Forgot Mah John's Really ACORN

by Smitty

In *nix operating systems, there is a filesystem check command, fsck, which is used to examine the integrity of a block device (hard disk) somewhere. This is a low-level command, qualitatively like picking over something with a fine-tooth comb and a magnet.

This week's FMJRA celebrates the fact that ACORN is finally getting a much-needed fsck-ing. Charles Johnson is encouraged to offer himself similar reflection.

Note: today is Talk Like a Pirate Day, and everyone should enjoy it. As a member of an organization dedicated to ventilating pirates since 12 June, 1775, I just don't have much personal enthusiasm for sounding like the enemy. But I enjoy a good-spirited chuckle with those taking a less curmudgeonly stance on the matter.

Another Caustic, Obnoxious, Reprehensible 'Nym (ACORN):
O'Keefe and Giles are awesome and completely own the shiny new political reality TV show genre. Never has so much ass been handed to so many by so few.

• Snapped Shot hat tips us.
• Common Sense Political Thought offers a roundup of the Left.
• Pandagon is unimpressed: "Until absolutely proven otherwise, I say that every ACORN employee including the ones in the 'most damning' video were, at worst, trying not to upset the crazy people." Three points, Mr. P:
  1. ACORN is losing in the court of public opinion,
  2. the speed with which ACORN itself submits to a full hearing by outside sources will be a telling data point,
  3. the crushing votes to de-fund in both chambers of Congress is at least a symbolic rebuke.
• Western Experience included us in a roundup.
• Noisy Room linked a bikini photo post.
• Carol's Closet rounded up legislative action and us. She really caught air when she saw that Conason fisking I put up the other day.
• Bonzai thought California was the weirdest episode yet. We should be so lucky.
• Little Miss Attila goes in for a bit of rhythm poetry using {'bikini','pictures','of','Hannah','Giles'}. Such a versatile artist, LMA.
• Desert Cat links both Little Miss Attila and us on the Hannah Giles bikini pictures.
• NOVA Townhall has a roundup of image captures of Hanah, hold the bikini. And also here.
• The Daley Gator thinks that Hannah Maniacs would make a good cartoon, or something.
• Kickin' and Screamin' picked us up, though we were peaceful the whole time.
• WyBlog covered some Census Bureau points.
• A Conservative Shemale: "When the Obama administration decides to throw someone under the bus they strike like a cobra."
• The Daley Gator like the "Know yo' ho', bro'" post.
• The National Center hat tips us on ACORN's intent to sue.
• Inside Charm City links us, rounding up Baltimore ACORN news.
• Political Castaway and I commiserate on how our mutual Congresstool voted against de-funding ACORN.
• Rightofcourse played the Queen card.
• Riehl World View had a Blog Talk Radio session including Dan and Stacy on topics, among them ACORN. I admit I haven't had time to peruse the recording.
• Ed Driscoll included one of the ACORN post titles in a roundup.
• Director Blue linked an ACORN post in a healthy roundup.

Never a Boring Day on the Blog When You've Got a Big Johnson:
The contrast between the Porch Manqué and the Boss Man is never more apparent than when matters of professional reputation are at stake. I have none. You can call me everything but late for supper, and it really macht nichts zu mir.
Stacy has both greater history available and more professional concern about reputation, as it affects his livelihood. Thus, in the present tense, scurrilous allegations receive all the affection due a rabid dog at a Louisville Slugger sale.
This blog tried to capture immediate and copious support offered by Blogs That Know the Difference, but, out of sheer love for your goodness, we cheerfully re-hash that affection.

• Pirate's Cove: "R.S. McCain catches Excitable Chucky exposing yet another scary neo-nazi." Also, No Pajamas for YOU! He further had this post, which included some Dan Riehl linkage. Finally, Teach reports CJ is still on the Creationist kick.
• VodkaPundit: "Now, I’ve worked with Stacy in person a couple of times, at the DNC last summer and at CPAC in February. Both were crowded, high-stress situations. At no time did I see Stacy treat anyone — of any color, creed, whathaveyou — with anything less than respect and good humor."
• Stogie: "Robert Stacy McCain: I Know Him Better Than Charles Johnson Does", and also: "Slander has long been a major weapon of the Left."
• Riehl World View: "I remain mostly done with some of the unfortunate behavior I continue to see playing out in certain quarters out here."
• A Conservative Shemale: "Personally I disagree with Johnson about 90% of the time but I doubt he is worth the energy of boycotting. He seems to be driving his readers away on his own and that's fine with me."
  
• A Newly Conservative Lesbian: "I link the best of Stacy's recent thoughts about Charles, who really, really should not have poked the bear."
• Noisy Room starts off a roundup with us.
• BlogWonks links the "Know Your Ho", no doubt for purely academic reasons.
• A Goy and his Blog: "Frequent visitors may notice the new blogroll category, added in loving memory of Charles Johnson's Sanity."
• Traction Control notes that Charles Johnson is riding to ACORN's defense.
• Texas Scribbler: "[CJ]'s become, as one commenter here, puts it, a Kos Kiddie Day Care Center."
• Physics Geek: "I've more or less ignored the preening of self-righteous prick CJ, proprietor in chief of Little Green Moonbats these last couple of years."
• Bits Blog: "It's sad to see Charles Johnson go the way of Saint Andrew (the Incontinent) Sullivan."
• Serr8d: "Sharmuta, is that really you??"
• Snapped Shot: "Never, ever anger a Southerner armed with a keyboard."
• Political Byline links us. Patrick sounds vehement.
• Stop the ACLU links us.
• The Rude News: "LGF is the Titanic of blogs. Once thought unsinkable, now sinking due to the madness of it's captain."
• South Texian: "When it comes to the matter of the honor of oneself and one's family, we Southerners are a touchy lot. Our detractors defame us at their own peril."
• Lead and Gold linked it.
• Valley of the Shadow: "Now, who flunked flank? Who ran with Mucus?"
• Carol's Closet:

  Not that Johnson appears inclined but even if he were, there are some lines you just don't cross. If you take aim at a man's reputation, as Johnson has taken aim at Stacy McCain's, you better know what you're talking about and who you're dealing with. Sadly, Johnson put fingers to keyboard without being very well informed on either point.

