LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

I've taken on a new project!

2010-12-20T12:05:00.000-08:00

http://gatesofviennawatch.blogspot.com/

taking on this evil blog:

http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/

Great work done by the previous proprietor, but she asked me to take it over, since this project was done, and I accepted.

Hope you enjoy! I don't know how to transfer that blog to this account, so from now on I am the one and only "barondymphna!"

The REAL FINAL end of LGF Banned and Blocked

2010-11-05T09:04:00.000-07:00

I think the last vestige of the old LGF fell away today. Charles Johnson has come out against torture. And he has not only come out against torture, he has admitted that he was wrong in the past.

And that, perhaps, is the bigger story. The Lizard Tyrant, Charles Johnson, has finally admitted humility and error on one of the TRUE CORE concepts of the old LGF. Not piddly stuff as to whether Barack Obama or George W. Bush would make a better President, where Charles has in the past admitted error. Not major stuff like global warming, where Charles' previous alleged position as a skeptic was weak. Not major stuff like Charles' turning away from the Pam Geller/Gates of Vienna/Robert Spencer nutters, where he has been busy purging his archives of evidence of his past gullibility/mendacity.

This is both a BIG turnaround, and a MAJOR admission of past error by Charles. I salute him.

And with that salute, I will truly say "adieu" to LGF Banned and Blocked. It will remain on the web in all its tawdriness, along with the now long-forgotten "Nodrog's Greatest Hits" blog. But it is a finished work. After a decent interval comments, assuming anyone wants to actually make any, will be permanently closed.

The first LGF heavy hitter to bite the dust

2010-10-29T09:42:00.000-07:00

After a look at the fascinating data collected from the misty early days of Little Green Footballs (the "Romulus and Remus or, alternatively, "Aeneas" era), we now go forward a few months to the days after September 11, 2001 which, to further stretch our Roman metaphor, is now into the days of Lucius Junius Brutus and Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus. Who, among the earliest LGF names, became famous/notorious and then later was banned and blocked? Clearly our very first victim, "Ollie," with only 39 post-June 2004 posts to his "credit," doesn't qualify.

Our "winner" first appeared on November 28, 2001. He had 13,877 posts to his name, and was a regular LGF irregular for many years (appearing less frequently in later times) until he was unceremoniously blocked in 2009.

Take a bow, Joel, you are the winner!

Joel indicated in a recent comment that his co-worker lawhawk also debuted about this time, but I can't find any trace of lawhawk in the archives, so he either didn't participate, or used a different nickname in 2002.

Another early participant of note who is now banned and blocked, as a notorious member of the Gulf Coast Pundit/Grouchy Conservative Pundit cabal, the difficult-to-trace EW1(SG), who appears to have first surfaced for LGF air on April 30, 2002.

One final note: Two LGF irregulars who battled with the Nodrog throughout my LGF tenure both first appeared in the summer of 2002, Zulubaby and Mommydoc. While both are not banned and blocked, neither has appeared at LGF for several years now, and it can be assumed that, if they were to return, Charles would quickly take out the banning stick.

LGF Banned and Blocked - PIONEER VICTIMS

2010-10-08T09:24:00.000-07:00

With all the rage in the now-multiplying anti-LGF blogosphere, I decided a dive into the very early misty days of Charles Johnson's rapidly collapsing blog empire were appropriate. Sort of like looking at the origins of the Roman Republic in the Romulus and Remus (or Aeneas) days, from the vantage point of the Emperor Valens at Adrianople ...

Anyway, the LGF archives start in January, 2001. I decided to do a quick survey of the green tyranny between its inception and September 11, 2001, when a certain even occurred that Charles decided (in retrospect) to take shameless advantage of to make a name for himself.

The first 9 months of posts are generally very tedious stuff, the majority being aimed at fellow computer nerds. A few bicycling threads are in there too. The political content is limited to gratuitous swipes at future hero President George W. Bush and an interesting swipe at creationists as well (a theme returned to seven years later).

As for the comments - a majority of threads had NO commenters. As an interesting academic exercise, the relative paucity of commenters allowed me to look at their profiles in depth.

1. It should be noted that these were pre-June 2004 registration days. Many of the initial 2001 commenters did not stay with LGF long enough to decide to register, so their identities are lost to history.

2. The later trend to cutesy, stupid, vague, and tendentious registration names (e.g. "Pork Rinds for Allah") is nowhere in view. People actually used their real names, "Greg," "Eric," "Josh," etc.

3. Some of the early commenters who are shown as later registrants most likely were not. For example, poster "Jeffrey" is listed as having made 24 comments, 0 karma, and "blocked." But "Jeffrey" didn't register until 2005, so it is highly doubtful that the 2001 "Jeffrey" is also the later "Jeffrey." Which means that Charles' allegedly super duper registration system automatically tagged the earlier "Jeffrey" with the sins of the later "Jeffrey." For purposes of my research, I assumed that anyone from these early days who is shown as having registered in June 2004 or soon after is the same person as the poster in 2001.

4. None of the later "irregulars" were around pre-September 2001. The most prolific later poster from these days was "Paul," with 6,572 total posts and a karma of +598.

5. That being said, it appears that the following individuals are the earliest LGF posters to later be banned and blocked:

"Ollie" - 39 posts
"Eric" - 769 posts
"Lynn" - 56 posts
"Pete" - 166 posts
"Laura" - 232 posts
"Doug" - 1,725 posts
"Warren" - 69 posts
"Jason" - 212 posts

If anyone has any knowledge of these pioneer victims, or if any of the actual victims wants to step forward, please feel free to do so in the comments section.

Don't trust LGF Archives

2010-09-15T22:46:00.000-07:00

Actually, don't trust LGF. But there have been mounting reports that Charles has been scrubbing his archives of inconvenient material. And now he's been caught at it, and had to post, on September 13, 2010, an admission, entitled "I've Been Caught Correcting a Mistake." He scrubbed a previous post on the Cordoba Cultural Center's Feisal Rauf from a few years back that referred to him as an "Islamic Supremacist." It's unclear how many other revisions Charles has been making to gussy up his property for his new lizardoid lackeys to marvel at. All I can say is, there's LOTS of cleaning up to be done if Charles is really going to make sure his skeletons remain buried.

We have always been at war with Oceania.

On another note, registration at LGF is now continually open. Another sign that Charles and his worthless pile of green crap are becoming increasingly irrelevant. That's what happens when you show the world you have no principles, and treat your website like Captain Queeg treated the Caine and its crew (hat tip: Gagdad Bob).

MandyManners - buhbye

2010-09-02T13:39:00.001-07:00

Ah, MandyManners. Not an LGF old-old timer, but definitely a big-time irregular. 127,422 posts, karma of +77,767. Also a blithering idiot much of the time, but that certainly has not been a detriment in LGF la-la land.

But she's gone now. On August 29, 2010, Charles posted "Report: Shots Fired Near Tennessee Mosque Site." Straight reporting, but Charles couldn't resist putting the smarm and snark in with comment #9:

Shots being fired near this site ... definitely something to worry about. It's Tennessee, folks.

And MandyManners decided to rear her hind legs and start kicking, in comment #45:

Why don't you people look at the history of Kurdish and Somali refugees along a line from Shelbyville to Nashville? Religious and secular groups have extended their hands to them starting after the First Gulf War. But, NoooOOO. They must be bigots in Tennessee. All of them. Bigots. Buncha' fucking gap-toothed bigots. Who never wore shoes until they climbed on that great Greyhound bus on their way to Ohio or Indiana.

And, in #152, her coup de grace:

I don't believe I have ever dinged you but, I did so tonight. I believe that speaks volumes, Charles.

Charles responded with a ban, some smarmy "should'a done it a long time ago" crap, and ending with a "but some of my best friends are from Tennessee" fake apology.

The thread also has some interest for a troll named "Food Lion" who reamed Charles and the lizard empire throughout the night, was deleted and blocked in the morning when Charles woke up from his slumbers, but whose legacy lives on in the posts of outraged lizards who helpfully quoted his gamier posts. This also reveals an interesting fact - I don't think there are any more "lizard monitors" to safeguard the vaults during the nighttime hours when Charles is doing whatever he does at night.

The Dog That Did Not Bark

2010-06-07T14:10:00.000-07:00

"Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?"
"To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time."
"The dog did nothing in the night-time."
"That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes.

On May 26, 2010, the proprietor of Little Green Footballs posted "Manhattan Community Board Endorses Mosque Near Ground Zero." To no one's surprise, Charles Johnson has no problem with a mosque near the World Trade Center site, stating in post #313 on this thread:

700 years is a long time to hold a grudge. Are you really afraid that this community center project, with its swimming pool and restaurants, is going to overwhelm American culture? I'm not.

Let's put aside the fact that Charles could have been copying verbatim posts that I wrote throughout my glorious LGF tenure (usually accompanied by "scary Muslims! Booga Booga!"). Charles' complete flip-flops are no longer news. The fact that in the latter part of 2005 Charles went on two humongous crusades against such Muslim outrages, in the form of the "libtards" taking over the World Trade Center memorial and the outrageous "crescent of embrace" hysteria at the Flight 93 Memorial in Pennsyvlania, is of no more consequence than Charles' other self-repudiations of previous positions.

Of more interest are the commentors on this thread. I decided to do a test - I wonder if any of the thread commentors have done similar flip-flops? For that, I needed to know if any of these thread commentors had appeared on any of the 2005 threads involving either the World Trade Center memorial or the Pennsylvania memorial.

The following posters on May 26, 2010 are long-time lizardoids, registered in 2005:

Lawhawk
Kragar (Proud to be a Kafir)
Shiplord Kirel
Cato the Elder
MarjorieMoon
Albusteve
Wrenchwench
Tradewind

The shortness of this list is, of course, quite telling - almost all of the 2005 posters have either self-selected themselves out of the LGF universe or have been unceremoniously ejected on their butts.

Of the eight worthies listed above, I found that two appeared on late 2005 threads involving these controversies:

Kragar (Proud to be a Kafir) had this to say on November 30, 2005's "Flight 93 Memorial Still an Islamofascist Shrine;"

(Post #13) To be fair, if I was utterly f**ked in the head as the designers, I’d hate myself too.

Compare Kragar's comments on May 26, 2010

(Post #9) Personally, I don't like the idea, but I'm not gonna be screaming for blood about it.

Some cognitive dissonance here, but, perhaps Kragar has merely developed a more "nuanced" position regarding such Islamofascist outrages.

And then there's our second common commenter, the one and only LAWHAWK:

On September 11, 2005's thread "Flight 93 Memorialized with a Red Crescent:"

(Post #285) Has anyone checked out Ace lately, he's updated his Flight 93 Memorial information to include this bit:

The crescent is designed to be perfectly in line with Mecca - to wit - According to the Qibla finder, which goes according to the shortest route (in this case, over the North Pole), the midpoint of the "Cresent of Embrace" points directly towards Mecca, if you imagine an arrow nocked in the "bow" of the crescent.

Ace has maps and everything. This seems to be a pretty concerted effort to link Islam, the crescent, and the Flight 93 event. Does it put a positive spin on the linkage or not. But it does point to willfulness over other possibilities.

Quoting to Ace of Spaces is now an LGF bozo no-no, Lawhawk! And throughout many of the late 2005 threads Lawhawk relentlessly pimps his own blog's attack on the World Trade Center memorial "outrage."

On May 26, 2010? Not so much ...

Noted this in the overnight dead thread and seeing how I work a block from Ground Zero and know the area quite well, the CB appears to have made the right decision. This isn't at Ground Zero - it's a couple of blocks away. The proposed community center is along the lines of the 92nd Street Y or JCC, and that's sorely lacking in Lower Manhattan.

Financing is still a major hurdle for the group, and if there's something objectionable there, I haven't seen it yet. If they get foreign financing, it might deserve stricter scrutiny, but those named as among financers aren't raising red flags.

Lawhawk does not appear to a be typical LGF yo-yo. There are only two explanations for this cognitive dissonance: 1. Lawhawk has undergone a Charles-like transition in his beliefs mirroring the Lizard Tyrant, or 2. Lawhawk is a brown-nosing LGF sycophant.

Yes, Lawhawk's continuing prominence as an LGF irregular is, indeed, the dog that did not bark in the night.

Legion of the Unknown Banned

2010-03-08T08:39:00.001-08:00

Here are the Legion of the Unknown Banned - all of them appeared on our sample December 4, 2004 "Fiskie" thread and are now blocked. However, even the Nodrog's astounding research tools can find no inkling of the reason for their blockage - although I have indicated in a few cases some suppositions. Please feel free in the comments to provide more clarity, particularly if you happen to be the (un)fortunate banned one.

mudmarine - minor LGF character, his posting dribbled away, with the last one in July, 2007. There is no clue on LGF as to why he is blocked.

Ed from Ohio: A prolific commenter on our 2004 Fiskie thread, this Ed totaled 1.464 posts in his LGF career. His last known comment was on December 25, 2006 when he posted, in the spirit of the Christ Child, "Merry Christmas! Nuke Mecca. Woohaa!" His reason for banning is unknown - believe it or not, this kind of comment was once welcomed by Charles on his website.

Garnier: A short, happy LGF career from October through December 2004, with 283 posts, and then Garnier disappeared. The reason for his blocking is unknown.

Craig Abu Al-boo-boo: Almost 1,000 posts for this lizardoid, but information is unknown as to the reason for his banning.

Damian P.: 306 posts in this lizardoid's career, the last one on April 17, 2007. Reason for banning is unknown.

Renna: An active lizardoid through November 10, 2005, with almost 5,000 posts, this Tennesseean abruptly disappeared and has not reappeared on LGF since. The reason for his banning is unknown - it is notable that he appeared to have been a crony of the Reaganite/Ann GCP crowd.

Myoclonic Jerk: Which is, by the way, a brief and involuntary twitching of a muscle or muscles. 422 posts, but no posting between January 31, 2007 and November 19, 2008, when the Jerk put in an innocuous post. The reason for his banning is unknown.

Eddiebear: Only 188 posts for this lizardoid, little activity until May 2009, when he suddenly became active again over a period of 4 days, ending abruptly on May 19, 2009. But no indication about how this particular lizardoid met his fate. Perhaps a quickly deleted flounce.

Old Guy: Minor LGF poster, only 126 posts. The reason for blockage is unknown.

Ted: a long-time lizardoid with many thousands of posts. His fate is unknown, other than that he is blocked.

Corpsman Mom: 203 posts through August 10, 2007, and then nothing.

Manofaiki: 493 comments from this Texan. His last post was on April 21. 2008, arguing against evolution. He was not heard from after this date, and the specific reason for his banning is unknown.

Egfrow: 4,392 posts - was last posting on December 17, 2008, on a Pat Buchanan thread, but not in support of Pat's non-LGF-approved views. His subsequent fate, and reason for blockage, remains mysterious.

Cornholio: 2,206 posts for this lizard, the last on March 2, 2008 - reason for banning is unknown. He could have been banned merely for his obnoxious name, but who knows?

Leezard: 56 posts, last posted February 5, 2008. No known reason for his blockage.

Saylorfam: 592 posts, last posted on October 8, 2009, reason for banning is unknown.

dar ul harb: a major lizardoid player, with almost 15,000 posts. He last posted on October 18, 2009, and didn't seem headed for a meltdown, flounce, or even be particularly disagreeable. His banning is thus mysterious.

J.D.: many thousands of posts, but banning reason is unknown.

bbev: 3,727 pots, last appeared on May 17, 2009. The reasons for banning are unknown.

Ghost: 277 posts, banning reason unknown.

Quesnay: 96 posts, last appeared on November 14, 2008, and then disappeared.

Victor: 1,246 posts, precise fate unknown.

Crash: Only 9 posts, precise fate unknown.

Braindirt: 442 comments, last one on November 11, 2006. Reasons for blockage unknown.

Insane_kufr: 532 comments, unknown reason for blockage. However, this lizardoid has a karma of zero, which means that he/she probably didn't post after the comment rating system was instituted in September 2007.

Amnon: Only 9 comments for this lizardoid - reason for banning unknown.

LesLein: 781 posts, last posted on September 21, 2009. He attacked Darwinism back on April 20, 2008, but didn't post on that subject again. Reason for blockage is unknown.

Remotedevice: only 67 posts, no record as to why this one was banned.

Infidel: 938 posts. Variations on "Infidel" are a common LGF nickname, but this one captured the basic name. The fate of Infidel is unknown, but a -52 overall karma rating indicates that he/she went out in a blaze of glory some time after September 2007 when comment ratings began.

IWuvLGF: 416 posts, the last one on March 3, 2007. Fate unknown. Perhaps look for "Elmer Fudd."

hm: 3,516 posts, more info needed.

Juliette: 734 posts, her last was on July 15, 2008. Further reasons for blockage unknown.

Arliss: 4 posts, no record of how this one ended up blocked.

David Block: 50 posts, no record of reason for banning.

LGF Banned and Blocked - Capsule Case Studies #112-#115

2010-03-05T08:18:00.001-08:00

Wrapping up:

?#112 Mr. Beamish: 655 posts, with his own blog (The Crank Files - nothing special). He first visibly strayed from the "evolving" LGF reservation on the creationist issue, most notably on June 29, 2008's "The Discovery Institute's Wedge Strategy." His position on the Obama "nirth certifikit" issue on December 8, 2008's "Nirth Certifikit Links Not Welcome" (he demanded that Obama "prove" he was a citizen, and then in #794 accusing of other lizards "trying to get me banned from an echo chamber") earned him a dismissive banning from Charles in #874 ("that's enough out of you.")

W-lover: 15,963 posts - see the special "Truth About Sharmuta" post.

#113 Passaconaway: With 94 posts, this ex-lizardoid is typical of the once-prevalent legion of the LGF banned - cranky leftists. Evidence of this is found on our analyzed 2004 Fiskie post, where he nominated President George Bush for the award. His intermittent attacks on LGF consensus continued until January 4, 2005, then abruptly stopped. He was probably banned by Charles at this point.

#114 The Pulchritudinous Patriot: 6,655 posts, this lizard became fairly infrequent as the years went on and ideological times a'changed. The last appearence was on June 25, 2009, when the patriot acknowledged that he/she had "taken a break" from LGF. On October 9, 2009, Charles abruptly showed up on a thread and announced "Just outed a creep from the stalker blog, who had three sock puppets. It was Pulchritudinous Patriot."

#115 Docdublu: 1.227 posts, this Arizonan lizardoid bit the dust on August 25, 2009's "More Advertisers Dump Beck," when after a six month absence from LGF, he showed up in post #656 and asked "Since when did LGF become an anti-Fox/Glenn Beck echo chamber?" We know he wrote this because he was quoted - the original post was of course deleted. Along with several others in a fit of pique, as Charles in post #693 announced 'I don't believe the crap that's going on in this thread." Buh bye, Docdublu!

That's it for the banned from December 4, 2004's Fiskie thread where we know the circumstances, more or less. Next we will have list of the Legion of the Unknown Banned. Stay tuned!

LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED - Capsule Case Studies #109-#111

2010-03-03T13:58:00.001-08:00

Our next batch of lizardoid losers:

#109 Theparson: With a name like that, even 4,001 posts would not save this lizardoid once Charles turned on those minions who weren't enthusiastic evolution supporters. His last post, on December 14, 2008, was a quote of the first line in the Book of Genesis on "Ebert: Win Ben Stein's Mind." He never appeared again, and the precise cause of his banning is unknown.

#110 Billhedrick: 1,624 posts - on February 12, 2009, he mentioned that he disagreed with Charles on some issues, but not the issue of fascism. That changed quickly, apparently. Two months later, on "We Got Mail," he cryptically posted in #1258 "This is a test," and then apparently posted a dramatic goodbye in #1259, which Charles promptly deleted. Meanwhile, however, he continued to post simultaneously on the same day's "FBI Extremist Probe and Veterans," arguing with Charles on that topic. In post #127 Charles announced his departure due to a "dramatic goodbye" on the previous post.

Floranista: One of the discarded lizards, had long left the building before banned in May 2008 (see case study # 24)

#111 Rancher: 6,309 posts, but went beyond the pale on September 15, 2009's "Tea Party Leader Mark Williams," as he intimated in post #455 that President Obama had Kenyan dual citizenship. Joking or not, this merited the banning stick from the lizard tyrant.

LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED - Capsule Case Studies #105-#108

2010-03-01T09:38:00.000-08:00

Here are a few more unlucky ex-lizardoids:

#105 Rcris5: 871 posts for this one, last appeared on July 9, 2008 in a bloody creationist thread entitled "Creationist Propaganda at National Review," stating that Charles was being "a little obsessive compulsive" on the subject. The thread included Unixrab (see case study #56 - he was banned one day later) The post got a -7, and Rcris5 has not been seen or heard from again.

#106 Mikalm: 2,715 posts, and a poster who bucked the trends and became more frequent for about a year before his departure. Which came on October 5, 2009, when in post #31 on "Conservapedia's New and Improved Non-Commie Bible," he perhaps naively asked "Is it true Zombie got banned last night?" Zombie's banning had been announced on a private thread, and Charles had admonished all not to "take it out there." Mikalm was admonished, and then he posted something in #109, soon deleted, which got him banned by the Lizardoid King himself.

#107 Dianna: 32,017 posts, a long time poster. She left in late 2009 under honorable circumstances - although Charles "Queeg" Johnson, to no one's surprise, chose to intepret it differently.

#108 Daughter of Patriots: 1,893 posts for this religious lizardoid, so the evolution threads were the death of her LGF half-life. On December 23, 2008 on "Video: Jackie and Dunlap on Rick Warren," she decried the attacks on faith and faithful which were multiplying on LGF. And then on February 20, 2009 on "Lebo: Using Academic Freedom to Keep God in the Secular Classroom," she posted a short comment and part of Psalm 139 in comment #1064, which Charles promptly deleted. When she complained in #1071, the Lizard Tyrant sneered back that he would not allow bible verses in any post, as they constituted proselytising. Daughter never appeared again, and is now blocked.

LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED - Capsule Case Studies #101-#104

2010-02-26T08:54:00.001-08:00

We continue:

#101 Nagasaki_hata: 1,071 posts - a pretty eccentric lizardoid. On August 4, 2007 he advocated deporting all U.S. Muslims (including Black Muslims) to Mecca - with nary a peep from other members of the illiterati. How times have changed! - he'd be banned in an instant and have his comment deleted if he wrote that today. On September 1, 2007 he defended Mearsheimer and Walt's notoriously anti-Israeli/Zionist attack on the "Jewish Lobby" in Washington. On October 12, 2007 he identified himself as a supporter of Ron Paul. Finally, on October 27, 2007, on a thread entitled "UV Students Overturn Anti-Military Ban," he posted this in #6: "Great news, we need more cannon fodder. For an Endless Peace, we need an Endless War, it's the American Century!" The comment was deleted, Charles sneeringly told him in #46 to go over to the Daily Kos and blocked his account, and his comment earned a -41, probably an LGF record at the time.

