Charles Johnson’s Done

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Charles Johnson’s Done

Charles Johnson's gone completely off his rocker.Â I wondered, when I started writing at my own site, where all the commenters were coming from accusing Stacy McCain of being a neo-Nazi crypto-racist, and now I'm pretty sure I know, because Charles has made that accusation towards Stacy.Â All of those visitors had one thing in common: when I pressed them for evidence, they didn't have any.

Dan Riehl writes about this invidious libel here.Â Meanwhile, Charles has apparently swallowed hook, line and sinker the view that resistance to the policies of The One is prima facie evidence of racism, a canard voiced by pothead pseudo-intellectual Bill Maher, for which he's receiving kudos from the sycophantic worshippers of Baracky (scroll down at News Busters for more allegations of racism).Â I will remind you that it is Barack's Department of Justice that dropped the charges against the New Black Panthers for menacing people at the polls in Philadelphia.Â The New Black Panthers are regarded as a racist group by, of all people, the Southern Poverty Law Center.Â I'll also remind you that the recently semi-departed Van Jones regarded himself as a Black Nationalist, and that Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was, until her vetting, a member of the separatist group La Raza.Â Nor did Obama's immediate response to the arrest of Skip Gates allay concerns that he sees everything through the prism of race, which, if anything can be said to be characteristic of a racist, suggests that there's rather a beam in his eye, the clueless, ideologically blinded numbskull.Â I'll merely mention that the Reverend Wright also screeched out against Whitey, accusing him of concocting AIDS in a laboratory in order to visit a holocaust on the Black Man.Â What's that, you say?Â George Bush's AIDS policies has saved over a million in Africa?Â It was all a PR stunt, like the one that was perpetrated on ACORN by the hidden camera stingers, who are naturally raaaaacists for having done so.

Obama's Achilles heel is that he's a douchebag.

As Dan says, I can't speak for Stacy, who speaks well enough for himself, but I certainly can speak to the baselessness of the accusation.Â Charles has performed so many purges over the past couple of years that you'd think he believes that he's a one-man Stalinist politburo.Â I stopped looking at his site a long time ago, when it became clear that everyone's damning offense, to Charles, was the fact that they didn't agree with his odd points of view.Â Simple non-agreement is enough to earn you the Wrath of Charles, whose singularity on the issues has come to resemble Pat Buchanan's.Â He sees Birchers in the woodwork.

In other words, fuck off, Charles.Â And while I'm at it, you can fuck off, too, Andrew.

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Bob Reed
September 13th, 2009 - 10:27

Cj is simply hastening the demise of the RAAAAAAACIST! as a viable political attack and social smear in America. It’s long been analogous to “the boy who cried wolf” fable, and guys like CJ, and indeed the entire Democrat establishment-especially the intellectual elite-are always seeking and finding supposed RAAAAAACIST! intent or motivation in every act of their ideological opponents, are helping to lower the stock of that now essentially gratuitous charge…

And I’ll be happy to assess and discuss any reforms that the Democrats finally wish to impose on the financial industry in our nation. And, while I wish they had been willing to show more post-partisanship when Boooooosh! and the Rethugs! had tried to regulate and reform the system over the past 8 years, I’ll approach that discussion with an open mind, clasically disinterested point-of-view, and with the foremost item on my agenda being what is simultaneously good for the nation, individual system participants, and the continued capitalistic functioning of that system with the most minimal government interference…

I will say though, it doesn’t help the administration or the President that they are entering into said discussion with a growing reputation for bad faith negotiation and a willingness to open lie to the public in order to influence the argument in their favor…

And, unlike Boooooooosh!, there won’t be an entire host of foreign ministries that will have relevant, or even germaine, input into that discussion that may later turn our to be incorrect…

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Joe
September 13th, 2009 - 14:22

Charles Johnson is upset that Stacy McCain put hot sauce on his bike seat.

Either that or he went insane.

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jim L.
September 13th, 2009 - 17:03

“Obama has been a great President so far. I respect him.” Obama has been a terrible President so far. I don`t respect him. Boy, your`re tough to debate, Edgell!

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dicentra
September 13th, 2009 - 18:55

I looked at the links that Charles provided, and the only damning quotations attributed to RSM are the following:

“[T]he media now force interracial images into the public mind and a number of perfectly rational people react to these images with an altogether natural revulsion. The white person who does not mind transacting business with a black bank clerk may yet be averse to accepting the clerk as his sister-in-law, and THIS IS NOT RACISM, no matter what Madison Avenue, Hollywood and Washington tell us.”

That’s from New York Press, and there’s no link to where he got that quote.

Then there’s this from the extremely unreliable Southern Poverty Law Center, again with no source:

Or, as LOS [League of the South] member and Washington Times national reporter Robert Stacy McCain says in an essay posted on the Leagueâ€™s main site, slavery was ‘generally’ characterized by ‘cordial and affectionate relations between white and black Southerners.’”

As for the first quote, which has been circulated throughout the internet, this entry at AllExperts quotes RSM as roundly denying having said that thing.

