tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59405112024-03-18T19:57:43.265+00:00LGF WatchThe Original Stalker Site™<br>(send tips to: lgfwatch@gmail.com)Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12622535082214016378noreply@blogger.comBlogger2042125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940511.post-9050916319521414432011-05-04T01:06:00.003+01:002011-05-04T01:34:03.370+01:00Osama sleeps with the fishesAnd we join the rest of the civilized world in congratulating President Obama on this superb achievement.<br /><br />But not, of course, without taking a little jab at our former nemesis, whose ghastly pre-2009 blogging career would not have been possible absent the 9/11 attacks.<br /><br /><a href="http://lgfwatch.blogspot.com/2006/09/legacy-of-911.html">http://lgfwatch.blogspot.com/2006/09/legacy-of-911.html</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940511.post-21642009170879805932011-01-14T02:39:00.001+00:002011-01-14T02:40:44.016+00:00No commentReally, what could we possibly add to this?<br /><br />http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/37899_Video-_Sarah_Palins_Facebook_Page_Being_Scrubbed_in_Real_TimeUnknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940511.post-73100626002574893582011-01-08T11:41:00.003+00:002011-01-08T12:01:50.763+00:00The Great Climate SwitcherooIt's a truly rare occasion where Charles Johnson acknowledges the rather shady past of his blog, which has been covered in sufficient depth at this very website for several years.<br /><br />Having evolved from a persistent LGF Watcher to a casual LGF reader following the colossal paradigm shift that site has undergone, imagine my (positive) surprise when reading <a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/37866_Video-_Isaac_Asimov_Warns_of_Global_Warming_in_1989">this thread</a> on a warning about global warming as from over 20 years ago from Isaac Asimov. Well, not the thread itself, but the first comment written by none other than Charles himself:<br /><br /><blockquote>If I'd posted this at LGF in 2007, Asimov would have immediately been accused of being a commie atheist hack sci-fi writer with no idea what the fuck he was talking about.<br /></blockquote><br />Spot on. How often does this kind of statement by the Lizard King happen?<br /><br />A more interesting question is though: Why does Charles shove all the blame to his former fan base? Back in 2007, would've he done the same? According to 2011-Charles, definitely not. But as he has previously been proven to have a <a href="http://lgfwatch.blogspot.com/2009/12/great-global-warming-mudfight.html">remarkably short memory</a> when it comes to opinions on global warming, it seems probable that he would've joined in.<br /><br />But hey, this is quite some progress! Gotta give credit where credit is due.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940511.post-18273307810760298002010-11-23T05:59:00.002+00:002010-11-23T06:17:50.404+00:00This Week in LGF History, Part TroisIt's been a very long while indeed since we've done this (<a href="http://lgfwatch.blogspot.com/2009/06/this-week-in-lgf-history.html">part the first</a>, <a href="http://lgfwatch.blogspot.com/2009/12/this-week-in-lgf-history-special.html">part the second</a>) so here's a Thanksgiving Week edition of <span style="font-style:italic;">This Week in LGF History</span>. <br /><br /><a href="http://lgfwatch.blogspot.com/2008/11/zombies-deja-vu.html">November 29, 2008</a> - Soon-to-be-banned Lizard "Zombie" accuses San Francisco Muslims of celebrating the attacks on Mumbai<br /><a href="http://lgfwatch.blogspot.com/2007/11/more-lgf-hysteria.html">November 19, 2007</a> - Charles publishes a very <span style="font-style:italic;">post facto</span> freakout over a terrorist non-incident that wasn't even real in the first place<br /><a href="http://lgfwatch.blogspot.com/2006/11/what-planet-do-lgfers-live-on.html">November 25, 2006</a> - Confused Lizards attribute thuggery committed by anti-Semitic white French youths to anti-Semitic brown French youths<br /><a href="http://lgfwatch.blogspot.com/2005/11/blessed-are-peacemakers.html">November 30, 2005</a> - The peace-loving "LGF brain trust" vents spleen and several other bodily organs against four Christian peace activists who were kidnapped in Iraq<br /><a href="http://lgfwatch.blogspot.com/2004/11/lgf-kevin-sites-in-its-sights.html">November 17, 2004</a> - Charles bashes a freelance NBC journlist who had the temerity to criticize George W. Bush<br /><a href="http://lgfwatch.blogspot.com/2003/11/lgf-doesnt-like-baghdad-blogger.html">November 21, 2003</a> - Charles bashes Salam Pax, the renowned "Baghdad Blogger" who had the temerity to criticize George W. BushUnknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940511.post-33171720796298516072010-09-26T17:42:00.004+01:002010-09-26T17:51:55.578+01:00Charles erasing old LGF posts?Per commenter "he who scoffs at danger" comes word that Charles may have been deleting old posts of his that are, shall we say, <span style="font-style:italic;">inconvenient</span>. See the gory details <a href="http://wristaction.blogspot.com/2010/09/memory-hole-has-opened.html">here</a>. Complete with throbbing LGF memo!