Crazytown Watch: Charles Johnson Conflates Some Fringe Group With Rick Perry

March 3, 2010 / 2:04 pm • By Dr. Melissa Clouthier

Now why would he do that? A little preventative, cyber guerrilla warfare, I’d say.

Here’s the things about moderates, independents, or leftists in moderate name only (LIMNO–hey, it’s better than FCINO), whatever, they seem to hate everyone and stand for nothing. For all their “independence” they certainly seem to roll with popular opinion.

Now, Obama and the Dems are great, according to the nuanced moderates. A guy like Rick Perry (small government, conservative, fiscally responsible–isn’t that what the independent people want, by the way?) might threaten a more “reasonable” moderate like Barack Obama so guys like Johnson find some wacky group (not-so-subliminal message: ALL Texans are wacky and cannot be trusted) and tries to attach them to Rick Perry.

So lame.

Newsflash haters: Texans are doing well because they’ve clung to rugged individualism, their guns, their God, their independence, their fiscal responsibility, etc. I know it’s galling when secular humanistic states like California are going down the crap-hole. It’s tough to see small government being such a big win while big government harms the very people it’s supposed to help.

But that’s just the way things roll, guys. Good luck finding evidence that big social programs are ever a cultural, fiscal or social win. They NEVER are a win because they strip the individual of his ability to choose his own life. It is axiomatic.

And by the way, Jerry Brown has actual radical ties. Will that disqualify him to run for Governor in California? Why no! No, it won’t.

Bleh.

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  • http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com JWF

    I didn’t realize the “husky, pony-tailed” blogger was still in business. What a pathetic creature.

  • http://darthkeller.wordpress.com DarthKeller

    Sorry JWF, apparently we aren’t lucky enough for his computer to have contracted a virus and become so irreparably damaged that he’d never be able to blog again… I’ll try again tonight though :)

  • bobsmith

    Before you get all hot and bothered over “Perry 2012″, you should remember a couple of things: first, not all Americans see secular humanism as a bad thing; indeed, most believe in a separation of church and state. Second, Perry spent the last decade as TX governor. After Bush, it’s doubtful the nation will go down that road again for a while.

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  • rightwingconspirator

    You forgot to mention Repent Amarillo. Why is that? It really was the main point of the posting. “And just to reinforce the point — the term “Army of God” is a rough translation of “Hezbollah.”

    This is not a joke. They’re dead serious. The site is packed with militaristic imagery, and plays audio on some pages with martial music and the sound of gunshots. Their mission statement includes this list of heathen and/or demonic causes that they’ve marked for destruction:”

  • Grimcargo

    The hysterical ponytail went for broke trying to equate Rick Perry with all sorts of wacko nonsense.When in reality, the only wacko was the one writing about him. I wish Amazon would deliver his meds asap.

  • http://www.southernwolf.net S. Wolf

    Well said. I’m a Texan. :)

  • http://melissaclouthier.com Melissa

    Rightwingconspirator,

    I’m sure this group is evil. But that wasn’t the point of Charles’ post. His point was to discredit Perry and Texas by extrapolating from said evil.

    My point was to call him on his stupid, lame-ass point.

  • vanderleun

    I hear you Melissa. But he’s made a declining career out of stupid lameass points and I fear you’ll have to pack a lunch make a career of it.

    On the upside, he can’t write so the diatribes are perforce limited.

  • Syrius

    Wow! JWF? From NewsBusters? How’s it going? Hope all is well? As for Little Green Footballs’ Charles Johnson…it’s interesting to see how the right embraced him for years and now- POOF! Gosh, maybe it’s time to rethink or reread his reasons on parting from the right…

  • http://Yidwithlid.blogspot.com Jeff Dunetz

    So the real question is…who is a bigger lunatic Charlie or New Ways and Means Chair Stark?

  • wiggin`

    I used to read that LGF site religiously a few years back. It was great. Now it`s all about the evil christianists, creationists, Texans, global warming “deniers”, ridiculous accusations and other crap few people (other than wild-eyed liberals) care about in the larger scope of things. We have the nuttiest group of all time running our gov`t but the site only slams Repubs. In the words of Rahm, it`s become “f$#&ing retarded”. Some of the commenters there try to point out the obvious without getting banned but it`s inhibiting to rational discourse. Go figure. God bless Texas.

  • http://www.basilsblog.net/ Basil

    Charles Johnson? Didn’t he used to be a blogger? Whatever happened to him?

  • Bill Byrd

    Sorry Mr. Smith, I have to disagree with you generalization that most Americans want a separation of church and state. In fact, most Americans are against the establishment of a religion by government. It is in the constitution, look it up. The separation of church and state as it is currently espoused is a construct not found in law.

  • lucky

    CJ’s segue from the secessionist prattle of Rick Perry to the Panhandle version of Hezbollah may come across as clumsy but your suggestion that he was “linking” them together in some untoward manner is much more clumsy and possibly indicative of poor comprehension. Regardless, I think it’s apropos to raise Perry’s predilection for fundamentalist nuttery as it relates to his appointments — e. g., Gail Lowe to chair the SBoE. Perhaps that’s the irony here: you found it emote-worthy to address Johnson’s segue when there’s a graver reality underlying it which affects students in Texas’ ever-increasingly politicized classrooms. The Army of God, for now anyway, only has the power to intimidate and harass various and sundry “sinners” while Perry’s pals engage in censorship and attempt to force children to learn creationism instead of science, David Barton’s weird revisionist history, and strict fundamentalist morality instead of informative comprehensive health/sexual education.

  • Susan Clearfield

    I enjoyed watching the disintegration of Mad Charles.

