The Ruse and Fail of Little Green Footballs: Part II – The Ascendance
Posted: September 21, 2012 Filed under: Andrew Breitbart, Animal Farm Lunacy, Little Green Footballs, Pam Geller, Robert Spencer, Robert Stacy McCain, The Boiler Room | Tags: .gif animation, 2004 Presidential Election, AGW, Al Gore, Andrew Breitbart, Anthony Weiner, Anti-Semitism, Buckhead, CBS, Charles Johnson, Charles Krauthammer, Dan Rather, Dana Loesch, Dennis Prager, Diana West, Dr. Thomas Sowell, Free Republic, Gates of Vienna, George W. BUsh, Glenn Beck, GOP, GWB, Herman Cain, Jihad Watch, Killian Forgery, Larry Elder, LGF, Little Green Footballs, Mark Steyn, Obama, Pacetown, Pamela Geller, paranoia, Racism, Rathergate, Republicans, Robert Spencer, Ron Paul, Rush Limbaugh, Sharia Law, The Boiler Room Crew, throbbing memo, Victor Davis Hanson 127 CommentsThis is Part 2 of a monograph about a blog named Little Green Footballs and its founder Charles Foster Johnson. Click the links below for related posts. They will be updated as the series continues.
Prologue
Part 1 – Overview
Part 2 – The Ascendance of Charles Johnson and LGF
Part 3 – The Bannings
Part 4 – The Flounces
Part 5 – The Turnaround
Part 6 – Current Events & The Future Of LGF
Bonus track: Revisiting Rathergate
PART 2- THE ASCENDANCE OF CHARLES JOHNSON AND LITTLE GREEN FOOTBALLS
Thread Topics, National Recognition and Commenting
It cannot be disputed that Charles Johnson was once noted for exposing radical Islam in stories that were not broadcast or found on what is termed the “mainstream media.” Johnson found interesting and newsworthy stories that went under-reported or ignored by the MSM and opened them up for discussion. He was celebrated for exposing rampant anti-Semitism found on Arabic television, especially in children’s programming. He documented efforts by the United States and others to eradicate terrorism, both politically and militarily, often sporting headlines such as “Got Two in Gaza!” or “Got Four in Lebanon!” referring to the number of enemy combatants killed.
More to the point, Little Green Footballs was interesting to read simply as an observer. His blog members at the time included well-educated, well-read individuals from all walks of life – physicians, attorneys, editors, engineers, meteorologists, teachers and other professionals, with first hand knowledge of the various topics presented for discussion. Review the comments section of any thread prior to 2009 dealing with world and domestic affairs and you will find a treasure trove of links, research, first-hand experience and commentary that rivaled anything offered by the alphabet networks and cable news.
Johnson was propelled to national attention and prominence as a central figure in the scandal known as “Rathergate,” the fraud promoted by Dan Rather and CBS. Rather and CBS proffered forged Texas Air National Guard memoranda[1] less than two months prior to the 2004 Presidential Election, in an effort to discredit President George W. Bush.
Johnson created a stunning visual aid (a simple.gif animation, referred to as “the throbbing memo”) that effectively illustrated the obvious forgery. Using the default settings in Microsoft Word, he created a perfect reproduction of CBS’s memos, right down to the word processing font and proportional spacing. However, the verification of the forgery had been posted 12 hours earlier at conservative on-line forum Free Republic, when “Buckhead” posted what has come to be called “the shot heard round the internet:
[8:59PM 8 September 2004]
Howlin, every single one of these memos to file is in a proportionally spaced font, probably Palatino or Times New Roman.
In 1972 people used typewriters for this sort of thing, and typewriters used monospaced fonts.
The use of proportionally spaced fonts did not come into common use for office memos until the introduction of laser printers, word processing software, and personal computers. They were not widespread until the mid to late 90’s. Before then, you needed typesetting equipment, and that wasn’t used for personal memos to file. Even the Wang systems that were dominant in the mid 80’s used monospaced fonts.
I am saying these documents are forgeries, run through a copier for 15 generations to make them look old.
This should be pursued aggressively.[2]
Picked up by Powerline and others, it was Johnson’s posters that brought the story to Johnson – he didn’t go out and find it himself – yet he took the credit, and basked in the glory. Johnson created an effective illustration of the counterfeit memo – the smoking gun – and promoted it. Nothing more.[3]
[A more recent study revealed that even Johnson’s “throbbing memo” was coopted from another blogger, Jeremy Chrysler, who posted it on his blog Pacetown[4]. Johnson saw the .gif animation and merely duplicated it, even using the exact same page of the Killian forgery. Besides size and speed, the only significant difference between the two animations is a superscript, yet Johnson claimed the work as his own.[5] –Ed]
To his credit, Johnson didn’t stop there. He went on to expose Reuters photographer Adnan Hajj for faking photographs of supposed IDF attacks on Beirut, garnering further international attention. Johnson made “Islamic Rage Boy”[6] and “Green Helmet Man”[7] laughing stock for those who mocked the Islamic propaganda of outlets like Al-Jazeera and the ineptitude/bias of the western Main Stream Media. (Think about it – when was the last time you saw Islamic Rage Boy or Green Helmet Man featured in a Reuters, Guardian or AP photo op?) This was Charles Johnson in his prime.
