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Ace of Spades Smacks Charles Johnson in a Post Every New* Blogger Should Read

Posted on | June 12, 2010 | 51 Comments

* And by “new,” I mean if you haven’t been at it
since Ace started with a Blogspot site in 2003.

When trying to explain the principle of reciprocal linkage (Rule 2), I’ve often wanted to quote a post Ace of Spades wrote about three years ago, in which he explained how you link somebody so as to throw traffic, how to quote and hat-tip, etc. But alas, I couldn’t find the post.

Now, however, Ace has reprised that theme in a memorable pimp-slapping of Charles Johnson:

Let me talk about “swiping stories.” Johnson believes that if he throws in a lame hat-tip at the end of a post, he hasn’t “swiped a story,” because he’s given you attribution.
That’s not the case. A lame hat-tip at the end of a post covers one’s ass, I suppose, in terms of attribution, but it fails to do what a proper link is supposed to do: Throw some traffic.
Some blogs are deliberately “gateway blogs,” throwing out traffic wide and far in general furtherance of good-guy blogger boosterism. . . .
On the other hand, some blogs are very jealous and ungenerous about throwing links and traffic to “competitors.” Some blogs fancy themselves not “gateway blogs” but “destination blogs,” and attempt to set themselves up as the only blog you need to read.
Not a portal, then, but a terminus. . . .

Anybody who has read this blog long enough knows that Ace is my blogging role model. Back when I was hopelessly trapped in the stifling straitjacket of Washington journalism, I envied Ace because he could say exactly what he wanted — and be hugely successful!

My admiration for Ace is so enthusiastic as to be kinda creeptastic and stalkerish, like a teenage girl chasing the Jonas Brothers. Yet he is so merciful that not once has he threatened to take out a restraining order against me. And he actually links me once in a while.

So read the whole thing.

Uh . . . I’ll be in my bunk.

UPDATE: To put the Ace/LGF situation in context, some explanation is in order. There was a minor media-bias kerfuffle this past week in regard to the Gaza “Freedom Flotilla,” and I didn’t blog about it because the source was Little Green Footballs. But it got picked up in the media and everybody else blogged about it, including Yid With Lid:

Reuters is now doctoring its pictures from the violence aboard the Guerrilla Flotilla.

YWL got linked at Hot Air, and this prompted Charles Johnson to go thermonuclear on Allahpundit:

“So what kind of vindictive, unprofessional, unethical creep would write about a story and give all the credit to other people, knowing full well that the story originated at LGF?
“The dishonest dirtbag goes by the name of ‘Allahpundit,’ and he writes for Hot Air.”

To which Allahpundit replied:

It seems I’m “scum,” a “thief,” and a “dishonest dirtbag” because I thought Sammy Benoit had found the initial photo of Reuters cropping out weapons. Turns out it was Charles Johnson at LGF who broke the story; Sammy’s post only mentioned him in connection with the second photo. So here’s the official correction from a scummy dirtbag thief.

Paleo Pat at Political Byline called attention to this:

Has this man forgotten just how badly he stabbed the right in the back? Has Charles Johnson forgotten how badly that he defamed Pamela Geller, by calling her a Nazi Sympathizer? This happened more than once by the way; the first time almost ruined her blogger career.

OK, then Ace linked Political Byline and pointed out that Charles Johnson has been known to swipe a story without proper credit — citing as one example an occasion when LGF hogged the credit for a Dan Riehl item.

Dan’s thrown a few light jabs at CJ the past couple of days — including one about the Geller PayPal situation — but he hasn’t gotten rough with LGF and probably won’t. But, oh, if he ever did . . .

UPDATE II: Now here we go. I hadn’t bothered to look at the post that provoked Ace’s latest response, but it perfectly exemplifies what went wrong with Charles Johnson:

Johnson recounts a dust-up in which Steve Gilbert at Sweetness & Light accused Johnson of “stealing one of his stories,” an accusation Johnson denied. But when Gilbert, per CJ, “threatened to ‘ruin my reputation’ with other bloggers” Johnson “preemptively wrote emails to several other bloggers.”

Now, I don’t know the backstory there, and Johnson uses it as pretext to publish private correspondence with Ace — a vicious betrayal, and a bell that can never be unrung. Yet that’s not the real “tell” here.