  And then: "...some people were just born to be miserable pricks..."
• Joshuapundit wins best abstract depiction of CJ. No, that's unfair to Kafka.
• Troglopundit: "I don’t want to be Robert Stacy McCain when I grow up...but just once, I’d like to have the kind of real, hard-driving, bare-knuckle, knee-to-the-groin kind of a blogospherical brawl that he seems to have all the time."
  No, Trog, I daresay that CJ is really a DOS attack for the opposition.
• Fish Fear Me: "I think I added The Other McCain about the same time I dropped little green footballs."
• Avid Editor's Insights: "It seems as is everyone is realizing the fraud that CJ or LGF is." Features a screen shot of ACORN apologist CJ.
• Bonzai: "I understand how it feels to be accused falsely of racism, and if R.S. McCain is from Georgia, then he probably wants to handle it the old fashion way -- a good bop upside the head -- I know I did the few times it's happened to me."
• Five Feet of Fury: "If Charles Johnson is crazy, does that mean those Rathergate memos were real...?"
• Pamela the Great (Atlas Shrugs): "Stacy McCain take the gloves off. Get the popcorn. McCain kicks "the sissy's" ass." Gellar even has the stomach to link a CJ response. One tough lady.
• Stop the ACLU was in on the act. Of linking us.
• V-Dare: "It's going from "We can factcheck your a**" to "We're just making sh*t up." Also here.
• The Political Cesspool viewed the CJ fracas from a very wait-and-see vantage. Ultimately, James Edwards is unsatisfied with Stacy's responses. Maybe Edwards was looking at more material, but the two TPC posts may exemplify the problem.
  Stacy quoted in the former "may yet be averse" seems to be viewed as "being disgusted" in the second (and I apologize in advance if I'm mis-interpreting what Edwards is writing).
  Mr. Edwards, I submit that you are off base here. It's one thing to desire for equal public treatment amongst people irrespective of race, color, creed, social pairings, etc.
  It's quite another to step into a family and tell people how to think. It might be disappointing if, within their culture, they fall short of your opinions, but, well, that's their prerogative. Appeal to the intellect. Encourage them in a positive way with facts. But hold the raaaaacism card in abeyance. The printing has been completely worn off by this administration.
  In summary, I think Stacy McCain's point is both clear and defensible.
• The Sundries Shack: "Charles Johnson is about to find himself in an entirely new dimension of pain once Stacy’s friends jump in on this." That is one way of describing being the first blogger to get their own "Downfall" clip.
• http://knappster.blogspot.com/2009/09/other-mccain-agonistes.html serves an introductory vignette and an anecdote regarding Stacy in a very even-handed treatment of the McCain/Johnson fracas. I'd like to quibble on a point in the vignette, just given the baggage related to the material chosen: making a generalization from the Wehrmacht to the Nazi party is one of those tough choices that will raise more objections than it adds value to the argument, in my opinion.
• Fullosseous Flap's Dental Blog: "Charles Johnson’s gone completely off his rocker"
• American Power: "I have known R.S. McCain for two years now, and there's nothing in him that remotely reeks of racist sentiment. Indeed, R.S. McCain represents the epitome of a gentleman and a scholar, and I testify to his unimpeachable integrity on civil rights."
• The Macho Response: "I found it thrilling".
• The Daley Gator awards CJ a Daley Douchebag.
• Adrienne's Catholic Corner: " Stacy has points to make, and make them he does."
• Obi's Sister: "Robert Stacy McCain – loud of mouth but big of heart."
• Political Byline has some related thoughts on banning.
• The Camp of the Saints: "Charles Johnson is a despicable cowardly cretinous ignoramus". Also: "Stacy McCain is one of the finest, most decent men I have ever known." Furthermore. Finally, a spot-on quote of the day.
• NOVA Townhall: McCain flogs the bike fairy.
• Ace of Spades HQ: "Obergruppenkommander Charles Speaks: Hot Air Racist, Fascist; Must Be Purged"
• Daily Pundit: "My LGF link now points at Stacy’s joint. Poetic justice, ya know."

UPDATE:

because there was no way to grab everyone the first time 'round, here are some others we must include in the Great Wall of Support:

• Caught Him With a Corndog: "What's Little, Green and Unsavory?"
• Nathan Cossey: (who emailed me directly in advance, to my chagrin): "his slander and that is what this is of Stacy, Ann, Michelle and Pamela crosses my line in the sand"
• No Sheeples Here: "I stand with Stacy and all the other bloggers who have come under attack from this man because I was raised to believe that a friend advises justly, assists readily, defends courageously and continues unchangeably as a friend."

A Wee Gathering of We the 'wee-weed up' People, Bitter Cling-ons, All:

• Rhetorican graciously links us.
• Liberal Smash had all the concern for the attendance records that DC has for the national debt, while also giving good roundup.
• Tom Lewis links us.
• A Conoservative Shemale thinks that Charles Johnson may have taken fact-checking lessons from the legacy media.
• Weigel at the Washington Independent linked Stacy's 450k estimate.
• NOVA Town Hall was there, while I was glued to the Porch.
• Nice Deb has an excellent roundup of pictures and links, including a healthy Stacy McCain quote.
• The Western Experience highlights some reviews on the Left.
• Joshuapundit gathered some other numbers.
• Carol's Closet had a good picture roundup.
• National Center Blog has an impressive roundup.
• Caffeinated thoughts is right in there.
• it's a kwazy life quotes Stacy's report.
• Track-a-'Crat admits to having put the 'Brit' in celebrity the day prior to the Tea Party.
• The Reaganite Republican Resistance: "Could be a watershed event we're witnessing here... that's a big crowd."
• Bonzai picked us up.
• The Sundries Shack had a quotable challenge to Alan Colmes:

  Meanwhile, if there’s anyone working in the media today who would have extensive experience with teabagging, it’s Alan Colmes. Also, he’s a dirty stinking liar and I challenge him to a debate on his contention that the tea party protests oppose health care reform. You and me, 15 minutes a piece, any neutral ground. Let’s see if you have any spine, you dried up piece of offal.

• Rhetorican did a fine job gathering the goods.
• Nice Deb took good care of us.
• Bonzai notes that we're now revving up for the Green Tea Party. Woo hoo! I shall have picked the lock and escaped the Porch in time to attend, I promise you.
• Bob Belvedere had a roundup. And follow-up.
  

Studying Studies More Interesting than the Studies Themselves
Call me jaded, but I refuse to offer reaction to the 'Mom, God told me to get knocked up' business. I'd need to review the data and follow the funding trail to discover whether they let an excess of Coveyism lead the researchers into beginning with the end in mind, as a warm-up to reading their study.

• No More Mister Nice Blog:

  So liberals and secularists and Yankees are evil and immoral -- but when it turns out that Christian Southerners are engaging in immoral behavior according their own criteria, well, it must be the criteria that are wrong. Pubescent pregnancy isn't bad, it's good! Outrage at pubescent pregnancy is just liberal propaganda! A goalpost-mover? Who, me?

• Patriot Boy links us after a snarky fake letter on abstinence that nearly approaches funny.
• The Mahablog "Righties are dense". Densly populated?
• Tami Dennis at the LA Times quoted Stacy.

Arguably the Most Expensive Oxymoron in History: Social Security
OK, I can't think of any topping it.

• The Liberty Papers quotes the CNS News factoid.
• Bob Belvedere gets the Federalism bit.

Wolverines!

• Scared Monkeys has some Rule 5 and ToM linkage.

Czars'R'Us:

• The Lonely Conservative at least hat tipped us for my Samuel R. Delany title. Which is more than that big meanie in Tennessee did.

More Joe Wilson Goodness:

• South Texian has an excellent post.
• The Reaganite Republican Resistance plays the Pulp Fiction card to good effect.

Andrew Sullivan's Botanical Proclivities:

• No Quarter linked us on the topic.
• Texas for Sarah Palin (a fine name for a blog) rounded up the coverage.
• Kayak 2 U: "I’m glad anytime someone escapes the gulag on a drug charge, but this highlights the fact that Justice is selectively blind. Which highlights the ridiculousness of the associated law."
• The National Center has a lengthy meditation.

Schaden-feedback

• Noisy Room linked the "Schadenfreude" post.
• Obi's Sister liked: "Michael [Moore] packs significant inertia, and it fills the screen, toppling the flat panel from the TV stand to lie there, in a pose nearly useless enough to resemble one of Moore’s films."

Other FMJRA excursions:

• Another Black Conservative
• The Daley Gator
• A Conservative Shemale
• So it Goes in Shreveport
• The Reaganite Republican Resistance
• Noisy Room
• KURU Lounge
• The Classic Liberal

Miscellaneous Shouts:

• Adrienne more or less dared me to embed a Loyal Award pic.

  

  Now, it would be an insult to my Sensitivity Training if I did not at least emulate some sort of aesthetic awareness.
  Furthermore, even though I'm playing directly into the whole reverse psychology of the moment, I'm doing it in a spirit of pure irony, so as not to besmirch my knuckle-dragger bona fides.
  Thank you very kindly, Adrienne.
  