What is interesting is that during this period, you won’t find a lot of comments by Johnson within the forum of his own threads. Once a topic was thrown open for discussion, Johnson kept a very low profile. The posters steered the discussion and offered commentary, opinion, backup and links. Johnson rarely offered anything substantive to the threads; indeed his comments were often off-topic and unrelated to the ongoing discussion. An appearance by Johnson to comment on a topic was practically an event, and generated some excitement among those logged into the LGF community.
Charles Johnson “now” seems to be nothing more than an angry man. He rages against those who could only be described as members of a Nixon-style enemies list—the TEA Party, Andrew Breitbart[8], Dana Loesch, Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, Glenn Beck and anyone running for the GOP nomination. Heaven help you if you deny the existence of man-made global warming, believe in a God or an afterlife, oppose abortion as a contraceptive measure, or criticize Barack Obama and the Democrats.
Instead of posting threads chronicling the anti-Semitism of radical Islam, Johnson obsesses over his perceived racism of the “right wing.” All opposition to Obama is based on racism. All disparaging remarks about the possibility of imposition of Shari’a law in areas of the United States is founded on racism, despite the fact that religion, at least as philosophy, is not race based. To Johnson, ALL criticism of Islam is rooted in racism.
In Johnson’s view, even the ascendance of Herman Cain as a frontrunner in the GOP presidential primaries was a blatant attempt by the Republicans to “hide their racism.” Johnson was very clear when he described Cain as a “token” (a thinly veiled reference to the disparaging term “token negro”).
Johnson breaks no new ground in his thread content, yet at the same time he’s inconsistent. When Johnson develops antipathy for a subject, he doesn’t filter his response. He is passionate in his public dislike for Ron Paul and Andrew Breitbart, all well and good – he’s allowed to dislike whom he pleases. But his obsessive loathing borders on the maniacal.
It is not uncommon for Johnson to put up back-to-back posts on the same topic, with only hours between them, whether it’s about Ron Paul, Breitbart, Geller, religion, AGW or anyone and anything that absorbs him at the moment. It borders on obsessive-compulsive behavior. Once he’s chosen his target du jour he is relentless until something new diverts his attention. It’s also not unusual for the serial attacks to span weeks (and sometimes months in the cases of Geller and Breitbart). His compulsion to revisit old battles is cyclical, and he seems unable to let go and move on.
He is also apparently unable to admit error, and never issues retractions when proven wrong. A prime example was during the scandal known as Weinergate. Johnson became convinced Andrew Breitbart was “framing” U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner and posted numerous threads in one week castigating Breitbart. Even when confronted with undeniable evidence of Weiner’s malfeasance (including Weiner’s own admission of guilt) Johnson continued to hold Breitbart accountable for Weiner’s actions.
The Charles Johnson of today avoids debate by dismissing those who disagree with his world view with insulting snark and ad hominem attacks. He becomes rabidly hysterical at AGW skeptics, brushing away facts that contradict the pro-AGW position, and dismisses credentialed skeptics as anti-science hacks. This is a 180 degree reversal from his previous position.
Prior to 2009, he held Al Gore and his ravings up to scorn. But now he is a pro-AGW convert and will brook no opposition, even when confronted with evidence of manipulating the data and evidence that the earth is cooling. When asked about it he offers little more than “I read up on the subject and I changed my mind.” When cornered, his canned response is to provide self-referential links to Little Green Footballs, or more often to state “we’ve already covered that,” thus avoiding the argument. To sum it up, Charles Johnson is always right. Why? Because.
But more significant are his pathetic attempts at reinstating his former glory as a national figure.
In November 2009, relatively ignored by the left-wing blogs and de-linked from conservative sites due to his vitriolic personal attacks, Johnson published his tome “Why I Parted Ways With the Right.”[9] It was a list of ten talking points, long on hyperbole and short on cogency and fact. While Johnson’s motives for such a public statement remain unclear, Robert Stacy McCain, former blogging ally, offers his own analysis:
“Exactly what prompted this? Why this? Why now? Your guess is as good as mine.
No, that’s wrong. My guess is probably much better than yours, because I followed the whole thing—LGF and the Madness of King Charles—back to its roots. So far as can be determined, CJ’s descent into madness began when Johnson attacked Pamela Geller for her attendance at the October 2007 Brussels conference.
CJ kept up the attacks, which expanded to include Jihad Watch, Gates of Vienna, Diana West and others—serially throwing them under his Little Green Bus—but the rest of the conservative blogosphere tried to ignore it. Shortly before the 2008 election, CJ declared Robert Spencer of JihadWatch unlinkable.”[10]
And there would be more room under the bus.
Since January 2009, Johnson has made room for Victor Davis Hansen, Mark Steyn, Charles Krauthammer and Thomas Sowell, among others, labeling them idiots with little or no factual rebuttal. You may not agree with any of the aforementioned people on the basis of ideology, but they are learned and published men. For Johnson, lacking any recognized credentials or expertise, to call them idiots is patently absurd.
Whatever Johnson’s motives, it was entirely unnecessary. Other than a quick traffic spike, or a plea from Dennis Prager for Johnson to return to the fold[11], the lasting result of Johnson’s diatribe was that the right essentially told him not to let the door smack his ass on the way out. Meanwhile, many liberal blogs chuckled to themselves about The New Charles Johnson, because they remembered The Old Charles Johnson. Johnson earned his reputation for burning bridges, and now he’s burned both ends.
