Posted on 08/21/2009 11:56:21 AM PDT by Notoriously Conservative
I've noticed a much more moderate tone at Little Green Footballs lately. Has LGF jumped the shark, and gone left of center? He has admitted that prior to 9/11 he used to be left of center; perhaps he is on his way back. As my good friend Bunk pointed out, CJ's claim to fame was exposing the forged "memo" that Dan Rather was hawking to smear GWB. All CJ did was post the proof that came as a tip from one of his readers.
There is a site out there with a list of those that have been banned from LGF, Kirly. There are over 928 in all. Why so ban happy? And why the recen moderate tones? For example, concerning Glenn Beck:
About 20 major companies have now pulled their advertisements from the Glenn Beck Comedy Hour; the latest to bail out is Farmers Insurance.Concerning Barney Frank:However ...
A Fox News spokesperson told the Daily News yesterday that advertisers referenced have all moved their spots from Beck to other programs on the network so there has been no revenue lost.
... and that means this is a pretty meaningless boycott, since Fox News has no incentive to do anything about Becks extremist statements, even if they wanted to.
Im not Barney Franks biggest fan (that would probably be him), but he handled this idiot with an "Obama = Hitler" sign exactly the right way.Since when has Barney Frank handled anything the right way? Except perhaps a male intern.
On Obama:
Barack Obama ran on a platform of sheer positive messages. Not once did he wish for the other side to fail. You're just wrong to claim that negativity is winning strategy. One of the big reasons why Obama won was because he did NOT go negative -- everFrom Ace of Spades:
What was once a must read blog for news and analysis on my rss feed has recently become a once or twice a day stop and that's only for the car crash quality of it all.(...)
Sadly I can only conclude there's no room for me anymore under LGF's big tent.
Looks to me like LGF has veered from the "right" course, and is now muddled in the gray mists of the middle ground. It's sad to see the ship go down.
What are your views on LGF? Do you agree? Were you banned? Why?
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I was banned a few months ago (Sourdough) for daring to disagree with CJ’s views on Glenn Beck and a few other topics. When I promised to kneel and cross myself while uttering the phrase “jazz musician” it was over.
Well, veered him toward a libertarian outlook at least. he never much cared for the “right” when it came to social issues.
I did like the site though. I can’t remember the exact day I stopped reading there, but it’s a shame because it used to be on the best out there. I wonder if this shift back to the Left has rewarded him at all in site hits or profits? Certainly haven’t noticed it’s brought him better buzz than he had a couple years ago.
Men with ponytails generally are not that bright.
I was banned as a dangerous conservative (I suppose.) Never did find out why. But yes, LGF was a daily read for me, even after my posting privileges were revoked for truth-telling. I now go back every few weeks, but CJ has become a scion of the left. Too bad.
I was banned as a dangerous conservative (I suppose.) Never did find out why. But yes, LGF was a daily read for me, even after my posting privileges were revoked for truth-telling. I now go back every few weeks, but CJ has become a scion of the left. Too bad.
I happen not to be a creationist, or a Euro fascist, or a mainstream conservative either (I consider myself to be a "small-L libertarian"), so it's not my ox that's being gored, but nevertheless I have lately been avoiding the site because it has lost its interest and relevance...
I'm going to remove it from my browser's "quick links" menu to reclaim the space for something more worthy of the spot...
CJ, like Peggy Noonan and Michael Smerconish (among others), has found out that trashing conservatives gets you a lot of face time on TV.
Gates of Vienna expressed support for Wilders and their right party, which is very nationalistic, sort of like a "denmark for Danes" which surfaced when the cartoons came out. GoV's position is generally against any form of islam which is used to destroy european cultural and national identity. LGF called GoV a nazi racist... and that's when I felt that honest thinking was shuttering it's windows in that blog.
Shame... to think that he actually had a hand in the uncovering of Dan Rather's National Guard fraud...
JG
Online 28 years, and the sole site that ever banned yers trooly is... guess who?
For associating with another site that was formed at The Crazy Guy's behest at LGF to "take that Katrina stuff elsewhere."
Yep, guilt by association, no warning, no refund of money I sent the creep when he claimed he was hurting.
If you really want it, I can give you exhaustive links, quotes, and essays by others who were wrongly or arbitrarily banned.
Let's just say he once did useful work, but no more.
I expect he'll endorse Duh!1 next election.
I guess I was just a bit slow -- I didn't drop them until last week.
Was a very early reader of LGF and occasional commenter, late 2001 and early 2002. Loved the site for several years. Just drifted away as the purges escalated and their current brand of political correctness began to set in around 2006. Still a registered member, but only drop by now and then to observe the group behavior.
On the forged “memo” it was a Freeper 1st
Our own Buckhead -'on Free Republic by Buckhead'--
No need to bother with the effort. LGF is dying without anybody's assistance. LGF's site analytics profile has it just having 74K unique visitors, down from 194K in January. FR has over 15 times the traffic of LGF. Mentioning LGF here just means more traffic for them.
I found this thread by doing a google search. I was just in the process of making new RSS feeds to my website and I went to Litte Green Footballs to add them as well as several others only to see posts railing against the right wing and another accusing the “anti-choice” crowd of applauding Tiller’s death?!
Wasn’t this a conservative blog? What the heck happened to this guy? Did someone spike his drink with the liberal koolaid or something?
Wasn’t this the blog that did the original investigation into the fake Bush documents on CBS that eventually led to Dan Rather’s resignation?
Wow.
Oh well... looks like it’s into the recyling bin with LGF...
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