Saturday, December 12, 2009

The Devolution Of Charles Johnson


From Wizbang:

A couple of weeks ago, I had a bit of my say about the devolution of Charles Johnson and Little Green Footballs. In the course of that article, I cited a few quotes from the LGF Dictionary which seemed decidedly at odds with the current direction of the site.

Well, Charles apparently agreed with me, because the vaunted LGF Dictionary is no more.

It still lives on in Google's cache, for now and I was foresighted enough (for once) to save a LGF Dictionary.pdf copy on my laptop.

I'd be curious to hear Charles' reasoning for deleting the dictionary...

From LGF Banned And Blocked:

LGF banned blocked AND OBLITERATED - Volume 1

The happenin's with Little Green Footballs since "Banned and Blocked" closed down have been dizzying! As I noted, many, many others have taken up the close scrutiny of the psychological and sociological case of Charles Johnson and his blog.

This update regards a very interesting new development in the Little Green Footballs story - Charles Johnson has started seriously trying to change history by obliterating past comments going back all the way to registration in 2004 and, in some cases, beyond.

I'm not including the one-off flouncers and discovered sock-puppets with a dozen or so posts who get their entire LGF life's work flicked away. I'm only including the "heavy hitters" in this series of posts.

This is a report on the known members of the banned, blocked, AND OBLITERATED crowd:

1. SAVAGE NATION. I believe that this thorn in Charles' side was the first to be completely nuked. A full report on the circumstances can be found here. Since his obliteration, savage_nation has gone on to bigger things - his identity was outrageously outed by Charles, he is a regular poster at Rayra's Grouchy Conservative Pundits site, and, of course, he is a key member of the LGF 2.0 blogmocracy gang and their alternately hilarious and terrifying site.

2. SONG AND DANCE MAN. Case study #4, song_and_dance_man (SADM) followed his original banning with the unpardonable sin, in October 2008, of posting on Robert Spencer's Jihad Watch website. Or so says Charles (I have no interest in wading into that cesspool to verify). Charles, or one of his toadies, then apparently rifled through SADM's over 30,000 posts (now THAT's a job for the internship from hell!) and found a couple that sounded racist. So Charles obliterated SADM's "contributions" to his illustrious website. Of all of the victims of obliteration, SADM probably deserved it least - although Charles would never admit error, he undoubtedly realized that if SADM could be obliterated, then about 75% of his total posts would have to go. But, like Josef Stalin's red purges of the 1930's, the obliteration of the innocuous SADM undoubtedly sent shivers through lizardoid toady hearts.

There's more. Click the link above to read the whole thing.

My comments: I went looking for my comments history at LGF a couple months ago.

I could not find any comments to my name.


One has to wonder if he's also doing the same thing to the old posts.


I believe at least some of the reason for Charles' change is fear.


Why else would he erase history?


I have no idea what he might be afraid of, though
it could have something to do with this.

Maybe not.

Whatever. It is his right to do what he wants to do with his own site.

16 comments:

BabbaZee said...

Who?

Pastorius said...

Weren't your comments similarly erased from the record?

BabbaZee said...

So they tell me.

BabbaZee said...

However all the research I did on the VB remains

Pastorius said...

The research you posted in the comments threads, or the research that Charles used in the body of his posts.

BabbaZee said...

the posts at my place that he linked to

BabbaZee said...

WFRL sends this one out to Chazzy Darwin Jay & the Igors

http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/song/Big+Lizard/36167

L'Chaim!

Charles Johnson said...

Pastorius and BabbaZee,

Your mindless acceptance and incessant parroting of my Antifa-supplied lies about the Vlaams Belang was much appreciated, but your overall level of sycophancy leaves a lot to be desired.

Therefore I banned both of you and erased every comment you ever made at my glorious website.

Not that I, Charles Foster Johnson, brilliant jazz guitarist and blogger extrordinaire, owe anyone an explanation for my seemingly bizarre behaviour, but you were banned primarily because you both believe in a magical ghost who lives on a cloud whom you call "God".

And that is simply unacceptable at the new, improved Little Green Footballs.

Atheism now, atheism tomorrow, atheism forever!

midnight rider said...

He meant to say Little Green Snotballs. . .

KKKilgore trout said...

Sir Charles, you were too modest to mention that you're also the greatest scienceologist to ever grace the earth.

Gus802 said...

Charles, You should be the leader of this nation!

Dark_Falcon said...

I never disagree with you almighty Charles!

BabbaZee said...

lol

okeedokee then

Pastorius said...

Charles,
Thank you for visiting our internet blog site. Even though you don't like us anymore, I am still a suckup.

Sharmuta said...

Charles you are wonderful. I admire your ability to respond to these turncoats. You are the voice of Reason. If Americans would simply follow you, then the country would be safe and prosperous.

Pastorius said...

You took the words right out of my mouth, Charles.