#102 Centaur: 1.157 posts, he last posted on September 29, 2009. But on October 5, 2009's "And Now for the Lost Strips of Father Carlos," he was ratted out by Dark Falcon in post #138, who snitched that he had posted on blogmocracy, even if it was only a post about the Chicago Bears! I'm sure he was banned after that. The incident shows how the current lizardoids have descended into spying and snitching for their master.

Goodbye_natalie: See case study #10.

#103 PostalWorker: 3,397 posts for this lizardoid, with an interesting history. PostalWorker disappeared from lizard nation in 2005, but on January 9, 2006, a new creature named "Orson Buggy" acknowledged that PostalWorker had been his previous handle. Orson Buggy had 4,594 posts, but then became part of the Gulf Coast Pundit/Grouchy Conservative Pundit brigade, which means that both "Orson Buggy" and "PostalWorker" are now banned. If you read Orson Buggy's comments on GCP today you will find an extremely crotchety semi-fascistic right-winger, which is a bit hypocritical coming from someone who apparently sucked off the government teat (post office division) earlier in life. But whatever ...

#104 Spiny Norman: a heavy hitter, with 17,984 posts. He last appeared on February 21, 2009. Seven months later, on September 21, 2009, another poster noted that Spiny Norman was doing a "remote flounce" on Tim Blair's blog - which has become a center for anti-LGF activity. Sure enough, a search through Tim Blair's archives will find many comments by Spiny Norman. But no more on LGF.

LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED - Capsule Case Studies #97 to #100

2010-02-24T09:07:00.000-08:00

#97 Joel: a member of the Jewish/Israeli LGF contingent - occasionally went into almost bigel-ish rants against the enemies of Israel. After a Palestinian outrage he could would sometimes be furious enough to advocate genocide against the "Paleos," but would back down to reasonableness after some reflection. He had 13,877 posts, the last on June 25, 2009, when he engaged in lighthearted lizardoid banter on a private thread. And then he was gone. On July 2, 2009, Zulubaby noted that Joel was banned and asked why. She never got an answer, and neither have the rest of us either. Zulubaby has never since posted on LGF, although she remains unbanned. In a comment to an earlier thread (Capsule Case Summaries #92-#96), Joel indicates that he is mystified as to why he was banned as well. Another sign that Charles as jettisoned his Israeli-Jewish fan base, ironic since it is arguably in defense of this fan base that Charles originally started the Vlaams Belang controversy/meltdown in late 2007.

#98 Nomorelies: A mere 231 comments, but this is an interesting story. After a hiatus, started posting again in late 2007, and had his first post, #85 on December 19's "Top Muslim Cleric: Kill Women who don't wear the Hijab," deleted without explanation. It's content can be only guessed at by the fact that notorious LGF hater Maine's Michael (a.k.a. "Ploome Light") thought it funny. It happened again for post #78 on "Sunday Evening Open" on November 2, 2008, fortunately quoted in its entirety by another poster in #86 -

How did so many Americans get so dumb so fast? Thank God I live in the Republic of Texas. We retained our right to secede from the Union which I would not doubt will be our reaction to an Obama Presidency. I'm busy digging out my Confederate Flag, Bible, Gun and praying like hell to God.

Here's a picture for your sweet little heads: It's January 20, 2009, Justice Roberts ascends the dias in Washington. President elect Obama takes the platform. As Justice Roberts prepares to administer to oath of office, Barrack Obama places his right hand on the Quran...

On May 7, 2009, on a vaccination thread, nomorelies revealed that in 1967 his firstborn died from a bad vaccine batch (comment #825). He was rebuked by Charles (somewhat gently, at least for the lizard king), for daring to bring a real story into the hypothetical discussion. Finally, on July 30, 2009, in "Debunking Nirther Corollary to the Nirth Certifikit Theory," nomorelies revealed himself to a be nirther. This is now cause for immediate banning by Charles, who promptly sent him to LGF hell.

#99 Beavereater: 748 posts for this poorly-named lizardoid. He was among the stupider of the LGF brigade - for example, on December 27, 2007 he advocated that we use Pakistan's own nuclear weapons to nuke the rebellious tribal areas. As times were a changin' at LGF, he was rebuked by other posters for this excess. On July 10, 2008 his final post in "Diggbats Inadvertently Vote for LGF" was a pointless insult of fellow lizardoid VegasRick in #376. He was roundly condemned, and never appeared again in the LGF archives.

#100 Christheprofessor: An LGF superstar, with 31,849 posts. His last posts were on August 22, 2009's "The Constitutionality of Health Insurance," where he argued against the now prevailing lizardoid mantra on the subject. On October 30, he showed up on blogmocracy, which certainly would have been a death knell to his LGF account, but it appears that he may be the "professor" who Charles slimed in a September 14, 2009 thread entitled "Video: Bad Craziness in Washington D.C." who produces a blog entitled "Americanpowerblog" via blogspot. Not sure about that connection.

LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED - Capsule Case Summaries #92 through #96

2010-02-22T10:14:00.001-08:00

Next:

#92 Writermom: Another heavy hitter, with over 28,000 posts, and a frequent opponent of the Nodrog. She clearly had become disenchanted with Charles, posting less frequently, the last time on August 25, 2009. Instead of flouncing she went elsewhere, as Charles noted disapprovingly on September 20, 2009's "Sunday Afternoon Lounge," when he accused her of showing up at one of the "stalker" blogs. And that was the end of Writermom.

Octopus: see case study #47. Ironically, his acerbic leftiness would fit right in with the likes of Walter Newton on LGF today.

#93 Andy in Agoura Hills: A disputatious lizardoid, with slightly over 1,000 posts. Clearly religious, on September 21, 2007 he referred to humanist Voltaire as a "schmuck." On October 11, 2007, on a Jimmy Carter thread, he apparently wished for Jimmah's death in post #223. Charles deleted it and warned Andy to temper his rhetoric. Andy would have none of it, replying in #249: "Hey, I've seen worse here. If you're gonna go PC that's fine. I'll go somewhere else." Charles then sent him packing. And Andy has been elsewhere, as was noted by Charles as late as December 2009. His pungent expressiveness is long gone from LGF - unless you agree with the Lizard Tyrant.

#94 BenZacharia: With 12,325 posts, a leader of the LGF Israeli brigade. But on January 20, 2009, on "Ted Kennedy Rushed to the Hospital," he either didn't see or ignored Charles' warning at the start not to be mean. His comment was deleted, and he was blocked. What's interesting is that it was allegedly in the interests of placating longtime LGF irregulars like BenZacharia that Charles took his anti-European Fascists position in October, 2007, the first great policy rupture among the LGF faithful. By early 2009 Charles had apparently decided that he was so important he could even jettison this group, which also includes Carl from Jerusalem, Joel, and others, like:

#95 Amir: 2,104 posts for this Israeli lizardoid. But he started arguing with Charles, first on June 13, 2009, when he (among many others) took issue with Charles' claims that Islam wasn't fundamentally evil. This thread, entitled "BNP Leader Griffin", was an important one in LGF's history, as Charles started repudiating his fundamental message, and the raison d'etre of his blog, that Islam was unredeemably bad. And then on July 23, 2009, on the thread "Disgusting Racist of the Day," he took issue in post #147 with Charles' condemnation of the "Obama as a witch doctor" photo making the internet rounds. This proved to be a bloody thread, as Charles threw a dozen or more lizardoids under the bus because they made excuses for the picture. Amir wasn't singled out, but he never appeared on LGF again, and is now blocked.

#96 CheezNCrackers: 786 posts, but an interesting history. "CheezNCrackers" disappeared, but then a character named "Hooray for Captain Spaulding" appeared and stated that he had once been "CheezNCrackers," but that a couple of other people on other blogs were also using that name, which caused confusion. (There can be only one "CheezNCrackers;" ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES!) Spaulding continued merrily on his way, even agreeing with Charles on subsequent evolution threads, until a minor scuffle with the lizard king on July 13, 2009 occurred on the "Sotomayor Confirmation Hearing" thread, where Charles burned some more bridges to his right-wing fan base. And that's the last we hear from Captain Spaulding, or CheezNCrackers, both now blocked.

LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED - Capsule Case Summaries #89-#91

2010-02-19T12:35:00.000-08:00

Bigel: This now obliterated ex-lizardoid was banned in 2005, as is discussed in case study #30.

#89 AW - 1,144 posts for this lizardoid - his fate remains unknown, although he has a karma of -22, which means that, when adding up total updings and downdings, he's in the negative. Since Johnson started the ding-a-ling system in the Fall of 2007, that means AW didn't do much to get positive feedback, and got only negative feedback. Which means he probably stopped posting after the initial Vlaams Belang controversy because he was banned then, or at some later date when he resumed his noxious posting (noxious to the new and improved LGF standards of decency, of course).

Mike C.: a charter member of the Gulf Coast Punditeers (now Grouchy Conservative Punditeers). See case study #12. Mike C. makes plaintive pleas for Charles to obliterate his posts from the LGF archives a/la Rayra, but to date he remains in his full glory.

#90 nachtwacht: 269 posts for this northern European lizardoid. On October 29, 2007, on the post "Merkel Bans Forced Marriages in Germany," he dramatically demanded in post #141 to "please cancel my account." It was his first and last outburst. At some point, Charles decided to clean him out with all the other Eurotrash, and he was history.

Lady Redhawk: one of the nicer of the discarded lizards (see case study #24). Is now posting at discarded lies as "Lady Red," where she promotes her cheery Arkansas conservatism.

Jakester: See case study #50.

#91 loflyer: A lizardoid regular, with 7,249 posts, and best known for his incessant and annoying "pirate lingo" in many of his posts. He finally had enough on December 13, 2008 in "Hey Mom, I'm Peer Reviewed," (Charles bragging that he was apparently sourced in a scholarly study on the Reuters fauxtography) attacking Charles for not opposing Obama enough. Sharmuta blew a gasket, telling him to "GFY" in post #224, and then deleting his offending post. Since loflyer was a regular, his banning was big news, and Fenway Nation in #294 amusingly added "Is this one of those train wreck threads that are discussed in hushed tones and a note of disdain in the overnight threads?" Sharmuta sucked up to Charles in #460 with this drivel: "My deepest apologies to Charles on a thread that should have been about his incredible work, but instead was derailed by a couple of assholes." Nauseating, simply nauseating.

LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED - Capsule Case Summaries #85-#88

2010-02-17T08:50:00.001-08:00

Onward and downward ...

#85 Pro-Bush Canuck: Over 7,400 comments, but it all melted down on May 3, 2009. First, on a thread entitled "Lebanon's Jumblatt wants ban on Iranian flights," he went OT with a bullet in post # 66, when he told Charles that LGF had the worst spell-check engine anywhere, and also, by the way, most lizardoids were "trained seals." On a later thread, "Burqa Bandit in Philly?", in post #42, he followed up by telling Charles he was not a "super-programmer," and that, in fact, he was a "mac-hole." In post #119 Charles lowered the boom, with a comment about not tolerating people "sneering at me on my own website." Lizardoid pleas to Charles to forgive Pro-Bush Canuck because his sister was sick fell on deaf ears.

#86 Macker: 7,460 comments, but not particularly memorable - lives in a suburb of Chicago. Was banned on August 22, 2009, although the offense is not apparent from the postings on LGF. And then we get to the hilarity of the "Overnight Open Thread" on that same day, when a brand new poster named "Lady E," started asking questions about why Macker was banned. "She" was immediately suspected of Macker sockpuppetry. On #793 she asked "What's a sockpuppet," after claiming to not understand this whole Internet thingy, and Charles lowered the boom in #901 by revealing that Lady E was, in fact, a Macker sockpuppet. But when asked why Macker was banned in the first place, Charles wouldn't reply, stating in #997 that he "can't reveal some things, because the trolls will change their behavior."

#87 Attaboid: 2,294 comments from this Montreal resident. His comments tended to be both very short and somewhat stupid, even by LGF commenter standards. On July 25, 2009, on "White House Beer Tastes Better," he got into a minor spat with Sharmuta. Three days later, on "Video: Glenn Beck Calls Obama a Racist," he apparently flounced and was banned. Charles deleted his comment, so we don't know what he said.

#88 Carl in Jerusalem: Member of the LGF Eretz Israel contingent, Carl posted over 9,000 times on LGF, and has his own blog as well. Which suddenly became an issue on August 24, 2009, when in a thread entitled "Snow Leopard This Week" Charles announced Carl's banning for 1) "spamming links" (aka pimping your own blog on another person's blog, which Carl allegedly did repeatedly on LGF, but, more importantly, 2) daring to link to something at (gasp!) Gates of Vienna. Carl's ouster led to NY Nana exiting the building too.

Megan: 2,021 posts for this lizardoid, who apparently went over to Discarded lies. Was involved in the Great Discarded Lizard Massacre of 2008 (see case study #24), because she was "downdinging" Charles' posts. She may be going by another monicker at Discarded Lies, because there are only four posts, all from 2005, with the name "Megan" on them.

LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED - capsule case studies #80 through #84

2010-02-15T09:13:00.000-08:00

Now for a heavy hitter:

#80 NY Nana: The long and complicated relationship this long-time and prolific (27,589 posts) lizardoid had within her LGF milieu is too detailed to go into here. On August 25, 2009, on "Tech Note Open Thread," she bid her adieu to LGF in post #9. I would note that the post has a +3 rating, and numerous lizardoids said they were sorry to see her go. Except Charles, of course, who promptly deleted her post and sneered in #17, "We all make our choices. Bye now." NY Nana's reason for leaving? Charles had banned her close friend, and fellow Jewish LGF section irregular Carl in Jerusalem, for daring to link to (gasp!) Gates of Vienna on his own blog! What's most amazing about this incident is that it is perhaps the first time NY Nana ever did not backstab a former friend in order to remain in good lizardoid standing! She is positively loathed by the Grouchy Conservative Pundit deadender crowd, because she was at one point in their group, and then backstabbed them when they fell out with Charles.

#81 Darleen: In the Pam Geller mold, Darleen, after 3,000+ posts at LGF, became a regular contributor to the conservative blog Protein Wisdom. And in 2009 Charles broke off his contacts with such blogs. On March 25, 2009, in "The GOP's Epic Fail," Charles attacked the Republicans for their "I hope Obama fails" campaign. Darleen took exception, and argued vociferously with Charles, and then attacked him on Protein Wisdom. And this the last we have seen of Darleen on LGF.

#82 Geepers: another BMOC at Lizard U. - with over 32,000 posts. He posted regularly until April 19, 2009, then made a last appearance on June 28. While not banned then, this pattern is an ominous one for LGF regular irregulars - suddenly stop regularly posting, then show up over 2 months later. The return of Geepers was welcomed by Sharmuta and the other sycophants. But then, in October 2009, it was revealed that Geepers was "now posting at another website." He was also blocked. It is unclear what website Geepers was posting at to get himself blocked, but it could be one of many.

#83 Ntropy: Over 3,400 posts - this one last posted on November 15, 2008. He tells his story in this post at Patterico.

#84 Dcbatlle: Lizardoid with 530 posts - he/she shows what happens when a blogger falls into Charles' "Catch 22." The first signs of discontent came on the various evolution threads starting in the Spring of 2008, where dcbatlle displayed a strong preference for creationism. On October 25, 2008, was identified by Charles as one of a group of "cowards" who downdinged evolution posts without commenting. Dcbatlle then took on Charles on global warming, and on May 27, 2009 met the end on a thread entitled, appropriately, "What the Hell Happened to Me?" Post #237 was deleted, even though several subsequent posters did not identify it as a "flounce." It appears that dcbatlle was taunted by Charles into posting, and then banned for posting. Classic.

Much more to come! I have not yet begun to fight!

LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED - Capsule case studies #78 and #79

2010-02-12T16:07:00.000-08:00

Continuing:

#78 Tarheel: This one managed to pack a lot of issues into a mere 165 posts. Trouble started on December 17, 2008, when Tarheel revealed himself to be a "climate change denier" by linking to an anti-global warming website. Then on February 17, 2009 he questioned the tactics and beliefs of LGF favorite evolution-loving atheist Richard Dawkins. On March 14, 2009 a post of his that apparently advocated forced deportations of someone from somewhere was deleted, but he wasn't - yet. On April 15, 2009, he quoted approvingly from an LGF un-favorite, Judge Andrew Napolitano, and was personally rebuked by Charles. His last post was April 18, 2009. While no specific banning incident appears, his fate was already clearly sealed.

#79 Satan Sidekick: A female "Live Free or Die" lizard with 2,695 lifetime posts. She lasted until August 8, 2009, when she argued that the Tea Partiers were good, not bad. On June 6, 2009 she got into a nasty little spat with LGF current favorite Walter L. Newton, which didn't bode well. No specific flounce found though. She never posted again after August 8.

Buckaroo: A major poster, with almost 11,000 posts. He was purged with Rayra on September 1, 2006 in the "Hizballah Sets Up Shop in Venezuela" thread (see case study #34). Was seen at Gulf Coast Pundit - unknown whether he migrated to Grouchy Conservative Pundits with the rest of that bunch.

Iron Fist: see LGF banned blocked AND OBLITERATED, Volume 3. Also there's lots of information available about this ex-lizardoid at LGF Watch.

Zombie: See the LGF case study SPECIAL EDITION regarding this infamous lizard, once Charles' favorite operative, now consigned to the almost lowest reaches of LGF Hell (he hasn't been obliterated, I suspect because his posts and hat tips are so prevalent that obliteration would really "swiss cheese" the archives). And yes, Zombie is a "he." He was outed by a brief blog titled "Unmasking Zombie," which is now asleep (google it for a laugh). Zombie's attempts to rewrite his own blog to make it look like the incriminating picture from "Unmasking Zombie" was of a Zombie operative (SF Patriot), were truly pathetic!

LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED Capsule Case Studies #74 to #77

2010-02-10T17:07:00.001-08:00

And so we trudge on ...

#74 Muck deFuslims: 488 posts for this extreme Israeli (or at least Jewish) member of lizard nation. Things started going seriously off the rails in June 2007, when he started referring to our then President and Secretary of State as "Jorge Wahabit and Sleeza" for their alleged sellout of Eretz Israel. On June 24, 2007, in a thread about kidnapped BBC Reporter Alan Johnston, his post #182 was deleted for wishing for Johnston's death (Charles had to delete a lot of posts from the likes of Muck and Maine's Michael on this thread). He never appears again the archives - he may have been deleted by Charles just for his LGF nickname alone (see, e.g., Case Study #2, "Pork Rinds for Allah.")

Song_and_dance_man: See Case study #4 - perhaps the least deserving of the "obliterated" members of LGF hell.

#75 Oktober - 538 posts from this innocuous lizardoid - innocuous until October 12, 2007, when in a post he revealed that he was a Ron Paul supporter. Charles' immediate response: "Oh brother." And Oktober never appeared on LGF after that.

#76 Unionrepublican - this lizardoid was either incoherent or an agent provocateur (or both). Typical of his "contributions" was a reference during the lizard rants against the Democrats during the 2006 election cycle to "Nancy PleaseBlowMe." On March 22, 2007 he got into a spat with Killian Bundy on the "Overnight Open Thread" and ended up blocked. Bundy bragged about it the next day - of course Killian Bundy himself, with over 35,000 posts, is now in LGF hell too, for daring to join an alleged group of lizardoid traitors called the "Correspondence Committee."

#77 Michaelg - a lizardoid with almost 1.500 posts - he mysteriously stopped posting in early 2005. And then on a June 22, 2007 thread he suddenly showed up and wrote, "Charles, I cannot log on with my other user name. Did I get banned for something?" Oops! Admitting you have a sock puppet on LGF, even back in 2007, was a bozo no-no. There's no response from Charles, but michaelg never again appeared on LGF.

LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED - Capsule Case Studies #68 to #73

2010-02-09T16:08:00.001-08:00

#68 Maine's Michael: with almost 12,000 posts to his name, this odious creature is as likely to join the list of the obliterated as anyone. Violently anti-Islamic, this Jewish lizardoid was a fervent supporter of "Eretz Israel," advocating deporting of the Palestinians or worse. He couldn't last on the new LGF, and sure enough, on February 14, 2009's "Summing Up," (an anti-Robert Spencer epistle), he called for deportations once again. Since Charles has deleted the comment it is unclear whether the Muslim deportation was from Israel or the U.S. this time, but it spelled the LGF end of Maine's Michael.

#69 Ploome Hineni: See LGF Banned, Blocked AND OBLITERATED, Volume 2. Ploome's virulence was similar to Maine's Michael's, which is what leads me to my hunch about the latter's eventual obliteration from the archives.

Quark2: A long-time lizardoid, and nemesis of the Nodrog, Quark2 last posted in early 2007. She was then seen among the GCP illiterati, and was purged by Charles (see case study #34 regarding Rayra and the Gulf Coast Punditeers for more information). The GCP preeners call this the "long purge," as it affected a series of lizardoids in the summer and fall of 2007.

#70 Daybrother: A day-one registered lizardoid (June 15, 2004), daybrother posted 933 times, more and more infrequently, until December 6, 2008, when in thread #478 he/she apparently bemoaned Charles' increasing emphasis on fighting creationism instead of Jihad. I say "apparently," because Charles promptly deleted the post and daybrother, commenting in #485, "Please note: when people post comments about how they don't visit LGF any more because of the creationist threads, their accounts will be blocked immediately. I'm not going to wait for the inevitable meltdown and nasty rant."

#71 Bilgeman: With 643 posts through August 12, 2006, bilgeman took an almost two year hiatus from LGF before reappearing on April 25, 2008's "Gates of Vienna Toys with Genocide," the infamous Charles post that got GOV kicked out of Pajamas Media. In post #858 Bilgeman identified himself as a frequent poster at GOV. While no official banning announcement followed, he has not appeared since on LGF, and it can be assumed that he was banned for revealing his preference for alleged European nazis.

