1 LSD is not good for you.

2 Happy Sunday, Sweetlings!

*kicking the bunks and pulling up blankets*

Wake up!
Wake up!

3 Global warming isn't science but phrenology is, ya bunch of bumpy-headed bastards.

4 The only plausible explanation is that Charles was replaced by a pod person.

5 Oh well. Chuckles can try to see if he can milk 15 minutes of Kos Kash & MSNBC love. But what will happen when they tire of him?

Whither Reine, Irish Rose, Sharmuta (translate that word from Arabic to English), Thanos, Kilgore, Bosforus, and The Sanity Inspector?

6 The only plausible explanation is that Charles was replaced by a pod person. Posted by: Eric at December 06, 2009 09:50 AM (/piN More likely Dan Rather

7 Also, the EPA is set to go crazy soon.

8 Johnson's transformation reminds me of someone who became communist just in time for the Berlin Wall to fall, or a guy who jumped on to the lucrative horse buggy construction industry just in time for Ford to start mass producing Model Ts.

9 Chuckie also suffered a memory lapse when he mentioned
"Support for bigotry, hatred, and white supremacism (see: Pat Buchanan, Ann Coulter, Robert Stacy McCain, Lew Rockwell, etc.)"...   in his "Goodbye cruel world" post.

Back in the middle of April, Stormfront was the only site he considered reliable concerning the Tea Parties. He rejected all first-hand accounts by attendees and instead pushed the Stormfront meme for weeks. I guess rabid right-wingers like Michelle Malkin and Fox News are worse that the actual Nazis. Charlie is a tool, but more importantly he's the biggest liar on the web. It's been fun watching his site wither and die.

10

It's interesting how ostensibly smart people can be rendered stupid by relentless subjectivity--their inabilty to reality test, to size-up who they are and how their thought processes fit in.  They cannot step back and recognize a limbic-system driven filtering of incoming information.  "I choose to see this and not that."  "Possibility is probability depending upon utility in the moment." 

For the true perception moron--not the wily truth-bender--this process remains hidden in the unconscious.  Those processes typically take place at the edge of consciousness anyway, so it's understandable.  For those not attempting to create an image of intellectual honesty.  But people like Chaz cannot generate sufficient mental horsepower to drag it to the surface and deal with it.  (Back to reality testing.)  He's in good company, though.  Many ostensibly smart people are like that.  I've always called them "perception morons."  Primitive stuff.

11

So does he file us "climate-change denialists" under the heading of racists or fascists?

That boy's cheese just keeps slipping further and futher off his cracker.

12 Protect the ego at any cost, Chaz.

13 I'm molting! Molting!

14 You're banned.  You're all banned!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now back to making love to my bicycle seat.

15 Serious question morans:
Does anyone have a theory as to why Charles turned so fast?

16 I suspect new, powerful and influential friends, and a chance to really make some money, and enter the big time, might be what influenced Charles. 

Either that, or he's having 1. A complete nervous breakdown, or 2. Is possessed. 

17 *kicking the bunks and pulling up blankets*


Leave us alone!!!!!  Some of us are still in a nice dreamy state from the loveliness that was the ONT

18 http://tinyurl.com/yel6fds

19 dri, we've seen this kind of thing before. When a person is just as certain about his repudiated opinions as he was about them in the first place, without better quality evidence, it's Balloon Juice all over again. What's interesting to me is that this narrative closely tracks that of the Born Again Christian that these guys always savage as being delusional. There's a Road to Damascus moment, an acceptance of Progtardism as one's personal savior. We've seen this all before. It will spawn a whole new generation of concern trolls.

20 Commenting at LGF actually started my blogging 'career' (well, more like a hobby) - but I just left the following - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hmmm - let's see Saturday, Dec 5 2009 - Charles thanks 'denialists' (aka anyone open to the idea that climate change was possibly due to anything other than eveil, evil hoomons) Sunday, March 4 2007 - Charles recommends his followers check out 'The Great Warming Swindle' - A BBC documentary that devastates the A part of the whole AGW theory, and examines the horrendous politicization of the subject. The only question remains - where did Dan Rather hide Charles' body? Zero credibility, check Lickspittle sycophants, check Sarcastic mental masturbation passing as insight, check Help me pull the ejection handle and ban me - I'd consider it a mercy killing.

21 Does anyone have a theory as to why Charles turned so fast? Posted by: dri at December 06, 2009 10:07 AM (qLZ+x) They say syphilis rots the brain.

22 >>Does anyone have a theory as to why Charles turned so fast?

He's an opportunist, basically a middle-aged serial failure who had some small successes [RatherGate] and is facing obscurity all over again. No mystery

23 I'm upset because he keeps lying about me. I'm not hot because of runaway global warming. I'm hot because a freakin asteroid hit me 500m years ago and blew my guts out as co2 and my crust hasn't even cooled yet. Reading lgf will actually make you a little bit dumber in planetary sciences.

24

I looked at that LGF calendar that Johnson is selling. Every month's picture has a caption like,

"Santa Monica Beach: Racist hiding behind starfish."

"Arizona Desert: This is the whole earth in a couple of years."

"Clouds Over Westwood: Look closely and you can make out a swastika."

"Seagull On Pier Post: I bet he's disagreeing with me about something. Fucking bird."

25 1. he sold the site, and someone else is posting under his name 2. since he was dumped by PJ media, he has no income 3. he needs the ad money (MSNBC now advertiser) because he doesn't do anything else 4. he caught a disease from Sharm 5. he needs to self destruct in this also can't we all just ignore him?

26 "A few years ago, I used to doubt that there really were climate change denialists"

Denialist denialist!

They were telling us it would take trillions and years of work to end global warming, but one poster on the intertubes did it in one afternoon!

All hail FOIA!

27

Does anyone have a theory as to why Charles turned so fast?

Same reason as David Brock, probably.

28 He will let you play with his acolytes for a few comments if you are critical of AGW, but don't criticize the Grand High Poobah himself, or he will toss you immediately. I made a mildly critical comment and was tossed within seconds.

As many people have said. "what a tool!"

29 Whoa, flashback.

30

Like a good little maoist, he loads his terms

"Climate change denialists"

No one denies there is change. Its whether its clearly man made or not, and the extent of the damage we question. Orwellian.

Just like the libs who call health care reform opponents "health care opponents"

Cunts.