There has been conjecture that the number of comments Johnson posted on his own threads reflected his change of politics. In the years of 2005 and 2006, Johnson averaged 69 comments on Little Green Footballs per month. By 2007, the number jumped to 435; in 2008 to 733. In 2009 (the year of his pivotal announcement rejecting the right wing) he opined in no less than 15,789 comments, 1,316 per month, an increase of 170% from the prior year, and a whopping 300% increase from his commenting frequency in 2007. There is no doubt that something significant happened to Charles Johnson during the epiphany that steered him away from conservative politics, and we’re not going to guess.
An interesting analysis was made by an apolitical group of internet sleuths known as The Boiler Room Crew. Collecting and comparing statistical data directly from Little Green Footballs, they produced statistics and graphs that illustrate a correlation.
In 2011, he averaged more than 450 comments per month. But the real problem here is not that Charles comments, it is that he brings no special erudition to the table, no real insight or analysis. And his new, progressive members fall in step behind him. Gone are the multi-paragraph posts bulging with research; gone is the debate of different points of view. Why? This brings us to the second factor in LGF’s decline – The Bannings.
[Caveat: In no way is this monograph comprehensive, nor is it intended to defame or otherwise impugn Charles Johnson, Little Green Footballs or anyone associated with any blog. Any and all conjecture should be intuitively obvious to the casual observer. This is not Wikipedia; however, if any readers find fault with this monograph, please leave comments with verifiable backup and we’ll correct factual errors.]
[Coming up: Part 3 – The Bannings]
[1] Killian Documents Controversy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_controversy
[3] Johnson’s “throbbing memo” .gif animation may be viewed at Wkipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_controversy
[4] Pacetown archive via The WayBack Machine. http://web.archive.org/web/20041027160435/http://www.spacetownusa.com/archive/2004_09_05_blogarchive.html
[5] “Revisiting Rathergate”, Diary of Daedalus, 4 June 2012 http://diaryofdaedalus.com/2012/06/04/revisiting-rathergate/
[6] “Islamic Rage Boy” Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Rage_Boy. Many images may be found with a Google Image search.
[7] “Green Helmet Man” Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Helmet_Man. Many images may be found with a Google Image search.
[8] This series predates the untimely demise of Andrew Breitbart who passed away on 1 March 2012.
[10] McCain, Robert Stacy, “Charles Johnson Parts Ways With Reality,” The Other McCain website. http://rsmccain.blogspot.com/2009/12/charles-johnson-parts-ways-with-reality.html
[11] Prager, Dennis, “An Open Letter to Charles Johnson,” Frontpage website. http://frontpagemag.com/2010/01/26/an-open-letter-to-charles-johnson/
[Updated links and title. –Ed]
https://twitter.com/Gus_807/status/249023794168078337
Many a bag of Cheetos found that out the hard way, much to their dismay. 😆
Looks like Chunky is going “race detective” in response to the Washington Examiner/FoxNews story debunking the “Obama grew up a poor black child” myth.
I’m shocked, I tell you, SHOCKED! 🙄
Hey Chunky! Those aren’t “Dog Whistles” you’re hearing.
What you’re hearing are the squealing “brown notes” blasting out of your mammoth backside.
If you hear all the dog whistles, you are the dog.
That granny hair of his is extremely unattractive and creepy. Reminds me of the movie “Psycho”. Ick.
It reminds me of the Jonathan Winters character “Maudie Frickert”.
I still maintain he has had a nervous breakdown. I ought to feel sorry for him but…..nah.
That’s my theory as well.
Well, “live free or die” is our resident practicing professional (I am just an educated amateur) so her insight into this might be useful.
Normally, I would be sympathetic, but the manner in which he has smeared and libeled others leaves me rather devoid of empathy,
Hey,
Sorry I’m late in responding to this. Spent the day shuttling the kids to school, practices, appointments, etc
I’ve frankly always wondered if Charles suffered one of those head injuries that changes your personality. With frontal lobe damage people may become more impulsive, have difficulty controlling their emotions, and perseverate on things. Hmmm…
There is no official diagnosis for nervous breakdown but it often covers a number of things such as a severe stress reaction, an affective disorder with psychotic features, or some form of a psychotic disorder. I’d want to know more about Charles’ mental health history and his family history when considering those. You would think that if he experienced a nervous breakdown, he would have either had to take time off from the blog for treatment or be on medication. I don’t recall him taking several weeks off from the blog. Frankly, Luddy shows more of the patterns you see in someone with a cyclic disorder that is not being fully controlled by medication.
These are just speculation.
I found LGF because of Rathergate & joined after that. It was a great time, not because of Charles, but because of the posters who were the best! 😦
When Charles started commenting more frequently, I noticed that he became defensive if anyone challenged the main premise of any of his postings. The sycophancy from posters like Sharmuta and Nana became puke-worthy. Then he started letting in posters like Irish Rose and Ice Weasel. Finally, I just stopped posting.
NY Nana used to pile on anyone who got banned, then she got banned and I wonder how she liked that?
Don’t know. Don’t care. 🙂
I started reading his posts pretty early on, as I was obsessed with 9-11 and the terrorist underworld, and somehow ended up there. I didn’t get involved in the discussion for a long time, and then it was just a comment here and there. I watched the group of regulars grow and evolve into a real community, while Thinass (he was riding his bike a lot then) kept out of the way, communicating only through his posts for the most part.