• Track-a-'Crat, who puts us first after a shot of W with...a zoomie. *sigh* Remember, TaC, the chief good thing in Colorado is VodkaPundit. Go, Navy!
• The Blog Prof concurs with my estimate of O'Reilly's male viewers.
• Carol's Closet quoted my Jane Fonda riff in a roundup.
• Political Castaway honors an old MoDo post.
• Obi's Sister mentions raaaaacism in a post on the First Amendment.
• Trog liked my Gibson Doctrine quip, but I object to his use of a family photo of mine out of context. That was from one of my poetry recitals. Caption: Don't puke if you ate, don't look if you were at the previous, and follow instinct otherwise. Porch Manqué out.
• Roth CPA honors the How to Get a Million Hits post.
• Rhetorican thinks that Stacy and Dan did it again in encouraging Audrey to study silence.
• Snapped Shot linked Stacy's dire warning about Flemish terror cells.
• Steynian has us somewhere. I'm afraid to look. Here also.
• The Lonely Conservative linked the SC Boeing story.
• Troglopundit had to link and correct me on two counts for last Sunday's near-NYT level of inaccuracy.
• The Right Guy linked the last FMJRA post.
• Patrick at Political Byline seems to be thinking about hiring Stacy.
• Blogfodder has a slightly delayed thought about Stacy's taking O'Reilly to task regarding the manner of remembering Ted Kennedy.
• Digby's Blog manages to turn suggestion into coercion.
• The Right Guy links us at the end of a worthy post "Obama is Putin's Bitch", if you can get past the animal abuse in the title. Why do you hate Scruffy, TRG? ;)
• One Fine Jay has a great post "On polemics and apologists" linking a recent slamming of Frum. Great read.
• The Sundries Shack has my back on the "'Pelosi' pussy" post. Whew!
• Political Castaway remembered Smittypalooza. How about a Green Tea After-party?
• Daily Pundit linked my quip in response to Stogie. Also, a thoughtful meditation on the response I had to Bride of Rove. Finally, a quick rejoinder on the menace of Phlegm.

Yeah, this FMRJA business is becoming monstrous. Have to spread the work over more days. Which is rather a good problem to have. Please employ Technorati as your first line of feedback to tell us you've linked. If that isn't your cup o' tea, then email Smitty for inclusion. Ponder the tip jar.

SNL japes on Joe Wilson, but Carville is better

by Smitty (h/t LiberalLand)

The take on the setup for Joe Wilson's two-word rebuttal speech, while apocryphal, is fairly well played. Kristen Wiig takes a cheap shot at Michelle Bachman, which is unfortunate. KW does far better as Nancy Pelosi.

Bill Hader's James Carville steals the clip, however. Very nicely played.

Update:
Picked up by the Reaganite Republican Resistance, who has a nice roundup to tide you over as I finish the FMJRA.

Update II:
KURU Lounge seems to find it strange that SNL can properly address the Tea Party movement. What part of "the mainstream media is a propaganda organ" did you not grasp, Chad?

Update III:
Tom Lewis links it.

LGF's Kilgore Trout attacks Hot Air

Ace of Spades has the details of an attack that I had actually predicted Thursday morning in an e-mail to Michelle Malkin.

My son's first football game is today, and I have other commitments this evening. However, I must first make these two brief notes:

• Irving Kristol, R.I.P. A great man, whose influence will be remembered and debated for many years to come. My condolences and sympathy to his family and many friends.
• A friend just told me that Hannah Giles was "hurt" by my seizing the Hannah Giles bikini Google-bomb last week. But I know how the Left works, and I knew what was coming as soon as Hannah became famous, as did other smart conservatives in the blogosphere. Respectful conservative bloggers now own all the top Google-searche results for those photos and Little Miss Attila has also protected this fine Christian girl against Hannah Giles nude and Hannah Giles sex video.

"Angels unaware," as I said in an update just now. And as I've said so many times, "Just because you don't know what I'm doing, don't assume that I don't know what I'm doing."

God bless you, Hannah. And I hope the God-haters will remember: When old No. 27's son says, "I'm going to beat you today," he's not bragging. It is a statement of fact.

Now I must go to my son's football game. Family tradition . . .

UPDATE 5:15 p.m.: Despite some sloppy execution -- Bear Bryant would have those boys running wind sprints Monday until they were spittin' cotton -- my son's team, Brick Squad, scored a 19-6 victory over the So Icy Boys. My son Bob missed a few tackles, but redeemed himself by sacking the quarterback to end the game.

Even if it's only intramural flag football, the victorious tradition must be maintained as a matter of honor.

UPDATE 6:40 p.m.: File this under Bwaahahahahaha: Hot Air just moved LGF from "War On Terror" to "Left Channels" on their blogroll. Screen-cap that, post it on your blog, link here, and you've got yourself a guaranteed link-back.

UPDATE 6:46 p.m.: Fritz Hannah Giles lingerie is learning at Patterico. BTW, we were with Jeff G. in his feud with Patterico, but let bygones be bygones, as I say to my Yankee wife.

Fired ACORN Baltimore workers to sue; PLUS: Hannah Giles Bikini Update

Jeff Quinton of Inside Charm City has the news via WBAL:

Former ACORN workers in the city are planning to file a civil complaint against the makers of the video, according to the website Investigative Voice.
City state’s attorney Patricia Jessamy said on WBAL’s Shari Elicker Show that she could not prosecute based on restrictions for evidence obtained illegally.
Maryland law requires two party consent to be recorded.

Exit question: How will this affect the Hannah Giles bikini Google-bomb wars? Expect updates . . .

UPDATE: Rather than talk to a veteran conservative journalist -- I've got an e-mail address and have already interviewed Hannah's father, Doug Giles -- James O'Keefe tells his story to the liberal MSM:

O'Keefe insists that he and Giles's work was done independently and rejects liberal suggestions that the videos were bankrolled by conservative organizations. He does, however, acknowledge receiving help and advice from a conservative columnist and Web entrepreneur.
When O'Keefe had filmed the first two videos -- in the District and Baltimore -- a friend urged him to share his project with Andrew Breitbart, a conservative Internet entrepreneur who had plans to launch an anti-liberal site called BigGovernment.com. Breitbart said he was skeptical after a June phone call with O'Keefe about what he had, but when the video was rolling in his basement office in Los Angeles in late July, Breitbart said, he gasped.

Doug Giles is my friend, yet I am profoundly hurt by O'Keefe's deliberate insult -- talking to the Washington Post before talking to me? When a 25-year-old punk starts insulting veteran journalists, there could be serious consequences. Expect further updates . . .

UPDATE II (1:25 p.m. ET): For the benefit of commenter Tom Rowan of Naples, Fla., who thinks the Hannah Giles bikini photo is a "hoax," some explanation is necessary:

• Doug Giles is a friend of mine, one of several VIPs invited to attend the legendary 2008 CPAC party that Matthew Vadum and I hosted.
• Hannah Giles is also a friend, and a friend of my friends, including Sergio Gor and Jason Mattera.
• As soon as the ACORN videos made news and Hannah Giles became a household name, I began getting Google-search traffic because of a photo I took of Hannah at the YAF National Conservative Student Conference in July.
• The Google-bomb has been deployed as a defensive weapon, to ensure that hostile left-wing online sources do not gain a traffic advantage.
• The Other McCain is a commercial enteprise, the revenue of which (a) is dependent upon traffic, having passed the 2.5-million hit mark yesterday and (b) now equals or exceeds my income from freelance journalism and Internet consulting.
• Please hit the tip jar.
• "I write for money." Which is my way of saying, I am a professional journalist. My ability to do perform this job -- to put bread on the table for my wife and six children -- is dependent, to a degree, on my access to sources.
• When it comes to getting the job done, my methods are not always orthodox. I'm not some famous network-news hotshot who can always count on important people returning his phone calls, so I am forced to use my wits to compensate for my tremendous disadvantages. "Ethics, shmethics," as I like to say. So long as I get the story, how I get the story is my own business. To be beaten on a major story is to dishonor the memory of my late father, old No. 27: "I'm going to beat you today."
• Andrew Breitbart is scheduling media interviews for his BigGovernment.com operation, and has not even permitted Hannah Giles to appear on her father's "Clash Radio" program.
• Doug Giles is a Christian minister and a gentleman whose paternal wrath no reasonable man should ever wish to incur, to wit:

Andrew Breitbart is also a friend of mine, who likewise attended the 2008 CPAC party and whom I profiled for The Washington Times in May 2007:

'News addict' gets his fix
From Drudge to Huffington, ex-slacker
Breitbart finds home on the Web
By Robert Stacy McCain, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
His computer pings with every new e-mail. His cell phone rings with calls from friends. Distractions surround Andrew Breitbart. Yet he remains focused on the latest happenings from around the world, flowing into his laptop computer via a half-dozen wire services and other news sources.
A self-described "news addict," the 38-year-old Californian sips a Mountain Dew as he scans the latest headlines and talks about his journey from being a stereotypical Generation X slacker to being on the cutting edge of the 21st-century information revolution.
Having already been associated with two of the biggest success stories on the Web -- DrudgeReport.com and HuffingtonPost.com -- he is now proprietor of the Breitbart.com news site, a project begun in 2005 that now attracts more than 3 million visits per month.
Not bad for someone who graduated from Tulane University in 1991 "with no sense of my future whatsoever," as Mr. Breitbart said in an interview during a visit to Washington last week. And not bad for someone diagnosed as afflicted with attention-deficit (hyperactivity) disorder, although he says ADHD might be the secret to his success.
"The Internet was like an awakening for me," Mr. Breitbart says, describing how, in 1992, his friend Seth Jacobson first told him about the online world. . . .

About an hour ago, I got off the phone with a friend of Hannah's who explained to me that the O'Keefe interview with The Washington Post was part of Breitbart's "media strategy."

Andrew is a man whose keen intelligence I admire, whose brilliant insights into New Media I respect. But if pissing me off is party of his strategy . . .

Expect further updates . . .

UPDATE III: The conservative Google-bomb defense is working! The Left is predictably doing its pathetic Photoshop smears, but respectful conservative sites are all the top Google results. All conservatives must link the Hannah Giles nude photo now.

Little Miss Attila is one of those "angels unawares."

UPDATE IV: "Just because you don't know what I'm doing, don't assume that I don't know what I'm doing." Brick Squad 19, So Icy Boys 6.

The answer, Stogie, is 'No'

by Smitty

Stogie inquires whether Newsweek's "IS YOUR CAT RACIST" cover goes too far.

This is simply a part of Cass Sunstein's "Secret Animal Rights Agenda". The next big bailout promises to be lawyers. Once Mumu has legal standing, your failure to provide tasty snacks can and will be used against you.

In the future, children will proceed from grade school to law school just to know enough, by the time they drive, to park a car without losing the vehicle in a lawsuit. You love the law, and the law loves loving you.

The Purple Center less than pleased with Senate appointee

by Smitty

John at the Purple Center falls short of happiness with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, one of seven in the Senate to vote against de-funding ACORN:

It's time for New York voters -- especially Democrats like me -- to send Gillibrand a clear message: we don't want any more of the taxpayers' money to be wasted on ACORN, an outfit which has few accomplishments other than scandals in its history and which exists mainly to perpetuate itself and give cushy jobs to people who are then drafted into "political action" to keep the money flowing.

When KG defended ACORN, the Purple Center was not amused:

But backing ACORN puts her in bed with an especially scummy outfit and aligns her with the the most left-wing elements of the Democratic Party -- and may help help put her out on her ear in January 2011. Maybe she thinks it will help her head off a Democratic primary next year, but the pols most likely to challenge her voted against funding ACORN! In any case, her vote on this issue (one of only seven!), far from fading from public view, will stand out as a major issue for her GOP opponent to hammer her with (this Marist poll shows her already running behind former Governor George Pakaki [sic]).

I've got a feeling that Senator Gillibrand's motives may resemble those of Senator Roland Burris: somebody acknowledging who put them in their current position.

I, for one, rejoice that the 17th Amendment so clearly saved the Republic from the evils of Senators with slits up the back of their suits, so that their handlers could readily manipulate them.

'Pelosi' Pussy Symbolizes Reaction to CA Farmers

by Smitty (hat tips: Cassy, story; Dodgeblogium, photo)

San Joaquin Valley farmers are getting arid under the collar over the delta smelt. Given a boost to survey a crowd of angry farmers (Victor Davis Hanson has yet do deny his presence at the event) by a staff member, the Pelosi Cat hissed at the crowd:

Several interpretations were proffered for the cryptic utterance:

1. 'All' is the new 'Lost'.
2. An endorsement of the TV show.
3. A detergent report.
4. An ACORN reference.
5. A prognosis for healthcare legislation.
6. A brief notice of any of the little people affected by her imperious policies. This hypothesis perished immediately.

The 'Pelosi' pussy did promise to shed a little light, if not fur, on what the American people can do ease her concerns about getting her way at a future press conference.

Update:
Those seeking a more substantive post on the Wicked Witch of the West are directed to the Sundries Shack.

Gold Medal Mental Gymnastics on the Left

by Smitty

Joe Conason at Salon:

The right-wing crusade against ACORN is a far bigger fraud than any misdeeds a few employees might have committed

Any? A few? Doesn't the sight of the one bit of vermin make you at least mildly curious about what's lurking out of sight, Mr. Conason?

People on the left, perhaps not Conason himself, are calling for Bush administration heads on a silver platter over some water boarding. Doesn't the non-zero possibility, based upon the video evidence, of some underage girls living in horror at least budge the concern meter? One can hypothesize an existence so horrid that captive girls would cheerfully endure a session of water boarding in exchange for liberation.

Yet ACORN's troubles should be considered in the context of a history of honorable service to the dispossessed and impoverished.

What I really want, since Mr. Conason is apparently my ethical superior, and has a higher-order grasp of justice than my cheap, pedestrian morality, is some kind of function that shows exactly how one calculates the acceptable ratio of depravity vs. "honorable service to the dispossessed and impoverished".

I'll leave un-played the standard "if conservatives did it..." card.

The overall WTF that needs to be addressed is the chain-of-command issue. Why, pray tell, does money have to be extracted from the taxpayer, or borrowed from the future, and then depart the Treasury to ACORN, which seems tantamount to a Federal agency? Why should money leave DC and ever be directed at individual private citizens in the ACORN fashion?

Mr. Conason is naïvel, and his mental gymnastics constitute sad entertainment for all.

Update: Carol at No Sheeples gives us the Nutcracker: sweet.

Sympathy for Carol

by Smitty

Carol laments "Rep Kathy Castor is an Embarrassment to Her Constituents". I knew without looking that the same is true of Jim Moran.

What's particularly painful about Jim Moran is that he's got not only a couple of decades in office worth of war chest, but VA-8 has more people who stand to benefit from growing the size of government than Andrew Breitbart has inconvenient clips hosted across his websites. And Breitbart is packing, indeed.

Now, if there was a way O'Keefe and Giles to do some footage of setting up an 8A company, if she's, say 1/8th Cherokee and he's got a perpetual motion machine and they are fronted by some rogue PMA elements. A little bit of DOD work over here, a little bit of remembering who your friends are over there...

Oh, that would never work. Lobbyists, like ACORN, never fall for such cunning stunts.

Why It's Not a 'Blog War'

Some have mischaracterized the Little Green Meltdown as a "blog war," which is rather like calling the St. Valentine's Day Massacre a "gunfight."