<br /><br />Fortunately for aficionados of the way LGF used to be, our voluminous archives (at least through early 2009 or so) do contain excerpts, and occasionally screenshots, of the insanity that Charles foisted upon the world and is now desperately trying to disavow. A recent post of his is entitled "The Roots of Sharia Hysteria," which expends a couple hundred words attempting to explain a phenomenon that Charles could much more easily recapitulate by simply looking in a mirror.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940511.post-47078165317854157242010-08-11T22:19:00.006+01:002010-08-11T23:54:24.787+01:00Spencer Watch!For obvious reasons, LGF Watch has been rather silent of late. Much to his credit, Charles Johnson has increasingly edged away from his past sentiment that demonized Islam and everything related to it, and has lately started thrashing people for <a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/36929_Anti-Muslim_Bigotry-_The_New_Flavor_of_the_GOP" target="_blank">"Anti-Muslim bigotry"</a> and for protesting against an <strike>89-storey islamofascist terror-breeding, infidel-beheading Ground-Zero Super-Duper-Mega-Ultra-Mosque</strike> <a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/36930_Meet_the_Leaders_of_the_Anti-Mosque_Movement">Islamic cultural center</a>. Yes, times have changed dramatically in Lizard Kingdom.<br /><br />However, concerning his former allies and friends who have turned into his bitterest foes, none less than intellectual fraud and disgraceful "scholar" Robert Spencer, and his faithful <a href="http://www.google.de/search?q=Shrieking+Harpy" target="_blank">Shrieking Harpy</a> Pamela Geller, who is basically just that... They've become loonier and more bigoted than ever.<br /><br />So while Charles Johnson's blog is actually becoming quite readable, the only way to stomache the insanity of the anti-Muslim movement is with brilliant exposure with a pinch of parody. Now, we're not planning on shifting our focus to other anti-Muslim extremists across the media, because <a href="http://www.loonwatch.com/">LoonWatch</a> does exactly that, and they do it very well.<br /><br />But while LoonWatch may not be new, a new sister site of it is, which focuses on one of LoonWatch's prime suppliers of material, and it needs some publicity. So Ladies and Gentlemen, sit back, grab some popcorn and enjoy <a href="http://spencerwatch.com/" target="_blank">Spencer Watch</a>! It does a fabulous and long-overdue job of placing Bobby Spencer onto the manure heap of scholarship, right where he belongs. And I'm sure Charles Johnson would get a few chuckles (no pun intended) out of that.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940511.post-82044458189674887892010-05-31T15:36:00.006+01:002010-05-31T16:38:48.659+01:00Charles' moment of truthCharles' moderate-liberal bona fides are about to be put to a serious test... because even though he has publicly flip-flopped on every other issue imaginable, his unconditional support of Israel has, apparently, remained steadfast.<br /><br />Now the IDF has <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/05/31/gaza.protest/index.html?hpt=T1">killed</a> several foreign pro-Palestinian activists on a flotilla of boats -- which may or may not have been in international waters -- trying to deliver supplies through the Gaza blockade. To the extent that Charles cares about retaining his current leftish fanbase, which he surely does if he wants to hold on to whatever traffic he has left, he will have to tread very, very carefully -- for the almost unanimous reaction to this, at least for anyone to the left of Robert Spencer and Pammy Atlas Gellar Shrieks, is shock and horror. <br /><br />If this were 2007, he would of course be coining amusing nicknames for the victims, heaping scorn on Turkey and Europe and the UN and (why not?) the moldering corpse of Yassir Arafat, and cheering silently as his readers spew every anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian cliché imaginable. But this is 2010, so he can't do that. <br /><br />So what'll it be, Charles? Back to the future, ignore it completely, or (gasp!) criticize Israel for once?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940511.post-74926220655085103032010-04-28T20:03:00.005+01:002010-04-28T20:13:34.813+01:00The Company You Keep<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RMq4hPTXd_8/S9iI2ObSynI/AAAAAAAAAJA/jTJfwDmF8ac/s1600/gellerbirch.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 220px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RMq4hPTXd_8/S9iI2ObSynI/AAAAAAAAAJA/jTJfwDmF8ac/s400/gellerbirch.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465268612980984434" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RMq4hPTXd_8/S9iITPgCvnI/AAAAAAAAAIw/yEJ6vVjJbhM/s1600/gellertparty.