31 As many people have said. "what a tool!"
Posted by: NJconservative at December 06

I'm eagerly awaiting the reaction from his latest target group of donors (Koslings and assorted mental midgets) when he begins to treat them like shit. Most moderates/conservatives just walked away when Charlie went off his meds, but I bet the Lefties cry up a storm.
Careful, Charlie, your new "friends" are a mercurial and vengeful bunch. Once they see you for what you are, you've got nowhere left to go. Bad news for the "tip jar".

32 #15

He's been heading down that road for a long time.  Over a year, by my seat of the pants reckoning.  He started with creationism, then somehow made a connection between that and everyone on the right, who are all nazis, racists, truthers, corporatists, car driving bicycle haters etc.  The rest, as they say, is history. 

33 'Johnson.'  Is that a euphemism?

34 How much would it cost to just buy out LGF, so the left could point to a right leaning convert?

Say a big advertiser (Soros backed) offered $200,000 to buy a right leaning guy with a large following.  That would buy a nice bicycle.

And then he could just go so nutty, that he wouldn't really help the left, but would actually be an advertisement for the craziness of their radical positions. 

or ...

He had a stroke in the logic part of his brain, and lefty emotional appeal now dominates him.

Fortunately I only read LGF for a little while, and only commented a few times, so I don't feel any sense of betrayal.

35 #30

Me too.  I questioned the sudden spate of bannings, over some really mild comments, and was promptly banned myself. 

I have'nt been able to ride, or photograph a bicycle since.

36 He's been heading down that road for a long time.  Over a year, by my seat of the pants reckoning.

I'd say since the GOP lost Congress.  He smelled a change in the wind and thought he'd start chasing the 'new thing' to maintain popularity.  Now, he's alienated enough old readers that he needs to drag in the Lefties, so he's going over hardcore to court them and their calendar-buying ways.

He's a loser trying to maintain relevance, not anyone of a consistent philosophy.

37 Remind me why we care?  Really.  I can't recall caring.

38 As I look out the window and see show where a month ago was green grass, I agree that there is climate change. As far as why did Charles change? To quote Deep Throat, "Follow the money."

Seriously he has always been an anti-religious sort of fellow, he simply thinks that Christians are more dangerous than muslims. And
has always used a 6 degrees of Bacon to condemn his adversaries. And he has never been reflective or self-critical.

39 So did anyone there attempt to point him to his old post?  Or were they promptly banned and had the post removed?  Or did he attempt to defend his idiocy?

40 I'd have to quibble that the transformation is not yet complete - watch for a last act that includes a gushing apology for ever questioning Dan Rather's superior journalistic instincts, and an invitation to make Dynamo Dan a guest site admin. . .

41 Cool, gives me another chance to post this.

42 I mean this

43 #42

He's no doubt trolling all the right wing hate sites for comments to use in his upcoming rebuttal. 

44 42: naw, they are busy mocking Wind Rider and accusing him of "giving Daddy the finger."

Lotsa "daddy issue" references over there.

hmmm...

Oh well. Enjoy the koslings, Chaz. As somebody else said, they are nastier than any "reich winger" you could imagine, and try to take over any site they infest.

45 You know what would be hilarious to happen on the opening day of Copenhagen?

A volcanic eruption, somewhere in the world.  Belching out massive quantities of CO₂.

Sure, we'll probably get the obligatory blizzard, but I'd like to see them arguing about cutting 30 ppm from the atmosphere while the Earth is belching it out in megatons.

46 Here's another

47

Whoa...when Cahrles wakes up and sees this, he'll be pulling his ponytail out.

What Climaquiddick shows is that government funding is the real cause of global warming

48
So did anyone there attempt to point him to his old post?

Would it make a difference? He'll dismiss it as 'obfuscation' and as a 'nontroversy' just like the climatehoax emails. When you live in the Universe of Lies, you get to make up your own truth.

49 so if co2 is a public danger and we exhale....  co2, does that mean no more large gatherings?  or am i even allowed to breath without incurring a penalty or hell, just breath period.

50 so if co2 is a public danger and we exhale....  co2, does that mean no more large gatherings?  or am i even allowed to breath without incurring a penalty or hell, just breath period.


You are allowed to inhale.

There will be a small surcharge on exhaling.

It's good for everyone.

51 CJ and LGF: a really bad car accident that you drive by and gape at, looking for fatalities. You don't want to look, but you can't keep your eyes off the horrible, horrible crash.

52 Is it not completely obvious that his blog was purchased by someone else years ago? Once you take out a Dan Rather, they'll buy you for a huge sum but they'll also make you sign a non-disclosure agreement.

Charles Johnson doesn't really exist. He's on an island somewhere drinking margaritas and getting head.

His blog is ghost written.

53 Larry Tate, I loved your work on Bewitched

54

so we can spread the wealth around, but keep the co2 to yourself.   got it

55 No words.

56 Guess I just came to terms with my inner flounce, or something.

57 We need a volunteer to become CJ's biking buddy. Our agent will penetrate the LGF headquarters by establishing a strong friendship with CJ based on a mutual love for bicycles, decaying fences, abandoned beach property, and Thai sticks. This won't an easy assignment and no one will question anyone's hesitation to volunteer. Married men and those who may want to become father's someday are excluded.

58

"55 Is it not completely obvious that his blog was purchased by someone else years ago? Once you take out a Dan Rather, they'll buy you for a huge sum but they'll also make you sign a non-disclosure agreement.

Charles Johnson doesn't really exist. He's on an island somewhere drinking margaritas and getting head.

His blog is ghost written."

That is really the only thing I can think happened with the 360 degree turn into batshit crazy LGF took.

Or Chuckles is batshit crazy and stopped taking her meds.

59 Does anyone have a theory as to why Charles turned so fast?

He was a leftist before 9/11, became more right leaning in terms of the war on terror and the threat of Islam out of sheer terror at the attack, and when that fear faded, went back to type. I have no doubt that pressure from leftist friends and contempt for him by people he admires in the music industry and arts played a big part too.

60
Looking at Two Buck-Chuck's Alexa numbers, it seems that his dead-cat-bounce concerning web traffic has come to an abrupt end. Boooo Chaz, Booooo, Epic Fail ! Wonder what stupid stunt he's gonna pull next to try and milk some hits ?

Nobody's buying his crappy calendar, his shit off of Amazon or gives a flying fornication of what he's got on his Kindle.