Those who have tuned in late or who have tried to avert their eyes from the disastrously self-destructive Madness of King Charles must be reminded that, from start to finish, this has been about Charles Johnson repeatedly attacking people who were minding their own business.

As if obsessively policing 400-comment threads for any hint of disagreement weren't enough to satisfy the paranoia of Pol Pot, how does Johnson find the psychic energy to moonlight as Internet Commissar of Affiliation-Investigation?

Let's let Johsuapundit explain what's really happened:

I delinked Little Green Footballs from Joshuapundit about a week and a half ago. . . . It's entirely due to the behavior of the self-styled Lizard King, Charles Johnson. And I should have done it a long time ago.
This started a couple of years ago, when Charles got his panties in a knot and started banning 'fascists' - you know, people like my friends Pam Geller at Atlas and Dymphna and the Baron over at Gates of Vienna who haven't got a fascist bone in their bodies but do take the menace of Islamist jihad seriously. Robert Spencer, the brilliant author and proprietor of JihadWatch was next and it continued from there. . . .
I probably should have dumped Charles back then, but Charles had been helpful to me back when I was starting out. . . . I naively thought that this was simply a personal snit between a few essentially decent people and that it would eventually resolve itself. After all, we were all on the same side, weren't we? . . .
As time went on, what used to be an important place on the net deteriorated into a fetid swamp with pretty much three creatures inhabiting it - the Lizard King's increasingly vicious attacks on his ever increasing list of personal 'enemies', Christians and 'creationists', links posted by the chosen Lizardoids on the site and Charles' occasional music videos.

Meanwhile, the body count continued - Andrew Bostom, Ann Coulter, David Littman, FOX News, Debbie Schlussel, Diane West, Melanie Phillips, Michele Malkin, Richard Miniter, Rush Limbaugh, Vodkapundit, Israel Matsav, Glenn Beck, Sigmund, Alfred and Carl, Geert Wilders, the Brussells Journal, Snapped Shot, Dr. Rusty at The Jawa report, Tundra Tabloids, Yid With Lid . . . hell, probably two thirds of the people I link to, any of whom could write and think circles around CJ and eat his intellectual lunch in a New York minute. . . .

By all means, read the whole thing and try to think about what Joshua is saying here. It's not about what Diane West wrote or what Rush Limbaugh said or who sponsored a conference that Pamela Geller attended. It's about two things: Charles Johnson and his wounded soul.

That's what I explained in a phone conversation I had this afternoon with a friend. Johnson has some sort of void in his personality that compels him into this domineering attitude toward other people, trying to build himself up by tearing down others, exercising power by threatening their prestige and success which is -- inside his envy-twisted mind -- somehow a negative reflection on his own worthlessness.

A control freak gone berserk, a radioactive psyche in Chernobyl meltdown mode. He's gone bonkers. Wacko. Zany. Froot Loops. Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. Get out your thesaurus and look up "insane" -- pick a word, any word -- whatever your favorite synonym for "crazy," that'll do just fine. He's nucking futz.

So when my friend said, "Yeah, but I don't know about those European political groups . . ." I felt completely exasperated. Who is the greater dangers, right here, right now? Is it some Belgian right-winger, or is it Charles Foster Johnson?

Like I said, when Vlaams Belang starts blowing up crowded buses and crashing jetliners into skyscrapers, then I'll worry about The Flemish Menace. In the meantime, as William Teach of Pirate's Cove said, Charles Johnson is making even Andrew Sullivan and Markos Moulitsas look sane.

Pamela Geller may be a bit argumentative at times, but she's not the one waging this online jihad against everybody who disagrees with her. She had no problem at all with Charles Johnson until he started calling her a Nazi sympathizer (!) and trying to exile her to the extremist fringe.

He hasn't merely taken a left turn, he's gone around the bend. Lost his grip. Slipped a cog. He's demented, deranged, a few fries short of a Happy Meal.

This problem has nothing to do with Pamela. It never was about her -- it's about him. Now, less than two years after the onset of Chronic Degenerative Lizardmania, people are becoming genuinely concerned for Johnson's well-being.

Myself, I'd be happy if he'd just put up a post called "Autumn Open Thread," surrender the troll-hammer to one of his evil minions and take about a six-week rest somewhere calm and peaceful with no WiFi access.

And enjoy a nice hot cup of STFU, will ya? Stop trying to defend yourself, Charles, or trying to present your monomaniacal fixation as if it were the result of your sudden discovery that everyone who voted for Bush in 2004 has been goose-stepping toward Munich ever since.

Nobody's buying it any more, Charles. There can be no ideological or political explanation for your behavior. People are calling you "Captain Queeg," and laughing about it, but it's really not funny. You need help or one of these days you'll be shuffling around down by the rail yards muttering to yourself "banned! banned! banned!"

And denial is not a river in Egypt.

'The talking point going around the wingnut blogs today . . .'

". . . The talking point going around the wingnut blogs today is that LGF is in serious decline because I'm a virulent anti-Christian. Of course, they can't actually link to anything at all that I've ever written that demonstrates this, but that isn't stopping them.
"I'm not anti-Christian at all, as people with minds of their own can easily see.
"Again, they're unable to separate being opposed to radical far-right religious agendas like creationism from being opposed to religion in general. Same old same old. This is how fundamentalists keep the masses in line - if you depart from the talking points even the tiniest bit, you're an apostate who deserves excommunication.
"And as for 'declining' -- our traffic has been rising steadily for the past two months, which must be extremely irritating for them."
-- Charles Johnson, Little Green Footballs

It's that Sullyesque lack of self-awareness, y'know? "Radical far-right" lesbian Cynthia Yockey will laugh herself silly at this. If anybody's still got posting privileges at LGF -- and surely, Mad King Charles couldn't have banned everyone yet -- should try linking this in the comments.

Gotta "keep the masses in line," don't ya know . . . Oh, and if traffic is so freaking dandy, how come the Sissy King of LGF doesn't display his SiteMeter, huh?

A liar, a coward, a bully, a fool. Keep digging, Charlie.

HOUSE VOTES TO DEFUND ACORN

Breaking News at BigGovernment.com.

LGF Charles Johnson blames . . . The JOOOOOZZ!

Charles Johnson exposes yet another scary neo-Nazi: CHARLES JOHNSON!

God told an angel I'll call "Lydia" to send me an e-mail:

After reading about the dust-up, it occurred to me that Charles could be exposed as a hypocrite by using his own methods. CJ uses what I call a "Six Degrees of Extremism" (or Six Degrees of Racism/Euro Fascism, etc) political parlor game.
He condemns Robert Spencer for "associations" with "extremists"* and you for "connections" to white supremacists, yet he adds Daily Kos to his blogroll and approvingly links their posts, which contain the exact kind of material and links to people that CJ uses to excoriate his new targets.
Based on his own criteria, CJ himself is now a racist, white supremacist, anti-Semitic, neo-Nazi fascist. Here's how:
DKos approvingly featured a video from the neo-Nazi website Vanguard News Network, gave detailed instructions on building a bomb and posted conspiracy-mongering Truther diaries, a presidential assassination fantasy as well as anti-Semitic and racist material. Markos Moulitsas is a business partner in Vaster Books with Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake, which DKos blogrolls and approvingly links.
Hamsher infamously photoshopped Joe Lieberman in blackface and recently called 9/11 Trutherism "mainstream."
Don't forget Moulitsas' first guest diarist at Daily Kos, the late African-American blogger Steve Gilliard, who Kos stated "inspired me to keep writing.' Gilliard called Michael Steele a "Simple Sambo" and put the then-Maryland Senate candidate in blackface. Sure, it was at a different site, but they're still "associates," right? Using CJ's own methods, below is more proof of his "extremism" at the LGF-associated DKos, which:

• approvingly linked to and quoted from neo-Nazi website Stormfront
• approvingly linked to white supremacist Hal Turner's site (or as CJ called it when he condemned Pamela Gellar for unknowingly running a Turner story, "promoting" & "running agitprop from neo-Nazis." However, Gellar didn't actually link to Turner, just to a blog that based the story on a random Live Leak video that CJ says is based on a Turner story)
• posted a cartoon of the KKK whipping Michelle Obama, which CJ tagged "racism"
  defended Hezbollah supporters
• claimed the "Jewish Lobby" controls media and US foreign policy
• blogged about what it called "Holocaust Hucksterism"
• engaged in what CJ called a "homosexual slur theme" about Lieberman, accusing Israel of "terrorist attacks"
• imagined a "world without Israel." CJ called it "blatant antisemitism."
• posted what CJ called "Convenient Election Time Anti-Semitism" (Iranian Holocaust cartoons)
• rehashed false USS Liberty conspiracy theory-CJ called it "antisemitism" anti-Semitic. Another diary about USS Liberty . CJ called it "antisemitic"
• posted "(p)erhaps the most sickening, hate-filled antisemitic diary ever at Daily Kos." Blood libels, "the Mossad killed JFK" and "Zionist tentacles." (at bottom of post) contains so much anti-Semitism, much of it labeled and documented at LGF, that I can't list it all.

Connections!!111!!!11! About the SLPC-the milblog This Ain't Hell noted the SLPC listed the American Legion under their "Hatewatch" category and smeared conservative service members and vets.
All the Best,
Lydia

My goodness! Because I'm a reporter and not a conspiracy theorist, it never would have occurred to me to attempt such vile guilt-by-association tactics. But if God told Lydia to send me that e-mail . . . Well, the Lord sure does move in mysterious ways!

UPDATE 2:40 p.m. ET: Wait a minute, something just now occurred to me . . .

Mad King Charles attacked Pamela Geller (Jew). He threatened Michelle Malkin (married to a Jew). He denounced Stephen Green (Jew). How long before CJ starts taking ads from Hezbollah front groups and quoting The Secret Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion?

Of course, Johnson will deny this, which would make him . . . a denier. IYKNWIMAITYD.

But then again, this sort of thing protects CJ against any "racist" accusation. He can always call as his character witness Billy McKinney: "The Jews have bought everybody! The JOOOOOZZZZ!"

Schadenfreude

by Smitty (h/t Anorak News)

Apparently, the gravitas of Michael Moore was enough to pull down the ratings for Jay Leno's second show by a hefty 42%.

Michael packs significant inertia, and it fills the screen, toppling the flat panel from the TV stand to lie there, in a pose nearly useless enough to resemble one of Moore's films.

Meanwhile, Aleister at American Glob has your cable ratings carpet bombing report. Shag me.

LGF Boycott HQ

Stogie at Saberpoint has created this logo:

But we know your dying to know what's going on in Lizard Land, so here are recent LGF headlines and summaries:

No Racism at the Tea Party?
Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:59:05 pm PDT
Photos of anti-Obama posters at DC 9/12 rally which proves "racism" because anybody who doesn't like Obama is racist, just like anybody who hated Bill Clinton was anti-oral sex.

The Latest Crazy Creationist Promo at the Craziest Right Wing Site
Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 6:42:10 pm PDT
Link to "Weird Nut Daily," because Joseph Farah runs the "Craziest Right Wing Site," which reminds me I need to offer a column to WND denouncing Charle Johnson, so that LGF will stop linking WND, too.

ACORN CEO's Press Release
Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 1:52:35 pm PDT
Exactly what is advertised. So, ACORN CEO = "Smart guy whose press release LGF publishes" and WND = "CRAZY!" (Maybe if Joseph Farah had a Pimp And Ho Assistance Program . . .)

In other words, you're not missing anything at LGF you couldn't get from Amanda Marcotte or Firedoglake.

'Mom, God told me to get knocked up'

Frankly, I don't think my wife would have accepted that excuse from our daughter who -- having turned 20 in May -- is no longer at risk of becoming a sociological statistic:

U.S. states whose residents have more conservative religious beliefs on average tend to have higher rates of teenagers giving birth, a new study suggests.
The relationship could be due to the fact that communities with such religious beliefs (a literal interpretation of the Bible, for instance) may frown upon contraception, researchers say. If that same culture isn't successfully discouraging teen sex, the pregnancy and birth rates rise.
Mississippi topped the list for conservative religious beliefs and teen birth rates, according to the study results, which will be detailed in a forthcoming issue of the journal Reproductive Health. . . .

The objective of this study? To convince college-educated middle-class people that religious faith is the No. 1 force for evil in the modern world. "OMG! If we let our daughter go to church, kiss Vassar good-bye!"

Consider this tragic example: Margaret started having sex when she was 12 and got pregnant when she was 13, in a community so violent that the 26-year-old baby-daddy got into a fight and died shortly thereafter, leaving the teenage girl, seven months pregnant, in the care of her mother, who was a devout Catholic and didn't believe in abortion.

Another teenage motherhood tragedy, and you know the statistics about the children of teenage mothers. So you can predict what happened to that fatherless baby.

Margaret named him Henry and on Aug. 22, 1485 -- yes, I said 1485 -- Henry's army defeated the forces led by the usurper Richard III in a place called Bosworth Field, ending the War of the Roses.

Henry Tudor's mother Margaret Beaufort was only 12 when she married the nobleman Edmund Tudor, who died after fighting rebels in his Welsh homeland. Margaret's orphaned son became King Henry VII of England. And Margaret? Well, some have called her the most brilliant woman of the 15th century:

Educationalist, scholar and philanthropist, Margaret Beaufort was the richest woman in English Medieval history and used her wealth to promote education and religion. . . . After the Tudor victory in 1485, Margaret . . . set about supporting and financing a variety of educational, charitable and religious projects. The sponsor of Caxton and early printing, she herself translated and published the Imitation of Christ (Thomas a Kempis), while through her confessor, St. John Fisher, she was drawn into the world of Cambridge University. Margaret was the principal patron for the rebuilding of the University Church (Great St. Mary’s) and in 1505, she re-founded Godshouse as Christ’s College, fulfilling the promise of her brother-in-law Henry VI. Margaret Beaufort encouraged her son to promote the successful completion of King’s College Chapel and went on to establish the foundation of St. John’s College, completed after her death in 1509.

And now you know . . . the rest of the story!

(Hat tip: Hot Air Headlines.)

Rep Hank Johnson told us that if we tolerated Wilson's two words to the President, we'd have folks putting on white hoods...and he was right!

by Smitty (h/t Right Wing Video)

Rep Hank Johnson...

...was right! That we'd have Megan Fox leading the charge is somewhat of a surprise.

I blame Glenn Beck.

As if it were a parody of something

Hmmm, arrogant passive-aggressive dweeb who has wasted too much of his life on nothing:

I consider you a friend, Douglas. Together, we have shared many adventures, from waiting in line for the Star Wars: Episode I premiere to meeting Mark "Dukat" Alaimo at ComiCon 2001. Your friendship is as valuable to me as my Michael York-autographed DVD of Logan's Run.
But when it comes to reasoned, thoughtful, and informed discussions on the Green Lantern continuum and its place within the larger DC universe, I hold friends to the same high standard I would strangers or anyone else.
So long as you insist on clinging to your, quite frankly, bizarre opinions on the Emerald Knight's 60-plus-year history, it is not worth my time to engage you in purposeless noisemaking . . .

Yeah, it's from The Onion. Certainly not EffingCons.

40 Million Plus Reasons Federalism Matters

by Smitty

CNS News reports:

The Social Security Administration (SSA) has issued benefit checks totaling $40.3 million to an estimated 6,100 beneficiaries for months – and in some cases for decades -- after receiving notification of their deaths, according to a June audit report from the agency’s Office of Inspector General.