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 259px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RMq4hPTXd_8/S9iITPgCvnI/AAAAAAAAAIw/yEJ6vVjJbhM/s400/gellertparty.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465268011973918322" /></a><br />It seems that our work here, as far as LGF and Charles Johnson are concerned, is just about done. Charles has become a reformed character and the most venomous of the Lizards have been booted or left in disgust. Well done LGF Watch!<div><br /></div><div>Unfortunately, during his rabid days, Charles encouraged others to the dark side. One such is "batshit crazy" Pamela Oshry Geller, mentioned here at LGF Watch many times: (see tags). </div><div><br /></div><div>Since we have space available, here she is today, boobs to shoulder with the John Birch Society. Note in the small print of the Tennessee Tea Party shindig that the TTP is planning to give away FIREARMS at their rally! </div><div><div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940511.post-993346693608942222010-02-10T04:26:00.003+00:002010-02-10T04:34:03.467+00:00The tears of a clownThe death of Rep. John Murtha leaves Charles Johnson with one less person to apologize to for past mistreatment -- including, but not limited to, venom, malice, contumely, and outright slander. <br /><br />Which is a shame, because we'd really enjoy watching Charles trying to justify <a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/33103_Rescind_John_Murthas_Award_from_the_Navy">this</a> and <a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/21099_Murtha-_A_History_of_Being_Dead_Wrong">this</a> and <a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/23350_Washington_Post_Denounces_Murtha">this</a> and <a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/24355_Murtha_Threatens_to_Cut_Pentagon_Funds_Over_Pelosis_Jet">this</a> and most especially <a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/28409_2007_LGF_Awards_Nominations_Open">this</a> directly to Murtha's face.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940511.post-56078114464468757502010-01-23T20:31:00.008+00:002010-01-23T21:07:55.548+00:00Big time!Ooh! We got mentioned in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/magazine/24Footballs-t.html">The New York <i>Times</i></a>.<br /><br /><blockquote>[At LGF, before the Great Switcheroo - ed.] Muslims were described as “vermin.” The posthumous nickname St. Pancake was coined for the young American pro-Palestinian activist Rachel Corrie, in reference to the Israeli bulldozer that killed her. Discussion of U.S. foreign-policy options included terms like “targeted genocide.” As for Palestinians, “they don’t need statehood,” offered one commenter; “they need sterilization.” And on and on. A so-called stalker blog, called L.G.F. Watch, sprang up to document instances of what it considered hate speech on the part of Johnson and his followers. Vanity Fair’s James Wolcott compared Johnson’s site to a “disorganized Nuremberg Rally.”</blockquote><br /><br />It also emerges from the article that Charles is engaged to be married. Mazel tov!<br /><br />And thanks to ChenZhen for the heads-up. (although actually, I was just about to post that article independently when I saw CZ's comment. Not that it really matters.)<br /><br />There's no link to LGF Watch within the article, but just in case any NYT readers have been curious enough to seek us out: We've been on a, shall we say, somewhat lax posting schedule for the past year or so, mostly because Charles' Great Switcheroo has obviated much of our compulsion to keep an eagle eye on his shenanigans. Most of the anti-Charles action these days is, as you might expect, taking place in the far-right, ultra-right, ultra-far-right, and utterly-completely-batshit-bonkers segments of the blogosphere. <br /><br />So -- if there are any first-time visitors here -- thanks for coming by, and feel free to browse our extensive archives for exhaustive documentation of just what nasty, hateful, warmongering reptiles CJ and his saurian horde used to be.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940511.post-1207674773462828552009-12-28T19:49:00.002+00:002009-12-28T20:15:22.204+00:00This Week in LGF History (Special Holiday Edition)Let's take <a href="http://lgfwatch.blogspot.com/2009/06/this-week-in-lgf-history.html">another trip</a> down Memory Lane and see what was on the Lizard King's mind during festive seasons past.<br /><br /><a href="http://lgfwatch.blogspot.com/2008/12/no-pity-in-la-this-christmas.html">December 29, 2008</a> - Charles insinuates that all Palestinian civilians in Gaza are complicit in Hamas atrocities.<br /><a href="http://lgfwatch.blogspot.com/2007/12/charles-johnson-watch-your-back.html">December 30, 2007</a> - Charles, after deploring those who were capitalizing on the assassination of Benazir Bhutto to further their political agendas, almost immediately flip-flops and uses it to warn (again) about the imminent danger of "Eurabia."