#72 Jim in Virginia: A prolific and rather innocuous lizardoid, with 7,525 posts. He finally had enough on September 19, 2009, in a thread entitled "Sam Tanenhaus: The Death of Conservatism," when some irritation at another lizardoid's use of the term "teabagger" led to a full-scale flounce (quickly deleted) in #103. In post #136 Killgore Trout shed some crocodile tears with "It's always sad to see the old lizards go."

#73 SkippyMoment: Over 4,000 posts from her. She was a self-described evangelical christian and creationist, and had some sort of close relationship with Iron Fist (on March 28, 2007 - "An LGF Reader passes away - RIP Obi-Wan", she inadvertently posted as Iron Fist because they shared a computer - EEWWWWW!). Her last post was on August 8, 2008, and there is no further record of her. Perhaps Charles pre-emptorily banned her when he banned Iron Fist, because of their close relationship

I have only just begun!

LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED - capsule case studies #65 through #67

2010-02-08T08:48:00.000-08:00

Continuing our merry journey with brief bios of the now-banned from December 4, 2004's "Fiskie" thread:

#65 Beagle - an LGF irregular mainstay, over 20,000 posts. Started straying from the reservation in protest of Charles' turn against Vlaams Belang, and stopped posting in December 2007. On August 30, 2008, in a thread entitled "Karadzic Scorns World Court" he defended the cause of the Serbian genocidaires and was banned by Charles, who added in comment #117, "Beagle: you suck."

#66 Powderfinger - another mainstay, with almost 9,000 posts - a member of the "sarcastic and empty-headed" lizardoid division. He was one of the primary reasons LGF Watch went to moderated comments. Posted infrequently starting in late 2007, and flounced in early September 2009 - his comments are now deleted. According to Charles, he tried to activate his sockpuppet the next day, "Karl Rove," but once again posted a "flounce" and was deleted and banned.

Ed the Weatherman - see case study #35 for Ed's long LGF career and its untimely end.

#67 Yochanan - longtime prolific lizardoid, with almost 15,000 posts. Jewish, lives in Chicago, but it would be hard to classify him as one of LGF's "Jewish Lobby." (or, to be more accurate, "FORMER Jewish Lobby." He apparently didn't get the memo that LGF had changed by 2009 from a conservative blog to a liberal blog, and continued on his merry ways. On September 10, 2009, Charles blocked him and invited him to go to the "stalker blog." Later on September 10, on the "Overnight Open Thread" (at #26), Charles the Jerk wrote: "Oh man. Now I'm getting pitiful sad emails from yochanan, saying how much he's going to miss LGF. For f*ck's sake. OK, I'm going to restore his account, but if the whining starts up again that will be the last chance." Yochanan was promptly praised by some lizards for his apparent groveling. He was threatened again by Charles on September 12, 2009's "Pro Life or Pro Death?" for deviating from the party line, and then was banned for good that same day for more disagreement on "Scenes from a Tea Party." Charles deleted his last comment, but Yochanan was clearly just being disagreeable, not "flouncing". Unfortunately for Yochanan, even being disagreeable is no longer acceptable at LGF.

That's it for this round. Many more to go!

LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED case studies return - capsule versions #61 to #64

2010-02-04T13:20:00.000-08:00

The wholesale expulsion of LGF's former lizardoid brigade has led to the need for some additional case studies - as is shown in this post of mine, where we found that a December 4, 2004 thread on the Fiskies, with 722 posts, had almost half of them provided by now banned posters, 108 in total. The 108 in this Hall of Shame are listed in my comments to the thread.

I will now provide a "capsule" analysis of why and how these 108 met their bitter fate. The ones not already covered in a case study will earn their own new "case study" number. For some of the banned there is no obvious information available from the LGF archives - I would appreciate any input from commenters who know the true story:

So here we go!

John Schneider - last post in 2007, joined the Gulf Coast Pundits/Grouchy Conservative Pundits, where his nick was seen by Charles and his fate sealed. See LGF Banned and Blocked Case Study #33.

#61 blackpajamas - given to bizarre pseudo-intellectual anti-Obama rants by the end of this LGF tenure in 2009. Was banned on August 26, 2009 for celebrating Ted Kennedy's death in comment #19 (that comment is now deleted).

Sarah D. - another grouchy conservative punditeer - banned in the great GCP purge of September 1, 2006 - see LGF Banned and Blocked Case Study #33.

Titus Quintius Cincinnatus - Christianist whackjob - after a long hiatus showed up on July 10, 2008 to call Charles a whackjob, presumably over attacks on creationism. See LGF Banned and Blocked Case Study #1.

Atlasshrugged - the notorious, unstable, Obamahating, Pamela Geller. See LGF Banned and Blocked Case Study #39.

#62 Hank29 - only 17 comments, the last in August 2006, for this Israeli former fan. Perhaps a recent flounce, as even Charles' right-wing Israeli contingent has deserted him, which is interesting because there is some thought that Charles' hard-line stand against Vlaams Belang in late 2007 was an attempt to appease his strong Jewish base of support.

#63 noshariaincanada - over 1,000 comments, until she changed her name, with hilarious results, to "Liz Ard" on August 20, 2005's "Pope Urges Muslims to Fight Terror," earning the ire of Charles and his then-buddy Reaganite. After 1,000+ posts under her new nick, she was banned, for unknown reasons.

#64 mickthemick - over 3,000 comments, a charter LGF irregular from June 15, 2004. A garden variety lizardoid. His posting dropped off starting at the end of 2007, with only a single post in 2008. Then on the October 8, 2009 thread "The anti-vaccination epidemic" he reared his head to argue with Charles' diktat that anti-vacciners were dangerous nutjobs. While they are, being a dangerous nutjob didn't used to be a liability on the old LGF. On the new LGF, it led to almost immediate banning and deletion of his posts on the thread. The snippets given by other posters did not show an abusive type of arguing - it is now clear that mere disagreement with one of Charles' pet subjects will result in banning and deletion. Charles then had the nerve to whine that mickthemick went straight to LGF2/blogmocracy - how dare a lizard summarily banned and deleted go to that site!

An amusing sidelight, back on December 28, 2004, on a thread entitled "Navy SEALS sue Associated Press," (I wonder where that one went?), Charles in comment #146 proposed a "time-out" for trollish commenters, which mickthemick in #287 applauded as an "LGF Purgatory." Guess what, mickthemick, you skipped right through LGF purgatory and went straight to LGF hell less than five years later!

That's all for now - we'll catalogue some more of the banned from December 2004 on the next post.

The Truth About Sharmuta

2010-02-01T19:32:00.001-08:00

The title of this post is a bit dicey, because I don't really know the truth about Sharmuta. Sharmuta is Charles' right-hand woman on Little Green Footballs. What we will do here is combine some of the conjectures and suppositions about this creature, and try to figure out some probabilities.

First some facts: Sharmuta has posted over 73,000 times on LGF since February 13, 2007, when she first registered. In less than three years, that equals an average of almost 70 posts per day. Her current "karma" (total of updings minus total of downdings in the rating system) is now north of 110,000 in the positive territory. She is also one of the "monitor lizards," who assist Charles in policing the site.

Now we start getting into probabilities. According to many sources (perhaps even a direct source on LGF, which I haven't found) "Sharmuta" has a previous LGF incarnation, as "W-lover," a lizardoid who registered on September 16, 2004, and had 15,963 posts, the last of which was on January 17, 2007. This user is blocked, and has a karma of -3, which means most likely that somewhat reached back into the LGF depths (before Charles made that impossible, see case study #32 on Natalie/littlesquirt) to downding an old post. Why W-lover disappeared is not reflected in the LGF comment section, at least not that I can find.

There are also claims that Sharmuta had several sock puppets on LGF, including names such as "Imadhimmi," "Polish Infidel," "Crazy8s," and "Brett Favre." A search through the LGF archives shows only one of these names posted, "Brett Favre," about 50 times starting in April 2005, and now blocked. I found two instances where "Brett Favre" and "W-lover" interacted, one on May 25, 2005's "Hizballah Weapons Rant," and once on May 26, 2006's "Thursday Night Beach." If "Brett Favre" was indeed a W-lover/Sharmuta sock puppet, then Sharmuta is guilty of the same behavior she accuses Zombie of on the ban-zombie private thread. Another conjecture is that "Brett Favre," is W-lover/Sharmuta's ex-husband. Finally, one alleged alias, "dubluv," was merely a commonly-used nickname for the frequently posting "W-lover."

The latest gossip in anti-LGF circles is that Sharmuta is Charles' fiancee. The evidence for this is the mention of a fiancee serving up pastries to Charles and the NYT reporter who recently did a piece on the whole Charles vs. the Right kerfluffle, and a later complaint from Charles that an interview the reporter had with Sharmuta ended up on the cutting room floor. However, the evidence for such a connection is circumstantial at best - there are many alternate explanations that don't connect these two dots.

Finally, we can discount a claim that Sharmuta is nothing more than Charles' own sock-puppet. After all, Ed the Weatherman, Serbian genocidaire "1389," and others have actually conjectured that I am Charles' sock puppet!

One more point - Sharmuta is a thoroughly loathsome lizardoid. But you already knew that.

LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED - Case Study SPECIAL EDITION - ZOMBIE!

2010-01-28T10:04:00.000-08:00

As has been mentioned elsewhere, Zombie is no longer welcome at LGF. Perhaps this is a sign of the true LGF apocalypse, as much of the lizardoid luster was due to the work of this "operative," now found exclusively at his/her/its own blog "Zombietime." And according to recent research, inadequately disproved by Zombie, it's "he."

For your edification, here is an edited transcript of the private LGF thread that resulted in Zombie's banning. I will post it without further comment, except to say that it exemplifies several interesting trends with LGF, and is, IMHO, quite hilarious.

176 Irish Rose Sun, Oct 4, 2009 4:59:05pm •

I went over to Zombies' blog this morning to leave a comment about all of the posts there bashing Charles and LGF. I told her I was disappointed in her and I reminded her that Charles has been a good friend to her. She removed my post, and left the hate posts up.

Seriously Zombie, if you're reading this... wtf?

179 Sharmuta Sun, Oct 4, 2009 5:00:41pm •
re: #176 Irish Rose
your comment wasn't removed.

182 Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sun, Oct 4, 2009 5:01:53pm •
re: 179 Sharmuta
I wouldn't know. I don't go to other sites...

186 Irish Rose Sun, Oct 4, 2009 5:06:02pm •
re: 179 Sharmuta

I'm wrong, your right... guess I'd better dig out my eyeglass and submit.
Still doesn't excuse the rest of it, though.

188 Boondock St. Bender Sun, Oct 4, 2009 5:08:16pm •
re: #183 Cathypop
lets not jump to any conclusions...zombie has always been a bud,and a source of wit and insight.she dosen't have to justify his or herself to anyone.(if charles has a problem w/him/her i'm sure he'll handle it)

190 marsl Sun, Oct 4, 2009 5:10:32pm •
re: #176 Irish Rose
Where are those posts? I went to zombies blog and site (zomblog and zombietime) and I didn't saw any posts against LGF. Can you give some examples? Just curious.

201 Irish Rose Sun, Oct 4, 2009 5:22:03pm •
re:#190 marsl
Sorry, no link from me.
Her comment section is just chock full of vile, abusive crap from the haters and stalkers and she does nothing to stop it, or remove it.
Any respect that I may have had for Zombie is now gone.

206 SanFranciscoZionist Sun, Oct 4, 2009 5:25:57pm •
re: #183Cathypop
WTF is up with Zombie?
I don't think anything is up with Zombie. Zombie has always had a specific agenda, and personal set of projects. I think those met with a lot of approval at LGF, since Zombie's work confirmed a lot of things that LGFers believed, and provided information on things LGFers were interested in.

These days, the focus of the blog is less on left-wing lunacy, and there is a more vocal group of people with a strong knowledge of some of the areas Zomb covers, some of whom don't agree with his/her take on things.

It's possible we just aren't a particularly good forum for Zombie's work any longer, or that Zombie's taking a rest from LGF, or that what we're discussing these days isn't particularly interesting to him/her.

I don't know what's going on at Zombietime, I haven't been for a bit.
I'm trying not to make this personal, since I have been both a big fan of Zombie's hilarious coverage of local demonstrations, and troubled by some of his/her other work. Zombie doesn't owe me anything, and I certainly don't want to make LGF a less welcoming place for him/her. But if we're not where teh wants to be right now...so be it.

I will say that my own personal experience of LGF's changes has been that I feel I can breathe, and speak more openly, and that the conservative voices here will engage me in debate, rather than sneering and screaming. So I like it. But Zomb was kind of a superstar here with the older crowd, and it may be less interesting to submit work to a more critical and less politically compatible crowd.
I should stop now, because I'm trying to be really politically neutral here, and I'll probably slip up any moment if I haven't already.

219 MJ Sun, Oct 4, 2009 6:12:53pm •
re: #176Irish Rose
I'm unsure why you thought it was your place to lecture Zombie on her own blog?

220 Charles Sun, Oct 4, 2009 6:16:20pm •
re: #219 MJ

And I'm unsure why you think there's nothing wrong with what's going on in that thread.

223 Sharmuta Sun, Oct 4, 2009 6:28:59pm •
Lovely middle finger, that thread.

251 Charles Sun, Oct 4, 2009 9:33:48pm •
Wow. I don't believe who I just found among the people reading this thread. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, though.

253 Charles Sun, Oct 4, 2009 9:40:21pm •
Zombie was logged in to this thread using the name 'Chicken Kiev'. And he/she also had another sock puppet. They're all blocked now

255 Charles Sun, Oct 4, 2009 9:41:11pm •
And yes, I'm very pissed off and disappointed.

259 Sharmuta Sun, Oct 4, 2009 9:42:19pm •
{Charles} I'm so sorry.

260 Charles Sun, Oct 4, 2009 9:43:25pm •
re: #242 marjoriemoon
I tend to agree with you and SFZionist above, however and that's a big, giant, colossal "however"

I find it disgusting she would tolerate the negative comments on that site without (as of about an hour ago) uttering one word about it. I just took a peek. It's her blog and she has a responsibility to maintain it. I don't care how much she hates the Left. If Charles was good to anyone, it was to her. She wouldn't have gotten near the exposure without him. And we have a rat in the house because they've been copying off this thread.

The rat appears to be zombie.

261 LudwigVanQuixote Sun, Oct 4, 2009 9:43:41pm •
Well this sucks. OK. I guess we knew it was coming. At least it was on a private thread.

263 Sharmuta Sun, Oct 4, 2009 9:48:19pm •
Zombie used her sock puppet Chicken Kiev as the author for one of her "scoops"

Forget about Tea Parties -- what about the Yoo Parties? Well, zomblog has the scoop!
Chicken Kiev writes:

“Saw the Yoo protest again today, and snapped another picture from my bike."

267 Charles Sun, Oct 4, 2009 9:55:49pm •
I may delete all my posts linking to zombie. What a back-stabbing little creep.

268 Charles Sun, Oct 4, 2009 9:57:04pm •
And they're over there complaining that I delinked zombie -- why the hell would I link to a blog where those kinds of comments are allowed to be posted? Assholes.

269 Charles Sun, Oct 4, 2009 10:00:19pm •
The fact that zombie was in this thread, silently watching, confirms that the comments were allowed to be posted with zombie's full knowledge and consent.

270 Sharmuta Sun, Oct 4, 2009 10:00:44pm •
And again she uses her sock puppet in her work on Obama and the Weather Underground:

"This report would not have been possible without the outstanding research contributed by quickjustice, Irene NYC, Toasty, and Chicken Kiev."
[Link in original]

I have to question the integrity of such work, quite frankly.

271 reine.de.tout Sun, Oct 4, 2009 10:02:09pm
Charles - I'm so sorry there are so many people who gained a bit of notice because of their relationship with you and your support of them, are now engaged in the most despicable backstabbing activities. That behavior is wrong and well, in my mind, it is immoral and evil to use people that way, and I'm sorry - it must be very hurtful.

275 jaunte Sun, Oct 4, 2009 10:08:53pm •
It's too bad some people are so easily corrupted by anonymity.

276 Racer X Sun, Oct 4, 2009 10:09:59pm •
Wow. Just fucking wow. Charles, you do not deserve this. Did someone spike the water or something?

278 Jimmah Sun, Oct 4, 2009 10:13:35pm •
re: #273 iceweasel

Right. The fabricated 'scoop' where she claimed a paper endorsed the Yoo protest (it didn't. Someone took out an ad in it) and she lied and claimed that the paper published Yoo's address. (it didn't. The person with the ad asked people who were interested to contact her via facebook or some such.) All in an attempt to lie and say 'the left' was crazy. Because 6 lunatics (by her own count!) responded to a personal ad in the free Berkeley paper.

Why am I not surprised to find out she lied about someone else taking the photos as well? Things got a bit surreal a few months back when it became apparent that zombie was hand-feeding the right wing crazies - Beck , Geller etc - even as Charles was campaigning against them. I have a feeling I am about to discover this person was ever crazier than I had supposed.

281 Sharmuta Sun, Oct 4, 2009 10:14:57pm •

Zombie 12/20/2005 7:55:12 am PST

Chicken Kiev broke this story this morning here.

Zombie 12/20/2005 7:58:50 am PST

Here's the links: archaeologist traded for terrorist

Zombie 2/01/2006 3:30:22 pm PST
#35 Chicken Kiev
Great minds think alike!

282 iceweasel Sun, Oct 4, 2009 10:16:27pm •
re: #267 Charles

I think I wouldn't delete the posts-- but I would disable the links to avoid sending zombie traffic. Here is why:

People on the right and left who are hostile to LGF will claim that you have deleted the posts in an effort to cover or whitewash your association with her. They will produce screenshots to 'prove' this. People who think zombie is a nut (and there are many on the left who think this) and who only think of LGF as 'that place that made zombie famous, and had comments by that guy Iron Fist' will be all too ready to believe that it's an attempt at covering something up.

It's true that hostile people will be hostile no matter what, and will manufacture lies no matter what. This is my gut reaction though. Haven't thought about it much yet myself, i must admit. My two cents for what they're worth.

I'm no fan of zombie's by any means and I think she's done harm to LGF in the past. The only criticisms I have seen about LGF in the last two years or so coming from the left all involved zombie-- not LGF proper.

285 ArchangelMichael Sun, Oct 4, 2009 10:20:52pm •
You gotta be shitting me... srsly? I'm way too pissed off and tired to say anything else. Ok, maybe this... fuckin ingrates that would be nowhere without LGF.

289 Charles Sun, Oct 4, 2009 10:23:23pm •
By the way -- I know for a fact that zombie and Chicken Kiev were not just sharing an IP address. They were the SAME person. My correlator tool absolutely confirms this. (Yes, I really do have a correlator tool.)

291 Charles Sun, Oct 4, 2009 10:24:52pm •
I would appreciate it if people don't discuss this in public threads, please.

296 Charles Sun, Oct 4, 2009 10:27:43pm •
re: #293 BigPapa
Crazy times. Our tent is getting smaller and smaller. All that big tent talk was BS. It's just us now.

Actually, it's not getting smaller at all. LGF traffic is up by nearly 30% over the last two months.

298 Sharmuta Sun, Oct 4, 2009 10:28:46pm •
We don't need no stinkin' sock puppet posers.

299 Sharmuta Sun, Oct 4, 2009 10:31:28pm •
There are a lot more comments from zombie praising 'Chicken Kiev' that I didn't post. She seemed quite fond of herself.

300 Big Papa Sun, Oct 4, 2009 10:32:47pm •
re: #296 Charles
I hope it's interest and rational people, not socky stalkers and nutbags looking for dirt.

302 Charles Sun, Oct 4, 2009 10:34:41pm •
re: #300 BigPapa
I'm talking about tens of thousands of people.

303 iceweasel Sun, Oct 4, 2009 10:36:11pm •
re: #297Jimmah
Correspondingly, there has been a lot of adulation from the stalkers blogs for zombie over the last few months.

There certainly has. And that's no surprise. They loved what zombie peddled.
I realise that this sucks, most of all for Charles, who supported her and gave her all this help, and also for the lizards here who liked her-- but the truth is, this is a very good thing for LGF. She/he was a self-aggrandising faux 'journalist' who pushed a so-con agenda at every opportunity. Not because she herself endorsed it, I don't necessarily think, but because it would bring traffic.

305 ArchangelMichael Sun, Oct 4, 2009 10:38:21pm •
re: #299 Sharmuta

I might be just imagining this, but I could have sworn that zombie told people CK was his/her sockpuppet. I could not find it a search though. Perhaps my LGF-search-fu is weak. Either way, when I saw this thread the first thing that came to mind was the sockpuppet was completely unsurprising to me.

310 iceweasel Sun, Oct 4, 2009 10:47:04pm •
re: #295 cenotaphium

It's beyond creepy when the sockpuppets start talking to "each other". Being new here, I have to ask; is this craziness (flouncing, backstabbing, stalker blogs) new, or an ongoing issue?

Right now, things are extreme because of the tsunami of hate coming from Charles' former 'friends' in the blogopshere-- the people who mistakenly assumed that he hated the left, rather than hating idiocy wherever it occurs. They assumed he signed on to their agenda. There's been quite the upheaval in the right-wing blogosphere this summer as a result, and so there have been massive attacks on LGF, on Charles, because of it.

At the same time, lots of former LGF haters on the left have been noticing that LGF is the one place on the centre-right willing to call out the crazy. Dave Weigel at the Washington Independent did a great piece in April on the split over VB. The Daily Beast did a good piece on how Beck was polarising the righty-sphere and Charles is one of the only people calling him out.

So there is a seachange underway and all this talk of sockpuppets, flouncings, etc is the result. Hopefully in future all discussion of the flouncings, stalker sites, etc, will come to be confined to the private threads, because it's incomprehensible and boring to new readers-- and as Charles pointed out, we're getting tens of thousands of them now, from all over the political spectrum.

316 Floral Giraffe Sun, Oct 4, 2009 10:55:56pm •
I am sad to see a long time poster, trashed, thrown into a wall, to see what sticks. Charles, it's YOUR BLOG, and YOUR RULES, and YOU have a long time relationship with these folks, and you know what you are doing.

I am a noob. I don't have any of this history. I'm just a visitor at Charles blog. I love the information. I like some of the politics. That's irrelevant. Charles' blog, Charles' rules. So, my contribution, is worth what you paid for it!

317 Charles Sun, Oct 4, 2009 10:55:57pm •
re: #305 ArchangelMichael

I don't remember that ever being said here. I would remember if it were so.

