A defection on the right
Ben Smith's Blog — ... The blogger Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs -- best known for his role in bringing down Dan Rather -- has been moving away from the right for quite a while, but he just made it official: ...

Little Green Footballs: “Why I Parted Ways With The Right”
The Moderate Voice — ... Little Green Football, long considered one a conservative mega-sites in terms of its big readership, has a post “Why I Parted Ways With The Right.” It’s in the form of a list which you can read in full HERE. ...

Little Green Footballs: ‘Why I Parted Ways With The Right’
The Moderate Voice — ... Little Green Footballs, long considered one of the conservative mega-sites in terms of its big readership, has a post “Why I Parted Ways With The Right.” It’s in the form of a list which you can read in full here. ...

You'readouch you'readouche Can You Do the Fandango
The Jawa Report — December 01, 2009 You'readouch you'readouche Can You Do the Fandango Let's Fisk! 1. Support for fascists, both in America (see: Pat Buchanan, Robert Stacy McCain, etc.) and in Europe (see: Vlaams Belang, BNP, SIOE, Pat Buchanan, etc.) Oh, okay. Well, when you remove your face from Barack Obama's crotch, take two Penicillin and call us in the morning. 2. Support for bigotry, hatred, and white supremacism (see: Pat Buchanan, Ann Coulter, Robert Stacy McCain, Lew Rockwell, etc.) Like nobody on the right has criticized these people. Dude, the internet is forever. 3. Support for ...

Obligatory: Charles Johnson Makes it Official
Ace of Spades HQ — Obligatory: Charles Johnson Makes it Official Ten reasons he's parting ways with the right. Let me save you some time: 1) The right is a bunch of stupid haters. Repeat x10. Eh. I am only linking the traffic-whore drama-queen since the whole left side of the blogosphere just linked him (following Markos), so my contribution is trivial. I just wrote this to Dan Riehl, who'd written me about it: I saw that. Eh. What are ya gonna do. What is interesting to me is there are a large group of people who wish to consider themselves rationalists and pro-science, but are in fact ...

Say it isn't so: Charles Johnson trivializes the Holocaust
Israel Matzav — ... Johnson's Little Green Footballs. Eventually, I posted so many well-received comments on LGF that I started this blog. I admired Charles Johnson as one of the righteous gentiles. Life was good. But like more than 1,500 other people, when Charles turned Left in November 2008, I became expendable and was eventually banned from posting on LGF. From what I can gather, since I was banned in August, LGF has continued to lurch Leftward. On Monday night, Charles published a screed entitled Why I parted ways with the Right (Hat Tip: ...

Welcome back Chuck
culturekitchen - fresh dissent served daily — ... Well, it seems that finally somebody in the right wing blogosphere has had enough of the extremism that engulfed the GOP like a cancer. In Little Green Footballs - Why I Parted Ways With The Right, Charles tells us why he's done with them: ...

Need To Read: December 1, 2009
Mojo Feed | Mother Jones — ... Afghanistan: Can Obama Sell Bush's Used Car? (MoJo) Street Food Fight (MoJo) "You want empire? Then say so and get on with it.... You do not want empire? Then leave." (Andrew Sullivan) Trial of Accused Cole Attack Mastermind Will Test Military Tribunal System (NYT) A Blogger Changes His Mind (Little Green Footballs) "How ...

Charles Johnson Explains The Crazy Hating
Jules Crittenden — ... Only not really. Little Green Footballs  on why he flipped from right to left. The explanation is a little thin. Apparently it works like this. If you disagree with any element of half of the American body politic, you disagree with the whole thing. And if you agree with any part of it, you agree with the whole thing. And the whole thing is crazy and hateful. That’s an inference, because he doesn’t really discuss that. He really only offers the broadest outlines of his crazy hate problem. Which is too bad, because even if you by the premise that broad swaths of America are ...

Don’t pass out - Little Green Footballs post: Why I Parted Ways With the Right
pandagon.net - we are the public option — ... It’s not April Fool’s Day, is it? One of the stalwart go-to blogs on the right—competing up there with rants at Freeperland several years ago was Charles Johnson’s Little Green Footballs. Even LGF has had enough of the lunacy coming out of the teabagger/birther/fundie wing. Enough to write this: ...