<br /><a href="http://lgfwatch.blogspot.com/2006/12/lgf-dirty-dirty-muslims.html">December 30, 2006</a> - Charles unquestioningly propagates a "filthy Muslims" meme that originated with <span style="font-style:italic;">The Sun</span>.<br /><a href="http://lgfwatch.blogspot.com/2005/12/our-pals-lizards.html">December 30, 2005</a> - Charles smears the entire population of Austria because a foreign artist put up a poster there.<br /><a href="http://lgfwatch.blogspot.com/2004/12/charles-johnson-lets-kick-some-muslim.html">December 22, 2004</a> - Charles approvingly notes high levels of anti-Muslim paranoia in the U.S.<br /><a href="http://lgfwatch.blogspot.com/2004/01/lgf-wins-contortionists-of-month-award.html">January 8, 2004</a> - Charles dances on Rachel Corrie's grave (again).Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940511.post-34399567524031431952009-12-18T04:41:00.001+00:002009-12-18T04:44:59.320+00:00CJ: the Joe Lieberman of the blogosphere<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/17/opinion/17collins.html?_r=2">Need we say more</a>?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940511.post-61944897883161004482009-12-11T20:59:00.004+00:002009-12-11T21:06:17.746+00:00We have always been at war with EurasiaThe estimable Nodrog* has emerged from his hiatus to <a href="http://lgfbannedandblocked.blogspot.com/2009/12/lgf-banned-blocked-and-obliterated_10.html">update</a> us, in painstaking detail, on Charles' latest efforts to rewrite the history of LGF.<br /><br />We've seen a few whispers around Teh Intarwebs to the effect that Charles, in addition to obliterating banned lizards' comments, is also nuking actual <em><strong>posts</strong></em> of his from years gone by. Can anyone substantiate this? If you can, we'll give you a cookie.<br /><br />*who, in addition to occasionally commenting here, is also posting at <a href="http://www.discardedlies.com">Discarded Lies</a> -- which began life, lo these many years ago, as LGF Watch Watch. <em>Plus ça change, plus c'est complètement différent ...</em>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940511.post-37861119447138071792009-12-10T16:27:00.003+00:002009-12-10T16:34:05.086+00:00Flying pig alert!LGF, <a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/35317_Youre_Being_Duped_By_the_Climate_Denial_Industry">yesterday</a>:<br /><br /><blockquote>Since a whole lot of right-wingers gleefully trumpeted George Monbiot’s article in which he called for CRU head Phil Jones to resign, I wonder if they’ll be equally eager to promote his latest article — which documents the enormous amounts of money the climate denial industry is spending to trick people into believing there’s no threat from global warming.</blockquote><br /><br />LGF, <a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/30111_Guardian_Columnist_to_Arrest_John_Bolton">March 2008</a>:<br /><br /><blockquote>British über-moonbat “journalist” George Monbiot is apparently going to attempt a citizen’s arrest of John Bolton, after he speaks at a UK literary festival.</blockquote><br /><br />Charles Johnson quoting Monbiot <span style="font-weight:bold;">approvingly<span style="font-style:italic;"></span></span>?! The same Monbiot whose very name is said to have inspired the coinage of the term <a href="http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/moonbat/">moonbat</a>? Truly a great moment in porcine aviation.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940511.post-74557218155920485532009-12-08T18:16:00.004+00:002009-12-08T18:28:19.165+00:00Down the memory holeA couple of commenters have mentioned that Charles has been deleting comments posted by banned ex-lizards. Sure enough, just the other day he <a href="http://wristaction.blogspot.com/2009/12/transparency-lgf-style.html">nuked</a> the entire <span style="font-style:italic;">œuvre</span> of Iron Fist, and apparently he has consigned others to the memory hole too.<br /><br />For the record, we have had to shut down Blogger comments on at least one occasion (before we went to moderation) and wiped out the entire comment database -- but only because enraged LGF operatives had been spamming us with kiddie pr0n and all sorts of other nasty stuff. Not because we've pulled a Great Switcheroo and are trying to obfuscate what we stood for until just the other day.<br /><br />Doubleplusungood, Charles.<br /><br />h/t: "Southside Suarez" and "he who scoffs at danger," who has joined the vast right-wing anti-Charles conspiracy with more than usual aplomb.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940511.post-78882237778055838232009-12-06T12:30:00.005+00:002009-12-08T18:27:32.653+00:00The great global warming mudfightChristmas comes early this year! I'm actually starting to like Charles Johnson's antics, most of all because of stuff like this:<br /><br />http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/35284_Thank_You_Climate_Change_Deniers<br /><br /><blockquote><span><span style="font-style: italic;">===============</span></span><br /><h4>Thank You, Climate Change Deniers</h4><span style="font-style: italic;">"A few years ago, I used to doubt that there really were climate change denialists.