re: #208 JasonA

No, Charles hasn’t really changed his opinion on much of anything, except AGW. What’s changed is the Right.

Let me tell you what it looks like from the Left:

Dude who is famous for the sole reason that he claims “liberal” journalists are lying because of discrepancies between their reports and official army P.R. reports… suddenly realizes that maybe the U.S. army isn’t a perfectly reliable source.

Sorry, but in point of fact, that’s the history of LGF in a nutshell. Qualitatively, if not quantitatively.

Because, while he was feeding the right-wing media machine with differences from offical U.S Iraq P.R. releases vs. major media reports, he was ginning up hitcounts and general prestige (what is “little green footballs” anyway?)

So when he decided to ditch neoconism, he did it with one of the highest profiles of any “blog” out there, and threw everything into disarray.

Personally, I ignored the announcement. Not only did I have a low opinion of LGF, I thought that “switching sides” so quick was a pu55y move, and etcetera etcetera, all stuff that Charles has heard in a zillion emails by now. So I ignored him and marched on elsewhere.

This is why I think LGF is worth looking into at this point in time: Because unlike all of the previously “progressive” (Hi, ThinkProgress! Love ya!) or conservative “blogosphere” sites out there, this one has actually managed to flip-flop at a critical moment such as to flip the difference.

It isn’t 90% progressives, 10% conservative cartoon trolls as it is at ThinkProgress. Nor is is 10% cartoon communist trolls, 90% conservative posters as it is - I don’t know where, but it’s gotta be out there. Redstate? Freepers?

LGF has managed, through a crazy combination of political honesty and dumb luck, to land at about the best possible 50/50 ratio between liberal and conservative commenters that could ever exist.

So I figured, I’d check it out…