Remember UpChuck’s Mother Jones profile? Some choice quotes from the Ginger Avenger.

“I suppose there’s some people who think it’s ironic or whatever,” Johnson said about his desire to conceal his whereabouts when we finally spoke by phone. “I’m just trying not to make it easy on people. There’s a reason I own several guns.”

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“It’d be very easy to write a ‘Fuck Charles Johnson’ piece, and in many respects, however you write the story, it doesn’t hurt me either way,” Johnson told me. “You may decide, for instance, what many people on the left and the right think—that I’m a sociopath and blah blah blah. Or, on the other hand, that I’m ‘working on some new entity that’s going to be controversial.’ There’s a degree to which, however you turn the lens, both things will be true.”

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Johnson’s still pissed off about it; he told me he’d like GotNews to “curb-stomp” mainstream Republicans like former party chair Haley Barbour, with whom he’d clashed with in Mississippi.

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This was not the unhinged Johnson of Twitter, who had justified doxing Jackie by noting that a friend of his had called her a “lying bitch.” He had a ready explanation for this—it’s performance art. “On Twitter, like, I have a certain kind of personality, a pugnaciousness, like an alter ego,” he said. “You know, like when Spider-Man puts on the costume, for instance, he’s no longer a mild-mannered photographer. He has an attitude. I do that because I want my content to really go viral.”

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Of course, I had to ask him about the allegations. “For the record, I did not shit on the seventh floor, but I wish I did,” he told me.