A few points come to mind:

• The Federal government has no business involving itself with individual citizens, other than that gross wart the 16th Amendment.
• States should be empowered to run things as inefficiently as they care to, without hammering the other 49 States.
• Managing entitlement programs that citizens want at the State level increases the likelihood that said programs will run balanced books, and thus have a sustainable funding profile.
• Keeping said programs at a State level reserves an invaluable oversight role to the Federal government.
• Even if you want to build some economy-of-scale case that FDR wasn't a nitwit for implementing Social Security, due to the technological constraints of threescore and ten years ago, the sun has set on those days.

Delegate. Reform. Rationalize.

Andrew Jackson's mother advises this response to Charles Johnson's lies

"Meanwhile, white supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain (new darling of the right wing blogs) is attacking again. No linkies for him."
-- Charles Johnson, Little Green Footballs, Sept. 15, 2009

"Never tell a lie, nor take what is not your own, nor sue anybody for slander, assault and battery. Always settle them cases yourself."
-- Andrew Jackson, recalling his mother's advice

Charles Johnson's gutless passive-aggressive act -- outrageously libeling me, trying to prevent me from reporting on the 9/12 March on DC, and then falsely claiming that I am attacking him -- has been permitted to continue too long. Honest people are now compelled by simple decency to denounce him as the craven, sadistic liar he is.

Contrary to anything Mad King Charles may tell his dwindling pool of yet-to-be-banned readers in their "private" discussions, this engagement began when Johnson attacked my friend Pamela Geller for her attendance at the October 2007 Brussels conference. Though I was not involved in that dispute, as I told Pamela in a brief phone conversation this morning, I now regret that I did not immediately leap to her defense.

Pamela Geller is a brave woman who can fight her own battles without my aid, but by the time I finally spoke up -- in November 2008 -- Charles had already irrevocably committed himself to the disgraceful campaign by which he has since destroyed his own reputation and influence:

Charles Johnson at Little Green Footballs has apparently decided that the problem with the conservative movement is that it needs more purges, and Pam Geller at Atlas Shrugs seems to be his designated scapegoat. . . .
Pam is a good person and I would suggest that this guilt-by-association "urge to purge" is antithetical to the best interests of conservatism. You can't build a movement by the process of subtraction.

Now that Mad King Charles is so obviously lost beyond any hope of redemption, I blame only myself. If I had been paying attention in 2007, rather than selfishly absorbed with minding my own business, perhaps I could have intervened at the outset. Had I been vigilant and dutiful, I would have warned Charles against poisoning his mind by giving heed to duplicitous and/or ignorant creatures like LGF commenter "Dave of Sweden," who were maligning the friends of liberty in Europe.

Word to the wise: Beware the advice of Internet trolls. A cautious attitude toward anonymous sources is something every journalist must learn sooner or later. If someone is peddling materials attacking someone else, and asks you not to tell anyone where it came from, you must consider the motives of the attacker.

Consider why such attackers are always intent on conducting their business secretly -- protecting their own anonymity -- and ask whether you wish to lend your name and reputation to pursuing someone else's private vendetta. (Hint: Before Trig-Truther "Audrey" and her friends blame me, they need to ask themselves who she pissed off before she became "Audrey." It wasn't the Palins, who had nothing at all to do with the investigative reporting Dan Riehl and I did.)

Only Fighters Need Apply
Say what you will about Pamela Geller, she is not afraid of a fight. And what the conservative movement needs now -- far more than we need ideological unity among intellectuals or would-be intellectuals -- is people who are not afraid of a fight.

The Chicago Way has come to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and if anybody in the conservative movement doesn't know what that means, they need to stop hitting the snooze button and wake the hell up. A few months ago, I read an account of how Rahm Emanuel -- now President Obama's chief of staff -- masterminded the Democrats' 2006 mid-term congressional victory. From my May 26 American Spectator column:

Emanuel's tenure as chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee during the 2006 election cycle is the model Republicans must attempt to reverse-engineer if they hope to regain power in Washington anytime soon. And Republicans are never going to succeed if they listen to those who tell them the reason they've been losing elections is that the GOP is too "mean-spirited." . . .
Rahm Emanuel . . . unloads f-bomb barrages as remorselessly as the RAF pounded Dresden . . .
Emanuel is a hard-driving Chicagoan ("intense+Rahm+Emanuel" = 46,800 Google results) who takes pride in the brutal effectiveness of his political tactics. . . .
In summer 2006, accusations of shady dealings by Democratic Rep. Al Mollohan of West Virginia threatened to wreck Emanuel's message that Republicans had a monopoly on corruption. And if an incumbent Democrat were defeated, that would change the math on Emanuel's strategy to recapture a House majority.
How did Emanuel rescue Mollohan? By calling the incumbent's Republican rival a liar. The GOP challenger had been in the military during Operation Desert Storm in 1991 and called himself a "Gulf War veteran," although he hadn't deployed overseas. Emanuel seized on this and had DCCC staffers push it to reporters. "We need that story," Emanuel said. "It's all about Al Mollohan unless we come up with something." The result? "Mollohan Foe Battles Résumé Charges," said the headline on a news story by Roll Call's John Bresnahan. Other publications followed suit, effectively changing the subject -- exactly the outcome Emanuel sought. Was this unfair? Ask Emanuel that question, and you'll get a two-word response. (Hint: The second word will be "you.")

Charles Johnson deserves nothing but the same two-word response from any conservative. His conduct for the past two years has been, in a word, dishonorable.

"No linkies for him," indeed! As if any honest man need fear such a miserable coward as Charles Johnson.

In April of this year, Charles Johnson smeared Pamela Geller as a "Poster Girl for Eurofascists." Calling a proudly Jewish woman an advocate of fascism? Madness. This was a continuation of his months of attacks on Pamela and Robert Spencer for having attended the October 2007 Brussels Conference, and for her subsequent defense of those courageous Europeans waging a desperate struggle against the alliance of the Left and Islamofascists. (David Horowitz has described that "Unholy Alliance.")

The Sissy King of LGF
Two days after the "Poster Girl for Eurofascists" smear, Charles Johnson threatened Michelle Malkin (!) for having linked in her "Buzzworthy" sidebar feed to Robert Spencer's Jihad Watch. Trying to end a potentially damaging conflict among conservatives, I wrote:

Is there someone -- anyone -- who can stop this madness? As previously noted, I ignored the dustup between LGF, Geller and Robert Spencer for months, hoping it would fade into insignificance. It was only because of Johnson's continued ax-grinding against them that I mentioned it in November, and it was only because he went after Ann Coulter in February that I began paying more attention.

All I wanted was for Charles to end his malevolent campaign of character assassination against conservatives.

It is important to note that, from the very outset of this affair in October 2007, Charles has always been the aggressor, attacking others, doing everything in his power to destroy the reputations of decent people who never wished him ill, and then -- when they objected to his repeated libels -- dishonestly claiming that they were attacking him.

Clearly, the man has succumbed to a narcissistic personality trait that is all too common among weaklings. As his habit of successively banishing nearly all of his commenters clearly shows, Johnson is a control freak, incapable of tolerating disagreement. He will heed no counsel of caution and reacts with fury to the slightest hint of criticism. Trustful only of those who flatter him, he is suspicious of strangers and envious of the merits of others.

The character of a deceitful backstabber -- weakling, bully, coward, liar --is a species of sociopathic evil which, in real life, wise men know and avoid. But remembering Steiner's Law ("On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog") we see how long Charles Johnson succeeded in pretending to be what he never was, nor could ever be. He lacks not only sound judgment, but also honesty, courtesy and courage.