Nobody takes this guy seriously anymore. The left who he's desperately trying to suck up to in a lame attempt at lining his pockets ain't buying his shit either or will trust a guy who so easily switches allegiances and back stabs his own once trusted associates. Lets let this irrelevant piece of shit die in obscurity. He's already picked the wagon he want's to hitch his pony-tail to.

61 60: why do youthink Sharmuta, Thanos, Iceweasel, Kilgore, & Irish Rose are his praetorian guard? They are all either wimmins or "metro"sexuals.

62 Consistency is the mark of a little mind, lauraw.

63

Why are you all talking about this dick?

Don't feed the trolls. Don't give him traffic.

Is Gabe dating this dickhead?

If not, may LGF and Chaz be like Palin Steele, forever banned from AoSHQ.

Thanks!

64

"Nobody's buying his crappy calendar, his shit off of Amazon or gives a flying fornication of what he's got on his Kindle."

Holy shit. I thought you guys were kidding about the calendar.  Wowza.

65 "Denialist"?  That's the gayest fucking thing I've ever heard.

66 There are only two things that will make a man turn on a dime like that: Money and vengence. Oh, and poontang. Or the ghey equivalent. I guess that's four things. You get the point.

67 The old Charles of a few years ago never would have existed but for 9-11. Christopher Taylor has summed it up nicely, I think.

68 I specifically remember that post and the documentary it linked to. What an ass.

69 What a fug stick.

70


Whats The Frequency KKKilgore ?

71

Did I miss the story here about Paul Anka in a domestic dispute? Patterico had the story yesterday, but it's not clear how Brian Dennehy was involved.

http://tinyurl.com/yj8zlq5

 

72 OT: Drudge has a pics of Hillary and Sarah. Hillary looks like she could a vacation. Sarah looks like a billion bucks. You should have stayed in the Senate, Hillary.

73

#18 -- Thanks for the link. LOL ROTFLMAO.

74 His news of the "day" yesterday was a sarcastic week-old  tweet from Andrew Breitbart. That's some content-free blogging there, Chuckles.

75 Please, everyone, do you not comprehend my greatness?  The fact that I am able to change my mind about AGW should enlighten you to how spinelessness and intellectual bankruptcy is the path to hope, change, good weed, ponytails, and proper fretboard technique.

76 A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

77 Looks like Charles stepped on his Johnson with that post.

78 55 Is it not completely obvious that his blog was purchased by someone else years ago? Once you take out a Dan Rather, they'll buy you for a huge sum but they'll also make you sign a non-disclosure agreement.

Charles Johnson  is on an island somewhere drinking margaritas and getting giving head.

His blog is ghost written. We write it together.

79 Obligatory.

80 I'm divorcing him for shit like this.

81 It is kind of fun to poke the retard and watching this is just spectacular and hard to look away from but... honestly I wouldn't mind a total blackout on Andrew Sullivan and LGF posts. Sullivan has gotten so whacky and offensive Drudge has needed to pull him from his blog list for a year or more but there's no need for everyone else to mention them.

82 replace the ___ with i m g (no spaces)

83 Ah fuck it, better link:

http://tinyurl.com/ydmc8cu

84 The thing that really is the pisser is claiming that it wasn't him that changed and that refuting him required so much time. Some folks who read his blog and commented had.......oh how do you say it?  A life...

85 Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 06, 2009 11:21 AM (PQY7w)

I disagree. I love Charles Johnson posts. They bring out the best in people.

86
The week before Chuckles posted his manifesto on why he's parting ways with the right, he was shamelessly pimping Amazon Black Friday and Cyber Monday at least twice a day in posts leading up to it. All the while hinting around to the lizards that  he was broke and he may even have to take the blog down or scale it back.

I guess when he saw  the serious windfall of cash he was hoping for didn't develop from his cult he had to switch gears and go full retard.

If the left can't see this is nothing more than link and attention whoring for money, then they are even more stupid than I give them credit for.

87 He went to room 101 and the doublethink has been successful.

88 Well alrighty then! Pretty calendar, mister?

89 So a guy that spends his life online turns out to be a nutter. Gosh, what a shock.

90

Mad King Chuckles would just say that he was never a "climate change denialist" because he was always open to the science which is proved by his change of mind. Those that still deny climate change however are obviously not open to the science like his wonderful self.

Me thinks he rode his bike too long with out the seat on and it impacted his brain.

 

91 So a guy that spends his life online turns out to be a nutter. Gosh, what a shock.

You'd like me if you knew me.

92 what a tool.....oh wait, you have to have manly characteristics to be a tool.....so i guess he's just a fool.....

93 "So did anyone there attempt to point him to his old post?"

His expected reply is obvious.  "There they go again, taking my old post out of context."

See, here's what I saw happen.  Lefties hardly ever used the term "out of context" until around 2003 or 2004.  At that point in time, especially in the run-up to the 2004 elections, -they- really were taking everything out of context.  This is the point in time when "Dowdification" became a word, when the left was blatantly reversing and twisting sentences every which way to make them appear as the complete opposite of what they really did.  Even moreso than they are doing today.

And conservatives started calling out that shit.  We ourselves started having to say "you ripped that blatantly out of context" almost every day because they were -doing- it every single day.  And, because our arguments had merit, it started working.  People really started to notice that context meant nothing to the left, that they'd blatantly misrepresent anything and everything conservatives said.

So they went into emergency meme mode, and decided to make the phrase "out of context" their own.  They'd use it at the drop of a hat, every day, every time, against every single conservative argument, ALWAYS.  Even if the conservative argument was 100% in context and the supposed context the evil wingnuts left out was utterly irrelevant, or even redundant, to the point being made. It's how they react whenever they start getting successfully tarred with anything negative - project it like a freaking fire hose until their victims become perceived as the aggressors.

Qwinn

94

I take issue with the comment about Chuck "getting" head.  He is so giving.

Has it not occurred to anyone that Al Gore might now own a Little "green" blog.

95 Formerly a euphemism for 'horse shit'.  Now it just is.

96
What's even funnier is David Frum begging Charles Jerkwad not to leave the right.

Does anyone know if Frum begged Andi Sullyman to stay, too?

97 How soon until Charles bans his archives?

Posted by: Dave C at December 06, 2009 10:17 AM (qmecx)

Actually, some of the folks over at 2.0 have said that he's been going back and deleting his archives for the past several months to keep from getting caught with both feet in his mouth. Guess he must have missed this one.