<br /><br />But then I started posting at LGF about the scientific evidence for global warming, and lo, the denialists began to appear.<br /><br />Hordes of them.<br /><br />Posting one comment after another full of talking points, false claims, diversions, and complete BS.<br /><br />I don’t doubt their existence any more.<br /><br />So I want to say “thank you” to all the climate change denialists who post comments at LGF, relentlessly hyping every false claim, refusing to follow any links to evidence, and ceaselessly parroting the latest obfuscations.<br /><br />You’ve really helped open my eyes to the truth."<br /></span><span><span style="font-style: italic;">===============</span></span><br /></blockquote><br />Really, Charlie? You seriously didn't know whether or not global warming deniers existed? LGF from 2007 just called, claiming that back then you were actually defending those very people on your blog:<br /><br />http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/24774_Global_Warming_Skeptics_Threatened<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><blockquote>===============<br /><h4>Global Warming Skeptics Threatened</h4>"The Religion of Global Warming is apparently just as thin-skinned as the Religion of Peace™: Scientists threatened for ‘climate denial’. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)"<br /><br /><blockquote>Scientists who questioned mankind’s impact on climate change have received death threats and claim to have been shunned by the scientific community.<br /><br />They say the debate on global warming has been “hijacked” by a powerful alliance of politicians, scientists and environmentalists who have stifled all questioning about the true environmental impact of carbon dioxide emissions.<br /><br />Timothy Ball, a former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg in Canada, has received five deaths threats by email since raising concerns about the degree to which man was affectingclimate change.<br /><br />One of the emails warned that, if he continued to speak out, he would not live to see further global warming.<br /><br />“Western governments have pumped billions of dollars into careers and institutes and they feel threatened,” said the professor. “I can tolerate being called a sceptic because all scientists should be sceptics, but then they started calling us deniers, with all the connotations of the Holocaust. That is an obscenity. It has got really nasty and personal.”<br /></blockquote>===============</blockquote></span><br />Ah, LGF history, thou art a heartless bitch. Especially when the same members from back then are still around today. On the 2007 thread:<br /><blockquote>===============<br />#290 Sharmuta<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"This is vile- Mother-Earth-Loving-Peace-Nics so blinded by their ideology that they are blinded by their hypocrisy yet again. On the one hand they would appease a true Holocaust denier, while on the other they liken a reasoned man of science to the real deal. Obviously they have no concept of the true nature of evil to invoke the Holocaust into this debate. That these enviro-knee-jerk-reactionists would claim freedom of speech as their excuse to say anything they'd like while employing marxist-jihadi techniques to silence the free speech of others is so hypocritical it is beyond the pale.<br /><br />Logic, reason, open and honest debate- these concepts are the death knell to global warming and the leftists will do anything to stop them. Do we need a global warming Theo van Gogh before people take a look at what is going on here?"<br />===============<br /></span></blockquote><br />And on the thread from yesterday:<br /><blockquote>===============<br />#13 Sharmuta<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"I think this is another example in a long line of issues where you can see people aren't interested in facts and truth, but are rather interested in propaganda that confirms their existing biases. It's slow, hard work to chip away at such prejudice, but as always, the Truth is worth the effort."<br />===============<br /></span></blockquote>Now let that second comment sink in for a minute, and read the first one again.<br /><br />While we're at it, here's something for Chuckles (in both senses of the word):<br /><br />http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/24966_Glenn_Beck_on_the_Radical_Islamic_Agenda<br /><br />Video is sadly defunct, but the comments are good as gold. Oh what I would give to see the present-day lizard circus meeting up with themselves from 2007..Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940511.post-31853716442262249502009-12-02T05:48:00.003+00:002009-12-08T18:27:32.659+00:00For the recordSince everyone else seems to be linking to Charles' official refutation of his erstwhile wingnuttitude, <a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/35243_Why_I_Parted_Ways_With_The_Right">we will too</a>.<br /><br />But not, of course, without noting that it conspicuously fails to mention Charles Johnson's role in whelping, nurturing, and exalting the very beast that he now appears so intent on slaying -- or at least staving off until the political winds shift again.<br /><br />As usual, "sorry" seems to be the hardest word. A simple "I was wrong" would suffice. But we know better than to expect that.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940511.post-46119197946026440052009-10-19T17:11:00.002+01:002009-12-08T18:27:32.665+00:00Testing... testing...Out of curiosity, I clicked one of the links to the LGF RSS feed above -- and it worked. No more redirect to the IDF homepage! (Note to new LGF Watch watchers: almost since the very beginning of LGF Watch, Charles has been redirecting all links from this site to the homepage of the <a href="http://dover.idf.il/IDF/English/">Israel Defense Force</a> -- or else to an oh-so-amusing graphic reading "I Is An Idiot" or similarly witty verbiage.)<br /><br />Here's a <a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com">link</a> to the LGF front page, and here's a <a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/34938_Rush_Limbaugh_in_His_Own_Words">link</a> to a specific article.<br /><br />Are they working for you? Let us know.<br /><br /><strong>WARNING:</strong> If you do decide to test the links, be aware that Charles can and does follow and ban the IP addresses of those who visit his site from certain locations. You have been warned.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940511.post-75410627640945736392009-10-15T21:17:00.003+01:002009-10-15T21:20:19.482+01:00AnniversaryIt may interest you to know that it has been more or less exactly six years since LGF Watch started watching LGF.<br /><br />Here's what was going on back in October 2003:<br /><br /><a href="http://lgfwatch.blogspot.com/2003_10_01_archive.html">http://lgfwatch.blogspot.com/2003_10_01_archive.html</a><br /><br />Too bad there's no such thing as time travel (despite what some of the CERN boffins have been saying), because a conversation between today's Charles Johnson and his 2003 self would be something to behold.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940511.post-30039150612468941162009-10-14T21:47:00.006+01:002009-12-08T18:27:32.671+00:00Little Green StalkersCharles Johnson has recently posted a selection of ugly and hateful comments from Hot Air:<br /><br />(Link: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/34908_Hot_Air_Comments_of_the_Day )<br /><blockquote><br />Here’s our latest installment of a new recurring feature — the most disgusting comments recently posted at Hot Air, and not deleted or even disapproved of by the “moderators.” There’s an endless stream of this kind of hate speech at Hot Air, and I don’t expect we’ll run out of material very soon. (Thanks to the LGF readers who helped point out today’s batch of ugliness.)<br /><br />(...) <span style="font-style: italic;">[Comment quotes with links]</span><br /><br />Let’s not forget the hundreds of comments previously posted, <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=site%3Ahotair.com+wookie&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&aqi=&oq=site%3Ahotair.com+wookie&cad=h" target="_blank">calling Michelle Obama a “wookie.”</a> (It’s a sleazy way to call Michelle Obama an “ape,” without actually using that word.)<br /><br />And of course, the comments I pointed out yesterday, calling me a “child molester,” are still posted and those commenters have not been blocked.<br /><br />Stay classy, Hot Air!<br /><br /></blockquote><br />Let's see.. Quoting hateful and racist comments written on another website, then pointing out that they don't get deleted or merit any sort of reprimand from moderators, in order to show what kind of trashy cesspool of hate this site is. And according to him, it's just one installment of a recurring feature. Wait.. HOLY CRAP ON A STICK, Charles is becoming one of us now!<br /><br />Aahh, screw it. Welcome to stalkerdom, Charles! :)<br /><br />(Or at least, welcome to the spot where we were standing against you and your blog for.. I don't know, several years on end?)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940511.post-14733251975256646622009-10-09T19:39:00.006+01:002009-10-09T22:38:15.945+01:00COLLIN COUNTY RACIST REPUBLICANS<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RMq4hPTXd_8/Ss-svbNyQPI/AAAAAAAAAIo/B4tZ21gf_H8/s1600-h/GELLERTX.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 152px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RMq4hPTXd_8/Ss-svbNyQPI/AAAAAAAAAIo/B4tZ21gf_H8/s400/GELLERTX.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390717209745178866" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RMq4hPTXd_8/Ss-Eg3-gsCI/AAAAAAAAAIg/1jkarkMVDDg/s1600-h/collatlas.