Charles Johnson-Grade Schadenfreude
Snapped Shot — In a followup to this childish impetulance, we have an amazing series of pwnages to chronicle: * Robert Stacy McCain fires back with documentary-grade coverage of the whole episode. I hear it'll be titled "In the Pony-Tail of Madness." Paging Sam Neill... * Vinnie lays on a downright fine layer of snark. (his rebuttal for #1 will live in infamy, I'm sure) * Ace o'Spades compares Charles to the waterboy who offers to help the old football team out in extracurricular ways. And then lays down the ULTRA-smack by comparing ...

Charles Johnson ‘Breaks’ From the Right
Outside The Beltway | OTB — ... In a move that has been coming for nearly two years, Charles Johnson has issued a manifesto explaining “Why I Parted Ways With The Right.”  For those who don’t know, Johnson is the founder and principal author of Little Green Footballs, one of the oldest and most popular blogs.  He’d was an elder statesman in the game when I started OTB in January 2003, known as one of the Four Horsemen of the Ablogalypse (along, as I recall, with Instapundit’s Glenn Reynolds, Andrew Sullivan, and the long since ...

Charles Johnson Explains Himself
Moonbattery — ... That was the Cliff Notes version. The actual list includes a lot of Keith Olbermannesque sputtering about hate speech, fascists, racists, Sarah Palin, put-upon homosexuals, and even genocide against Muslims. ...

For Chuckles Johnson, It's Meltdown Number Two
Riehl World View — ... Charles "Chuckles" Johnson has nailed a disturbed and confused manifesto upon the door of his own little private hell of a Black Hole of the blogosphere. When even tempered blogger ...

The Joys of Reason - LGF vs. Glue-Sniffers
At-Largely — Charles Johnson has over the course of a year really earned my respect. His latest blog entry cements my view of him as a reasonable human being. Read this post entitled " Why I parted ways with right ," which is a manifesto of sorts in condemnation of the lunacy and hate-agenda that we have all witnessed from the right-wing. My only criticism is that I think he should have used specific examples to illustrate his points rather than only naming individual hatriots. For instance, he lists the following as one of the reasons he has broken with the right wing: Support for bigotry, ...

CHARLES JOHNSON’S WORLD
Right Wing Nut House — If you haven’t seen it yet, you should go over to Little Green Footballs and read this J’accuse post by Charles Johnson where he briefly lists some of the reasons why he has now, officially “parted ways” with the right. Irony abounds for me in this situation. The fact is, Johnson and I are in lockstep agreement when it comes to many of our criticisms of the right. We both despise the cotton candy conservatism of Beck, Limbaugh, and Coulter et. al. that is occasionally tinged with sniffs of bigotry. We both bemoan the paranoid conspiracies - birthers, and other theories about ...

On Charles Johnson’s retreat from the Right
Political Byline — ... over to Charles Johnson’s reasoning for supposedly parting ways with the right. I believe that it would be intellectually dishonest, if I did not point out the fact that; based upon all of the interviews that Johnson has given both pre and post association with the right, that Charles Johnson never was actually a bona fide Conservative. Charles Johnson was, in fact, a 9/11 liberal who, like many others got caught up in the fervor of patriotism and American Spirit that swept the Nation after the 9/11 attacks. This is because the 9/11 attacks where not attacks on liberals or ...

Leaving the Right
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... It's an odd formulation in some ways as "the right" is not really a single entity. But in so far as it means the dominant mode of discourse among the institutions and blogs and magazines and newspapers and journals that support the GOP, Charles Johnson is absolutely right in my view to get off that wagon for the reasons has has stated. Read his ...

Charles Johnson gives up on the right
Political Animal — ... politics. I wrote at the time, "After having read Little Green Footballs over the years, I didn't expect it to be one of the sites urging conservatives to pull back from the fringes and be more responsible. It's a pleasant surprise. Here's hoping others Charles Johnson's lead." More than six months later, we see that this obviously hasn't happened. And late yesterday, Johnson, at one point one of the highest profile conservative bloggers in the country, announced that he's " parting ways " with the right. He put together a list of developments that Johnson believes pushed him ...

Tuesday lunch tab dump
TigerHawk — ... . The issue is feedbacks, and the whole game turns on whether they are primarily positive or primarily negative. Read the whole thing. Charles Johnson, the personification of Little Green Footballs, explains why he is parting ways with the right. If I agreed with his characterization of the people he cites, I would agree with him. And there is no question that there are righty blog commenters, especially, who write some hideous things (a sad fact I relearn whenever I reveal my fairly dovish views on immigration, for example). But I think that, in the main, Charles is defining ...

