Right Wing Blogger Chuck C. Johnson Is Now a Real Live Stalker

Creepy and disturbing behavior
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Today at Talking Points Memo, Tom Kludt has a report on our pal Chuck C. Johnson, who has now crossed a major line into outright stalking behavior. The target: yours truly.

After a pitstop for an Italian dinner on Tuesday night, right-wing agitator Charles C. Johnson showed up at what he thought was the residence of his biggest online adversary — a man who just so happens to share his name — and snapped photos of himself standing outside the complex’s gate holding conspiracy theory bumper stickers.

Johnson said he retrieved the address to the Pacific Palisades apartment online.

“At the world headquarters of Little Green Footballs…” Johnson tweeted, appending a hashtag to signify his latest obsession.

Here’s his tweet:

But in Chuck’s usual incompetent way, he went to the wrong place to stalk me.

Little Green Footballs, of course, is the online home of blogger Charles Johnson. But the apartment shown in the tweet hasn’t been his actual home for more than 10 years.

“Actually, when I first saw it I didn’t recognize the place because I haven’t lived there for so long,” Johnson of Little Green Footballs told TPM on Wednesday. “I thought he was just making a joke at first and I looked at it again and realized that’s the place I used to live.”

Here’s how he attempts to justify this threatening behavior; note that it’s extremely common for a stalker to accuse the target of being “the real stalker.”

“The lesser Charles Johnson encouraged his followers to stalk me for daring to report the name of the Ebola nurse, Nina Pham, 12 hours before the rest of the media,” the founder of the fledgling GotNews said in the email. “He’s kind of crazy and I’ve talked to law enforcement about what can be done about his sending stalkers my way. Showing up at his apartment complex door was intended as something of a joke. I knew he would go nuts on Twitter all night, which he promptly did.”

The lies in this statement are numerous:

  1. I never encouraged anyone to "stalk" Chuck. Not once. It didn't happen.
  2. I never "sent stalkers his way," and I seriously doubt he ever "talked to law enforcement." Filing a false police report is a crime.
  3. This was definitely not a joke. It was very obviously intended to scare me, to stop me from criticizing him.
  4. I didn't "go nuts on Twitter all night," although Chuck himself has done this more than once.

Here’s what I told Tom Kludt about this:

The Little Green Footballs founder didn’t find it funny, calling it a “total violation of privacy.”

“For somebody who calls himself a journalist to do something like this, it’s way, way over the line,” he told TPM. “If I had kids, I’d be even more upset. This is basically threatening. The guy has posted pictures of himself holding guns online. It’s a very threatening, stalker-ish thing to do. What can I say? I’m just very upset about it.”

Since this article was published, Chuck is now openly bragging on Twitter about stalking me, saying it was “a joke,” and at the same time repeating his false claims that he’s the real victim.

All I have to add to what I told Talking Points Memo is that if Chuck thought he was going to scare me into shutting up about him, he made a serious miscalculation.

(Note: the tweets above are shown in text form because Johnson’s Twitter account has been suspended and they’re no longer available on Twitter.)

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221 comments
1 Charles Johnson  Oct 30, 2014 9:24:09am

Please retweet it, folks:

2 Kragar  Oct 30, 2014 9:26:14am
3 Bubblehead II  Oct 30, 2014 9:27:46am
4 bill d  Oct 30, 2014 9:28:26am

I wonder if the apartment managers/owners are curious as to who vandalized their property?

5 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 30, 2014 9:30:18am

re: #2 Kragar

I didn’t want to drive to Culver City in rush hour.

Award-winning journalists do not drive in rush-hour traffic.

6 bill d  Oct 30, 2014 9:31:27am
7 Justanotherhuman  Oct 30, 2014 9:32:13am

I think more than one person would have an interest in locking this lunatic up.

He is making mistake after mistake. Somewhere down the line, someone won’t think it’s the joke Chuckles makes it out to be in his fevered brain.

8 Vicious Piebola  Oct 30, 2014 9:32:16am

Feel the love of Jesus, you blood-covered, baby-slaughtering sluts!

9 Targetpractice  Oct 30, 2014 9:32:45am

So the guy who claims he was so put off by “stalkers” that he filed a police report purposefully made a trip down to Charles’ old address and took a picture to “make a point”? What was the point, Chucky? That stalking is okay when you do it?

10 Franklin  Oct 30, 2014 9:33:08am

RIP Mayor Menino

11 lawhawk  Oct 30, 2014 9:35:49am
12 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 30, 2014 9:36:06am

re: #9 Targetpractice

So the guy who claims he was so put off by “stalkers” that he filed a police report purposefully made a trip down to Charles’ old address and took a picture to “make a point”? What was the point, Chucky? That stalking is okay when you do it?

Everything he does is OK, AND JOURNALISM AS WELL!
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Ethics only applies if your talking about reviewing computer games.
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13 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 30, 2014 9:36:56am

re: #11 Vogon Poetry

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Standard criminal vs incompetent decision tree — and he chose criminal!
(that’s a new one)

14 Justanotherhuman  Oct 30, 2014 9:39:10am

Fire official: Flight safety building at Wichita, Kan., airport ‘is unstable’; fire department will continue to address hot-spot fires - @AmyReneeLeiker
see original on twitter.com

15 ObserverArt  Oct 30, 2014 9:39:12am

re: #8 Vicious Piebola

Feel the love of Jesus, you blood-covered, baby-slaughtering sluts!

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I see Matt calls himself a Christ follower.

Uh Matt, your map is way wrong. You need a better GPS. You is on the wrong road.

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16 Targetpractice  Oct 30, 2014 9:39:41am

re: #11 Vogon Poetry

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So he’s not a stalker, he’s a vandal. Totally different!

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17 Justanotherhuman  Oct 30, 2014 9:40:22am

re: #16 Targetpractice

So he’s not a stalker, he’s a vandal. Totally different!

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He’s both.

Pile it on. : )

18 Justanotherhuman  Oct 30, 2014 9:40:56am

Keep calm and carry on, Lizards!

Later. : )

19 jaunte  Oct 30, 2014 9:40:58am

20 bill d  Oct 30, 2014 9:41:30am

re: #16 Targetpractice

So he’s not a stalker, he’s a vandal. Totally different!

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But is he an award winning vandal?

21 ObserverArt  Oct 30, 2014 9:41:47am

I put up a previous Chuck image in the last thread. Time to place another since Chucky seems to be bobbling things up pretty good.

Bobblehead Chuck C Johnson - World’s Bestest New Journalist

22 Franklin  Oct 30, 2014 9:43:37am

re: #10 Franklin

More on former Mayor Menino:

Stung as a boy by disparaging treatment from teachers dismissive of his Italian-American heritage, Mr. Menino stressed in his first mayoral campaign that he would “not tolerate racism. I will never tolerate people being discriminated against.” He opposed bias of any kind, and few gestures were as potent as his decision early on to march in the city’s gay pride parade, while shunning South Boston’s traditional St. Patrick’s Day parade because it banned groups advocating for lesbian and gay rights. Years later, when the state began permitting same-sex marriages on May 17, 2004, Mr. Menino was waiting at City Hall to greet Julie and Hillary Goodridge, who were first in line. As lead plaintiffs, they had lent their name to the state Supreme Judicial Court case that legalized gay marriage six months earlier.