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 298px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RMq4hPTXd_8/Ss-Eg3-gsCI/AAAAAAAAAIg/1jkarkMVDDg/s400/collatlas.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390672979302592546" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Interesting that Congressmen Sam Johnson (TX 03) Ralph Hall (TX 04), State Rep Jerry Madden (Texas District 67) and Collin County Judge Keith Self would choose to invite Racist, Birther and all-round-loon Pamela Geller to headline a fund-raiser for them. Presumably, they encourage and endorse this kind of "discourse": </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">PAMELA GELLER, in her OWN WORDS: </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 16px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 16px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"So why not tell the truth about Obama and his reported strange sexual predilections? My question is, it is well known that Obama allegedly was involved with a crack whore in his youth. Very seedy stuff. Why aren’t they pursuing that story? Find the ho, give her a show!"</span></span></div><div></div></blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">AND THIS CHARMER: </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">GELLER: "Barack Hussein Obama Jr Malcolm X Barack Hussein Obama Sr. Barack Hussein Obama Sr., Tom Mboya, and Philip Ochieng, all share common physical features of the Kenyan Luo tribe: Modest stature under six feet, round faces, small chins, wide set eyes, slanted back foreheads, and retracted hairlines…none of these features are shared by Malcolm X and Barack Hussein Obama Jr."</span></blockquote></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">And Representative JODIE LAUBENBUERG (TX DIST 89) and Representative KEN PAXTON (TX DIST 70) will no doubt CHEER, as members of the PATRIOTIC HOST COMMITTEE when Ms Geller demonstrates modern Patriotism, as practiced by the GOP: </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"Why isn’t CNN pursuing the nude pornographic photos of Obama’s mom…I never ran the pics, as it was unseemly and wasn’t relevant. But this assault on Palin is too disgusting. It’s time to tell the ugly truth about the enemy in the White House and his whores in the media."</span></blockquote></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Pamela Geller then "runs" alleged nude pictures of Obama's deceased mother on her cesspool blog. We will not link. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">We look forward to pictures of Pammy and the Collin County Republicans. And if the local Dems don't move on this one, they should find something else to do. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><i>Steve Kelso. </i></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><i> </i></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><i>(Note: I haven't been doing much "watching" of CJ these days, since, astonishingly, he's recovering from his 9/11 Stress Syndrome. Pamela Geller, on the other hand, is a real phenomena and seems to embody the essence of rabid tribalism, racism, </i></span><a href="http://lgfwatch.blogspot.com/2009/02/pam-atlas-lures-robert-spencer-to.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><i>carnivorous sexuality </i></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><i> and batshit craziness that seems to stir the turgid loins of Right Wing Loons and Wingnut Texans). </i></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><i>To V & other fellow bloggers here: maybe we should consider widening our brief, perhaps changing or adding to the blog name since Charles Johnson is slowly trudging back into the light. email discussion? </i></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 16px;font-size:11px;"><br /></span></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940511.post-87875120149433919202009-10-09T01:28:00.005+01:002009-12-08T18:27:32.676+00:00OuchIt's been a while since we looked in at Dennis the Peasant's place, which is why we missed <a href="http://dennisthepeasant.typepad.com/dennis_the_peasant/2009/09/influence-angst-and-charles-johnson.html">this post</a> from a couple of weeks ago in which he discusses Charles Johnson's mental state and tries to make sense of the Great LGF Switcheroo.<br /><br />He is, needless to say, not impressed:<br /><br /><blockquote>When I met Charles, back in 2004, he was fiftyish and driving a somewhat battered Hyundai. According to Raj [Roger Simon, the head honcho of Pajamas Media -ed.], he'd been cleaned out in recent divorce and didn't have much more than that Hyundai, his computer and his bike. That's got to be a tough thing to take at fifty. It is probably fair to say that Little Green Footballs and the blogosphere were about the only things Charles had going for him. Which is, quite frankly, somewhat sad.