An extreme example would be Tammy Bakker. Her husband had her as a guest on his show a few times and then it went to her head and she insisted on being on it all the time.....from there it went downhill.
Posted on 04/21/2009 1:49:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Right on!
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Ho-hum..., another Republican basher comes out of the closet. If it’s not RINOs it’s starry-eyed, pop star wannabes. Let me guess. This guy started squirming about the time Andrew Sullivan got his G-string twisted up.
Usually this kind of sudden 180 degree political shift is associated with personal issues. Like, Peggy Noonan getting her feelings hurt by the Bush administration, David Brock having his beliefs changed by his gay lifestyle, etc.
Johnson likely had some kind of personal issue with someone.
Republicans are out of power, so the “independent” Johnson is trying to ingratiate himself with the left. Next he’ll be blogging about about extreme right-wing, home-grown jihadists with the help Janet Napoleano. Can’t even follow his own arguments about radical islam to their natural conclusion.
An extreme example would be Tammy Bakker. Her husband had her as a guest on his show a few times and then it went to her head and she insisted on being on it all the time.....from there it went downhill.
That was sweet. Thanks for the link.
You are not missing much, lately all Charles does is rant about creationist’s conspiracies. He seems completely obsessed with the subject to the point that it’s almost a religious preoccupation for him. Baffling
Charles side of it;
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/33440_Civil_War_Raging_in_Right-Wing_Blogosphere
“I used to visit LGF every day. Haven’t been there in months.
You are not missing much, lately all Charles does is rant about creationist’s conspiracies.”
I think a lot of conservatives turned against him because he opposes teaching creationism in science classes.
I've been using LGF since about 9-11, and I don't see any shift at all. Just the topic emphasis on the blog. Charles doesn't play along: he is who he is. Politically I gather that he identifies himself in classic terms- Liberal, in the sense that Hayek or Madison would use. I can dig that. Since 9-11 the Community is expanding, people are doing different things, working on their own projects. It is still a reasonably free country and as far as I'm concerned people can say what they will, I don't expect to agree with them all, all of the time. Politically I consider Johnson a friend. Besides, I like his taste in music.
Thanks.
I am proud to be among those banned at LGF for declining to bow to Charles's particular brand of political correctness.
Gotta love ya.
Not if my wife has anything to say about it 8-)
I think of it in terms of a long essay William F. Buckley wrote in one of his books.
The essay was about how he was building a conservative intellectual movement when he first started National Review, and the specific context was a discussion of Murray Rothbard, who was a kind of libertarian of the time.
Buckley posited the question, Can an atheist be a part of a conservative Rightist movement? Yes, of course, on general principles, was Buckley’s answer. Buckley then asked his own follow-up question: What about an atheist who has only contempt for and open hostility toward religious believers? What about him?
And Buckley’s answer was, of course not. A person who has only contempt for the principles that animated so many of the Founders, and, as Tocqueville observed, helped create the remarkable wealth that defined America almost from the beginning—that kind of person has excluded himself from our movement.
And that’s what I think about Charles Johnson.
Or, to put in another way: Yes, I am not totally comfortable posting on the same board as people who actually believe that the earth is 6000 years old. But I find such people infinitely less threatening to my life than people who believe that the purpose of government is to redistribute wealth to make things more “fair.” That is an INFINITELY more dangerous idea that anything that any “fundie” has ever said, anywhere, anytime.
And that’s why Charles Johnson hisses me off. He acts like fundamentalist Christians are as threatening to his life as socialism (or for that matter, fundamentalist Islam). And that is a big ****ing lie.
His beef, as far as I can stand to read, seems to be with those who wish to base legislation on religious doctrine. And there are some other annoying things, like his hypersensitvity to criticism, and his tendency to take any obscure critic all too seriously. I cannot then, take Charles all that seriously.
The threads on LGF tend to fill up real quickly to 1000 posts or more, but it's almost all idle chit-chat and pithy one-liners. And lots of agreement with Charles.
Blogs are voluntary: Charles has only as much influence as the group that keeps coming back. He's no big-government statist, But he focuses on gripes that do bother me. But I don't see a threat, either to the Country, or to more than 30% of my sensibilities from him or his entourage. I never demanded or expected more or less of LGF than what I first saw, right after 9-11. obama and the continuing culture rot that invented him are way worse.
This will be only the 58th post on this thread. The FR- LGF crossover doesnt seem that large.
Hat tip to you, Sir.
Johnson is a libertarian!???? Where did you get that? LOL is right! I don’t even think that Johnson would claim that! I believe that he was a Democrat before he founded LGF. He absolutely despises Ron Paul with a passion. Don’t associate that statist Wilsonian with us!
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