September 14, 2010

Now There's a GIF For Charles Johnson, Too
— Ace

Funny! Watch the original post -- lambasting Imam Rauf as an extremist -- get changed without notice.

Thanks to JustKarl.

Transparent? An commenter says I'm using this to distract from the bitter internecine warfare in Delaware. Not true! I'm just babysitting and damn is hard to think straight here with kids.

But I have done this sort of thing before. Also, at BlogCon, this did seem to be a topic that would unify everyone after a Delaware fight.

I described Charles Johnson's site as a "Cult of Personality without the Personality," which I thought was pretty on the money.

Posted by: Ace at 03:02 PM | Comments (129)
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1 Thank goodness, a new thread.

Posted by: katya, the designated driver at September 14, 2010 03:04 PM (sCGHM)

2
Anyone for a glass of tranya?

Posted by: Dr. Varno at September 14, 2010 03:05 PM (3fiIy)

3 Charles's Johnson = Smelly Libtard Hippycrat

Posted by: TexBob at September 14, 2010 03:05 PM (7cXE7)

4 That GIF gifs me a headache trying to read the before and after text.

Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at September 14, 2010 03:06 PM (kJXs1)

5 I need a shower.  From the flame war thread below, idiots.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 14, 2010 03:07 PM (UOM48)

6 muwahahahahaha!  I can even delete part of my own posts, that's how much power I have over the Internets.

I bid you all adieu. 

Posted by: Cahrles Jhonson (master of Internets) at September 14, 2010 03:08 PM (c0A3e)

7 New thread...out of the frying pan and into the toilet.

Posted by: MrScribbler at September 14, 2010 03:09 PM (Ulu3i)

8

As always, sensitive ponytail man defends the indefensible, and returns to his pat answer of, "I've since read more about it/him/her/that/them, and was duped by insert crazed wingnut here.

 

Posted by: Delta Smelt at September 14, 2010 03:10 PM (A0VTZ)

9 I always heard what a great job Charles did coding his site, but it was always slow as hell to load.

P.S. Transparent, ace. Transparent.  Hey, we got us this big bitter internecine fight going on here and....hey, look over there, it's Charles Johnson!!!

Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth, pondering a paradox at September 14, 2010 03:11 PM (Snu7z)

10 OT.   Fox Business has O'Donnell on right now and they are ripping her a new asshole.  She is doing OK, but they are all over her ass.

I do her.

Posted by: Kemp at September 14, 2010 03:11 PM (AQxTm)

11

Jeeze, whoever did that gif needs to slow it the fuck down.

I pitched an epileptic fit and pissed myself just now.

Of course, that was before I saw the gif.  Or as I like to call it, Tuesday afternoon.

Posted by: Ed at September 14, 2010 03:12 PM (Zsqn4)

12 BREAKING:  FIRST RESULTS FROM DELAWARE IN!
--THEY'RE BOTH HITTABLE!!

Posted by: The Eclectic Bisexual at September 14, 2010 03:12 PM (Id8Tt)

13 I need a shower.  From the flame war thread below, idiots.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 14, 2010 07:07 PM (UOM4

Brush your teeth while you're at it.  Because I have it from a very reliable source that you suck.  (sorry, the flamewar thing takes a while to shut off)

Posted by: stuiec at September 14, 2010 03:12 PM (7AOgy)

14 Check out his pages where one of his muslim commenters (Aziz) says he should be nominated for the Brass Cresent blog awards from : http://tinyurl.com/27he3ap

Posted by: IsezsoIez at September 14, 2010 03:12 PM (D0tcZ)

15
He changed/washed his own posts.  I remember when Charles used to lambaste other bloggers for doing those sorts of things.


Learn something about honesty - Charles.  Don't change the post; update it.
Leave the original post intact.  Otherwise, you look like a creepy lying douche.


Posted by: Lemon Kitten at September 14, 2010 03:13 PM (0fzsA)

16
Click on the link to get your official skittles patterned prayer rug and join the winning side!

Posted by: Little Green Skittles at September 14, 2010 03:13 PM (rMMMP)

17 Well, Ms. O'Donnell ain't a Sarah Palin, but she-as much as anyone-knows just how Sarah Palin felt when she got that media-sponsored invasive cavity check.

Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at September 14, 2010 03:14 PM (Snu7z)

18 Chucky got bought off. You DO NOT change your position from Anti Islamist to Pro Islamist with out being bought off. F him and the camal he f@#*@.

Posted by: Tiss True at September 14, 2010 03:14 PM (hGtC+)

19 BREAKING:  FIRST RESULTS FROM DELAWARE IN!
--THEY'RE BOTH HITTABLE!!

Posted by: The Eclectic Bisexual at September 14, 2010 07:12 PM (Id8Tt)


Now that has to be the worst statement made about the entire race.

Posted by: Rocks at September 14, 2010 03:14 PM (ivAmM)

20 Oh my, this is great. The gif really needs to be slower though.

Posted by: Gaff at September 14, 2010 03:14 PM (mTB38)

21 I'm very disappointed.  I knew Charles was very much against organized religion because of the extremists that crop up in it; but to change a post like that?  I've pretty much stopped posting there because it's like bringing a bible into an Objectivist meeting.  No sense in getting nasty with people.  There's some things I agree with Charles, others I don't...but this is sad.

