Journey to the Center of the Memory Hole
With all the recent talk of LGF “then and now”, burning Korans, “Bigot Brigades”, and scrubbing posts, I just couldn’t resist the urge to come out of retirement. So, I’ve decided to tie this all together, starting with a trip to the deep, dark forests of The Google, resurrecting a (seemingly) innocuous front page sentence that was presumably lost forever:
I’m setting up Mr. Shmulevich with an LGF account, and you’ll be able to discuss it with him in person.
Stanislav Shmulevich, as you might remember, is the Pace University kid who decided to piss off his Muslim classmates back in ’07 by tossing a school Koran into a toilet. Local law enforcement and the university -which is undoubtedly sensitive about their image as a hate-free educational environment- threw the proverbial book at him. In a tough spot, Mr. Shmulevich hopped on his computer…and called LGF to the rescue (naturally!):
Oh snap! Something is missing….the last sentence! (the wayback machine missed it on it’s periodic flyby, but luckily the frothing freepers had grabbed the original version as I remember it)
But why scrub that?
Looking to the source recently, explanations for the belated use of the front page eraser have involved instances of misleading statements and/or inaccuracies (however weakly executed). But this wasn’t the case here. CJ really did enthusiastically give the beleaguered Koran desecrater a coveted LGF account (“StanS”; still active), and he appeared in the same thread:
Now, I’d like to think that the post-180, enlightened LGF would be embarrassed by all this, and CJ went back and decided to edit out that little detail. He might have been convinced that today’s lizard hive-mind couldn’t possibly handle the cognitive dissonance resulting from the realization that Bigot Brigadiers were invited into an LGF of not so long ago. Or at least thought that it wasn’t worth the chance, should someone stumble upon it.
But in reality, I believe that this sentence was deleted not long after it was penned (I can say that it wasn’t there as of Oct. 20 ’07; less than 3 mo. later). This was a light bulb moment, and CJ figured that if the kid was wacky enough to stick a Koran in a toilet, then he was wacky enough to incriminate himself further on a very public blog. And while the sure solution would be to just undo it, euthanizing the account would have been deemed too unpopular at the time. So that leaves hiding it, telling him to shut up, and hoping that the other side doesn’t make the connection between “StanS” and Stanislav. In other words, the scrubbing was for Shmulevich’s protection. (shortly after, a pro bono LGF legal defense team sprung into action!) The question really is how long it took for CJ to realize that he was being a bonehead.
Exit question: What happened with Stanislav Shmulevich, anyway?
More Memory Hole Adventures coming soon!
People who say Chunk has changed are only right in one way. Chunk is,has always been a vile piece of lying trash. He simply changed the direction of his trash.
Here’s a prediction: CJ will delete everything before the 2008 election claiming that it is a speed improvement for the site and besides things have changed so much no one would miss those old posts anyway.
But he won’t notify anyone that he’s done it. And when people ask about it, he’ll say it was a minor change and use ad hominem attacks on anyone who questions his motives and techniques.
It’s actually a pretty straightforward SQL move to make the archives prior to a certain date invisible. I actually don’t think anything other than these minor edits are actually gone, just hidden. Depending on how he did it, even the sentence in question here may just be hidden.
I do recall this incident.
Seems to be some strange dynamics taking place over at the swamp.
There was a time when the wife and I would curl up with the computer, and watch the rolling comments come in during an election night.
It really was a great place to hang out and see the insightful comments being made.
Well….we just went through a major primary, and not a single comment on what was taking place.
And today….the major topic seems to be Nintendo games.
I would like to think that at least someone with half a brain over there is reading the comments here, and at other sites, as well as watching the manipulations that Chuck is doing to the prior comments, and just quietly walking away from there.
After all, it isn’t too hard to realize that the only reason that Chuck has no dissenting posters anymore, is that he bans them and silences their voices on his site.
It’s not really “Gee…Everyone agrees with me”, it’s “If you don’t agree with me, I ban you”.
Perfect example of a self licking ice cream cone.
