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A Sad Day in the Blog World The "Death" of a Legend; Little Green Footballs
The Lid ^ | 12/1/09 | The Lid

Posted on 12/01/2009 6:12:25 AM PST by Shellybenoit

Mark the date, On November 30th 2009, Little Green Footballs officially Died. The site has officially changed from being a Conservative to a Liberal Site. There were always rumors that Charles was really a liberal who was faking his political philosophy just to make a buck, but they were so hard to believe, he was a passionate conservative, so believable.

But in the end Little Green Footballs died from a long drawn-out illness called supporter-cide. Charles Johnson the man behind LGF decided to ban every single one of his supporters. It was painful to watch.

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Politics
KEYWORDS: charlesjohnson; internet; lgf; littlegreenfootballs
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1 posted on 12/01/2009 6:12:26 AM PST by Shellybenoit
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To: Shellybenoit

Never trust an avid bicyclist...


2 posted on 12/01/2009 6:13:46 AM PST by Haiku Guy (What I like about Karma is that it means that all the people I've screwed over deserved it - Dogbert)
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To: Haiku Guy
Never trust an avid bicyclist...


3 posted on 12/01/2009 6:16:55 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: Shellybenoit

This is sad.
LGF was one of my favs for a while.


4 posted on 12/01/2009 6:22:07 AM PST by netmilsmom (I am Ilk)
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To: Haiku Guy

I'm just sayin'... ;-)

5 posted on 12/01/2009 6:22:57 AM PST by Dead Corpse (III)
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To: Haiku Guy

He’s bought the Global Warming scam hook, line and sinker. He even uses rhetorical devices not found in the scientific method to smear those who do not believe what he believes by comparing them to Nazi’s (deniers).


6 posted on 12/01/2009 6:23:49 AM PST by Boiling Pots (Barack Obama: The Final Turd George W. Bush laid on America)
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To: Shellybenoit
There were always rumors that Charles was really a liberal who was faking his political philosophy just to make a buck,

Either that or a liberal chick got to him.

7 posted on 12/01/2009 6:23:49 AM PST by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: Moonman62

I blame California.


8 posted on 12/01/2009 6:26:05 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper (Troll babysitter for hire. Will work for Christmas cookies.)
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To: Shellybenoit

In the end Charles began to believe his own clippings. He became too self-important and stopped allowing anyone to disagree with him on his site.

9 posted on 12/01/2009 6:26:16 AM PST by elli1
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To: Shellybenoit
Shame. The trouble with a political blogger like Charles Johnson "switching sides" is that now neither side is going to trust him. He has burned his bridge to the conservatives, and he'll never be able to build one to the liberals.

Maybe he can make it as a cycling blogger. :)

10 posted on 12/01/2009 6:26:43 AM PST by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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To: Moonman62

>> a liberal chick got to him <<

Arianna Huffingandpuffington?


11 posted on 12/01/2009 6:30:07 AM PST by Hawthorn
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To: Shellybenoit

LGF has become cult, with a group of sycophantic posters who provide the cult leader with unending agreement and unending praise. Only the slightest deviation from the accepted cult beliefs is tolerated, and the axe can fall quickly on any who express disagreement. Their little + and - feature where one can approve or disapprove of any comment posted reminds me of the old thumbs up and thumbs down at the Roman Coliseum events, or sort of a different twist on the blackballing rituals used by other narrow, insular groups.

I was one of the earliest readers in early 2002, and a fairly frequent poster until about three years ago when the purges began for various reasons. Still registered, but just gradually drifted away as the site began it’s transition to what it has now become.


12 posted on 12/01/2009 6:42:04 AM PST by Will88
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To: Hawthorn

Ewwwwww.


13 posted on 12/01/2009 6:47:38 AM PST by Cyber Liberty (Ram "Health Care Reform" down our throats in '09, and we'll ram it up your @ss in '10.)
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To: Will88

LGF has become cult, with a group of sycophantic posters who provide the cult leader with unending agreement and unending praise. Only the slightest deviation from the accepted cult beliefs is tolerated, and the axe can fall quickly on any who express disagreement.

One could say the same about Rush and Sean Kool-aid drinkers! “People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones”. Just sayin’


14 posted on 12/01/2009 6:50:08 AM PST by Cyclone59 (I ROCK, Guitar Hero said so........)
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To: Cyclone59

Comparing Charles with his 3 readers to talk show hosts that have multiple millions of listeners is pretty thin.


15 posted on 12/01/2009 6:53:17 AM PST by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: Shellybenoit

Goodbye and who cares. Stupid name anyway...LGF’s. Sounds dopey as a liberal anyway.


16 posted on 12/01/2009 6:59:47 AM PST by tflabo
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To: Cyclone59
One could say the same about Rush and Sean Kool-aid drinkers! “People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones”. Just sayin’

Yeah, you're 'Just sayin' a lot of BS. There is more disagreement on one of Rush's or Sean's shows than is allowed at LFG in a month. The place has become a cult, and I watched the transition since early 2002.

And, LFG once celebrated a mention of the site from Rush, with the immediate surge of several thousand visitors. But now Rush is on the unacceptable list.

17 posted on 12/01/2009 7:00:56 AM PST by Will88
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To: Shellybenoit

This guy was ALWAYS a leftist. He got caught up in the fashionable post-9/11 fear/war-mongering generally associated with the GOP. He was all about the War on Terror, and everything else failed to even merit second-issue status.

Finally, after almost of a decade of riding the WoT issue astride a similarly obsessed GOP, a political shifting of the winds back toward domestic issues merely revealed the fundamental dissimilarity between the neoconservative philosophy (an outgrowth of socialist thought with explicit nationalistic and militaristic elements) LGF embodied and the conservative-classical liberal synthesis.


18 posted on 12/01/2009 7:05:45 AM PST by M203M4 (Durn it! Every time I go out boating, I lose another one!)
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To: Dead Corpse
I just love seeing the difference between the bikes Bush is riding and the bikes underneath Kerry and Obama. Kind of like the difference between a Harley and moped.
19 posted on 12/01/2009 7:09:50 AM PST by wbarmy (Hard core, extremist, and right-wing is a little too mild for my tastes.)
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To: Shellybenoit

Little Green Footballs Died Nov 30 2009

MAY THEY REST IN PISS


20 posted on 12/01/2009 7:13:30 AM PST by PoloSec (Paul: 2Tim2:7 Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.)
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