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2010-01-23 Home Front: Politix

Shocker: New York Times Magazine Does Profile of Charles Johnson And Gets It Right!

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Posted by tipper 2010-01-23 02:14|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 short version: yeah, he is a dick

Posted by Frank G 2010-01-23 08:30|| 2010-01-23 08:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, the suddeness and thoroughness of his change coupled with the trigger (from the article) certainly seems to point to some mental condition to me.

I was a close follower of LGF for years until the comments got too predictable, voluminous and generally spiteful so I missed the blow-up.

But if the trigger was as portrayed here then I'm afraid Charles went bonkers.

Posted by AlanC 2010-01-23 08:53|| 2010-01-23 08:53|| Front Page Top

#3 And I don't think it was all that sudden. It was a rolling flameout, and his positions shifted as he cut connections. That's the sign of someone who builds his world-view based on external feedback rather than intrinsic principle, and who relies on a pretty black-and-white friends-and-demons relationship dynamic.

I say he isn't a lunatic, he's an asshole.

Posted by Mitch H. 2010-01-23 09:35|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2010-01-23 09:35|| Front Page Top

#4 This paragraph sums it up well:

Thus in retrospect it also seems clear that the Vlaams Belang blog war, with its attendant scary buzzwords (fascist, racist, Nazi), gave Johnson the intellectual cover to do something he wanted to do anyway, which was to conduct a kind of public self-purge of the alliances he acquired on the road to fame.

Posted by Parabellum 2010-01-23 09:47|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/ 2010-01-23 09:47|| Front Page Top

#5 Good article. CJ did some good work a while back (Rathergate, exposing "fauxtography" in news coverage of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, etc.), but lately he's become paranoid, obsessive and extremely tedious.

And, in the end, irrelevant.

Posted by Dave D. 2010-01-23 10:25|| 2010-01-23 10:25|| Front Page Top

#6 A lot of that stuff, like with the memo, was when he was jumping on someone else's bandwagon.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-01-23 11:26|| 2010-01-23 11:26|| Front Page Top

#7 I have been banned from LGF after questioning the hype of Global Warming (in a well-mannered, well-reasoned way quoting scientists). Happened to many others, too.

CJ runs his blog like an absolute dictator. If he changes his views, you have to, as well, or he will ban you. We have always been at war with East Asia.

Of course most people prefer to be on blogs where you meet others you feel compatible with. This is how I feel here. Same wavelength and all that. Civil, snarky debate. Just great.

But that doesn't mean you have to agree with every group opinion 100% In fact, echo chambers are boring.

LGF will slowly vanish. Nobody needs a watered down Daily Kos.

Posted by European Conservative 2010-01-23 15:55|| 2010-01-23 15:55|| Front Page Top

#8 What's happened to Charles makes me sad. I'll always be grateful for his Rathergate and fauxtography work, but he's gone off the deep end.

I haven't been there in a long time and don't intend to go again. I even dropped him from my computer "favorites." :-(

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-01-23 16:14|| 2010-01-23 16:14|| Front Page Top

#9 Deleted that bookmark a long time ago.

Posted by Iblis 2010-01-23 18:14|| 2010-01-23 18:14|| Front Page Top

#10 So the leftists are eating their own now.

Posted by Woozle Whert1313 2010-01-23 18:24|| 2010-01-23 18:24|| Front Page Top

#11

Posted by ed 2010-01-23 19:28|| 2010-01-23 19:28|| Front Page Top

#12 Hmm, must have overwritten the comment:
Stick a fork in him. He's done.

Posted by ed 2010-01-23 19:30|| 2010-01-23 19:30|| Front Page Top

#13 Damn--nice to read a well-written summary of all that transpired, especially since I wasn't there to witness the unveiling of his true nature.

I used to be a daily LGF reader, but felt that the site was becoming nothing but a hatefest and stopped visiting long ago. The shortcut remained in my "Favorites" collecting e-dust well before the flame wars broke out. When I finally heard about them, I re-visited the site, saw what it had become, and deleted the link altogether.

I continue to see blogs post attacks on Johnson (especially singling out his bland photography) now and then. Really, the best thing to do is forget this guy. His megalomania only feeds on the attention, be it good or bad.

Speaking of which, I had forgotten about him until I saw this article. I'll go back to that happy state soon enough.

Posted by Dar 2010-01-23 20:38|| 2010-01-23 20:38|| Front Page Top

#14

Posted by KBK 2010-01-23 21:16|| 2010-01-23 21:16|| Front Page Top

#15 Still on the 'burg blogroll, for some reason.

Posted by KBK 2010-01-23 21:19|| 2010-01-23 21:19|| Front Page Top

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