The term “nervous breakdown” doesn’t really have meaning from a clinical standpoint, but then, neither does the term “crazy.” There is no doubt that something triggered a drastic change in his thinking in 2008, and to me, that change is linked irrevocably to his being spurned by Pam, which kicked off the whole Vlaams Belang zOMG episode, the war on creationists, the Night Of The Long Knives, and the series of hissy-fits that culminated in his official break from his right mind. Was there a bike accident with brain damage? A credible threat from the enemy? An offer of financial support from the loathesome Soros? All of these? I don’t know. The evidence is sketchy.
I have had friends that I steered to LGF in the 2003-2008 period who would tell me that they were actually afraid to post because they didn’t feel they could match the intellectual and informational level of the posters there. I told them there were those of us – like me – who were there to provide snark only. But there was so much GD’d good stuff to read every time you tuned in.
It seems so long ago.
Another aspect of the whole phenomenon is the rise of the conservative blogosphere which mirrored the rise of LGF, and fed its popularity as one of the elite. He loved being a part of that club back then, and participated fully in the cross-pollination aspect, linking to and being linked by all the popular kids. I’m quite sure he foresaw his future in the Moonbat Blogosphere as being very similar, but it sure hasn’t worked out that way, has it, Fatass? 😆
I don’t recall seeing that photo of him before, but it’s an interesting glimpse into his old self. Clearly, he was never the most attractive person, and that hair was bitter-clinging to his hippie-musician past, but look at the goofiness and fun he appears to be having. Compare that to the dour, obese, scary-looking slug that glares sullenly back from the last images we have of him. Something happened to him. Something bad, and soul-killing. Pam, you have a lot to answer for, you little minx! 😉
Looking at that photo, you get verification that there was a time when Charles had an excellent sense of play.
I don;t think he ever laughs or really enjoys life any more. He is an angry, lonely middle aged man.
He must be deeply jealous of the air time Pam and Robert are getting for being the heroes of the counter Jihad movement. I mean they are famous now as it is increasingly getting clear to the dimmest of the dhimmi wits that the West is in a clash of civilisations and the war will have to be fought.
And he was the blog father of the counter jihad movement sigh.
Except they didn’t need a blog father. It would have happened without him and now that he’s disowned them anyway that makes him irrelevant. People like Spencer and Geller and all the others are talented writers and diligent workers. They have strong opinions and know their minds. Charles has none of this. He had a slight knack for branding and the shock of 9/11 landed him in the right place for a period of time. We see now though that he was a fraud, a no-talent and a flawed personality all along.
Not really. He was a respected and highly esteemed member and I think part of his “turn”was because he could not be the “Leader” of the movement.
The ummah is a pandemic there is not a single infidel community(i mean the rest of the world) that likes them other then the left in the west. The rest of the world detests them and are not shy of stating that without being encumbered by political correctness.
I played the Pat Condell video for my daughter last night. Because we had discussed the riots for a short current affaires essay assignment she’d had the night before. And just so she’s clear on the logical position that needs to be taken and never abandoned in the West toward Islam. The religion of rage, loser’s limp and false entitlement, that is.
Ha ha “Ishq Rasool” or “Day of Love for the Pedophile bandit aka the prophet” is raging on in the land of the pure Pakistan, 3 dead, movie theatres torched, the mobile phones for the entire hellhole suspended and dozens injured, only a few more hours left for the action to end,
pretty much like your average “raging” valentine’s day isn’t it this “day of love”?
Gotta love those incendiary little rascals, Ho! 😆
Even though the internet is for porn and crazies, as discussed towards the end of the last thread, it also provides a way for us amateur anthropologists to study the backward cultures of the Islamists, like bugs under magnification on the Discovery Channel. Oh, look…they’re all eating each other! Gross, but fascinating.
Ha ha, more bug spray please, cartoons and movies that is all that’s required with immigration restrictions and lets do sunni and shia cartoons to encourage a feeding frenzy(pardon the mixed metaphor which relates to sharks)
I don’t recall when I started reading LGF, but I didn’t register for quite awhile, so I only read. When I did, I didn’t comment very much, since jumping into the conversation could be time-consuming and you had to be on your toes and prepared for some pushback. It was a good time.
Some time after the Lizard Lounge feature was added, I realized that I was ducking in there for decent conversation and avoiding the threads. Then Chuckles began monitoring that and stalking people’s comments on other sites. My take on all that at the time was that he had built up enough of a following and figured he could peel off segments and strengthen his support. Then things got creepy. I got the boot for simply pointing out that he had become obsessed with creationism.
He hasn’t aged well, and I don’t just mean his appearance. His mind isn’t right. His emotions are those of an abandoned child. He has no integrity. And he’s a lousy dancer.
It used to bug me but now I find it comical. That is, Johnson’s rude and even viscious dismissal of people still holding views he used to hold. You would think he would be more gentle, maybe commenting “Well, friend I used to think that too but here’s what I found out…” Instead he’s mocking and insulting and pretends like only a fucking idiot would hold such an opinion when he himself espoused it mere months before, publicly.
He’s a POS and should be flattered that you’re going to this trouble to document his lunacy.
Exactly. When speaking to my moderate to liberal (moonbats are beyond explanation) friends, I will usually say “I used to see things that way myself, but……
You can disagree without being an asshole. Fultonchain posted at the Mother Ship all the time and was very cogent and deliberate in his arguments. Wrong, of course, but cogent and deliberate.
i registered in LGF before registration (antithesis, in pre cambrian 2003). What a supernovian brilliant site it was. The iraq war just started 2nd “intifada” was raging – a galaxy of scholars and wits tough as nails. Banned in 2011 for accusing him of stalinist digital air brushing.
