So why does Marion Barry still have a job?  Check out the comment I copied from The Atlantic.  Amazing.  

And Charles Johnson, fuck you too.  That guy must have been one of your few remaining Lizoids.  

Great post Stacy. Anything you or Riehl had to say about Derbyshire would be considered racist by default by that lunatic; verdict first, trial later. At best he’s a shallow buffoon, at worst a candidate for a straightjacket. 

I would just ignore him. I think the main reason he attacks you and Dan Riehl, among others is he knows you’ll respond, and get him more attention. He’s nothing but a little gerbil crawling around up inside the collective leftist asshole, only in his case he crawled up there of his own volition.

That should be “little coke covered gerbil”. I think that clown is heavily into drugs.

I don’t agree with you, so you must be a RAAAAACIST! Fucking leftists. They pigeon hole themselves into different niches, so automatically if you are conservative you must be a raaaaacist. Go away commie.

Oh good grief.  I’m certain that Charles was the model for a vagina that some feminazi knitted and mailed to the RNC to protest the “war on women”.  Only problem was there was no sand in that knitted vagina, but Charles’ certainly does. 

Idiot: Johnson’s playing silly guilt-by-association games — using Riehl as a stick with which to beat Breitbart’s corpse — and all you can think about is RAAAAACISM!

Where are the victims? Who has been victimized by the racism/fascism of Spencer, West, Phillips, et al., you twisted Canadian freak?

It doesn’t matter to you whether there is any basis to your malicious slanders. You’re just enjoying a warm bath in your own self-righteousness.

Why don’t you go back to hurling slurs at Condi Rice and stop bothering the grown-ups?

It’s a classic tale of addiction leading to a man’s fall.  At one time, LGF was a fixture in the top 50 blogs in the world, many weeks cracking the top 20.  But CJ threw it all away.  Now he’s around #92,500 on the Alexa rankings – really.

Who knows when or why he took that first sniff of his own bicycle seat?  Maybe he was inside, admiring his behind filling the Lycra shorts in a mirror, and decided to try it for a cheap thrill.  Perhaps he was on a break on a coastal highway ride with no one coming either way for miles – who would ever know?

But soon it became more than an occasional quick whiff.  Charles NEEDED it.  He made excuses to be alone with his bike.  He began eating more legumes and vegetables.  When locking his bike in public, instead of the wheel, he took the seat with him.

Eventually he spiraled down to where we now find him, blithering insane accusations against anyone who will listen, his once almost normal brain reduced to a cluster of festering lesions, his one-time horde of lizardoids reduced to a few dozen pathetic dehydrated salamanders frantically sniffing the air for a trace of their King.

I don’t think he ever was what he claimed to be. He was just a cynical opportunist riding the wave of what he saw as anti-Islamic hysteria, and rode it for all it was worth.

Then his more natural leanings started clawing at him from the inside, which would have been right about the time he realized he had ridden the wave for all it was worth. He never caught on that the wave was not what he thought it would be. In fact, he never really understood it to begin with. And once he decided to go back to his true leanings, he focused on obvious targets like Pamela Gellar and Robert Spencer, Wilders, etc., as examples of what he claimed were the “fascist Right” as a way to excuse his seemingly abrupt “change”, while claiming the conservative movement was at its core inherently racist, Islamaphobic, and every other ill swimming around his head he could project on conservatives.

And once the downward spiral began there was no stopping him. He only accelerated his descent, and as people like RSM and Dan Riehl stand around and watch the slide and point and laugh, his only response now, all he can do, is reach out and try to drag them down to the gutter with him.

The best thing now about Charles Johnson and Little Green Footballs is that his turning himself into the sad little joke of the blogosphere is the only thing keeping him in the top 100,000-though barely-of those Alexa rankings.

Oh, sorry, I didn’t realize. I denounce my obvious anti-trannyness. My bad. I shall now retire to my basement to flog myself.

My own theory is a bit more — dare I say — nuanced.

