And so we get to observe yet another chapter in the slow and mystifying fall of blogger Charles Johnson, who has blamed yesterday's Pentagon shooting on yet another 'anti-government loon.'
Was the shooter crazy, and in fact, anti-government. Absolutely. However, Johnson is attempting to tie John Patrick Bedell to the right-wing and the Tea Party movement. There's a huge problem here, though. Bedell is actually a registered Democrat and is one of the extremist anti-Bushites. This truther's ideology can be clearly seen through his goings-on on the internet, including his Amazon profile.
So will Johnson and LGF backtrack? Well, judging from this snarky comment from our dear genius Cato the Elder, I'd have to say no. Bookmark our site! Consider advertising on our site!
Last week we were attacked by Charles Johnson for our Obama Thesis piece which was featured on the Rush Limbaugh Show. One of his chief minions, Cato the Elder, attacked a picture of our friend Joe, calling him "hungover" and "pustuled mouth breather." Joe happens to be autistic and we did not take kindly to the insult. Cato refused to apologize, and Johnson instead attacked us again.
And now CJ is up to his old tricks again, attacking us in another feature piece while defending the attack on Joe once again. Charles himself deems that there is a right to attack autistic people:
So what is CJ defending? Take a look: That's right, folks. We are pathetic because we defend our friend, autistic or not. And the question posed was "not knowing that a person on a blog is autistic gives someone the right to attack them?"
Ray, a proud LGFer who is disgusting bigot who clearly believes that autistic people are sub-humans posted "yes, it gives them the right."
Charles congratulated Ray for spreading the truth-- in other words, let the attack on Joe continue!
In case you haven't heard about our battle with Little Green Footballs, we came under direct attack by a post by Charles Johnson yesterday. After repeated insults, one of his commenter insulted our friend Joe, who is autistic and is featured on the banner of our site. Johnson not only did not take this down, but used it to attack us.
Now I have word from Pamela at Atlas Shrugs that Johnson is using SiteMeter to phish for the commenters and use it to ban them from his own site. This is a violation of our privacy and needs to stop.
Thanks to Atlas Shrugs, RS McCain, Stix Blog, and everyone else who has helped push back against Johnson's aggression.
UPDATE 10/26: Johnson continues! Charles Johnson, writer for the formerly great Little Green Footballs, has gone on the record repeatedly stating that if a blog allows an offensive comment, it is as if the writer for the blog had written it themselves.
Well, in a hitpiece against us, Johnson allowed the following comment up on his site: That picture happens to be of Joseph Chicoine, an autistic 20-year old college student who is a friend of my brother and I. We put a picture of him on the top of our blog, something that made him ecstatic. We made a difference in his life. We put him next to his hero John McCain so that everyone can see him in that light.
And along comes Cato the Elder, who could do nothing better than to insult an innocent autistic gentleman.
What has Charles Johnson done about this? Not only did he start the feeding frenzy, but he's read our blog and knows that it's an autistic student, but he refuses to take the comment down. If HotAir or Rush Limbaugh did this, he would insult them until his fingers bled. Instead, he promotes this sort of personal attack, being a blight on the blogosphere.
Charles, get over yourself and put a retraction.
Have you no shame?
UPDATE 11:42 pm:
Charles had the NERVE to defend the attack. He had a chance to end it, but directly continues the insults: UPDATE: 12:27 am: And now the original poster is asking CJ to cover it up. Johnson not only hasn't deleted the comment, but is still trashing us. He needs to not just delete the comment, but place a full retraction immediately. We've gotten support from the people at LGF 2.0, Da Tech Guy, RS McCain, the Daley Gator, the Urban Grind, and the Sitx Blog. Thanks a lot!
UPDATE 1:27AM, October 26:
We explore Charles's mind to see why he defended an attack on an autistic person:
(Note, this video is supposed to be funny, but the content contained in it is true)
This statement alone is a bit nuts. I mean, I don't agree with the President-Elect on some things, but to propose that he is building a dictatorship is a little wacko.
LGF has begun to call this movement, 'black helicopter Republicans.' I don't know if people have been listening to too much Coast to Coast or what, but we need to be careful that we don't go off the deep end.
And this is just the beginning. There hasn't even been any crises or anything to test Obama yet. Does this mean that we'll lose it when something does happen? As far as I can tell, there is not an American dictatorship on the horizon.
In case anyone wants to know how I see a dictatorship happening, here are some steps:
1. one branch of the government taking over one or two of the others 2. taking away of guns 3. taking away of other rights, like assembly 4. oh shit
