On one of Charlie's loonies

Charles Johnson's final posting last night was a link to a 'fisking' performed by a certain Jeff Harrell on Markos Moulitsas' web column for the Guardian. Going straight to Harrell's piece, we get the following pretty early on:

Notice, please, the preemptive whine that Markos slipped in when he thought you weren't paying attention: "all the flaws in the US electoral process." The reason the Democratic Party can't get a dog catcher elected these days doesn't have anything to do with the party's increasing self-marginalization, its fervent hold on positions that America soundly rejects. And it doesn't have anything to do with the Democrats' universal denial of the single most important issue to voters: the war. And it doesn't have anything to do with the overall climate of unpleasantness that the Democrats have created over the past four years.

Now correct us if we're wrong, but isn't Harrell making the grave mistake of trying to slip something in while his readers are still too alert to miss it?

"the Democratic Party can't get a dog catcher elected these days" - with 205 Democrats (vs 227 Republicans) in Congress and 48 Democrats (vs 51 Republicans) in the Senate, the Democrats aren't doing too badly, not to speak of the dead heat that is the current US presidential elections. Who cares about dog catchers?

"its fervent hold on positions that America soundly rejects" - now hold your horses: Harrell claims to know that 'America', as a whole, all of it, every US citizen, rejects the positions of the Democratic Party? Bullshit.

"the Democrats' universal denial of the single most important issue to voters: the war" - The DEMOCRATS have been denying the war? Jeez, and we thought it was Georgie and Co who were sticking their heads in the sand over the miserable failure that is the Iraq campaign, let alone the War on Terror.

"the overall climate of unpleasantness that the Democrats have created over the past four years" - as in voter intimidation in Florida practised by the Republicans in 2000? As in smear campaigns against the Democratic candidate's wife (reminiscent of those against Mrs Clinton)? As in warning that if Kerry is elected there will be more 9/11s? As in bombing the hell out of civilians and claiming you're doing it in the name of freedom? Unpleasantness, it seems, lies in the eye of the beholder...

Harrell doesn't get much better as his piece goes on. Read it and send him friendly comments if you must, but it's not exactly a tour de force of political argumentation. You're better off getting involved with the Guardian's swing state project.

Kiss kiss

Ahhhh, isn't that sweet? They love each other after all....But wait! What's that strange fold on the back of Bush's suit? Is Bush wired? Or maybe he's just earthed?

How are things going in Iraq, now that Saddam is gone?

Not so good, apparently. Someone is stealing equipment and materials that could be used to build nuclear weapons (is it the Iranians, is it Al Qaeda?) and Iraqi adults and children live in constant fear of abduction at the hand of criminal gangs (RealPlayer audio report). Mission accomplished, eh?

Who is Dick Cheney?

CBC has the details on the American Vice-President. (Hat Tip PKJ)

Iraq War results so far

Bush's bulge

Well waddayaknow: Charles got round to acknowledging the 'Is Bush wired?' story after Salon and the NYT ran articles on it (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=13069).

Apparently, the Republican consensus is that the bulge is simply 'a pucker along the jacket's back seam', which raises the question why the President of the United States of America puts up with such bad tailoring...

A reader writes

G asks: "After Charlie posted so much about Kerry's pen, do you think he'll run
with this story from Salon, about Bush having a radio receiver to receive messages?"

We think Charles is going to ignore this until the facts become too overwhelming for him not to comment on it - and then he'll dismiss the story as irrelevant.

Five Minutes Silence

...from Bush jr would have been better than the pityful performance he gave during the first debate. If you've forgotten what he said, here is a summary: 'What Bush said'.

Now lets see what Dubya does this time round :-/

LGF Racism

A reader points us to a comment we missed a while back:

_______________________________________________
#24 Rayra 9/25/2004 08:04PM PST

ulululululululululu!

The Best kind of "Palestinian" -
[Debka 11hrs ago] Zarqawi's Palestinian No. 2 Dies in US Targeted
Assassination
_______________________________________________

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=12824#c0024

Remember kids, it's this kind of mentality that informs the LGF crew. They may not say it in public, but this is the true face of Charles Johnson and Co, make no mistake about it.

LGF: Telling it like it is...half of it

Yes indeed, Charles Johnson is a purveyor of truths. At least that is what his scaley minions seem to think. We mortals only ever get to see half the truth on LGF. Take today's offerings: '9/11 Families Speak' reports what a particular group among all the families affected by 9/11 think (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=13039. No mention of the fact that there are other families who don't believe that Bush is doing the right thing. Who cares about the whole truth? Not the lizards...

Next on the list: 'Kerry's Vanished Draft Proposal' (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=13038). Readers of this headline might get the impression that Kerry had tried to force every American youngster to serve in the military. In fact, Kerry's plan was to introduce the kind of national service found in some European countries, where school-leavers engage in a wide range of services ranging from helping the elderly, sick and vulnerable, to receiving a year of military training. This is a little bit different from Republican plans to force every young person in the States to register for military draft with the possibility of combat posting. Shame this distinction is lost on the pea-brainers at LGF.

Lies and the lying liars that don't report them

Oi veh, the LGFWatch crew goes away for a few days and comes back to find Charles of LittleGreenFootballs still peddling his nasty racist wares, writing wank-lit for aspiring neocons and generally ignoring the real world. Want an example? While dwelling on the issue of forbidden pens in presidential debates for half a dozen posts, Charles Johnson completely fails to mention that Cheney lied on camera during the Veep debate. As AP notes, "among Cheney's retorts was a slam at the first-term North Carolina senator's attendance record in Congress. Cheney noted that, as Vice President, he presides over the Senate, then told Edwards pointedly, 'The first time I ever met you was when we walked on stage tonight.' A sly dig, to be sure. Also false: Cheney had met Edwards twice before. But Edwards let it slide at least until his post-debate rally."

A simple oversight on Charlie's part? We think not. Oh well, back to the grindstone...

The blinkered pundits

Danny Schechter tells it like it is: what happens when LGFers come to town

Bush: encouraging decapitation in order to save face

As the fate of Kenneth Bigley hangs in the balance, disturbing news is emerging from Iraq that America might have ordered the continued detainment of one of the female prisoners Bigley's kidnappers demand be released.