<br /><br />Sad, and dangerous.<br /><br />Dangerous because it gave Charles Johnson, middle-aged mediocrity, the out he needed when it came to dealing with the fact that he was just another average guy. It's something that the vast majority of us have to deal with at some point in our lives. We spend our first forty or so years believing that we are indeed special, that we can indeed do anything we want to (if only we work hard for it). It's what's been drilled into us since birth. And then, one day, we wake up and realize that we aren't special. We cannot do whatever we put minds to. We discover we are mediocre. We are average.<br /><br />[...]<br /><br />And herein lies the seeds of Charles Johnson's self-destruction: He is not a leader. He's an average guy.<br /><br />I'd be the last person to claim I know Charles Johnson well. I spent parts of two days around the man back in 2004. But, brief as it was, my contact with him allowed me to size him up in certain respects. What those two days told me, more than anything, was that Charles Johnson was not a leader of men. His bearing did not catch the eye or command respect. Had he been more than average, he might have been able to leverage his Rathergate and LGF success. But as it turned out, cable TV gave him some time and found him wanting. Pajamas Media provided another opportunity, which, if my sources are to be believed, he wasted by playing the disenchanted loner (rather than being a leader).<br /><br />More important than anything Charles did or did not do, though, was the fact that between 2004 and 2007 we collectively came to understand both the power and the limitations of the political blogosphere. In the heady days of 2003-2004, it was assumed that site traffic conferred, in and of itself, real power to the blogger. That has now been disproved. What we've learned is that it is what the blogger does that confers power. Charles Johnson gained famed not because of his inherent worth as an individual, but because - for one moment in time (Rathergate) - he managed to produce a set of facts that had a material impact on political events. Once Charles stopped producing those sort of facts, his fame (and influence) receeded.<br /></blockquote><br /><br />Puzzled commenters often wonder what exactly this blog is <em>for</em>, now that (it appears) Charles Johnson largely agrees with us politically. But that begs the question: what exactly is LGF itself <em>for</em> anymore?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940511.post-79908696317193049292009-10-07T18:12:00.006+01:002009-12-08T18:27:32.682+00:00Zombie Banned?As much as it pains us to link to the loathsome troglodytes (apologies in advance to trogs everywhere for the insult) of the LGF2 ilk, <a href="http://avideditor.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/lgf-private-thread-and-does-irish-rose-sing-like-this/">we do so now</a> in the interest of documenting yet another big twist in the ongoing CJ Vs. The World soap opera.<br /><br />The fun begins around comment #176.<br /><br />Cliff Notes version: it appears that Charles' longtime faithful doppelgänger Zombie has severed his/her* ties with LGF, or vice versa, or both, or something.<br /><br />*The spurned LGFers appear to believe that Zombie is a female, but since he/she has yet to "out" him-/herself, his/her gender remains a mystery unto him-/herself. At least for now.<br /><br />(h/t to commenter Southside Suarez)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940511.post-40432503361318885282009-09-24T00:46:00.005+01:002009-12-08T18:27:32.688+00:00Oh really?The members of the circular firing squad that has become the right-wing blogosphere are sharpening their aim...<br /><br />http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/34727_The_Other_Other_McCain<br /><br />Quoth Charles:<br /><br /><blockquote>I’ve made my position very clear — I won’t stand with racists and white supremacists, not now, not in the past, not ever. </blockquote><br /><br />Do our eyes deceive us?!<br /><br /><blockquote>I’ve made my position very clear — I won’t stand with racists and white supremacists, not now, <strong>not in the past, not ever</strong>. </blockquote><br /><br />Apologies in advance for any keyboards that might have ruined. But what we'd like to know is, when did the years 2001-2007 un-happen?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940511.post-28623560125168833722009-09-22T06:38:00.004+01:002009-09-22T06:42:26.630+01:00Watching the GatesThanks to commenter "Gates of Vienna Watch" for pointing us toward, well, <a href="http://gatesofviennawatch.blogspot.com">Gates of Vienna Watch</a>.<br /><br />Ah, the joy of exposing the idiocies of an moronic ultra-right-wing blog. Sure takes us back... (fade into "Memories")<br /><br />And let's not forget our friend Lex over at <a href="http://govvs.blogspot.com/">GoV Vs the World</a>, who has been doing yeoman service for a couple of years now.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3