“watch the rolling comments come in during an election night.”
Oh, just wait for this election. The whining should be amusing.
He’ll delete it all and say “I had to delete it because it was based on everything Robert Spencer and Pam Geller ever said to me and they are lying liars who lie. So there.”
I LOVE that aspect of his conversion to rabid moonbattery, the idea that he was misled by lying liars who lied to him about, well, everything. Apparently, prior to 9-11, he lived under a mushroom with his website-designing books, and was never exposed to anything regarding Islamic terrorism, the bad craziness of American politics, and the issue of global warming. He was an innocent naif, led by his pudgy hand to the Abysmal Pit Of Ignorance And Bigotry where all conservatives live. He was saved by Obama at the last possible moment, when he was able to reach up and grab ahold of one of the Messiah’s streaming rainbows, and be pulled to safety in the Land Of Koz. The Wizard Of Koz still refuses to see him, or acknowledge his bended-knee supplication in any way, but it’s only a matter of time before he will be given a seat at the table.
Have you noticed that they have fewer and fewer posters?
There’s about a dozen hard core Kos Kidz and a tiny number of older posters who are kissing ass to stay there.
I have noticed that they do get new folks who usually immediately challenge the kool aid drinkers and get banned after a couple of posts.
Amusing.
You would think that a guy who admits to having been a credulous fool in the past might seriously question his own judgment….or at least not be so hasty to jump onto another ideological bandwagon. To be sure, that would require actual THINKING, as opposed to feeling, i.e., the kind of mature reflection of which CJ is incapable.
As it is, he reminds me of a 13 year old girl who swoons over a boy one week and then, having found him a disappointment or having turned her attention elsewhere, calls him a poopyhead the next week, furiously expunging the boy’s name from the hearts adorning her notebooks.
Hence the frequent pleas for financial support, the stupid cookbook, the retarded calendar, the new subscription deal, open registration, and so forth. I tried to read through a couple of threads the other day, and I just couldn’t hack it. It was like watching Crazy Olbie and Rachel Madcow interview Joy Behar and Rosie O’Donnell. The few old-timers that still hang out there have ingested the Kool-Aid, or they wouldn’t be able to stand it.
al-chuki is jealous.
All his old pals are getting TV face time, book deals, their blogs are increasing in visits, while his is floundering.
He hasn’t figured out that when you reverse all your positions and can’t tolerate questions or dissent–that no one can believe anything you say.
175 Comments on the overnight open thread I just browsed. Thats onl;y about 1000 short of what it used to be when insightful conservative commenters hung out there.
Oh how teh stupid have fallen.
I suspect that by November, it’s gonna be Chuck, seven of his sock puppets, Haiku posting as Cato, Asswhistle, and maybe some new schlub who just registered talking about cookbooks, and Chucks new job as a moderator at “Ask the Imam”
The “cognitive dissonance” that will be going on over there on November 2 will be epic. Can’t wait.
The Blog Warp
—apologies to The Rocky Horror Show and “The Time Warp”
It’s astounding
Wild deleting
Madness takes control
But just watch closely
Not for very much longer
As I try to hawk my soul
I can dismember
Doing the Blog Warp
Revising the moments when
I spoke with honesty
But about which I am testy
Let’s do the Blog Warp again
Let’s do the Blog Warp again
It’s just a lurch to the left
And then a slap at the right
A spare tire on my hips
Making downdings all night
With breaches of trust
That show I’m insa-ay-ay-ay-ane
Let’s do the Blog Warp again
Let’s do the Blog Warp again
It’s so dreamy
My fantasies free me
As the blogosphere
Looks on appalled
Stalking those I deleted
‘Til I feel so depleted
By my obsessive
Internet webcrawls
My reversals of principal
I defend with caterwauls
And nothing can ever be the same
I’ll erase my old postings
And defend it with boasting
Let’s do the Blog Warp again
Let’s do the Blog Warp again
It’s just a lurch to the left
And then a slap at the right
A spare tire on my hips
Making downdings all night
With breaches of trust
That show I’m insa-ay-ay-ay-ane
Let’s do the Blog Warp again
Let’s do the Blog Warp again
I feel the desperate urge to throw some toast and rolls of toilet paper. Killer-diller, BSM!