Why on earth was Charles Johnson so concerned about what another blogger might say about him to other bloggers — especially when Johnson himself at that time (March 2008) had been waging a merciless online vendetta against Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer for six months?

Kind of thin-skinned, don’t you think?

Can you say “guilty conscience,” boys and girls?

Proprietary rage over which blogger “stole” what story from whom is a routine fixture of the blogosphere. Being obsessed with one’s reputation to the point where you’re sending back-channel e-mails to other bloggers to “preemptively” defend yourself from an accusation of story-swiping . . .

To quote Allahpundit: Dude.

With the exception of my own reporting, nearly everything I blog about comes from either Memeorandum, Google News or Twitter. How the story gets to those places, I don’t much care. If either Instapundit or Ace links a story that gets picked up by other bloggers, that story will usually show up at Memeorandum — which seldom credits Ace or Insty, who may thereby be cheated out of deserved hat-tips.

Bloggers that big, however, usually have better things to do than to worry whether they get credited for every story they blog. And certainly it would be insanely time-consuming to keep up with the soap-opera plot-twists of which bloggers are mad at other bloggers.

That’s why it’s so bizarre to discover that Charles Johnson was “preemptively” e-mailing other bloggers that way in 2008. Why would Johnson worry that other bloggers might credit Steve Gilbert’s accusations?

With that e-mail, Johnson betrayed a profound narcissistic tendency. For Johnson then to wait more than two years to retaliate against Ace by publishing a private e-mail is unquestionably sociopathic.

Picture it, reader: Charles Johnson, once one of the most heralded members of the blogsophere, sitting there with archived e-mails from years ago, poring over his cache to retrieve and publish this e-mail he solicited while endeavoring to protect his own reputation.

Sick. And not merely sick, but evil.

Comments

51 Responses to “Ace of Spades Smacks Charles Johnson in a Post Every New* Blogger Should Read”

  1. MrPaulRevere
    June 13th, 2010 @ 5:00 am

    Charles Johnson is a cheap thug who likes to intimidate people: http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/9795/johnsonthreatmichellema.jpg

  2. MrPaulRevere
    June 13th, 2010 @ 1:00 am

    Charles Johnson is a cheap thug who likes to intimidate people: http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/9795/johnsonthreatmichellema.jpg

  3. MrPaulRevere
    June 13th, 2010 @ 5:09 am

    It’s all good Charles, we’ll take the gloves off too.

  4. MrPaulRevere
    June 13th, 2010 @ 1:09 am

    It’s all good Charles, we’ll take the gloves off too.

  5. Robert Stacy McCain
    June 13th, 2010 @ 5:58 am

    Charles Johnson is a cheap thug who likes to intimidate people

    He likes to try, at any rate. Only a self-destructive fool would ever try to intimidate Michelle Malkin. That shot at her — in April 2009, five months before he attacked Stephen Green for linking my coverage of the 9/12 March in DC — was perhaps the one little comment that ultimately caused the undoing of LGF. So long as it was just Charles going after Geller and Spencer, a lot of bloggers were confused, and figured the smart thing was just to stay out of someone else’s fight. But . . . threatening Malkin?

    A blogospheric suicide note, a self-destructive gesture akin to badmouthing Dr. Helen.

  6. Robert Stacy McCain
    June 13th, 2010 @ 1:58 am

    Charles Johnson is a cheap thug who likes to intimidate people

    He likes to try, at any rate. Only a self-destructive fool would ever try to intimidate Michelle Malkin. That shot at her — in April 2009, five months before he attacked Stephen Green for linking my coverage of the 9/12 March in DC — was perhaps the one little comment that ultimately caused the undoing of LGF. So long as it was just Charles going after Geller and Spencer, a lot of bloggers were confused, and figured the smart thing was just to stay out of someone else’s fight. But . . . threatening Malkin?

    A blogospheric suicide note, a self-destructive gesture akin to badmouthing Dr. Helen.

  7. Estragon
    June 13th, 2010 @ 6:03 am

    Charles Johnson is in many ways the tragic story of Barack Obama, if Obama liked to ride bikes and sniff bicycle seats. Both are narcissists who found too much success too fast, turning their narcissism into a fanatic megalomania.