23 KingKenrod  Oct 30, 2014 9:43:38am

Chuck has openly supported convicted serial stalker Francis Shivers, and there are strong parallels between their behavior - laughing off and minimizing creepy behavior, leaving “calling cards”, reverse accusations of stalking, fabricating evidence, and legal threats.

No question this is classic stalking behavior and no laughing matter.

24 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 30, 2014 9:45:06am

A sick, desperate man-child.

25 HappyWarrior  Oct 30, 2014 9:46:21am

re: #22 Franklin

More on former Mayor Menino:

This is what a leader should do. RIP Mayor Menino. You were one of the good guys.

26 Charles Johnson  Oct 30, 2014 9:49:04am
27 HappyWarrior  Oct 30, 2014 9:49:37am

This guy’s a real childish prick huh.

28 Kragar  Oct 30, 2014 9:50:21am

re: #26 Charles Johnson

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29 Bubblehead II  Oct 30, 2014 9:53:14am

re: #26 Charles Johnson

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30 Amory Blaine  Oct 30, 2014 9:54:24am

He posted that stupid sticker directly over a caution sign. Total disregard.

31 RealityBasedEbola  Oct 30, 2014 9:55:28am

My dear departed Mother, who was a teacher for many years, and later got her doctorate and became a clinical psych working with developmentally disabled and disturbed children has a phrase for people like Chuckie.

I believe that the term she used was “He’s just wacked in the head.”

Not sure it’s listed in the DSM, but it’s accurate.

RBS

32 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 30, 2014 9:55:53am

That’s the problem with the US gun laws right there:

Sociopathic stalkers should not be able to own guns.

33 Teukka  Oct 30, 2014 9:56:39am

re: #31 RealityBasedEbola

My dear departed Mother, who was a teacher for many years, and later got her doctorate and became a clinical psych working with developmentally disabled and disturbed children has a phrase for people like Chuckie.

I believe that the term she used was “He’s just wacked in the head.”

Not sure it’s listed in the DSM, but it’s accurate.

RBS

Isn’t that what these says is called Acquired Derpes (like Herpes, only with Derp)? *badumdsshh*

34 Charles Johnson  Oct 30, 2014 10:01:00am

Writers for the Free Beacon and Daily Caller weighing in on Twitter. They think what Chuck did is hilarious.

35 Franklin  Oct 30, 2014 10:02:39am

Did someone say Free Bacon?

36 Kragar  Oct 30, 2014 10:02:41am
37 Charles Johnson  Oct 30, 2014 10:02:44am
38 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 30, 2014 10:03:53am

re: #35 Franklin

Did someone say Free Bacon?

Free Mumia!

39 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 30, 2014 10:03:57am

re: #22 Franklin

More on former Mayor Menino:

40 HappyWarrior  Oct 30, 2014 10:04:07am

re: #34 Charles Johnson

Writers for the Free Beacon and Daily Caller weighing in on Twitter. They think what Chuck did is hilarious.

Childish dicks gotta stick together.

41 iossarian  Oct 30, 2014 10:04:58am

re: #40 HappyWarrior

Childish dicks gotta stick together.

Unpleasant mental image. Thanks for that!

42 nines09  Oct 30, 2014 10:05:49am

Christmas, he’s a bag of broken nuts.

43 lawhawk  Oct 30, 2014 10:06:23am

Meanwhile, read through Steve Silberman’s responses to getting in the middle of it. He thinks both should walk away (despite finding that what Chuck did was creepy).

No, what Chuck did was criminal - vandalism is but one part. He engaged in stalking behavior, and he has no substantiation of any of the other claims against Charles.

What we do have is a mountain of evidence showing that Charles keeps pointing out all the BS Chuck tweets and posts - lies, smears, and bogus claims about pretty much every hot button topic (all while injecting himself into issues on which he has zero knowledge). And for doing so, Chuck calls him a stalker.

Chuck keeps using that word. It doesn’t mean what he thinks it means.

However, there’s another word that should be used in describing Chuck.

Sociopath. If the definition fits, you must use it. And it does. He doesn’t see what he’s doing is wrong. He’s amoral. He’s ahistorical. And he clearly doesn’t seem to have any problems engaging in criminal activities.

44 Skip Intro  Oct 30, 2014 10:08:11am

All I have to say is Chuckles needs to stay away from the pasta if he doesn’t want to get to Michael Moore territory.

45 ObserverArt  Oct 30, 2014 10:08:14am

re: #33 Teukka

Isn’t that what these says is called Acquired Derpes (like Herpes, only with Derp)? *badumdsshh*

My fav “badumdsshh” riff ever.

Youtube Video

46 lawhawk  Oct 30, 2014 10:08:27am

re: #42 nines09

A bag of wingnuts may be far more appropriate.

47 Vicious Piebola  Oct 30, 2014 10:09:40am

I’m a “Hitler-Lover” according to this gun fucker:

48 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 30, 2014 10:10:20am

re: #44 Skip Intro

I’m not going there, but his face in that photo does look like it’s been bitten by a few BEES.

49 Kragar  Oct 30, 2014 10:10:44am

re: #47 Vicious Piebola

I’m a “Hitler-Lover” according to this gun fucker:

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50 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 30, 2014 10:10:56am

re: #47 Vicious Piebola

I’m a “Hitler-Lover” according to this gun fucker:

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You’re probably David Duke himself.

51 Franklin  Oct 30, 2014 10:11:08am

re: #39 Backwoods_Sleuth

Thanks for posting that. Just finished reading the Globe article above. So many things I’d forgotten about him and a lot of new bits and pieces. He wasn’t perfect, but who is.

52 ObserverArt  Oct 30, 2014 10:11:41am

re: #47 Vicious Piebola

I’m a “Hitler-Lover” according to this gun fucker:

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Damn, you are great at attracting the totally clueless.

53 Vicious Piebola  Oct 30, 2014 10:12:04am

I should block this guy but I’m having too much fun

54 Charles Johnson  Oct 30, 2014 10:12:28am

re: #43 Vogon Poetry

That’s a common reaction from people who see this kind of thing going on. But there’s no way I’m going to start ignoring Chuck now, not after this.

55 Timothy Watson  Oct 30, 2014 10:13:16am

re: #49 Kragar

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Wait, were their weapons used to murder or the registration? These idiots are aware that IBM designed a computer system using census data for the Nazis to locate anyone with any Jewish blood, right?

56 Vicious Piebola  Oct 30, 2014 10:13:22am

Usually when I clobber a wingnut with facts they call me a Communist

57 Charles Johnson  Oct 30, 2014 10:13:32am

Some of the worst assholes on Twitter are the ones with “CONSTITUTIONAL CONSERVATIVE” in their bios. When I see that I instantly hit the block and mute buttons.

58 ObserverArt  Oct 30, 2014 10:14:45am

re: #54 Charles Johnson

That’s a common reaction from people who see this kind of thing going on. But there’s no way I’m going to start ignoring Chuck now, not after this.

