Thoughts on a now awful man running a site called "LGF"
Published by Avi Green on Wednesday, December 09, 2009 at 12:41 PM.
I thought to myself that sooner or later, I'd have to address the case of Charles Johnson, blogmaster of the now devalued Little Green Footballs, who's turned against what I thought he stood for at least a year ago.
Well now, after stumbling upon the latest horror story about his newfound insanity, that Johnson is now approving of Hezbollah supporters, and there's more disgusting news about this over here, I suppose I'll have to say something about him.
I was not fully aware that before 9-11, he had been a leftist of some sort, but later on, I was told that apparently, he was. But now, how can I possibly appreciate his coming to sensibility if he's turned his back on it again?
A few years ago, he complained about anti-jihad bloggers who were running the gauntlet of supporting fascist groups. First, I want to make clear that when it comes to the notion of supporting neo-nazi groups who've been exploiting the problems with Islamofascism in Europe, that in and of itself is a legitimate argument. After all, supporters of nazism and Islamofascism and communism share many of the same "values", and to think that allying with them when they're failing to look themselves in the mirror and understand the error of their ways and how they're supporting platforms with similar ideas, is just simply mistaken. And what if, in our quest to stop Islamofascism, we ended up elevating these neo-nazi and commie fiends to power? Simply put, we would accomplish nothing.
However, if Johnson was in any ways smearing and libeling bloggers by wrongly accusing them of the above, that's wrong. Yes, there have been some, most unfortunately, who did make the mistake of supporting Jean-Marie Le Pen, and now Nick Griffin of the BNP, and I may have noticed that well before Johnson did, but it seems there's quite a few bloggers out there who most certainly did not support those fiends, and if Johnson smeared them and never apologized for it, that was dead wrong.
Now, for about a year, he's been slowly doing a 360, and abandoning many of the people who were his friends for many years, saying nasty and libelous things, and it looks like Donald Douglas may have predicted correctly, that Johnson would turn anti-Israel, even by proxy. Among those whom Johnson has attacked unfairly include Robert Stacy McCain, Robert Spencer, and the list is still counting. He even severed ties with Pajamas Media, which he himself co-founded.
It's a shame it had to come to this. Will we learn next that Johnson even voted for Obama last year?
I remember when over a year ago, I wanted to register for LGF so I could try out the linkage system and provide external links on all sorts of subjects that might interest those popping in and out of the site. But I was never able to reach it in time before he closed the registration. Now, I'm actually feeling glad I never got the chance. It's a pity that the open trackback parties that used to be in vogue a few years ago have now worn off (and even I sadly was unable to think about trying to keep on submitting to them, as I became too busy), because now that I think of it, those were far better to submit to than the quagmire LGF has become.
I guess maybe that's why I'm hoping that some other major blog out there will allow its registered commentors access to features similar to those LGF had, but likely no longer; not that it matters now. The revelations I've made on Johnson of recent have left me with such a bad aftertaste, even I don't want to link to his site anymore.
That told, this will hopefully be the last word I have on the self-destruction of Charles Johnson. It really is embarrassing, and the less said about him now, the better.
Well now, after stumbling upon the latest horror story about his newfound insanity, that Johnson is now approving of Hezbollah supporters, and there's more disgusting news about this over here, I suppose I'll have to say something about him.
I was not fully aware that before 9-11, he had been a leftist of some sort, but later on, I was told that apparently, he was. But now, how can I possibly appreciate his coming to sensibility if he's turned his back on it again?
A few years ago, he complained about anti-jihad bloggers who were running the gauntlet of supporting fascist groups. First, I want to make clear that when it comes to the notion of supporting neo-nazi groups who've been exploiting the problems with Islamofascism in Europe, that in and of itself is a legitimate argument. After all, supporters of nazism and Islamofascism and communism share many of the same "values", and to think that allying with them when they're failing to look themselves in the mirror and understand the error of their ways and how they're supporting platforms with similar ideas, is just simply mistaken. And what if, in our quest to stop Islamofascism, we ended up elevating these neo-nazi and commie fiends to power? Simply put, we would accomplish nothing.
However, if Johnson was in any ways smearing and libeling bloggers by wrongly accusing them of the above, that's wrong. Yes, there have been some, most unfortunately, who did make the mistake of supporting Jean-Marie Le Pen, and now Nick Griffin of the BNP, and I may have noticed that well before Johnson did, but it seems there's quite a few bloggers out there who most certainly did not support those fiends, and if Johnson smeared them and never apologized for it, that was dead wrong.
Now, for about a year, he's been slowly doing a 360, and abandoning many of the people who were his friends for many years, saying nasty and libelous things, and it looks like Donald Douglas may have predicted correctly, that Johnson would turn anti-Israel, even by proxy. Among those whom Johnson has attacked unfairly include Robert Stacy McCain, Robert Spencer, and the list is still counting. He even severed ties with Pajamas Media, which he himself co-founded.
It's a shame it had to come to this. Will we learn next that Johnson even voted for Obama last year?
I remember when over a year ago, I wanted to register for LGF so I could try out the linkage system and provide external links on all sorts of subjects that might interest those popping in and out of the site. But I was never able to reach it in time before he closed the registration. Now, I'm actually feeling glad I never got the chance. It's a pity that the open trackback parties that used to be in vogue a few years ago have now worn off (and even I sadly was unable to think about trying to keep on submitting to them, as I became too busy), because now that I think of it, those were far better to submit to than the quagmire LGF has become.
I guess maybe that's why I'm hoping that some other major blog out there will allow its registered commentors access to features similar to those LGF had, but likely no longer; not that it matters now. The revelations I've made on Johnson of recent have left me with such a bad aftertaste, even I don't want to link to his site anymore.
That told, this will hopefully be the last word I have on the self-destruction of Charles Johnson. It really is embarrassing, and the less said about him now, the better.
Labels: anti-americanism, anti-semitism, dhimmitude, Moonbattery