Posted by: Quilly Mammmoth at September 14, 2010 03:14 PM (7rfUg)

22 I will suck and fuck every single one of you right now.

Posted by: Mike Castle at September 14, 2010 03:14 PM (o7EOv)

23

As always, sensitive ponytail man defends the indefensible, and returns to his pat answer of, "I've since read more about it/him/her/that/them, and was duped by insert crazed wingnut here.

 Posted by: Delta Smelt at September 14, 2010 07:10 PM (A0VTZ)

That is the worst defense ever.  "I, a grown man at the time, was criminally stupid and gullible and not only listened to certain people but vigorously promoted their views... but I'm somehow magically smarter now."

Posted by: stuiec at September 14, 2010 03:15 PM (7AOgy)

24 / pre-apologize to the innocently retarded

What about the just plain stupid?

Posted by: Judge Scalia at September 14, 2010 03:15 PM (No0N3)

25 @16 You say that like it is a bad thing.

Posted by: Creepy Lying Douche at September 14, 2010 03:15 PM (Snu7z)

26 Down the memory hole!

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at September 14, 2010 03:15 PM (c0A3e)

27 Isn't that special.

Posted by: Church Lady at September 14, 2010 03:16 PM (pUfK9)

28

Boring. The animated GIF changes too slowly to keep my attention.

Posted by: Ed Anger at September 14, 2010 03:16 PM (7+pP9)

29 I've pretty much stopped posting there because it's like bringing a bible into an Objectivist meeting.  No sense in getting nasty with people.  There's some things I agree with Charles, others I don't...but this is sad.

Posted by: Quilly Mammmoth at September 14, 2010 07:14 PM (7rfUg)

You must not have said anything there at all in a long time if you've managed not to be banned.  Given that you don't agree with every single thing he says and believes, you're on his list... even if he doesn't know it yet.

Posted by: stuiec at September 14, 2010 03:16 PM (7AOgy)

30 Stalin was good at disappearing history also

Posted by: nevergiveup at September 14, 2010 03:17 PM (0GFWk)

31 ... and to think of time I wasted at that loser's site . I'm so embarrassed, seriously...

Posted by: a moron at September 14, 2010 03:17 PM (bEbCY)

32 I thought he had a psychotic break due to a messy divorce? I swear, there's always a different theory as to why he suddenly did a complete 180 on everything (and pretending he didn't change at all when his archives are right there).

Posted by: Gaff at September 14, 2010 03:17 PM (mTB38)

33

My favorite moment of the pathetic ponytail man of recent vintage was him taking away an award from John Bolton? from 2 or 3 years ago that his then commenters voted to give him.

What a petulant little fatass.

I'm sure Bolton was crushed.

Posted by: Delta Smelt at September 14, 2010 03:17 PM (A0VTZ)

34
btw- this Imam Rauf , through his own past words, is the Ward Churchill of the Islamic world.  Just repeating it so that the sycophant junction readers can take note, and whine.

Also up at sycophant junction - Charles places words in Dick Armey's mouth.

Posted by: Lemon Kitten at September 14, 2010 03:17 PM (0fzsA)

35

you look like a creepy lying douche.

You rang?

Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama at September 14, 2010 03:17 PM (sCGHM)

36 @22 You've "pretty much stopped posting over there?"  Well, that is mighty perceptive and bold of you.  Will you be moving from VCR to Laser Disk soon?

Posted by: Creepy Lying Douche at September 14, 2010 03:18 PM (Snu7z)

37 Learn something about honesty - Charles.  Don't change the post; update it.
Leave the original post intact.  Otherwise, you look like a creepy lying douche.


Posted by: Lemon Kitten at September 14, 2010 07:13 PM (0fzsA)

You are admitting the possibility that he is not, in fact, a creepy lying douche.  You are in error: that is not a possibility.

And in a strange way, isn't it more honest for him to reveal himself to be a creepy lying douche rather than pretend otherwise?

Posted by: stuiec at September 14, 2010 03:18 PM (7AOgy)

38 Who is this Charles Johnson that you speak of?

Posted by: Charlie Gibson at September 14, 2010 03:19 PM (AQxTm)

39 "Charles places words in Dick Armey's mouth."

Yeah.  I have something to put in Charles' mouth.

Posted by: Dick Armey at September 14, 2010 03:20 PM (Snu7z)

40 OW MY FUCKIN EYES

Jeeze, whoever did that gif needs to slow it the fuck down.

The joke is the flashing, not what's flashing (is it just the "yet another Islamic supremacist" part that changes?), but yeah, Jeeze-fuck that over-compressed unreadable un-subtitled thing and whoever did that.

Posted by: oblig. at September 14, 2010 03:20 PM (x7Ao8)

41 and to think of time I wasted at that loser's site . I'm so embarrassed, seriously... Posted by: a moron at September 14, 2010 07:17 PM (bEbCY) We all are.

