This week in LGF history

First in an occasional series... if we feel like it.

Since we seem to be at a bit of a loss as far as new LGF-related content is concerned, here's a little trip down memory lane.

June 17, 2008 -- Charles, utterly oblivious to irony, accuses Markos Moulitsas Zúñiga of being "mean-spirited, dishonest, and vicious."

June 26, 2007 -- Charles "DailyKosWatch" Johnson complains that not enough people are bashing left-wing blogs on a regular basis.

June 20, 2006 -- Charles falsely accuses the MSM of ignoring a massive anti-terror march in Madrid.

June 23, 2005 -- Charles unquestioningly repeats a blog-sourced accusation that a tourist arrested in Mexico is a "Baja Jihadi," then is forced to retract same.

June 22, 2004 -- Charles accuses the entire MSM of complicity with Islamo-fascists.

For those who are wondering why this blog exists: see above.

Quote Of The Weak

Environmental advocate Peter Sinclair put together this presentation about the British documentary “The Great Global Warming Swindle.” When Channel 4’s anti-AGW polemic was first broadcast, we linked to it here at LGF; but since that time a number of ... uh ... problems have been found with the data in the film.

Charles Johnson (June 21, 2009)

Hey Chuckie, 2007 called!

Going green

We've gone green -- obviously not out of any kindred feeling with Little Green Footballs, but rather out of solidarity with the people of Iran.

Et tu, Fisty?

Longtime über-lizard Iron "220 lbs of death made flesh" Fist is skating on perilously thin ice...



We're not sure which is more amusing: the fact that poor Charles has finally been forced -- after oh so many years -- to call Iron Fist on his ridiculous drunken psychopathic BS, or the abject groveling that has ensued.

The singularity approaches

Behold LGF2 Watch!

(h/t: "Anonymous" in comments)

As a side note, it's rather interesting that Charles would bring his lizards' attention to a blog whose comment section currently features a no-holds-barred discussion of his own comment policies. Makes for some mildly diverting reading, if you're at all interested in the process by which the entire right-wing blogosphere is currently disappearing up its own ass.

Evolution and Global Warming

CJ today: "Shame on Fox News for lending credence to this appalling display of mendacity and ignorance [about evolution], without giving equal time to a credible scientist who could answer Luskin’s lies."

This from the same guy who promotes every anti-climate change wacko theory out there?

It's déjà vu all over again

Bruce Bawer via LGF, today:

The other day, in the wake of my City Journal piece “Heirs to Fortuyn?”, a couple of anti-jihad writers who had not yet rebuked me for my stance on Vlaams Belang finally got around to doing so. Not only did they send me e-mails taking me to task for criticizing VB in that article; one of them also took it upon himself to chew me out for, in his view, admiring Pim Fortuyn too much and Geert Wilders too little. (Never mind that I’ve defended Wilders frequently and that Wilders has blurbed my new book, Surrender.) Wilders, this individual felt compelled to lecture me, is a far greater figure than Fortuyn ever was. Why? Because, he explained, Wilders stands for “Western values,” while Fortuyn stood only for – get ready for this – “Dutch libertinism.”

Yes, “Dutch libertinism.” The words took my breath away. During the last few days (while, as it happened, I was visiting Amsterdam) I haven’t been able to get them out of my mind. For a self-styled anti-jihadist – who, by the way, I first met three years ago at the Pim Fortuyn Memorial Conference in The Hague – to refer in this way to a man who sacrificed his life for human liberty is, in my view, not only incomprehensible but profoundly despicable. This is, after all, precisely the sort of language that Dutch Muslim leaders hurled at Fortuyn during his lifetime. And in the present case the words were plainly aimed not only at Fortuyn but at me – a writer who, like Fortuyn, that great martyr for freedom, is gay.

What the hell, one is entitled to wonder, is going on here? Why has Vlaams Belang, of all things, become a veritable sacred cow for so many anti-jihadist writers? And why does at least one of them now take such a staggeringly contemptuous view of Pim Fortuyn? I can’t honestly say that I understand any of it. But I do know this: when writers who represent themselves as champions of liberty start cozying up to distinctly illiberal parties like Vlaams Belang – and when one of those supposed champions of liberty starts to sound uncomfortably like the Islamist enemies of freedom whom he purports to despise – then there’s something terribly wrong, and genuinely evil, afoot.

LGF Watch, more than three years ago:

Shorter Paul Belien

"The only possible alternative to Islamo-fascism is Christo-fascism."

This piece of lunatic drivel scores extra-high on the Irony-Meter thanks to this bit in its last paragraph:

We have seen the assassinations of Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh

Pim Fortuyn was a proud, promiscuous homosexual.

Theo van Gogh despised all religions, and was an ardent admirer of Fortuyn.

But according to Bible-bashers like Belien and his fascist friends, secularism, abortion and "hedonism" (a code word for sexual tolerance) are destroying Europe and paving the way for an Islamist takeover.

I don't think either van Gogh or Fortuyn would agree.

(note: Paul Belien is the publisher of the Brussels Journal, and has close ties to Vlaams Belang.)

More (from us, of course) on Vlaams Belang