A Major Defection In The Conservative Blogosphere

Salon ^ | 2/4/09 | Alex Koppelman

[steve-b]

For much of this decade, Charles Johnson was one of the right's leading bloggers. His blog, Little Green Footballs, was famous for its focus on Islamic terrorism, but also for the role it played in "Rathergate" and in exposing various faked photography....

On Monday, Johnson made the split official, with a post headlined, "Why I Parted Ways With The Right." In it, he gave a list of reasons for the break...

Johnson concluded the post saying, "The American right wing has gone off the rails, into the bushes, and off the cliff. I won't be going over the cliff with them."

At this point, his former comrades in the conservative blogosphere aren't likely to be shedding any tears over his loss. But Johnson was once one of the biggest figures among them.

[Nonstatist]

The swish left. What of it? It’s so hard to keep gay people happy. They so much want to be the center of attention.

[TC Rider]

Paging David Brock!!

Make room on the sofa.

[DManA]

Who cares?

[grey_whiskers]

Charles Johnson is as conservative as David Brooks or Kathleen Parker.

Or Romney.

Nice try, though.

Cheers!

[SJSAMPLE]

LGF gets the credit for exposing “Rathergate”, when it was a Freeper that provided the damning evidence of document fraud?

What gives?

[TexasCajun]

Well Chuck, Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya!

Now go write some speeches for Mitt.

[ReneeLynn]

It’s hard to go over a cliff when you’re already at rock bottom, dude. I guess the left will suit him just fine then.

[steve-b]

Who cares?

A major schism when one of the biggest conservative advocates decides that the conservative faction has left him is rather big news to be tossed off so blithely....

[steve-b]

There were FR posts expressing suspicions, but it was LGF that provided the evidence (i.e. matching the typography of the fake documents to modern MS Word defaults).

[sauropod]

read

[TChris]

Anyone care to recap/summarize his reasons? (I don’t feel like reading his whole rant...)

[DManA]

LGF has been loosing it’s bearings for years. I stopped reading it long ago.

[mad_as_he$$]

Oh please. It is not a defection when an actor reveals his true colors. Good riddance.

[cripplecreek]

Taking his little green football and going home. LOL

[B-Chan]

Johnson and Frank Schaffer should get an apartment together. I hear there’s a sweet two-bedroom loft opening up at the Hotel Judas Iscariot.

[SJSAMPLE]

I thought it was a FReeper that provided the first typeface evidence?