Posted by: nevergiveup at September 14, 2010 03:20 PM (0GFWk)

42 Are there any exit polls from the moronic voters on the East Coast yet? 

Posted by: Y-not at September 14, 2010 03:20 PM (osFsP)

43 I used to have LGF bookmarked and read daily but stopped sometime in '08 when it because irrelevant and boring.  I don't know what happened to him but it make me sad.

Posted by: Mark in Spokane at September 14, 2010 03:20 PM (Nmyyl)

44 Someone should do an animated GIF of an ace post as it grows through its natural progression of additional information, then title change, then banning threats, then more updates, then explanation of updates, then forgotten thoughts, then actual banning announcements, then unbannings, then explanation of unbannings, then tears, then apologies and finally thread death.

Posted by: Editor at September 14, 2010 03:20 PM (pUfK9)

45 19 Chucky got bought off. You DO NOT change your position from Anti Islamist to Pro Islamist with out being bought off. F him and the camal he f@#*@.

Posted by: Tiss True at September 14, 2010 07:14 PM (hGtC+)

I always wondered about his "conversion". But really, I didn't think he was "big enough" to even warrant buying off. Why did nobody else get bought off or why were there no bloggesrs that they attempted to buy off but failed, talking about the attempt?

I say he was blackmailed, Scott Ritter style.

 

Posted by: Jim in San Diego at September 14, 2010 03:21 PM (oIp16)

46 Dreaded new Delaware thread up.  Begin drinking now.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 14, 2010 03:22 PM (UOM48)

47 Transparent? An commenter says I'm using this to distract from the bitter internecine warfare in Delaware. Not true! I'm just babysitting and damn is hard to think straight here with kids.

Right, everyone else gets mentioned by name, but I am "an commenter."  Fucking ewoks.  Ingrates, the lot of them.

P.S. Somebody is letting ace babysit their kids?  What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at September 14, 2010 03:22 PM (Snu7z)

48 Chucky got bought off. You DO NOT change your position from Anti Islamist to Pro Islamist with out being bought off. F him and the camal he f@#*@.

Posted by: Tiss True at September 14, 2010 07:14 PM (hGtC+)

I think you are very close to the mark but just a bit off.  He's too desperate for money to have been bought off.  However, he may be on a vendetta against the people he thought would be his mealticket, the people with whom he co-founded Pajamas Media.  It also seems that as soon as he learned that Michelle Malkin was about to sell Hot Air for a goodly sum, he made it his mission to derail that deal with the Kilgore Trout N-word gambit (he failed, of course).

Jealousy is a powerful master.

Posted by: stuiec at September 14, 2010 03:23 PM (7AOgy)

49 46 

I say he was blackmailed, Scott Ritter style.


Ditto. ... I'm sure there are photos of him and a goat somewhere...

Posted by: a moron at September 14, 2010 03:23 PM (bEbCY)

50 LGF was a great site not so long ago. So was Sullivan's. What the hell happened?

Posted by: kcs at September 14, 2010 03:24 PM (CrJzY)

51 Charles Johnson's like Stalin in two key ways: 1, he memory-holes statements, and 2, he's not funny.

Posted by: ace at September 14, 2010 03:24 PM (KUUXH)

52 With the mid-term elections now only a few weeks away, the Wonk Room, a blog run by the Center for American Progress Action Fund, has compiled the most definitive list yet of on-the-record comments made by Republican candidates for the US Senate in which they express varying degrees of doubt about the reality of anthropogenic climate change.
The startling conclusion is that "nearly all dispute the scientific consensus that the United States must act to fight global warming pollution". In fact, the Wonk Room could find only one – Rep. Mike Castle of Delaware – who supports any action at all on climate change.


l m a o

Posted by: 13times at September 14, 2010 03:25 PM (h6XiD)

53 and to think of time I wasted at that loser's site . I'm so embarrassed, seriously...
Posted by: a moron at September 14, 2010 07:17 PM (bEbCY)

We all are.

Posted by: nevergiveup at September 14, 2010 07:20 PM (0GFWk)

Why?  There was a time when he wasn't the sick sad loser he is now.

The people who should be ashamed are those who assumed the role of his toadies and henchmen, refusing to see what he was becoming and following him in his descent into madness.

Posted by: stuiec at September 14, 2010 03:25 PM (7AOgy)

54 I don't know if it was ever a "great site," i never read it. it's often commenters that make a site.

Posted by: ace at September 14, 2010 03:25 PM (KUUXH)

55 Someone should do an animated GIF of an ace post as it grows through its natural progression of additional information, then title change, then banning threats, then more updates, then explanation of updates, lace wigs, then forgotten thoughts, then actual banning announcements, boner pills, then unbannings, then explanation of unbannings, cd keys, then tears, then apologies and finally thread death.

fixed

Posted by: pirate key chain at September 14, 2010 03:26 PM (zgaoG)

56

I described Charles Johnson's site as a "Cult of Personality without the Personality," which I thought was pretty on the money.

Ain't that the truth.  I mean say what you want about Jim Jones, Koresh, or Charlie Manson, but they were compelling figures.  Even that Hale Bop guy blows Chunk away.

Fatty with a cookbook, not so much.

Posted by: Delta Smelt at September 14, 2010 03:27 PM (A0VTZ)

57
....it's often commenters that make a site.