Charles Johnson’s Reasons For Leaving the Right
Liberal Values — ... Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs has been rejecting the excesses of the right wing movement for several months. Today he issued a list with the following reasons why he has parted ways with the right: ...

Why Many of Us Parted Ways With The Right
Library Grape — ... Former wingnut Charles Johnson lists out the top ten reasons he parted ways with the right. Most of his points were the things that drove me away from the right as well: ...

Welcome to the land of the sane, Mr. Johnson
Brilliant at Breakfast — Charles Johnson of conservative blog Little Green Footballs has decided he's not going to follow the American right off a cliff. This doesn't mean that Mr. Johnson has suddenly decided to be a progressive, but he's not buying what the worst elements of his side of the fence are selling. ...

Conservative Blogger Charles Johnson Parting Ways With The Right
Crooks and Liars — ... Founder of the blog Little Green Footballs, Charles Johnson has seen the light and decided he can no longer support the right wing of his party and makes no bones about why: ...

Major conservative blog, Little Green Footballs, takes on the hate in the Republican party
AMERICAblog News — I honestly didn't believe this when I saw it. I thought it was a joke. Or perhaps just one writer on a larger group blog. But in fact, the blog, Little Green Footballs, is written by one guy, Charles Johnson. And he has a history of writing a pretty seriously conservative blog, to put it lightly. His post yesterday is spot on. ...

He will be vilified by the Right and if they could they would pillory him and burn him at the stake for his criticism and defection
Mullin's World — ... Little Green Footballs Republican Conservative blogger Charles Johnson has suddenly become a rational Republican and has turned on the Radical Right Wing and calls it like it is. He will be vilified by the Right and if they could they would pillory him and burn him at the stake for his criticism and defection. What I hope is that other Republicans like Charles Johnson will have the courage to follow suit. The fact is that the Radical Evangelical Right has captured the Republican Party, supported by such luminaries as Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Bill (the clown) ...

Charles Johnson Bashes the Right's Warblogging Idiotarians With a Little Green Moonbat
Hit & Run — ... in the other, unleashes a suprise Act III twist upon Barack Obama's America–"Why I Parted Ways With the Right." I'll give the viewers just joining us a moment to catch their breath. ...

I Don't Usually Link to "Little Green Footballs," But...
Blue Virginia — ...this is worth it: Charles Johnson, the founder of this leading conservative blog, breaking definitively with the right wing. According to Johnson, the "American right wing has gone off the rails, into the bushes, and off the cliff." Why is this, in Johnson's view? ...

David Frum Begs CJ to Return, But...
The Jawa Report — December 02, 2009 David Frum Begs CJ to Return, But... ...Frum is a RAAAACIST!!! David tries to woo Charles (Johnson, of Little Green Footballs, who has gone over to the dark side ) back ...

As the right wing degenerates
Infidel753 — ... , now gives us a quick ten-point summary of what made him leave. I can't help noticing that points 3, 4, and 5 essentially derive from the dominance of the Christian Right within conservatism. ...

Prominent Blogger Renounces the Right
NJDC Blog — ... Prominent right wing blogger Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs announced that he renounces his affiliation with the right wing of American politics. In his ten-point manifesto, Johnson cited the rise in outright ...

Won, Too, Three, Fore
The American Scene — ... In her post, Ms. Rittelmeyer is reaction to Charles Johnson’s “break with the right,” as described on Little Green Footballs. I found it ...

Andrew Sullivan: I'm Breaking From The Right
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Johnson, who blogs at Little Green Footballs, wrote on Monday that fanatic politicians, racism, sexism, anti-Islamism, hate speech, conspiracy theories and other troubling trends on the right wing have led him to make a formal break. ...

Andrew Sullivan: I'm Breaking From The Right
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... Johnson, who blogs at Little Green Footballs, wrote on Monday that fanatic politicians, racism, sexism, anti-Islamism, hate speech, conspiracy theories and other troubling trends on the right wing have led him to make a formal break. ...

Reactions to a Manifesto
Little Green Footballs — ... The Week magazine has an article with some reactions to my post “Why I Parted Ways with the Right,” from both left-leaning and right-leaning sites: ...