It isn’t difficult to assign roles to the characters in the number, if you know the characters at the swamp. LOL! I see Chunky…I see Iceweasel…I even see Lewd Wig Von Spank!
Buzz, that was freaking awesome. I’m am in tears. I have no more words, I am just sitting here laughing as I am trying to type.
insa-ay-ay-ay-ane, I can hear it now. Bravo.
Buzz, I had to go to youtube and play the song while reading the lyrics. I’m dying man. I can’t stop laughing.
I wonder how many suckers will pay the $10 per month. Let’s see, there really are only around (and I think I am being generous) 200 active posters over there. Half of them are twenty somethings with their fingers up their noses and no money (Nintendo! Hah). Of the other half, 50% (or more) won’t do anything because that is how people are. That leaves (maybe) 50 people who will (for now) kick in $10 per month.
Wow, that’s almost as much as I make…. $500 per month.
(oh snap – I mean… that is almost as much as I make in a morning!)
Before, Chunky was pushing something like 30,000 subscribers. If he had grown a brain and come up with something like $1 per month ($12 per year), he would now be hauling down some decent bread. As it is, he will be eating bread.
Wa ha.
I guess that explains the bitter taste in his mouth.
the bitter taste in his mouth is from his side job as a male prostitute.
he has to feed that 100 dollar a day cheeto habit one way or another
Schmulivich flushed a koran
Chuncky flushed a blog
240 Charles
Wed, Sep 15, 2010 8:57:02am replyquote 3downupreport
re: #231 Obdicut
There’s another thing going around about you giving a membership to somebody who put the Koran in a toilet and then got charged for felonies or something.
I wondered if they’d get around to that one. I definitely did think the person who put a Koran in a toilet should not have been charged with a crime. However, at no time did I ever support the actual act of putting a Koran in a toilet, and in fact when some people tried to get me to sign on to an effort to get a lot of people to put Korans in toilets (idiots), I refused in no uncertain terms and ended up banning one of the most persistent idiots.
I don’t think Terry Jones should have been charged with a crime either, if he had burned a Koran. This isn’t criminal behavior, it’s bigoted hateful behavior.
Obdicut is obviously reading DOD this morning.
That’s kind of rich:
“I don’t think Terry Jones should have been charged with a crime either, if he had burned a Koran. This isn’t criminal behavior, it’s bigoted hateful behavior.”
Was it Chuck, or buttwhistle who said the GZ mosque protesters should be arrested and prosecuted for hate crimes?
He’s spinning!
Like a top.
Who are the “some” people who asked him to start a burn the Koran movement? More lies. No sane or reasonable blogger would support such an effort. Maybe just one kook. And he doesn’t address the missing sentence from his archive.
And so is he still in favor of giving bigots membership to his blog?
Charles Johnson : Leader of the bigot brigade
–snicker
damn! It flew right over that Obdicut’s head.
I’m gonna have to dumb it down a bit next time.
ahem…. let me repeat for clarity….
Wa ha.
I think it was LVQ
All right, sorry to post on a dead thread, but the topic is interesting, to me. I suspect that Chunk may very well be simply archiving the un-PC posts, hiding them. I think it is a play to suck up to ‘powers that be’. I further suspect that once things in America change, and the other side holds the trust of public office, he will jump on the other side again. He is a crass opportunist, albeit an incompetent one. Watch what happens in November, and then in 2012. If he does not buy the farm from all the dope he does and from his apoplectic rage, I think he will try to spin back.
I kind of agree princess.
I was wondering if he would do another 180 after Hussein loses in 2012.
good catch!
charles is still lying about this:
i think it’s pretty clear that he assumes that he has his cult members scared enough of his referrer log that they wouldn’t dare leave to check the veracity of the stuff he says. i wonder how many have left in the last few days.
another good quote from charles’ past: