Last month during Walter’s infamous Email Dump a lot of lizards got jumpy and nervous, and a comment caught our eye. It reasserts what many of us have suspected and speculated upon for a long time.
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Is that proof of a backstabbing cabal on the Little Putting Green of the Blogosphere? No, it’s just hearsay, at least so far. The person who wrote the comment declined to divulge his source in order to protect the privacy of that source, who is apparently a lizard in good standing. We respect that.

The lizards claim they don’t read here, but it sure seems like they do, because a few days later we noticed this:

Jimmah didn’t quite report it correctly, but she and her husband iceweasel spotted it for sure. Does that disprove the allegations? Nope. And we don’t care.

We don’t care because we like proof. Meanwhile, we received some unrelated Twitter messages today from a lizard, meant for another lizard, that was sent to us by accident. Shit happens, and we won’t divulge that lizard’s nic either.

[somewhat NSFW audio]

Just in case the vid goes Johnson, we preserved the important part.

[Update: They don't read here, but we back up vids, too. Here it is.]

Jimmah and asswhistle don’t undermine other lizards, huh.

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Bonus: Note the single comment below the vid:
“LOL. What did he do now?”
Neddhartha is none other than Cato The Elder (who summoned his own banning months before by refusing to hit the Tip Jar). He also left this chewy little morsel for Charles on the Little Green Footballs Kindle subscription page:

[h/t Bagua & BRC Engineer No. 6]

Okay, the postcard is satire but the message isn’t, because it was Tweeted to @Lizardoid yesterday by Pamela Geller with the caption:

Breitbart, Geller, Spencer – we’re coming to get you, Chuckie! @AndrewBreitbart@jihadwatchrs@lizardoid
http://twitpic.com/8i1kz8

And then Charlie went into a Twitter spaz for the rest of the day. He just ain’t got no sense of humor. Just ain’t got no. Just ain’t.

Pamela Geller’s been the recipient of many inane and unwarranted attacks by Charles Johnson over the years, and she’s had just about enough of his crap.

Whether or not you like her style, she’s definitely on the front edge of the war against Islamic extremism, and for that she gets grief from Mr. Petulant himself, Charles Johnson. Geller’s patience with He Who Fights With Girls ran out recently and she clocked him a good one on Atlas Shrugs:

I am always surprised when someone sends me a link from the green swamp. No one reads this boil on the ass of the blogsophere anymore, but look what’s become of him. Once the pre-eminent blog on the right, the now notorious leftwing troll is mocking the fight for the right to live and live freely as a “ghoulish obsession”: Pamela Geller’s Ghoulish Obsession With ‘Honor Killings’ Takes an Ugly Turn. Fighting to save girls’ lives is a “ghoulish obsession.” I guess CJ would call Elie Wiesel’s work on the Holocaust a “ghoulish obsession.” Or any human rights group or anti-torture organization — do they have “ghoulish obessions,” too?

“No one reads this boil on the ass of the blogsophere anymore.”

Heh. Except for us.

“In Defense Of Charles Johnson” is a phrase I never thought I’d utter.

One of the recurring themes at Little Green Footballs has to do with threats Charles has received over the years. The few examples he’s posted are dopey emails of the “You Are A Poopee Weenie Head” type. Most of us snickered at the supposed death threats that he mentions from time to time yet he’s never posted anything to back up his claim.

It turns out that Charles’ claims may have some legitimacy. (Look at that ————>
but don’t click on it yet. We’ll tell you when.)

First, let’s discuss the term “stalker.” In Charles Johnson/LGF terms, stalkers are evil obsessed bottom-dwellers who have no conscience and live solely to make the “stalkees” miserable and paranoid by reading a blog they dislike and commenting on its false importance and ongoing inanity. That describes The Boiler Room Crew pretty well (except for the part of stalking that involves forcefully striking a BRC Engineer squarely between the shoulder blades to dislodge the foosball he swallowed while washing it).

The real world definition of “stalking” is a bit more brutal than coughing up unwashed foosballs. BRC Engineer No. 8 discovered and forwarded a cache link that we won’t post here. There are some very nasty types out there who really hate Charles Johnson, at least they did in April 2008. Here are two snippets, with personal information blacked out.

We have no problem confirming that one of the commenters on that thread from 26 April 2008 was this guy. What a piece of neonazi shit, as if there were any other kind. Now go back up to that funny little bar at top right and click on it to read the entire thread if you want.

The people on that forum are dangerous nasty, and if anyone from LGF is lurking here, including you, Charles, rest assured that The BRC won’t play that game. Never have, never will. This blog is intended for fun childish mockery only. Now go piss up a rope.

From the denizens who dwell in the bother and the beer beneath the hatch hidden behind the BlogMock Rec Room couch with the cat stuff: Merry Christmas Charles, and thanks for the little green inanity that keeps us all amused. You go, girl.

And to everyone else: Thanks for all the socks!

P.S. To Original Engineer No. 3: We miss you, Nil. God Bless you wherever you are.

[Source: Beed Statistics International]

The illustration above should be self-explanatory and intuitively obvious to the casual observer that Charles Johnson has nothing to brag about Twitterwise or otherwise. For you purists, here are the stats:

@Lizardoid – Charles Johnson:
Followers: 2,892
Followers per tweet: 0.18
Let x = 0.18 = 100%

@rsmccain – Robert Stacy McCain
Followers: 9,975
Followers per tweet: 0.33
Robert Stacy McCain is 183.33% more popular than Charles Johnson.

@Atlasshrugs – Pamela Geller
Followers: 11,800
Followers per tweet: 1.02
Pamela Geller is 566.67% more popular than Charles Johnson.

@DLoesch – Dana Loesch
Followers: 26,804
Followers per tweet: 1.02
Dana Loesch is 566.67% more popular than Charles Johnson.

@iowahawkblog – David Burge
Followers: 16,400
Followers per tweet: 1.45
David Burge is 805.56% more popular than Charles Johnson.

@AndrewBreitbart – Andrew Breitbart
Followers: 65,025
Followers per tweet: 3.08
Andrew Breitbart is 1,711.11% more popular than Charles Johnson.

Those numbers should speak for themselves, but for the #LGF lurkers out there who are numerically challenged, we’ll spell it out: Your master and gracious host is littering Twitter and nobody gives a shit.

Except for us. And just to put everything in perspective:

@kirstiealley – Kirstie Alley
Followers: 947,529
Followers per tweet: 37.84
Kirstie Alley is 21,022% more popular than Charles Johnson.

Charles Johnson Doesn’t Apologize for His Own Idiocy And Instead Attacks Conservative Women Who Are More Intelligent Than Magical Jazzy Ponytails

We did a bit of homework on the illustration recently featured on Little Green Footballs and promoted on MediaMatters, presented as supposed evidence of neonazis on rightwing websites, including Big Journalism. Note that the original political cartoon in question [archived here] was an ineffectual slam at the USA in March of 1942, less than four months after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. The header and caption read:

DER HERR DER USA – MEINUNG
„Ein informationsministerium für USA.? Wie haißt? – Ä neuer Name für die alte Sache!“

Which translates to:

LORD OF THE USA – OPINION
“A ministry of information for USA.? – What’s it called? A new name for the old thing!”

If you decide to peruse the rest of the archives, you’ll see that there are all nationalities, races and creeds depicted, and, yeah, they’re as offensive as that one. It’s pure propaganda, and it’s no different than that of MediaMatters and Charles Johnson’s Little Green Footballs.

The German magazine Kladderadatsch (onomatopoeic for “Crash”) was a satirical German-language magazine first published in Berlin on May 7, 1848, and appearing “daily, except for weekdays”. It was founded by Albert Hofmann and David Kalisch, the latter the son of a Jewish merchant and the author of several works of comedy.

A wealthy and very influential German industrialist, Hugo Stinnes, purchased the magazine in 1923 and turned it from a conservative satire publication (that mocked Chancellor Otto von Bismarck) into a National Socialist propaganda tool that promoted the blatant lie that the nazis were peaceful and everyone else was messing with them.

Now, back to the current yellow journalism as practiced and promoted by Charles Johnson. He stole a cheap shot from MediaMatters and thought it was worth echoing. At least MM posted some of the truth, while Johnson cropped it further in order to smear Andrew Breitbart and Dana Loesch with more guilt-by-association tactics.

Here is the image in question as posted by Charles Johnson:

That is a third- or fourth-generation version of the original. An earlier version sports an Obama pin:

Several years ago someone spotted the 1942 political cartoon and altered it to eliminate the derogatory stereotype in order to make an entirely different point. Note the throbbing changes:

But that’s not good enough for half truthers like MediaMatters or quarter-wits like Charles Johnson. Did Dana Loesch and numerous others intentionally choose the altered image knowing that it was originally published in a propaganda magazine owned by a Nazi? I doubt it.

One last item. If you look at the archived magazine and click a couple of pages forward, you’ll find the name of a regular contributor.

It’s obvious that Charles Johnson (die maul offensive) is more closely linked to that nazi-era publication than anyone he attacks. Charles, you’re a mess.

[Related posts here and here.]

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Update via the Boiler Room Crew. Heh.

Robert Stacy McCain is a decent fellow, regardless of what Charles Johnson thinks of him. He’s got more credentials and credibility than any current Swamp Lizard, including King Nancy himself.

While opining on and responding to some polite and nuanced rubs from others in the conservative blogosphere (okay, he’s jousting with AOS) RSM presented a classic Charles story to augment his point.

…Punditry is easier than reporting. Espousing a mere opinion as to the presidential prospects of a certain politician — Ace uses the example of Sarah Palin — is something anyone can do, without ever picking up the phone to call a source or leaving their home to cover a campaign event. And so it is that at times the blogosphere erupts in warfare between people asserting the superiority of their own opinions.

Go back to 2007, when Charles Johnson first accused Pamela Geller of associating with European neo-fascists. Geller had attended an international conference of “Counter-Jihad” activists in Brussels and therefore knew what had transpired at the event.

Geller had met these people and judged them to be respectable, responsible, law-abiding and patriotic. Johnson had not attended the conference and, based on what others had written about various persons and organizations involved in the Brussels event, decided that the whole affair was tainted by dangerous extremism. And when Geller refused to defer to Johnson’s judgment, Johnson attempted to banish her — and anyone who took Geller’s side of the argument — from the ranks of political respectability.

Johnson was attempting to judge the motives of people he’d never met on the basis of reports by sources whose credibility he was in no position to assess. (Some have said that the commenters at Little Green Footballs on whose authority Johnson relied were feeding him what was essentially propaganda from European leftist parties.) Geller’s defiant defense of her European associates was a challenge to Johnson’s self-assigned authority within the conservative blogosphere and . . . he went nuts.

Read the whole thing in context here.

[h/t Fritz Katz]

[BRC News Services - Culver City] And they said it couldn’t be done.

There are no more spambots on Twitter thanks to a recluse blogger and former jazz guitar sideman/bicycle enthusiast named Charles Johnson. On November 21, internet rumors hinted that Johnson was onto something big, yet nobody knew just how big it was. Johnson wasn’t talking, and for good reason – he was busy.

Working from his makeshift computer lab strewn with the detritus typical of recluse bloggers, Johnson steers a website named “Little Green Footballs,” fondly referred to by fans as “The Blog Version of Animal Farm.”

What Johnson accomplished in the past 48 hours or so was to single-handedly identify and eliminate each and every spambot on Twitter, one by one, with painstaking and ruthless efficiency. Rarely does one play “whack-a-mole” and win, yet Charles Johnson somehow pulled it off.

And he’s not done yet. Johnson is a farce to be reckoned with, and spambots everywhere are giggling nervously, apprehensive of Charles Johnson’s next un-telegraphed move. Kudos are in order.

Daedalus Update:

Charles Johnson is now asking for assistance in his war with Twitter spambots.

Poor Chucky!

Just like the rest of us, Boiler Room Engineer No. 5 enjoys the sport we fondly refer to as Fact Chucking, and here’s the current score.