glen Davidson
http://tinyurl.com/mxaa3p
Chunky Johnson is now Dan Rather, and is pulling out the fake but accurate routine on the Himalaya report.
@ Possum:
I haven’t gone through the thread after this comment so I can’t know if anyone addressed this.
Look under the comments for that Downfall video. You will see a comment by thunderK5 defending Charles. A simple expanding search from that user may be quite revealing. Did anyone know there is a user named Jimmah-Ice Productions?
Self-described: Jimmah-Ice Productions is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Progressive Attack Machine, specialising in tormenting wingnuts and the butthurt.
Professional Provocateurs, Paid Agitators, Wingnut Debunkers, Community Organisers, Gentleman Explorers, and small bets placed.
Remind you of anyone over at 1.0?
This is the company ‘The Husky Blogger’ keeps? …and he wants to be taken seriously?