Why would the US do such a thing, when a joint committee of Iraqi governing council deputees and US military already decided it was safe to release her? The answer, apparently, is that America is scared it might be seen as weak if the Iraqi scientist in question appeared to be released at the demand of the kidnappers.

Never mind that her release merely coincides with this kidnapping; the message from the US is: we're more concerned about not appearing weak or merciful than saving the life of a foreign citizen.

Bush = Hitler, Left = Fascists

Charles Johnson really doesn't like it when people compare his favourite president with Adolf Hitler, or Karl Rover with Hermann Goering. Images like the one below are regularly held up by CJ as an example of the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of "the Left", and some might argue he has a point: what, after all, is to be gained from putting Bush and Hitler on one level?



How nice, then, that our friend Charles isn't averse to drawing the odd questionable comparison himself. Witness one of his latest posts, in which he describes the murky forces he suspects were behind the CBS memo as "the farthest of the far left, the new fascists" (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=12754). Charles at his hypocritical best...

UPDATE: We wonder what Charles will have to say about this Frontpage Magazine article, which ends with the lines:

"[Churcharson.com] reminds me of another gang that thought its rule would last 1,000 years. As they helped destroy synagogues on Kristallnacht, Adolf’s Adolescent Auxiliary sang: 'We are joyous Hitler Youth. We have no need of Christian virtue. Our leader is our savior. The pope and rabbi shall be gone. We shall be pagans again.' Or, at the very least, Democrats."

So, Hitler youth = pagans = atheists = Democrats? That's quite a line of stupid comparisons. But you'd expect that from a right-wingnut publication like Frontpage, wouldn't you?

LGF is non-partisan: honest!

Charlie has "a small correction for the record" regarding an article in the NY Post which describes him as "a California jazz musician and Web site designer who has never voted Republican". Charles would like to set the record straight by noting that "I voted Republican for the first time in 2003, for Arnold Schwarzenegger" (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=12736). Fair enough, the Charlie-puss always pounces when mainstream media get their facts wrong.

Strange though that Charles doesn't quibble the argument that his bohemian taste in music and non-Republican voting history somehow inoculate him from being described as a "partisan operative". One would have thought that the person behind a website which runs item after item glorifying the Great Leader (Bush) and demonising the Great Satan (Kerry) would have welcomed the label 'partisan'...

Al Qaeda profits from Bush policies

Charles Johnson thinks al Qaeda wants John Kerry to win (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=12722).

The British ambassador in Rome thinks otherwise: "If anyone's ready to celebrate the eventual re-election of Bush, it is none other than al-Qaeda"

The Bush records Charles Johnson isn't interested in

"His public records paint a portrait of a Guardsman who, with the cooperation of his Texas Air National Guard superiors, simply flouted regulation after regulation (more than 30 by Salon's count) indifferent to his signed obligation to serve."

Bush economics

On Charles Johnson, George Bush and little girls

A regular reader has pointed out a story on LGF we nearly missed over the weekend about a 3-year old girl whose Bush/Cheney sign was ripped up by Kerry 'thugs' - a story that sent LGFers into a frenzy of astute polito-sociological observations like: "LIBERALS ARE FACISTS AND NAZIS" (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=12660#comments)

Whether or not the story happened the way the LGFers like to imagine is secondary to the blatant hypocrisy which surfaces here: had the girl been a Palestinian child taking part in a political demonstration there would have been whoops of joy from the Lizard crowd if she'd received a direct hit from an Israeli missile. But such double standards are to be expected from people whose life-experience seems to consist only of what they see on screen.

What, we wonder, would the LGF crowd have done if they had encountered the 11-year old Iraqi girl we were privileged to meet the other day? This girl's entire family, apart from her father, was killed when a cluster bomb was dropped on their home in Basra last year by a US warplane. She herself lost a leg in the attack. Despite seeing and suffering the horrors of war first-hand, she is a lively, intelligent and friendly child, who gleefully set the table for our meal and urged us to keep eating far beyond the point where our stomachs could take any more, all the time jabbering away in Arabic.

She is learning English fast and is being looked after by people who were vilified on LGF not so long ago for their peace activism. What would the LGF crowd, if they could tear themselves away from fake memos and ripped-up placards for a moment, say to this girl, whose life has been irrevocably damaged by George Bush's war? And what would they say to the people who have risked their lives to get her out of Iraq in order to give her a chance of growing up and leading a normal life?

Back to his old tricks?

Speaking of media bias...

While the left-wing, pinko, manhattan media covertly supports Kerry (according to Charles and Co), the right-wing media have no problem openly coming out in favour of the incumbent. Take a look at this nice little announcement on Rush Limbaugh's website:

"I made an official announcement to open the program today. I have become, and have been for a while, an official, unpaid advisor to the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign, and we decided to go public with this because there's no problem with it whatsoever."

Oh, so there's no problem whatsoever? Well that's alright then. As long as you say so, Rush.

BTW, nice to see you're still combating media bias...

"Your Resource for Combating the Partisan Media, Liberals and Bush-Haters..."

A reader writes

"...there is an interesting item on LGF "European press ignoring CBS document forgery story", or something to that effect (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=12623). Strange, Charles is suddenly interested in the Euro-press, the same one he asked "Who the f*ck cares!?" when some poll was published showing Bush is very unpopular compared to John Kerry throughout the world. I suppose this is similar to his referring to Reuters as either Reuters or Al Reuters, depending on whether the story is useful to him personally or not.

I am continually amazed at the content of that site. Amazing that there are so many hateful people... I have posted little bits of fact here and there, and been angrily shouted down with insults and profanity. They don't like truth at LGF - especially when linked to the real stories...

After a brief, strange obsession with fonts and type, Charles is getting back to what he does best: fan the flames of hatred.

Although sometimes horrifying and upsetting, I think it worthwhile to see the same story covered so differently in the left and right wing weblogs. I simply can't imagine how much dirtier and more hateful things are going to get as we inch closer to the most important presidential election in my 40 years..."

Fact checking LGF style

Charles Johnson, head Lizard honcho and scourge of all things forged, has been riding on the crest of a wave of Bush-supporting self-righteous indignation over the apparently forged memos aired by CBS's 60 Minutes programme recently. With his typographical expertise Johnson was one of the first to spot that something was amiss with the memos, subjecting them to intense scrutiny and finally pronouncing them FORGED!! Never mind the fact that the core of CBS's story (that President Bush had received special treatment during the Vietnam War, exempting him from frontline fighting duty) remains true: Charles Johnson saw this malicious forgery as further evidence that the mainstream media are loony lefties covertly in cahoots with John Kerry.