Who are you and what have you done with our Ace?

Posted by: pirate key chain at September 14, 2010 03:27 PM (zgaoG)

58 I still want to know what happened to Sharmuta . . .?

Posted by: Roger at September 14, 2010 03:27 PM (tAwhy)

59 Sullivan was always a mewling self-indulgent twit even when he was nominally on our side.  Come to think of it, so was Chuck, but at least he never tried to pretend he was an across-the-board conservative.

Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at September 14, 2010 03:28 PM (Snu7z)

60
LGF was always a lame blog.

He was almost as bad as Eschaton with the open threads.

Posted by: pirate key chain at September 14, 2010 03:28 PM (zgaoG)

61
Ace used to parody Eschaton as he was genuinely befuddled at how many comments a three-word open thread would generate over there.

Posted by: pirate key chain at September 14, 2010 03:30 PM (zgaoG)

62 Ace that "without a personality" dig has got to be frosting his britches.

Posted by: sven10077 at September 14, 2010 03:31 PM (kq1lG)

63 60 I still want to know what happened to Sharmuta . . .?

Johnson got some (but not enough) meds for his multiple personality disorder, and "Sharmuta" was assimilated into Johnson's own personality, rather than just being his sock?

Posted by: shibumi at September 14, 2010 03:32 PM (OKZrE)

64 Not true.  Stalin had a hell of a sense of humor. 

Posted by: Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov at September 14, 2010 03:32 PM (Snu7z)

65 and to think of time I wasted at that loser's site . I'm so embarrassed, seriously...
Posted by: a moron at September 14, 2010 07:17 PM (bEbCY)

We all are.

Dude, I started, ever so briefly on the blog scene over there, never posted a comment: Noted the harsh anti creationism vibe and left. But back then (End of 07 beginning of 0 he was still sort of conservativish. Now he hardly, in fact doesn't at all, resemble the blogger back then.



Given what CJ has written in his blogging career and how much it contradicts itself, I can't fathom how he lives with all the cognitive dissonance.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose at September 14, 2010 03:33 PM (0q2P7)

66 Eschaton

The first time I ever heard of Eschaton was two minutes ago, right here on this thread.

Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at September 14, 2010 03:34 PM (Snu7z)

67 LGF was always a lame blog.

Posted by: pirate key chain at September 14, 2010 07:28 PM (zgaoG)

Charles can neither think for himself, nor write an entry with any kind of creative analysis.  But the discussions in the Comments - back in the day when he was 'nosing the right - could be pretty intense.

Posted by: Roger at September 14, 2010 03:34 PM (tAwhy)

68
Charles Johnson's like Stalin in two key ways: 1, he memory-holes statements, and 2, he's not funny.



Actually, Uncle Joe was pretty funny......in a creepy, satanic, thoroughly evil James-Bond-villain manner.

"no man, no problem"
"how many divisions does the Pope have?"
"the death of a single man is a tragedy, the death of a million is a statistic"

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 14, 2010 03:34 PM (P9+0W)

69 32 ... and to think of time I wasted at that loser's site . I'm so embarrassed, seriously...

Posted by: a moron at September 14, 2010 07:17 PM (bEbCY)

Hell, I wasted tons of time, and even bought the t shirt!  Wore it on a three week vacation three years ago, no intrawebz the whole time, come back, and Chucky has begun the psychotic flip back to the leftie he always was.  At that point, it was Vlaams Blang on the bookshelf of every picture anyone against the muslims ever posted. 

Posted by: Ike at September 14, 2010 03:35 PM (vEfEW)

70 >>>Who are you and what have you done with our Ace? I always say that. I also always say it out in public when asked. Incidentally, I've said this before, but everytime I'm at a meet-up, people say the same thing: You have the best commenters on the internet; they're so sharp and funny and witty, I felt intimidated even to post, etc. etc. etc. Always. Every. Single. Time. Usually three or five times in a night. I would say that more but it takes away from the adulation that should be paid to me.

Posted by: ace at September 14, 2010 03:38 PM (KUUXH)

71 Yeah, Joe was funny.  A real funny guy.  What?  No, not funny like a clown.  More funny like a boy with a magnifying glass on a sunny day.

Posted by: Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov at September 14, 2010 03:38 PM (Snu7z)

72 I miss the buffets. Ace readers are cool and all, but they never serve snacks.

Posted by: Mongerel at September 14, 2010 03:38 PM (YqWfw)

73

Neither. Johnson's transformation was not abrupt at all - if you think it was, you just missed it.

That was a long time coming.

It began with Vlams Belang. Innoccous enough alone, but long story short: Dudes got a christ complex. His blog and his syncophants went straight to his noggin.

That's when the purging and the shunning and amish backturning started. For Purity's sake. He figgured he WAS the anti-jihad movement. Not even the most prominent online figure in it, or even the most prominent figure period, but IT.

He starts making demands, and when everybody doesn't yield to THE CAUSE PERSONIFIED he starts ostracizing people.

Then, when he goes around telling people who's been 'written out' that they shouldn't talk to or about anymore (in any capacity whatsoever), and they don't listen and keep associating with heretics, he declares them too, to be heretical and out they go.