  • http://www.doubleplusundead.mee.nu eddiebear

    I find it funny that Chuckles, in his obsession about himself, scours the internet to see if somebody writes about him. And yet, he and his 5 cult followers who are still remaining get upset when the NY Times mentions that very fact.

    As for his site, I find it humorous that one of the latest targets of his deranged pique, Michelle Malkin, sold Hot Air for $2mil, yet he is begging for people to buy his lousy calenders.

  • http://www.thepiratescove.us William Teach

    Unshockingly, Melissa, Excitable Chucky almost immediately had a rebuttal post up, what with the way he mines the Internet for any mention of his name. Dude is obsessed and insane. (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/35897_LGF-_Crazy_But_Clever_Conflator#rss)

    I wonder if he has banned you from even accessing his site yet?

  • http://melissaclouthier.com Melissa

    William,

    I never go on the site anymore and have never tried to comment and have no desire to do so. That’s what my blog is for.

    Lucky,

    I live in Texas. I can assure you that the educational thrust here is to scare the shit out of kids about Global Warming. I’m having to reassure them that we’re not all going to die IMMEDIATELY. It’s ridiculous.

    My kids also knew the evil of racism in first grade as they focused on MLK but couldn’t name a single founding father.

    The brainwashing of the youth is happening apace, it’s just not happening in the way you or Charles fear or describe.

  • wiggin`

    Lucky,
    Has it occurred to you that CJ`s “segue” was not just clumsy and silly but a deliberate attempt to link Perry with violent extremists? The reading comprehension difficulty is your own, friend. Texas schools still teach science and health/sex ed, so you needn`t flail away at that windmill any more…perhaps Obama and his Congress would provide you with terrifying material more “emote-worthy” and dangerous to our way of life.

  • lucky

    Melissa,

    I, too, live in Texas. Austin to be exact. Brainwashing works both ways. Last time I checked, there wasn’t a push by the far left to alter the way certain matters were handled in the classroom; that applies particularly to the issues I raised earlier this morning. The issue of global warming isn’t debatable — we’ve come out of a prolonged ice age and we know the earth has gone through these cycles long before mankind walked the earth (which is one of the points of contention I have when it comes to allowing zealous creationists to peddle their faith off as part of a “science” curriculum when it may merit mention at home and in church but NOT in school).

    In my SBoE district (10), we have a run off between a former educator and a lawyer who homeschools; as a Republican (so designated by the stamp on my voter ID card on Tuesday), I have quite a choice to make. The homeschooler is running on a “values” agenda and, unfortunately, so is the educator. So it boils down to deciding between an educator who has been in the system and has chosen it for all her kids and who isn’t as brazen about wanting to teach “competing” theories or for this lawyer who wants to set rules for everyone else’s kids to play by (he hasn’t said if he’ll ever send his children to public schools if elected to SBoE).

    I posted a robocall on youtube Monday afternoon. That call was made from a pro-life PAC on behalf of Mister Homeschool, noting that he’s “staunchly pro-life” and “the only candidate to score 100%” on their survey.

    http://tfninsider.org/2010/03/01/now-theyre-dragging-abortion-into-it/

    Now please tell me what being 100% staunchly pro-life has to do with what the SBoE does, aside from mandating materials related to health education. How does that qualify a patent lawyer above either of his two opponents (the vote was nearly evenly split in thirds — 35/35/30) who have actual education experience and whose children have been or are in public schools? How will that affect the balance of the curriculum as it relates to reading, writing, and the sciences (including math)? And how is that of benefit to parents who want their children to receive a good comprehensive education rather than what some moralist authoritarian crackpot thinks is deficient — lack of God, lack of “competing” theories — in a system in which his children don’t participate?

  • http://www.doubleplusundead.mee.nu eddiebear

    Wiggin:

    obviously lucky and “Rightwingconspirator” love to play Chucky’s “six degrees to Himmler” game where everybody not named Charles Johnson can eventually linked to Himmler, facts or reason be damned. But if “lucky” and RWC are the best he can summon to raid sites (especially since KKKilgore only works at 3AM), then that site certainly has gone down the toilet.

    Oh, and Chuckles, since you scour the innertubes looking for references to yourself:
    you need to get out of that “gated(read: padded)” community a little more. You are looking too fat and pale to be a Californian.

  • http://www.southernwolf.net S. Wolf

    Well, he says he doesn’t hate Texas or Texans but I have never been able to register so I can have the fun of being banned from LGF. If he doesn’t hate me why does he discriminate against me? ;)

  • http://www.thepiratescove.us William Teach

    I have Little Green Nutballs still on my feedreader, that way I can see what moonbattery is going on without providing a hit.

    Looks like a few of Charles’ sycophants have popped in. Is that you, Sharmuta and Killgore?

  • wiggin`

    eddiebear,
    Check out the plummet at LGF. Pretty much says it all. There are some cool peeps posting there but the topics CJ posts largely blow.

    http://siteanalytics.compete.com/littlegreenfootballs.com/

  • vanderleun

    Neat stats. I gotta admit that finding a way to blow off over 60% of your traffic in just one year is some sort of genius. Not everyone can do it. Charles is one brilliant idiot.

    Then again, “Once a bear is hooked on garbage, there’s no cure.”

  • wiggin`

    Lol @ van`s bear quote.

  • http://www.doubleplusundead.mee.nu eddiebear

    Doubtful. Sharmuta and Irish Rose walked away, and KKKilgore only works at 3AM.

    But I do laugh at one thing: Chuckles all but tells his minions (except for KKKilgore’s attacks and a smattering of comments elsewhere) that appearing on “teabagger” sites is verboten. Whenever they (in this case, JV benchwarmers like lucky and RWC) do appear, they routinely get slapped around, retreat behind the Green Wall, and hurl insults from there.

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