    The difference is CJ is subject to online justice, where the traffic makes its judgment and moves on, ever on. Insty, Stacy, and many others have been able to continue to grow, at varying rates, while others are judged to have jumped the shark.

    CJ reached near the top of the blogging world but mistook his position. Instead of marveling at how high he had climbed, he assumed he was more or less the blogging god, and began to act accordingly.

    ~~~~~~~~

    Obviously Mrs. Other McC doesn’t read this blog, else Stacy would keep his homoerotic fantasies about Ace to himself. Besides, Ace has repeatedly declared his exclusive bi-curiosity for AllahPundit, so you’re trolling the wrong leather bar there.

  8. Estragon
    June 13th, 2010 @ 2:03 am

    Charles Johnson is in many ways the tragic story of Barack Obama, if Obama liked to ride bikes and sniff bicycle seats. Both are narcissists who found too much success too fast, turning their narcissism into a fanatic megalomania.

    The difference is CJ is subject to online justice, where the traffic makes its judgment and moves on, ever on. Insty, Stacy, and many others have been able to continue to grow, at varying rates, while others are judged to have jumped the shark.

    CJ reached near the top of the blogging world but mistook his position. Instead of marveling at how high he had climbed, he assumed he was more or less the blogging god, and began to act accordingly.

    ~~~~~~~~

    Obviously Mrs. Other McC doesn’t read this blog, else Stacy would keep his homoerotic fantasies about Ace to himself. Besides, Ace has repeatedly declared his exclusive bi-curiosity for AllahPundit, so you’re trolling the wrong leather bar there.

  9. Patrick
    June 13th, 2010 @ 7:14 am

    Two Things…

    McCain if you don’t quit calling me Paleo-Pat, I’m gonna come to MD and I’m gonna tie you to a chair and I’m gonna yank yer nose hairs out. One by one… Pluck Pluck Plucky Pluck Pluck!

    and….

    This happened more than once by the way; the first time almost ruined her blogger career.

    Her BLOGGER career?!?!! Oy Vey…. I fixed that, should have read BLOGGING!

    D’oh! 🙄

  10. Patrick
    June 13th, 2010 @ 3:14 am

    Two Things…

    McCain if you don’t quit calling me Paleo-Pat, I’m gonna come to MD and I’m gonna tie you to a chair and I’m gonna yank yer nose hairs out. One by one… Pluck Pluck Plucky Pluck Pluck!

    and….

    This happened more than once by the way; the first time almost ruined her blogger career.

    Her BLOGGER career?!?!! Oy Vey…. I fixed that, should have read BLOGGING!

    D’oh! 🙄

  11. Patrick
    June 13th, 2010 @ 7:19 am

    I guess I ain’t the only one who makes Grammar errors… or at least puts wrong words in…

    To put the Ace/LGF situation in contest,

    You meant CONTEXT, Right?

    😀

  12. Patrick
    June 13th, 2010 @ 3:19 am

    I guess I ain’t the only one who makes Grammar errors… or at least puts wrong words in…

    To put the Ace/LGF situation in contest,

    You meant CONTEXT, Right?

    😀

  13. Patrick
    June 13th, 2010 @ 7:27 am

    Um, wait…

    I’m gonna come to MD and I’m gonna tie you to a chair and I’m gonna yank yer nose hairs out. One by one… Pluck Pluck Plucky Pluck Pluck!

    Nope, scratch that…. That’s too easy.

    McCain, if you don’t a quit calling me Paleo-Pat, I’m gonna come my Maryland and HIDE YER SMOKES!

    *Evil laugh here*

  14. Patrick
    June 13th, 2010 @ 3:27 am

    Um, wait…

    I’m gonna come to MD and I’m gonna tie you to a chair and I’m gonna yank yer nose hairs out. One by one… Pluck Pluck Plucky Pluck Pluck!

    Nope, scratch that…. That’s too easy.

    McCain, if you don’t a quit calling me Paleo-Pat, I’m gonna come my Maryland and HIDE YER SMOKES!