Little wonder, then, that Mr LGF gleefully posted articles (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) appearing in the press over the last few days which praised the blogosphere as a serious check on irresponsible journalism.

And wouldn't it be wonderful if things were that easy and journalists were being followed everywhere they went by honest, diligent and hard-working citizens prepared to scrutinize their work and expose the lies and slanders they write?

Unfortunately for Johnson and his right-wing blogger cohorts, this picture of unbiased reporter-watching by and for the media consuming masses is a little off the mark. Here at LGF Watch we have been chronicling Charles Johnson's lies and deceipts for a while now, so in order to add a bit of fairness and balance to the blog celebration let's look at some of Charles Johnson's recent exploits:

LGFgate I:

Under the heading 'Terrorist Supporters in LA' CJ posts a picture of a man dressed as a suicide bomber holding up a sign that reads: "Hamas says no wall" (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=8871). Johnson comments: "Good lord. This happened yesterday at Palisades Park in Los Angeles," and links to an Indymedia page with pictures of a protest in LA. The headline, the comment and the picture make it look like protesters were openly declaring themselves supporters of Hamas and suicide bombings. In fact, the person pictured by Charles is a member of a counter demonstration and has nothing to do with the original protest. Lying or just economical with the facts? You decide.

LGFgate II:

CJ kicks off an angry posting about British MP Jenny Tonge with the line "British Liberal Democrat MP Jenny Tonge apparently never learned that when you’re in a hole, you need to stop digging—because her latest dispatch finds her not just sympathizing with suicide bombers, but hanging out with them." (our emphasis; http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=9882)

In fact, anyone reading Tonge's original article would find that she starts thus: "My remarks last month, expressing empathy with suicide bombers, had been misinterpreted by the tabloids as meaning sympathy and approval."

Similarly, linking to a post on Billmon's Whiskey Bar, Johnson claims that Billmon said the four American mercenaries killed in Fallujah "deserved it" (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=10425). The fact is that Billmon said nothing of the sort.

Now misinterpreting what someone says or writes is one thing, but consciously reporting something that isn't true is another.

LGFgate III:

One of CJ's favourite tricks is posting stories of apparently horrific abuse or racism, without following them up. Now we know Charles is only an amateur journalist, but if he finds the time to post dozens of items about typography on his website every day you would think he might take an interest in developments that have occured in stories he has highlighted in the past. Not so in the case of the 'anti-Semitic attack' on the Paris Metro in July (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=11670). Or the 'anti-Semitic arson', also carried out in Paris (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=12253). Both stories turned out quite different in the end, but because that end didn't suit Charles ... he didn't report it.

Finally, let us not forget that, for a long time, Charles Johnson maintained that no torture had occured in Abu Ghraib prison, an opinion he seemed to base solely on his privileged observer position behind a computer screen in California.

What all of this goes to show is that Charles Johnson believes in journalistic virtue and integrity only when and if it suits him. He will happily distort the truth to suit his own ends, and completely fails to report instances where journalism has caught out the politicians he so loves. At the moment Johnson is nothing more than a drone for the 're-elect Bush' campaign. Anything posted by him should be taken with more than a pinch of salt.

*tokka tokka CH-CHUNG tokka tokka DING*

The definitive guide to memos and typography

Charles Johnson's priorities UPDATE

Number of times Charles Johnson has recently commented on:

The potential for Israel to be engulfed by civil war: 0

Veracity of a military memo about George W Bush aired on a US TV network: 50 +

Hijacking Catastrophe

Reader PKJ sends us a link to an interesting video about the way in which the Neo-Cons have used fear to take control of America

They're not soldiers, they're terrorists

The Daily Telegraph reports that "a television journalist was shot dead as he made a live broadcast from Baghdad yesterday when United States helicopters fired on a crowd that had gathered round the burning wreckage of an American armoured vehicle."

Mazen al-Tumeizi was a) a Palestinian, b) a journalist and c) working for Al-Arabiya TV. Expect the LGF crowd to whoop and cheer with joy.

Charles Johnson's priorities

Number of postings Charles Johnson has made in the last week on:

US military deaths in Iraq exceeding 1,000: 0

Veracity of a military memo about George W Bush aired on a US TV network: 37

Bush likes guns, Osama likes guns

The Bushs, the Bin Ladens, and the Islamic Bomb

While Charles Johnson gets all typographical over a memo about Bush aired on CBS, we've been following with interest another story about a far more interesting memo: 199-I.

Dick Cheney: liability for America

"Cheney's manner and authority of voice far outstrip his true abilities," says Chas Freeman, who served under Bush's father as ambassador to Saudi Arabia. "It was clear from the start that Bush required adult supervision -- but it turns out Cheney has even worse instincts. He does not understand that when you act recklessly, your mistakes will come back and bite you on the ass." From Rolling Stone

Who cares what the rest of the world thinks?

For a hysterical (in every sense of the word) example of the kind of xenophobia prevalent among LGF regulars, take a look at this thread: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=12514#comments.

These are the very same people who spend most of their time demanding so-and-so be elected/deposed/killed in Iran/Iraq/Syria/Israel/Britain/Spain/Germany/Venezuela etc. Their argument is always: it would make America and the rest of the world a safer place. But when the rest of the world expresses an opinion about who would make a better US president, the sentiment on LGF, to quote 'American Infidel', is : "Mind your own business world"

Hypocritters, the lot of them.

US Department of Defense Casualty Report for 7 September 2004

(Hat Tip PKJ)

Kids and soldiers

"I cannot stop thinking about all those young lives. Those kid soldiers. And all for what?"

Fisking LGF

Charles Johnson likes to pretend he's always one step ahead of those darstardly mainstream journalists, fact-checking their ass and blowing their nasty propaganda clean outta the water. The problem is, Charlie will only fact-check selectively, when it suits him, not when it could undermine his argument or that of the people he supports. Here's a short list of recent 'facts' conspicuously CJ failed to check:

1) Hallucinating Arnie

Arnold 'Terminator' Schwarzengger really delivered a killer speech at the GOP convention last week, even going so far as calling his opponents "girlie men". Wow, class or what?! Anyway, Arnie also told a little anecdote about his childhood growing up in Austria, which according to Arnie became a "socialist country" after 1955. This must come as some shock to the Austrian people, who all along thought they had elected conservative chancellors in the years from 1945 to 1970. Arnie left Austria in 1966.

