Our pal Chuck C. Johnson is having a great run of publicity, and now he gets his own New York Times profile. The old adage is that there’s no bad publicity, but this article is … unflattering, to say the least: Sowing Mayhem, One Click at a Time.

If you’ve been following our posts on this viciously unethical and dishonest right wing hatchet man, you won’t learn anything new about Chuck from David Carr’s piece, but Carr does spend more time on Chuck’s many failures and incompetent mistakes than some of the other articles we’ve seen in the past week.

However, this one little piece of the profile was the most revealing to me:

In a phone call, he made it clear that he sees himself as part of the vanguard of Internet news, although he did add that some of what he is up to is a response to a lifetime of slights.

“I’m basically one of those kids who was bullied all his life,” he said. He’s now extracting payback, one post at a time.

That cuts right to the essence of what could make a person develop into such a raging sociopath. He’s lashing out at a world by which he feels deeply wronged, getting revenge for every slight and insult and dismissal he suffered as a young boy by inflicting as much pain on his targets as he possibly can.

I know it’s a pat explanation, but it sure fits.