    *Evil laugh here*

  15. Patrick
    June 13th, 2010 @ 7:28 am

    GOTT A Mighty!

    gonna come my Maryland

    I give up, I’m going to bed…. 🙄

  16. Patrick
    June 13th, 2010 @ 3:28 am

    GOTT A Mighty!

    gonna come my Maryland

    I give up, I’m going to bed…. 🙄

  17. Robert Stacy McCain
    June 13th, 2010 @ 8:08 am

    I give up, I’m going to bed . . .

    I think what you meant to say is, “I’ll be in my bunk.”

  18. Robert Stacy McCain
    June 13th, 2010 @ 4:08 am

    I give up, I’m going to bed . . .

    I think what you meant to say is, “I’ll be in my bunk.”

  19. Robert Stacy McCain
    June 13th, 2010 @ 8:22 am

    Obviously Mrs. Other McC doesn’t read this blog, else Stacy would keep his homoerotic fantasies about Ace to himself. Besides, Ace has repeatedly declared his exclusive bi-curiosity for AllahPundit, so you’re trolling the wrong leather bar there.

    Mrs. Other McCain does read this blog, when she’s not too busy fetching me coffee.

    The joking about Ace is actually self-deprecation, mocking my own fanboy status as a late arrival in the blogosphere. Ace was already a blog star — linked at the Corner, etc. — before I ever really understood what blogging was.

    True story: In 2003, Amy Doolittle was an intern at The Washington Times and pitched me on the idea of doing a feature about blogging for the culture page. And my reaction was a blank stare: “Huh? Blogging?” There ensued a meeting with myself and my supervising AME, Maria Stainer, in which Amy tried to persuade us that this blogging stuff was all the rage with the cool kids. We weren’t entirely persuaded, but Amy was so enthusiastic about her idea we let her do the story anyway.

    My editing of that story was probably nightmarish for Amy, because I was concerned about trying to make it comprehensible to the elderly newspaper reader who could just barely be expected to know what “online” meant. By early 2006, however, I had my own blog (to promote Donkey Cons) and by the end of 2006 had become sort of the unofficial liaison between the newsroom and the conservative blogosphere.

    Much is owed to Amy Doolittle’s persistence.

  20. Robert Stacy McCain
    June 13th, 2010 @ 4:22 am

    Obviously Mrs. Other McC doesn’t read this blog, else Stacy would keep his homoerotic fantasies about Ace to himself. Besides, Ace has repeatedly declared his exclusive bi-curiosity for AllahPundit, so you’re trolling the wrong leather bar there.

    Mrs. Other McCain does read this blog, when she’s not too busy fetching me coffee.

    The joking about Ace is actually self-deprecation, mocking my own fanboy status as a late arrival in the blogosphere. Ace was already a blog star — linked at the Corner, etc. — before I ever really understood what blogging was.

    True story: In 2003, Amy Doolittle was an intern at The Washington Times and pitched me on the idea of doing a feature about blogging for the culture page. And my reaction was a blank stare: “Huh? Blogging?” There ensued a meeting with myself and my supervising AME, Maria Stainer, in which Amy tried to persuade us that this blogging stuff was all the rage with the cool kids. We weren’t entirely persuaded, but Amy was so enthusiastic about her idea we let her do the story anyway.

    My editing of that story was probably nightmarish for Amy, because I was concerned about trying to make it comprehensible to the elderly newspaper reader who could just barely be expected to know what “online” meant. By early 2006, however, I had my own blog (to promote Donkey Cons) and by the end of 2006 had become sort of the unofficial liaison between the newsroom and the conservative blogosphere.

    Much is owed to Amy Doolittle’s persistence.

  21. Aleister
    June 13th, 2010 @ 8:41 am

    Groovy post, Stacy.

    Awesome updates, too.

    -Aleister

  22. Aleister
    June 13th, 2010 @ 4:41 am

    Groovy post, Stacy.

    Awesome updates, too.

    -Aleister

  23. Fritz Katz
    June 13th, 2010 @ 12:10 pm

    There are many documented instances of Charles Johnson revealing the online identities of people who contributed to his PayPal account.
    There’s more on this topic at TheBlogmocracy.

    Can we document all the hate speech at LGF and get their PayPal acct. stopped. Howabout we contact each advertiser of LGF and tell them exactly what LGF is all about?

    One of the main problems is LGF is still classified as a ‘Conservative’ website by blogads. This cheats the advertiser, they think they are reaching like-minded conservatives with targeted adverts. Instead they are flushing precious advertising dollars into a leftist toilet-blog.

