If you want to get an idea of how crazy Charles Johnson is, look at his recent post on Limbaugh and his responses in the comment thread. Charles Johnson points out something outrageous! Limbaugh said (“He wants to have segregation again!!!”), which anyone who has been through the Limbaugh outrage theater a hundred times before knows is something Rush said facetiously and liberals decided to take as 100% super-serious. Charles doesn’t even get much support from his commenters, and there he is for a thousand-plus comment thread, constantly deleting comments and responding bitterly and humorously, trying to convince them Rush is sooper racist with some links to old hit pieces. How much time must he spend in his comment threads each day doing this? Doesn’t that seem like a pretty miserable existence? I”m almost convinced this is some sort of performance art, and I shouldn’t be taking him seriously.
The guy really needs to take a break from blogging and politics, because I don’t think his psyche can handle it anymore. This is like a bigger crazy spiral than Andrew Sullivan’s. Does he have any friends left he hasn’t shunned who can talk to him?
UPDATE:
Q. What’s Charles Johnson’s favorite food?
A. A banana!
That was pretty bad. I should ban myself.
Bah, this is nothing compared to Andrew Sullivan. Charles is too anti-conspiracy theorist.
[It not even disputable that Charles Johnson is crazier than Andrew Sullivan if you actually look at the evidence. You keep up this nonsense and I will ban you and everyone who looks like you. -Ed.]
Well, since I fell for Basil pretending to be Charles Johnson and linking to this Johnson idiocy yesterday, I shall remain silent…damn you Basil.
I never read LGF. This guy was reasonable at one point?
This is the kind of OCD that made Steven den Beste snap and start blogging about Anime.
I predict Charles will start blogging about the glories of Furry culture before the end of the year.
I remember hearing that segment live the other day and I knew, like most of Limbaughs’ humor, he was being facetious. That’s the thing with Liberals, there is no sense of humor. Okay I’ll give them this, if they have a split atom of humor in them it is totally 1 dimensional, neither wet nor dry, and usually if not definitely based on projection.
Watch out Frank. If Charles sees this, he will hurl a flame bomb post at you. I am worried about him too.
Harvey, how dare you time-step on me. From now on I will call you Stephanie. Because thatt way I can mis-characterize your name. I can either call you Step On Me, or Stuffed Fanny. Which do you prefer?
Heh heh.
Nothing on this planet is as nutty as Andy Sullivan, maybe thats what this is about a “nuts” contest between Andy and Charly. I do worry aboutLGF they used to be pretty good investigative blog, but no so much lately. Mr. Johnson is trying to join the DNC propaganda media, lasy, no logic, print what ever the DNC says.
Yeah, Berkeley’s always good for cheap entertainment. Still, for sheer nuttiness, I think UW-Madison has it beat.
This is not the Charles Johnson I knew.
The Charles Johnson I knew would never have let you read his awesome work, lest you spoil his awesomeness with your stupid “truth”.
Harvey, the folks at UW-Madison are not nutty, really. The link between mental instability and their
chosen lifestylegenetically predetermined breeding incapacity (NTTAWWT) has been practically disproved.I wen to LGF one time and never went back. In the immortal words of Jack “Go sell crazy somewhere else, we are all stocked up here.” I am good enough to come up with my own unfounded off the wall paint huffing trips to have someone else do it for me. That is just lazy crazy.
Charles Johnson needs a nap.
Charles sees more creationisim-islamic-antiislamic-right wing-left wing conspircies in every shadow. He deletes anyone who might slightly disagree with him. He decrys islamic terrorisim and then attacks anyone against islamic terrorisim. I think there is a diagnosis for that.
I picture Charles living in a Las Vegas hotel room surrounded by jars of his own urine and mountains of discarded alcohol wipes and tissues. Sitting in the dark and looking at a dim, flickering LCD projector image of the Dan Rather memo animated GIF for hours on end. The lettering on his laptop’s “Delete” key faded so badly it looks like it says “De te.” Photographs of dewdrops on leaves and rusty nails cover every inch of the walls. Every time hotel management knocks on the door to deliver his room bill he yells “FACISTS! GET OUT! THE SERPENT, IT SPEAKS TO ME! IT TEMPTS ME TO EAT THE APPLE! TO THE CORNFIELD WITH YOU!”