Uh oh…I think Charles just threw down the gauntlet!

59 Vicious Piebola  Oct 30, 2014 10:15:12am

re: #57 Charles Johnson

Some of the worst assholes on Twitter are the ones with “CONSTITUTIONAL CONSERVATIVE” in their bios. When I see that I instantly hit the block and mute buttons.

Also: “Christian” and “MOLON LABE”

60 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Oct 30, 2014 10:16:20am

re: #59 Vicious Piebola

Also: “Christian” and “MOLON LABE”

Don’t forget the Gadsden Flag.

61 Ian G.  Oct 30, 2014 10:16:50am

Am I the only one who looks at Chuck C. Johnson’s face and think “this guy just really deserves a left hook to the kisser”?

I feel the same way about Ben Shapiro. The two just look like they deserve to get decked.

62 Vicious Piebola  Oct 30, 2014 10:16:53am

re: #60 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi

Don’t forget the Gadsden Flag.

And the eagles, guns & colonial dudes

63 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 30, 2014 10:17:40am

re: #56 Vicious Piebola

Usually when I clobber a wingnut with facts they call me a Communist

Youtube Video

64 ObserverArt  Oct 30, 2014 10:17:48am

re: #55 Timothy Watson

Wait, were their weapons used to murder or the registration? These idiots are aware that IBM designed a computer system using census data for the Nazis to locate anyone with any Jewish blood, right?

Whoa now. I don’t think I have ever heard that one. Going to have to check into that. Got any links?

And no, I am not denying it…as I know there was backdoor dealing going on before America was fully into the war. That is all a part of war history that gets covered up to protect the guilty.

65 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 30, 2014 10:18:06am
66 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 30, 2014 10:18:34am

re: #62 Vicious Piebola

And the eagles, guns & colonial dudes

And Reagan.

67 Timothy Watson  Oct 30, 2014 10:19:09am

re: #64 ObserverArt

Whoa now. I don’t think I have ever heard that one. Going to have to check into that. Got any links?

And no, I am not denying it…as I know there was backdoor dealing going on before America was fully into the war. That is all a part of war history that gets covered up to protect the guilty.

Here you go:

This book will be profoundly uncomfortable to read. It was profoundly uncomfortable to write. It tells the story of IBM’s conscious involvement—directly and through its subsidiaries—in the Holocaust, as well as its involvement in the Nazi war machine that murdered millions of others throughout Europe.

Mankind barely noticed when the concept of massively organized information quietly emerged to become a means of social control, a weapon of war, and a roadmap for group destruction. The unique igniting event was the most fateful day of the last century, January 30, 1933, the day Adolf Hitler came to power. Hitler and his hatred of the Jews was the ironic driving force behind this intellectual turning point. But his quest was greatly enhanced and energized by the ingenuity and craving for profit of a single American company and its legendary, autocratic chairman. That company was International Business Machines, and its chairman was Thomas J. Watson.

Der Führer’s obsession with Jewish destruction was hardly original. There had been czars and tyrants before him. But for the first time in history, an anti-Semite had automation on his side. Hitler didn’t do it alone. He had help.

nytimes.com
en.wikipedia.org

68 ObserverArt  Oct 30, 2014 10:20:33am

re: #61 Ian G.

Am I the only one who looks at Chuck C. Johnson’s face and think “this guy just really deserves a left hook to the kisser”?

I feel the same way about Ben Shapiro. The two just look like they deserve to get decked.

I’m a non-violent type. And cry babies like those two would somehow manage to weasel out of the truth and pin the blame on the puncher and get sympathy for it. Punk-ass brats are like that.

I prefer a war of wits and possibly some photoshops!

69 Skip Intro  Oct 30, 2014 10:21:04am

re: #65 Backwoods_Sleuth

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You can thank the Bush brothers for that.

70 Ian G.  Oct 30, 2014 10:22:03am

re: #68 ObserverArt

I’m a non-violent type. And cry babies like those two would somehow manage to weasel out of the truth and pin the blame on the puncher and get sympathy for it. Punk-ass brats are like that.

I prefer a war of wits and possibly some photoshops!

I’m not saying I would punch either of them, I’m just saying the combination of the brat-face both have going with their odious far-right idiocy would make my rational side have to control my caveman instincts if I were ever face to face with either.

71 Kragar  Oct 30, 2014 10:22:29am
72 Vicious Piebola  Oct 30, 2014 10:22:42am

Chuck C Johnson, like a real life Eric Cartman, but much stupider.

73 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 30, 2014 10:23:55am
74 Vicious Piebola  Oct 30, 2014 10:24:01am

re: #71 Kragar

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75 Kragar  Oct 30, 2014 10:24:22am

re: #70 Ian G.

I’m not saying I would punch either of them, I’m just saying the combination of the brat-face both have going with their odious far-right idiocy would make my rational side have to control my caveman instincts if I were ever face to face with either.

I wouldn’t hit him, but I wouldn’t be surprised if my fists balled up on their own if he happened to be around

76 Franklin  Oct 30, 2014 10:24:28am

Sorry for Menino spamming you all :)

Thought this would be interesting to you all:

Other cities and towns in Massachusetts began issuing applications during normal business hours. Boston Mayor Thomas Menino greeted three of the couples who were plaintiffs in Goodridge and said: “We’ve broken down the barrier. I am so proud of these people. I am very proud to be mayor of this city today.” The first to marry in Boston City Hall were Tom Weikle and Joe Rogers, who lined up for their license application at 5:30 a.m. and were wed about 11 a.m. by Boston’s city clerk.

Rejecting the governor’s insistence that the 1913 statute be respected, Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone addressed a crowd of same-sex couples that included several from New York gathered in front of Town Hall at 8 am.: “No matter who you are or where you come from, if you fill out the application, you will be given a license to marry. Those of you from out of state, welcome to Somerville.”

Anyone care to guess who the governor bolded above was?

77 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 30, 2014 10:24:46am

re: #72 Vicious Piebola

Chuck C Johnson, like a real life Eric Cartman, but much stupider.

He’s more of an evil Butters.

78 ObserverArt  Oct 30, 2014 10:25:21am

re: #65 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Fuckers. I guess the great upstanding GOP likes to go low, real low when they are in a tight pinch. Shows their real character and that such ads work with their base.

By the way, in this usage, is base not a great word? Maybe base base.

Free Dictionary definition #2

base 2 (bs)
adj. bas*er, bas*est
1.
a. Having or showing a contemptible, mean-spirited, or selfish lack of human decency. See Synonyms at mean2.
b. Devoid of high values or ethics: a base, degrading way of life.
c. Inferior in value or quality.

79 Vicious Piebola  Oct 30, 2014 10:25:53am

re: #77 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

He’s more of an evil Butters.

Professor Chaos

80 ObserverArt  Oct 30, 2014 10:26:09am

re: #70 Ian G.

I’m not saying I would punch either of them, I’m just saying the combination of the brat-face both have going with their odious far-right idiocy would make my rational side have to control my caveman instincts if I were ever face to face with either.