321 Charles Sun, Oct 4, 2009 11:01:35pm •
Remember: I promoted zombie's photo essays for years. I don't think it's exaggerating to say that without my help, zombie would never have gotten noticed at all. I even PAID zombie out of my own pocket to cover the Democratic Convention. And through it all, I put MY reputation on the line by protecting zombie's identity. I never insisted on knowing it, even when I PAID her for work. I just absorbed the tax hit myself. This bridge is completely burned.

322 Sharmuta Sun, Oct 4, 2009 11:03:15pm •
I'm sorry, Charles...

337 Sharmuta Sun, Oct 4, 2009 11:15:00pm •
re: #316 Floral Giraffe
Floral- I'm sorry if my comments upset you or anyone. I know the truth can be hard, but I think people should see what was done with that sock puppet. The truth will out.

And as much as it pained me to keep looking at how deep this betrayal goes, I think that Charles and Lizards such as yourself deserve the truth. That's what I tried to do.

338 SanFranciscoZionist Sun, Oct 4, 2009 11:16:31pm •
re: #291 Charles

OK, but Charles, there's folks listening in as we type. The supply of sockpuppets appears to be infinite. But you know that.

341 iceweasel Sun, Oct 4, 2009 11:21:23pm •
re: #338 SanFranciscoZionist

Yes, but the big picture here isn't the stalkers and weirdos-- it's all the new readers. And they can't read private threads til they register. We have many, many more readers than we have registered readers, and only a small fraction of the registered regularly comment.

Flame wars, talk of stalker blogs, all this inside baseball blogwar stuff-- needs to be kept on the locked threads whenever possible, to increase readership here. It's shooting up as it is and will continue to do so, and they don't care about this stuff.

395 Sharmuta Mon, Oct 5, 2009 12:24:10am •
People flounced over this sock puppet huckster. That pisses me off. People flipped out if she faced the slightest criticism, such as- she wasn't meticulous, *gasp* the horror! and flounced! Over a fraud. A playah. A getting picked up by alex jones and wnd sock puppeteer. That's a damn shame. I hope they enjoy the kook fodder more than LGF, cuz now they're locked out.

400 Cato the Elder Mon, Oct 5, 2009 6:30:00am •
There is just one wee problem with the way this went down. First we get this:

re: #176 Irish Rose
I went over to Zombies' blog this morning to leave a comment about all of the posts there bashing Charles and LGF. I told her I was disappointed in her and I reminded her that Charles has been a good friend to her. She removed my post, and left the hate posts up. Seriously Zombie, if you're reading this... wtf?

Then this:

re: #179 Sharmuta
your comment wasn't removed.

I checked too, Sharmuta. It wasn't, and it isn't. Over at Zombie's blog, someone had this to say:

Irish Rose is toast. She just lied through her teeth in order to get zombie banned at LGF. The problem, Ms. Rose, is that your LGF comment can easily proven to be a lie. All one needs to go is come to this thread and look at comment #125 above.
Your comment is still there!!! How, m’lady, are you going to explain that? And how can you explain away your blantant backstabbing lie to Charles at LGF? This is beyond the pale. In the old days of LGF, what you just did was itself a banworthy offense. Instead of zombie being banned from LGF, it is you who should be banned. Your credibility rating just dropped to zero. Permanently. What need of the lie, Rose?

The comments there were certainly bad enough, why come and tell us you were deleted when you weren't? You know these private threads aren't private. Unless Zombie deleted you, then reposted your comment, just to make you look bad. Trouble is, that can't be, because your post is time-stamped at 8:00 A.M., and people were responding to it continually throughout the day.

Whatever. Personally, I find your persona as LGF's resident watchdog has worn out. You just handed "them" a victory. "They" can crow about your tactics now. And they will. I don't waste my time with Rodan and friends, but I guarantee you they're flapping their gums about it this very second. I told you before that your self-appointed role as keeper of the flame and challenger of the flaming insane was doing more harm than good.

The break between LGF and Zombietime was coming, but you had to lie to speed it up? As if there weren't enough shit bubbling to the surface all over the place without you stirring it for us.

404 iceweasel Mon, Oct 5, 2009 7:01:42am •

re: #400 Cato the Elder
Cato-- you know I love you, but I think Rose made an honest mistake when she thought her comment was deleted. She even answered Sharmuta and admitted as much.

Also, Rose's comment isn't the reason for the way things went down-- not by a long shot. Zombie ultimately got blocked because Charles busted her spying in on this thread and copying comments using a sockpuppet of hers. Zombie had previously used that sockpuppet to pimp her own work, as Sharm showed above. I'm fairly certain she used that sockpuppet to downding me several times as well.

And as you say, this was in the works for months-- because of zombie's own behaviour -- and her card was marked from the minute she decided to leave up nasty comments about LGF and Charles on her site. She'd obviously seen them.

The only way Irish Rose's comment could be at all causally connected to 'the way things went down' is that it MIGHT be the proximate cause of Zombie sneaking over here to look at this particular private thread yesterday, and so her being busted yesterday-- but it clearly would have happened anyway because Zombie would have been caught doing that sooner or later.

405 iceweasel Mon, Oct 5, 2009 7:10:11am •
Semi-OT:
There is obviously going to be a shitstorm on the right and gn stalker blogs about this. Someone joked upthread about zombie doing an 'expose' on LGF as well and I wouldn't be surprised if she did. Also, many bewildered lizards are going to be asking in good faith "What happened to our beloved zombie?"

Charles has already said he doesn't want this discussed on public threads. Maybe we should all have a sort of informal policy, when the topic comes up on LGF, of saying "Yeah, Zombie's gone, it was discussed here" and pointing people to the thread? And then refusing to discuss it further (publicly for sure)? Does this make sense to people? I'm thinking about LGF and the future, and how talking about this is deadly boring to all the new readers, and also the way rumours spread. Thoughts?

411 Charles Mon, Oct 5, 2009 8:35:34am •
re: #400 Cato the Elder
Irish Rose's comment had nothing to do with this.

416 redneckkahfir[deleted] Mon, Oct 5, 2009 9:01:24am
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418 Sharmuta Mon, Oct 5, 2009 9:08:02am •
re:#416 redneckkahfir
No- she was logged onto THIS thread, here- the one you're reading now. With her sock puppet. The same sock puppet she used to mask herself in her own work. She knew damned good and well what was going on on her own site.

Besides- people from other back stabbing sites have been in touch with her. There has been a campaign behind the scenes to get zombie to leave LGF. They should all be happy now they worked so hard for someone of such impeccable character as to lie in her work.

420 redneckkahfir[deleted] Mon, Oct 5, 2009 9:11:07am

422 Sharmuta Mon, Oct 5, 2009 9:12:29am •
No- there is no misunderstanding.Well- except maybe for you, redneckkahfir.

423 iceweasel Mon, Oct 5, 2009 9:20:12am •

re: #420 redneckkahfir
I am only trying to be biased in favor of fairness. Is it not possible that this is a misunderstanding?

If you cared about fairness, you'd read the thread and see why she was actually banned. And it isn't for the reasons you're being told on her blog or elsewhere. And if you read the thread, you'd see that there is no misunderstanding here at all. Except your own. Sorry if this comes off harsh, but dude, please-- read the thread! This issue starts at 251. if you really care about 'fairness', you'll make sure you know the real reasons why she was banned before venturing an opinion about whether the banning was 'fair' or not.

424 Charles Mon, Oct 5, 2009 9:21:25am •
Meltdowns are expected. That's the third one already this morning.

425 Charles Mon, Oct 5, 2009 9:22:30am •
P.S. And anyone who thinks it might be a good idea to dare me to ban them will discover that I take that as an invitation.

430 Medaura 18586 Mon, Oct 5, 2009 0:18:28am •
My 2 cents, I agree with IceWeasel on not deleting past articles featuring/promoting her. It sounds too revisionistic, and there ought to be no shame in being fooled by ungrateful spiteful people in the past. LGF has evolved, Charles's thinking has too, and it's all for the better. I recently purged Zombie from my site's blogroll (long before her banning) but if I had directly linked to her in the past, I wouldn't undo that. I think disinterested observers following the evolution of Charles's relationship with Zombie will be even more impressed if they see the disillusionment--that he was once her supporter but not blind to her bullshit. Correcting past mistakes is somehow even nobler than never making them.

442 Bagua Mon, Oct 5, 2009 6:07:49pm •
Good gosh, all this wailing and gnashing of teeth. She got caught violating the terms of service and she’s no longer welcome. End of story. Just like the nice employee that gets caught with her hand in the till.

Good riddance I say. Who wants to be associated with dishonest people?

Big Steve's Most Prolific Lizardoid List - 1.5 years later

2010-01-21T23:15:00.001-08:00

In the Summer of 2008 lizardoid "Big Steve," (a.k.a. "Big Steve the little pissant") started a new and short-lived feature in his LGF comments. He strived to make an ongoing list of the most prolific lizardoid posters. Here's his first list, from July 23, 2008, and the status of those posters today. It's amazing.

Babbazee
68,373 NOW BLOCKED
Realwest
53,033 NOW BLOCKED
MandyManners
47,879
Zulubaby
44,039
Occasional Reader
35,484 NOW BLOCKED
Killgore Trout
33,730
Ward Cleaver
31,895 NOW BLOCKED
Christheprofessor
30,427 NOW BLOCKED
Mama Winger
29,593 NOW BLOCKED
Peacekeeper
27,442 NOW BLOCKED
MigueldowninMexico
24,914
Sharmuta
23,595
Killian Bundy
23,217 NOW BLOCKED
Zombie
22,635 NOW BLOCKED
NY Nana
22,422 NOW BLOCKED
Writermom
21,990 NOW BLOCKED
JCM
21,926 NOW BLOCKED
Buzzsawmonkey
21,715 NOW BLOCKED AND OBLITERATED
Taxfreekiller
20,830 NOW BLOCKED AND OBLITERATED
Littleoldlady
19,613 NOW BLOCKED
Catttt
19,107
Lawhawk
19,042
Charles
17,318

Of the 23 most prolific listed posters, 15 have been consigned to LGF hell, 2 to the lowest circle of LGF hell (obliteration). Of the 8 remaining, 2 (Zulubaby and MigueldowninMexico) have not been on LGF for quite some time now (Miguel has added 6 posts to his 24, 914 of July 2008 and Zulubaby has added 102 to her July 2008 total - plus Zulubaby is a Discarded Lies poster, which will finish her quickly if and when Charles figures that out).

Big Steve updated his list for a while, and decided to throw off of it those who had been banned, which happened to BabbaZee within days of the original list.

Meanwhile, if the list were made today, MandyManners would now be the leader with over 108,000 posts, and Sharmuta has brown-nosed her way to (most likely) second with 73,410. Realwest got up to 85,503 before he was banned in September 2009.

The times they have a'changed, haven't they?

UPDATE - LGF banned, blocked, AND OBLITERATED, Volume 5

2010-01-15T23:39:00.001-08:00

We have a new member of the banned, blocked AND OBLITERATED pen of scapegoats at Little Green Footballs (actually not new, but recently discovered)

BUZZSAWMONKEY: A long-time lizardoid, pretty prolific as well. But on October 12, 2009, on "Pamela Geller Praises English Defense League," buzzsawmonkey was shown the door. He got into a pissing match with LGF 2nd harpy Iceweasel, and was given a "ticket out" by Charles. He then went straight to "the stalker site," (no, not the now innocuous LGF Watch, we're talkin' Blogmocracy aka LGF 2.0 here) and claimed that he had planned his departure. Charles was so mad that he nuked buzzsawmonkey's thousands of comments. Most of them standard right-wing bile, but nothing to the level of psychoses shown by those like Bigel and Ploome Hineni.

And another few holes appear in the swiss cheese of LGF archives ...

LGF December 2004 vs. today - a sampling

2009-12-19T23:48:00.001-08:00

Many have wondered how many of the lizardoids from the heady days of late 2004 remain members in good standing of Lizard Nation?

Here's a sampling of a single post entry: "FISKIE NOMINATIONS 2004 - TOPIC ONE", dated December 4, 2004.

722 comments were made on this post, a large number for the time (or any time, for that matter). Charles' Fiskies were a popular subject, as lizardoids slobbered all other themselves to nominate their least favorite "libtards."

Of those 722 comments, 411 (57%) were made by lizardoids still in good standing, while 311 (43%) were made by lizardoids that are now blocked from accessing their LGF accounts. Of those banned, 26 are from posters (Ploome, song_and_dance_man, Iron Fist, and bigel) who have been obliterated from LGF history.

A breathtaking 109 lizardoids posting on this thread have since been banned and blocked (well, maybe 108, since one of them is W-lover, reputed to have morphed into the loathsome Sharmuta). Without going into as great a detail on those who remain unblocked, most are unfamiliar names - they probably no longer post on LGF.

I'll let you determine what these statistics, taken from a December 2004 thread, mean about what LGF was, and what LGF has become.

UPDATE - LGF banned, blocked AND OBLITERATED, Volume 4

2009-12-16T21:08:00.000-08:00

Well, that was a quick hiatus! A new banned, blocked and obliterated LGF irregular has been identified, one who should warm the cockles of dear old Rayra's heart. It is none other than:

-AMERICAN INFIDEL. She (pretty sure about gender) was a regular, almost obsessive poster throughout 2005 and most of 2006, and was well known for three things, her extremely virulent anti-Islamic ideology, her simplistic reasoning, and her ability to drive one of the core group of LGF haters, lead by Rayra and Reaganite, to heights of vitriol and abuse. Her most notorious moment on LGF came during one of Charles' periodic anti-Mexican binges, obsessing about "La Raza" and nefarious Jihadi wannabes with brown skins from south of the border, when she advocated setting up automatic machine gun nests along the Mexican border.

She got herself banned during the notorious purge of September 2006, which sent the core of the Grouchy Conservative Pundits, including Rayra, packing. Their claim is that she was Charles' sacrificial lamb in that affair, banned to buttress his false claim to being impartial and not picking on poor lil' ol' Rayra and his confederates. But her own vitriol and stupidity amply justified her banning, at least by Johnson's evolving standards of conduct.

BUT NOT HER OBLITERATION.

UPDATE: It was pointed out to me that a sentence in the original post, that Rayra and Reaganite were the "proprietors" of Grouchy Conservative Pundits, is not correct. Mike C. is the "proprietor" of the site, while Rayra is apparently the "administrator." Reaganite posted there for a while, but is now apparently on hiatus.

LGF banned, blocked AND OBLITERATED, Volume 3

2009-12-14T22:08:00.001-08:00

In this volume we will look at two final (for now) victims of obliteration in the LGF comments section:

1. TAXFREEKILLER: Also banned after the completion of round one of this blog, for having the temerity to join a group of LGF alleged renegades in starting their own (lame) site. Taxfreekiller was perhaps the goofiest of all LGF irregulars - combining irrationality, paranoia, and VERY poor spelling, grammatical, and typing skills. Although Reaganite couldn't stand him, which counts for something in his favor. When Charles announced the banning, he admitted that he should have bounced "TFK," as he was affectionately known by some, long before. When Taxfreekiller tried some sock puppetry (as if he could ever disguise his notably rancid posting style), Charles did the dirty obliteration deed. A notable confrontation with the Nodrog occurred here.

2. IRON FIST: The saga of Iron Fist - from LGF darling to obliterated outcast. He was once such a favorite that he was the star of the LGF dictionary, with the "Iron Fist rule" front and center. ("If you think you are too drunk to post, you are too drunk to post.") Here is the LGF Dictionary page today - with Iron Fist obliterated, the page had to go away too. (There is another reason - the banning of Zombie, which we may go into later) The dictionary was saved by aficionados here, and represents the sordid history of LGF that Johnson wants to pretend never existed. LGF Watch had this hilarious and informative post about one of Iron Fist's less murderous (in this case, more like manslaughter) escapades.

Anyway, Iron Fist did not change fast enough for the new and improved LGF, so Charles sent him packing. When he continued his tirades elsewhere, Charles decided to do his "commissar vanishes" routine on poor ol' Fisty.

This completes our current list of major LGF Banned, blocked AND OBLITERATED characters. If anyone has further updates or contributions, please provide me with the LGF nick of anyone else with, say, over 1,000 posts or so, who has been obliterated from the archives.

LGF banned, blocked AND OBLITERATED, Volume 2

2009-12-12T14:08:00.000-08:00

In this volume we will look at two additional victims of obliteration in the LGF comments section:

1. BIGEL: Bigel's LGF demise is chronicled in this post. Bigel was well known for his "nuclear" rhetoric, which included frequent calls to radioactively obliterate various "enemies of the state," (in this case, enemies of the State of Israel, at least in Bigel's blinkered imagination). Anyone who crossed Bigel was generally accused of being a concentration camp guard wannabe, as happened to the Nodrog occasionally. Bigel is noteworthy for being the first significant non-lefty LGF irregular to be banned by Johnson, and such rhetoric must not only be outlawed today, but the archives must be purged of its taint back to the beginning, apparently.

2. PLOOME HINENI: Ploome Hineni was banned after the completion of round one of this blog, and thus does not have an entry. She was just about the most awful of all the LGF irregulars, and, as you can tell, that's saying QUITE a lot! She combined a more virulent variety of LGF Islamic eliminationism with defense of even Jewish terrorists such as Baruch Goldstein (who perpetrated the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre) and erratic behavior. Her insults were generally about as puerile as is possible for an alleged adult. The contrast of today, where even her past ravings are not be tolerated, and 2004, when she was one of Charles' favorites, cannot be more striking. Like Rayra, however, she can still be found pre-2004 registration, as plain ol' "Ploome."

LGF banned blocked AND OBLITERATED - Volume 1

2009-12-10T19:42:00.001-08:00

The happenin's with Little Green Footballs since "Banned and Blocked" closed down have been dizzying! As I noted, many, many others have taken up the close scrutiny of the psychological and sociological case of Charles Johnson and his blog.

This update regards a very interesting new development in the Little Green Footballs story - Charles Johnson has started seriously trying to change history by obliterating past comments going back all the way to registration in 2004 and, in some cases, beyond.

I'm not including the one-off flouncers and discovered sock-puppets with a dozen or so posts who get their entire LGF life's work flicked away. I'm only including the "heavy hitters" in this series of posts.

This is a report on the known members of the banned, blocked, AND OBLITERATED crowd:

1. SAVAGE NATION. I believe that this thorn in Charles' side was the first to be completely nuked. A full report on the circumstances can be found here. Since his obliteration, savage_nation has gone on to bigger things - his identity was outrageously outed by Charles, he is a regular poster at Rayra's Grouchy Conservative Pundits site, and, of course, he is a key member of the LGF 2.0 blogmocracy gang and their alternately hilarious and terrifying site.

2. SONG AND DANCE MAN. Case study #4, song_and_dance_man (SADM) followed his original banning with the unpardonable sin, in October 2008, of posting on Robert Spencer's Jihad Watch website. Or so says Charles (I have no interest in wading into that cesspool to verify). Charles, or one of his toadies, then apparently rifled through SADM's over 30,000 posts (now THAT's a job for the internship from hell!) and found a couple that sounded racist. So Charles obliterated SADM's "contributions" to his illustrious website. Of all of the victims of obliteration, SADM probably deserved it least - although Charles would never admit error, he undoubtedly realized that if SADM could be obliterated, then about 75% of his total posts would have to go. But, like Josef Stalin's red purges of the 1930's, the obliteration of the innocuous SADM undoubtedly sent shivers through lizardoid toady hearts.

3. RAYRA. The main culprit in case study #34, Rayra is now the ring-leader of the Grouchy Conservative Pundits right-wing sewer. He was notorious for his profanity-infested outbursts and rude behavior to other posters who didn't toe the Rayra line. He also claims to have taught Zombie everything he-she-it knows, although his former shambles of a website (rayra.net) now shows up in some inscrutable oriental language. He and Charles have an ongoing dispute about some alleged threats Rayra made re: Ibrahim Hooper of CAIR in the LGF misty past. Where once Charles minimized Rayra's alleged threat, he has now played it up several times as a major issue since, leading to more profane outbursts of outrage from Rayra. The Hooper incident alone was enough excuse for Charles to obliterate Rayra's contributions, which numbered in the tens of thousands. You can still find a glimpse of Rayra, should you be so inclined, by going back to pre-registration (before June 2004) LGF days and looking for "Rayra Johnson," a name under which he sometimes posted (but everything that was just "Rayra," even pre-registration, has gone down the memory hole). Interestingly, Charles hasn't obliterated this post from 2005, at least for now.

That's all for now - we'll look at some additional banned, blocked AND OBLITERATED former lizardoids in a subsequent installment.

The End of LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-12-14T18:11:00.001-08:00

Well, it's been a fun ride, first with my admittedly egomaniacal blog Nodrog's Greatest Hits, and now with the less Nodrog-centric LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED. My reasons for ending the blog?

1. After a while the stories repeat themselves - how many times can we relate the story of an LGF'er getting banned over Vlaams Belang or Creation Science without getting repetitive?

2. There's no way we can keep up with the increasing volume of banning and blocking victims of Charles Johnson's megalomania and paranoia.

3. The tide has definitely turned regarding LGF. When Nodrog's Greatest Hits hit the world wide web the only organized centers of resistance to the Lizard Tyrant were 1) the usual left-wing suspects of LGF Watch 2) the embittered dead-enders of Gulf Coast Pundit, and, occasionally, 3) the zany Discarded Liars. Soon after the start of Nodrog's Greatest Hits, the great Vlaams Belang AtlasShrugged fight began, still on-going, as shown by our last post on Robert Spencer's banishment. And then the great evolution/creation science imbroglio erupted in the Spring of 2008, sending numerous lizardoids into involuntary exile. There are many, many anti-LGF voices now, including littlegreenfootballs2, which manages to be brilliant and idiotic in one fell swoop, Gagdad Bob, Babba Louie, ChenZhen and his "bury LGF at Digg" campaign along with his brilliant punking of sycophantic Zombie's LGF Dictionary (now embraced in the protective folds of the lizard tyrant himself, apparently), Gates of Vienna, and now Robert Spencer's JihadWatch. Little Green Footballs has commenced its now irreversible slide into irrelevance, and the Nodrog's continued efforts would constitute "piling on."

and, finally,

4. I now have better things to do with my life - a personal matter which I will not elaborate on. However, in contrast to the taunts of Ed the Weatherman and others, there are other aspects of my life that are now more deserving of my time and attention than Little Green Footballs.