Good night folks
Watch out for the sharks. They are in league with the gorillas and bears.
Let’s not forget the professional military people, who also had professional insight to contribute. That was some of the most valuable input.
Heck, we even had a guy attached to the secret service!
Now the closest thing to that is ‘Investigated by the Secret Service’.
If you see a gorilla riding either a shark or a bear, please alert Homeland Security Apocalypse Division. Also, keep an eye out for machines that project any self-awareness. I saw one the other day, pretending to be a run-of-the-mill, souped-up ’66 Camaro. I know it was a scout.
LGF today is a joke. I steer freinds there for laughs!
I have lots of friends who do the same. I always ask them if they can guess which one is me. Apparently I have predictability in the smartass department – they always guess correctly.
Now all they have is guys attached to other guys, usually with sticky feather costume remnants.
I think mention of Zombie and other who contributed so much to the site is an important part of the history.
Chuckie’s treatment of Zombie was appalling!
It was appalling, but it was consistent with the way he treated everyone who helped build the blog. He was in full-on slash-and-burn mode by the time he purged Zombie, waiting for that massive influx of moonbats he’d been promised by the Good Idea Fairy.
What is the official term for a big group of moonbats? “Murder” is already taken, for crows. “Gaggle,” for geese. “Covey,” for quail. I nominate “bummer.”
“We were surrolunded at Urban Outfitters by a bummer of moonbats, cacking about Romney’s gaffes.”
*Sir Loathsome 🙄
Coven = group of moonbats
At the old LGF we’d call the big group of cacking moonbats as “a target rich enviroment”.
Gosh I miss watching our troops blow the shit out of terrorists at LGF. Way to fuck that up, Cheetos!
Oh, what the hell, why not drag this out of the archives?
Your Last Posting
(Los Angeles)
–apologies to Robert Browning and “My Last Duchess”
That’s your last posting ever on this blog,
And henceforth your account is blocked. You’ll dog
My site no further with your words; your nic
Is banished, and I gave your posts the stick.
You know I’ll call your banning here a “flounce”
Though I’ve been waiting for some time to pounce
On your account, and with prevarications
Distort and demonize your observations.
The Toad Hall where you reveled, if you please’ll
Be given entire to the stoats and weasels,
My countenance beaming on each one that
Comes to me bearing tales of Mole or Rat,
Or Badger, or…sockpuppet. No, ‘t was not
This writing only, placed you on the spot
And caused me to invoke the ban: perhaps
You chanced to differ with my own claptrap
And stick to your position, or dispute
Conventional wisdoms to which repute
I’ve lately granted. Don’t you dare to say
That I or my site might have lost their way
Obsessing on my personal vendettas;
I am neither forgiving nor forgetter,
And will not brook a failure of obesiance
By anyone I feel owes me allegiance.
Yes, I took Rather down, on grounds that he
Could not support what he claimed factually;
But now I set my sights at lower bar
(On personalities, not things that are)
While I squat ‘midst the wreckage I have made
Like mad Kurtz ruling from his bush stockade,
Ringed ’round with skulls. For I no longer deign
To weigh a fact itself; instead, maintain
That source determines truth, and to that end
The nature of veracity I bend,
Citing to midden-heaps of rankness such
That I would not long since have scorned to touch.
A turtle is a lizard in a shell,
And I, lord of my self-created hell
Remain King Yertle of the Turtle Stack
Exalted on my Posting Turtles’ backs—
Yet conscious, as I proclaim my renown
It’s just posting turtles, all the way down,
Which is why I respond with rage and fear
Should anyone mouth what I deem a sneer
Or contradiction. So I flip a switch,
And all posts stop together, with a bitch
Given reign of my elegant designs.
Yet, if I still retained but half a spine
I would despise appearing to be led
As I now seem to, by the lesser head.
Hark! Look you! See how Glenn Beck weeps!
Do you not loathe the company he keeps
Regardless of whatever he might say?
Here is the global warming word today;
Do not dissent, the banning stick is toward
I care for no voice save that of accord!
Yes, my banning was called a flounce after I said I listen to Rush Limbaugh and I’m not a racist. That 10 word sentence got me banned at a blog!
And well it should have you Neanderthal!
I too have listened to Rush for years and have never heard a racist thing out of his mouth. Yes he makes fun of black people especially when they’re pompous, like Reverends Jackson, Sharpton (have ridiculous speech quirks while not actually having impediments) or Wright (not really black, but still angry). Or Joycelin Elders and her “screwel chirdren” (like she’s fricking Chinese or something).
I heard a black comedian on Terry Gross’ NPR show yesterday and he talked about “all the racist things that Rush Limbaugh says”. Yet the only example he could produce was the supposed NFL comment about Donovan McNabb supposedly being over promoted by the media BECAUSE he’s black. How exactly is that racist? That’s just Rush’s opinion about DM and the media’s biases. So now I have to prefer all black QBs or I’m racist? Really?
Yet blacks can generalize the crap out of whites and/or conservatives and vote ONLY for black politicians all over the country merely because the candidate is black (even when they’re corrupts and racist themselves like Marion Berry) and no one seems to notice or care.
How’s that hopenchangey stuff workin’ out for us, in the Muslim world? Pretty good, aside from a spontaneous protest here and there? Featuring spontaneous combustion?