Charles has jumped the shark.
Five years ago, Mr. Johnson came to national attention with the Throbbing Memos and Rathergate. Since then, his hatred for conservatives has resurfaced to the point that he cannot even understand sarcasm any more. Sad thing to see.
Charles isn’t just anti-conspiracy theorist.
A rationalist is someone who takes care to deal only in verifiable facts for any practical decision making.
A hyperrationalist would then be someone who takes that to an obsessive, perhaps occasionally impractical, extreme and probably has a pronounced animosity to irrationality.
Charles would like to think he is one of these, leaning toward the latter.
A pseudohyperrationalist is someone who would present himself as a hyperrationalist but is not, having gone so far as to exhibit an irrational fear of anything that is potentially irrational, such as, for example, conspiracy theories and theological issues. Rather than test new suggestions against known facts, the facts have been exchanged for a narrative.
Example
Facts: Conspiracy theories are usually wrong; conspiracy theorists are usually driven by an irrational urge to replace the axiom of “S— Happens” with elaborate webs of malevolent forces; opening the door to unfiltered conspiracy theory discussion will give platforms to those who think the Jews, Freemasons, and Reptilians are pulling the strings of every world event.
That is replaced with the shorthand:
Conspiracy theories are insane.
Using the actual set of facts above might lead to the conclusion that while it is generally safe to assume that a conspiracy theory is wrong until supporting facts are brought forth to indicate otherwise, conspiracy theories still need to be checked.
Whereas the shorthand allows one safely to jump to the fun stage of spiteful ridicule. “You’re still on the birth certificate garbage? I bet you also believe the Freemasons caused 9/11. Get off my website.”
A narcissistic pseudohyperrationalist is a pseudohyperrationalist who expects to be showered with attention, praise, and admiration for being such a great and deeply principled hyperrationalist.
And I think that’s just about where Charles is.
On the other hand, even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
I think there is a diagnosis for that.
Yup. “Sucking in fane.”
More proof that liberalism kills brain cells!
I feel rather like a 2009 teenager in a discussion of 1979 disco music. If you didn’t live through the horror, you you probably should just take a pass. I never read LGF back when it was “good”, so all I ever got was batsh*t crazy.
That said, I think Frank should ban more people. I suspect that Frank would do it right; Randomly and with no discernable pattern. That’ll keep those commentators on their toes.
@ george guy –
One of CJ’s recent comments was about banned people going out with a bang. He said, “The point isn’t to go out quietly, or they’d just stop logging in. The point is to tell Daddy, ‘I hate you daddy!'”
And there you have it. In a “nutshell”, so to speak.
Okay, I’m going to have to start banning people. And you have no one to blame but yourselves. Now go to your room and think about what you did. We’ll talk after dinner.
Awwww . . . come on . . . it wasn’t me! You can’t prove it! (Hold on – maybe you can, with your evil software-fu. Nevermind.)
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(deleted plus nasty email sent)
I stopped going to LGF once things got so anti-Christian over there. You want to be an atheist, great! You go boy! But don’t try to paint anyone who believes in God as an idiot.
wow. i used to read LGF. glad i don’t bother anymore. have a litle humor. obviously limbaugh wasn’t advocating segregation. how many times does he need to say that he gets a kick by tweaking the left? obviously it was tongue in cheek humor as he was making fun of the left. i also love how every time he does this every one gets freaked out and in an uproar, all while limbaugh’s audience numbers continue to soar. leave it to the elites to complain and criticize him every chance they get. the man is hilarious.
I still read LGF daily as I do Instapundit, the WSJ, and Frank J. Nirthers, pro-lifers who promote violence, and politicians who push Creationism in public schools deserve every ounce of ridicule. And Ballistic Jello, LGF has never been anti-Christian. Get a grip on your paranoia and insecurity. You sound like frickin’ Glenn Beck.
[And humorousless idiots who moronically scream “Racist!” deserve just as much ridicule. He’s become a self-parody. -Ed.]