    We need a conservative alternative to YouTube, PayPal, Google, and other defacto monopolies we grown to depend on. The free market should be able to provide. (YouTube leaves head-chopping jehadi videos up but they just took down the “we con the world” spoof).

  24. Fritz Katz
    June 13th, 2010 @ 8:10 am

    There are many documented instances of Charles Johnson revealing the online identities of people who contributed to his PayPal account.
    There’s more on this topic at TheBlogmocracy.

    Can we document all the hate speech at LGF and get their PayPal acct. stopped. Howabout we contact each advertiser of LGF and tell them exactly what LGF is all about?

    One of the main problems is LGF is still classified as a ‘Conservative’ website by blogads. This cheats the advertiser, they think they are reaching like-minded conservatives with targeted adverts. Instead they are flushing precious advertising dollars into a leftist toilet-blog.

    We need a conservative alternative to YouTube, PayPal, Google, and other defacto monopolies we grown to depend on. The free market should be able to provide. (YouTube leaves head-chopping jehadi videos up but they just took down the “we con the world” spoof).

  25. Charles Johnson
    June 13th, 2010 @ 2:04 pm

    First: “Ace of Spades” says that I used PayPal donation information to out the people at the stalker blog (a blog composed of people who were banned from LGF for various reasons, including supporting genocide and, even worse, taking Pam Geller’s side, among other lovely concepts).

    This is a deliberate lie; they’re spreading the lie to try to damage my income from donations. I have never revealed information from PayPal, and I never will. I use that PayPal information for my own purposes. That is not violating privacy.

    In fact, the stalkers even filed a complaint with PayPal last year to try to get my account shut down; PayPal dismissed the complaint as unfounded. Which it is.

    All information that I used to identify these creepy obsessed individuals came from my sources on the Internet, or from people who had the decency to inform me about them. Period. Any information you share with LGF through PayPal is absolutely kept private. The fact I use it is not violating privacy.

  26. Charles Johnson
    June 13th, 2010 @ 10:04 am

    First: “Ace of Spades” says that I used PayPal donation information to out the people at the stalker blog (a blog composed of people who were banned from LGF for various reasons, including supporting genocide and, even worse, taking Pam Geller’s side, among other lovely concepts).

    This is a deliberate lie; they’re spreading the lie to try to damage my income from donations. I have never revealed information from PayPal, and I never will. I use that PayPal information for my own purposes. That is not violating privacy.

    In fact, the stalkers even filed a complaint with PayPal last year to try to get my account shut down; PayPal dismissed the complaint as unfounded. Which it is.

    All information that I used to identify these creepy obsessed individuals came from my sources on the Internet, or from people who had the decency to inform me about them. Period. Any information you share with LGF through PayPal is absolutely kept private. The fact I use it is not violating privacy.

  27. Charles Johnson
    June 13th, 2010 @ 2:07 pm

    Second: “Ace of Spades” also claims that I tried to hog all the glory for the Dan Rather incident, another claim that is 100% false. Ace is just jealous. I went out of my way to share credit with everyone else who helped move the story, over and over and over. In point of fact, my very first post about the Dan Rather documents gives full credit of their assistance to Free Republic and Powerline, because you have to throw a few bones to the little people. I’ve done this repeatedly throughout the years, and I have never claimed all the credit for myself, although I would be justified in doing so.

  28. Charles Johnson
    June 13th, 2010 @ 10:07 am

    Second: “Ace of Spades” also claims that I tried to hog all the glory for the Dan Rather incident, another claim that is 100% false. Ace is just jealous. I went out of my way to share credit with everyone else who helped move the story, over and over and over. In point of fact, my very first post about the Dan Rather documents gives full credit of their assistance to Free Republic and Powerline, because you have to throw a few bones to the little people. I’ve done this repeatedly throughout the years, and I have never claimed all the credit for myself, although I would be justified in doing so.

  29. Jeff Weimer
    June 13th, 2010 @ 2:08 pm

    Chuckie can go piss up a rope.

    He’s got his blog open for registration without his usual got it open/got it closed antics. I wonder why. Is is because he alienated readers like me, who one day found their registration blocked for some unknowable reason?