He's been doing this 'scrub the past' thing for quite some time now. It's not new.

If you catch all the pieces it's a pretty straight foward and linear progression from there to here.

Problem is, dude has a real hard-on for Guilt by Thrice Removed Association fallacies, so things really escalated quickly, and soon enough he had to change even himself to avoid incriminating himself with past associations.

Views he use to hold were too similar to the views espoused by people whom he had written off as unreconstructed racial supremacists because they wouldn't worship his cock.

All in the name of casting out and unmaking everyone and anything in the world that didn't revolve around him, while preserving the dwindling group of blog groupies who did.

It's all about maintaining the delusion of himself as the embodiment of a historically relevant global movement.

WHICH damn movement, doesn't really matter and has gotten lost among the details in the many twists and turns. What does matter is, any who challenge this image must be thoroughly ignored and effectively cease to exist, and whatever remains must then be cobbled back together in whatever way most hastily fills the gaps and (with a bit of suspension of disbelief) avoids obvious contradiction (with itself. Contradiction with the past doesn't count).

Fact of the matter is, while he was a mediocre blog once upon a time, the man has become a fascinating case study in descending mental illness.

Posted by: Entropy at September 14, 2010 03:39 PM (eL+YD)

74 I think what happened with Charles Johnson is that he started reading JREF.

Posted by: fb at September 14, 2010 03:40 PM (G60Nl)

75 @73 Sure, whatever keeps those stubby little hands banging that keyboard, furboy.

Posted by: Creepy Lying Douche at September 14, 2010 03:40 PM (Snu7z)

76 I could give you about a dozen names of former commenters who made lgf great. They all went on to start their own blogs and slowly disappeared from lgf - or got banned.

Pamela Geller comes to mind.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose at September 14, 2010 03:40 PM (0q2P7)

77 What makes someone just completely invert their belief structure?  That is basically what he has done. (Fine, it's understandable to have issues with the "right" or any political position adhered to in the face of common sense...  but tossing reason out the window to adopt the positions that you have previously deconstructed and proven to be horseshit is just crazy. Doing that in a matter of weeks just makes it more so.)
This guy has a pattern of stabbing his former friends in the back (Robert Spenser, Pamela Geller, Zombie, his online toadies, peers, etc) and has effectively become what he mocked for years. Insecurity? (Ill reject you before you reject me)  Narcissism? Yeah, but that doesn't explain the extent of this.
He clearly has a screw loose but the mechanisms of his polar opposite brain switch are something that I just don't get.

Posted by: Boxy Brown at September 14, 2010 03:40 PM (sl+nN)

78 I pity poor Charles.  It must be a real pain to get down off that cross every time he has to take a dump or answer the phone.

Posted by: Creepy Lying Douche at September 14, 2010 03:42 PM (Snu7z)

79
I could give you about a dozen names of former commenters who made lgf great. They all went on to start their own blogs and slowly disappeared from lgf - or got banned.


Pamela Geller comes to mind.




Could have been worse. He could have told her she had nice jugs.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 14, 2010 03:43 PM (P9+0W)

80 it's not that he changed his mind. I get that. It happens. It's that he turned with such vehemence on people saying the same things he was saying FIVE FUCKING MINUTES AGO, calling them fascist, etc. I would hope that if I ever changed an important position I would sort of give a full year of polite goodwill to those people who I currently disagreed with but five minutes ago agreed with. I would argue and try to get them to share my epiphany, but I would sure hold back on fascist, racist, etc.

Posted by: ace at September 14, 2010 03:44 PM (KUUXH)

81 Pamela Geller comes to mind.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose at September 14, 2010 07:40 PM (0q2P7)

It's not my mind she comes to....

Posted by: Ike at September 14, 2010 03:44 PM (vEfEW)

82 Pamela Geller comes to mind.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose at September 14, 2010 07:40 PM (0q2P7)


He banned zombie. He banned baldilocks. !!

Posted by: Mongerel at September 14, 2010 03:45 PM (YqWfw)

83 Yeah, ace, but you have some semblance of sanity and honor.  Just a semblance, mind, but it is in fact there.

Posted by: Ike at September 14, 2010 03:46 PM (vEfEW)

84

He banned zombie. He banned baldilocks. !!

Posted by: Mongerel at September 14, 2010 07:45 PM (YqWfw)

C'mon...next thing you'll tell me he banned littleoldlady who brought the fruitcup at night!

Posted by: Ike at September 14, 2010 03:46 PM (vEfEW)

85
what's most amazing is how in-control these comment threads have always been even without required registration

I'm thinking is has something to with M.A.D., but I'm not sure if I can explain it.

Posted by: pirate key chain at September 14, 2010 03:47 PM (En7xg)

86 Out, damned sock!

Posted by: Bikermailman at September 14, 2010 03:48 PM (vEfEW)

87 what's most amazing is how in-control these comment threads have always been even without required registration


This always surprises me when I stop to think about it as well.

Posted by: Rickshaw Jack at September 14, 2010 03:50 PM (vTswu)

88 but I'm not sure if I can explain it.