So I say "farewell" to this blog war. These blogs will remain, a testimony to my zany brilliance and a warning to all webmasters like Charles Johnson who let unexpected success turn them into Josef Stalin wannabes. Comments will soon be closed, so as to prevent those who would sully the message in the far future. I still may show up unannounced at the blog sites of both friends and foes, as "theposterformerlyknownasgordon," or ?

Adios!

Robert Spencer - Case Study # 60 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-12-11T23:07:00.000-08:00

Our final case study victim of the Lizard Tyrant is none other than: ROBERT SPENCER.

Robert Spencer is the intellectual voice of the anti-Islamist forces in the U.S. and around the world - compared to him Andrew Bostum, the late Oriana Fallaci, and Bat Ye'or, not to mention inane bloggers like Pamela Geller and Charles Johnson - are lightweights. In my personal opinion Robert Spencer is quite wrong about many (but not all) of the issues associated with the Islamic religion in our world today, but those who argue against him must have their intellectual ducks in a row, because he's one smart guy.

Charles Johnson once idolized Robert Spencer - Charles was smart enough to recognize the intellectual heft behind Spencer's Islamo-hatred. Spencer's websites, Jihad Watch and Dhimmi Watch, received significant design help from Johnson.

When Johnson and Pam Geller started at it hammer and tongs in the Fall of 2007 Robert Spencer faced a big dilemma. He was an attendee at the now notorious Brussels Journal conference on anti-jihadism. Like Ed the Weatherman, but in a much more serious and substantial way, he tried to bridge the gap between the warring parties. After some apparent mau-mauing by Johnson, he even removed Gates of Vienna and Brussels Journal, two of Johnson's great nemeses among the Islamo-haters, from his blogroll. Nevertheless, his equivocation was noticed by LGF'ers, and he was the occasional subject of sniping and viciousness from the likes of A. Van Hilten (now banned for vitriol) and the relentless Medaura18586. See for example, a September 12, 2008 thread entitled "Spencer on Cologne Anti-Islamization Conference," where Robert Spencer himself and Medaura got into a spitting contest. Here's what Medaura had to say in post #191:

Also, Robert, I was going to let you go off the hook with the understanding that the best treatment for demagogic kooks like yourself is obscurity. But you pissed me off with your childish smears reeking of fabricated "indignation". I have plenty of material on some more associates of yours and your annoying arrogance just convinced me of publishing what I have. Wait for it, then come smear me here as a liar if you dare.

But at some point, Robert Spencer apparently decided enough was enough. Perhaps his friends on the Gates of Vienna/Fjordman side got to him, perhaps he became revolted at Charles Johnson's anti-religious jeremiads on the evolution/intelligent design issue (Spencer appears to be a Christian, as is evidenced by his whitewash of militant Christianity re: militant Islam in a recent book). But on October 31, 2008, in a thread entitled "Friday Evening Open," the Lizard Tyrant had this to say in post # 65:

I notice that Gates of Vienna and Brussels Journal are back in the blogroll at Jihad Watch.

In comment #143 Jimmah noted that Spencer had devoted a post to the works of the dreaded, bloviating Fjordman. In #420 Charles had this to add:

I guess Robert has chosen his side. I'm sad that it's come to this.

But in #469 the bad Charles came back to the surface:

OK. I'm over being sad about it. Now I'm getting mad.

He banished Spencer's blogs in #473:

Jihad Watch and Dhimmi Watch are out of our RSS feeds. I'm not going to support people who link to vile sites like Gates of Vienna and Brussels Journal.

The lizardoid losers egged him on, as shown by Shadow Do in #490:

Step on them Charles.

Charles' finale came in #556:

Paul Belien of Brussels Journal is deeply connected with the Vlaams Belang, and Robert knows this. The fact that he's put them back in his blogroll speaks volumes about the choice he's made.

And Gates of Vienna has turned into a reeking sewer of racism. I'm done with Robert Spencer. And very, very disappointed in him.

As the mob got angrier, #573 Charles revealed that he emailed Spencer to demand that the "designed by LGF" sticker on Jihad Watch be removed.

And then in #689 Robert Spencer came forward. Spencer had commented back in the pre-registration days, most notably to take down yours truly, the Nodrog, on my claim that he supported Serbian genocidaires against Bosnia's Muslims. (Never mind that there's ample proof (and here too) he was being disingenuous about that) But he had only officially registered with LGF on April 21, 2008, and had only 41 posts to his name. Here's what he had to say, quite reasonably:

This will, obviously, be my last post here.

I am not a racist or a race supremacist, and oppose all racism and race supremacism. I have explained many times that I believe a race-based approach to the jihad resistance is wrong. I explained in my post about Fjordman that I didn't believe that he was a racist or a race supremacist. If you all believe that that judgment in itself makes me a racist, I respectfully suggest that this is a logical leap that is unwarranted.

The jihad threat is very large, and has nothing to do with race, but everything to do with ideology. I don't agree in every detail with all those who are fighting it, or with every wording they have ever chosen, or with every emphasis they have. But I am more interested in building alliances and coalitions than with anathematizing those who don't agree with me on every detail. And no, this does not mean that I am interested in building alliances or coalitions with any actual race supremacists, neofascists, or neo-Nazis. Such people are always and everywhere to be opposed.

That's all. Good luck.

But it wasn't quite his last post, as he added one more in #735:

One last -- pardon me, I know I said I was done, but I had not read all the comments above, particularly from Charles, which comments deeply sadden me.

The statement that I have "embraced the neo-Nazi movement" is false, and libelous. Charles, you and your friends here are now in the position of saying that everyone who doesn't believe these people (Fjordman, Belien, etc.) are neo-Nazis must themselves be neo-Nazis. Well, Ian Buruma recently published an article in the LA Times saying that the European anti-immigration parties were not neo-Nazis. Diana West has written the same thing in articles that have been picked up at the National Review and quoted favorably by Roger Kimball at Pajamas Media.

Unless you all are prepared to say that Buruma, the LA Times, West, Kimball, and National Review have "embraced the neo-Nazi movement," you can't logically say it about me.

Now that really is all.

But Spencer couldn't resist one last post in #757, responding to illiterati supremo mich-again:

[mich-again: Strawman Alert!]

It is not in the least a strawman. You cannot possibly sustain a logical argument that would hold me to have "embraced the neo-Nazi movement" while not accusing the LA Times, Ian Buruma, Roger Kimball, Diana West and National Review of the same thing.

But anyway, I said I wouldn't get drawn into this, and so I really will go now. Goodbye.

It's hard to stop responding when you are facing the lies, insults, and smears of Lizard Nation.

The fur flew for quite a while on many lizard threads in the following days. The very next one, entitled "Another Friday Evening Open," saw this deleted attack in #335 (but helpfully quoted later) from a soon-banned lizardoid:

good bye and good luck Charles. you can remove my account from LGF, the spat with JihadWatch was it for me. I gave you the benefit of the doubt after the Fjordman fight, but really? Jihadwatch a nazi?

You've lost your credibility as far as I'm concerned. You're gone from my RSS and my bookmark.

Good night and Good Luck.

But Charles in his heart knew that perhaps this was the final straw that would push his beloved Little Green Footballs site into complete irrelevance, not even to be saved by the upcoming victory of Barack HUSSEIN Obama in the Presidential election. In response to one of his remaining toadies, Occasional Reader in #226, on Argentinian holiday, he had this to say:

I wish I was in a bar in Buenos Aires right now.

It's tough being right all the time, eh Charles?

We'll have a wrap-up post for LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED next time!

IbrahimX - Case Study # 59 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-12-08T23:26:00.001-08:00

The dreaded Muslim hordes rarely invaded the LGF turf - their presence was mainly confined to the "We Got Mail!" threads Charles started after receiving laughably inept hate mail from obviously Muslim sources. But IbrahimX, whose brief LGF career began and ended on June 12, 2008, was an exception. It only lasted 16 posts for poor Ibrahim ...

The thread was, appropriately, one of the brief "The Door Opens ... the Door Closes" opportunities Charles now gave for would be lizardoids to join the fold. IbrahimX registered on this thread, and then threw in a real stinker in his first post, #145:

Just curious...how is a "troll" defined in this forum? Anyone who disagrees with CJ and his echoes?

-30 to Abe, not a good start - he either was cluelessly naive or was angling to get booted. The lizardoids, led by Charles in #156, were on the scent - note Mandy Manners' intellectual rejoinder in #195 to "go piss up a rope." (I think Mandy is perhaps the stupidest of all the chief lizardoid toadies still in Charles' good graces) In #262 IbrahimX replied:

I love all the lovely and respectful posts directed at my way. Nice to meet you all! =)

~ibrahim

Charles kept up a running commentary, having this to say in #270:

The next troll tactic -- invariably -- is to focus on any insults and complain about how badly they're treated.

Charles then asked in #357:

Are you the "IbrahimX" who comments at the Jerusalem Post?

- which I assume, if correct, would not reflect highly upon IbrahimX. Ibrahim didn't answer in #367, but had this to say:

thank you for informing me that this site is reserved for adults. I certainly had trouble coming to this conclusion given the various way multiple people insulted me upthread. And yes, Ibrahim IS really my first name, and I did not choose it just to draw "anti-islamic" comments as someone else suggested.

He did answer Charles in #395:

Charles--I may have commented at Jerusalem Post a handful of times in the past. If this "IbrahimX" is a frequent commenter there, then it isn't me. But I do comment at JihadWatch periodically under this name. =)

Nice use of emoticons, Ibrahim! In #420 Diamond Bullet dug up an IbrahimX comment at Jihad Watch (Robert Spencer's now LGF-disgraced site) that didn't reflect well on Ibrahim's, shall we way, Zionist credentials. Ibrahim truly doomed himself though, with his own words in #493:

My opinion on Israel is continually changing. Certainly the Israelis have behaved better than the Arabs over the years, but I don't think the Arabs were necessarily "wrong" to oppose Israel's creation--they are certainly the losers in that struggle, and I don't believe they should have to accept their humiliation by further acknowledging a so called "right" of Israel to exist when we all know that that "right" is entirely based on might.

If the Nodrog could be called a "jew-hater" for refusing to endorse the antics of the Hebron Settlers, and banned for a triviality, IbrahimX and his real Jew-hatred didn't stand a chance on LGF. -31 for #493! In #634 Charles piled on:

You're not a troll, you're a Jew-hater, that much is clear. Do you live in the United States?

Charles added this in #713:

If you're banned, it won't be because you're "defending a post." It will be because you're a Jew-hating piece of s**t.

Answering his earlier question with his super-duper spy machine, Charles added this in #876:

'IbrahimX' ignored my question about where it lived. So I'll tell you: it's posting from Fairfax, Virginia, home of the Islamic Saudi Academy.

But Ibrahim wasn't giving up, continuing to argue his frankly untenable positions. In response to Cognito's plea to give IbrahimX the benefit of the doubt, Charles lowered the boom in #947:

That's a complete waste of time. You'll never reach people like that. It's just not going to happen. He's out of here.

On the same day's thread "Melanie Phillips on Obama Derangement Syndrome," in the midst of the Great Discarded Lizard Massacre of 2008 (see earlier case study), Charles announced that he was also banning "that sick freak" IbrahimX. He then later reported that IbrahimX had emailed him demanding reinstatement, answering with "as if."

IbrahimX would have been eventually banned in any LGF era. In 2008 he didn't even last one day!

EIDE Interface - Case Study # 58 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-12-07T20:40:00.001-08:00

EIDE_Interface was a long-time poster, from September 2004, with over 3,000 posts. He was (and I assume "is") a hard right conservative, sticking to his principles, which meant that he started getting into it with the LGF sycophancy brigade in the Fall of 2008, as he correctly pointed out the flaws in John McCain's campaign.

A fascinating delusional discussion can be found on September 17, 2008's LGF thread entitled "Sarah Palin on H & C," as the the Wasilla Wowie was lobbed softball questions by notorious shill Sean Hannity. Remember, this was still mid-September, when Obama and McCain were neck-and-neck in the polls. In #182 EIDE commented:

I'm feeling bummed. 1 week ago, McCain had all the momentum and blew it.

* praised Barack's service as community organizer, thus undercutting his own convention

* didn't respond to negative attacks by Barack

* "fundamentals with economy" gaffe on Monday
* AIG bailout flip-flop on Tuesday

Am I missing anything? Democrats all over are pretty gleeful today over the latest polls.

In #203, JCM pushed the right-wing spin/lie that giving loans to unqualified minorities was the prime, perhaps sole, cause of the meltdown, and blamed it all on Congress. EIDE agreed in #209, but pointed out another culprit:

Huh, Bush himself was touting the need to give unqualified minorities house loans. He's the panderer-in-chief.

In #223 the repellent Jammie Wearing Fool starting spinning by using selective poll results, but EIDE called him on it, and in #241 he made a very prescient comment:

Just looking at the various state polls on RCP, this race really is EVEN right now. Barack will try to break it open with pounding McCain on his "economy is fundamentally good" gaffe.

And I can't resist this pollyannish response from Jammie Poo in #244:

Ebbs and flows of campaigns. Don't worry, McCain is going to win.

Ho Ho Ho!

But EIDE Interface was a marked lizard. Sharmuta dismissed him as a moby in #270, and the two got into it for an extended flame session. The thread went on in a similar fashion, and EIDE's posts were all dinged down significantly.

This pattern continued on threads for the next two weeks, until EIDE Interface's LGF Goetterdaemmerung on September 30, 2008, in a thread entitled "Pat Condell: Welcome to Saudi Britain." In #119 EIDE disgraced himself with the following ridiculous remark:

It's only has to do with Muslim civil cases between Muslims. I don't see what the problem is. Now if a Muslim brings a suit against a non-Muslim, he have to do it in the British legal system.

For once, Sharmuta (#125) and Mandy Manners (#127) were justifiably outraged that an LGF irregular would justify Muslim misogyny if only they "kept it among themselves." And EIDE dug his hole deeper with #131:

Still if they believe in their own religion that men are allowed to beat on women - well that's their right I guess.

-22 for EIDE Interface on that one! He added something in #157 that will remain obscured to posterity, because it was deleted. He was not banned at this point, as he continued with this losing argument throughout the thread. Soon the general complaints about the evil EIDE Interface began popping up among the critiques and insults thrown his way (for an example of the latter, see the "contribution" of Mandy Manners, whose entire range of arguments seemed to be limited to "STFU"). And the inevitable call for banning began, with Jorline in #325, who had this to write:

Charles, I've never asked for anything from you, but the time has come for this prick to be shown the door. His thought process is deep skewed and doesn't reflect the thoughts and beliefs of 99.999999% of the lizards on LGF. I can handle an arguements and agreeing to disagree, but his bulls**t is relentless. I can only imagine how much KOS and HuffPo love his snips.

In #505 EIDE predicted his demise:

I will be banned by the end of this night. 100% guaranteed. Sharmuta's clique have made sure of it. Whoever they want banned is banned.

And in #625 he expressed false hope:

I'm pretty sure that Charles can ban me in 2 seconds if he wanted to. That he hasn't yet indicates I haven't violated the "terms". Apparently annoying the hell out of Mandy & Sharmuta isn't sufficient grounds for banning.

You spoke too soon, EIDE - apparently Charles was asleep at the switch. The next day, on a thread entitled "Redesigning USA.gov," Mandy Manners in #24 snitched on EIDE's antics the previous night, reporting that he had advocated deportation (not really true, but "truth" is not well-known to Ms. Manners). Charles investigated, and EIDE's pessimism was justified, as in #108 the Lizard Tyrant lowered the boom:

EIDE_Interface is banned. Good grief. Reading that thread was like having a root canal without novocaine.

In #119 Diana protested to Charles, begging for mercy for EIDE Interface based upon mental illness. Charles cold-heartedly responded in #135:

LGF is not the place for people to work out their problems - it's a public discussion forum, and I can't allow this kind of thing to go on. That was way out of bounds.

Selective reasoning, Charles. Lots of lizardoids have problems just as bad or worse than EIDE Interface has. But because they toe the party line, suck up to you, and rat out deviants, they remain lizardoids.

Liberality - Case Study # 57 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-12-05T18:40:00.000-08:00

Now back to another left-wing "troll," Liberality, who registered on February 2, 2005, and logged 307 posts. On an April 18, 2007 thread entitled "Virginia Tech Killer - Ignoring the Elephant," (which, by the way, was a far-fetched attempt to connect the crazed mass-murderer to the Great Islamic Menace) he apparently posted as #205, which Charles immediately "ghosted," leading to the usual confusion among the lizardoids. (You'd think that by April 2007 Charles would have figured out how to properly delete and ban an poster!). In comment in #226 Charles confirmed his actions:

Yes, comment 205 was nuked. I've had it with the thick-headed creep calling itself "liberality," and it's no longer welcome here.

Let's look further back and see what Liberality had done to earn this summary execution ...

On January 15, 2007 Charles had posted "Marketing Peace to the Clueless," enraged about the sale of Kaffiyeh Palestinian scarves, to the world. Liberality put the whole kerfuffle into proper perspective with this comment in #223:

They are also wearing black shirts in the picture. I think you all should protest black shirts. I'm pretty sure I've seen Palestinians wearing shoes as well. You all should go shoeless. In fact, since Palestinians wear clothes, you all should protest by not wearing any. Fight the power!

The result was a bunch of pointless and insulting replies from the usual suspects, most notably Zulubaby's quick profanity in #297. But Liberality had, with one post, effectively flushed Charles Johnson's hyperbole down the rhetorical toilet. No wonder he was a marked man - the Nodrog would have been proud!

Just one more example of Liberality's ability to destroy the whole point of a thread came on September 20, 2006, as Charles indulged attacking one of his favorite bete noires, Hugo Chavez, with "Chavez Spews Hatred at the UN." A true statement, but then Charles started ranting about throwing Chavez out of the U.S., as usual, and the lizardoids started salivating. Liberality threw an effective bucket of rhetorical cold water on the frenzied mass with his post #337:

[Charles wrote] Why is this man allowed to say these kinds of things on American soil?

And you call yourself an American? Perhaps you'd be more comfortable in a nation where freedom of speech is not enshrined in the constitution.

Let the nut spew his bile. Intelligent people take it for what it's worth. That's the American way.

The lizardoids went crazy, on cue, with EC Marm actually claiming in #342 that Hugo Chavez was trying to force Islamic law on the U.S.! Liberality ignored this nonsense, but answered another ignorant claim in #401, reiterating his point:

[I didn't know that our Constitution extended to foreigners]

Protections under the constitution apply to everyone in U.S. jurisdictions. It is the law of the land, not the law of just certain people. You have learned something new today; you're welcome.

[It continues to amaze me how people define free speech.]

I define it the way the Founding Fathers defined it:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."

which is why anyone saying, "Why is this man allowed to say these kinds of things on American soil?" is, simply, anti-American.

Americans are intelligent enough to discern Chavez's batshit crazy rhetoric for what it is; we do not need a Bureau of Approved Thought making that decision for us.

As 2007 rolled around, it was clear that such intelligent contrarian voices were no longer to be tolerated on Little Green Footballs. So, buh-bye, liberality!

Unixrab the Anabaptist - Case Study # 56 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-12-04T10:02:00.000-08:00

Unixrab came to Little Green Footballs on July 7, 2007, and logged 302 posts before he was booted on the July 10, 2008 post entitled "Radical Muslim Funding U.S. Creationist Groups?" Amazingly, almost half of his posts, 139 in total, were made on this one thread, which eventually amassed a total of 1,847 comments (close to the record for LGF).

Some comments:

First of all, it should be noted that Charles Johnson made creative use in the title to this thread of the question mark - pointing out to any but the most clueless lizardoid (most of them, unfortunately, these days) that the proof of a link between Islamic fundamentalists and Christian fundamentalists was, shall we say, non-existent. It consists of one sentence with a joking hypothetical at the end of a Reuters article (and Charles has no problem trashing Reuters as completely worthless when it suits him, which is often). And there is a claim on Islamic creationist Harun Yahya's own hagiographic site (linked to by Charles) that Christians and Jews have attended his worldwide conferences - suddenly Charles takes the word of a lying jihadist scum (as he would undoubtedly be tarred in other circumstances by the Lizard Tyrant) at face value!

The verb for what Charles Johnson did in this thread is "smear." And smearing is something Charles Johnson is quite the expert at, as exposed by the Nodrog many, many times in my illustrious 4 1/2 year LGF career.

Second, there needs be no direct or indirect financial link between Islamic fundamentalists and Christian fundamentalists. It is clear that Islamist creationist Harun Yahya and the creationists like Unixrab have common cause in opposing science and trying hard to keep our school-age children ignorant of facts and sound theories, as opposed to theology dressed up as science.

Third, Unixrab identified himself as an Anabaptist. For those of you who may not know (which includes just about everyone who argued with him on this thread), Anabaptists were 16th century radical Protestants who managed to get themselves burned at the stake just about everywhere in Europe for their religious purity and fanaticism. Their descendants include the Mennonites and Amish of the New World. I doubt that any of the lizardoids realized that they were arguing with a member of an Amish or Mennonite sect (or their equivalent)!

That being said, I'm not going to bore you to death with quotes from this long, dreary slog of a thread, that saw religious fanatic Unixrab take on the rest of the lizardoids. Go through it if you are suffering from insomnia - it is a classic case of two sides arguing past each other into irrelevance.

We'll give you only the very last post by Unixrab on this thread (and on LGF), #1819, where after arguing vigorously he left the building with the grace and class that the Amish and Mennonites show, even through their fanaticism:

PHEW! another good day of dialogue and debate. Thanks to Sal and DanG and the others. I am challenged and my mind is racing. Good night. Thanks (as always) to Charles for the awesome blogging and (ahead of the MSM) insightful articles.

The -2 this entry received, however, shows that the lizardoids have a LOT less grace and class than Unixrab. And the most graceless and classless clown of them all, the Lizard Tyrant himself, showed up in #1836 to shut the door:

"unixrab" is not welcome to post his/her/its deranged comments at LGF any more.

Look at it this way - Charles had to do this after opening the Evolution/ID bottle and letting the vapors out - his lizardoids were clueless enough to be made fools of by a member of an Amish or Mennonite sect. And that can't happen on the new, degraded, LGF.

Buckeye Abroad - Case Study # 55 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-12-03T08:46:00.001-08:00

Buckeye Abroad was a fairly regular LGF irregular, with over 3,000 posts since he first registered on the first day of LGF registration, June 15, 2004. His name said it all - an Ohio native, living abroad (in Europe, as it turns out).