Good catch.

98 the best part is the psychophants left there...the ones who used to claim to be conservatives....USED TO DISAVOW GLOBAL WARMING....now they don't even squirm when their master beats the "we're killing the planet" drum. is he selling carbon credits at his amazon store?

99 "Little Green Footballs."  I remember looking at that site once and a while years ago and thinking how shallow the "stories" were... adolescent - fitting for a name that implies a bunch of teenagers tossing around little spongy nerf balls like wussies who wish they could play the real game.

100
speaking of Frump the Dump...

one of his nobody-cobloggers is urging us not to believe the polls showing the number of people who identify themselves as large and getting bigger. Don't be fooled, he says, 'we' still have a small base.

101 They don't call me little green nutballs for nothing.

102 More like, "and then the Left hit the tip jar more than the Right..." and the rest is revisionist history.

103 Heh.

104 Oooh.  What's the backstory on this?

  andrewbreitbart Charles Johnson Accuses @AndrewBreitbart of Calling 4 'Murder' of Disgraced Climate Scientist. Treason requires fair trial. Will CJ retract?

105 CJ is certifiably batshit crazy.  I tried logging in the other day after not having done so for a LOOONG time and found I was banned.  Not sure how, but he seems to be preemptively blocking people who've left the LGF fold.  I can picture him - unshaven, unwashed, in his underwear - obsessively combing the comments on other blogs and mapping those users to LGF members to figure out who needs to be banned before they can subvert his loyal membership.

106 Hell,  I'm not just a Climate Change Denialist, I'm a Climate Change ADVOCATE!

Who wants it to be summer, fall, winter or spring the entire year?   Change climate change :-)

107 @108

Purges are necessary in any great sycophantic endeavor.

108 Please never stop the random Chuckles posts. The ridicule and out-calling make my day. If that shallow pool had ever had any real beliefs, they couldn't have been bought. He's a fame ho who's flaming out...in more ways than one.

109

Does anyone know if Frum begged Andi Sullyman to stay, too?

If he did, did he do so frum his knees?

110

They say syphilis rots the brain.
Posted by: The guy who says Also Cocks at December 06, 2009 10:15 AM (QBQcg)

 

Charles bicycle seat post has the clap? 

111 Callng for a ban on CJ-related posts is a nice thought, but pretty much impossible. He's like Obama, every time you think that you've seen him at his worst, he doubles down on the dumb. Someone has to keep track of his lies/smears/failures, why not the people who know him best?

112
Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

113

Charles bicycle seat post has the clap? 

Posted by: Old Hippie Vet at December 06, 2009 11:55 AM (3IZGh)

Funny you should mention that. Chaz and I have a video coming out soon.

Two Cyclists, One Seat Post

114

Charles updated the page Weaselzippers caught, adding at the end:

PLEASE NOTE: Since this show was aired, serious questions have been raised about many of its assertions. For more, see: The Great Global Warming Swindle Debate.

The funny thing is the page Weaselzippers shows is dated Sun, Mar 4, 2007 while the page in his disclaimer links to is dated Sat, Dec 20, 2008. That's 19 months later. I have no clue when Charles added that update but I'll bet it was shortly after Weaselzippers exposed him.

And update notwithstanding, the post at Weaselzippers shows that Charles was at one time quite the denier.

115

Arnold told him that Santa Monica will be underwater unless we stop the climate from changing.   Charles is simply concerned about his precious bike path and wants to do everything he can to save California. 

I know some true beleivers of AGW and they really feel like AGW will ruin the Earth.  I tell them that the politicians are on a much faster pace to destroy us with reckless spending and burdendsome government.      

I sincerely hope that ClimateGate revelataions, if they ever get reported in the press, will wake up some moderates that had come to beleive AGW.  (Arnold, your CA CO2 emissions cap plan is based on manipulated data and falsified science!  That's my tax money dude.  No wait, its my son's tax money in 20 years dude.)

Nobody should be in favor of pollution or wasting our natural resources.  I personally think that the conservatives should steal the green agenda away from the Democrats.    Republicans now are painted by the media and Democrats as haters of the enviroment.  I say that is BS.  Conservatives should own the conservation mantle.  There is money to be made in alternaitve energy and in protecting our enviroment.   Decreasing our dependence on foreign energy is a win-win political proposition.  Van Jones was right that there can be a new economy based on clean energy technology.  He was wrong about it origininating with the government.  It needs to be a private market initiative and the only role the government should play is giving tax breaks to alternitve energy investment.    Now is the time with ClimateGate revelations to stand up and reject that AGW science is settled.  Now is the time to kill the fraudulent scheme that is Cap and Trade.  But simultaneously we should say:"While we don't know if AGW is happening or not, we want a clean enviroment and a future without reliance on finite fossil fuels."  The conservative movement should become champions of common sense enviromental protection.    

116

"... pressure from leftist friends and contempt for him by people he admires in the music industry and arts played a big part too."

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 06, 2009 10:59 AM (PQY7w)

I'm guessing that this sort of pressure was the biggest factor in Charles' return to Leftist orthodoxy.  It's possible to wake up from a liberal past/stupor, but Charles' coterie of inarticulate Leftist prancers has filtered and distorted reality.

I recall after the 2008 election, Charles seemed more relieved than resigned that Obama won, sort of like a weight had been lifted off his shoulders, and I then saw a connection to some of his positions.

Charles "switched sides", if you will, at the wrong time and to the wrong side. 

Leftist programs always fail.

AGW was always under legitimate suspicion: Al Gore, Michael (never met a hot link I didn't like and eat) Moore, . . . . 

No one wants want Obamacare, except perhaps an elite few and professionsl welfare-check-cashers.

We've seen how Obama spends the money of others: Annenberg Challenge, Rezko's housing redevlopment project, the $1million(?) UofI Medical funding (i.e., Michelle's 192% raise), Cash-for-Clunkers , the Bailout (at least the GM-Chrysler-UAW bailout).

Problems more screamingly obvious BEFORE they happen than Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction when it happened.

Charles signed up for all this.

117 I hope Chuckles is enjoying his change.

118

Anybody really think Chuckles remembered a 19 month old post and updated it after posting something that contradicted it?