We are mostly self policing, and ridicule those who would push the threads out of control. With extra strength moron ridicule. What I think occurs, is that here, we have virtually an open forum, we value it, know what will destroy it's open nature, and seek to mitigate those risks using our self policing methods.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose at September 14, 2010 03:50 PM (0q2P7)

89 83 it's not that he changed his mind. I get that. It happens.

It's that he turned with such vehemence on people saying the same things he was saying FIVE FUCKING MINUTES AGO, calling them fascist, etc.

I would hope that if I ever changed an important position I would sort of give a full year of polite goodwill to those people who I currently disagreed with but five minutes ago agreed with. I would argue and try to get them to share my epiphany, but I would sure hold back on fascist, racist, etc.

Posted by: ace at September 14, 2010 07:44 PM (KUUXH)

If it's an HONEST change of heart Ace, and you explain your rationale, you will never have those issues.

Posted by: Jim in San Diego at September 14, 2010 03:50 PM (oIp16)

90 Ace, pretty please, can you put up that nifty gai biker pic from a previous "drag upchuck''s skull around the coliseum" thread?  I mean come on, their has to be more of a payoff to a donation here than just the tapioca pudding cup that has gotten the anita hill ewok treatment.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at September 14, 2010 03:52 PM (cniXs)

91

C'mon...next thing you'll tell me he banned littleoldlady who brought the fruitcup at night!

Posted by: Ike at September 14, 2010 07:46 PM (vEfEW)


I dunno, I stopped reading before that. Mebbe I'm the only reformed chronically hungry ex-football, but I appreciated the fruit cups.

Posted by: Mongerel at September 14, 2010 03:53 PM (YqWfw)

92 I used to post there.

What turned me off was the clique aspect of most of the regulars. I distinctly remember a few years ago when two guys got busted on the Mackinac Bridge with a box of disposable cellphones, a couple of the regulars were going on and on about how "I know something, and if it is what I think it is, maybe I shouldn't say it". Then someone else would say "Ohh, yes I know exactly what you mean!" All without ever once disclosing what they were talking about. Pissed me off, just spit it out or call the cops if you have such sensitive, insider info!

Posted by: Carnivore at September 14, 2010 03:53 PM (DyuqI)

93

He clearly has a screw loose but the mechanisms of his polar opposite brain switch are something that I just don't get.

It's ego. It's about him. He gets to where he gets on these positions because of what started long before he started changing his positions on issues.

Before he began turning left (that did happen rather abruptly, eh?) he sowed all the seeds.

And they've nothing to do with policy of any sort, left or right.

It's all to do with whatever construction has the end result of putting him at the center of his little cult universe over there.

You see, Charles will most likely give you a "I didn't leave it, it left me" argument. And from his point of view, this is correct. He has not changed his views and they are consistent.

WHAT is consistent is key, and what is consistent is they serve his self aggrandizement. Whatever view serves this aggrandizement. That is what he believes.

The rest is details. The important part, upon which consistency must be maintained, is that he is still the same supergreat awesome Messiah.

Posted by: Entropy at September 14, 2010 03:55 PM (eL+YD)

94

You have the best commenters on the internet

Yeah, well it's all fun & games until you write a very persuasive and respectful piece for The Hill and the 'horny female dophin' shows up to shit all over your thread!

Posted by: laceyunderalls at September 14, 2010 03:55 PM (/hGw3)

95 I remember when he actually deleted some comment littleoldlady made asking about the health of his mother. For some reason deleted comment would still show up on my screen (and a couple other commenters) which started a major war one day and ended in a mass banning. Knew he had gone overboard at that point and registered a dozen socks at the next open reg.

Hey, Charles! I still got a few left. Sleep tight tonight!

Posted by: American Gothic Farmer at September 14, 2010 07:52 PM (IhHdM)

Wow.  What a turdbag.  Nicest old lady you'd come across.  In early '08, I'd go back once a month or so, to see if he'd straightened himself out.  I quit once he'd devoted wholly to Obamallatio.  Don't care to now, don't want him to get the page views.  I wonder just how low his numbers are now.

Posted by: Bikermailman at September 14, 2010 03:56 PM (vEfEW)

96 With Apologies to Iowahawk, an excerpt:

MY TELEPROMPTER IS DEADLY
Excerpts from the new Inspector Dan Rather Mystery by David Burge

......
I bulldogged the wheel of my Hudson down Topanga Canyon, its whitewalls squealing a noisy complaint as I skidded through its treacherous curves. JohnsonÂ’s Schwinn Black Phantom was fast, but no match for my Hornet straight-8 flathead. I sped alongside and threw my door into the frantically pedaling hophead, and set him flying down an embankment in his green zoot-suit. I slid down and put him in a half-nelson.

“Going somewhere, Charlie?” I asked. “See, I’m looking for a tutor. Somebody who knows something about … ‘Microsoft Word.’”

“Cheese it, fuzz, I know my rights,” he mumbled. I cranked the armlock tighter, and not just for persuasion. Johnson played in several jazz combos and there was a good chance he might be juiced on reefer pills.

“Cut the cute stuff, wise guy! Who is Power Line? Who is Captain Ed? What in the hell is a kern?”

