“Disavowing” Chuck is like the over-hyped exile of the Birchers: the ideas—or in the case of CCJ, the blatant lies—are still part of the private, amongst-friends conversations, but just aren’t good for optics.

Chuck C Johnson is the level of discussion, not some aberration. His shitty “exposes” are at exactly the same level of rhetorical deceit as Breitbart, giant chunks of the Religious Right, and the Tea Party. His recent utterly vile conduct and statements regarding rape align perfectly with “respectable” social conservatives.

He only differs in not having a filter installed such that he spouts sexist, racist crap only within designated safe areas.

All this “he isn’t one of us” stuff is weak fucking sauce. It’s not “this is not conduct we engage in,” it’s “no, don’t demonstrate how nasty our sausage making process is!”