TagsTagsHi, everyone. My name is Charles, and I am a recovering wingnut. %%HTML5AUDIO=http://site2.litt legreenfootballs.com/audio/JoshuaHolland _CharlesJohnson.mp3,http://site2.littleg reenfootballs.com/audio/JoshuaHolland_Ch arlesJohnson.ogg%% Here's my interview with Alternet's Joshua Holland about how I saw the light and left the right: Meet the Former Right-Wing Blogger Who Realized Conservatives Are Crazy. (That headline's not a quote from me, by the ...
Little Green Footballs, Right Wing, Tribalism, Schism, Interview, Ex-Wingnut
This is why I still love NPR -- great interviews like this one from Fresh Air, with Tom Waits talking about his new album Bad As Me. Video Also see: Tom Waits | Bad As Me
A transcript is here. Video
President Obama, National Security, Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda, Terrorism, 60 Minutes, Interview, Video
Wonkette's Jack Stuef put together a highly annoying video to count the interruptions.
Bill O'Reilly interviews Barack Obama before the Super Bowl. My favorite moment was near the end, when O'Reilly said, "I hope you think I'm fair to you, I try to be." And Obama just looked at him, long enough to make the point. (Note: this video clip may disappear from YouTube soon.)
In an interview with Barbara Walters, the President said he doesn't think about Sarah Palin. Video When asked specifically if he thinks he can beat Sarah Palin in 2012, the president told Walters "I don't think about Sarah Palin." "Obviously Sarah Palin has a strong base of support in the Republican Party ...
Jon Stewart interviews President Obama on The Daily Show, and doesn't hold back the tough questions. [Video] [Video] [Video]
Here's the Rolling Stone interview with President Obama, and here's the quote everyone's already chattering about: What do you think of Fox News? Do you think it's a good institution for America and for democracy? [Laughs] Look, as president, I swore to uphold the Constitution, and part of that ...
Barack Obama, Interview, Rolling Stone, Fox News, Tea Party, Economy
Jeffrey Goldberg scored a journalistic coup on a recent visit to Havana -- an interview with Castro himself. And Fidel had a surprising message for Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Fidel to Ahmadinejad: 'Stop Slandering the Jews'. Over the course of this first, five-hour discussion, Castro repeatedly returned to his excoriation of ...
Cuba, Fidel Castro, Interview, Antisemitism, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
This week NPR’s Fresh Air featured an interview with Frank Meeink, a former white supremacist gang leader who now lectures on tolerance and diversity; it’s a good brain-cleaner after the previous story: A ‘Recovering Skinhead’ On Leaving Hatred Behind. [Audio] (Hat tip: Summer.)
Neo-Nazis, Skinheads, White Supremacists, NPR, Interview, Frank Meeink
Richard Metzger has posted part 2 of his interview with me: Dangerous Minds | Charles Johnson: Why I Parted Ways with the Right (Part II). Richard includes these comments: Charles Johnson joined me for a discussion of the right wing flame war directed at him, the Darwin-hating, know-nothing Creationists and the ...
Paul Coletti of the BBC’s Blogworld site interviewed me via webcam a few days ago, and the video is now up: BBC - Blogworld - Best International Blogs: USA: Charles Johnson. BBC Video
Little Green Footballs, Interview, BBC, Rathergate, Right Wing
Here’s part one of my video interview with Richard Metzger, at Dangerous Minds: Charles Johnson: Why I Parted Ways with the Right. (I’m sending you to Richard’s site instead of posting the video here, because there’s lots of other interesting stuff there too…)
It’s odd reading all these articles about me, all of a sudden, and even odder to read the blog posts. Kind of like seeing movies about yourself written from hundreds of different viewpoints, some of them taking the angle that you’re the most despicable creature to walk the earth since ...
Little Green Footballs, New York Times, Profile, Interview, Aziz Poonawalla
After the New York Times Magazine article a lot of wingnut blogs are coming up with imaginative new smears tonight, but I’m grateful for the positive words from Alan Colmes: Little Green Footballs’s Charles Johnson And The Right-Wing Flame War. Charles Johnson is a true original, his knowledge of code ...
Little Green Footballs, New York Times, Profile, Interview, Alan Colmes
I have a few more points to make in response to Jonathan Dee’s article about me in the New York Times. (Then I’ll drop it, I promise.) First, one assertion Dee makes is actually checkable: L.G.F. still has more than 34,000 registered users, but the comment threads are dominated by the ...
Little Green Footballs, New York Times, Profile, Interview, Pamela Geller
Shrieking harpy said what? “He’s a traitor, a turncoat, a plant. We may not know for years what actually happened.” Insert sigh. I have a few significant disagreements with the angle taken by Jonathan Dee in his profile for the New York Times, most of all his willingness to accept unverifiable anecdotal ...
Little Green Footballs, New York Times, Profile, Interview, Pamela Geller
Here are a few words about yours truly in a piece by Barrett Brown at Vanity Fair. Meanwhile, a blogger mentioned in Brown’s article, neo-Confederate Robert Stacy McCain, is trying to get his followers to “retweet” anti-LGF propaganda he’s posting: Robert McCain (rsmccain) on Twitter. McCain wants people to link to his ...
Little Green Footballs, vanity fair, Profile, Interview, Robert Stacy McCain
Today’s read: part two of Michael J. Totten’s interview with Christopher Hitchens.
Christopher Hitchens, Michael J. Totten, Interview, Militant Islam, Religion, Blasphemy
The Huffington Post has a piece about James Rainey’s interview with me in the Los Angeles Times, focusing on threats I’ve received recently: Charles Johnson Got Threats After Breaking With Right, Relocated. Some conservative readers were apparently not pleased with Johnson’s critique. In a profile of Johnson, the LA Times ...
Little Green Footballs, Los Angeles Times, Profile, Interview, Right Wing, Threats
James Rainey interviewed me several days ago for this piece in the Los Angeles Times: A blogger’s parting with the right. Johnson’s posting on Nov. 30, “Why I Parted Ways with The Right,” created a maelstrom in some corners of the blogosphere and the Twitterverse. Onetime hyperlinking pals have called ...
Little Green Footballs, Los Angeles Times, Profile, Interview, Right Wing, Threats
A must-read: Michael J. Totten interviews Christopher Hitchens, Part One.
Blasphemy, Religion, Militant Islam, Interview, Michael J. Totten, Christopher Hitchens
Yesterday I had a talk with Hillel Aron of the USC Annenberg School of Journalism, and the Q&A session is now online at their Neon Tommy blog: Charles Johnson: Holding Down The Center.
In Sarah Palin’s interview with Barbara Walters, she says that when she learned her daughter Bristol was pregnant, she was shocked, you betcha. Another revelation from the interview: Willow Palin thinks it would be “cool” if her mom became President.
My interview with Erik Kain has been getting a fair amount of attention; Erik emailed to let me know it was linked by Fark.com and other high-traffic sites. Going by Tweetdeck’s search results, there was some Twittering too. Andrew Sullivan linked to it at Daily Dish, with these comments about neo-Confederate ...