Johnson began laughing uncontrollably. It was obvious he was on narcotics, and he would have to sleep it off before he would talk, and then...

The blunt thud of the blackjack rang in my ears, A sharp pain.

Lights out."
......

The 2010 font in the .gif matches the 2008 font ...

It was the font that got Rather, and now larChes ....

< ... tosses spent cigarette butt on the dark street, walks away ...>

Posted by: Arbalest at September 14, 2010 03:57 PM (Fpx+H)

97 it's not that he changed his mind. I get that. It happens.
I would hope that if I ever changed an important position

He didn't "change a position" he changed is underlying philosophy of society.....twice.!
CJ went from Liberal to Neo-Con back to Liberal.

I mean did he not understand the premise of structured society and homogeneity contained within liberalism and that caused him switch to Neo-con statist lite? And then suddenly decided that it was a good idea?

I can swallow one major switch in philosophy as someone matures, and actually realizes what it is that they are supporting. But two times in opposite directions? After the first time you realize you are wrong at that level you need to do some real soul searching about what you believe and why. Two switches...That is just someone who still doesn't understand humanity enough to be commenting on current events.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose at September 14, 2010 03:59 PM (0q2P7)

98

Posted by: ace at September 14, 2010 07:38 PM (KUUXH) 

 I am not sure that your commenter's remarks are necessarily protected speech.

Posted by: Justice Breyer at September 14, 2010 03:59 PM (HcvB0)

99

Yeah, well it's all fun & games until you write a very persuasive and respectful piece for The Hill and the 'horny female dophin' shows up to shit all over your thread!

Some Ewoks are into that.

Posted by: HornyFemaleDolphin at September 14, 2010 04:01 PM (HcvB0)

100 Since when is walking around the neighborhood park in an Ewok costume trailing Reese's Pieces behind you considered babysitting?

Posted by: garrett at September 14, 2010 04:03 PM (HcvB0)

101
Ace is babysitting?

I hope someone has told him that when it comes time to prepare dinner-

pudding is not a vegetable.

Posted by: sartana at September 14, 2010 04:06 PM (2stAV)

102 106 pudding is not a vegetable.
_______________

What if it's ketchup flavored?

Posted by: Zombie Reagan at September 14, 2010 04:10 PM (IrbU4)

103 “See, I’m looking for a tutor. Somebody who knows something about … ‘Microsoft Word web-site design and font selection.’”

This might have been funny ... in the original post.

Posted by: Arbalest at September 14, 2010 04:11 PM (Fpx+H)

104

What if it's ketchup flavored?

Actually, tomatoes are fruit.

Posted by: Entropy at September 14, 2010 04:23 PM (eL+YD)

105 109 Actually, tomatoes are fruit.
______________

I know that and you know that, but the Reagan administration allowed school lunches to count ketchup as a vegetable.

Posted by: Anachronda at September 14, 2010 04:28 PM (NmR1a)

106 I was hoping some bigger blog would pick this up. Tim Blair got it, but he only put a small piece up. That article does a terrific job showing the sad, demented decline of LGF and what's worse the cardinal sin Johnson is committing on his blog: changing content and pretending it never was there.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 14, 2010 04:40 PM (61b7k)

107  

Tomatoes are a night blossoming fruit. I've never trusted them. I think there's something dark and sinister about them.

About the Reagan ketchup thing-

The Reagan years corresponded with my elemantary school years and I distinctly remember that dust-up. That's when I first realized that Democrats were full of shit.  I thought at the time that if you're a parent who can't get their act together enough to make a decent lunch for your kid, then he gets stuck with ketchup. I never understood the scandal there.

Posted by: sartana at September 14, 2010 04:42 PM (2stAV)

108 If Ace is serving pudding, ketchup is probably a preferable option for flavoring than what you'd end up with...

Posted by: Kevin J. at September 14, 2010 04:47 PM (dHZKD)

109 None of you are funny. You are all fascist racist creationist Christianist Palinist Islamophobist neo-con Zionist Aceist alcoholist pornographist stalkerists.

I ban all of you from my Internets, and I bid you adieu.

Buy a calendar on the way out, bitches.

Posted by: Charles Johnson at September 14, 2010 04:47 PM (p6OcK)

110

What if it's ketchup flavored?

Actually, tomatoes are fruit.

Posted by: Entropy at September 14, 2010 08:23 PM (eL+YD)



True dat but zucchini's are for Saturday night.

Posted by: B. Frank Lemon Party Czar at September 14, 2010 04:48 PM (WHRS/)

111 Charles Johnson's like Stalin in two key ways: 1, he memory-holes statements, and 2, he's not funny.

I'm not sure that it has been proved that Stalin himself, was not funny.

Okay, sure most of the people that were in any position to say, one way the other, were murdered by him and that is obviously, not funny.

Still, doesn't disprove my theory that Joseph Stalin was a Laff-Riot! in the eyes of those closest to him.

I would probably disagree with their critical taste but any sort of judgment I might render has been made moot many decades before I was even conceived.

Either by a bullet or starvation or an ice-pick.

Still not convinced that Stalin wasn't funny.

(Oh yeah, that Charles fellow, from that old website Little Green Footballs that you old timers like to talk about so much, from back in the day?

