Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:10:11 pm
Hot Air may have put me in their “Left Channels,” but Think Progress still categorizes me as a “conservative” blogger: Think Progress » Doug Hoffman Praises Glenn Beck As His ‘Mentor’. Conservative blogger Charles Johnson of the site Little Green Footballs reported yesterday that Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate ...

Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 1:22:30 pm
Our latest addition to The Blog codebase is a button to let you “retweet” an LGF article. “Retweeting” is a common way for people to spread interesting content around on Twitter. Since each article is already automatically posted to Twitter, your tweet is prefaced with the standard Twitter syntax to ...

Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 3:34:43 pm
Associated Press writer H. Josef Hebert has an interesting piece about the importance of nuclear power in the debate over global warming, not just as a technical means to generate power without CO2 emissions, but as a political bargaining chip. The industry’s long-standing campaign to rebrand itself as green is ...

Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 7:13:12 pm
Here’s a private open thread, restricted to registered LGF users, for a moody Monday evening. If you have an LGF account, log in and then click the green magnifying glass in the row of icons at bottom right of this post to enter LGF Spy in Lounge Mode. That opens a ...

Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 6:06:41 pm
Here’s a private open thread, restricted to registered LGF users, for a salutary Sunday evening. If you have an LGF account, log in and then click the green magnifying glass in the row of icons at bottom right of this post to enter LGF Spy in Lounge Mode. That opens a ...

Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:55:45 pm
A few weeks ago, New York Times environmental blogger Andrew Revkin made a relatively straightforward observation, that “more children equal more carbon dioxide emissions.” Revkin went on to suggest that family planning and contraception might be an important part of any plan to limit CO2 emissions: Are Condoms the Ultimate ...

Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:45:05 pm
Sergey Romanov, a contributor to a blog called “Holocaust Controversies” that normally focuses on debunking Holocaust deniers, has a scathing post about white supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain (who also writes for Pajamas Media and Hot Air’s Green Room), with examples from the messages posted by McCain on Usenet: Meet ...

Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 6:27:39 pm
Here’s a private open thread, restricted to registered LGF users, for a salubrious Sunday evening. If you have an LGF account, log in and then click the green magnifying glass in the row of icons at bottom right of this post to enter LGF Spy in Lounge Mode. That opens a ...

Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 5:18:07 pm
Time for tonight’s edition of the most extreme, hateful comments posted at the Hot Air blog owned by Michelle Malkin and run by Ed Morrissey and “Allahpundit.” We’ll start off with a few comments from a thread about calls to impeach President Obama. Ed Morrissey seems to believe this is ...

Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 6:06:10 pm
Here’s a private open thread, restricted to registered LGF users, for a wind-up Wednesday evening. If you have an LGF account, log in and then click the green magnifying glass in the row of icons at bottom right of this post to enter LGF Spy in Lounge Mode. That opens a ...

Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:56:46 am
I’m not sure where they get the idea that anyone is “terrified” of them (it’s actually more like “disgustedly amused”), but the Ron Paulbots at Daily Paul are on to us! Little Green Footballs comments section terrified of Paulites taking over new GOP website. You comment jogged my memeory. On October ...

Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 8:46:42 pm
Here’s a private open thread, restricted to registered LGF users, for a sartorially satisfying Saturday evening. If you have an LGF account, log in and then click the green magnifying glass in the row of icons at bottom right of this post to enter LGF Spy in Lounge Mode. That opens ...

Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:29:19 pm
Here’s a private open thread, restricted to registered LGF users, for a forward-thinking Friday evening. If you have an LGF account, log in and then click the green magnifying glass in the row of icons at bottom right of this post to enter LGF Spy in Lounge Mode. That opens a ...

Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 6:23:14 pm
Here’s a private open thread, restricted to registered LGF users, for a wicked Wednesday evening. If you have an LGF account, log in and then click the green magnifying glass in the row of icons at bottom right of this post to enter LGF Spy in Lounge Mode. That opens a ...

Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 9:36:42 am
The Obama administration has cut off funding for the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center: US cutoff of funding to Iran human rights cause signals shift. WASHINGTON - For the past five years, researchers in a modest office overlooking the New Haven green have carefully documented cases of assassination and torture ...

Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 5:35:32 pm
In every LGF thread related to climate change, people show up to float the absurd claim that CO2 is a good thing. We need more of it, not less. Those tricksy scientists are just lying to you again. You know how they are. You can’t trust 'em. Except that the scientists ...

Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:58:29 pm
Here’s a private open thread, restricted to registered LGF users, for a tangential Tuesday afternoon. If you have an LGF account, log in and then click the green magnifying glass in the row of icons at bottom right of this post to enter LGF Spy in Lounge Mode. That opens a ...

Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 4:59:04 pm
On this morning’s Meet the Press, Rachel Maddow brought up the connection of Sarah Palin’s ghostwriter, Lynn Vincent, with white supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain — a connection first reported here at Little Green Footballs. Here’s the video clip and the transcript. MS. MADDOW:  I, I do think that ...

Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 2:45:14 pm
Here’s a private open thread, restricted to registered LGF users, for a Socratic Sunday afternoon. If you have an LGF account, log in and then click the green magnifying glass in the row of icons at bottom right of this post to enter LGF Spy in Lounge Mode. That opens a ...

Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 7:17:40 pm
Sarah Palin’s soon-to-be-released book was ghostwritten by Lynn Vincent. Who’s Lynn Vincent? She’s the co-author of a book with white supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain. Vincent is also a credited author on “Donkey Cons: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Democratic Party,” a take-down of the Democrats co-written by conservative author ...

Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:31:22 pm
Here’s a private open thread, restricted to registered LGF users, for a mordant Monday afternoon. If you have an LGF account, log in and then click the green magnifying glass in the row of icons at bottom right of this post to enter LGF Spy in Lounge Mode. That opens a ...

Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 10:56:43 am
Here’s some unexpected praise that made my morning, in a Jerusalem Post article on an Israeli proposal to give some bloggers journalist credentials. The Government Press Office (GPO) is considering granting leading bloggers press credentials equal to those of journalists and reporters. Ron Dermer, a senior adviser to the prime minister, ...

Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 5:29:52 pm
Here’s a private open thread, restricted to registered LGF users, for a thermonuclear Thursday evening. If you have an LGF account, log in and then click the green magnifying glass in the row of icons at bottom right of this post to enter LGF Spy in Lounge Mode. That opens a ...

Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 8:35:47 pm
This heartening note of support was posted today by Victor Davis Hanson at a site to which I won’t link, because they feature the writing of white supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain. Little Green What? Some bloggers sent me postings the other day about Charles Johnson’s Little Green Footballs website, ...

Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 5:00:27 pm
Wikipedia’s editors are trying to figure out how to categorize Little Green Footballs. It’s kind of amusing to read the back and forth, as they scratch their heads in puzzlement that I actually seem to have ideas that weren’t planted in my head by the vast right wing conspiracy...