Believe me, I understand the desire.

81 SteelPH  Oct 30, 2014 10:28:06am

re: #79 Vicious Piebola

Professor Chaos

I loved his plan to flood the world…. by leaving a garden hose running.

82 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Oct 30, 2014 10:28:49am

re: #61 Ian G.

Am I the only one who looks at Chuck C. Johnson’s face and think “this guy just really deserves a left hook to the kisser”?

I feel the same way about Ben Shapiro. The two just look like they deserve to get decked.

The Germans have a word for that; Backpfeifengesicht, a face that’s just begging to be punched. There’s a lot of that about on the Right. My favorite example might be Greg Gutfeld:
Backpfeifengesicht

83 Vicious Piebola  Oct 30, 2014 10:31:25am

re: #82 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi

The Germans have a word for that; Backpfeifengesicht, a face that’s just begging to be punched. There’s a lot of that about on the Right. My favorite example might be Greg Gutfeld:
Backpfeifengesicht

Backpfeifengesicht=literally, “Fart Face”

84 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 30, 2014 10:31:42am

re: #82 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi

The Germans have a word for that; Backpfeifengesicht, a face that’s just begging to be punched. There’s a lot of that about on the Right. My favorite example might be Greg Gutfeld:
Backpfeifengesicht

Or just Arschgesicht (ass-face).

Youtube Video

85 Vicious Piebola  Oct 30, 2014 10:31:55am

Ich liebe die Deutsche Sprache!

86 Kragar  Oct 30, 2014 10:33:13am

re: #85 Vicious Piebola

Ich liebe die Deutsche Sprache!

SEE! YOU DO LOVE HITLER!
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87 ObserverArt  Oct 30, 2014 10:34:04am

Later all…don’t beat li’l chuck up too much. Save some for later.

88 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 30, 2014 10:34:29am

re: #83 Vicious Piebola

Backpfeifengesicht=literally, “Fart Face”

Nee, Backpfeife = slap on a cheek.

89 Jenner7  Oct 30, 2014 10:35:24am

OT:

90 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 30, 2014 10:37:07am

re: #89 Jenner7

Hmm, let them prove publicly that it was hacked. Mere claim doesn’t cut it.

91 nines09  Oct 30, 2014 10:37:33am

re: #46 Vogon Poetry

A bag of wingnuts may be far more appropriate.

Broken, stripped, bent wingnuts.

92 iossarian  Oct 30, 2014 10:38:54am

re: #88 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Nee, Backpfeife = slap on a cheek.

FAKE QUOTE

93 klystron  Oct 30, 2014 10:39:34am

For VB, since I know she’s such a fan of the movie. ;)

94 De Kolta Chair  Oct 30, 2014 10:40:19am


The only kind of award Chucky has ever won.

95 Targetpractice  Oct 30, 2014 10:40:31am

re: #89 Jenner7

OT:

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So, not only are they saying that some random person had their twitter account hacked for the purpose of releasing info about the grand jury, but they are now trying in a backhanded way to accuse the Feds of being responsible for the leaks.

96 Ian G.  Oct 30, 2014 10:40:33am

re: #82 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi

The Germans have a word for that; Backpfeifengesicht, a face that’s just begging to be punched. There’s a lot of that about on the Right. My favorite example might be Greg Gutfeld:
Backpfeifengesicht

That’s awesome. Learn something new every day.

97 Vicious Piebola  Oct 30, 2014 10:41:13am

re: #93 klys

For VB, since I know she’s such a fan of the movie. ;)

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98 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Oct 30, 2014 10:41:23am

re: #83 Vicious Piebola

Backpfeifengesicht=literally, “Fart Face”

I don’t speak German, but this seems dubious to me. I know pfeifen means to pipe or whistle, but the online dictionaries all translate Backpfeife as a dialectical term for “a slap in the face.” The link I posted earlier says this:

The origin of the word is unclear, but Backpfeife was used in northern Germany throughout the 19th century and comes from Backe (“cheek”) and Pfeife (“whistle”) - and basically means “a slap that whooshes/whistles along the cheek”.

99 Vicious Piebola  Oct 30, 2014 10:42:24am

re: #98 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi

I don’t speak German, but this seems dubious to me. I know pfeifen means to pipe or whistle, but the online dictionaries all translate Backpfeife as a dialectical term for “a slap in the face.” The link I posted earlier says this:

“Cheek whistle” could very easily translate as “fart”

100 HappyWarrior  Oct 30, 2014 10:42:52am

re: #82 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi

The Germans have a word for that; Backpfeifengesicht, a face that’s just begging to be punched. There’s a lot of that about on the Right. My favorite example might be Greg Gutfeld:
Backpfeifengesicht

I just love that they have a word for that. But yeah there’s a lot of that on the right. For me, exhibit A is Sean Hannity.

101 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Oct 30, 2014 10:43:39am

re: #99 Vicious Piebola

“Cheek whistle” could very easily translate as “fart”

Could, maybe; but do you have evidence that it ever did?

I think you may be indulging in folk etymology.

102 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 30, 2014 10:44:34am

re: #98 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi

Another version is that Pfeife here is a distorted Feige, as in Ohrfeige (“ear fig”), slap.

Herkunft:
[1] Zusammensetzung aus den Substantiven Backe und Pfeife; ein Schlag, der an den Backen pfeift oder ein verschliffenes “Feige” von “Ohrfeige” zu “Pfeife”[1]

103 nines09  Oct 30, 2014 10:45:03am

Backpfeifengesicht

104 Vicious Piebola  Oct 30, 2014 10:47:04am

re: #103 nines09

Backpfeifengesicht

Is that a Terrance & Phillip video?

105 nines09  Oct 30, 2014 10:48:03am

re: #104 Vicious Piebola

No. Not enough gas being passed.

106 lawhawk  Oct 30, 2014 10:49:33am

Wayne LaPierre is at it again - ramping up the deranged and insane gun-fetish rhetoric to 11. Beware of mass murders, rampages - especially Mexican drug cartel rampages, terrorism, EMP pulses, etc., ahead of the election, and the only way to protect yourself is - wait for it - get a gun.

107 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 30, 2014 10:50:43am

What do you know, there is also fart-face in German: Furzgesicht.
I mean, of course there is.

108 Eventual Carrion  Oct 30, 2014 10:51:25am

re: #34 Charles Johnson

Writers for the Free Beacon and Daily Caller weighing in on Twitter. They think what Chuck did is hilarious.

Small things amuse small minds.

109 Lidane  Oct 30, 2014 10:51:53am

Please proceed:

110 De Kolta Chair  Oct 30, 2014 10:52:39am

re: #106 Vogon Poetry

Wayne LaPierre is at it again - ramping up the deranged and insane gun-fetish rhetoric to 11. Beware of mass murders, rampages - especially Mexican drug cartel rampages, terrorism, EMP pulses, etc., ahead of the election, and the only way to protect yourself is - wait for it - get a gun.


Ha ha, pinche gringos!!!

111 nines09  Oct 30, 2014 10:53:11am

re: #107 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

What do you know, there is also fart-face in German: Furzgesicht.
I mean, of course there is.