2) French Anti-Semitism 'Watch'

Charles Johnson loves labelling the French as anti-Semitic, so when a Jewish community centre in Paris went up in flames he naturally rubbed his hands with glee and posted some news items about the incident, stressing the possibility that the act of arson might have been committed by Muslims (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=12253). One might argue that, in doing so, he was merely echoing what the press and politicians in France and elsewhere were reporting about the incident. Fair enough. Strange though that he hasn't found time to follow-up the latest revelation in this story: that it might have been one of the users of the community centre who set it alight:

'Jew suspected in Paris arson faces jail' (Jpost)

'Jewish man arrested in Paris arson' (IHT)

'Jew may have torched Paris soup kitchen' (Haaretz)

3) Charles cheers too soon

On Sunday 4 September Charles announced the capture of one of Saddam Hussein's deputies, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri. Like everyone else, he had been fooled by press releases from the Iraqi interim government announcing al-Douri's capture. By Sunday it had become clear that the person apprehended wasn't al-Douri. As yet, Charles has made no mention of this fact...

GOP Child Abuse

By request of the photographer, this image has been removed. To see pictures of how the Republican Party has been cloning Dick Cheney and other scary images from the RNC, go here.

LGF: finally seeing sense?

It might have been the sheer weight of the number of emails Charles Johnson received in response to his ill-judged question whether "anyone [has] heard a a single Islamic leader, anywhere in the world, condemn this bloody savagery committed in the name of their religion". In any case he's finally relenting and admitting that maybe, just maybe, some of them have condemned the massacre.

So far he has posted articles by Abdel Rahman al-Rashed (Head of Al Arabiya TV, see also his radio interview), Saudi Prince Abdullah, and a link to a piece about Ahmed Baghat and Mohammed Sayed Tantawi.

Who knows, maybe there is still hope that CJ will finally lift his veil and read Arab media beyond what is translated by MEMRI?

LGF: seeing what it wants to see

Charles Johnson posted an item the other day about Saddam Hussein having come "'within a whisker' of purchasing a complete, off-the-shelf nuclear device from Abdul Qadeer Khan’s Islamic nuclear black market." (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=12462), a 'fact' uncovered by a recent BBC radio series on the proliferation of ABC weapons. What Charles conveniently ignores is another episode in that series. I wonder why...

"Allan Urry also examines USA's rush to carry out research designed to protect the West against the attack by a dirty bomb.

Since it was discovered that Al-Qaeda has been trying to acquire biological weapons, the USA has poured billions of dollars into what it terms "bio-defence". finding a way to protect communities from the devastation of an anthrax or smallpox attack by terrorists.

But the BBC revelas a disturbing catalogue of blunders and security lapses by the US authorities.

some deadly pathogens used in the laboratories are being flown around the world by in the jacket pockets of scientists travelling through international airports; others are simply missing from the laboratories.

The programme also hears that US' vast spending on bio-defence is hiding secret military research, banned under international treaties.

Critics say that this is pushing the world closer to a biological arms race."

Listen to this episode here

The War on Terror will never end

"On Monday this week, President Bush had a moment of clarity. He was speaking on NBC television, replying to the simple question, 'Can America win the War on Terror?' 'No,' he said, his eyes drifting away from the autocue, momentarily losing their glaze. 'Of course it fucking can't," he said. "Are you insane? Do you understand nothing? The whole point of the War on Terror is that it never *ever* ends. We made a big mistake with the Cold War, but with the fall of Communism we realised that our next boogie-man would have to be as vague as it was terrifying, as universally-applicable as it was specific-seeming. We knew we'd have to declare war on something which was endlessly renewable, and something with which we could easily tie in all of our other bigotries. We chose Terror. We're really rather clever you know. In a slightly Satanic way. And no, the War on Terror will never *ever* end...'"

From The Friday Project

Airy-fairy Charlie dismisses 'stupid' attack on Bush

Proving once again that no matter how dumb a comment Bush makes, Charlie 'who is a man' Johnson will defend him, here are some choice cuts from yesterday's posting (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=12393):

President Bush's retraction of a statement that "the war against terror cannot be won" is, according to CJ, an "absurdly trumped-up story" which his detractors are highlighting "as if it were important". What, the President of the United States, the Commander-in-Chief of the most powerful military force in the world, the king-pin of the world oligopoly saying one thing and then saying the opposite is unimportant? Charlie-logic par excellence.

Lost for argument as to why this is a non-issue, CJ comes up with the line: "making an issue out of something like this is just ... well ... stupid." Bingo. What a brain. Then he goes on to say: "Bush could easily have defended his original statement (there’s a lot of truth in it, on many levels)." Many levels? What levels exactly are you talking about? Care to elaborate? Do you really think Bush can think "on many levels"?

Jesus save us from these people in November.

Books against Bush

"What We've Lost: How the Bush Administration Has Curtailed Freedoms, Ravaged the Environment and Damaged America and the World is a book that has been assembled rather more than written. With great recourse to lists and bullet-point breakdowns, it audits Bush's shortcomings across every department of government, opening each chapter with one of the president's goofy quotes ("It's clearly a budget. It's got lots of numbers in it") then slamming home wave after wave of damning facts and anecdotes: that Bush tried to reclassify "manufacturing" jobs to include people who worked in fast-food joints; that teachers in Missouri were ordered to remove every third light bulb from schools to save money; that parents of soldiers in Iraq were in some cases forced to buy their children's own body-armour vests ("$1,500 retail"), plus hundreds of statistics attesting to Bush's failure to help America's poor, sick and discriminated against. The result is so overwhelming that it reads a little as if someone has fed "Bush, presidency, fuck up" into a search engine on the internet and loosely organised the results. Carter says he intended to write a short handbook, but that the more he and his researchers looked into it, the longer the book got."

Link

Charles Johnson's racist agenda

Every once in a while we get emails from LGF readers asking: "Why do you say LGF is racist? Even if some people make racist comments on the LGF message board, that's not Charles' fault. Charles simply tells it like it is."