His agreement with the LGF orthodoxy came to an end in late October, 2007, when Charles Johnson decided to take on those fighting "jihad" in Europe who allied themselves with far-right European political parties such as Vlaams Belang in Belgium and the Sweden Democrats.

On November 1, 2007, Charles posted "A Look at Europe's Identity, Tradition, and Sovereignity Group." The link was to an article prepared by the Anti-Defamation League, exposing some anti-semitic streaks among the 20 European Parliament representatives from seven nations (including Belgium's Vlaams Belang). Unlike the crapola that appears on LGF threads, it is actually a thought-provoking article, and should give anyone who supports these parties some pause. Vlaams Belang is actually the least anti-semitic of any of these parties, which include some real racist barn-burners from Romania and Bulgaria. Like the truth everywhere, it's a complicated picture - but not in the alleged mind of Charles Johnson, used to his "Muslims Bad, Four Legs Good," Animal Farm-esque simplification of everything.

Anyway, Buckeye Abroad took exception to the new LGF line, starting with post #446:

Wow. Charles, I'll pay for your round-trip ticket to Frankfurt if you really believe that. Is Europe condemned to cultural suicide as it doesn't accept its socialist political leaders intentions or its growing non-assimilated immigrants? Who cares. Because for all practical purposes, you're not here. The moral high ground is a wonderful place for people not involved or present, but I don't think they can rightfully judge with absolutism.

Email me if you want to spend some time in Europe. Free accomodation.

The lizardoid toadies came to the defense of their master, and Buckeye Abroad replied in #493 with almost Nodrogian brilliance, demolishing all of their arguments:

#451 MM: You've not been reading a lot here lately, have you?

No actually, on the road.

#456 rappmandu: Wow, Charles sure is getting a lot of "invites" lately to tour Europe. /It's a trap!

Ah, yeah. Obviously a trap. Why experience the "real" thing while you can get it cable fed on a media network. Wow. What was I thinking.

#458 jaunte: Maybe you're right... pardoning Nazi collaborators MUST be the first step to a solution.

Senator Byrd, democrat, has been in power for over 3 decades despite being an active leading member in the KKK. Former President Bill Clinton even said, "he is the conscience of the US democratic party."

Obviously, under your logic, anyone who has voted democrat in the last 3 decades most advocate the ideological goals of the KKK. Including the owner this site.

Wow. Great deductive reasoning skills.

Charles finally noticed in #532:

Yes, wow. Apparently being appalled at the "racial purity" line is "the moral high ground" to you.

I see it differently. I see it as not wanting to dive head-first into a sewer.

As for your offer to visit Europe, thanks. But despite your patronizing comments, I've already spent more than enough time there to form my own opinions.

MM in #499 claimed that Charles could form his own opinions about Europe, having spent about four years there. Buckeye Abroad responded in #541 with some sarcasm:

I have been here since 96'. Do I get a prize?

To which Charles sarcastically responded in #544:

You're the one claiming there's something special about it. Go ahead, give yourself a prize too. You could call it, "The Buckeye Abroad Racial Purity Award."

This is the first I've ever heard that Charles had spent four years in Europe (perhaps in a drug-induced musical haze?), but his ignorance about the continent, and the bias against it that he has showed in deference to his Israeli following over the years, indicates that he didn't learn much while there.

And Buckeye Abroad had put up with enough. He had this to say in #557:

I formally, and humbly, request that you deregister my LGF account. I wish you all the best and prayers to you and your family. You have provided an invaluable resource regarding political and regional affairs over the years for which I will always have an indebted, and personal, gratitude towards you.

Take care and may G-d bless past, present and future LGF posters!

Charles responded in #573:

As for the highly dramatic request to "deregister" you, it doesn't work that way. But if you'd like me to block your account so you aren't tempted to try to defend your statements any more, I'll be happy to do that.

A sarcastic reply from Buckeye Abroad followed in #623, and then in #630 Charles "granted" his wish, and Buckeye Abroad was no more.

The banning of Buckeye Abroad is interesting for two reasons - first, of course, the closed-minded American attitudesof the remaining illiterati, reaching levels that can be appropriately described as xenophobia. While I do not support the political policies of the far-right European parties, I can see no reason for American anti-Jihadis to eschew dialogue with them. I especially object to American ignoramuses insisting with jingoistic ignorance that Europe should be just like America in its treatment of citizenship and culture.

And second, the banning shows an interesting evolution in LGF and Charles the Tyrant's intolerance levels. Clearly standards were stricter than in the earlier LGF days, when the Nodrog and others had no problem maintaining LGF accounts while calling out Charles Johnson. But note that Charles did not immediately ban Buckeye Abroad, even with his request to do so, and didn't follow through until Buckeye insisted. In today's LGF, Buckeye Abroad would have been gone after the first comment, and the comment itself would have had a good chance to be deleted, as happened with the Discarded Liars in June 2008.

These changes have made Little Green Footballs what it is today. As the Nodrog used to say - a laughingstock.

Song and Dance Man & Mama Winger - Case Study Update - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-12-02T22:37:00.001-08:00

From a November 14, 2008 post entitled "Watch the Shuttle Launch," in #659 Charles signed on with some jaw-dropping news (NOT!):

I see that song_and_dance_man has found a new place to hang out.

No link given, so it is unclear where the miscreant was circulating - prime suspects include the new anathema site JihadWatch, or perhaps Babba Louie's Outraged Spleen of Psychoses. Killgore Trout amened the Lizard Tyrant in #670, but Mama Winger had this to say in #717:

I like song and dance . He is a friend of mine. I hope that's not a problem.

Sorry clueless Mama, it's a BIG problem, as Charles stated in #726:

Did you read that comment? You're OK with that?

Once again, with no link to the actual comment - it's as if the prosecuting attorney were saying "this bloody shirt proves the defendant murdered sixteen innocent bystanders," and there was no bloody shirt in the evidence pool. RTLM made the similar mistake of defending song and dance man in #731, and then Charles decided that a savage nation-style vandalism was once again in order, with #732:

And by the way, there are a LOT more comments like that from that freak. I just decided to mass-nuke them all.

Comments on YOUR website, Charles? Comments you left on and tacitly approved in the past? Are THOSE the comments you mean!?

But Mama Winger, to her credit, did not back down, replying with the following in #749:

Song and dance has his more mystical moments. So do I. You should read some of the crap I write sometimes - LOL

I have long ago given up the idea that any of my friends are perfect. I myself would have no friends if that was the yardstick they used with which to measure me. I enjoy people for many different reasons, and song and dance is no exception.

There is good all around - I try to gather it where I can and be charitable as to the rest. :)

In #899 and #902, Charles gloated that all of Song and Dance Man's comments, all 30,000 plus of them, were now deleted.

Charles finally gave an example of the perfidious Song and Dance Man's nefarious work in #958 - "mystical," perhaps "weird" is a good word to describe it, but dangerous? - no way! The comment was from May 13, 2006, and cherry-picked by Charles among 30,000 made by Song and Dance Man. How about you provide some of Iron Fist's notorious gems for us Charles, for us to cherry pick among his psychoses?

As for Mama Winger and RTLM, Charles announced their summary banning in #761:

OK. If that kind of stuff is OK with you, and you're just fine with the way these people are trashing me, and spreading insanity, you're not welcome at my blog.

He added, threateningly, in #774:

If anyone else prefers to hang out with fascist sympathizers and people who hate my guts, please speak up now.

Charles gave this epitaph to the now late and unlamented (at least in LGF terms) Mama Winger:

Mama winger was banned once before for trashing me at other blogs, and she talked me into letting her back in. That's how she repays me, by siding with scumbags and fanatics who hate me.

Disgusting.

No, you're the disgusting one, Charles. Josef Stalin wannabe is too high a title for you. "Queeg" is more fitting.

Jlfintx - Case Study # 54 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-12-01T08:20:00.001-08:00

Jlfintx had an unpronounceable lizardoid nick, and was a regular irregular. He wasn't particularly memorable, except his banning was. He was banned for something that went on in the lizard lounge, not on an LGF thread.

The Lizard Lounge is an LGF chat room that the Nodrog had absolutely no interest in, so it's workings remain murky.

But trouble was clearly brewing with Jlfintx - and with other lizardoids too, as the bond of Islamohatred could not withstand the pressures of personality and other issue differences. On December 18, 2006, these fissures broke out in a mini-flame war between Mandy Manners and several other lizardoids such as buzzsawmonkey and terp mole on a thread entitled "Meet Grandma Moonbat," regarding issues of child support. Mandy Manners remains a faithful lizardoid toady to this day. But at the very end of this thread, two days later, Jlfintx decided for some reason to "pile it on," adding this gratuitous insult:

Hey I see Mandy Manners was in need of a shellacking, and she got it before I even knew it. What kind of nic is mandy manners? How fricken lame can you get!

And that was the end for Jlfintx. On December 23, 2006, in a thread entitled "Saturday Night Open Thread," Mike C. in #144 noted that Jlfintx had been banned, and asked why. By #158 he had apparently gotten some info, as he announced:

Ah, the jlfintx incident was in the lounge.

Six days later the news was still percolating out in a December 29, 2006 thread entitled "Saturday Night Open," as goodbye_natalie expressed his dismay in #233:

Are you guys telling me that Jlfintx was banned? We can't be talking about the same guy. He's one of the nicest posters around or at least used to be. I haven't talked to him for quite some time. Tell me it isn't true.

Natalie followed up in #238 with:

Man Mike C., I can't believe Jlfintx could have brought himself to that point. I wonder what subject in the world could have set him off to be banned - and in all places, the lounge?

One more clue, in a January 20, 2007 thread entitled "Road to Everywhere," where in #223 Mike C. had this to say:

Last one of note I remember getting banned was "jlfintx" for something that happened in the Lounge. He can still be found AtS, if you're interested.

That sheds a little bit of light on our mystery. Jlfintx had joined the dreaded Gulf Coast Pundit brigade! (for which AtS is code - although that code seems to go both ways) But the specifics of Jlfintx's lizard lounge misbehavior will be forever lost to documentable memory - unless some of the now ex-lizardoids who might be in the know, such as Mike C. and Goodbye_Natalie, (or Jlfintx himself) decide to sing.

By the way, Jlfintx is no longer on the Gulf Coast Pundit member list.

Albertanator - Case Study # 53 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-11-28T10:27:00.001-08:00

The Albertanator was a particularly virulent lizard from the great frozen north. Prior to registration he was a real fire-breather known as Devon Hill - Proud Darul Harbian. As the Albertanator he was an infrequent poster, with only 388 of them from June 2004 until his demise. Especially in his early days, he loved to make blood-curdling calls for worldwide eradication of Islam. He deeply loathed the multiculturalism and liberalism of his own land, eagerly chiming in when Charles posted one of his frequent Canada-trashings.

An actually-tame example of the Albertanator's fury can be found on a December 28, 2005 thread entitled "UK Human Rights Activist Kidnapped by Palestinians," a classic Charles thread where he just posted the facts and then let the lizards rant, later flashing his Cheshire Cat grin and saying "who, me?" In comment #110 the Albertanator had this to say:

Well they will probably be released being that they are terrorist sympathizers but if they are not, is it wrong to gloat a little?

Evil killing Evil.........kinda feel bad for the stupid parents though...

But the Albertanator has a huge "flaw" (at least as far as the evolved LGF was concerned) - he is a Christian. On an October 12, 2007 thread entitled "Shocka! BBC Shows Mohammed Cartoons," things got a bit heated with a proselytising soon to be ex-lizardoid called starsandstripesforever (see #14), and then Zombie entered the fray with some ill-chosen remarks. The Albertanator threw some tar sands into the mosh pit in #61:

Yeah that's brilliant strategy Zombie...Mock us Christians also while we are on the front lines fighting against Islamic brutality for the last 1400 years...

Wow......its okay to use us as we are being slaughtered by muslims the world over for propaganda against Islam.....but we better not spout off to much about that Christianity thing huh!

This earned him a rebuke from Charles in #66, but no banning as of yet.

On May 11, 2008, in response to another Charles attack on Fjordman ("Another 3600 Words from Fjordman") Albertanator was the latest long-time lizardoid to futilely urge peace in #192:

Friends on all sides...please Charles and Fjord I think we all need to do some compromising...we have a horrific foe.......Islam....

Let's humble ourselves a bit on both sides.....A house divided is never a good thing!

Another miserable failure on that front! And Albertanator was really in dangerous territory now.

The final straw for the Albertanator came when Charles took on intelligent design. In a June 21, 2004 thread entitled "Intelligent Design Teacher Fired," Albertanator came in with both guns blazing in #381, getting off-track with some gay-bashing as well:

So Charles...you kind of acting like the Left here...you take an extreme example and tar all of us 'intolerant' christians with the same brush!?

Uh...yeah...Homosexuality is wrong...tell me...are you tolerant towards ex gays by any chance? Are you aware 10's of thousands of Americans are ex gays and through their own desire and the Creator's help, they have left this 'alternative' lifestyle.

I suggest homo behavior should not be indoctrinated to our kids...you cannot have it both ways Charles...your being awfully short sighted here Charles....

You seem to want to make LGF for those that are only left wing libertarians.......you seem to be getting increasingly radical and I do not mean that in a good way!

The post got a -20 rating - uh oh!

Meanwhile, on another June 21, 2008 thread entitled "Video: Obama Campaign Passing Out Fake Homemade Signs," Albertanator had this unwelcome thing to post in #13:

There Charles...there you go...instead of alienating half of your supporters, stick to exposing the loony left and islam...

It's called building an alliance...and understanding the bigger picture!

-40 for this one! Albertanator was doomed. Back on the previous thread, Charles had noticed, with post #393, as Albertanator continued his assault in #388:

And yes...the Darwinists have more then their fair share of nuts and nazis too....Check out PZ Myers....

Two can play this game Charles!

But Charles didn't need to do much, because his two chief toadies, Killgore Trout and Sharmuta, circled like sharks for the kill (or in their case, jackals for the corpse). After one more post in the same vein (#402), Charles opined ominously in #444:

The Albertanator has left the building.

What to do? Ban it, or let it return for another round of surreal intarweb conflict?

Toying with your food again, Lizard Tyrant? Sharmuta dug up dirt from previous threads on poor Albertanator, and Charles passed sentence in #564 and #565:

Apparently, there are some people with accounts at LGF who think this is a place where gay-bashing will be accepted.

I decided I don't really care how far out Albertanator is going to go; I don't want this caveman posting anything else at LGF.

Albertanator was an unappetizing lizardoid. But his demise showed, once again, that Charles had no trouble throwing LGF old-timers under the bus if they didn't keep up with the toadyin' times, like Sharmuta and Killgore Trout.

Le Trole - Case Study # 52 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-11-26T16:04:00.000-08:00

Le Trole was an interesting LGF character. His devilish nature was summed up by ChenZhen here on his own blog. On LGF, he proved to an ornery character - a bit too ornery, as it turned out.

On September 1, 2007, in a thread entitled "Iowahawk's Dad's Machine Shed of Horrors," (ed. note - typical lame-o humor from the LGF House Clown) Le Trole caused all sort of anguish among lizardoid loser toadies like Highrise - because Charles had put some new script in (or something like that) which no longer recognized letters with weird French symbols over them. See his post in #60, and Highrise's mystery in #65. Charles righted ship in #92:

Le Trole now has a new user ID -- sorry to do that to you, Le T, but you registered before the recent changes and your username contains one of those Euro characters that introduces chaos into our system.

Please log in with an old-style standard 'o' character in your name, instead of the 'o' with a hat on it.

Le Trole took it semi-gracefully, and responded thus in #105:

I suppose Charles needs to do a bit bit more work on his database, though I certainly hope he does it on a test rig instead of the usual "let's try this crap out' with pre-emptive aplogies/warnings.

On September 16, 2007's "Sunday Afternoon Open," Le Trole ran afoul of another new rule, the "first" rule. A post that had just the term "first" (a sophomoric custom at LGF to get to be the first poster on a thread) was now to be summarily deleted, and thus Le Trole's comment #1, in addition to earning a -5 from the lizardoid toadies, was summarily deleted, as announced by Charles in #77. In #156 Le Trole revealed that his word used in comment # 1 was "Premiere," not "First," which earned him additional LGF lizardoid emnity in revealing the fact that he was French.

On October 6, 2007, in "Saturday Evening Technical Open," Le Trole got the boot. Charles was whining yet again about how Internet Explorer gummed up his smooth running lizard machine. In #325 Le Trole gave this snarky response:

I have a dream, where a man will not be judged by the colour of his skin, but by the content of his character, and also, by whether he can manage and maintain a website without blaming his woes upon a given browser. W3C, do you speak it?

Lizards such as EC Marm in #333 immediately started predicting an upcoming banning, and in #334 Charles huffily replied:

Apparently, you're ignorant about what it means to maintain a web site where some of the content comes from outside sources. That's OK, I don't blame you. You don't know any better.

But Le Trole didn't back down, as shown by his response in #351:

And I don't blame you for maintaining a high profile testbed that's masquerading as a popular website. As it is written, he who lives by open source and well-dogey technology shall die by open source and well-dogey technology, all the while showing his underpants to the general public. Adopt dot net, before it destroys you.

Le Trole kept it up with snotty responses to snotty lizardoids, until Charles lowered the hammer in #471:

Le Trole is now having a timeout, because it's been drinking again.

Charles kept it up in #592:

If I were the mean sort, I'd post the emails Le Trole has been sending me with our contact form. But he's drunk, so it really wouldn't be fair.

Le Trole's "timeout" became permanent, as it always does on LGF. He made more sense drunk that most lizardoids do sober.

Piniella - Case Study # 51 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-11-25T07:55:00.001-08:00

Piniella was a troll circa 2005 - in 2008 she (apparently a she, not a he) would be another A. Van Hilten, except not as caustic.

She made a big splash during the Terry Schiavo controversy, in March 2005. This issue exposed deep rifts in the Lizard Nation, as Charles took an early position indicating his future anti-creationism crusade, and many lizards were repelled. But Piniella was on Charles' side with this one.

On a March 24, 2005 thread entitled "Today's Schiavo Thread," starting in #545, she gave a virtuoso performance demolishing the right-wing Christianist ignorance infecting lizardoids such as Texanista and Aladin Sane with an avalanche of facts. The lizards' response? - ridicule and dismissal, the typical response when they were completely outmatched and outclassed (often).

On the March 31, 2005 thread "RIP Terry Schiavo," Piniella appeared again, and once again destroyed the arguments of her opponents. She was more caustic this time, as evidenced by #685:

The Schindlers are despicable whores - they are hawking the video and their mailing list. May they rot in Hell.

and #690:

Ingraham is a despicable lying whore for the Noise Machine.

In post #1062 Frank IBC (getting it wrong, as usual), conjectured that Piniella and a previous "troll" named Jinnderella (or was it Twisterella?) were one and the same. In #1067 he opined that Piniella and Pitiricus, also appearing on this thread, were one and the same. Outmatched lizardoids, even soon to be ex-lizardoids like Frank IBC, are utterly predictable.

Piniella continued with her infuriating ways, until an August 2, 2005 thread entitled "Steven Vincent Killed in Iraq." Vincent was a conservative blogger/reporter, so in the LGF world this death was to be mourned rather than celebrated. But Piniella showed up, starting in #3 and #17, to ruin the appropriate mood with inconvenient facts. And then the inevitable "Piniella is a ghoul" attacks started, beginning with gonzo in #19, who said:

Like a vampire thriving on sadness and bad news, Piniella arrives to savor the flavor of condolences from members of this community regarding the murder of a reporter who was, ironically, supportive of the war effort and lost his life writing of that support and criticising the enemies of freedom.

And then the real lizardoid irregulars started piling on. In #21 Rayra wished for Piniella a "slow and agonizing death." But Piniella was undaunted, continuing the barrage of inconvenient facts showing the mendacity of the Bush Administration and the folly of its efforts in Iraq post-invasion to date. After 'nam Grunt had been made the fool by Piniella he added this typical turd in #252 in response:

F**k You s**thead, and don't address me again or I will do everything I can to remove you from this blog! Idiot.

Rayra came back to demand Piniella's banning in #322 and again in #334. And in these heady days of 2005, Rayra got his wish, as Charles announced in #408:

The ghoul piniella has posted its last comment at LGF.

And the lizardoids breathed a sigh of relief, not realizing that some of them would also be thrown under the bus when their views became inconvenient and difficult to refute.

Piniella was a classic troll that's hard to defeat - her posts were a combination of barraged facts and links, snarky responses, and baited questions. And most of the lizardoids have trouble dealing with troublesome facts so, as the sheep they are, they started demanding Piniella's expulsion. And they got their wish. Soon some of them would be getting the same "wish" for themselves.

Jakester - Case Study # 50 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-11-24T14:23:00.001-08:00

Jakester was a long-time and persistent LGF troll (one of the first registered lizardoids on June 15, 2004, with 3,261 posts to his name). No, not a contrarian, Jakester was definitely a troll. But that's all right, because the people he attacked mercilessly (and with infantile glee) were trolls too - trolls to the values of the U.S., if not Little Green Footballs.

An example of Jakester's crude (and deserved) invective can be found on a March 8, 2006 thread entitled "Ben Stein: Missed Tributes." (yes, Charles was a big admirer of Ben Stein - once) Jakester summed up the thread well in #72:

WOW, it seems that whenever right wingers run out of ways to trash their critics and defend the latest Whitehouse garbage, they attack actors. I mean, who cares? No liberal that I know gets their marching orders from Hollywood. All those hypocritical little moral pin heads on the right should shut their effen mouths, and b4 they start putting people down and lecturing us ignoramuses on their superior moral standards, should take a look at themselves in the mirror. Ben Stein, when Bush won in 2000, said how Bush was going to restore honesty and decency to the Whitehouse. He should check his own credibility.

In #73 he took down Reaganite (an ex-secret service agent):

Hey #2 Reaganite, I'm impressed with your new found austerity, Does that ionclude all the sybaritic pleasures enjoyed by corporate raiders and well connected and rich in the GOP? They don't shop at K-Mart either. I mean our VP pays 4g a day to have birds thrown in front of him and he still has to shoot one on the ground and is too arrogant to buy the proper permit like us peons. I guess like most cops, you are a shallow hypocrite

After Princess Bernie, now an GCP irregular had this to say to Jakester in #78:

Everytime you show up I feel like I need to wash my hands. You are so full of s**t.