I use to be a LGF’r for a short time – you are surprised that CJ has a hissy fit over Limbaugh? Watch him when he is off and on to Glenn Beck. I once sent him a tongue in cheek response to one of his Beck rants – something along the lines of – – CMON CJ – your jealousy is showing ….and I was banned….which indicated to me he was off the deep end and could brook no criticism….
I agree with other posters – the atheist in your face posts are enough by themselves – but DARE anyone criticize or push back? No no – none of that you get banned as well and CJ lives in an online bubble thinking all commenters are in his bubble with him
My advice to CJ – get a life and get off the blog for awhile – his sense of a real world is clearly warped beyound recognition
[And humorousless idiots who moronically scream “Racist!” deserve just as much ridicule. He’s become a self-parody. -Ed.]
Frank J. nails it. Mr. Johnson’s post about Mr. Limbaugh is exactly the sort of thing he would criticize if it were said by his choosen opponents. If some democrat sarcastically made a wisecrack about segregation of muslims and a bunch of multiculturalists were going nuts over it, CJ would have (rightfully) pointed out the lunatic muliculturalists. It’s hypocritical.
I generally “get” Rush’s humor, just didn’t think it was very funny the couple times I listened. It was an unnecessary and unhelpful analogy. Is Rush racist? No. Will I still listen to him occasionally in the car in the morning? Yes, he’s a great entertainer. But I’ll usually listen to the 100 gigs of music on my iPod. Because in the afternoon I’d have to listen to humorless Sean “You’re A Great American!!!” Hannity. Vomit.
As for LGF, it’s still a good blog I mostly agree with and I’ll keep on going there too. As I will Frank J’s hilarity (which I’ve never found offensive). And Instapundit’s dorkiness. Which I’ve never found offensive.
Glenn Beck is an embarrassment and unhelpful trash like most conspiracy theorists. What is wrong with people? It’s impossible to respect a man who fake cries.
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“And Ballistic Jello, LGF has never been anti-Christian. Get a grip on your paranoia and insecurity. You sound like frickin’ Glenn Beck.”
And you sound a lot like Charles Johnson…Is that you CJ? Sorry, your banhammer doesn’t work here, in spite of my, how do you say…ah yes…”paranoia and insecurity”. Sounds like LGF is definitely your kind of place…
Meh.
I used to be an enthusiastic Lizardoid until it seemed like every other post was about Creationists. Sure, maybe they’re looney, maybe they’re not, but I got tired of reading Charles’ rants about them. Well, that, and the Geert Wilders stuff.
Charles was at his brilliant best when he was exposing Dan Blather’s fakery. Media lunacy is even more rampant now; surely there’s tons and tons of great Fisking to be done without the anti-Christian hostility?
I finally removed the LGF feed on my sidebar, and it grieved me to do so. It was as though I were having to de-link Instapundit or Iowahawk, and I debated doing it for a long time before I finally just did it.
Sad.
Seriously? You get that anguished over deleting a bookmark?
And as a Christian, I still don’t understand why so many of you conflate anti-Creationism (to merrily be taught in Government School Science classrooms) with anti-Christianism. That’s just silly billy!
I’d just like to take this opportunity to say that I look nothing like Charon.
@fat.elvis: “Seriously? You get that anguished over deleting a bookmark?”
It’s not just a bookmark, it’s what the bookmark represents and links to: someone who used to be a beloved blogger fighting the good fight, and now is reduced to shutting out anything outside of his private echo chamber. Yes, that is something to grieve about, as much as you would for a friend or relative with whom you had to cut off contact.
And as a Christian, you can analogize it to anguish over aborting a fetus: some might view it as just a clump of cells (which is true in the narrow sense, just as it’s true that a bookmark is just a bookmark), but others see the potential life that’s being extinguished and mourn for it.
I wear my “Banned by Charles” badge proudly. He’s not only lost it, he’s forgotten what he had to start with.
Heh. Just know that while Charles pours over his comment threads, his I-tunes is blaring a rotating mix of David Sanborn, Al Jarreau, Spyro Gyra and the soundtrack from Moonlighting. It doesn’t get more brutal than that. But remember that sensitive ponytail man does occasionally get out on his bike and take pictures of the spokes to share with his sheeple.