That this is not the case is easy enough to demonstrate: yesterday, Charles posted an item about a murder that took place thousands of miles away from where most of his readers live, a murder that has nothing to do with Macs, webdesign, cycling, anti-Semitism, Iraq or the Arab-Israeli conflict.

The murder took place in New Zealand: a young man killed a young woman by dousing her with fuel and setting her alight, after she broke off their relationship. Tragic as this case is, such things happen all over the world, and would go unnoticed by Charles were it not for the fact that the perpetrator and the victim have Muslim-sounding names (whether they are Muslim or not is not clear). This alone is the cue for Charles to pick up a story, post it where hundreds of thousands of people will read it, and headline the item: "Honor Killing in New Zealand" (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=12316).

No other news report suggests that this was an 'honor killing'. Nevertheless, on the other side of the Pacific Ocean Charles F Johnson knows an honor killing when he sees one, and can't resist holding this gruesome murder up as another example of how barbarous Muslims are. Does that not strike you as racist?

PS: There is one Antipodean story about honour killing that Charles won't be mentioning: 'Police query honour killing claim'

'A personal bias'

Ewa Jasciewicz, the British journalist Charles Johnson's cronies want to see murdered and raped, writes about her arrest and imprisonment in Israel.

The Liberation of Paris

An interesting radio clip on why the liberation of Paris happened how it did, and what it meant for future French-American relations (RealPlayer required): http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/rams/0800_france.ram

Islam: no, no, no!

Charles has an obsession and that obsession is called Islam. He has now posted at least two threads on his weblog attacking the idea that there might have been Muslims on Columbus' voyage to America (one: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=12276 , two: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=12262_Dhimmitude_101).

Charles, why do you CARE about this?

Kerry, Bush and the Swiftboat 'Veterans'

"Vietnam war veteran and Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry has been ambushed and, for the moment, remains caught in enemy fire. Having made his five-month stint of decorated service in Vietnam the heart of his platform, it is now emerging as his achilles heel.

A group of veterans financed by Republicans from Texas and close to President George Bush are airing ads calling him a liar for the claims he has made about his service and suggesting that he did not come by his military medals honestly. Their case is shoddy, given that none of the Swift-boat Veterans for Truth were with Kerry at the time and their claims have been refuted by those who were. Their motivation is shabby, as most of them are piqued by the fact that Kerry returned home to campaign against the war. All of which makes the fact that their attacks have had such a huge impact that much more revealing.

For since the ads began screening, Kerry's slight lead in the polls has been shaved away. Two weeks ago, before the ads appeared, he was running even with Bush among the nation's 26 million veterans. Now Bush has a 24-point lead. The issue dominating the news cycle is not what is happening in Najaf today but what happened in the Mekong delta 35 years ago."

There are three things we can learn from this. First, there is no level to which Republicans will not stoop to besmirch a character, belittle an issue or befuddle the electorate. Second, there is no level to which the Democrats will not stoop to attempt to neutralise these attacks. And third, that the Republicans will always win in this race to the bottom because so much less is expected of them and, when it comes to muck-slinging, they have no qualms about getting their hands dirty.

Read the rest: http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1288586,00.html

US anti-Semitism watch

'Throw the Jew down the well' song goes down well in American country music club.

Charles: Brit journalists OK - if they damn Kerry

What an about-face! One moment Charles is encouraging his filthy spawn to vent their hatred of all British journalists (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=12122), the next he's praising them to high heaven because they are "covering Kerry's Credibility Problems": http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=12132.

Charles Johnson: having his tea and scones and eating them.

[hat-tip: AH]

Kiss-Kiss with Fifi

LGF: psychotic death cult

Another fine example of the kind of twisted logic that fills the minds of readers Little Green Footballs. Normally, LGF readers express unmitigated outrage when someone is kidnapped by one of Iraq's many armed groups and threatened with death unless certain conditions are met. Then, if that person is killed LGF readers scream blue murder, presumably at the injustice of taking the life of an 'unarmed civilian' (which in LGF parlance includes armed mercenaries). But if, heaven forbid, the hostage should be released, LGF readers, rather than breath a sigh of relief that an innocent life has been spared, round on the victim and condem him thoroughly for not providing another dose of Internet snuff to the bloodthirsty geeks at LGF.

Case in point: British freelance journalist, James Brandon. Here are some of the views expressed by LGF readers on his release (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=12122_British_Journalist_Thanks_Mujahideen#comments):

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#4 foreign devil 8/13/2004 09:05AM PST

Bummer! Bet he was from BBC too! Rats! [Actually, he was freelancing for the Telegraph, the Scotsman and CS Monitor]

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#15 brent 8/13/2004 09:18AM PST

I had an awful thought this morning, when they showed the reporter on CNN.... At first I was concerned for him, but as soon as they said "British reporter", I flipped the channel and thought "F*ck him".

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#21 Craig Abu Al-Boo-Boo 8/13/2004 09:24AM PST

This whole story stinks to high heaven, and I think he's making it up for publicity.

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Luckily, one LGF reader has mercy on Mr Brandon:

#56 Dar ul Harb 8/13/2004 10:14AM PST

Even though he's BBC tool, he deserved to be released.

Geee, thanks, EVEN THOUGH he's "BBC tool"? That's...so compassionate!

LGF regulars urge rape and murder of woman

Not known for holding back when it comes to expressing their hatred of all those who hold opposing views, the minions of LGF lizard lord Charles F Johnson really let loose their blind bloodthirst the other day under a posting called 'Biased British Writer Denied (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=12115_Biased_British_Writer_Denied#comments).

The posting concerned an ISM activist who was denied entry to Israel by Israeli security officials because apart from being engaged in protest actions she was also reporting unfavourably (for Israel) on the Middle East conflict. A clear case of pre-emptive censorship, you might say.

LGF regulars not only applauded the barring of critical voices from Israel, they further suggested that the 'British Writer', whose name is Ewa Jasiewicz, should be raped and killed for her efforts to shed light on the conflict - and for being Polish. Some choice quotes:
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#3 Paranoid Brit 8/12/2004 06:00PM PST

I'd break out some nice recently-captured AK47's, fly Bigel in and point her out while she's 'journalistin'.

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#11 bigel 8/12/2004 06:12PM PST

BTW, the name sound pretty Polish to me.

Just shows you that Poles are still psychotic Nazi Jewhaters.