Jakester fired back this missile and made her wash her hands again in #81:

Princess Bernie - Do you get under the bleachers and give all the right wing big mouths bj's like the mindless little groupy cheerleader you are? Like the ugly right wing schwein you are, you can't rebutt my arguments so you attack me personally, you small minded arse! I despise stupid little conformist trash like you regardless of your politics!

Leftover93 requested Charles ban Jakester in #94 - but he was 12 to 18 months too early in that request. Jakester hadn't crossed the 2006 LGF line in the sand, but as for 2007...

Jakester continued his trolling, and on September 25, 2007, in a thread entitled "Associated Press Hits Bottom, Digs," he ran straight into the new Stalinist reality of LGF. In #103, while agreeing with Charles, he threw out an insult anyway:

Personally, I'm glad there is a strong pro Israeli lobby. It's seems that Charles is more paranoid than a Holocaust survivor. Charles is just doing his usual right wing, politically correct calling someone an anti-semite denunciation of AP, just like Al Sharpton calling someone a racist.

A -22 for the Jakester in the new world of "vote the troll off the island!" Cygnus in #144 showed that Jakester's antics were not known and not tolerated by the new species of lizardoid any more so than the old and now banned Princess Bernie crowd:

Troll Alert! Code Red! 'More paranoid than a Holocaust surviver'? Who is this dipwad?

And in #151 Charles lowered the boom, in the neo-LGF-reality:

Don't bother replying to 'Jakester' -- he's outta here.

In #167 Buzzsawmonkey summarized the new rules on LGF:

Party rule #1: do not pick a fight with the host.

And that sums up the new "improved" (code word for Stalinist) Little Green Footballs.

LanceKates - Case Study #49 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-11-23T01:00:00.003-08:00

LanceKates - a prolific LGF blogger with over 52,000 posts to his credit - he would definitely be on pissant Big Steve's monster list of monster posters. Except ...

He had a little bit of a problem as Charles Johnson veered off of the right-wing straight and narrow course when the bloviating of religious fundamentalist Christianists became too much for even Johnson to stomach. Or maybe Johnson just decided to see how powerful he was, and to what sycophantic and boot-licking level Lizard Nation could sink to.

The trigger item was Ben Stein's ridiculous movie "Expelled," which the Lizard King scorned frequently. On May 8, 2008, he posted admiringly to a Cox & Forkum cartoon in a thread entitled "C & F - the New Creationism." LanceKates was already mad, and started up in #2 with:

Really? ANOTHER thread?

He continued the anger, and then Charles came in with #122:

You have the perfect right to start your own blog and promote creationism at it all you like. You don't have the right to dictate what appears at LGF, and I do not support creationism or the political strategy known as "intelligent design."

BabbaZee chided LanceKates for whining in #125. Charles mocked him in #126 with:

Countdown to whining ...

Lance, to his credit, didn't back down and toady to the Lizard Tyrant. He also got into it with Funk Machine (not important) and Killgore Trout (ooops!). He got a little bit of a martyr complex, as shown by his response in #205:

Paul also was bold and risked being stoned to death for not backing down when told to shut up. I understand your feeling and thank you for your concern. I have been quiet for quite some time.

He kept it up with #225:

I only point out that there have been multiple threads as of late that do not sem to serve a purpose other than poking fun at those who believe in creationism or intelligent design. If that is so upsetting, then what happens happens.

Later that evening, in a thread entitled "Exposing the Distortions in Expelled." Lance was appalled, and made a cryptic comment in #29 about Charles' new obsession:

Two in one day, eh?

That was it for LanceKates - he was a goner.

His fate was discussed in a thread the next morning entitled "Friday Early Morning Open." Many, many lizardoids expressed shock and dismay at the summary expulsion of a long-time lizardoid and web friend. BabbaZee, however, repeated her claim that LanceKates was a whiner who got what he deserved. A mere three days later, she would make her last post on Little Green Footballs, and two months later would also be expelled from the Lizard Garden of Eden.

Charles lorded it over everyone again with #1194:

Anyone who thinks there's a "purge" going on is welcome to purge themselves. I'm honestly very insulted at this kind of talk. If you can't discuss issues at LGF without playing these victimhood games, then please ... purge yourself before you melt down in public like Lance Kates.

Yes, disagreeing with the Lizard King was now "melting down in public." In #1218 Charles confirmed that LanceKates was banned, and told everyone to read BabbaZee's justification for it upthread.

Do I agree with LanceKates' views? No, I don't - Charles is on the right side of the issue against the Discovery Institute and "intelligent designers." And I didn't care at all for LanceKates - he was an intellectually dishonest debater who spewed insults at his opponents (such as the Nodrog) instead of arguments. But he was not out of the mainstream of LGF - until Charles Johnson changed the goalposts and sent him packing. The shock expressed by Lizard Nation was soon tinged with more than a little fear.

Stvip - Case Study # 48 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-11-21T08:05:00.000-08:00

This case study highlights what may be the most clearly unfair and outrageous banning and blocking in LGF history - even worse than the Nodrog's forced exit.

Well, the poor schlub with the nickname "air force wife" who was banned for the crime of having her nick used by someone else on Discarded Lies may be still ahead on a technicality ...

Stvip began posting in April, 2007, and had 260 posts to his credit. He is an Israeli with a realistic view of the dangers of Islam and the Arab World, and a clear view of history. This led him to realize that fundamentalist Christianity and European anti-semitism remained a major problem for world Jewry. The official Lizard line endorses only one-half of this formulation - at least it did at this time - perhaps with Charles' "evolution" into exposing intelligent design the official Lizard line has changed.

And Stvip had the misfortune to be a lizardoid when dissenting viewpoints were no longer just shouted down and ridiculed, they resulted in the "disappearance" of the offending lizardoid.

On November 17, 2007, in a thread entitled "Brussels Journal Reposts Anti-Semitic Article," Stvip participated, and in #299 he had this to say:

I absolutely agree with you [a previous poster] about VB [Vlaams Belang] and SD [Sweden Democrats]. In fact, I don't think it's enough that they "distance themselves", I believe they themselves are the problem. Just look at the founders themselves and their affiliations (which is why I disagree with Robert Spencer's post on the subject, which almost sounds like "could you please try harder to fool me?").

As for bigoted, hateful posts, I mean anti-Muslim ones. Just replace "Muslim" with "Jew", "Mohammadean" with "Kike", "Sharia" with "Halakha", "Koran" with "Torah and Talmud", "Pedophile prophet" with "Pedophile Ancestral Father". I believe all of these are apposite substitutions. Do those anti-Muslim posts still sound reasonable?

This caught the baleful eye of the odious policer Sharmuta, who responded threateningly in #315 with an ad hominem attack:

You are really beginning to sound like a broken record- only this time with added moral relevancy. If you have a problem with what the content of this blog is, perhaps this isn't the blog for you. I find it extremely arrogant on your part to come in here and repeatedly scold Charles and LGFers on the rhetoric used here because it offends your sensibilities. And what does that remind me of?

Stvip gave intelligent responses to Sharmuta's gibberish in #316, and added this in #318:

Another thing that bothers me is distortion of facts. People are writing a revisionist history of the conflict, placing Islamism (which only became a major factor in the 70s, and only recently became the center of the Palestinian war) at the center of everything. I especially dislike the white-washing of Christianity's role in antisemitism and violence against Jews. Arafat and the PLO were secular. Other terrorist groups were anti-religion. Many of Israel's Arab foes are Christians. The interpretation of the conflict often offered here is extremely superficial.

The Nodrog could have written that! And that became a big problem for Stvip, as toady Highrise appeared in #319 with a vicious attack, linking to other Stvip comments on earlier threads in a pathetic attempt at a smear, and finishing with this ridiculous statement:

I am beginning to think you are a fascist yourself. Perhaps of muslim persuasion? Your attempt to pull the moral equivalency card that you make between jews and muslims at times is silly (and don't play coy with this).

Stvip responded with a sharply and excellently worded rebuttal in #322 and in #325. Highrise's response in #327 to Stvip? "Seek help." The intellectual bankruptcy of Highrise, Sharmuta, and starting in #334 on the attack, the execrable NY Nana, can be no better encapsulated. Even Writermom, who used to be more tolerant, went on the attack in #356 and added this in #357:

I sincerely pray you get banned today, you worthless POS.

The November 18, 2007 thread "Book of the Night," about Robert Spencer's latest screed comparing Christianity to Islam, proved to be the death knell for Stvip. He clearly did not agree with the thesis, and said so in #15. Arguing with the lizardoids, he came to the notice of the Lizard King, who in #84 asked him if he had actually read the book. Stvip's response in #111: No, but he was making a more general point, not criticizing the book itself. Unfortunately for Stvip, Charles and the lizardoids like their Islamo-hatred to be unsullied with a hard look. In #165 Charles made this terse announcement:

After reviewing his/her recent history of comments, stvip is no longer welcome to post here

Sharmuta's response in #176?:

Thank you! You ROCK!

The harpies had done their dirty job.

Stvip was the type of moderately dissenting voice that was no longer welcome on LGF. It is welcome here - in response to a recent comment from him the Nodrog edited a couple of posts that went over the top with Nazi references. LGF is a far far worse place without him.

Octopus - Case Study # 47 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-11-20T08:24:00.000-08:00

Octopus was the kind of troll they REALLY never have liked on Little Green Footballs. He was intelligent, like the Nodrog, and when cornered could dish out the insults with the best of them. The trolls of LGF-2008 are indeed a pale imitation. And the lizardoids, when also cornered by facts and well-written invective, showed their true vicious colors. And, to complete our story, Charles, when cornered, sided with his ignorant vicious lizardoids rather than the intelligent witty trolls.

On May 13, 2005, in a thread entitled "New German Holocaust Memorial Vandalized," Octopus gave a bravura performance, his last on LGF. In post #436 he gave lizard nation a detailed critique of Torah scholarship. The lizardoid response? Aladin Sane in #438 accused Octopus of "taxing his brain" on a Friday night. The very unpleasant rightasrain in #441 referred to Octopus as an "anti-semitic pig." Q threw out an obscenity in #445. And LGF disgrace 'nam grunt had this as a response in #446:

Hey octopuss, you are invited to my Texas BBQ, we need a port 'a potty, a$$hole and pompous s***head!

Not a substantive response in the pathetic lot! Note also quark2's longer, even more pathetic non-response in #461. And get a load of 'nam grunt's plea to Charles in #470:

Charles, I beg you to can this octopuss guy he is making alot of people say things we normally wouldn't. I beg you Charles put the hammer on it!

Ban him, Charles - he's MAKING US LOOK BAD!

And Charles, of course, stood up for the poster of substance against his vicious empty-headed attackers ... NOT! - in #527:

octopus: at this point, it's clear that you're more interested in yanking people's chains than discussing anything of real substance. You're acting like an agent provocateur. Because you've made good contributions in the past (and also crossed the line a couple of times) I'll give you a chance to step back and rethink your approach to what you're doing here—because it isn't working, and I'm getting tired of the flamewars wasting my time and bandwidth.

In other words, don't fill up my threads with actual discussion - I want large numbers of empty-headed drinking games and Muslim baiting instead!

But Octopus didn't back down - here's the broadside he leveled at 'nam grunt in #596 - a classic!:

Firstly, you're a poser. You never served in Vietnam, in a battle-capacity. You're like the millions of ex-hippies, who claimed to be at Woodstock...try to prove them wrong!

Secondly, the day I would waste five minutes of my life at a redneck BBQ, in a trailer-park, hosted by a blind-drunk "Torah student" like yourself, would be the same day I'd feed my fingertips to the wolverines, through the chain-link fence at the zoo.

When you've learned enough about ancient superstitious bullsh-- to play checkers or horseshoes with me, I'll let you know. I'll be able to tell, believe me.

In response to 'nam Grunt's sputtering rejoinder in #614, Octopus laid down this depth charge in #720:

nam grunt -- in person, you would last about 3 seconds with me, should you take an ill-advised offensive posture. You wouldn't be sporting your kit-submachine, btw. If you were, it'd probably blow up in your hands and kill you, judging by the intelligence you've shown here.

Nothing, but nothing, is funnier than you morons who physically threaten people online. A person who takes the name "Nam Grunt" as his moniker, is really trying hard to be macho, and unimpeachable in his personal invincibility. Considering that we lost that war, you should probably consider changing your nic to "Audie Murphy," or "Tom Hanks' Character in 'Saving Private Ryan'." Of course, that would be totally lost on most of today's internet warriors.

As I told you before, I know a lot of Vietnam vets, and 90% of them are like 90% of the battle-hardened vets of previous wars--the last thing they want to do, is boast about their service. My Dad, my uncles, and my late brother, a victim of Vietnam, would have a good snort at your internet bravado.

In posts #622 and #650, he responded substantively with more inconvenient facts, putting the vacuous Sarah D. and BabbaLouie in their respective places (in the gutter) in the process.

And that was the last of Octopus. Charles apparently banned him for not obeying the Lizard King's instructions laid out in #527. On a later May 13, 2005 thread entitled "Abu Mazen Says ..." the lizardoids erupted with glee upon the news that Octopus was banned. Unfortunately for this shining contrarian, he sullied his reputation by resorting to sockpuppetry under the name "Niccolo," and sending what Charles characterized as a "threatening" email to the Lizard Tyrant. Unfortunately, Charles was stupid enough in #451 to post the "threatening" email, and here is what it said:

Ok, Charles...you've shown your true colors, at last. You're the same kind of religious zealot as rightasrain, and the worst of the Islamists. No difference, whatsoever.

I'm a conservative attorney, formerly a liberal, pre0-11, always a person interested in world religion. You've proven your ignorant bias, in so many ways, it's going to make for a bang-up journalistic expose, when I forward some of these exchanges to my friends in the not-so-conservative local press.

To think I've been championing you, and your site, for all these months...not to mention, the couple of hundred bucks I've donated. I wish I had it all back. You're a complete fraud, and a sell-out. You're not even smart enough, to know that the ultra-conservative, Orthodox Jews are just as bad, or worse, than the the Islamists, in terms of the actual "sacred texts," if not the practice of suicide-bombing.

Call out the secret service! ATTENTION, FBI!

A Van Hilten and His Victims - Case Study # 46 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-11-19T09:10:00.000-08:00

A. Van Hilten served as a useful outlier for Charles Johnson as his pit bull-enforcer for quite a while in 2008. Until Charles decided he had no further use for him and threw him under the bus.

Van Hilten proved useful to Charles on a July 22, 2008 thread entitled "Karadzic Arrested: Was Disguised as a Doctor." As has been seen with our review of the "1389" banning, Charles had come to his sanity regarding the Balkans - while still suspicious of Bosnian and Kosovar Muslims, he no longer was willing to have that suspicion exploited by Serbian crazies wanting to avenge a military defeat over 600 years ago by committing ethnic cleansing and genocide.

Two lizardoids, Kuffarharbi and Alibaba, had expressed sympathy for the loathsome Dr. Karadzic and the Serbian cause. A. Van Hilten came on late in the thread in #811 to attack an earlier poster, yochanan, who wisely remained oblivious to the ensulting flamewar.

The guy who professes to hate nazis (why did they let you out of jail, I wonder) is making up excuses for the "crimes against humanity" perpetrated by serbonazis. Lovely! You really are shameless, aren't you?

He kept up the broadside in #812, this time against #91 wolfie:

In other words, you can't see anything wrong with a war of aggression deliberately ignited by Serbonazis in Belgrade in the belief that they'd be able to make their deluded dreams of Serbian supremacy come true with the help of the former Yugoslav Federal Army, at the expense of Croats, Bosnians and Kosovars, among others.

And there you have it, folks — a moral relativist approach to genocide.

The Nodrog couldn't have said it better!

Kuffarharbi responded in #817 with an extended and rambling apologia for the poor ol' Serbs. And then A. Van Hilten in #818 took on Alibaba's comment in #389, and kept up the vitriol in #819. A full-on flame war then erupted between the outraged spleen of Bosnia, A. Van Hilten, and his two overmatched genocide apologists, Kuffarharbi and Alibaba. It makes we wince to read it, even if A. Van Hilten was completely right on this issue.

Finally, in #863 Charles stepped in to put the two outmatched racists out of their misery:

I've just read this thread, and as far as I can see A. Van Hilten has clearly said he is not making excuses for either side. However, kuffarharbi posted this:

Karadzic is innocent until proven guilty. He was defending his culture and country and probably had 600 years of pressure from the satanic death cult of Islam on his mind. If he did murder men and boys in cold blood, you can guarantee that given the opportunity, his Muslim enemy would have done the same and worse.

That's a repellent statement, I repudiate it utterly, and I don't want any more of this at LGF. 'Alibaba' has responded by calling A. Van Hilten a 'Croat.'

These two accounts are history. If you want to apologize for perpetrators of genocide and spew ethnic slurs at people who call you on it, there are some blogs around that will let you. LGF isn't one.

A. Van Hilten continued on his merry may, taking to Charles' side on the evolution/creationism threads like a pit bull. He went so over the top that Charles had to rein him in at times.

But when his downfall came on September 12, 2008, on a thread entitled "Spencer on Cologne Anti-Islamization Meeting," it was back on the Muslim issue. Spencer answered critics on the thread, and also both he and Charles at this point were working hard to not let their friendship founder on this issue. But A. Van Hilten apparently didn't get the message, as he launched this diatribe upon Spencer in #209:

Now this is rich, coming from the same person that welcomes an inveterate white-trash-euro-nazi-über-alles-sieg-he il-SOB like Fjordman to post at his blog... What company you keep, Bobby! Serbonazis to the left, Eurofascists to the right. Stuck in the middle, aren't you?

Why should Barack Obama disassociate himself from Ayers and Wright when you have Jatras and Fjordman getting the red-carpet treatment over at Jihad Watch?

Flames erupted all around, and A. Van Hilten spread his vitriol on many, including long-time Islamo-hating Serb-loving crazy lizardoid Ploome Heinie. Van Hilten actually got several posts deleted in their entirety. Finally, in #273 Charles shut the thread down, a rare occurrence, and added a final comment in #274:

A. van Hilten has been warned more than once about the over-the-top vicious attacks, and his account is now blocked. For the record.

Sorry, Van Hilten. Despite Charles' preening arrogance, when he had a choice between you and placating the one remaining Islamo-hating intellectual he was still on good terms with, Robert Spencer, you're the one who got thrown under the bus. And it must infuriate both Van Hilten and Charles that less than two months later Robert Spencer was officially thrown off the reservation himself! (more on that later)

It's a shame A. Van Hilten and the Nodrog did not overlap in their LGF careers. They would have made a great match against any and all of the Ploome Heinies of the world, and as antagonists would have had epic flame wars entertaining to all.

But that's not part of the Charles Johnson LGF branding strategy, now is it?

Julianne - Case Study # 45 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-11-18T08:15:00.001-08:00

And now back to the misty pre-registration days at LGF for a look at a very interesting troll/contrarian, the alluring "Julianne," who made a brief splash in the LGF pool in April and May of 2004.

Her first foray was in an April 22, 2004 thread entitled "Arab Rage and Revisionist History." In post #26 she asked a simple and direct question, which got the usual lizardoid response:

You people are displaying so much racism and self-righteousness, so openly and blatantly, it's no wonder people would want to martyr themselves to take you off the planet. it should surprise no one.

Who was she responding to? Perhaps Dar ul Harbarian, who in # 17 had this to say:

Well, I wish I could drop a JDAM on his ass but it is an imperfect world.

Or maybe Realwest, part of the sycophancy brigade today, who had this say in #22:

"I have the solution! give them a state!" Yup. then incinerate it

On April 23, 2004, in "Palestinian Child Abuse," she repeated her plea in #21, and got this measured response from long-time LGF harpy Mommydoc in #25:

julianne, STFU and STFD unless you have something of substance, or at least something entertaining to say. Or go find somewhere else to sing Kumbaya. With someone who thinks that's remotely productive.

And then, on an April 24, 2004 thread entitled, "Food for Dictators," things got REALLY interesting, as full-bore flames erupted. Julianne's posts were classics, including claims that the lizardoids were starved for sex, with this one (#116) being the pick of the litter:

come on, admit it. you're not getting any.

i myself have hot steamy forbidden sex with my arab boyfriend all the time. i would send you a picture, but i am sure you are oppossed to miscegenation, just like the nazis.

signing off now. i have to go to modern dance class. really and truly. i actually don't sit on the internet on saturday mornings, but this has been tooooo fun!

In this thread, Julianne revealed herself to be a school teacher in Los Angeles, and an amateur dancer. And she revealed herself to drive LGF illiterati faithful, such as Zulubaby, into a true frenzy of loathing. The fun continued on several more threads - "ROP-Peacenik Alliance" on April 26, 2004, and "Iran's Manhattan Project Speeding Ahead" and "Village Voice Abandons Ship" on April 27, 2004. Things got heated on April 28, 2004's "A Study of Moonbat Migration Patterns." In #229 Julianne took it to the irregular apartheid harpie herself:

zulubaby... do you have any life at all? you seem to be on this site 24/7. at least i have a schedule you old hag. the only reason i sign off, is so that people know why i am not fighting their idiotic rebuttles.

When a lizardoid pointed out the mis-spelling Julianne revealed herself to be a native Brazilian, which led to more flames. May 3, 2004's "The Psychoanalytic Roots of Islamic Terrorism" saw a meet-up between Julianne and the Nodrog, with Zulubaby flaming them both and "Leah" turning truly psychotic against Julianne.

The end for Julianne came on May 10, 2004, in a thread entitled "Race to the Bottom." All of her posts on this thread have been deleted. Cam in #329 reports that one of them stated that Donald Rumsfeld should be "bludgeoned by an elephant cock." And that was the last of Julianne.

But it made for a highly entertaining couple of weeks on LGF!

Cbinflux - Case Study # 44 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-11-17T08:03:00.001-08:00

Cbinflux was a semi-contrarian - never going into full contrarian (like the Nodrog and ChenZhen) or troll (like Bob Munck or Conventbabe) mode, but frequently annoying Charles and other orthodox lizardoids.

But by September 2007 Lizard Nation was under assault from the Gulf Coast Pundit forces, and Charles' paranoia quotient was increasing, along with his spying and monitoring capabilities. On a September 25, 2007 thread entitled "Convicted Terrorist Sympathizer Will Speak at Legal Ethics Conference," Cbinflux crossed the line, although the details are murky.

He started out posting innocuously, and rather incoherently, in # 3. In #64 however, he threw in an interesting comment:

GCP is now claiming that three of their moles have infiltrated the hamster wheels.

