Stuff CJ Forgot to Delete: April 7, 2006
Yep, it’s just as it says. After all, the day already had one in the memory hole (Fjordman), but the rest of it contains a few choice ones. So, let’s start at the beginning, shall we? This will be a good chance to show the lurkers what was LGF blog-worthy material back in Spring of ’06:
The day starts out at 8:24AM with CJ sneering at NBC for having the audacity to investigate rises in anti-Muslim sentiment (funny that, these days, he blames the rise on Pam Geller). This is followed with the regular Friday Victor Davis Hanson paste and then a couple quick news flashes about the Mid East and the immigration bill. By 10:12, Charles was ready to have another thread about the “Religion of Peace”:
Surprise! This was followed by an obligatory Charles Krauthammer thread, and then a shot at Venezuela. Now, you know that these are just to bide time for the next “RoP” post. Much investigation is needed, you see. It took a few hours, but CJ had apparently found it:
Yes, that’s a video of women trying to eat spaghetti in a burqa. Just one more lesson towards the understanding of radical Islam, I’m sure….. Or, not:
Is that guy still there? Hmmm…I think you can still downding those, so our lurkers might want to get on that one!
Anyway, next was a quick news thread on Iran, Go Hannity! (?), and then the aforementioned Fjordman thread (which CJ recently reappeared, Heh). But don’t worry, for there is one of those famous LGF “Palestinian Car Swarm” threads comin’ right up:
Phew! Then came a post about Totten vs. Hezbollah, and then the last find for the evening before the FNDT, in what was the ongoing scavenger hunt for stories about bad Muslims :
And so allegations of Muslim beastiality ended a typical LGF day, around the time that I joined the site. So I hope no one blames me if I wonder aloud if the current inhabitants find it odd that this is the same guy who now mocks folks for their irrational fear of the “Muslim Boogeyman“.
(Hat tip: Danrudy.)
As an addendum: It appears that CJ may have restored all of the “Fjordman” threads. I’m gettin’ screengrabs of threads showing 3 and 4 page views. Ain’t that strange?
The restoration is curious. The 3-4 page view counts is curiouser. How does the page view count condition compare to his previous thread ‘un-dissapearances’ (e.g. 24231_Barack_Obamas_Racial_Obsessions) – did you notice its page view count, when it was ‘un-disappeared’?
Neither are hard to explain, from where I’m sitting.
I called out CJ’s BS on the “Fjordman” threads just days ago, and *poof*, they’re back up. But I’ll expand on that in a later thread.
The views counter wasn’t implemented until relatively recently (hence the relatively low view counts for the surrounding threads above). So, if the Fjordman threads were gone before that was added, they’d start out with a view count of zero once they were put back up. It makes sense then that view counts for these threads are going to be really low.
Maybe his SQL foo isn’t very strong, and he really doesn’t know what’s public and what isn’t as he issues his commands?
Well, who knows. But I picture just a single field in his database – a Boolean called ‘show’ say. Just toggle that field to show or hide particular threads. Now that field could default to true, and this could be an oversight on his part, in which case one inference might be that he’s edited these threads/comments and updated his database with the new versions. Someone with copies of the originals should check that.
Dude. I think you’re giving him too much credit.
those were the glory days at LFG.
but the glory days at the 1.0 have been replaced with the glory hole
and the glory days have been reinstated at the 2.0
Maybe Chuck could start a new subscription feature.
For only $2.00 a month, you get unlimited access to the disappeared threads and comments.
Mans gotta make a living you know.
And now that he has gotten rid of his most prolific commenters, and their links to interesting stuff, he’s finding out just how hard it is to do original work on his own.
Should be interesting to see how the comments in the swamp go on Veterans Day.
You know, I remember these posts. And they were absolutely hilarious. Not much said by Charles himself, but the little snarky comments he did make were funny. The whole tone was that of a happy American smartass making fun of abysmal assholes. Now, he sounds like a bitter, hysterical asshole himself.
Yesterday, he couldn’t spell jihadi. Now he are one.
“Now, you know that these are just to bide time for the next “RoP” post.”
Just for old time’s sake:
ROPMA!!!
No news these days about the Jihad, Israel, Islamic terrorism, at the dhimmi blog.
Such topics are verboten in the world of the moonbat left, where Israel and the US are the enemies of such beloved “freedom fighters” as Arafat.
Quite sad really. I remember lgf was always one of my go-to sites when I wanted to get some analysis on Middle-Eastern affairs. Not much on offer there now. Like Cato said, content is thin there now.
Could be – wouldn’t be the first time. The first time was shortly after registering at LGF, giving Johnson credit for being an honest, ethical, stand-up guy.
