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Barrett Brown Gets Himself Banned from LGF and League of Ordinary Gentlemen

Posted on | December 19, 2010 | 17 Comments

Somebody brought this up in the comments on another thread. Barrett Brown — who when last heard from here, had his lawyer threatening me with a libel action — has now in the space of a few days gotten himself banned from both Little Green Footballs and the League of Ordinary Gentlemen.

As to the LGF banning, Brown — who seems to be a Julian Assange fanboy — found himself accused by Lizardoid Enforcer-in-Chief Killgore Trout of being a Russian or Chinese agent. Meanwhile, at the League of Ordinary Gentlemen, Brown said that a commenter ”was harassing [him] from a government computer” — information that (according to Brown) Charles Johnson asked to see via e-mail:

“Hey Barrett — if you have a sec, could you email me the IP address of that creep commenting on your ‘Jew hater’ post? I have a pretty good idea who it is, and I’d like to confirm it if possible.”

Brown’s attempt to discover the commenter’s identity apparently led to a meltdown at the League and his subsequent banning. To which Charles evidently responded in the LGF comments:

“Barrett Brown was thrown off the League of Ordinary Gentlemen because he used information from a commenter’s profile to out someone who simply criticized his pretentious anarchist bullshit — so now he’s lashing out like a 4-year old throwing a tantrum because he faced some actual criticism at LGF.”

All this would seem to put the kibosh on Brown’s “Project PM” idea, as Johnson was supposed to be one of his collaborators on that project. At any rate, Barrett has now made a YouTube video explaining that, among other things, he’s not a Chinese agent because he lives in an efficiency apartment in Dallas.

If you are at all interested in this kind of stuff — and I’m sure you’re bored out of your skull — I’d begin by pointing out that, if you compare Charles Johnson and Barrett Brown, the latter at least seems to have some sense of humor (skip forward in the video to about 5:30): “Obviously, it was a mutually beneficial working relationship. We had certain shared goals, you know, we said nice things about each other. We had sex on the beach. We wore condoms, though. I’m just kidding — it was barebacking.”

Brown then goes on to say, “Charles Johnson is not being very factual. He’s deleting comments. He’s deleting his own comments. It’s really a little much.”

So congratulations to Barrett Brown, who finally figured out that Charles Johnson is batshit crazy. Like that was some big secret or something.

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  • http://kingshamus.wordpress.com/ KingShamus

    Hey Barrett Brown: Did you at least give Ground Chuck Johnson the courtesy of a reach-around?

  • JeffS

    I suspect that it is Barrett longing for the reach around, King Shamus,

  • http://www.serr8d.blogspot.com/ Serr8d

    Brown is a troubled yout. He was already swinging wide of the mark of professional writer; to align himself with Charles (Jim Jones Batshit Crazy) Johnson and Kilgore Trout of all people was foolhardy.

    Of that foul bunch, he might be the one who’s salvageable, if he uses this as a learning lesson. With that in mind, here’s my suggestions to Little Barrett:

    Mind your ideology. Keep away from rabid skunks. And please, learn to never shit where you eat.

    And cut that ‘profound’ hair off, bag it and sell it. You’ll need the money.

  • http://ak4mc.us/2c/2011/ McGehee

    It’s so sad I can barely keep from laughing.

  • http://twitter.com/AmPowerBlog Donald Douglas

    I’m privy to inside information that I can’t share in the comments, so McCain, perhaps give me a call later today and I’ll update you … but wait for a couple of hours. I’m going back to bed …

  • Anonymous

    Blogwars, yawn.

  • http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com Charles Johnson

    Barrett Brown was banned for the same reason I hate RSM. Smoking. I hate smokers. They are dirty people.

    Oh he is a Chinese agent and racist too.

    Tobacco does that to you.

  • http://meanderingpath.blogspot.com/ Mark

    This Barret dude looks to me like he is trying to do a Christopher Hitchens impression while hiding his Beiber hair cut.

  • Kranky One

    Hold on … you mean people still read LFG ? Why … ?

    The biggest thing the little Johnson did was to turn me on to RSM and AoS, and a bunch of others. Places where quality of writing and discourse, and occasional abuse, matters. LFG was in severe sucking mode more than 2 years ago, I can’t imagine whats staining the walls of that particular echo chamber now. I’d like to avoid thinking about that.

  • http://wizbangblog.com Jay Tea

    It looks like Charles “burn and churn” cycle through allies is speeding up. How long did Brown hold his favor before Johnson turned on him?

    J.

  • T-dahlgren

    Point and laugh, point and laugh.

  • Fool no more…..

    What a dysfunctional pile of writhing humanity desperately trying to prove how relevant they are. Does anyone know if this BB character consumed any of KKKKKilgore Touts snail ick kale? Would explain a lot.

  • Anonymous

    serr8d, after the performance he put on at protein wisdom, I wouldn’t apply the term salvageable. YMMV.

  • Talljones

    Them dirty dog wraccists

  • Talljones

    Them dirty dog wraccists

  • http://twitter.com/1389 1389

    How old is this kid? Maybe nine or so?

  • Rufus F.

    Okay as a League staffer, far be it from me to suggest that Charles Johnson is exaggerating a bit for dramatic effect (cough) but it’s a bit much for him to say Barrett is “banned” from the League- he resigned as a writer for the site, which was appropriate, but is still free to comment or send us guest posts. We’ve only ever banned two people (compare that to LGF!) and Barrett aint one of them. Secondly, his comments were inappropriate, which is why it made sense for him to resign, but he didn’t exactly “out a commenter”. He gave information, albeit very vague stuff, about a commenter that the commenter himself did not make public. So we all called him on it and he resigned. It’s not quite as dramatic as the LGF version.

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