There are few more loathsome than those who promote hatred and ignorance for profit. Charles Johnson is one such with his Little Green Footballs websewer, brand-leader of Pajamas Media. Over the past few years, Johnson has collected a rabble of syncophantic followers who proudly and collectively refer to themselves as "Lizardoid Minions". They even have their own clothing line. Hiding behind a disclaimer on LGF, Johnson stokes his followers with an endless diet of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim cut-n-pastings sprinkled with sneering asides, the limit of his "creative" abilities. When not inculcating racism and bigotry, Johnson likes to parrot GOP talking points and heap praise on Bush.
In a faux-neutral post about the kidnapping of journalist (and presumed "leftist") Jill Carroll, Johnson knows exactly what to expect. The "minions" deliver. Example:
ted 1/30/2006 04:32PM PST
Whats her problem ? She went to Iraq on a "peace" mission to "help" victims abused by the american military...now the holy warriors dress her up as a muslima and want to martyr her...
What more could she ask for?
Jeez, Rachel Corrie would spit[spat] blood to be in her position...What an ingrate.
A few weeks ago, the "minions" celebrated the deaths of hundreds of Haaj pilgrims.
pat 1/12/2006 08:37AM PSTJohnson is a jihadist recruiter's best friend. His website is a disgrace and an affront and presents the Bush vision of the US to the world. It is time to question those who choose to advertise on "Pajamas Media", do you really want to be associated with this?
look forward to this every year.
rednaxela 1/12/2006 08:37AM PST
IIRC, dying in Mecca is the best thing that can happen to a RoPer.
Nekama 1/12/2006 08:38AM PST
Darwin is a Muslim?
bonz 1/12/2006 08:40AM PST
Latest novelty item: a burkha with footprints on it. Across the front it reads "I made the Hajj and all I got was this lousy burkha"
2 comments:
They aren't embarrased to advertise on Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, Mike Savage, etc. ad naseum either.
I'm using Wordpress as my blog platform & it has a plugin called Referrer Bouncer which is basically what LGF is using (even if he's using a diff. blogging platform--geez, I hope he's not using WP!). With the WP plugin, when you come fr. the specified site you're bounced back to the site you started from & never reach yr destination. So as the previous commenter said, just cut & paste the link into your browser window & that should do the trick.
Regarding PJM advertisers who should blanch at what they're associated with--let's talk about another rag associated w. LGF: the Jerusalem Post. As co-sponsor of the Jewish & Israeli Blog Awards, the Post claims it has nothing to do w. the content of the nominated blogs (LGF was a winner in a category last yr & will prob. win again this yr). But if many of the nominated blogs feature anti-Arab hate, how can they make the straight-faced claim they're not endorsing it? And even if we grant them that point (that they aren't endorsing content), merely having links to these blogs at the Post site promotes the blogs by giving them great visibility. So I think we can safely say that the Post is promoting hate speech.
I've written a post to that effect & asked the Post's editor to comment. We'll see what he says if anything.
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