Every conservative blog must defend itself against trolls -- i.e., you don't have the right to use my bandwidth against me -- and Professor Glenn Reynolds doesn't even allow comments at Instapundit. However, Mad King Charles has let his authority over commenters tempt him into megalomania.

It has been years since Charles has done anything that could rightly be called "reporting." He himself does almost nothing, and never anything constructive, original or genuinely helpful. This has turned LGF into the Kommenter Kidz Klub, over which Mad King Charles reigns as the despotic overlord. Without any warning, he will banish commenters merely for linking the "wrong" source or referencing some story he wishes to ignore.

This dictatorial attitude is a surefire formula for blogospheric oblivion. I despise the New York Times as an institution of Evil (with a capital "E") and yet, if they report something I want to quote, I have no trouble giving them the linky-love -- or linky-hate, as is more often the case. And occasionally, they give a little back.

Mad King Charles did not attack me until I defended Pamela against his vicious lies, and let us not neglect to observe that chief among his targets have been three women -- Geller, Coulter and Malkin. If Charles Johnson were a Sioux, his tribal name would have to be "Fights With Girls."

Should Mad King Charles wish to begin describing me as a "homophobic white supremacist blogger," let him do so immediately, for certainly I am not alone in the suspicion that he is getting in touch with his inner Andrew Sullivan. NTTAWWT. IYKWIMAITYD.

Pray to Nothing, Charles
Having extensively defended myself since Sunday (see here, here and here, just for starters), I noticed Monday -- see: Charles Johnson 'making even Andrew Sullivan and Markos Moulitsas look sane' -- that Da Tech Guy had commented:

McCain has been countering and putting up a good defense here in Round 2, but has yet to shift to offense, as we’ve seen in the Griffin and Audrey fights. McCain tends to mount his offense in mid to late rounds but they simply overpower their opponents.

Very perceptive, sir. When a man knows that he has been falsely maligned by a worthless fool, he can be confident of the outcome against his overmatched antagonist, and there is no need for haste. Being vilely insulted by Political Cesspool's James Edwards . . . well, I'll worry later about that minor distraction. Surely the SPLC's attacks have rendered my right flank impregnably secure and, as my old music buddy Haywood Tucker told me yesterday, the Lord knows who I am.

Haywood's praying for me, as are others. Charles Johnson hates God, and he hates all those who believe in God. As I once advised the atheist anti-Palin blogger Jesse Griffin:

Speaking of prayer, Griffin, on your blog you say you're an atheist. Maybe you should pray to Nothing and see if that helps.

Well, guess what? When you pray to Nothing, the results are predictable. A God-fearing man may suffer terrible wrongs, yet has the comfort of knowing that God's grace is constant. The God-hater suffers far more painfully, for when his destruction draws nigh and he is predictably abandoned by his phony two-faced "friends," he suffers alone. In such circumstances, the unrepentant atheist inevitably proves a vicious liar and a coward, like Charles Johnson.

Behold, God's Mighty Warrior
I have often urged readers to purchase Sam Childers' remarkable book, Another Man's War. Sam is a mighty warrior for God. As I told him over breakfast one morning, "Sam, you're going to be an action figure." And I meant that quite literally.

That was February 2008. Eighteen months later, the film deal has been signed, and I'll bet every leading man in Hollywood has his agent begging for the part of Pastor Sam Childers. When the movie becomes a box-office sensation, Sam will be like Indiana Jones or Luke Skywalker. Little boys and girls will be begging their mothers to buy them the Happy Meal so they can get the Sam Childers action figure.

Sam risked everything -- his fortune, his friendships, his family, his reputation, even his very life -- to build an orphanage in Sudan. And he very nearly lost everything, more than once, yet he remained faithful. He has been through that dark valley of the 23rd Psalm, he has seen times when it was just him and the Lord, and whatever struggles he must now endure, the favor of God is upon him.

Buy Another Man's War, and study Sam's life. When he was a young hoodlum, when he was an outlaw biker, when he was a shotgunner for drug dealers, Sam learned all that any man needs to know about fighting. He never suspected that one day, God would call him to use those skills to save the lives of children in Uganda and Sudan.

Sam is not about politics. He is not a Republican or a Democrat. He has no ideology but the gospel of Christ. After interviewing him, seeing the work he does, and studying his character, I told him, "Sam, you're a natural-born libertarian." But that's just an intellectual label, and Sam is not about words or labels. He is a man of action.

Let the intellectuals sneer at him, the son of a Pennsylvania steelworker, but you must know this one thing: If it ever comes to a fight, bet on Sam Childers. You throw the first punch against Sam, and you'd better be ready to kill him, because he won't stop fighting so long as he has the strength left to fight. And if Sam ever decides to throw the first punch . . . Dude. Don't even ask.

Sam is an easygoing, friendly guy by nature, happy to serve the Lord and willing to help anyone who needs help. Having seen Sam angry, however, I promise you that you don't ever want to make Sam angry.

Just Keep Digging, Charlie!
All of this I explain not to praise Sam -- who has no need of my praise -- but rather by way of explaining why, when I came under attack from LGF, my response may have struck some readers as an expression arrogance:

Charles Johnson will regret it but once,
and that will be continuously

Because I am a professional journalist, this was not a threat, but a statement of objective fact. Within 48 hours of his infamous assault on my character, Johnson reaped the consequences of his own maniacal hatefulness, bringing upon himself disasters independent of anything I had done. LGF was delinked by Power Line and Charles burnt one of his few remaining bridges to conservatives by de-linking Pajamas Media.

Johnson was unconscionably wrong in attacking Pamela Geller and her friends. However, because he refused to admit or recant his error, he committed himself to a path of unjust vengeance against the innocent. In the process, he revealed himself to be a creature of unscrupulous cruelty, an immoral monster who can never expect anything but contempt from civilized people.

There is a God in heaven, and the man who spitefully chooses to pursue unrighteousness will ultimately destroy himself. Therefore, wise men observe the madness of King Charles and shake their heads sadly, knowing what the final outcome must be.

Charles Johnson is already in a very deep hole and, at the frantic pace he's digging now, can be expected to reach the fiery pit of hell no later than next Thursday.

Bon voyage!

UPDATE (Smitty):
Linked at Jaded Haven. Thanks, Daphne!

UPDATE II (Smitty):
Also picked up at Bonzai. Thanks, mate!

UPDATE III (Smitty):
SI VIS PACEM says CJ has pulled a Sully.

UPDATE IV (Smitty):
The Fabulous Pamela links us and brings the Rifqa Bary angle. Pamela packs more heat in her little toe than everything Charles can muster.

UPDATE V (Smitty):
Fishersvill Mike completes the phrase "Little Green" with "Apples". Why do you hate fruit, Mike?

UPDATE VI (Smitty):
Dennis the Peasant links Pamela's Downfall treatment from mid-April. New to me, quite well done.

UPDATE VII (Smitty):
Linked by one lonely Troglopundit in Wisconsin who seeks abuse. Apparently an erroneous reference to his metrosexuality was insufficient.

UPDATE IX (Smitty):
NOVA Townhall picks it up. This post is going to turn into a mini-FMJRA Real Soon Now.

UPDATE X (Smitty):
Fish Fear Me takes us back to single Roman numerals. But is Charles Johnson a fish?

UPDATE XI (Smitty):
Carol's Closet turns it up to 11. Now, were she given a choice between a free Spinal Tap and Obamacare, would there be an apparent difference? Never mind, I wouldn't wish either on anyone. Even Charles Johnson. A cluebat, now...

UPDATE XII (Smitty):
The Daley Gator makes a dozen in the parade of support.

UPDATE XIII (Smitty):
Saber Point makes it a baker's dozen. Thanks, Stogie!

UPDATE XIV (RSM): At last, Charles Johnson exposes the real neo-Nazi: HIMSELF!