Posted on 01/26/2010 3:04:45 AM PST by Michael van der Galien
On Sunday, The New York Times Magazine featured an article on Charles Johnson, whose website — littlegreenfootballs — had for years been very popular among conservatives and among all those who believed that Islamic terror and Islamic religious totalitarianism were the greatest expressions of contemporary evil. The reason for the article was that Mr. Johnson has made a 180-degree turn and is now profoundly, even stridently, anti-right. This is my letter to him.
Dear Charles:
As you know, over the years, I was so impressed with your near-daily documentation of developments in the Islamist world that I twice had you on my national radio show — both times face to face in my studio. And you, in turn, periodically cited my radio show and would tell your many readers when they could hear you on my show.
So it came as somewhat of a shock to see your 180-degree turn from waging war on Islamist evil to waging war on your erstwhile allies and supporters on the right. You attempted to explain this reversal on Nov. 30, 2009, when you published “Why I Parted Ways With The Right.”
You offered 10 reasons, and I would like to respond to them.
First, as disappointed as I am with your metamorphosis, I still have gratitude for all the good you did and I respect your change as a sincere act of conscience. But neither this gratitude nor this respect elevates my regard for your 10 points. They are well beneath the intellectual and moral level of your prior work. They sound like something Keith Olbermann would write if he were given 10 minutes to come up with an attack on conservatives.
(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...
Another great Prager commentary. I see Free Republic got a brief mention.
How typical. How sickening.
Free Republic has been here for more than a decade, with traffic that blows LGF away.
Has the NY Times ever had an article about us? NO!
Have they ever had an article about Jim Robinson?
NO!
May Charles Johnson fade away quickly. Loser.
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Charles Johnson? I see insanity on that face, in the photo of him.
Charles Johnson has simply lost his mind, or been secretly replaced by Code Pink. Either way, he ain’t worth my time anymore.
I deleted the link to LGF months ago. I would no more listen to him than Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro. I’d rather hear nothing than nonsense.
What’s next for CJ, Scientology?
Charles Johnson couldn’t polish Jim Thompson’s toenails.
I think Charles Johnson got himself infected with some sort of Communist poon-tang and the resulting dementia took over faster than usual.
“Another great Prager commentary. I see Free Republic got a brief mention.”
Yeah, but we’re only #8 on Johnson’s list.
We need to try harder.
Did somebody find Charles with pictures of little girls or boys on his computer?
The only comparison to this 180* turn is the strange metamorphasis of Scott Ritter, who it turns out, is a little girl internet stalker.
Somebody, I believe, blackmailed Ritter into his shift.
Charles’ shift is just as strange and unlikely.
“Did somebody find Charles with pictures of little girls or boys on his computer?”
In this day and age I wouldn’t be surprised if nefarious arms of government agencies were to attempt this for blackmail purposes. I wouldn’t put anything past the useful dupes of O’blahblah.
Charles Johnson makes for the perfect target BECAUSE he is a known code maven. No jury would ever believe he was ever set up.
Besides that... so he’s changed his mind, it is a free country after all. It’s not like he’s a John Dean.
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