It’s a full-blown offensive, Fatass. Or, as you would call it, a nontroversy. Sit and spin, Chunky.
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Collapse of the Cairo Doctrine
By Charles Krauthammer, Published: September 20
In the week following 9/11/12 something big happened: the collapse of the Cairo Doctrine, the centerpiece of President Obama’s foreign policy. It was to reset the very course of post-9/11 America, creating, after the (allegedly) brutal depredations of the Bush years, a profound rapprochement with the Islamic world.
Never lacking ambition or self-regard, Obama promised in Cairo, June 4, 2009, “a new beginning” offering Muslims “mutual respect,” unsubtly implying previous disrespect. Curious, as over the previous 20 years, America had six times committed its military forces on behalf of oppressed Muslims, three times for reasons of pure humanitarianism (Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo), where no U.S. interests were at stake.
But no matter. Obama had come to remonstrate and restrain the hyperpower that, by his telling, had lost its way after 9/11, creating Guantanamo, practicing torture, imposing its will with arrogance and presumption.
First, he would cleanse by confession. Then he would heal. Why, given the unique sensitivities of his background — “my sister is half-Indonesian,” he proudly told an interviewer in 2007, amplifying on his exquisite appreciation of Islam — his very election would revolutionize relations.
And his policies of accommodation and concession would consolidate the gains: an outstretched hand to Iran’s mullahs, a first-time presidential admission of the U.S. role in a 1953 coup, a studied and stunning turning away from the Green Revolution; withdrawal from Iraq with no residual presence or influence; a fixed timetable for leaving Afghanistan; returning our ambassador to Damascus (with kind words for Bashar al-Assad — “a reformer,” suggested the secretary of state); deliberately creating distance between the United States and Israel.
These measures would raise our standing in the region, restore affection and respect for the United States and elicit new cooperation from Muslim lands.
It’s now three years since the Cairo speech. Look around. The Islamic world is convulsed with an explosion of anti-Americanism. From Tunisia to Lebanon, American schools, businesses and diplomatic facilities set ablaze. A U.S. ambassador and three others murdered in Benghazi. The black flag of Salafism, of which al-Qaeda is a prominent element, raised over our embassies in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Sudan.
The administration, staggered and confused, blames it all on a 14-minute trailer for a film no one has seen and may not even exist.
What else can it say? Admit that its doctrinal premises were supremely naive and its policies deeply corrosive to American influence?
Religious provocations are endless. (Ask Salman Rushdie.) Resentment about the five-century decline of the Islamic world is a constant. What’s new — the crucial variable — is the unmistakable sound of a superpower in retreat. Ever since Henry Kissinger flipped Egypt from the Soviet to the American camp in the early 1970s, the United States had dominated the region. No longer.
“It’s time,” declared Obama to wild applause of his convention, “to do some nation-building right here at home.” He’d already announced a strategic pivot from the Middle East to the Pacific. Made possible because “the tide of war is receding.”
Nonsense. From the massacres in Nigeria to the charnel house that is Syria, violence has, if anything, increased. What is receding is Obama’s America.
It’s as axiomatic in statecraft as in physics: Nature abhors a vacuum. Islamists rush in to fill the space and declare their ascendancy. America’s friends are bereft, confused, paralyzed.
Islamists rise across North Africa from Mali to Egypt. Iran repeatedly defies U.S. demands on nuclear enrichment, then, as a measure of its contempt for what America thinks, openly admits that its Revolutionary Guards are deployed in Syria. Russia, after arming Assad, warns America to stay out, while the secretary of state delivers vapid lectures about Assad “meeting” his international “obligations.” The Gulf states beg America to act on Iran; Obama strains mightily to restrain . . . Israel.
Sovereign U.S. territory is breached and U.S. interests are burned. And what is the official response? One administration denunciation after another — of a movie trailer! A request to Google to “review” the trailer’s presence on YouTube. And a sheriff’s deputies’ midnight “voluntary interview” with the suspected filmmaker. This in the land of the First Amendment.
What else can Obama do? At their convention, Democrats endlessly congratulated themselves on their one foreign policy success: killing Osama bin Laden. A week later, the Salafist flag flies over four American embassies, even as the mob chants, “Obama, Obama, there are still a billion Osamas.”
A foreign policy in epic collapse. And, by the way, Vladimir Putin just expelled the U.S. Agency for International Development from Russia. Another thank you from another recipient of another grand Obama “reset.”
letters@charleskrauthammer.com
AWESOME! Space Shuttle just flew over our house!
Oh wow – it flew past our buildings here in San Francisco earlier this morning.
I feel connected with you, Bunk.
Oh, and check your email, please, dahlink.
http://www.ktla.com/videogallery/67438974/live/LIVE-VIDEO-Space-Shuttle-Endeavour-Flies-Over-California
That’s supposed to be good luck, when that happens. You should buy a lotto ticket.
(and when you win, give all the $$$ to Lee 😆 )
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That was really snarky. And funny, Gary. 😆 😆
For the record, Green Helmet and qanagate were broken by EU Referendum. Johnson only ever followed what others had already done.