119 Does anyone have a theory as to why Charles turned so fast?
-------------------

It sounds corny, but I'm sticking to my theory of performance-enhancing drugs. His rhetoric, his discourse, his way of thinking, are a feast for a literary forensics analyst.

120 I'm using one square of toilet paper as proof that I'm no hypocrite. Can't you smell?

121 Whither Reine, Irish Rose, Sharmuta (translate that word from Arabic to English), Thanos, Kilgore, Bosforus, and The Sanity Inspector?

I've been licking the shit from Charles ass and you leave me out? How dare you! I worship Master Charles much more than those others and i'm more racist than Kilgore Trout! Don't ever leave me out again or i'll tell Charles and then you'll get it!

122

And upon completed gestation and hatching, what a fugly pitiful beast it be: 

 http://tinyurl.com/ydj3phk

 

123 Oh, btw, stopped by the freak show a couple days ago for some laughs and chuckles has declared that Climategate is all about the theft of e-mails (ala babs boxer) and that you wingnuts in the righty blogosphere are all complicit in the crime. How's it feel to be part of a criminal conspiracy fellow wingnuts? I gotta say, i feel pretty good about it.

124 23 How soon until Charles bans his archives?

Posted by: Dave C

 

You mean like the CRU did with the REAL scientific data? Claims of a "hack-attack" will follow, I presume.

125 Ishkabible bang bang

126 55. I thought it was just your general case of sclerotic brain-stiffening some men get in middle age. But perhaps he really did sell or die or whatnot.

127 Chuckles is like the Sunday newspaper funnies: a respite from a long week of hard work. Never stop the comedy.

128 Seriously, what happened at Balloon Juice was creepy.  Yes, the Terri Schiavo case was heated and fraught with ethical and moral Gordian knots, but the way Cole ended up doing a 100% reversal on almost every single position he'd blogged about before was mind-blowing.

It really makes me think that "John Cole" and "Charles Johnson" are pseudonyms and change their positions based on who's writing them.

Kinda like how Ana Maria Cox hasn't written "Wonkette" in years.

129

When this whole blog thing began to take off in 2001-2002 I regularly read Sullivan who then turned me on to LGF and Instapundit. So just compare and contrast the careers of Sully & CJ.

I believe Sully turned for the dough. He saw the potential for online mags etc. and since he was a lefty before he became a righty, the transition could be masked as a principled, man of conscience returning to his roots (the prodigal son motif). And it works for him. He doesn't have to hold a fundraiser to take off to P-Town anymore.

Charles has probably always been exactly what he is now. He saw the threat that the Islamists posed and to his credit he has been consistently outspoken toward the charlatans and PC cops on the left. But being a man of the evangelical atheist left he just couldn't abide that the Left villified him for Rathergate and called him a racist. He was trying to be somebody he wasn't and gaining acclaim from all the wrong people.

So he began the transition by barely mentioning "RoP" and switched almost entirely to a quixotic jihad against "Creationism" thereby alienating a certain segment of his readers but replacing them with the correct kind. But why stop there if you're truly a Lefty at heart? He doesn't want any conservatives in his midst. He always despised the rubes and only wanted their money to keep his blog going anyway. He's always tweaking his blog as a showcase for his programming skillz. Jazz music isn't exactly hot right now or since the mid 60's for that matter. And so now less people read him and care what he has to say but hey, he has something to show clients.

In short, he doesn't like us, never did, but he needed somebody to pay for his prototype. Stop going there. He doesn't like you or respect you and your utility to him is no longer extant.

130 I gotta say, i feel pretty good about it.

Posted by: koopy at December 06, 2009 12:29 PM (XllG0)

Me too.

Never before have I been so sure that GW is a massive scam. I always believed it to be a scam (due to common sense and basic familiarity with earth sciences/natural history), and it was easy to find the errors and fear-mongering in individual stories of GW alrmism. But proving that the entire big picture was a fake took "Climategate". Especially the plans to delete data.

Nobody EVER hides evidence that they are RIGHT.

131

Listen.  You DENIALISTS are the same as CREATIONISTS!  As a matter of fact, 100 years from now, you'll be viewed as worse than the NAZIS! 

Bringing up old posts OUT OF CONTEXT, is typical right wing BAD CRAZINESS.  You and your whole neo nazi, Beck & Palin loving, Vlaams Belang mirror site, Stormfront linking blog are banned from the internets forever!

May Gaia have mercy on your collective souls.

 

 

BTW, don't forget to check out the great deals at Amazon.

Oh yeah, and buy a calender.  It makes a great Holiday gift.

132 It's truly hard for me to ignore a lying POS like Chuckles Johnson.

133 Charles Johnson is an idiot. 

134 Techie I "wanted Terri Schiavo dead!" (a title I earned by by explaining a bone scan) and remember those contentious days with distaste and worry about the future of political alliances between soc cons and liber cons and mod cons an ordinary cons. If one can't explain the limits of a bone scan finding ( to prevent someone weakening their case by exaggerating it), on the basis that it puts a "chink" in the Testudo, that meant I would have to part ways with people I otherwise thought well of and agreed with. I can understand disillusionment with an intellectually dishonest or blinkered position taken for some greater good. I'm not sure I understand going completely off the rails into country where that same intellectual dishonesty rules. Maybe Cole and Johnson (whoever and whatever happened to their blogs and their outlooks) couldn't stand a partial break emotionally. They are only calm and happy when "right" and surrounded by perfectly like minds.

135 It takes a tough man to fuck a tender chicken.

136 Chaz may need to put down the bong. He seems to have lost his grasp of time, among other things.

 "A few years ago, I used to doubt that there really were climate change denialists".

137 The chairman of Comcast endorsed the Senate health care bill in a letter Thursday to President Barack Obama, saying, "We cannot allow perfection to stand in the way of critically needed and very good legislation."

One day after gobbling up _{(Obama's cock)} NBC. Sweet !
I"m going Dish.

138

I took a quick peek at Johnsons pathetic circle jerk site. 

I thought I was in Walgreens in the "feminine" products aisle, what with all the DOUCHE BAGS and such.

139 FTR, posting in this thread makes you all reich-wing haters and Lord Johnson will see to it that you are all SO BANNED!!!!!!111!!

140

Just a reminder this Holiday season.

Charlie Johnson fucks reindeer.  And goats.

I know all of this to be true, because Dan Rather and Al Gore saw it.

