TagsTagsHere’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…)
Here’s a rematch with Conn Carroll of the Heritage Foundation; I pressed him pretty hard on the John Birch Society at CPAC (the talking point response is: “there were lots of groups at CPAC”), and the Heritage Foundation’s support for “intelligent design” creationism. And we found a couple of (relatively ...
James O'Keefe, Racism, Right Wing, CPAC, John Birch Society, Creationism, Little Green Footballs, Video, Bloggingheads
So far this week, we’ve filed 31 emails in the “Abuse” folder, and here are a few of the most vitriolic and/or inadvertently funny ones. Profanities and pathetic grammar left intact for full effect. First up, we have a reader in New York City who followed a link from a Google ...
Little Green Footballs, Hate Mail, Right Wing, Homophobia, Global Warming
Since I began to break ranks with the right wing noisemakers, I’ve been receiving an average of five hate mails every single day, often more. Sometimes it’s the same person over and over. Once someone sent me more than three dozen emails in about 10 minutes before I blocked his IP ...
Little Green Footballs, Hate Mail, Right Wing, Homophobia, Creationism, Global Warming
The new version of the best Javascript library on the web is now available: jQuery 1.4. Resig and his posse are claiming significant performance improvements. After testing with the plugins used by LGF I’m going live with the new version. The only problem I encountered was with BlockUI, which the LGF Blog ...
In many ways I have an enormous amount of respect for Dennis Prager; unlike some of his fellow talk radio hosts, he gets deep into the issues, and for the most part refrains from demagoguery. And he and I have many things in common, particularly an understanding of the danger ...
Little Green Footballs, New York Times, Profile, Dennis Prager, Right Wing, Hate Speech, Racism
I have some business in the analog world today, so I’ll have a more detailed response to Dennis Prager’s article (posted at several conservative websites today) a bit later. But in the meantime I’ll just make one point about his conclusion: 10. Hatred for President Obama that goes far beyond ...
Little Green Footballs, New York Times, Profile, Dennis Prager, Right Wing, Hate Speech, Racism
With all the traveling, I forgot to mention that I’m now cross-posting at True/Slant, at The Lizard Annex. Occasionally I’ll do pieces that will only appear there, so you may want to bookmark it. Naturally, some of the usual anti-LGF bots have already appeared in the comments over there, so I ...
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
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 few minutes ago, Little Green Footballs recorded its … eight millionth comment. Woo hoo! Woot! Ow ow ow! Yowza! Give it up! Make some noise! Eight million! Yeah! And believe it or not, the person who posted the eight millionth comment was … yours truly. Here it is, comment #8,000,000. I wish ...
Ryan Mauro claims that I called him a racist — I didn’t — and posts yet another one of those straw man attacks for which the right wing has become infamous: Darnit! Charles Johnson Catches Me Being a Racist! Whatever Shall I Do? Oddly, he includes no link to LGF in ...
Bloggingheads, Video, Little Green Footballs, Abortion, Tea Parties, Creationism, Anti-Science, Right Wing, Racism, Christian Action Network, Homophobia
A clip from my Bloggingheads discussion with Conn Carroll of the Heritage Foundation has been posted at the New York Times video page today: Bloggingheads: Conservative Fascism? - Video Library - The New York Times. Notice how Carroll tosses in a blatant straw man argument at the conclusion of this clip, ...
Bloggingheads, Video, Little Green Footballs, Abortion, Tea Parties, Creationism, Anti-Science, Right Wing
Here’s your humble Lizard Overlord discussing the issues of the day (via webcam) with the Heritage Foundation’s Conn Carroll, who gets increasingly agitated as the issues start to get closer to his biases — finally accusing me of being “pro-death” and “pro-euthanasia.” [Video]
Bloggingheads, Video, Little Green Footballs, Abortion, Tea Parties, Creationism, Anti-Science, Right Wing
Usually I just ignore this kind of nonsense, but sometimes the smears my admirers post on their blogs are so egregiously dishonest that they need to be pointed out. Today’s example is at “Weasel Zippers,” a raving anti-Muslim blog that stole its name from one of our random sayings that appear ...
Little Green Footballs, Climate Change, Global Warming, idiots, smears, busted
It’s a wonderful feeling to be able to inspire creativity in people, and this tribute by some right wing admirers is a great example. This must have taken some time and effort to produce! Truly I am blessed, to be such a large influence on their lives. [Video] Thanks for the plug, ...
Little Green Footballs, Calendar, Photographs, Photography, 2010
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.
Lots and lots of mail. So much that there’s no way I can respond to all of it, so I’m posting this to thank everyone who sent supportive comments today. In a rather amazing turnabout, the supportive emails outnumbered the hate mail by almost two to one. Apparently, there are quite ...
Email, Hate Mail, Little Green Footballs, Politics, Bad Craziness
Now available at Lulu.com in time for Christmas and the New Year — the Little Green Footballs 2010 Calendar, featuring 13 beautiful high resolution versions of photographs I’ve posted at LGF. It's $24.99, Lulu.com handles all the printing and shipping, I get 10 bucks, and they get the difference. Not ...
Little Green Footballs, Calendar, Photographs, Photography, 2010
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 ...