I seriously doubt girthzilla cares or even thinks about the demise of his blog…obviously he was no match intellectually with the people that called him out over the years, he created a monster that was far superior than anything he could of achieved without me…whoops, I mean most of you and others (I was just the DJ)…anyhow, after his slash and burn diet, he’s streamlined the unholy mob into a small herd of easily influenced poodles…they are his pets and he can control where and when they lick him…face it, there is some latent sexual perversity over there…of all my years on the internet, I have never witnessed such cult worship and I think chuckbutt gats off on it…cybererotica
Oh, I think at some level he’s rather frantic to attract newbies to LGF. Hence all the twitter trolling. He figures any new blood who deviates from acceptable moonbatty nonsense will be quickly outed & then banned by him with a pompous adieu. Charles has become a putz & laughingstock of the internet. 😆
fresh meat
Yup. And now he believes he has the skillz/toolz/monitorz to keep them in line. Little does he know about the posters who continue to fake him out. 😆
That’s what I sense. He’s got that mean streak so in a way I wonder if he’s had a bigger hard on over the last few years having so many people to go off on and ban because they’re supposed wingnuts. He might be like Charlie Sheen, thinking he’s winning while everyone else looks on in horror.
Fresh fruit,,,,,, and water
It was “Snapped Shot” who made “Islamic Rage Boy” famous, not Charles Johnson.
And “The Nose On Your Face” , neither of which seem to be active anymore. Snapped Shot got slammed by Associated Pussheads for using their photos. Place kind of went down hill after that.
Is that what happened? I was wondering why Brian closed down his site so suddenly. AP dickheads!
The Obama years seem to have gone on forever.
another Stones masterpiece from Beggars Banquet…
Dear Doctor…thank me later
LOVE that song! Thanks, Haysoos.
Sorry if I posted this before. Joe Bonamassa playing Rory Gallagher’s Stratocaster while covering Rory’s “Cradle Rock”. Merriment ensues.
Joe B is always welcome in my select sphere of I Know What…he’s a no shit talent since he was like 12…thanks and get some Joe
Breitbart Unmasked is on the run.
http://hogewash.com/2012/09/21/breaking-breitbartunmasked-com-closed-down-brettkimberlin/#comments
Bunk posted this GIF on his website and I think it illustrates what happened with Chunky and LGF between 2002 and 2008 in a nutshell.
I damn near wet ’em!
That’s “Rise Of The Machines” stuff right there. 😆
Chunky’s l’il enterprise did run away from him in a similar manner. He did a very similar face-plant, too.
So. Fucking. Appropriate.
LMAO. Didn’t see it that way, but it fits.
if LGF was a drag race….
here’s chuckX
That also makes me think of another possible analogy:
We are the Duke boys and Chuck is Boss Hog!
Another possible analogy: We are the Duke Lacrosse Team and Chuck is the fat, minority, lying, basketcase, minortiy-mother, prostitute, single-parent, minority, soon to be author,….
Ha Liz Warren continues to make an ass of herself: http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/09/cherokee-genealogist-to-elizabeth-warren-your-native-american-issue-has-not-been-put-to-rest/
Real NA Indians have seen this Chief Shitting Bull act before. They aren’t fooled by it one bit.
Cherokee genealogist Twila Barnes:
Running Joke is still in the race? Man, those people in Kennedy Country are tolerant, aren’t they? 😆
Yes they’re very tolerant of criminals, booze runners, thugs, charlatans, drunks and perverts. They don’t trust a stand-up guy, though. Nice guys finish last doncha know.
The polls have Brown ahead with a decent lead over this con-artist. Let’s pray they reflect reality.
Charles calls rep Louie Gohmert stupid but, as usual, when you actually go to the source at C-SPAN he sounds incredibly lucid, way more so than Charles and his pathetic dufus followers. Charles says he says Obama has returned us to a new Ottoman empire (which is probably right) and that’s ignorant but I’ve been listening to this guy talk about the economy and jobs for 15 minutes and none of that has even been said yet.
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/HouseSession5364
Go to 4:20:00 or so and listen to him devastate the Dems on positions they held before the economic meltdown and then the awful spending and other decisions (plus their obvious hypocrisy re: Wall St and Big Oil) they made when they had all the power.
Charles calls this guy stupid I suspect because he has a southern accent (He’s from Texas!) but in reality CJ doesn’t understand what he says about economics because it’s way over his head.
Gohmert hasn’t tried to tip over Guam yet. Cant be too dumb.
He isn’t even slightly dumb. And let’s compare Gohmert’s articulacy and clarity of thought to the fat, charisma-challenged CJ on Charlie Rose and his inability to clearly articulate his positions which were starting to take on a haze even then and his supposed break with the right which is explicable only if one assumes he’s always been naïve, juvenile and suffering from an attention deficit.
One of Charle’s lapdogs, ‘wheatdogg’ who calls himself a history buff wants to insult Gohmert by cleverly calling him Goober-mert and tries to prove there’s no similarity between the Ottoman empire and today’s fledgeling caliphate. But then in his own pathetic and transparent Wikipedia reworded account comically makes Gohmert’s point and also proving the Republican reps subtle knowledge of past events (LOL!):
Dumbshits.
Or a minority pandering District Attorney running for re-election and not giving a flying fuck about truth.
Charles calls Ann Romney “defensive and brittle”! LOL!!!
So let me get this straight. A fat shut in is attacking a candidate’s wife who has multiple sclerosis and has beaten cancer (so far). Really?
Hey Charles, did it ever occur to you that the Romney’s are extremely wealthy and don’t have to get on airplanes everyday (she had a scare today too when the cabin filled with smoke) to go to multiple campaign events. They could sit like fat slugs in their pajamas swilling the Dew and mashing Cheetos into their maws like you do and insult people all day long on the internet PLUS live in opulence and luxury and floating in their pool (unlike you). But they choose to seek positions of leadership and service and pay a total of 38+% of their sizeable income in taxes and charity.