141 I believe Mr. Johnson "beclowned" himself this morn.

142 Wow. Just when you thought Charles Johnson couldn't stoop any lower. If anyone points this out at LGF you know they will get deleted.

143 I don't have the patience to wait for his tech script loaded site to finish loading to post anything there, but I sure do want to. I haven't been banned yet.

Let's see here, if he thought a couple of years ago there were no climate change deniers then he must have been meant "other than himself" since he clearly was in the denial camp a little over two years

144

When this whole blog thing began to take off in 2001-2002 I regularly read Sullivan who then turned me on to LGF and Instapundit. So just compare and contrast the careers of Sully & CJ. 

Interesting...that's the same trajectory I followed, too.

I believe Sully turned for the dough.

Nah... I think Sully turned during the 2004 election cycle when Bush became more vocally opposed to gay marriage in the lead up to the campaign.

LGF & CJ going off the rails is much worse than Sully.  LGF -- at its best, during its heyday around RatherGate -- was a great blog, and was a huge factor in raising awareness about the reality of jihadism, lefty stupidity, and liberal bias.

I think what caused CJ to crack up was that he saw his newly found post-9/11 political sensibility attracted some strange bedfellows (e.g., creationists, etc.). I do think the continued charges that LGF was a "right-wing" "racist" "hate site" had an effect on him (esp. given his pedigree as a pre-9/11 liberal).

V the K had the best comment on this a few weeks back, something like, "if I'd told you in 2004 that Charles Johnson would be blogging about <some stupid lefty topic>, would you have taken that bet?" 

145 A star is born.

http://tinyurl.com/yet24hv

146 His regression is eay to understand. After 9/11 he needed conservatives to save him (them) from the Wahabbi-ists. He believes they are no longer a threat to him, ergo; under the bus. The problem with this logic is this, they are required by the Quran to hunt him down. Atheists, that is.

147

5 Oh well. Chuckles can try to see if he can milk 15 minutes of Kos Kash & MSNBC love. But what will happen when they tire of him?

I predict a nasty fight soon with Kos over Afghanistan, and with Huffpo over vaccinations

148 135

Top 10 most irrelevant people - 2009 edition

9.  Joe Biden (sorry Newsweek, other than comic relief, he is worthless. Name 1 inititative the Sheriff has promoted that the current administration has implemented)

 

Wasn't he one of gate crashers at the WH State Dinner recently?

149 Charles Johnson?  Never heard of him.

150 Charlie Gibson?   Never heard of him.

151 9.  Joe Biden (sorry Newsweek, other than comic relief, he is worthless. Name 1 inititative the Sheriff has promoted that the current administration has implemented)

True.  Even Al Gore had the Reinventing Government schtick.

Usually, a lefty administration can use the VP as a distraction, but they don't even trust Delaware's version of Barney Fife enough to put him out there on some meaningless nonsense. 

152 Linky no worky anymore.

153 I went and took a look at the LGF post, and of the 500+ responses, CJ's wordiest rebuttal was to whine about the people he's been calling names, calling him names back. 

154 84 It is kind of fun to poke the retard and watching this is just spectacular and hard to look away from but... honestly I wouldn't mind a total blackout on Andrew Sullivan and LGF posts.

I vacillated on this one, yeah. Because I genuinely could not care less, never having been a reader of his except to follow an occasional link from somewhere else.

But this item isn't merely worthy of ridicule, it demands it.
A few years ago he didn't even know that 'denialists' actually existed?
Is he a fucking amnesiac?

155 "Does anyone have a theory as to why Charles turned so fast?" Dennis the Peasant's theory is that he was ALWAYS and STILL a lefty asshole, just trying to cash in on the Pajamas Media cash.

156 i can't help but think that charles johnson is himself a moby...

157 66

Why are you all talking about this dick?

He's the mother lode of comedy gold. He invites abuse, it would be rude not to accept the invitation.

158

Johnson's transformation reminds me of someone who became communist just in time for the Berlin Wall to fall, or a guy who jumped on to the lucrative horse buggy construction industry just in time for Ford to start mass producing Model Ts.

Yeah, talk about sucky timing. But back around the time of The One's Coronation in DC, the timing must have looked great to CJ. After all, the conventional wisdom was that the new Socialist Utopia had arrived and GOP was now a fringe party. There were about 20 conservatives left in the entire country, they had maybe 5 teeth among them and spent their Sundays handling snakes and speaking in tongues. So Chuck thought he was joining the winning team.  Since he always was liberal on everything except the WoT, it wasn't difficult for him to switch.

Well, The Era of Obama hasn't gone quite the way the Lefties thought it was going to go, has it? They hadn't counted on the tea parties and town halls, Palin still being a factor, the massive loss of independents, the election results in NY and VA, Climategate, and most critically, the growing realization that bambi really doesn't know what the hell he's doing.

The really funny thing is that he apparently thinks a NY Times profile of him is going to save his sorry ass. Hey, Chuckie, nobody reads the friggin' Times anymore. And you used to know that.

159

V the K had the best comment on this a few weeks back, something like, "if I'd told you in 2004 that Charles Johnson would be blogging about <some stupid lefty topic>, would you have taken that bet?" 

I actually wonder if one day soon CJ won't type:

"A few years ago, I used to doubt that there really were people who doubted that the Palestinians are treated unjustly."

If you really want to buddy up to the Kos kidz, Israel has to go under the bus.

160 A few days ago I likened CJ to some fool jumping onto the gangplank of the Titanic yelling "This boat is unsinkable" with his post about AGW conversion. All the while saying ClimateGate would blow over in a week. Now  the iceberg of reality called Clmaegate, which hasn't melted, has struck. What does Charles do? He's standing in the hold explaining how the design of the ship will prevent it's sinking while watching the water rise. He's doomed and loving it.

What's next? Well it turns out the Russians are responsible for the leak of emails.
How long till Chuck totally crosses the steams and declares that the War on Terror is a complete joke and the Russians are the true threat to Gaia and not Al Qaeda?

161 What's next? Well it turns out the Russians are responsible for the leak of emails.
How long till Chuck totally crosses the steams and declares that the War on Terror is a complete joke and the Russians are the true threat to Gaia and not Al Qaeda?

Posted by: Rocks at December 06, 2009 02:20 PM (ToM4s)

Judging by what happens when people cross the Russians, Chuckles may just want to invest some of his Amazon/LuLu money in a Geiger Counter to make somebody didn't slip some Polonium into his tofu.