    He’s soured me so much on his blog that I won’t go back. Ace’s post just sold me on it for all time. And I originally thought Chuckie was a hero for the Rathergate thing. It’s true – the MSM flogged LGF on that to that point, and he didn’t protest. It was later I found out about the man behind the curtain.

  30. Jeff Weimer
    June 13th, 2010 @ 10:08 am

    Chuckie can go piss up a rope.

    He’s got his blog open for registration without his usual got it open/got it closed antics. I wonder why. Is is because he alienated readers like me, who one day found their registration blocked for some unknowable reason?

    He’s soured me so much on his blog that I won’t go back. Ace’s post just sold me on it for all time. And I originally thought Chuckie was a hero for the Rathergate thing. It’s true – the MSM flogged LGF on that to that point, and he didn’t protest. It was later I found out about the man behind the curtain.

  31. Robert Stacy McCain
    June 13th, 2010 @ 2:16 pm

    There’s more on this topic at TheBlogmocracy.

    Very interesting post there. BTW, I don’t think it is fair or helpful to make the argument that Johnson is a pad person because he’s trying to make money from his blog — as “Rodan” does:

    why don’t you get a real job and stop wanting to live off other people’s money. Clearly you are in the blogging business for money since your web design company failed.

    A blog is a service. Providing that service is “a real job.” Of course, when Charles unleashed Sharmuta & Co. with the Banning Stick, that certainly was counter-productive to any capitalist purpose at LGF.

    But don’t attack blogging qua blogging just because you’re mad at Charles.

  32. Robert Stacy McCain
    June 13th, 2010 @ 10:16 am

    There’s more on this topic at TheBlogmocracy.

    Very interesting post there. BTW, I don’t think it is fair or helpful to make the argument that Johnson is a pad person because he’s trying to make money from his blog — as “Rodan” does:

    why don’t you get a real job and stop wanting to live off other people’s money. Clearly you are in the blogging business for money since your web design company failed.

    A blog is a service. Providing that service is “a real job.” Of course, when Charles unleashed Sharmuta & Co. with the Banning Stick, that certainly was counter-productive to any capitalist purpose at LGF.

    But don’t attack blogging qua blogging just because you’re mad at Charles.

  33. Charles Johnson
    June 13th, 2010 @ 2:22 pm

    Am I imagining things or did this same Kilgore Trout, a moderator at LGF, go over to Hot Air late at night and vandalize the site by posting the word “N–r” repeatedly to… um… prove that Hot Air was racist? And did Charles Johnson then not praise him for countenance and defend this stunt? And keep him on as a privileged moderator? (Zimriel writes I overstated initially.)

    Did Charles Johnson himself not out the names of people who’d donated money to him in the past, thereby making everyone on the right skittish about donating to other bloggers, wondering who will be the next to turn? *

    Was it not Charles Johnson who endlessly accepted, without correcting the falsheood, the media’s claim that he had uncovered the RatherGate forgeries?

    “BuckHead” just emailed me about stealing credit. He says, “Lot of that goin’ ’round, Hoss.”

    You little, whiny, crazy-ass meglomaniacal-without-a-blessed-reason-to-justify-it bitch.

    Everything you say Ace bounces off of me and sticks on to you.

  34. Charles Johnson
    June 13th, 2010 @ 10:22 am

    Am I imagining things or did this same Kilgore Trout, a moderator at LGF, go over to Hot Air late at night and vandalize the site by posting the word “N–r” repeatedly to… um… prove that Hot Air was racist? And did Charles Johnson then not praise him for countenance and defend this stunt? And keep him on as a privileged moderator? (Zimriel writes I overstated initially.)

    Did Charles Johnson himself not out the names of people who’d donated money to him in the past, thereby making everyone on the right skittish about donating to other bloggers, wondering who will be the next to turn? *

    Was it not Charles Johnson who endlessly accepted, without correcting the falsheood, the media’s claim that he had uncovered the RatherGate forgeries?

    “BuckHead” just emailed me about stealing credit. He says, “Lot of that goin’ ’round, Hoss.”

    You little, whiny, crazy-ass meglomaniacal-without-a-blessed-reason-to-justify-it bitch.

    Everything you say Ace bounces off of me and sticks on to you.