So a good insult would be…. Ihr Kopf ist in den Arsch, Furzgesicht..

Your head is in the ass, fart face.

112 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 30, 2014 10:53:26am

re: #109 Lidane

I always wondered how Ayatollahs were chosen.

113 Targetpractice  Oct 30, 2014 10:53:48am

So the governor of New Jersey and the media decided to make a simple nurse into the subject of national controversy, and now I’ve got even fence-sitters nattering at me that she’s not considering the concern of her neighbors by remaining in her house for the rest of her 21 day quarantine. That they agree she shouldn’t have been imprisoned, but think she’s in the wrong because she wants to get on with her life instead of remaining a prisoner in her own home to make her neighbors feel “safe.”

Christ, it’s like hearing otherwise rational people saying that a rape victim whose identity has been splattered all over by the press is not believable because she “wanted attention.”

114 Vicious Piebola  Oct 30, 2014 10:54:00am

What is this, I can’t even==>

115 Jenner7  Oct 30, 2014 10:54:58am

re: #114 Vicious Piebola

Oh dear jeebus. So dumb.

116 Lidane  Oct 30, 2014 10:55:05am

WTF:

117 withak  Oct 30, 2014 10:55:48am

re: #114 Vicious Piebola

Because birth control medication and prophylactics can fail, and abstinence is the only 100% effective form of birth control.

For real, this is the logic used here.

118 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 30, 2014 10:55:49am

re: #111 nines09

So a good insult would be…. Ihr Kopf ist in den Arsch, Furzgesicht..

Your head is in the ass, fart face.

*Dein
*im Arsch, dative.
/sorry

119 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 30, 2014 10:57:14am

re: #111 nines09

So a good insult would be…. Ihr Kopf ist in den Arsch, Furzgesicht..

Your head is in the ass, fart face.

German is my second language. I prefer the old fashioned “Leck mir den Arsch fein recht schön sauber.”

Lick my ass right well and clean.

120 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 30, 2014 10:58:18am

re: #119 Higgs Boson’s Mate

“Leck mir den Arsch fein recht schön sauber” (“Lick my ass right well and clean”) is a canon for three voices in B-flat major, K. 233/382d, long thought to have been composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart during 1782 in Vienna, but now thought to be the work of Wenzel Trnka.

121 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 30, 2014 10:59:12am

re: #119 Higgs Boson’s Mate

German is my second language. I prefer the old fashioned “Leck mir den Arsch fein recht schön sauber.”

Lick my ass right well and clean.

Here it is in all its glory.

Youtube Video

122 Lidane  Oct 30, 2014 10:59:34am
123 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 30, 2014 11:00:51am

re: #116 Lidane

I think that they should begin by seceding and that we should let them. They’d do a lot better as third-world vacation spots than they do as members of the republic.

124 Indy GOP Refugee  Oct 30, 2014 11:05:25am

Ugh well work world kept me away but i had tweeted this. Nobody let alone Charles here ever asked us to stalk anyone.

125 bill d  Oct 30, 2014 11:05:49am

…

126 Jenner7  Oct 30, 2014 11:07:23am

re: #95 Targetpractice

127 bill d  Oct 30, 2014 11:07:50am
128 Vicious Piebola  Oct 30, 2014 11:07:52am
129 Bubblehead II  Oct 30, 2014 11:12:32am
130 Charles Johnson  Oct 30, 2014 11:13:47am
131 meteor  Oct 30, 2014 11:15:04am

Call a lawyer. This Chuck jerk really needs to eat a civil lawsuit for harassment.

132 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 30, 2014 11:22:05am
133 Indy GOP Refugee  Oct 30, 2014 11:22:17am

re: #110 De Kolta Chair

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Ha ha, pinche gringos!!!

All of us gun owners will be quite impressed by this latest derp. 90% or 92% of us will pissed at Waynes yet again making us all look as stupid as the 8% or 10% of us that are actually members or supporters of NRA/ILA. Hell, if you understand that a bunch of the instructors that NRA certifies to teach safety etc also deplore the politics of Waynes Wacky World.

134 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Oct 30, 2014 11:24:22am

re: #131 meteor

Call a lawyer. This Chuck jerk really needs to eat a civil lawsuit for harassment.

I wonder if Charles could get a restraining order. Seems he might have a case, and I don’t think that would fall under SLAPP laws, but IANAL.

Obv. a restraining order wouldn’t do much, but it would at least make a statement about how serious this stupid shit is.

135 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 30, 2014 11:24:46am
136 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 30, 2014 11:26:09am
137 Dave In Austin  Oct 30, 2014 11:26:09am

re: #122 Lidane

Morans Labia!!!!

138 Franklin  Oct 30, 2014 11:26:42am
139 Charles Johnson  Oct 30, 2014 11:27:32am

The most obsessive weirdo who stalks me on Twitter, who used to use the name @Gus_807, has now had his third Twitter account suspended: @Lannie_Davis.

140 jaunte  Oct 30, 2014 11:28:25am

re: #136 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Stillwater Police Capt. Randy Dickerson] said religious affiliation was “not pertinent” to the case.

However:

Crockett’s brother told authorities that Marin was a “religious zealot” and “heavy drug user.”

141 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 30, 2014 11:30:33am

re: #140 jaunte

However:

and:

When interviewed by a detective, Marin’s brother said Marin had been watching YouTube videos “related to his Christian beliefs and the Book of Matthew” at the apartment earlier that day.

142 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 30, 2014 11:31:08am

VB, you’ll like this:

143 Romantic Heretic  Oct 30, 2014 11:31:35am

re: #64 ObserverArt

Whoa now. I don’t think I have ever heard that one. Going to have to check into that. Got any links?

And no, I am not denying it…as I know there was backdoor dealing going on before America was fully into the war. That is all a part of war history that gets covered up to protect the guilty.

The tattoos on Holocaust victims were Hollerith codes. The cards matching the number could easily be sorted by machine allowing for enhanced reporting.

I’ve heard from my favourite writer that during the Battle of The Ruhr Pocket that the shooting stopped in one area. A German officer met an American officer in no man’s land and handed over a cheque to pay IBM for renting their machines. I’m not sure I believe this, but if I found confirmation I wouldn’t be surprised.

144 Targetpractice  Oct 30, 2014 11:33:18am

re: #136 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Obviously he’s a recent convert to Islam. I mean, there’s no way he’d cut people’s heads off otherwise, right? The press is obviously covering it up! Quick, somebody call Dim Jim!!!

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145 Vicious Piebola  Oct 30, 2014 11:34:42am

re: #143 Romantic Heretic

The tattoos on Holocaust victims were Hollerith codes. The cards matching the number could easily be sorted by machine allowing for enhanced reporting.

I’ve heard from my favourite writer that during the Battle of The Ruhr Pocket that the shooting stopped in one area. A German officer met an American officer in no man’s land and handed over a cheque to pay IBM for renting their machines. I’m not sure I believe this, but if I found confirmation I wouldn’t be surprised.