The provenance of the second quote is dubious as well. They allege that he said these things on white supremacist web sites that no longer exist, so hey, allege away!

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Stogie
September 13th, 2009 - 20:22

Friends,

I have personal knowledge of McCain’s views on race going back to 1995 and yes, he is NOT a racist.

See my explanations at:
http://saberpoint.blogspot.com/2009/09/robert-stacy-mccain-i-know-him-better.html

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Larry Sheldon
September 13th, 2009 - 20:56

Reading comments on this blog is sure a waste of time.

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Stogie
September 13th, 2009 - 21:03

dicentra,

Having read two books on the history of American slavery, I can attest to the accuracy of whoever commented on cordial relations between master and slave being common in the ante-bellum South. During the Great Depression the Writer’s Project was part of the WPA and many former slaves were interviewed and their testimony written down. They, the former slaves, are the ones who described this politically incorrect truth. If something is factually true, it cannot be “racist.”

There was a practical reason (as well as a humanitarian one) for being kind to the slaves: happy slaves were more productive and did not try to run away.

Whether McCain ever said it or not is irrelevant. Web sources attribute the remark to one that McCain allegedly stated in a speech to Sons of Confederate Veterans.

The first comment on interracial marriage was spoken by Michael Hill, President of the League of the South. It was misattributed to McCain and other bloggers, including CJ at LGF, repeated it, as did the Southern Poverty Law Center. I have been friends with McCain for 15 years and he has always known that I am in an interracial marriage. It is highly doubtful that McCain cares who marries whom (as long as they are of the opposite sex).

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The Monster
September 13th, 2009 - 23:08

It was misattributed to McCain and other bloggers, including CJ at LGF, repeated it, as did the Southern Poverty Law Center

A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can put its shoes on.

If you were to pass this information to CJ, his response if any would be to call you an “apologist for a racist” or somesuch nonsense. (The irony of the logical equivalence with “n—-r lover” does not escape me, but obviously does CJ.) Once someone is Bad, anyone who tries to offer any evidence to the contrary must therefore be Bad as well.

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Alz
September 14th, 2009 - 01:46

I stopped going to CJ’s site earlier in the year. I think there is something wrong with him.

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Edgell McHickfistter
September 14th, 2009 - 05:01

Type your comment here

Stogie :

dicentra,
Having read two books on the history of American slavery, I can attest to the accuracy of whoever commented on cordial relations between master and slave being common in the ante-bellum South. During the Great Depression the Writerâ€™s Project was part of the WPA and many former slaves were interviewed and their testimony written down. They, the former slaves, are the ones who described this politically incorrect truth. If something is factually true, it cannot be â€œracist.â€
There was a practical reason (as well as a humanitarian one) for being kind to the slaves: happy slaves were more productive and did not try to run away.
Whether McCain ever said it or not is irrelevant. Web sources attribute the remark to one that McCain allegedly stated in a speech to Sons of Confederate Veterans.
The first comment on interracial marriage was spoken by Michael Hill, President of the League of the South. It was misattributed to McCain and other bloggers, including CJ at LGF, repeated it, as did the Southern Poverty Law Center. I have been friends with McCain for 15 years and he has always known that I am in an interracial marriage. It is highly doubtful that McCain cares who marries whom (as long as they are of the opposite sex).

I bet your two books were big heavy hardcovers. And it’s reasonable to assume you didn’t read them but, rather, beat yourself silly with them.

I, too, have a read a book, maybe even two. I’m very certain slavery in the South was not a well-functioning management/labor relationship that’s been falsely depicted as less than cordial.

It’s too early in the morning and you loony-zoomers are fuckin’ up my second mug of coffee morning buzz.

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Pablo
September 14th, 2009 - 05:51

Type your comment here

Wow, that’s the brightest thing you’ve ever said here, McVicklicker. Where did you get your inspiration?

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richard mcenroe
September 14th, 2009 - 08:03

Ya really gotta got keep McDickLicker around, Dan. He saves you so much effort. You say lefties never give examples, he proves. You say they argue from ad hominem and abuse, he displays it.

Saves you boocoo effort. All you have to do is train your other posters to ignore him and stay on topic:

To wit, as soon as ANY leftie poster posts ONE racist statement by McCain, I’ll be interested in discussing it. In the meantime, they’re welcome to go back to drawing nipples on Sarah Palin pictures or whatever they do in their real lives.

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Mikey NTH
September 14th, 2009 - 08:25

Having the names above the comments helps with scrolling.

About LGF – haven’t been there in years. It got very weird, too weird for me.

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dymphna
September 14th, 2009 - 12:06

If Charles Johnson is *really* done, would someone please stick a fork in him and let all the fetid air escape?

I feel for “the other McCain” — can’t remember his full name at the moment. Just ran across him at Stephen Green’s coverage of the 9/12 gathering. McCain was calling in updates, iirc,

For a year we were bullied and pummeled by Chazzer. It seemed as though it would never end. Not one larger blog came to our defense; a few smaller blogs stepped up to defend us, but mostly people were indifferent.