162 Wow, can this be real? Has Chuckie tossed his girl out on the street without so much as cab fare home?

From Breitbart's Twitter;

@Sharmuta_LGF i was friends w charles - until yesterday apparently. i guess his parting w right is wholesale no matter personal history.

163 kddabear you are readin that wrong. That's Andrew's response to Sharmuta.

164 Really the only purpose he serves now is as an object of amusement. 

If any of you still have an account you should dig up some of Chuck's old posts and see if you can get yourself banned by posting them verbatim without attributing them to him or letting anyone know where they came from.  It would be the ultimate humiliation for him to in effect ban himself.  Especially when everyone can chortle about it later here and elsewhere.  And I bet it wouldn't be all that hard to do.

I stopped reading Sullivan soon after I started because it was clear to me that he was incapable of reason... even when he took positions with which I agreed.  He had some sort of huge interventionist energy policy idea that was the final straw.  It amazes me how people who know absolutely nothing about the industry in question or about the engineering and scientific realities associated with an industry can come out and advocate for imposing any policy at all.  It would be like us all getting a vote on whether jazz musicians should be allowed to use diminished chords. 

The world is run by idiots because the idea that the world can be run is idiotic.

165 #168

Sharmuta was posting in Chunk's AGW thread as early as this morning...and was busy defending CJ against the unfaithful.

166 Anyone know the origin of "Weaselzippers"?  Been checking it for a year now, but don't post or follow the conversations.

167 BTW if ACE  is around I wish he would chime in on this. Don't you guys mean "friendly" and not really "friend" when you talk about other bloggers? I mean you don't hang out all the time or anything right? Or maybe I'm wrong.

168 @Sharmuta_LGF i was friends w charles - until yesterday apparently. i guess his parting w right is wholesale no matter personal history.

IF this is really Sharmuta and she's been cast out, then Charles must be undergoing his equivalent of Hitler's "Night of the Long Knives"

169 169 kddabear you are readin that wrong. That's Andrew's response to Sharmuta.
Posted by: Rocks at December 06, 2009 02:28 PM

Thanks for the clarification. I'd hate to feel bad about mocking her if she asked for refuge here. I'd only feel bad for a second, but still...

170 I believe Sully turned for the dough. He saw the potential for online mags etc. and since he was a lefty before he became a righty, the transition could be masked as a principled, man of conscience returning to his roots (the prodigal son motif). And it works for him. He doesn't have to hold a fundraiser to take off to P-Town anymore.

Andi had a grudge against Howell Raines who was the editor in chief of the Slimes who fired him a few years before.

Andi's return to the Left began just after Raines got canned in the Jayson Blair scandal in May of 2003. Once his old enemy was gone, why not return to home base in order to get your old job back

171 She will never turn on Charles. Sharmuta has no original thoughts or principles to stand by. She just waits on what CJ says and echoes.

172 So, CJ has decided that science requires no dissent, no skepticism, and full faith and belief?

Good to know.  I remember science before this when skepticism was considered part of the routine.  Those cold fusion guys got such trouble.

If they could have claimed their science was settled and no dissent was allowed; they could have gotten trillions of dollars for the new cold fusion power plants.  Sadly skepticism was allowed so they were stopped before they could drain the coffers.

This won't happen to the climate change scientists.  They will not allow skepticism to happen or facts to be determined.  Proof will not be allowed.  Only unwavering faith in their science will be permitted.

Good to see Charles has found the party line and has the unwavering faith required to believe in "science".

173 Chas was living a lie for USD's.

174

It's interesting how ostensibly smart people can be rendered stupid by relentless subjectivity...

CULT-OF-PERSONALITY meets anonymous people with handles.

175 Laura loves that movie.

176 If you have the stomach to go to Chuck's site, click on one of the green underlined links - they all link to some type of spam page called 'My Good Page'.

I might be a bit late on working this out, but in my favour - who in their right mind would click on this guy's links ?

'2 Buck Chuck' indeed.

BTWsomeone linked the Weaselzippers post on the Thank You Climate Change Deniers post - before quicky being deleted by Chuck. I have a vision of him getting out of bed every few hours muttering 'Must check blog , must check blog'.

177 She will never turn on Charles.

I'd say that's a fair assessment. LGF appears to be her raison d'être.

178

100 How soon until Charles bans his archives?

He deleted 26000 comments by Nevergiveup or Iron Fist I forget, and then made some comment about how deranged the comments were. I'd say it took a while to make that many comments so everyone knows he agreed with them for a long time.

179 She will never turn on Charles. Sharmuta has no original thoughts or principles to stand by. She just waits on what CJ says and echoes.

Posted by: Rocks at December 06, 2009 02:52 PM (ToM4s)

Nope, she has no life, no job and probably no friends to speak of outside of that worthless blog. She posts morning, noon and night, 24/7 over there so it's doubtful that she is employed. Probably an overweight welfare queen living in section 8 housing.

She'll believe whatever Chuckles tells her to believe and she'll damn well like it too.

Sad really.

180 I don't see Chuckie's change as sudden, just his final admission of what everyone knew long ago. Kind of like the longtime drunk who finally shows up at AA

He started with Baron Bodissey and Paul Belein, then turned on Robert Spencer. His war with Pamela Geller he said was due to her friendships with "nazis" like Geert Wilders, but I have a hunch that Pam spurned his advances, didn't introduce him to her friends in publishing, and reminded him too much of the Jewish Princesses in Brentwood and Santa Monica who wouldn't give him the time of day.

His hatred of Ace and the morons is especially harsh since we mock him with deadly humor and parody. A man with zero sense of humor can't possibly fight back against that.

181 The Vlaaams obsession was kind of the beginning of the end. Chuck started banning long-time members for simply asking him to occasionally toss in a topic of a different nature. The creationism debacle cemented the deal. Seemed like a deliberate attempt to alienate the bulk of his readership. I guess in hindsight, it was indeed a purge of sorts.

182

Charles

Sat, Dec 5, 2009 7:44:07pm

It's kind of fascinating to watch Pajamas Media completely ignore my post about parting ways with the right. They're doing their best to pretend it isn't happening.