The Election Made Me Do it
Hit & Run — ... he gave explaining his dramatic I-break-with-thee letter to the Right contained as neat an explanation I've seen for why you shouldn't trust any partisans in the heat of an election: ...

The Jewish Star: Losing the Right To Be Right
Little Green Footballs — ... Charles Johnson, the popular pro-Israel, rightwing blogger of Little Green Footballs, announced he had severed his ties with the political Right. A post entitled “Why I parted ways with the Right” listed his dissatisfaction, which included the right wing’s support for fascists like Pat Buchanan and white supremacists like Robert Stacy McCain. Johnson also wrote about the Right’s support for anti-government conspiracy theories, anti-science craziness and the hatred reserved for President Obama, which goes, in his words, far “beyond simply criticizing ...

LGF on Alan Colmes Show
Little Green Footballs — ... tonight at 7:30 pm Pacific time, to discuss my post “Why I Parted Ways with the Right,” so synchronize your watches, find your local Fox station, and watch out for exploding heads. ...

The Awards!
Antiwar.com Original — ... fallen between the cracks, a fate shared by many far less weighty tomes. Going from the sublime to the grotesque, we present the very first Charles Johnson Award, which goes to that individual in the public eye who has no compunctions about stabbing his former friends and allies in the back and attacking them for the very traits he or she exemplifies. Johnson, who is, as you may know, a blogger with a reputation for giving a forum to vilest sort of anti-Arab racism, and whose blog, " Little Green Footballs ," became a haven for the hateful, has now repudiated his awful past in ...

Brad Guesting Hosting 'Malloy Show' TONIGHT (Tuesday)!
The BRAD BLOG — ... , on why he left the Right, what the hell is wrong with the wingnuts, and how/if we can ever get back to political sanity in this country. ...

Irony of ironies: Libelblogger Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs whines about being libeled
Jihad Watch — Libelblogger and CAIR tool Charles Johnson is whining at his hard-Left hate site Little Green Footballs about, of all the things that this utterly contemptible human being could be whining about, being libeled. This is rich coming from a man who claimed that Pamela Geller and I support "fascism, violence, and genocide." One thing you can say about Charles Johnson: he knows libel. He's an experienced practitioner. (Paste the links into your address bar; the notoriously thin-skinned libelblogger doesn't allow links from ...

Charles Johnson Got Threats After Breaking With Right, Relocated
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... Prominent blogger Charles Johnson announced last month on his blog, Little Green Footballs, that he had "parted ways with the right." He gave a list of reasons, including "support for fascists ... support for bigotry ... hatred, and white supremacism ... support for anti-science bad craziness" and "support for conspiracy theories and hate speech. ...

Los Angeles Times Looks Back At Charles Johnson’s Parting With The Right Wing
Liberal Values — Last month Charles Johnson gave his reasons for parting with the right wing, which I discussed here. The Los Angeles Times was a bit slower than I was in discussing this. They noted how his parting of ways was received by fellow conservative bloggers: In Johnson’s mind, he has not really changed but merely shifted his focus. Where once he was preoccupied with national security, staking out a hawkish, pro-military position, he now spends more time focusing on his liberal social views, and gripes with conservatives who disagree. “I ...

Aziz Poonawalla on LGF
Little Green Footballs — ... Johnson’s original blogging focus was the post 9/11 threat of Islamic terrorism, and also a fanatical defender of Israel. Where he went astray in those days was in using the latter as a litmus test for the former; as a result he earned quite a reputation as an Islamophobe which (in my opinion, unfairly) persists, to this day. But what makes Johnson noteworthy is how he has stood by his principles and now left the conservative blog movement which he semi-founded. And he has paid a price for doing so, noting that ...

What Would Be The Trajectory Of A Little Green Football?
Preemptive Karma — ... not to wonder, every now and then, how things were going there. Like I said, that was then, this is now. PJM used to have a whole network of basement denizens; now, it's more of a right-wing HuffPo. And LGF used to be flamingly fascist. Now … well, it may or may not be a liberal blog, but it's rabid right-wing days are clearly over. The distancing came to a head at the end of November, 2009. Charles Johnson nailed ten theses to the neocon church door in the form of an article titled Why I Parted Ways With The Right . Its ten-point manifesto is interesting in that it takes down ...

A Reply to Dennis Prager's Open Letter
Little Green Footballs — ... He answered each of the 10 points in my apparently notorious post, so I’ll reply one by one. The points from my original post are in italics. ...