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#66 whiterasta 8/12/2004 07:19PM PST

I hope that poisnous [sic] witch gets gang raped by her pals one fine day, soon.

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#73 transferthem 8/12/2004 07:53PM PST

Shame the IDF didn't shoot this piece of crap before sending it back where it came from.

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#76 Godzilla 8/12/2004 08:09PM PST

Although no one's asking me, I saw [sic] she gets locked up in a room with a dozen horny and viciously drunk Hell's Angels bikers having a bad day, and then after that she gets taped into a burqua and shipped off to some sleazy middle eastern harem that only accepts horribly broken women as slaves.

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#102 bigel 8/13/2004 06:50AM PST

As far as Robert Fisk goes, maybe we can get him in a locked room with an armed John Malkovich?

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...you get the picture. Does Charles realise what is happening on his message board? Does he condone comments which advocate the sexual denigration, mutilation and killing of unarmed civilians?

Arabs play for Israel in UEFA cup

Bnei Sakhnin set for UEFA Cup first (Haaretz)

"Bnei Sakhnin will set a precedent in European soccer tonight (8:40 P.M., live on Channel 10) by becoming the first Arab side to compete in a UEFA competition, when they play Partizani Tirani of Albania at the National Stadium in Ramat Gan.

"Excitement is mounting in the small town set in the verdant Galilee hills in northern Israel, as the team prepares for its UEFA Cup second qualifying round tie. Sakhnin earned its place after last May's emotional 4-1 State Cup victory over Hapoel Haifa. " (link)

UPDATE: Sakhnin thrashed Partizani 3:0

'Jihad TV' responds to the closure of its Baghdad office

"The wording of the justification of such action may differ from one country to another, but the gist is always the same: undermining state security (normally code for criticising the leadership); providing a platform for terrorists (usually means political opposition); and insulting the people of the country (normally means criticising a failed policy)."

Charles: Nazi Stormtroopers, Mujahideen - they're all the same

One of CJ's frequent tactics for establishing moral equivalence where none exists is to make off-hand comparisons between events happening in 2004 and things that happened between 1933-1945. He's just expressing his opinion, you might argue, before you realise that Charlieboy is himself vehemtly opposed to simplistic parellels being drawn between the horrors of the holocaust and WWII and what is happening in the world today (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=11483 and http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=11373).

Two examples of Johnson's hypocrisy appear here ('Exhumation' http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=12092) and here ('Fourth Estate = Fifth Column' http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=12083).

In the former instance he posts a Cox & Forkum cartoon depicting the hand of 'Islamism' reaching out for the spectre of Nazi-era anti-semitism. What is Charles trying to tell us here? That Jews are being rounded up and sent to work or death camps? That gypsies are being used for macabre eugenics experiments? That the world is about to see people of certain ethnicities and ideologies labelled with branded enemies of the people, their property confiscated and their rights stripped?

In the second example The Great Lizard King tells us that the mujahideen pictured in a photograph shown on Yahoo News is the equivalent of "bravely posing Waffen SS stormtroopers firing their weapons at Allied soldiers". Notice the subtle inference: The loosely organised Mujahideen rabble doing battle with an occupying force of highly equipped and trained US soldiers are in reality the evil footsoldiers of a murderously expansionist ideology intent on wiping non-Aryans off the face of the earth. Who knows, maybe after they've been ground into the dust we'll be hearing stories from Charles about rogue Mujahideen living covertly in South America, trying desperately to clone Osama bin Laden?

As usual on LGF, no one cares about such distortions. No one even notices.

Reagan on Bush and the Far Right

"The far-right wing of the country—nearly one third of us by some estimates—continues to regard all who refuse to drink the Kool-Aid (liberals, rationalists, Europeans, et cetera) as agents of Satan. Bush could show up on video canoodling with Paris Hilton and still bank their vote. Right-wing talking heads continue painting anyone who fails to genuflect deeply enough as a "hater," and therefore a nut job, probably a crypto-Islamist car bomber. But these protestations have taken on a hysterical, almost comically desperate tone. It's one thing to get trashed by Michael Moore. But when Nobel laureates, a vast majority of the scientific community, and a host of current and former diplomats, intelligence operatives, and military officials line up against you, it becomes increasingly difficult to characterize the opposition as fringe wackos." More

We got hate mail

An LGF minion writes...not very eloquently.

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please consider this to be hate mail

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Closed minds at LGF

It seems like Charles Johnson just received his PhD in bullshitology (that's the science of calling everything you don't like the look of bullshit). Passing verdict that journalist Antonia Zerbisias is a "Certified grade-A Canadian moonbat", Charlie Boy berates her for "whining" about the fact that she receives hate mail every time she writes a piece about the Middle East (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=12017).

CJ then diagnoses Zerbisias with "Moonbat Speech Suppression, a strange paranoia-related condition", because she reports that many journalists find certain topics too hot to handle anymore due of the barrage of condemnation they receive if they report in the 'wrong' way.

What suppression of speech? What death threats? Surely not from people like Charles F Johnson, who accuse journalists of being "antisemitic columnists" at a drop of a hat?

Bush tells truth shock

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we," George Bush told an audience of military brass and Pentagon chiefs. "They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."

They called him flipper

Flop, flop, flop, Bush

Fat Americans

Bike-riding weblogger Charles F Johnson doesn't like it when the image of America is desecrated abroad. Never mind that he happily caricatures the rest of the world as 'pro-terrorist' or suchlike, when it comes to saying that lots of Americans are fat he draws the line. So it's not surprising that he has taken issue with a booklet distributed by German franchises of the American 'Subway' food chain, which depict a giant hamburger crashing through a cityscape while fat little cartoon characters run away screaming. It's clearly a disgraceful reference to 9/11, say's Charles (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=12004). Or is it? Here's the picture:



Now to us it looks more like the Hamburger is a take on 'Godzilla'. Notice how it's not flying, or being directed by terrorists? But you wouldn't expect Charles to pick up on such subtleties...

ABC's Ted Koppel Refuses To Apologize For Pre-War Iraq Coverage

Bush, WMD and videotape.

Mr Ploome's view on immigration: "No Moslems allowed"

An exchange from http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=11989#c0010. Ploome is a regular poster to LGF.