And also note that they paid more taxes last year than they HAD to, Charles. They didn’t take all their charitable deductions. I’d also remind you that he took NO SALARY as Governor of Massachusetts and none when he ran the Olympics. Meanwhile, the skinny socialist you’re so fond of and First Lady Broad in the Beam have spent over the equivalent of Romney’s income from last year taking splendid vacations and flying to date nights and campaign appearances on our dime.
The Romneys are such Good People, and Fatass is such a worthless drain on society, it’s hilarious to see him trying to critique/demonize them. He’s an abscess that needs to be drained.
I know and I really do not have a problem with the Obamas personally and so I won’t smear them in that way. There’s no law against being socialists-lite and that’s their prerogative. Other than their politics they’re a lovely family and I wish them the best, but lets give the other guys a fair shake, as well. There’s no evidence the Romneys are rich, spoiled, entitled a-holes, so why even imply it as his post does. They could be drunken wrecks and he could be chasing Katy Perry quality skirt all over the world. Instead he stands by his wife and family and manages not to get a beer gut, to boot. So why??
Oh right, unless of course you’re a desparate, pony-tailed loser with a failing blog and a flawed, implausible excuse for having forsaken a decade’s worth of commentary and contribution because of ill-requited lust and ill-conceived delusions of grandeur and self-importance.
Charles calls Romney’s tax release a comedy. Uh but fails to notice this which should wipe the smile off of his face. They paid even more than they had to. And gee who should I believe, a fat stupid, hyperbolic guitarist who posts half-truths or PricewaterhouseCoopers, many decades professional accountants and tax experts:
Romney Paid At 14% Federal Tax Rate In 2011, Pegs 20 Year Average At 20%
http://www.forbes.com/sites/janetnovack/2012/09/21/romney-paid-at-14-rate-in-2011-pegs-20-year-average-at-20/
Charles tries to make some point about those who have pointed out Obama’s weird new flag logo where there are 5 red streaks that look similar to the blood smeard streaks seen outside the Libyan embassy. It’s an obvious gaffe that this is rolled out right after that catastrophe and the death of our envoys and marines. So Charles misses that whole point and shows conservatives that have incorporated the flag into their campaigns and logos. Yuh, so??? And of course theirs are all straight and lines like a normal flag. Ya know, like respecful and traditional. So he steps on his dick and proves his critics and opponents point yet again. What a douche.
I find it deplorable that a sitting President re-makes the flag in a salute to himself. Of course all those Obamabots pledging allegiance to OBAMA is creepy. And don’t even get me started on Jim Messina and his his pervert pose tweet.
Chunky would pronounce “douche” as “doo-chay”.
Thinks it makes him sound sophisticated or something.
Charles, say the word “milieu” again, just for yuks.
OMG. I just saw that Charles posted no less than three videos by Jon Stewart supposedly “taking down” Mitt and his supposed dishonesty. As if Stewart’s intellectually any where near honest?? What a fucking pathetic idiot.
Hey Charles I got news for ya, Stewart edits the crap out of that stuff….FOR LAUGHS! Remember you’re reposting crap from a classic short, Jewish clown that suggested we should have dropped a nuclear bomb 10 miles off of Japan and created a manmade tsunami killing more than the outright atomic bombs did. What’s next, daughter-screwing, wife-betraying Woody Allen’s take on the election?
We’re the Aristocrats!
Be of good cheer, fellow patriots!
Obama is headed for an electoral trouncing: http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/23/university-of-colorado-prediction-model-points-to-big-romney-win
OK that cheered me up!
I read the comments for that article and the moonbats are shrieking and squealing like stuck pigs. 😆
OK now I’m feeling a little sad mocking this poor guy. Now he cites SNL, the comedy wing of the propaganda NBC outfit: And he posts this as #19 comment ( he used to only comment way deep into the comment threads). And after like 6 hours, there are like 138 comments. In the old days there would have been around 600 or more, esp on Friday. Really a sad shadow of what it was and never will be again.
Screwed up the blockquote but you know which is me and which is Sad Sack.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha…
Dumbass thickly makes a statement – a claim – about Mr. Romney and his tax returns and then gets a WHOPPING 36 comments.
I refuse to look – but one does wonder how many of those comments were made by fatass dumbshit.
Fuck you Charles.
Charles would dream this scenario
Damn! Why they wanna stick me for my Cheetos?! 😆
Time for the Joe Biden gaffe of the day!
I’m almost going to miss ol’ Slow Joe when he and President Choombama get the boot in November. 😆
[Facepalm]
penis penis penis lol
Couple of must-read/sees.
Funerals for the fallen SEALS who died saving Americans and killing savages in Libya:
http://www.myfoxboston.com/story/19581151/2012/09/19/winchester-victim-of-libya-attacks-laid-to-rest
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2012/09/rid-the-world-of-those-savages.html
Meh. Fake boobs and cellulite.
Mmmmmm…Booobs!
Check out these boobies! They’re definitely real!
http://tinyurl.com/4exx6za
Linky no worky. Am using Chrome.
How about now?
I wouldn’t want you to miss checking out a pair of real and spectacular boobies!
You still linked it wrong.
Link works with Firefox. *shrug*
Oh well……
Ok, I’ll end this thread with a video version of my lame joke. 😀
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