  35. Charles Johnson
    June 13th, 2010 @ 2:57 pm
  36. Charles Johnson
    June 13th, 2010 @ 10:57 am
  37. Apparently you can be right on an important issue… « DaTechguy's Blog
    June 13th, 2010 @ 11:58 am

    […] picks up the narrative with some screen shots from LGF where Charles thin skin is demonstrated in visuals: UPDATE: To put the Ace/LGF situation in context, some explanation is in order. There was a minor […]

  38. Charles Johnson
    June 13th, 2010 @ 4:32 pm

    You can be sure when I do an attack on sites like Ace and Hot Air, I have decided that they are propounding racism, hate, bigotry…

    and my site counts are low and I want to maintain the advertising stream.

  39. Charles Johnson
    June 13th, 2010 @ 12:32 pm

    You can be sure when I do an attack on sites like Ace and Hot Air, I have decided that they are propounding racism, hate, bigotry…

    and my site counts are low and I want to maintain the advertising stream.

  40. Jeff Weimer
    June 13th, 2010 @ 4:45 pm

    Charles, sending Kilgore out to “prove” Ace and Hotair are racist by acting racist and posting racist rants and then using your own agent’s words against them is pathetic and small. Get over yourself, and, if this is really you, go away from this site. If you are really this insecure, I pity you.

  41. Jeff Weimer
    June 13th, 2010 @ 12:45 pm

    Charles, sending Kilgore out to “prove” Ace and Hotair are racist by acting racist and posting racist rants and then using your own agent’s words against them is pathetic and small. Get over yourself, and, if this is really you, go away from this site. If you are really this insecure, I pity you.

  42. richard mcenroe
    June 13th, 2010 @ 1:00 pm

    Gosh,Miss Lane,isn’t it strange how you never see Charles Johnson and Cindy Sheehan together?

  43. richard mcenroe
    June 13th, 2010 @ 5:00 pm

    Gosh,Miss Lane,isn’t it strange how you never see Charles Johnson and Cindy Sheehan together?

  44. richard mcenroe
    June 13th, 2010 @ 1:03 pm

    Really? PayPal info is confidential? Then why do I know who everyone is who sends memoney through PayPal?

  45. richard mcenroe
    June 13th, 2010 @ 5:03 pm

    Really? PayPal info is confidential? Then why do I know who everyone is who sends memoney through PayPal?

  46. mike
    June 13th, 2010 @ 7:43 pm

    The LGF guy is a dunce and a buffoon. Hard to believe that anyone ever took him seriously. What a thin-skinned pussy.

  47. mike
    June 13th, 2010 @ 3:43 pm

    The LGF guy is a dunce and a buffoon. Hard to believe that anyone ever took him seriously. What a thin-skinned pussy.

  48. David R. Block
    June 14th, 2010 @ 2:48 am

    Oh yes, and stay away from commenting at LGF for a while but still coming over for visits and openly wonder what is going on with Charles at another site = BANNED!!

    Probably would have been much easier if I just wondered openly at LGF.

    I haven’t been over there in about a year. I see that conditions are the same as when I last looked.

  49. David R. Block
    June 13th, 2010 @ 10:48 pm

    Oh yes, and stay away from commenting at LGF for a while but still coming over for visits and openly wonder what is going on with Charles at another site = BANNED!!

    Probably would have been much easier if I just wondered openly at LGF.

    I haven’t been over there in about a year. I see that conditions are the same as when I last looked.

  50. Jeff Dunetz
    June 15th, 2010 @ 1:44 pm

    Truth is, the information I used about the first set or Pictures was from CAMERA that’s how I labeled it, the second set of picture was from LGF I labeled those to him.

    Many people linked the story to me, and most of them also went to LGF also.

    I would have gone to LGF to discuss it directly but Charles didn’t like the blogs I put on my blogroll so he banned me.

    Stuff like this happens all the time and most of the time it is accidental.

    I broke the Helen Thomas Video and many people picked the story off of Breitbart TV who linked it to me or Drudge who linked it to Breitbart. Those people were not trying to Rip me off or steal credit–it happens.

    Fact is if Allah or Ace get plenty of traffic and they don’t need to steal stories. I think Charles may have a bit of thin skin on this.