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#10 Jim in Virginia 8/3/2004 07:12PM PST
Sorry to go OT so early- evening news here says Capitol police are
installing new jersey barriers on streets around the Capitol tonight. Today
Capitol police were stopping and inspecting tour buses on the Hill.
We must have gotten some very specific threat info. Hope we keep the SOB's
off guard.

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#11 ploome hineni 8/3/2004 07:15PM PST
10 Jim in Virginia

as long as there are moslems in the United States, WE are off guard

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#16 ploome hineni 8/3/2004 07:39PM PST
as long as we allow moslem immigration, and foreign money funding schools
and religious institutions, we are in danger

they are here

and they want us controlled, or dead

Have You Forgotten?

Have you forgotten that President George Bush (jnr) has presided over a period in American history in which civil liberties have been curtailed on an unprecedented scale?

Have you forgotten that the Bush family has close ties to the Saudi bin Laden family, whose son Osama was implicated in the September 11th attack?

Have you forgotten that Bush took America to war - twice? First in Afghanistan, where he drove out the Taliban (which America had previously supported) but failed to catch Osama bin Laden? Then he went to war with Iraq claiming the country was a major threat to America and posessed weapons of mass destruction - both of which was a lie.

Have you forgotten that under President Bush regard for America around the world plummeted?

Have you forgotten that the world is now a much less safe place than before Bush was elected?

Have you forgotten that Bush war in Iraq caused the death of at least 11,000 Iraqi civilians? That's nearly four times as many as were killed by terrorists on September 11th 2001.

Have you forgotten that nearly 1,000 US men and women died in Iraq because Bush lied?

Have you forgotten?

Ashcroft to Ashcroft

Charles likes Kerry-bashing dictators

Charlie J has found new allies: the brutal, mysoginistic, head-chopping, Shari'a preaching Saudis. Why? Dude, 'cos they don't like Kerry, just like Charles! (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=11943)

Right-wing moral relativism at its worst. (Hat tip: Da Silva)

What gets Charles going

CJ ends a post about alleged 'medical experiments' on Gitmo prisoners with the comment: "Expect serious derangement. This should be great." (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=11937).

It is telling, isn't it, that Charlie focuses on how much fun he's going to have with this story, rather than its possible veracity. Torture and medical experiments? Who cares, as long as it gives the lizards something to snigger about. Kind of a Rush Limbaugh mentality, dontcha think?

LGF Hilarity

Recent headline on LGF: "Nazis Legal Again in Germany" - referring to the fact that a court in Germany allowed a Neonazi demonstration to go ahead (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=11922). Funny, I always thought such displays of idiocy had always been allowed in the good old USofA, protected by the First Amendment.

Open Democracy

A little foray onto the website of online journal openDemocracy: “Tear down that wall!”, an outspoken article about Israel's Apartheid-style 'defence barrier', and The Lizard - banned in Iran - no, it's not about LGF but about a new Iranian film we're gagging to see.

Annie Jacobsen's fairytale

Pilot and writer Patrick Smith debunks the Annie Jacobsen story about groups of young Arabs 'probing' airlines in preparation for another large-scale terrorist attack.

Rich Dick's Fabulous War=Money Machine

Here's a story you won't read on LGF: the truth behind Halliburton's massive profits from America's wars.

Palestinian Corruption

A sickening story of how some senior Palestinian officials are selling discounted cement to Israel, which then uses it to build the Wall, while publicly denouncing the barrier.

Palestinians will never achieve just peace with leaders like this.

Lizard brood idiocy

[yes, we're having a posting bonanza today ;-) ]

Once in a while, just to remind yourself of the level of conversation that passes for discussion on LGF, you need to read the comments section. Here you will find all manner of ranting and raving, swearing and spitting; but very little else. Should anyone but attempt to engage the Lizard King's scaly minions s/he will quickly find that they're not interested in showing their most intelligent side (should there even be one). No, before you can say LoonyLizardLilliputians Zulubaby, 'Nam Grunt and Co will open their orifices and cease only when you've left the little dears alone to wallow in their self-satisfied muck.

Don't believe us? Start reading this thread around comment #166: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=11836#c0166

Charles Johnson: our soldiers are too stupid to 'understand' Fahrenheit 9/11

In a classic example of LGF arrogance, Charlie J has decided that Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/11 is 'free speech gone too far' because some serving soldiers, on watching the film, became angry or depressed. Why did they become angry or depressed? Because they realised they and their comrades had been fighting for nothing but a lie. And that realisation is a BAD thing - according to CJ, who would rather not have 'simple' soldiers come to such 'simple' conclusions (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=11872).

When Worlds Collide

Or: when Al-Jazeera met Centcom

9/11 breaks cinema records

BBC News Online reports that Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/11 has now made over $100m at North American box offices.

The previous record for a feature-length documentary was Bowling for Columbine.

We got spam!

Wow! Not a week since we set up an email address (lgfwatch@gmail.com) specially for YOU to communicate with US, and already all kinds of loonies are filling our inbox with rubbish.

There's fingernail extensions, free holidays in Texas, donations from the Vatican...and someone who can't make his mind up whether he's called 'Rightwatch' or 'Leftwatch' sending us insightful emails full of stuff like "Do you have mold growing between your toes?" and "Why do you hate my best friend Charles so much?".

In the spam filter they all go :-)

Arroyo got balls

Armstrong wins TdF, condemns Bush's foreign policy

Lance Armstrong, record six-time Tour de France winner, appears to have joined the camp of those opposed to imperialist US foreign policy, reports the Guardian. Oh, and he's going out with Sheryl Crow...

Free Speech? Not in Vegas

Small-time rent-a-musician Charles F Johnson has spoken out against singer Linda Ronstadt, saying she deserved to be insulted and injured after a performance at a Las Vegas hotel where she was booed off stage and ejected from the building for voicing her political opinions (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=11782).

Said Johnson: "This country is fighting for freedom around the world, but not for the freedom of Linda Ronstadt to say she supports Michael Moore. I say she should be sent to Abu Ghraib. Or let the US military deal with her the way they deal with Iraqi wedding singers."

Fallen Heros

Funny radio programme about wartime friendship between Britain and the Soviet Union: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/rams/tue0930.ram. Nothing to do with LGF...

