For Chuckles Johnson, It’s Meltdown Number Two
Charles "Chuckles" Johnson has nailed a disturbed and confused manifesto upon the door of his own little private hell of a Black Hole of the blogosphere. When even tempered blogger James Joyner fisks you into ridiculousness, you know you've, well, jumped the lizard, I suppose.
What intrigues me about this positive response from Culture Kitchen is how quick they are to move past but acknowledge a previous Chuckles meltdown of sorts. Chuckles was never a card-carrying member of the Right, as I tried to tell Markos last night on Twitter. But people are only hearing, or reading what it is they want to read. Chuckles wasn't even much of a neo-con truth be told. He heard little brown people under his bed and became convinced they were climbing over the walls to get at him. In fact, he became worse than many of the very people he now calls names and claims to despise for their, in many cases, imagined hate.
Little Green Footballs went to such a deep end that even a white (albeit nuanced) supremacist Norwegian like the anonymous blogger Fjordman (a darling of the extreme-right blogosphere), had called out Charles Johnson and his blog as examples of Islamophobia and racism in the blogosphere. It also earned the blog it's own "watch blog" (LGF Watch) and even the scorn of Zionist and anti-Jihadist activists.
So is there something new going on at LGF? Are they coming back from that dark ring of hate they used to dwell in?
No, Chuckles has simply replaced one enemy with another. I suppose, as with some, he requires such a thing to survive. Chuckles isn't having an awakening, he's simply living out whatever the hell it is that passes for a reality of sorts in his cyber-induced dream-dementia of a world. Were he ever to truly awaken, he'd probably leave blogging behind. His mind simply isn't strong enough to maintain a single identity as he goes along and posts.
Long live the king, the king is dead, again. One terrorist attack and he'll most likely be back, so infantile is his reasoning. Poor Chuckles Johnson isn't grounded in any one reality at all. It happens out here on the internets, unfortunately for some. Others would do best to simply chuckle with him and move along.
Of course there’s not a single shred of any truth in what he is saying…
RSmcC says Chuckles is _parting_ with the Right.
What’s this _parting_ crap? Chuckles jumped that particular shark a _long_ time ago.
This is his Norah Desmond moment as he tries to build street cred on the left to replace the instalances and the traffic that came with them.
Politico linked to him so maybe MSNBC will pick him up.
Alas how the mighty have fallen.
Details here.
http://datechguy.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/flash-charles-johnson-trolls-for-hits-lobbies-to-be-an-msnbc-regular/
Read some of Chuckles’s recent defenses of the global warming hoaxers and you’ll know that he didn’t just part from the Right, he parted from sanity and reality.
CJ has always been a loony lib. 9/11 shook him up a bit. Than he went back to his real self, a man on the edge of sanity. Looks like he fell off that edge.
After trying to get an account on LGF for years, I really didn’t want to be associated with all the “anti-Creationism” stuff that seemed to fill about a 1/3 of his posts (I’m neutral on that stuff because neither side can make a coherent argument and probably never will .. it all turns into a philosophical argument that is a total waste of my time).
Krykee doodle.
At first, I was much annoyed that this lily lizard attention whore had harvested the bounty from his diaper, smeared it upon the intertube walls – once again – and received his anticipated traffic uptick.
Then, I became amused that Charle’s lil green johnson had distracted the digital hive on such a slow news day.
Now, I just find him pathetic.
Goodbye, Charles.
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CJ was never a right sider and the only thing that made the blog even worth while was the vast commenter community that was far an above better than any of CJ’s own content.
In the last several months he has banned over 5000 of his former users for every excuse he could dream up and rebuilt a new yes men group for his going home to the left.
He lost his seat on the right and chose to go to the left. The likely cause of that is he is hoping to angle his way into some of the pay for post funding left side blogs can hook up with.
If anything the left will only accept him now simply to trot out as needed as being a ‘former rightside’ blogger.
One thing for sure his user base is no where near up to the quality it was in the past.
ahhhhh…. it’s such fun watching the disintegration of the right. Oh, sorry, he wasn’t REALLY a member of the right…. I forgot. Lol.
When your core group is made up of fanatics, racists and teabaggers its rather hard to broaden your appeal. Oh, you guys are certainly committed I’ll give you that. But sadly (from your perspective) you are dwindling in numbers every second that the likes of Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Michelle Bachmann represent your movement.
Viva Revolution
I am not sure why bandwidth is wasted on calling out a goofy blogger. LGF was never very interesting, and the Riehlworldview is better being devoted to discussing real issues, like the cognitive dissonance in Obama’s world view, the documented dishonesty of the global warming freaks, or the rank stupidity of Joe Biden. There are lots of subjects that make interesting reading other than just other bloggers.
“In the last several months he has banned over 5000 of his former users”
I didn’t realize it was that many. Ace is getting a number of them hanging around now.
“…it’s such fun watching the disintegration of the right.”
Do you ever read the news, dumbo? The latest generic polls, which came out last week, now have Republicans preferred over Democrats by a 48-44 margin. I’ll take that kind of “disintegration” anytime! You are a partisan hack, sir, and apparently believe your own lies. You’re a parody of yourself! Lol!
templar knight…. you must be referring to Rasmussen… to go-to pollster for teabaggers.
Check out this page which has a tons of polls of who is trusted more on various issues – the Dems or the Republicans.
http://www.pollingreport.com/institut2.htm
here is a snippet:
ABC News/Washington Post Poll. Nov. 12-15, 2009. N=1,001 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3.5. LV = likely voters.
“Overall, which party — the Democrats or the Republicans — do you trust to do a better job in coping with the main problems the nation faces over the next few years?” Options rotated
Dems = 47%
GOP = 31%
Which political party — the Democrats or the Republicans — do you think better represents your own personal values?” Options rotated
Dems = 49%
GOP = 39%
“Which political party — the Democrats or the Republicans — do you think is more concerned with the needs of people like you?” Options rotated
Dems = 51%
GOP = 36%
AND that is with a horrible economy with high unemployment and an unpopular war raging. So DUMBO….. do YOU ever read the news?
CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll. Nov. 13-15, 2009. N=928 registered voters nationwide. MoE ± 3.
“If the elections for Congress were being held today, which party’s candidate would you vote for in your congressional district?” If unsure: “As of today, who do you lean more toward?”
Dems = 49%
GOP = 43%
I could go on and on but you know, I’m not a big believer in polls this far out. A year is a lifetime in politics… but what I do know is that the GOP is destroying itself. They lost a seat in upstate NY as a result. They will impose their purity test that guys like you will love but will result in extreme right wing nuts as candidates. There aren’t aren’t enough of you to get them elected outside of the deep south. You don’t’ have any congressmen up in New England and you’ll probably go after Snowe and Collins. Smart move guys…… I for one love your Stalinist purges.
I could go on and on but you know, I’m not a big believer in polls this far out. A year is a lifetime in politics… but what I do know is that the GOP is destroying itself
Yeah they really kicked their own asses in the NJ and VA governors races. I mean they got their butts handed to them. And in NY-23 the Republican and Conservative got 51 percent of the vote. Clearly there is an overwhelming trend towards democrats.
Honestly, in what reality do you live? I don’t know one person, on the left or right, democrat of republican, who thinks the democrats are going to stand a chance in 2010.
Also you act as thought the Democrats are a unified party. IF they are so unified how come they can’t pass any of the Presidents initiatives?
Oh… and that Gallup tracking poll that got so much attention when Obama dropped below 50% in approval? Well, he is back up to 51% approval with 41% disapproval – a 10 point gap. Thats better than where he was in August. That must really irritate you Obama haters.
http://www.pollingreport.com/obama_job.htm#Gallup
Ooh, I’m a teabagger! Open wide, Proud Liberal — and this time, try to keep your teeth out of the way. The scratches on my scrotum are still healing.
David Frum wants Charles to come back
http://www.frumforum.com/come-back-charles-johnson
Well Neo, there’s good philosophy and bad (quality and integrity) philosophy. But there’s also a lot of science and historical evidence. But it is a vast field where even an expert can only sample some aspects of the general arguement.
I think I could manage a coherent arguement for Creationism, but it would probably take several thousand words at least. But “Kalam Cosmological Arguement” for philosophy and “Genetic Entropy” for science might be good places to start with a google search.
While CJ made a long list of folks on the Right that he wants to distance himself from, I haven’t seen a list of folks on the Left that he now intends to team up with .. some suggestions: Cindy Seehan and the “Code Pink” lasses, John Conyers, Michael Moore, Nancy Pelosi, Jesse Jackson, Jimmy Carter, John Kerry, John Edwards, Al Sharpton, Henry Waxman, Alan Grayson, Van Jones, the folks at ACORN, SEIU, and other assorted labor unions.
Hey … feel the love.
Yeah, keep using those polls that are weighted with Democraps, PL. The only one more surprised by you when the polls close in November 2010 will be…well…you. Your boy has taken a huge drop, and he will take a further one when he sends more troops to Afghaistan. Really, it’s quite an honor watching the Democraps implode!
You have to wonder how the Obama Party is going to survive, given that its leaders are now shrieking that the term “Black Friday” is racist.
http://newsrealblog.com/2009/12/01/who-are-you-calling-dumb-palin-basher-joy-behar-thinks-%E2%80%9Cblack-friday%E2%80%9D-is-a-racist-term/
Don’t forget that the Obama Party and Barack Obama are now describing going to West Point as, “he went to the enemy camp, tonight, to make the case.”
http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OWNhM2EzNDczZDQyMDUzNjAwZDM0MTNiMDg0MjBkMDM=
This is what Proud Liberal believes. This is what Proud Liberal supports. This is what the Obama Party has at the core of its existence — the belief that the United States military is “the enemy”.
No victory just a responsible close, whatever that means.
Liberals are funny, NDT, and stupid. But that is what they believe. I called my son, who is stationed in the DC area, and told him to follow your link. He was not impressed, and he said he and his fellow soldiers are well aware of who the enemy is. And not all the enemies are in the ME, he said, but many right here in the US who claim to be liberals, but who are in reality totalitarians.
TK hits it right on the nail-head. It is really less an argument over left vs. right than it is a struggle for liberty vs. totalitarianism.
Although about 9 times out of ten, it will be the socialist left that are the folks gunning for your individual rights to be replaced with “collective rights” that will fatten the coffers of the (leftist) party elites and their most ardent supporters, whilst the proletariat “hoi polloi” are left scrambling for the collective’s crumbs.
And as someone who knows a thing or two about West Point, there are people all over the political divide there… though most are on the side of common sense, and the victory that will bring our boys and girls home.
Eh. I can’t help but notice that Charles Johnson changed his tune at jst about the same time as several loud, opinionated, and out-of-tune female voices began singing in his choir. Read a few comment threads and you’ll know which ones I mean.
CJ didn’t have some kind of epiphany that made him change his opinions. He’s just letting a different head do his thinking for him.
I’m not racist. I’m not an avid fan of pundits of either factional persuasion. I accept evolutionary theory. I applaud women in the workplace. Anyways thanks for this post..