Totally not funny.

Without a doubt.)










Posted by: Deety (trying to foment bloody civil war) at September 14, 2010 04:48 PM (aVzyR)

112 Posted by: Charles Johnson at September 14, 2010 08:47 PM (p6OcK)


You mean more lame pictures of fences, bikes spokes and occasional bird.

Posted by: The Space Pope at September 14, 2010 04:52 PM (WHRS/)

113 Still not convinced that Stalin wasn't funny. (Oh yeah, that Charles fellow, from that old website Little Green Footballs that you old timers like to talk about so much, from back in the day? Totally not funny. Without a doubt.) Posted by: Deety (trying to foment bloody civil war) at September 14, 2010 08:48 PM (aVzyR) Now that's funny

Posted by: nevergiveup at September 14, 2010 04:53 PM (0GFWk)

114 You mean more lame pictures of fences, bikes spokes and occasional bird.

Posted by: The Space Pope at September 14, 2010 08:52 PM


You obviously do not understand the photographer's art. You're banned too.


Posted by: Charles Johnson at September 14, 2010 04:59 PM (p6OcK)

115 Brussel sprouts? I hate brussel sprouts. I am the President. I do not have to eat brussel sprouts.

Posted by: George H. W. Bush at September 14, 2010 04:59 PM (Onw8c)

116

personally , I would have known zip about Islam without LGF site. They taught me everything I needed to know about Islam lies,  and The LEFT ...,hanging out with Islam during demonstrations , another thing ,everything I learned about reverand wright -Obama- Michelle -hospitals-direlect buildings and Legislation passed by Obama ripping off Chicago's poor -graft  was at LGF. what a fine turn on a dime he made.

maybe fear?  after Joe the Plumber i was also very fearful. who knows, what is known is his former allie as Zombie even were stabbed in the back when he made the turn.

Posted by: willow at September 14, 2010 05:01 PM (/x2TR)

117 I posted at LGF for about 3 years. I was there for the cool Rathergate flashing gif. But about 5 years ago when every other post Charles made was about the EEEEEEEEEEVIL CREATIONISTS evil attempts to DEEEESTROOOOOY SACRED SCIENCE and I got smacked down for questioning the ALL ISLAM ALL THE TIME switch(when the subject wasn't evil creationists). I stopped posting there and then about 3 years ago popped back in to take a look and ended up being banned after maybe 3 posts there. It's not a "Left" blog or a 'Right' blog, it's a 'Whatever Charles Johnson's Brain Chemistry Is Telling Him Today' blog.

Posted by: manofaiki at September 14, 2010 05:11 PM (uSh7j)

118 Never heard of him.

Posted by: 1idvet at September 14, 2010 05:23 PM (iMyIW)

119 And the second the GOP gets back in control, he'll have another life-altering moment and switch back to a "conservative."  That's his thing.  He'll change positions depending upon who's in power.  Whatever gets asses in the bicycle seats.

Guy is a mega-douche . . . and in his 60's, which I thought was a riot.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 14, 2010 05:33 PM (1c1AI)

120 Posted by: Charles Johnson at September 14, 2010 08:59 PM (p6OcK)

I'll see your ban and raise you an excommunication from the Church of The Bouncy Ta -Tas.

Posted by: The Space Pope at September 14, 2010 05:44 PM (WHRS/)

121 charles is a schmuck, and it's been so long since i've been to his blog that i can't even remember...schmucky makes me yawn...

Posted by: annak at September 14, 2010 07:00 PM (8Nq99)

122 It's funny, in some ways LGF was my "gateway blog" for my 2nd blogging adventure (the first was in the early days, very late 90s - when blogs were forums and stuff). It was one of my gateways for learning about Islam after 9/11.

I was a regular there for years. I get that one schmuck can go bonkers, what I don't get is the number of other regulars that followed him down the rabbit hole. That was the part that freaked me out.

I didn't even have to get banned, I just walked away when, some time into the whole "evil xtianists" deal he started a series of wars with other bloggers.

It was all kind of Deb Schlussel - or did CJ go first?

Posted by: Merovign, Strong on His Mountain at September 14, 2010 07:41 PM (bxiXv)

123 Charles Johnson is just plain nuts!

Posted by: Jimmy Page at September 15, 2010 04:31 AM (T1l1O)

124 Amazing. What sort of bike accident could have precipitated all of this I wonder.

Posted by: SarahW at September 15, 2010 05:56 AM (Z4T49)

125

C.J.'s idiot minions should be here any second, ready to plant multiple racist statements in the comments, which Chuckie will promptly condemn on LittleGheyFruitcups.

Wow.

The man who revealed Dan Rather as a fraud now spends significant amounts of his time rewriting reality in true Stalinist fashion....

You know he's reading this thread. He's absolutely compulsive about reading what others have to say about him.

Hi, Chuckie!

Offering you a single-digit salute!

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 15, 2010 08:41 AM (GkYyh)

126 Charles "I'll take their money" Johnson is a self-centered egoist of the first degree. It is amusing to read his paranoid rantings to see what the next libtard talking points from Media Matters and Real Climate are going to be. What a self-righteous ass.

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