Comments: Experiment over

Boys and Girls, Ladies and Gentlemen,

LGFWatch announces the closure of its comments section. Comments were activated as an experiment, to see whether it would be possible to have productive discussions about the topics raised on LGFWatch. Sadly, such discussions rarely took place. No sooner had the comments section been opened then LGF readers swarmed in and pumped their bile. We didn't moderate the comments, nor require registration, nor ban users. Obviously this was too much freedom for Charles' cronies, as the descended into crude name-calling, racist commentary, anti-semitism and death threats.

From now on, the only way to get in touch with LGFwatch is by using our brand new Gmail address: lgfwatch@gmail.com.

Trackbacks will be allowed for the time being.

LGFW

The plunder of America

Writing on the 'Axis of Logic' website, Manuel Valenzuela exposes the useful idiot thinking of those who support the war in Iraq, and argues that it never was a war for freedom but a war of plunder, in which the American people were plundered so that big business could go and plunder Iraq.

US soldiers raped Iraqi prisoners?

"Young male prisoners were filmed being sodomised by American soldiers at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, according to the journalist who first revealed the abuses there" (Independent)

Of course, Hersh could be making it all up. Somehow, though, he doesn't seem to be the kind of guy to press the self-destruct button on his own career...

Israel planning Arafat's burial

"Israel has drawn up contingency plans to prevent hundreds of thousands of Palestinians trying to bury Yasser Arafat at the disputed holy sites of Jerusalem when he dies." (independent)

Sites? So Israel already knows he's going to be blown to bits? Have they got a missile with his name on it primed yet? Sounds like premeditated murder.

BBC interviews Hussam Abdo

Teen sent to carry out suicide attack tells his story

LGF: Feeding Off the Dead

In his latest act of blatant hypcrisy, Charles F Johnson accuses film-maker Michael Moore of being a 'ghoul' for showing something no American was supposed to see: the funeral of a US soldier killed after being sent by Bush to invade Iraq (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=11725_Michael_Moore-_Feeding_Off_the_Dead).

Let's see, how many dead people has CJ used for his little propaganda operation?

Rachel Corrie (Charles' all-time favourite corpse)
Ivailo Kepov, Georgy Lazov, Kim Sun-iland other foreigners killed in Iraq
3,000 victims of 9/11 (always good to rally the troops)
...hey, even ol' Ronnie gets refloated by Charles. Way to go, Charles 'ghoul' Johnson.

BNP parrots LGF

In the documentary [Secret Agent], footage recorded at a meeting in Keighley shows BNP leader Mr Griffin saying it was important to stand up and act for the party or "they (Muslims) will do for someone in your family".

"For saying that, I tell you, I will get seven years if I said that outside."

He calls Islam a "wicked, vicious faith" that "has expanded through a handful of cranky lunatics" and "is now sweeping country after country".

Another member, Stewart Williams, says he wants to "blow up" Bradford's mosques with a rocket launcher. (BBC News Online)

If the BNP had made those kinds of comments on Charles Johnson's LGF they would have received a warm welcome, not widespread condemnation...

Pigs CAN fly!

Stop the presses, Charles Johnson admits a mistake: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=11708

Doubts surround LGF 'reporting'

Charlie 'who is a man' Johnson posted an item about a horrific anti-Semitic attack on the Paris Metro last week und the headline "France anti-semitism watch" (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=11670_French_Antisemitism_Watch). Commenting on the French interior minister's pronouncement that the attack was "all the more serious because it was marked by racism and anti-Semitism", CJ said: "Duh".
Now it turns out that this attack might not have taken place after all. Doubtlessly we will find out more soon. Meanwhile, one wonders whether Mr J would have mentioned the attack if it hadn't had the whiff of anti-Semitism. Probably not. Like a good media lap-dog, he simply picks up whatever the press throw at him without question, provided it looks like another opportunity to bash the French.

Do as I say, don't do as I do

Charlie J slams Europe for belatedly reacting to the Darfur crisis (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=11675_Herr_Fischer_Demands). Charles, exactly how many Sudanese are US aid agencies helping to emigrate to America? Some examples please

'The Real Enemy Staring Us in the Face'

Bob Herbert of the New York Times on why attacking Iraq was wrong: "A government with even a nodding acquaintance with competence and good sense would have launched an all-out war against Al Qaeda, not Iraq, in the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11. After all, it was Al Qaeda, not Iraq, that carried out the sneak attack on American soil that destroyed the World Trade Center and part of the Pentagon and killed 3,000 people."

'Put his chubby face on a banknote'

John Patterson on Fahrenheit 9/11: "Let's forget, just for a moment, all the right-wing hoopla surrounding the success of Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 and take a look at the public response from folks at the multiplex..."

LGF: double standards 'R' us

Charles Johnson is angry. Why? Because someone has described LGF as a 'cesspool' and him as a 'racist'. This, according to Charles, just isn't on. We need more "civility" in the blogosphere (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=11622_Ignoring_the_Beams_in_Their_Eyes). This is the same Charles Johnson who regularly delights in the murder of women and children, believes Arabs to be subhuman and would like to see the world cleansed of Muslims - or at least of everyone who doesn't agree with him. Double standards?

Come on Charles, for once be honest and admit you don't give a fuck about civility!

Bush lies

Handy list

Iraqis react to handover

Powerful pictures and interesting views on BBC News Online

Boohoo, Galloway let off again

Charles Johnson was spotted crying into his Coco Pops this morning after reading newspaper reports that evil terrorist mastermind and Lizard-enemy #1, George Galloway, has been exonerated from another heinous crime, this time embezzling charity money. Read on

LGF: Shortsighted media analysis

Notorious war-blogger Charles Johnson took a pot shot at Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper on Thursday (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=11493_Mirror_Fakes_Photos_Suffers_Consequences). With unconcealed glee he reported that the newspaper, which for long took an anti-War stance over Iraq, lost 40,000 readers in May. No doubt Charles believes this is the fault of its stance on the war.

Unfortunately (for Charles), the loss in circulation is largely down to a sudden drop in bulk sales and freebies (which all papers use to boost their figures) following the takeover of Bhs stores by investor Phillip Green.

Another example, then, of why not to trust those geeks hammering out their political, economic and social analyses from a continent away.

The sword swings both ways

Order and civility have obviously been restored in Afghanistan: Afghan troops behead Taliban men

An Afghan Abu Ghraib?

The Guardian reports that prisoners held by US troops in Afghanistan are subject to routine torture and humiliation similar to that in Abu Ghraib (now 'Camp Redemption').