I doubt our reputations will ever entirely recover, but it’s wonderful to know the torture is over. Charles has not only jumped the shark but the creature ate his brain in the process.
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I live in a rural area that is largely black, at least in our section. The people around me are the descendants of slaves and they don’t have family stories about Massah being a kind ol’ dude. What they do recall is the grinding poverty and how hard they had to work to get anything, even electricity.

BTW, those mansions of white slave-owners that haven’t fallen into decay are still lived in by the white descendants. Some are racists (esp. the older crowd), but many are not. This is one section where you can still here the word “nigrah” used. That’s the polite Southern racist term. Until I moved here, I had no idea it was still in anyone’s lexicon.

FDR’s rural electrification project reached the poor black areas last. The house I live in got connected sometime in the ’40s. Later, in the ’60s they had enough money to have a well with an electrified pump so that they could have running water in the house. in the mid ’90s we actually had central heat in this house for the first time.

In my kamikaze liberal youth I was a member of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Back then, they were doing some good things — like trying to connect very poor rural Mississippi black families with middle class families who would help them with basic necessities. This Ms. Box Project didn’t last long: good idea, but no oversight or management ideas for on-going collaboration.

Now the SPLC is just like the ACLU, just more paranoid and less effective. Anything either group says is suspect.

If you want a good look at the shadows of the past, try moving to a southern rural community in which the descendants of both sides still live. Neither group moved to the cities and left :”all that” behind them. It’s still here, in people’s hearts.

There is an accomodation of sorts but the old tensions are there, under the surface.

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Riker
September 14th, 2009 - 12:39

This saga reminds me of Jeff Goldstein’s decline from grace. Most blog commenters are sycophantic. If that’s all you read, every day, how long until you believe your own hype?

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bastiches
September 14th, 2009 - 13:12

Saves you boocoo effort. All you have to do is train your other posters to ignore him and stay on topic:

Or… it’s annoying as fuck that the troll is tolerated here. He adds nothing except a foul temperament.

Dan, his time was up 5 minutes after you started your blog.

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Dymphna
September 14th, 2009 - 14:26

Most blog commenters are sycophantic. If thatâ€™s all you read, every day, how long until you believe your own hype?

My experience with commenters are that they’re a fiesty bunch. Our requirement that they remain civil is one that strains their inventiveness sometimes…

Besides, if you’re blogging regularly, you’re not likely to be following the comments section very closely. That is, unless a thread goes sideways…

It’s fun to get away from that and peruse the topics that other bloggers find interesting. I wouldn’t have found this site except for an email from a reader suggesting we look at your post.

Glad i did.

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Edgell McHickfistter
September 14th, 2009 - 15:17

Glad u did 2…

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MCS
September 14th, 2009 - 15:20

This comment got me banned from LGF

“Yes, I could. The fact of the matter is while my criticism has sometimes been pointed in this thread, none of my comments deserve outright dismissal.

If LGF wants to be a place of discussion, then I think my previous comments should be welcomed.

If it wants to be something else, well then…”

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/showc/250/7680565

Now, it’s Charles site, and he can certainly do what he wants with it. But the fact is that is a very innocuous statement, especially by internet standards.

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Gagdad Bob
September 14th, 2009 - 17:00

The Talkin’ Charles Johnson Paranoid Blues.

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Daryl Herbert
September 14th, 2009 - 21:22

I broke with LGF several months ago. After about 7 years of having it in my bookmarks (and then, my RSS feed) I shut it off. I’ve barely been back since (mostly to gawk at the seething, paranoid anti-Conservative hate).

It was when Johnson took a swipe at the Tea Parties that I had to quit. I mean, Glenn Beck IS kind of a loud mouth and there’s at least 10% of what he says that I won’t sign off on. If CJ wants to take some shots at Glenn Beck, I’m okay with that. That didn’t drive me away. Beck is an outsized personality and can stick up for himself–same as Rush Limbaugh.

But attacking the Tea Parties? As crypto-Nazi Ron Paul front groups that threaten to corrupt the conservative movement and the very fiber of our nation itself? Get a grip, dude. At that point, I knew there was something wrong with Johnson’s heart. So I bailed.

Of course, I made a point of saying that he was only a few months away from Andrew Sullivanism, and that comment got me banned . . . but being right has brought me no happiness.

In any event, I think of Charles Johnson like I think of Metallica: thanks for the awesome riffs, dudes, and I will always respect your past work, and you certainly don’t owe ME anything, but there’s still no way I’m listening to the sh#t you put out today.

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- Enoch_Root
  September 15th, 2009 - 06:13
  
  nicely done
  
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TallGrrl
September 15th, 2009 - 11:34

“The One”?
So…I now have to go back and watch my Matrix Trilogy to find out WTF you’re talking about?

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- Pablo
  September 16th, 2009 - 00:06
  
  That one.
  
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baldilocks
September 15th, 2009 - 22:22

Demon possession

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marla Placke
February 13th, 2010 - 07:08

Hey, you doing well? I recently purchased a superbike and I do need some help with a problem i have been having ever since i bought it. I am the type of individual that gets cold very easy and i cannot seem to stay warm enough on my Bike! Do you maybe know how I can i fix this?

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