I hear you, and I don’t disagree. But Johnson has also done some bona fidededly [sorry; needed a new word] weird stuff that a lot of normal libs don’t do. For instance, he had a henchman post racial slurs on Hotair in the middle of the night, and then made a big brouhaha over the number of hours the comments were allowed to remain posted prior to deletion. To me, that speaks more of mental illness than of just snapping back into high-handed holier-than-thou leftist knee-jerk liberalism.
That tactic is not unique to him nor to Hot Air. It’s been attempted in numerous places including FR, by numerous usual suspects.
Just par for the course, staging propaganda yourself and then pretending to write objectively about it. Speaks to the self-serving nature of the blog beast, as well as the abject lack of a moral compass among the left in general and leftist bloggers in particular.