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!
Well, shucks. While I was searching the interwebs this evening, I visited Technorati and figured I'd check to see where JiP stood in authority. Much to my surprise, we are ranked number ninety-five in United States Political Blogs:And here's the link. Looks like we're moving up the world.
Oh, and in case you were wondering what the bigot at Little Green Footballs is ranked, it's a hilariously low 384:
Click on the pictures for much better quality!
UPDATE: Our friends at The Lonely Conservative are just behind us at 96. Way to go guys, we're moving up in the world.
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)
Little Green Footballs, which was once one of the premier websites on all of the interwebs, has really got into the shitter in the last year or so. Recently we posted a satire piece about the President's college thesis and it was picked up by Rush Limbaugh, the Huffington Post, the Washington Independent, Time Magazine, Media Matters, the FoxNation blog, Lou Dobbs, Pajamas Media, and the American Thinker. Pretty good for what he calls a 'crudely written post.' Hey, Charles-- when was the last time one of your articles was read by someone important? Still hanging on those glory days of 2004? Well Dan Rather called. He said that on the way to the asshat factory you really have to get a hold of your bad self.
Good ol' Charles took the time to insult us for 'repeatedly creating sockpuppets.' My brother and I tried to create one account each after we got banned. But it counted as some horrific crime for putting up links on the linkviewer he created for us to use for that purpose. Make sense?
And Charles is leaving comments on our open threads insulting us, including using the same phrases and linking to himself. True, we only had 13 comments compared to his 300, but we try not to ban everyone who doesn't agree with us.
Charles. You are a liar. You are the liar.
Our donation box on our site goes to help troops' families. YOURS goes to your bank account. You call us blog pimpers? You shameless destroy your blog but hold your hand out for money. We promote and want money to go to Soldiers' Angels.
We declare you an enemy of the blogosphere, right and left. Bring it, bitch!
EDIT 11:24pm: We also noticed a particularly offensive comment. CJ regularly edits the comments to death and blames people who allow shitty comments on their sites. Meanwhile LGF has this for comment #29: That picture, fucktards, is of Joseph Chicoine, who is an autistic friend of ours. He knows we run a blog so we put up a picture of him to make him feel good. Cato the Elder, go fuck yourself. If you want to pick on an autistic student, just remember that you're a lonely loser who has nothing better to do than sit at home, writing comments to pleasure CJ.
Little Green Footballs, once one of the highest regarded Conservative blogs on the entire Internet, has devolved into one of the most vile anti-Conservative blogs on the entire Internet, as the website apparently devotes itself to spearing right-wing pundits, lawmakers, fellow bloggers, and the ideals which Conservatives hold dear.
Over the past few weeks alone, Little Green Footballs has attacked Congressman Roy Blunt as a racist, which has been disproved by numerous sources; even the New York Times did not buy into the racist claims. Then Little Green Footballs attacked Senator Jim Inhofe for opposing global warming, for stirring up opposition to the global warming conference in Denmark, and for "subverting the Obama administrations policies overseas." From those statements, it appears that Little Green Footballs thinks that Conservatives should not oppose the "global warming myth," that we should not be talking at these conferences, and that we should not attempting to subvert Obama's agenda overseas.
Nancy Pelosi met with the leader of Syria during the Bush administration, while Senator Boxer was at the same global warming conference several years ago that Senator Inhofe was at. Liberal Democrats have done far more to subvert Bush era policies than Conservatives ever have or will overseas.
However, when a Conservative wants to bring the anti-global warming side to the table in Denmark, he is dubbed a "traitor" by Little Green Footballs. Don't take my word for it, visit the disgusting website.
Little Green Footballs also has a distaste for Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann, Governor Rick Perry, Conservative talk show host Glenn Beck, Conservative blogger R.S. McCain, those who attended the tea party protests, pro-lifers, creationists, and pretty much every other Conservative under the sun. However, if the website just wrote about foreign policy, and nothing else, the website would earn respect back.
Little Green Footballs has become a growing enemy of Conservatism in the United States blogosphere; is Jumping in Pools or R.S. McCain's blog the solution? Probably not. However, Little Green Footballs is an ever growing problem, and as the war between blogs continues and rifts among Conservatives are growing, our interests should be dedicated to fighting Obama.
What is the solution? Ignore them. Focus on what counts. Don't give the Conservative basher the light of day.
Joe the Plumber, hero to the working class and redistributing-accuser, is now a war correspondent for Pajamas Media. PJ features some of the most cutting-edge news on the web today including Iraq the Model and Little Green Footballs.
Fortunately Joe is a strong supporter of Israel, just like this blog:
The famous plumber will be focusing on the Israeli perspective on the situation. "It's tragic, I mean it really is,” Wurzelbacher told CNN affiliate WNWO “I don't say that in any little way. It's very tragic, but at the same time what are the Israeli people supposed to do."
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