Trading With The Enemy, out of print now but you may be able to order it from the library

146 bill d  Oct 30, 2014 11:35:54am

Just curious as to who else he might drop in on and visit while in Maine?

Hmmmm, I wouldn’t put it past him.

147 Targetpractice  Oct 30, 2014 11:37:52am

re: #146 bill d

Just curious as to who else he might drop in on and visit while in Maine?

Hmmmm, I wouldn’t put it past him.

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HE’S NOT SALUTING!!!!

148 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 30, 2014 11:38:35am

re: #146 bill d

Just curious as to who else he might drop in on and visit while in Maine?

Hmmmm, I wouldn’t put it past him.

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I see they photo-shopped out the Marine holding his cup of coffee for him.
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149 danarchy  Oct 30, 2014 11:39:47am

re: #146 bill d

Just curious as to who else he might drop in on and visit while in Maine?

Hmmmm, I wouldn’t put it past him.

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Maybe, but Portland and Fort Kent aren’t exactly close. She is about as close as you can get to Canada without a passport.

150 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 30, 2014 11:40:41am

re: #143 Romantic Heretic

The tattoos on Holocaust victims were Hollerith codes

Almost right, it started out as such, though it was not the case later.

BTW, after I read about the codes in Black’s book, I contacted him about one document he had mentioned but did not publish in full, and he kindly provided it to me for publishing. It’s a decoding key for the camp index files, with what basically are the Hollerith codes:

holocaustcontroversies.blogspot.com

It even has “Sonderbehandlung” (special treatment = extrajudicial execution) as a type of “departure”.

151 De Kolta Chair  Oct 30, 2014 11:40:50am

Fox’s Stuart Varney Reportedly Hit with Salacious Divorce Complaint

Fox Business host Stuart Varney is on the receiving end of a divorce complaint this week, The New York Post reports, from his wife of 21 years. She alleges he has been spending “hundreds of thousands of dollars” on a mistress.

152 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 30, 2014 11:41:56am

re: #145 Vicious Piebola

Trading With The Enemy, out of print now but you may be able to order it from the library

It’s available for download at openlibrary .

153 bill d  Oct 30, 2014 11:42:20am

re: #149 danarchy

Maybe, but Portland and Fort Kent aren’t exactly close. She is about as close as you can get to Canada without a passport.

Oh hell, it’s over 300+ miles away! Forgive me for sounding like one of those wingnut morons who want to close down the schools because someone just got back from South Africa.

154 nearly-headless smith25  Oct 30, 2014 11:42:57am

TMNT Fans:

155 Vicious Piebola  Oct 30, 2014 11:43:51am

re: #150 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Almost right, it started out as such, though it was not the case later.

BTW, after I read about the codes in Black’s book, I contacted him about one document he had mentioned but did not publish in full, and he kindly provided it to me for publishing. It’s a decoding key for the camp index files, with what basically are the Hollerith codes:

holocaustcontroversies.blogspot.com
[Embedded image]
It even has “Sonderbehandlung” (special treatment = extrajudicial execution) as a type of “departure”.

I can’t access your site from work, it’s firewalled as “Holocaust Denial”

156 Chez Ko Pe  Oct 30, 2014 11:44:56am

“I’M STALKING UUUUUUUU but it’s just a joke, guys, he started it!!1!, don’t call the police, but yeah, I’M TOTALLY STALKING UUUUUUUU HURR HURR HURRRRR”

He’s an insecure gun-displayer, he thinks he’s beyond the law, and he’s clearly missing a few key circuits. If you see him, don’t take any chances; immediately apply any and all “stand your ground” rules in your area. Let, as they like to say, God sort him out.

157 HappyWarrior  Oct 30, 2014 11:45:03am

re: #116 Lidane

WTF:

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Well I am glad to see some honesty at least. It beats them pretending that the courts ruling against them is like Dred Scott decision because they are much more closer to the people who defended the right of people to own other people than they are to the people who opposed that.

158 Romantic Heretic  Oct 30, 2014 11:45:14am

re: #145 Vicious Piebola

Trading With The Enemy, out of print now but you may be able to order it from the library

Thanks. Will look for that one.

I love some of the one star reviews. Basically “America is the bestest and would never do business with bad people.”

159 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 30, 2014 11:45:35am

re: #152 Backwoods_Sleuth

It’s available for download at openlibrary .

Where do I click?

160 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 30, 2014 11:46:01am

re: #155 Vicious Piebola

*eyeroll* at stupid admins.

161 Vicious Piebola  Oct 30, 2014 11:47:13am

re: #160 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

*eyeroll* at stupid admins.

inorite!

162 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 30, 2014 11:48:41am

WTFITS??

163 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 30, 2014 11:48:47am

re: #159 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Where do I click?

The openlibrary link I gave takes you to the page for that particular book.

Here’s a link to openlibrary’s FAQ Page.
You need to sign up for an account and you can borrow up to five books at a time for two weeks.

164 danarchy  Oct 30, 2014 11:48:57am

re: #160 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

*eyeroll* at stupid admins.

Hey now, let’s not blame the admins. They probably subscribe to some sort of content filtering service. Aside from allowing stuff on request they probably don’t have a lot of control over what is blocked beyond selecting general categories.

165 Vicious Piebola  Oct 30, 2014 11:50:45am

re: #162 NJDhockeyfan

WTFITS??

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*FLIPS DESK*
*LIGHTS IT ON FIRE*
*THROWS IT OUT THE WINDOW*

166 Eventual Carrion  Oct 30, 2014 11:55:50am

re: #144 Targetpractice

Obviously he’s a recent convert to Islam. I mean, there’s no way he’d cut people’s heads off otherwise, right? The press is obviously covering it up! Quick, somebody call Dim Jim!!!

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Obviously he was reenacting the David and Goliath scene from the bible.

167 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Oct 30, 2014 11:56:45am

re: #138 Franklin

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Award-winning journalist!!!!

‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

168 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 30, 2014 12:00:02pm

Texas congressmoron Blake Farenthold recently advised Americans to please stop listening to experts and panic right now about Ebola because, and yes he really said this, “Every outbreak novel or zombie movie you see starts with somebody from the government sitting in front of a panel like this saying there’s nothing to worry about.”

169 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 30, 2014 12:02:30pm

re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth

I have nothing.

170 bill d  Oct 30, 2014 12:04:19pm

re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth

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It’s hard to argue with logic like that….it really is.

171 Targetpractice  Oct 30, 2014 12:04:36pm

re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth

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172 lawhawk  Oct 30, 2014 12:06:25pm

re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth

Image: 3168190-triple-facepalm-76680723777.jpg

When the fail is so massive, it warps reality.

173 Dr Lizardo  Oct 30, 2014 12:07:07pm

re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth

I get the feeling that wingnuts see the following when they contemplate ebola:

Youtube Video

whereas the rest of us look at matters more objectively.

174 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Oct 30, 2014 12:08:05pm

re: #171 Targetpractice

175 Targetpractice  Oct 30, 2014 12:08:07pm

re: #173 Dr Lizardo

I get the feeling that wingnuts see the following when they contemplate ebola:

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whereas the rest of us look at matters more objectively.