And it wasn’t the shift in politics that was the turn off for me – it was the utter dishonesty of the guy, intellectually and otherwise, once he’d changed his politics.
Seeing the way he routinely wildly mis-characterized ‘flounces’, after he’d deleted them of course, was the breaking point for me.
Princess Natasha hit it the nail on the head . FOr me, I always enjoyed the sarky comments that followed some linked article that just spoke volumes by itself. The smartass poking fun was what I really enjoyed.
Less is(was) more.
Her other point was (as I read it anyway) that the current “Chuck” doesn’t do that. The current “Chuck” does goofy stoner stuff like disenvoweling. Instead of snark, there’s eye-popping rant. It doesn’t seem like the same personality.
Shrieking about massacres of school children and subway splodeydopes, about Hamas and Al Qaeda, is quite sane and appropriate. Shrieking about the Discovery Institute and the Tea Party (whatever one may THINK about them) is hysterical and infantile.
If an 8 yr old screams when he severely burns his hand, you wouldn’t characterize him as a melodramatic cry-baby; but if he screams when you tell him he can’t have a candy bar, you would.
CJ has ALWAYS specialized in “eye-popping rant,” but because he was reacting to genuine evil and dangers, we may not have seen it as an ESSENTIAL part of his personality. Now that he’s throwing tantrums over candy bars, we can see him for what he is and always has been: the shrieking chubbo.
The New Chunky is far-removed from the old Charles we used to think we knew, but I knew from personal experience that he was always inclined to lie about people he’d banned. Definitely true about the “less-is-more”-thing, in regards to his own input. He wasn’t bad when it came to brief, snarky commentary. The more he talks and shows his personality, the worse he comes off.
“…the old Charles we used to think we knew,…”
I am one of those who never particularly liked Charles, although I loved the old LGF. There was something about him that always put me off. Part of it was that he was all snark and no substance, at least none that I ever saw. He had a style, a posture that often reminded me of the so-cool, ultra-political college sophomores I encountered every day at work. The fact that he was on the opposite political side of them made him more bearable, but it still annoyed me.
“The more he talks and shows his personality, the worse he comes off.”
The more intrusive CJ got, the more the blog degenerated. So we come back to what you said. There really was no good old Charles, there was only the one “we used to think we knew” and then discovered to be unreal.
I wonder if anybody over there is going to bring up the thing today about Ted Rall calling for violent revolution on MSNBC and being cheered on by the host. Chuck used to HATE Ted Rall, and rightly so. Bet he would defend him now.
10 cyber bucks says al-chukie must ignore it.
It doesn’t fit with his propaganda of how only the right is a violent menace to society.
But, he might read this and decide to cost me that 10 cyber bucks.
I miss the Car Swarms. I haven’t seen a good car swarm in ages.
There was one recently. Of course it was ignored by al-chukie, it doesn’t fit his current “Islam be good” meme
http://www.daylife.com/photo/0g2W8BhcUt7hi
Here’s a gem from the good old days, when Fatass could still straddle a bike without the seat disappearing up his distended-rectum. Caution: it’s really bad code, and takes some time to load up, even on the fastest computer.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=27683_Ted_Rall-_Only_Idiots_Die_in_Iraq_US_IQ_Soars&only
Ted Rall: Only Idiots Die in Iraq, US IQ Soars
Charles Johnson
Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 9:12 am PDT • Views: 140
Here’s a look into the squirmy, ugly mind of Ted Rall, whose latest cartoon about US troops in Iraq says: “Only idiots signed up; only idiots died. Back home, the average I.Q. soared.”
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/pictures/trall071022.jpg
One must understand a persn like Ted Rall. I went to school with him in Kettering. He was exactly what you would think and I mean to a TEE. He was buck toothed, effeminite and was relentlessly picked. But I’ll say this for him he was plucky. By that I mean I was no bully myself. I was just barely coordinated enough to not get singled out by them. So there were times I felt sorry for Ted. But guess what! He had just as much contempt for me as he did the bullies. He wanted no moral support and seemed to need no friendship. He would throw it in your face if you were friendly or supportive. So I quickly learned to dislike myself. And he in turn seemed to feed off of everyone’s hatred him. Gotta hand it to him if nothing else he’s emotionally strong. But this hatred he projects onto others is the genuine Ted. He merely assumes others are equally filled with hate as he i.
Very interesting, dwells38.
Picked on, that is
Well, that confirms it. Ted Rall IS the kind of cockroach I like to stomp, with no mercy. Nasty, deformed, vile mutant creature, devoid of humanity. I wish “he” and “his” kind started their little revolution. It would feel great ridding the world of these freaks. Best part? I would feel no more emotion about spraying them with 7.62 rounds than I do about spraying some bugs with a can of Raid.