The Truth about Charles Johnson

It's likely that at some point in the next 24 hours Charles Johnson will use his weblog littlegreenfootballs.com to condemn those who report that 4,000 US soldiers have now died in Iraq.

Why does Charles use human death as an opportunity to blast people whose job it is to report facts? Does he not believe in the First Amendment?

Why does Charles not seem to care about the losses America is taking? Does the life of a US soldier mean nothing to him?

Why does Charles belittle the genuine grief that strikes many Americans on hearing the news that another grim milestone has been reached? Doesn't he care for honest emotions and real patriotism?

There's really only one conclusion to be drawn from Charles Johnson's behaviour: He hates America.

Number crunching

Number of people killed in Virginia Tech massacre: 33

Number of people killed in one Baghdad bomb blast: 120

Number of people killed in 9/11 terrorist attacks: about 3,000

Number of people killed annually with guns in the United States: about 30,000

Slavvering Saurian Swarm

You all know the story of Pavlov's dogs, right? The Russian scientist Ivan Pavlov conditioned his laboratory dogs to develop a reflex whereby they started salivating in anticipation of food even when there was none forthcoming.

In a sense Charles has managed to train his lizard minions to do the same: in the full knowledge that Charles only posts about tragic incidents if they involve Muslims as the evil-doers, the response of the LGF comment crew was as fast as it was predictable when CJ wrote about the Virginia Tech shooting yesterday.

#4 obageegee 4/16/2007 9:57:12 am PDT

I know what everyone is thinking........

#13 savage_nation 4/16/2007 9:58:39 am PDT

#4 obageegee

Muslim?

#33 Austin Conservative 4/16/2007 10:03:23 am PDT

[After media reports that gunman was of Asian origin]

Yeah, what do Brits call muslims when they don't want to say muslim?

Betcha it is a muslim and the press does much to downplay it as a disgruntled student not happy with his nappy headed ho teacher.

#35 blue_like_jazz 4/16/2007 10:03:26 am PDT

turned on fox news to watch...

14 year old son watches story for 30 seconds and says:

"WAS IT A MUSLIM?"

#45 DIAMONDMASC 4/16/2007 10:05:29 am PDT

Hi Ho muhhamed, the lone jihadi rides again!

#66 somaking 4/16/2007 10:11:05 am PDT

Horrible tragedy. Another school mass murder.

Who wants to bet $100 its SJS, and the major media will hide that fact?

#83 pegcity 4/16/2007 10:15:34 am PDT

Is America Britain now, are Muslims now south east [sic] Asians, what the hell is going on.

#84 JamesTKirk 4/16/2007 10:15:51 am PDT

...

It was an honor [mass] killing?

#101 Shug 4/16/2007 10:21:33 am PDT

Why in Hell don't they release the identity of the shooter?

He's dead. Look in his wallet.

I can promise you that if this was a white guy with a buzz cut his face would be plastered all over every TV set.
But since he's reportedly Asian...........

/do I have to?

#114 TS 4/16/2007 10:24:50 am PDT

They just had cell phone footage on a VA local station that had a Muslim name on it, his cell phone I guess, where you can hear the shots firing off. The guy was outside the building. Anyway, strange it was from a Muslim and he had his name posted with the video.

#135 carl p 4/16/2007 10:30:02 am PDT

I know I'm not supposed to jump to conlcusions but aren't people from Indonesia and the Phillipines considered 'Asian'?

/PC hat off

etc...

It's telling that the lizard overlord himself, now finding no obvious Islamic link to the shooting (though perhaps he could have mentioned that at least one of the victims is Muslim...) falls back on some pretty flakey speculation...

Anti-US or just the facts?

Last month Charles Johnson berated news media for reporting that US troops had shot and killed Afghan civilians. Now a Pentagon investigation has substantiated those reports. Will Charles eat crow?

LGF News Values

When Charles Johnson shouts 'Breaking' you can be pretty damn sure that whichever MSM news item has caught his attention is not going to be a case of terrorism but a hoax (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=24239) or a crude nationalist prank (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=24407).

However, when there is a real incident of 'breaking' news (such as a gunman walking into a crowded mall and shooting dead half a dozen people) but it doesn't involve Muslims or terrorism, then you can bet your bottom dollar Charles isn't going to be 'breaking' it.

UPDATE: Charles has now got round to posting about the Utah shooting. Why? Because there's a possibility there could be a Muslim angle to the story (the shooter was from Bosnia, a Muslim-majority ex-Yugoslav republic). How much more transparent is Charles going to get in his racism? Note that he has yet to post on the incident that happened on the same day in Philadelphia, in which four people died...

Think! Progress!

While LGFers snipe at the anti-War rally in Washington from the safety of their California bedrooms, at least one person on the other side of the country has got the right idea about how to start taking this mess forward.

(hat tip HP)

One 'big fish' or lots of little fish?

Charles is dancing on graves again this evening, thanks to reports that a 'senior Al Qaida' figure was killed in a US bombing of a camp in Somalia.

What Charles omits to mention is that the attack was completely indiscriminate, and apparently cost dozens of people their lives, include a four-year old boy. Whether or not the boy was an Al-Qaida 'big fish' or just small fry we shall never know. But Charles has the certainty of the blissfully ignorant on his side....

UPDATE:

Well, it seems those 'big fish' weren't there and a hell of a lot of little unrelated fish were bombed to smithereens.

US strikes on al-Qa'ida chiefs kill nomads

The herdsmen had gathered with their animals around large fires at night to ward off mosquitoes. But lit up by the flames, they became latest victims of America's war on terror.

It was their tragedy to be misidentified in a secret operation by special forces attempting to kill three top al-Qa'ida leaders in southern Somalia.

Oxfam yesterday confirmed at least 70 nomads in the Afmadow district near the border with Kenya had been killed. The nomads were bombed at night and during the day while searching for water sources.

MORE LGF HYSTERIA

Charles Johnson (LGF) is beating the war drum again:

What will it take for the United States to acknowledge that Iran is openly at war with us, and has been for decades?

What will it take for Charles to acknowledge that U.S. relations with Iran are much more complicated than he realizes? Perhaps he has forgotten the long-standing hostility between Iran and the Taliban ¹ and the help given to the U.S. by Iran during the Afghanistan war².

NOTE:SOURCES ALL COME FROM LEXIS-NEXIS SEARCHES

¹
Deutsche Presse-Agentur, September 30, 2001, Sunday, BC Cycle
10:14 Central European Time
The Iranian stance and that of the daily is very clear and Teheran has right from the beginning (1996) not acknowledged the Taliban group due to its orthodox interpretation of Islam and due to the massacre of Iranian diplomats, the daily said.

Iran was on the verge of a war with the Taliban after the groups agents massacred in 1998 eleven Iranian diplomats and one reporter of the state-run news agency IRNA in the northern Afghan town of Mazare Sharif.

Iran supports ousted President Burhaneddin Rabbani who is close to the main Taliban-opposition known as the Northern Alliance which controls over ten per cent of Afghanistan.

The Independent (London)
October 5, 1996, Saturday

An Iranian cleric has accused Afghanistan's radical Islamic Taliban movement of giving Islam a bad name. "They stop girls from attending school, stop women from working . . . in the name of Islam," Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati told worshippers in Tehran. Shia Iran supported the ousted government of Burhanuddin Rabbani and is hostile to Sunni Taliban.


The Record (Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario)
September 12, 1998 Saturday Final Edition

Taliban troops were reported to be 16 kilometres from the town of Bamiyan, where some 300,000 Hazaras from neighbouring villages have taken shelter to escape being massacred. The Taliban massacred thousands of Hazaras when they captured Mazar-e-Sharif.

The Hazaras, a Mongol people, are Shia Muslims and intensely disliked by the Taliban -- who are Sunni Muslims and drawn from another ethnic group, the Pashtuns. Iranian planes have been flying supplies to the besieged Hazaras, who have been backed by Iran for four years in their resistance to the Taliban.



²

The Boston Globe
December 31, 2001, Monday ,THIRD EDITION

Then came Sept. 11. And, within days, President Bush made one of the most important decisions of the war on terrorism, throwing his lot with the ragtag Northern Alliance and pressuring Pakistan to desert its Taliban clients.

To help arm the alliance, the Bush administration made a previously unthinkable deal, intelligence sources said: It agreed to finance a Russian transfer of arms to the alliance fighters. At about the same time, the United States started getting valuable intelligence from a longtime adversary, Iran.

The United States was desperately short of on-the-ground intelligence in Afghanistan. So, in addition to Pakistan, the United States turned to an unlikely partner, Iran. For many years, Iran had been an archenemy of the United States, having taken American embassy workers hostage two decades ago and encouraged anti-American sentiment. But the relationship had improved slightly in recent years, and Iran had long supported the Northern Alliance.

"This was clearly a case where Iranians had an interest in Afghanistan," said Vincent Cannistraro, the CIA's former counterterrorism chief. "They hated the Taliban. We got information from the Iranians. They did it very quietly."

Global News Wire - Asia Africa Intelligence Wire
Copyright 2002 BBC Monitoring/BBC
BBC Monitoring International Reports January 28, 2002
Text of article by Mehdi Razavi published by Iranian newspaper Azad on 13 January

Over the past two decades, the Islamic Republic of Iran not only paid the heavy expenses imposed by the presence of defenceless Afghan immigrants, but also dedicated more than 3,000 martyrs in the course of fighting narcotic drugs. Moreover, Iran was in apparent and deep conflict with the Taleban from the very outset. Indeed, more than any other country, it was exposed to the reactionary enmity of the Taleban group. Perhaps, in a way, the Islamic Republic of Iran was the real enemy of the Taleban.

Following the 11 September attack, America actually carried out a parallel operation with the Islamic Republic of Iran against the Taleban.