Good movie, though that’s all it is, a movie.

176 bill d  Oct 30, 2014 12:11:26pm

Oh my!

firstlook.org

The Inside Story Of Matt Taibbi’s Departure From First Look Media

By Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Jeremy Scahill, and John Cook

hahahahaha

177 Vicious Piebola  Oct 30, 2014 12:13:01pm

re: #176 bill d

Oh my!

[Embedded content]

firstlook.org

hahahahaha

Oh wow, what did he do to anger the Dudebrogods?

178 klystron  Oct 30, 2014 12:13:50pm

re: #176 bill d

Oh my!

[Embedded content]

firstlook.org

hahahahaha

It even got written within a week!

He really must have riled them up.

179 lawhawk  Oct 30, 2014 12:13:57pm

re: #176 bill d

Wait, it took all of them to write a piece about Taibbi getting canned?

180 Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 30, 2014 12:14:08pm

re: #65 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Non citizens can get vehicle licenses. I’m a non citizen and I’ve had a drivers license for two years now. Remember, Atta came here LEGALLY on a student visa, he then overstayed. He would have been able to get a drivers license before his visa expired with no trouble whatsoever.

181 Dr Lizardo  Oct 30, 2014 12:14:16pm

re: #175 Targetpractice

Good movie, though that’s all it is, a movie.

Not a bad film, I’d say…..I preferred the 1978 original, but Zack Snyder did a good job with his remake. The first half of the film was pretty damned good, I’d say, and those opening credits were, to me at least, absolutely brilliant - and a great use of Johnny Cash’s music.

182 urbanmeemaw  Oct 30, 2014 12:14:37pm

re: #177 Vicious Piebola

Oh wow, what did he do to anger the Dudebrogods?

Hell, it doesn’t take much.

183 Eventual Carrion  Oct 30, 2014 12:14:57pm

re: #177 Vicious Piebola

Oh wow, what did he do to anger the Dudebrogods?

Have sense? Being professional? Actually wanting to do a job competently? Probably any one or all of those pissed the bro’s off.

184 Bubblehead II  Oct 30, 2014 12:15:02pm
185 urbanmeemaw  Oct 30, 2014 12:15:47pm

re: #179 Vogon Poetry

Wait, it took all of them to write a piece about Taibbi getting canned?

Thinking the same thing. “How many dudebros does it take to slime a former co-worker?”

186 iossarian  Oct 30, 2014 12:16:38pm

re: #176 bill d

journamalism, n:

Journalists talking about journalists doing journalism. E.g., “That recent piece on TPM about how Fox News isn’t covering the issue of freedom of the press properly was some great journamalism.”

187 Targetpractice  Oct 30, 2014 12:16:55pm

re: #181 Dr Lizardo

Not a bad film, I’d say…..I preferred the 1978 original, but Zack Snyder did a good job with his remake. The first half of the film was pretty damned good, I’d say, and those opening credits were, to me at least, absolutely brilliant - and a great use of Johnny Cash’s music.

Think my only gripe was with the use of fast zombies. Besides that, I think Snyder did well to keep with the original material. The supplementary material on DVD was even better.

188 lawhawk  Oct 30, 2014 12:17:12pm

re: #184 Bubblehead II

He’s not quite right in the head. That is for sure.

189 Targetpractice  Oct 30, 2014 12:18:08pm

re: #179 Vogon Poetry

Wait, it took all of them to write a piece about Taibbi getting canned?

A dudebro firing squad.

READY! FIRE! AIM!

190 palomino  Oct 30, 2014 12:19:01pm

re: #162 NJDhockeyfan

The cartoon is definitely in bad taste.

But for the substance behind it, read Jeffrey Goldberg’s article criticizing both Obama and Netanyahu in the Atlantic. If you’re not familiar with Goldberg, you should read his bio.

191 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 30, 2014 12:19:05pm

re: #180 Eclectic Cyborg

Exactly. Not sure about other states but, as the article clearly notes, in Atta’s case it was a non-citizen driver’s license, which looks completely different from a regular one.

192 Eventual Carrion  Oct 30, 2014 12:19:21pm

re: #185 urbanmeemaw

Thinking the same thing. “How many dudebros does it take to slime a former co-worker?”

I don’t know, but it may get him riled enough to tell the truth behind that little enterprise of theirs.

193 lawhawk  Oct 30, 2014 12:20:04pm

re: #187 Targetpractice

Fast zombies was actually one of the more subversive things he did in the remake - take the old trope and give it new life. Now, these just weren’t shambling corpses, but corpses that could move with dangerous and tremendous speed.

It added yet another layer of danger to the whole situation for the survivors.

I’ll give him credit for that - compared with let’s say ludicrous attempts to remake vampires (think sparkly and forever doomed to repeating the high school years, though having powers to alter reality, inflict pain, sense the future, hyper-speed, and telekinesis are pretty good).

194 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 30, 2014 12:20:56pm

re: #176 bill d

boooooriiiing

195 Bubblehead II  Oct 30, 2014 12:21:16pm

re: #188 Vogon Poetry

He’s not quite right in the head. That is for sure.

That’s putting it mildly.

196 Decatur Deb  Oct 30, 2014 12:21:38pm

re: #176 bill d

Oh my!

[Embedded content]

firstlook.org

hahahahaha

Didn’t Snowden ex machina join in? Must be a bandwidth problem.

197 Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 30, 2014 12:22:35pm

Can we all agree that CCJ is a dangerous fucking psycho now?

I mean if I lived in his neighborhood I’d seriously be wanting to GTFO.

Speaking of, where’s he based out of anyway?

198 Charles Johnson  Oct 30, 2014 12:23:32pm
199 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 30, 2014 12:23:33pm

OK, it’s pizza time.

200 Charles Johnson  Oct 30, 2014 12:24:19pm

That statement from Greenwald and his cronies is quite extraordinary.

201 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 30, 2014 12:25:01pm
202 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 30, 2014 12:25:53pm

re: #200 Charles Johnson

That statement from Greenwald and his cronies is quite extraordinary.

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They need more covered wagons for that protective circle…

203 jaunte  Oct 30, 2014 12:26:04pm
“…The lack of autonomous budgets, for instance, meant that in many cases Omidyar was personally signing off on—and occasionally objecting to—employee expense reports for taxi rides and office supplies.”

Hah. Insanity. Taibbi was right to leave based on this alone.

204 lawhawk  Oct 30, 2014 12:26:39pm

Here’s a much more in depth piece about what’s going on with First Look, Taibbi, and the whole enterprise Omidyar put together. Of particular note, despite the $250 million he said he’d put up for bringing the new media outlet to fruition, he’s decided to scale things back significantly.

Taibbi’s absence is only the latest in a series of shifts inside First Look, which Omidyar founded last year, originally in response to the disclosures of NSA surveillance leaked by Edward Snowden to Greenwald and his Intercept colleague Laura Poitras. Omidyar initially committed $250 million to the project and began laying plans for a large general interest website and a number of more narrowly focused “digital magazines.” In July, the billionaire announced he was scaling back the plan for the time being, choosing instead to focus on Racket and the Intercept as prototypes for a new technological model of journalism. The Intercept has lately been publishing vigorously, breaking several major stories — federal investigators are reportedly pursuing the alleged leaker responsible for a story on the site about the government’s voluminous terrorist watch list. But Racket has been much slower to materialize, leading to rumors of staff anxiety.

