Posted on 10/14/2009 7:49:40 AM PDT by Sir Gawain
Charles Johnson was against fake but accurate before he was for it.
No link for the idiot. I'll just quote him. From a thread:
Top 10 Rush Limbaugh Racist Quotes.All out of context, and sarcasm. Right?
That link I've left in provides a flurry of extremely dubious Limbaugh "quotes" -- and not a single link or citation. Including the ones created wholesale by noted scholar "zedladdy" and spread by no lesser authority than "cobra."
Given that "zedladdy" and "cobra" previously invented own quotes, spread them around, and then uploaded them to WikiQuote, I'd say pretty much every unsourced quote in this list is suspect. (Edit: I mean except the Donovan McNabb quote, which I know is real, since I heard it 'n stuff.)
But surely our crusading Mensa Chapter President wouldn't be taken in by an obvious false "quote" like:
You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray [the confessed assassin of Martin Luther King]. We miss you, James. Godspeed.
And yet here's Johnson quoting it as "classic:"
A classic:You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray [the confessed assassin of Martin Luther King]. We miss you, James. Godspeed.
Charles Johnson read it on the internet, so it's true.
Well. I've read a lot of stuff on the internet about his unhealthy relationship with his bike's seat-post. Presumably this is all true as well.
Here he expounds upon Limbaugh's motive in saying things he did not in fact say.
Because it plays well with his audience, obviously. That's why he does everything.
It's pointed out the "quote" is bunk. Charles Johnson doesn't like the back-talk, of course.
There will be no retraction. The quote is disputed, but it has not been proven false. And there are plenty of other racist quotes that you seem to be just gliding right past that are NOT disputed.
Um, from that list? That list of very unlikely quotes all provided without a single link?
You know where this is heading, don't you? There is a penalty for embarrassing the global village idiot Charles Johnson, and he's not afraid to apply it... liberally.
If you want to disagree with my take, that's fine. But if you can't do it without being insulting, your account will be history.
You're wrong because I said so and if you continue disagreeing with me I'll kick you out of my idiot internet clubhouse.
Now that, truly, is "classic."
Thanks to N. I'll keep the rest of his name secret in case he still posts over at the Little Gulag Funhouse and doesn't want to be banned.
Charles Johnson
So scary-smart he splits atoms... with his mind.
I realize that -- but of a number of the most popular conservative blogs I looked up, none had a greater ranking in a foreign country than they do in the US, which makes sense. Our political structure is far different than what is considered "conservative" in other areas of the world.
and 13.3 from South Korea (which is still odd)
That -- and Qatar -- are the puzzlement.
That occurred to me, since LGF built its (original) reputation on combating militant Islam. Lately, of course, it seems to focus on battling those who also battle militant Islam, but whom the site owner now disapproves of, according to his own revised standards.
That said, Qatar might make sense, but what about South Korea?
Maybe - truthfully, I’ve never spent a lot of time on Drudge, because Freepers are always posting the good stuff here.
I know people who have had LGF blocked at their offices because the site was gobbling up bandwidth. I’m a DOS dummy so I wouldn’t begin to know what’s causing it.
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