183 We bid you adieu, Gerry.

184

Charles

Sat, Dec 5, 2009 7:44:07pm

It's kind of fascinating to watch Pajamas Media completely ignore my post about parting ways with the right. They're doing their best to pretend it isn't happening.




They're not ignoring you Chuckles, they just forgot you even existed.

Its called irrelevance asshole. Welcome to it.

185

Charles

Sat, Dec 5, 2009 5:20:41pm

He asked me not to post it, and of course I won't, but Breitbart just sent me a very long, ranting, angry email.

_________________________

Damn, there's the Pope again on line 2!  And Biden's on Hold.

186

That's an incredible 180 in his thinking.

Do you think that maybe Soros made him an offer that he couldn't refuse? Either that orf he fell of his skateboard not wearing a helmet.

187 Cry "Ban it" and let's skip the blogs of yore!

188 "Metamorphosis Complete." Red Dwarf reference? If it is, marry me.

189 193, It's Soros or it's crack..   Soros crack.

190 Condition: heliotrope

191 I posted there (number 582) asking Charles what changed his mind between 2007 and today. 

Comment deleted, account banned.

It feels more like that liberal tolerance I keep hearing about...

192 I used to read LGF pretty regular but stopped as I noticed that Charles really has very little in the way of a political philosophy.  His recent rant about leaving the right was telling.  He left the right (which he was never really a part of) because of the alleged racism of some people attached to the right.   Applying a twisted, stretched pathway of broken logic to paint people as racist by way of association and half-truths is one thing.  Abandoning a philosophy because of who you think is associated with it is another.  Simply, you were never a part of it to begin with.    

193 I posted there (number 582) asking Charles what changed his mind between 2007 and today. 

Comment deleted, account banned.

It feels more like that liberal tolerance I keep hearing about...

Posted by: Troika37 at December 06, 2009 06:06 PM (CWiyN)

Banned you say for asking a simple honest question? Wouldn't an uber-intellectual and amateur scientist like Herr Huffy who feels so secure in his positions be able to debate something he is so knowledgeable and positive he is right on?

They say calling someone a racist is the last refuge of the scoundrel. In Chucky's case, it's the ban-stick.

194 @199

Philosophies are for the little people.

We who understand how the world really works choose not to burden ourselves with distractions such as logic, historical perspectives, and maintaining consistency in our opinions.

195 OUTLOOK: OBLITERATIVE

196 Advised repair schedule; reboot startup disc, offline for 36 hours and replace head.

197

"Charlie Gibson?   Never heard of him."

Wait a minute, I think I have heard of Charlie Gibson. Yeah, now I remember. I banned that guy three weeks ago.

198

Tangentially related, here's an article linked by Drudge today:

Copenhagen Summit:  ... Caviar Wedges 

And here's part of an email to Ace on 11/22:

. . .
 
The AGW climate Nazis have lived lives of luxury, an incredibly wealthy, extravagant lifestyle.  And they've worked to build an entire culture to support their expensive tastes.  I've been trying to think about some of the payoffs:
 
-conferences (a/k/a "parties" in exotic locales)
-flash money (per diem money)
-"research" (in exotic locales)
-flash money
-cocktail parties (in exotic locales)
-flash money
-meetings (parties) (at the best hotels and restaurants, of course) (in exotic locales) 
-sabbaticals (vacations) (in exotic locales)
-flash money
-lots of other paid time off
-hot co-eds
-control over how you use your time
-"non-monetary" (tax-free) compensation
-unlimited research slush funds
 
They have everything billionaires have except the large bank accounts.  If they want to take a biz-jet to a Mongolian desert and catch a million-dollar helicopter to a four-star campsite, while wearing expense-account obtained clothing (they get to keep), they get to.  All they have to do is fill-out a form, exaggerate and embellish a little bit on the purpose and benefit, and voila, another tax-free junket on our dime. 

And flash money.

199

Geez, these people jerk themselves off a lot.  "We're here to save the world and eat caviar while hanging-out with others of like status, the best and the brightest, the elite in every way possible, including looks." 

"Okay.  Let's go save the world!"

200 Does anyone have a theory as to why Charles turned so fast?

The success of Bush's Iraq surge drove a number of nominally rightish leaning bloggers nuts.  A number of notable ones invested heavily in assuring everyone it would fail.

What the Surge proved was they had the analytical and observational prowess of a basket full of turnips. 

When you've been proven to be a fool and your ego is shattered, you don't want to hang with a crowd that knows you to be a fool...you'll seek like minded people, who were similarly wrong, but won't admit it, because that allows you to hang onto your fiction thus avoiding cognitive dissonance.

The election of the Preznit made the flip that much easier for those of muddled mind.

201 7. Ted Kennedy (Death - still undefeated and your memory ain't passing healthcare)

Yes, but he did get his 6 month sobriety pin recently.

202 Red Dwarf reference? If it is, marry me. It is...from "D.N.A."

203 I remember when articles here or other places were critical of CJ, his posters would basically say that he is the true incarnation of conservatism and that we got it wrong. Now that he has left the right, what do they have to say? How can any self-described conservative post there? Seriously, what are they thinking. I got banned several months ago for something I wrote at 2.0. He was going on about The 9/12 Project and how some posts were racist (naturally). I tried to point out that this is exactly what the left was doing. At the 2.0 site, I questioned when CJ was going to "come out of the closet." I thought it was implicit that I meant "political closet." Anyway, my post at 2.0 was copied and pasted by someone who brought it to CJ's attention. That was it. If he had the intellectual honesty to say back then he was changing, things might have turned out different for him.

204

210 I remember when articles here or other places were critical of CJ, his posters would basically say that he is the true incarnation of conservatism and that we got it wrong. Now that he has left the right, what do they have to say? How can any self-described conservative post there? Seriously, what are they thinking

What they have to say they don't say there because they are all banned. 

205 The arrogance and smugness over there would choke a black hole out of existence - it's been awhile since I last visited. Apparently, climategate is a "right wing nontroversy" to chaz. Lizard, heal thyself.

206 Chuckles still owes me some change.

207 May I remind you that "Charles Never Left the Right", in his own words, he has been a left wing hippie with a hardon for Islam. But now that Obama is in office, his obsession with Islamic extremists is no where to be found perhaps in deference to his man-crush, Obama's, Muslim family history.

208 Charles Johnson has one undeniable claim to fame.  He is the only person to successfully troll his own blog into obscurity.  Truly a feat.