In August, Temple told me Taibbi’s site was experimenting with a variety of journalistic approaches — not just satire and humor but also investigative journalism. For instance, Ellen Miller, head of the campaign finance watchdog the Sunlight Foundation — a nonprofit also heavily financed by Omidyar — met with the staff over the summer to discuss how it might dig into issues of money in politics.

The fact is that they aren’t publishing much of anything of substance, and are rehashing much of what they’ve run previously hoping to sex it up into a new story of outrage. And it just isn’t working.

205 bill d  Oct 30, 2014 12:27:21pm

re: #176 bill d

Oh my!

[Embedded content]

firstlook.org

hahahahaha

Cliffs Notes version:

Everyone who works for FLM is a giant dick. Matt was accused by one of his employees as being a misogynist (read his stuff while in Russia about Russian girls, he is). Pierre nickel and dimed them, questioning taxi expenses. FLM realized Matt was not a manager & tried to make him a writer. Matt pouted. Intercept guys admit that Pierre is a douche but they can live with that now.

206 BeachDem  Oct 30, 2014 12:28:26pm

re: #179 Vogon Poetry

Wait, it took all of them to write a piece about Taibbi getting canned?

Well, they had to take turns patting each other on the back for what a swell job they themselves are doing, while referring to themselves and their many accomplishments in the third person.

Many journalism
Such exceptional
Very objectivity

For all the money and all the “talent” they have over yon at the Intercept, it is an incredibly ugly website.

207 Decatur Deb  Oct 30, 2014 12:29:10pm

re: #205 bill d

Cliffs Notes version:

Everyone who works for FLM is a giant dick. Matt was accused by one of his employees as being a misogynist (read his stuff while in Russia about Russian girls, he is). Pierre nickel and dimed them, questioning taxi expenses. FLM realized Matt was not a manager & tried to make him a writer. Matt pouted. Intercept guys admit that Pierre is a douche but they can live with that now.

With Taibbi gone, there’s room there for CCJ. We could send a reference.
Once there, he’ll never be heard from again.

208 Targetpractice  Oct 30, 2014 12:29:57pm

re: #193 Vogon Poetry

Fast zombies was actually one of the more subversive things he did in the remake - take the old trope and give it new life. Now, these just weren’t shambling corpses, but corpses that could move with dangerous and tremendous speed.

It added yet another layer of danger to the whole situation for the survivors.

I’ll give him credit for that - compared with let’s say ludicrous attempts to remake vampires (think sparkly and forever doomed to repeating the high school years, though having powers to alter reality, inflict pain, sense the future, hyper-speed, and telekinesis are pretty good).

To me, fast zombies were always a contradiction. The classic Romero zombie was based upon logic, that a corpse is not going to move fast because it’s dead. Max Brooks with The Zombie Survival Guide even took it further and explained in pretty clear ways why a fast zombie makes no sense. Sure, it adds to the danger and suspense, but it also runs the risk of making a zombie film into another retread of 28 Days Later.

209 palomino  Oct 30, 2014 12:30:19pm

Chuck’s self-proclaimed victimhood over being “stalked” on twitter by lizards gives him exactly what he wants: notoriety and street cred with tcot and its huge contingent of deranged RW baggers. His blogging is almost self-parody, but it works in today’s reactionary fever swamp of paranoia and apocalypticism.

Four US cases of ebola and three American journalists killed by ISIS. Terrible, but not a sign of the end times or even the end of America as the world’s hegemonic power. But looking at ISIS and ebola with a sober eye doesn’t work for shameless opportunistic hucksters like Chuck. The “threat” has to be ratcheted up to 11 or else it’s not controversial and scary enough to make for good TV/internet entertainment.

210 bill d  Oct 30, 2014 12:30:34pm

re: #207 Decatur Deb

With Taibbi gone, there’s room there for CCJ. We could send a reference.
Once there, he’ll never be heard from again.

I demand that Chuck C & Greenwald have to share an office together. If I were a billionaire I’d offer them each $1 Million a year just to watch it.

211 retired cynic  Oct 30, 2014 12:34:45pm

re: #209 palomino

Not just entertainment, but politico-tainment.

212 palomino  Oct 30, 2014 12:36:01pm

re: #211 retired cynic

Not just entertainment, but politico-tainment.

Which is simultaneously the best and worst kind of entertainment.

213 Khal Wimpo  Oct 30, 2014 12:38:27pm

re: #179 Vogon Poetry

Wait, it took all of them to write a piece about Taibbi getting canned?

Yeah, you can just feel the influence of the risk-management lawyers in every goddamn sentence of that piece. All the statements in it are coached in careful vague-speak so as to not make good exhibits in the soon-to-be-unveiled Wrongful Termination Suit.

214 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 30, 2014 12:39:16pm

re: #200 Charles Johnson

After months of struggle and negotiation, The Intercept has arrived at the point where it can function effectively: with full editorial freedom and an ample budget. But First Look and Taibbi failed to reach a similar mutual understanding. Those two radically different outcomes underscore the ongoing difficulty of finding the ideal model for well-funded independent journalism.

Looks like Taibbi wasn’t willing to kiss ass, grovel & scrape as much as GG and company do.

215 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 30, 2014 12:43:23pm

re: #207 Decatur Deb

That’s what he wants everybody to think…

Bet he just bought a bunch of lottery tickets or just opened a new Gofundme griftathon.

216 William of Orange  Oct 30, 2014 2:20:57pm

Hehehee!!! The lesser Charles, I like that one.

217 makeitstop  Oct 30, 2014 2:26:39pm

re: #202 Backwoods_Sleuth

They need more covered wagons for that protective circle…

All their covered wagons keep leaving, though.

First Marcy Wheeler, now Taibbi. Soon they’ll be down to the true believers only, which I’m sure they’ll be just fine with.

218 otoc  Oct 30, 2014 4:41:04pm

re: #210 bill d

I demand that Chuck C & Greenwald have to share an office together. If I were a billionaire I’d offer them each $1 Million a year just to watch it.

Make a better reality tv show considering how the ducks, palin, and boo boo have faired. Spend more buds.

219 otoc  Oct 30, 2014 4:43:21pm

Just wanted to on record for The op from Charles. Chuck is freaking insane, I’m concerned for you. Seriously.

220 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 30, 2014 8:38:25pm

re: #142 Backwoods_Sleuth

VB, you’ll like this:

He represents Louisville and the 3rd District. Also the publisher of a free newspaper, The Louisville Eccentric Observer (LEO), which has done some decent journalism over the years.

221 Floral Giraffe  Oct 30, 2014 9:36:39pm

re: #210 bill d

I demand that Chuck C & Greenwald have to share an office together. If I were a billionaire I’d offer them each $1 Million a year just to watch it.

CAGE MATCH!


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