1. In 2001, Charles Johnson was a middle-aged man with no definite political ideology and with no real knowledge or experience in politics.
2. “9/11 changed everything” — When LGF became a clearinghouse for War on Terror news, suddenly Johnson was plunged overnight into a world where support for the Bush administration was axiomatic. But Charles knew nothing more about conservatism, as a political philosophy, than he gathered from following the stories on the news.
3. Success! — In 2004, LGF played a key role in one of the biggest stories of the campaign, the “RatherGate” scandal, and suddenly Charles was a VIP. He was a founding partner of Pajamas Media, he was hanging out with Victor Davis Hanson, etc. Circa 2005-06, he was at the pinnacle of his influence.
4. Failure — New competition emerged. In 2005, Red State was launched, focusing on the more political side of news: Elections, campaigns, legislation, etc. In 2006, Michelle Malkin created Hot Air, an instant success, with lots of video and a member-registration commenting system that was “sticky” in much the way LGF’s own commenting system was sticky. Traffic at LGF did not immediately suffer, but it ceased its period of explosive growth.
5. Scapegoating — In 2007, there was the unexplained report that Charles had left PJM. Later that year, Charles began his war against Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer. These former allies were succeeding, while Charles was failing, and when he saw an excuse to undermine them — to attempt to re-assert his influence as an arbiter of How to Fight the War on Terror — he jumped on it.
6. Escalation — Johnson began doubling down on his attacks, trying to ostracize and isolate his chosen enemies, to prove his own continued relevance in a purely negative sense. The escalation phase continued through 2008 into 2009 — he threatened Malkin, he slammed Ann Coulter, and so forth. The populist grassroots resistance to Obama was incomprehensible to him, and CJ formulated the idea that there was some kind of ideological sympathy between “Euro-fascists” and Obama’s American opponents: RAAAAACISM! By the time he attacked me (while I was covering the 9/12 March on DC), this idea had already hardened in his mind.
7. Collapse — The failure of his attempt to purge me was the obvious breaking point for CJ’s effort to regain his status as a VIP among bloggers on the Right. Within a few weeks, he published his “Parting Ways” post, which named me TWICE as a reason for this departure, demonstrating not my tremendous influence, but rather how large I loomed in Charles’s mind as a symbol of his problems. This showed that his “reasons” were actually excuses or rationalizations.

The problem was never really political, but personal — the frustration of disappointed ambition — and his current effort to re-invent LGF as a sort of dime-store imitation of Daily Kos will obviously never succeed. As a weapon of personal vengeance against erstwhile allies, however, it serves a purpose.

We could easily ignore LGF now, but he decided yesterday to “get in my face” on Twitter, and so I said to myself, if Charles wants attention, let’s give it to him: Fifteen hundred words. It’s useful, at least, as an object lesson in the psychological dimensions of politics.

 Stick to your cartoons, oh Dickless Wonder. Leave politics and other important issues to the non-maladjusted.

Happy Easter, by the way.

A few lessons about the psychotic as well.

 Who’s your half-wit President accountable to, besides China?

Just my integrity.  But that was before 2010.  

It IS the gerbil’s business though. Think of him. Animal abuser. You and Richard Gere. I’m appalled.

 Not even to China, it seems. Though he does want Vladimir Putin to know he’ll be more “flexible” after the rubes vote him back in.

*Shudder*

It’s not that Charles uses gerbils, he IS the gerbil.

 Everything he does is to the benefit of China, from giving them a monopoly in metals to helping Brazil develop their oil resources, then backing off when they decide to sell that same oil to China. Then there’s Keystone, which he refused to support, which means all that oil that would be sold to us will instead be sold to China. On and on it goes, and what do we get out of it? Nothing, unless maybe its so China will agree to finance more of our debt, which still benefits them in the long run, long after he’s gone. But it will help him in the short term keep leftist gasbags like Lithium Springs happy.

I don’t think most readers understand the significance o0f the commenter’s geographical identifier: I am also a guy from Lithia Springs, a 1977 graduate of LSHS.

Sirkowski,

Who wrote the certificate certifying Pamela Gellar is insane? Have you read the certificate? What is the doctor’s degree in? How is you’ve read a certificate of Gellar’s mental state, and no one here has ever seen Obama’s grades in school? 

Have you read anything, unedited, that Robert Spencer wrote?

How is Michelle Malkin racist? Both Jesse and the Rev Al have stated emphatically that it is impossible for a non-Caucasian to be racist. How many people does MM employ? And Jesse (that he doesn’t impregnate, to be fair), or Rev Al? Which of these persons of non-Caucasianity have the most diverse work force? Family?

C’mon – I know you can click that mouse! Do it. Prove to us you can do research!

Jim Hoft, Ace, Dan Riehl… my my my – certainly a Rogue’s Gallery of… estimable conservative bloggers who’ve got a record on what they think and on what principles they stand upon.

Can you answer any of these questions and back up your assertions?

Here are some questions you can answer:

Derbyshire wrote that his is the White version of “The Talk” that black mothers give to their children.

What, exactly, are the contents of that ”Talk?”

Are black mothers indoctrinating their children with racial animus?

 Well, that too, but I was talking about before LGF went into its reversal. It probably cost him a lot of ad revenue. I’m guessing he wouldn’t get near as much for an ad there now as he would when LGF was in its heyday.

 I guess though that wouldn’t be a bubble bursting suddenly, more like a fast leak.

 BINGO!

It was probably originally written for threads on NBC firing their phantom editor, but A Gay From Lithia Springs either got his topics mixed up or forgot what he had copied to paste.