This is sad but not surprising, as LGF has been increasingly hostile to the right for some time, which is why I stopped going there.
I don’t think Charles was ever really on the right anyway, he just took Islamic extremism seriously when no one on the left was. He used to document “bad craziness” from the Islamists and it was useful and important.
I thought he was maintaining a good balance in opposing the Islamists while avoiding making cause with the white supremacists who seemed to be the only opposition in Europe.
And I appreciated him speaking out against creationism even though that would annoy many of his readers. He’s right about evolution/creationism.
But at some point he just seemed to bait the creationists gleefully to watch their reaction, and to mock them. And more and more people got put in his racist/fascist category, sometimes for reasons that seemed flimsy, such as that they had spoken to someone already on his list. LGF became very confrontational and he banned people all the time, and spent many posts defending the bans.
The image of Obama as a witch doctor with a bone through his nose drove Charles off the deep end for several days, and people were banned because they didn’t find it as offensive as he did (I found it funny).
He was very upset about Van Jones being driven out, and defended him against the charges of being a “truther”.
I felt no longer welcome there when LGF had a long thread devoted to mocking Michelle Bachmann. She had given a speech about CO2 that posters felt was nonsense. It seemed unnecessarily mean to me.
I remember when Powerlineblog posted a brief note that they were no longer linking to LGF because it had gone in a different direction, Charles posted a long message lashing out at Powerline, who could not have been more gentle in how they explained what they had done. Charles was very hostile and said that Powerline supported fascists. It was over the top.
LGF became a site devoted to objecting to more and more people and ideas on the right. I looked in a few days ago and he was spending all his time defending the global warming side against the info in the leaked emails and documents.
So his list is just a rehash of what had become obvious to anyone paying attention for some time. Too bad.
But he’s still damn good with javascript.
I see the Johnson thread is still in business. The Town Hall Meetings- Tea Party Movement riled him up and about four of us were banned when he went apeshit on an otherwise pretty useless thread. I really don't know if I was banned, per se, as my comment(s) still stood, but I couldn't log in anymore. It is very strange to watch a discussion group/ blog change to the extent where I, Mr. Reasonable, can become an 'extremist sockpuppet' by not changing along with them. Increasingly hostile is the key phrase here. Others are noticing this too. Sad.