The Lizard Tyrant's ears perked up in #95:

If there's a reason you posted this comment, please let me know. Because I'm getting very tired of the sniping, and if you're now directing it at me, you're welcome to post elsewhere.

In #108 Cbinflux replied:

It was a joke, stemming from earlier thread and hamster comment above that post. I am not your enemy. You might want to check CZ's drive-bys though.

Pretty low of ol' Cbinflux to rat out a fellow contrarian... Charles responded back in #133, leading to this Cbinflux retort in #152:

No sniping today, period. I'd be glad to discuss this offline or in the lounge. You have my e-mail address. This is about as comfortable and considerate as a Boss chewing on an employee in the cafeteria. It's not appreciated, and you should know better.

Charles ominously stated in #172:

Someone definitely should know better.

And that was it for Cbinflux. Charles then turned up the paranoia meter among lizardoids with this little gem in #236:

Here's the bottom line: I'm aware of what's happening at my web site, now more than ever with the new tools I've developed. If I tell you to knock it off, you have two ways to go -- you can either knock it off, or lose your account. It's not open to debate. LGF accounts are not a right, they are a privilege. Abuse it, and lose it.

If I'm not mistaken, about this time Cbinflux had shown up at Gulf Coast Pundit as a member, although he is not there now, having apparently annoyed them into booting him as well. But Cbinflux and LGF were no longer a couple.

Three days later, on a thread entitled "Britain's BBC Problem," Charles in #25 whined that GCP and his old enemies at LGF Watch were ganging up on him. Killgore Trout sympathized in #36, but added something else:

I noticed that. I can't wait for that situation to go away.

P.S.I know it's a touchy subject but I think the situation with cbinflux was a case of friendly fire. I think if I had been there the situation could have been easily diffused. I won't push the topic.

Good idea, Killgore Trout! Don't push the Lizard Tyrant and ask him to actually justify his tyrannies! Charles was polite in responding in #49:

I'm not anxious to discuss this, but I disagree. I reviewed a lot of comments before taking action, and it didn't come out of nowhere.

And since Charles and Killgore Trout are allegedly now "gay lovers" according to littlegreenfootballs2, I guess KT was forgiven, wasn't he :)

By the way, I think Rodan is making a joke ...

Annefrance - Case Study # 43 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-11-13T08:52:00.001-08:00

Annefrance made a brief appearance on LGF in September 2008 (although she had registered in February). But she will be forever remembered in LGF lore as producing a post that generated the most negative "dings" in the LGF popularity meter ever.

The thread was September 3, 2008's "Post-Palin Wrap-up," and amidst the almost sexual frenzy of excitement over Alaska Sarah's demagogic outburst at the Republican convention, Annefrance threw this well thought-out bombshell into the mix in post #363:

If this is the best and the brightest amongst 300 million Americans, then I fear for the future of your country. The VP pick was very poorly thought out. I cannot imagine that a country as rich and powerful as the United States really needs to choose one of its leaders amongst the ranks of the gun-totin' and beer-swillin'. Judging by her track record, Mrs. Palin appears to prefer action first, and reflection (if any) later. In a perverse way, I understood at first why the Republican party would choose someone as "pure et dure" (pure and hard) as this woman, who thought it wise to bring a fifth child into the world who has Down's Syndrome. There are four other children already born who need the time, attention and resources of their two parents, and you are not going to tell me they will not suffer with the arrival of a fifth sibling who is going to take away considerable attention and time from them, considering that DS is a condition that afflicts much more than just the intellect. But then when Mrs. Palin's eldest also turned out to be 5 months pregnant, we passed from dubious choices to out-and-out bad judgment. I note the child is out of school. Why? If there is nothing to be ashamed of, why is her education being sacrificed? Why is her womb more important than her brain? What choices did this child have: did her dogmatic mother tell her "abstinence only" is the solution? Were contraceptives made available to her? Did this child get to make HER OWN CHOICE about whether to carry her pregnancy to term, or to have an abortion? No, it is 2008, but let us still force this teenager into the kind of shotgun wedding that most of us thought reflected the nightmares of, say, two or three generations ago. And let us have this young woman face the humiliation of having her personal misfortune become the subject of nation-wide discussions. In the meantime, she makes a handy babysitter for her otherwise occupied parents, so she in fact bears the brunt of the burden of her handicapped sibling.

Where I might have otherwise been amused by the silly photo of Sarah Palin in a Stars 'n Stripes bikini, toting a shotgun, all I see now is trailer trash - no, worse than trailer trash (like Britney or Jamie-Lynn); rather, someone ready to sacrifice her daughter's future for the sake of her over-weening ambition. And that is not someone I would even welcome into my home, never mind into the halls of power.

Two minutes elapsed until post #371, where lizardoid loser JCM, representing the best and the brightest of the minions, had this to say:

GO PISS UP A ROPE you clueless ingnorant jackass!

Russkilitlover in #376 was even more obscene and non-responsive. Starting in #476, Sharmuta began a more intellectual level of non-responsive insults leading eventually to a claim that Annefrance was a eugenicist.

When the thread was tallied, Annefrance's post #363 had earned an amazing negative score of -482: which I believe is the highest such ranking ever "earned" on LGF.

Even more amazing (or perhaps not) - Annefrance has turned out to be absolutely right about Sarah Palin - she has been exposed as a sham candidate and helped drag down the Republican ticket to defeat and ignominy.

But five days later, Annefrance learned what the fate of Cassandras on LGF had become. In past years such "trolls" would have been attacked, insulted, occasionally even argued with, but not banned. But this is the new LGF, and on September 8, 2008's "Another Tour de Lance," Annefrance met her fate. She started out in post #7 praising Lance. But the lizardoids would have none of it - notice that her post earned a -8 rating based just upon the identity of the poster alone. Soon lizardoids were throwing around insults again, and Charles joined the baying jackals. In #152 he made an indirect threat to ban Annefrance. In #189 he sneeringly asked if she had ever posted at LGF under another name. In #227 he invaded Annefrance's privacy by noting that her IP could be traced to Montreal, Canada. In response to reasonable questions from Annefrance in #227, he snapped back in classic Nixonian paranoia mode with #243:

My interest is because I don't appreciate people coming into my site and deliberately provoking people, then gloating over the response.

But Annefrance persisted with reasonable questions and responses, so Charles realized that she would have to go, and in #267 he announced her banning.

As LGF slides off into political irrelevance as part of the wing-nut Republican failed shill machine of the blogosphere, the fate of Annefrance tells us that, not only are Vlaams Belang racists and Discovery Institute creationists no longer allowed on LGF, but honest voices of moderation and even thoughtful left-wing ideas cannot be allowed to stand either. The LGF of a few years ago wasn't this scared. Or pathetic.

UPDATE: This editorial from the Economist sums up the situation regarding Sarah Palin and the GOP's status as the "stupid party" in the U.S. quite nicely.

Jheka - Case Study # 42 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-11-12T08:02:00.000-08:00

Jheka was a long-time lizardoid - a lawyer in Washington D.C. He had registered on the first day Charles opened that can of worms on June 15, 2004, and had 11,400 posts on his tab. He had it out with the Nodrog many times, and had many of the bad habits of long-time lizardoids, but he could occasionally be reasoned with, and had some nasty fights with other, even less pleasant lizardoid denizens.

He continued his LGF career until it came to a crashing halt in September 2007. Jheka had also started frequenting the notorious Gulf Coast Pundit, and on the September 20, 2007 thread entitled "Secret Service Will Protect Ahmadinejad at Ground Zero," he jumped the LGF shark. In post #337 he quite naturally stated that it would be good to get an actual ex-secret service agent* to comment about this - unfortunately, he picked the wrong such person to single out:

I sure wish that Reaganite was here to comment on this topic. No one at LGF (AFAIK) could speak with more knowledge about something that the Secret Service is involved in.

When maddog in #345 demurred, Jheka went out another step on the limb in #359:

I don't know what your experience with him was and you're certainly entitled to your opinion but I know that Reaganite was and remains a good man who did a great deal for this nation and a quite a bit for LGF in its early days.

To switch analogies - Jheka's hole got deeper in #380:

I understand that you're relatively new here (note "relatively") and didn't know Reaganite the way that I and others here did and did not witness his many, many positive contributions to the LGF community (both online and in person) over the years before you showed up to start posting last year. I get that. Maybe your only experisnce with him was in the last days before he was forced off of LGF and this colors your view. Fine. Nevertheless, what I said about him stands.

And, I'll take your suggestion to heart. It's been a little while since I've visited with Reaganite and some other good people who are no longer at LGF. I'll drop them a line this very afternoon. However, as for your snotty implication that I should leave LGF, well, you can probably figure out where you can stick that.

In #400 he continued and defended several dreaded GCP'ers:

Among others who got caught in that ugly rift, Reaganite, Ann, Sarah D, EW(1)SG, Swampwoman (and Swampman) are great people. I personally know this for a fact.

Each and every one of them helped LGF and the LGF community grow and prosper (and not just by posting here). That is a fact.

The events leading up to their banning from LGF by Charles (who, AFAIK, each of them considered a friend) was not simply a case of these good people suddenly and inexplicably turning on their friend and saying libelous and untrue things about a man for whom they had great respect and affection for no reason. There was quite a bit more to it. That is a fact.

LGF'er Diana begged Jheka to drop it, and he promised to do so - she could see what was coming. Joel in #439 summed up the danger, by asking what had happened to Swampwoman, whom he liked. Charles had to shut it down, and he did so in #437:

Please don't blow smoke up my ass, Jheka. I saw some of those comments myself, before I stopped going to their site.

I don't regret for one second banning that crew. They've shown their true colors over and over since then.

Jheka had one parting dig in #442:

I'm going to leave it alone. I'm also going to leave Charles' comment alone, regardless of whether he regrets anything or not.

It was all over the Jheka, the repellent NY Nana told him to FOAD in #446. And Jheka was allowed to give a more refined insult back in #454 (which wasn't difficult):

Kindly stop sniffing paint. It's not doing your disposition or your manners one bit of good.

/And people say the internet is killing civility.

Jheka was toast, and the even more repellent Sharmuta announced it for Charles in #456:

Buh-bye, Jherka. Thanks, Charles!

But the Jherka story wasn't over, it erupted later that day and the next morning in a thread entitled "Terror Sponsoring Arab States Buying U.S. Companies." Jheka returned with a nefarious sockpuppet, untraceably known as "The Dread Pirate Jheka." All of his posts on this thread, which apparently complained about his banning, were deleted by Charles, who then went through Jheka's sockpuppet drawer and found six or seven more over the next day, tut-tutting the whole time.

The only one who showed any class in this whole affair was goodbye_natalie, who has turned out to be a much classier guy than expected. He had this to say to Jheka in #170:

Jheka, I assume that's you. Since you won't be returning my response but surely will be reading this, I wish to say something between me and you.

I hope that if we meet sometime, someplace out on the net, we can wipe the slate clean. I said some pretty vicious crap and I do apologize for it. The comment about my daughter was the one time I lost it and I was looking for blood. It's forgotten. Hopefully, you can do the same.

Such class didn't belong on LGF, as goodbye_natalie was to find out in less than two months time! (see LGF Banned and Blocked case study #7).

The banning of Jheka was the final straw for Charles, as the GCP flame war/feud broke out in full glory. It was no longer acceptable to be in both camps, and the banning of Ed the Weatherman completed the purge of (known)GCP operatives on LGF in less than two months.

Interestingly, Jheka has not stayed as a regular Ghost Cult Pundit "Heather" - perhaps he has found something more fulfilling to do with his life.

* I've been informed by Ed the Weatherman that Reaganite is NOT an ex-secret service agent, but was rather "regular military" occasionally assigned to help out. Perhaps he shined their shoes ...

Mazeman/Kumbaya - Case Study # 41 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-11-10T08:14:00.001-08:00

Mazeman and Kumbaya were one and the same - a relatively minor set of LGF posters. Mazeman had 648 LGF posts, and Kumbaya had only six. But their LGF execution in August 2008 showed how deep the paranoia and intolerance had penetrated into Little Green Footballs.

On August 10, 2008, Charles briefly opened his registration door in "The Door Opens - Update: The Door Closes." In #149 Mazeman had this to say:

Wow, isn't this a long open door? Must need to replenish the ranks after so many stopped visiting since Charles began his anti-ID crusade.

We have Quilly Mammoth in # 170 to thank for that quote, because Mazeman's post was deleted and he was banned without further explanation. A harsh sentence, but LGF had become a harsh place.

But Mazeman wasn't done. He had registered a sockpuppet, "Kumbaya," on September 17, 2006. On August 19, 2008, he activated Kumbaya on a thread entitled "Tuesday Afternoon Open." And proceeded to perform the electronic version of a ritual hari kari by complaining about his prior banning in # 177. We're not sure what he said exactly, because this post was also deleted! Several additional Kumbaya posts, however, remained. In #227 he had this to say:

Search "Mazeman" comments. I didn't think I was a trouble maker.

He added the following in #237:

"Mazeman" was the name that got banned. "Kumbaya" is another log in. I'm not anti-LGF by any means. This site is great. I'm anti-censorship. I was mad when I got banned from KOS for an innocuous comment, and I'm (Mazeman) equally mad in this instance.

Kumbaya finished his short, brave, but very naive LGF career with this post in #331:

The reason I have more than one account is that, as you know, this site has limited registration. So I've given a couple usernames away to like-thinking people (my brothers for example) so they could contribute. This is a great site. I don't claim to be a great contributor, but I enjoy my time here. But the ban made me think WTF?! Sort of like with KOS.

Charles showed no mercy, and lowered the boom in #342:

That's right, and now you're banned again. You have your own blog, and you can whine about 'censorship' there.

The lizardoids showed no mercy either, knowing that any sign of weakness meant they they would be marked for elimination next. Particularly odious were the taunters, who did "Kumbaya" song parodies (see, e.g., buzzsawmonkey in #334 and David IV of Georgia in #352).

I salute you, Mazeman/Kumbaya, for sacrificing your measly lizardoid status to speak the truth to power. Even if the cause for which you were disagreeable, intelligent design, is wrong.

Bob Munck - Case Study # 40 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-11-07T11:19:00.000-08:00

Bob Munck was a long-time contrarian in the fashion of the Nodrog, except a more infrequent visitor to LGF. He registered in July 2004, but only had 323 posts before he was expelled.

Typical of his contrariness is the April 5, 2006 thread "Islamist Challenge to the Constitution," about attempts to create a separate set of Islamist institutions in Dearborn, Michigan. In #34 Mich-again pointed out that the Domino's Pizza guy was trying to do the same thing in Florida with Catholics, and mused as to why this wasn't as big a deal. In #85 Bob Munck answered succinctly:

The difference is that Charles and his minions aren't engorged and consumed with hatred of Catholics.

When asked to elaborate, he came back with this in # 88:

See above comments.

See also, Charles posts earlier today, and comments.

See also, Charles posts earlier this year, and comments.

See also, Charles posts earlier this decade, and comments.

Come on, this blog is universally known for its level of hatred. You know that; everyone knows that. It's widely used as an example of the worst of the right wing extremists.

As you might guess, Bob Munck wasn't very popular in Lizard Nation - the hatred level wasn't as great at that for the Nodrog if only because he was a much less frequent poster.

But on the last of his infrequent forays into the lizard dungeons in March, 2008, Bob Munck decided to be "cute." The thread was March 7, 2008's "Hopelessly Lame Web Security Story of the Week." In #69 Bob Munck tried to do something that I do not at all understand (and don't want to take the time to figure out) - perform an SQL injection. Charles apparently caught it, first saying "Ha Ha," and then deciding to send Bob Munck packing.

Bob Munck, with this final stupid and attempted malicious stunt, proved himself unworthy of true LGF contrarianism, and richly deserved his banning. He also discredited all would-be Nodrogs everywhere. And Charles, I'm sure has used Mr. Munck's antics to internally justify his continuing purge of all heterodox thought on LGF. Thanks a lot, Bob.

Atlasshrugged - Case Study # 39 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-11-05T01:42:00.001-08:00

The great waves of bannings that have swept through LGF like various purges swept through the Soviet Union under Stalin are four in number. They can be classified into two basic categories. The first category are the personal issues, and the two mass bannings that exemplify this are the Gulf Coast Pundit expulsions and the Discarded Lies evictions (although Charles gave us a fig leaf of "racist comments" for the latter which evaporates like liquid nitrogen at room temperature upon even cursory analysis). And the second are the mass bannings over actual issues. One of these has been the Johnson attack on creationism and its dolled up masks like "Intelligent Design."

And the other was the great Vlaams Belang debacle. And this post is devoted to the instigator of this debacle - Pamela Geller (or whatever she's using for a last name now) of Atlasshrugged. Pam can best be described as leading the bimbo division of the anti-jihad brigade. She posted on a regular basis on LGF as well as starting her own, now popular blog, Atlasshrugged, to beat the Jihadis while apparently taunting these Middle East puritans with video clips of the site host's cleavage. She and Johnson were "bosom" buddies.

But that all changed in October 2007. On October 19, 2007, Charles Johnson posted "Organizing to Resist the Islamization of Europe," a laudatory look at the Brussels Journal conference of European anti-jihadis, attended by American luminaries such as Robert Spencer, Baron Boddissey of Gates of Vienna, and, clad in attire that prominently displayed her, er, attributes, Pam of Atlasshrugged. But less than 1 1/2 hours after posting, Charles included an "update" with this to say:

It’s important to note that not all the people who are hitching a ride on the anti-Islamization movement are doing it for honorable reasons. There are serious issues around the participation of Filip Dewinter (of the ultra-nationalist Vlaams Belang party, successor to Vlaams Blok). And LGF reader “Dave of Sweden” points out another problematic member:

Unfortunately, the Swedish representative Ekeroth is a member of a pretty vile party called Sverigedemokraterna (Sweden democrats), which was originally an openly racist organization. Recently they’ve tried to put up a different facade, but I’m not convinced.

Pamela counterattacked on her own blog on October 22, 2007 in a thread entitled "LGF and CAIR," starting out with the following broadside:

It is most unfortunate when a group of Islamic thugs get inspiration from LGF. I never thought I would see the day that CAIR and Charles over at Little Green Footballs would be aligned against a counter jihad movement but perhaps pigs do fly.

Which of course led to the inevitable Charles response in October 23, 2007's "When Friends Attack," defending his viewpoint, and ending the post ominously with:

What a disappointment. Pamela: I hope you’ll take a step back and turn down the rhetoric, and see that the points I raised in this post are not unreasonable—because they’re going to keep coming up, whether from me or others. If you start attacking friends and ignoring the issue, the issue’s not going to go away. But the friends will.

In the comments Atlasshrugged tried to take a conciliatory tone, starting in #259, but Charles and especially his trained harpies, Sharmuta and Highrise, would have none of it. And in #476 he had the gall to whine about some of the negative comments made about him on the Atlasshrugged blog - the pot calling the kettle black!

The rupture was complete after an October 29, 2007 thread entitled "The History of the Sweden Democrats." Atlasshrugged showed up, and pretty soon she and Fjordman were trading petty insults with Charles and his crowd. Charles summed it up in #487:

It's pretty clear that it's a waste of time trying to discuss anything with Pamela.

Atlasshrugged continued the argument with a few more posts, but this was the last of her on LGF. At some point after this, she was banned by Charles. She continues on her merry psychotic bimboish way with her own blog.

The fight over alleged European fascists led to a major split between Little Green Footballs and quite a few other blogs, most notably the very serious and very racist Gates of Vienna, a much more intellectually worthy opponent than Pam of Atlasshrugged. As I stated with the Fjordman case study, Charles is both right on the issue and a graceless, classless bully at the same time. An arrogant bully - he has obviously decided that he is big enough to dispense with unneeded allies and go his own, egomaniacal way with the Little Green goosesteppers in march behind him.

An interesting and amusing sidelight during this whole brouhaha - who should come out in support of Charles but the dreaded STALKER BLOG - LGF Watch! Charles showed his gratitude by posting a raw rayraesque obscenity back to them on one of the many threads devoted to the Vlaams Belang controversy

Conventbabe - Case Study # 38 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-11-02T14:30:00.001-08:00

Back to the misty redoubts of 2003, for the brief, flaming LGF career of Conventbabe. She first showed up in 2003, on a June 5, 2003 thread entitled "A Rachel Corrie Wannabe," three days later at the end of the thread, with this post:

I found this site really, really interesting -and refreshing in many ways, but I was appalled at the way Rachel Corrie is being villified. I consider myself to be fairly unshockable, and unsanctimonious. The girl was crushed by dirt moved by a bulldozer. Isn't that tantamount to being crushed by a bulldozer? She was somebody's daughter and somebody's sister and now she is dead. And she was also an American. How can people be glad about that? I am English and Catholic. I neither support or condemn the existence of Israel. Quite frankly it doesn't affect me, and English people are not generally interested i.e. there are no campus divestment movements, but my Great Great Uncle is Arthur Balfour who was instrumental in its foundation. My Grandmother says that when he was little he was called him "troublemaker". How ironic.

And Conventbabe's career had begun. Decrying the demonization of Rachel Corrie was her entry into an increasingly anti-Israeli tone from her comments. As you may have guessed, this didn't go over very well with the Lizardoids. Even the Nodrog. On a July 29, 2003 thread entitled "Greek Muslims Seethe, Whine, Demand," she had this to say in #172:

What I have to gloat about is that BBC, which is watched by millions everyday, and increasing amounts of British print journalism are becoming progressively anti-Israel. I think that is grand that the most world's media represents what I think.

But don't worry, you guys have this little website where you can expose all the injustices that the world subjects the poor, poor Israelis to. boo hoo, no one is listening to you.

To which the Nodrog replied in #175:

ConventBabe: You are a deluded fool. You pick the side of undemocratic, murderous leaders over a democratic state, and why? Misguided guilt over your colonialist past? Misguided sympathy for an "underdog" that has made itself so through its own stupidity and intransigence? Anti-semitism? Please explain.

The lizardoids, including Zulubaby (!) heaped praise upon the Nodrog for his attack. Conventbabe did not respond.

On August 20, 2003, Conventbabe made her last contrarian "contribution" to Lizard Nation, in a thread entitled "American Children Among Victims." Conventbabe started by asking why Americans would bring their children into Israel to face danger. The lizardoids spewed bile back at her, particuarly justdanny (who in #276 helpfully provides some past Conventbabe "gems"), mr. pol (note his vile comment in # 289) and zulubaby. And then Conventbabe had this to say in #287:

There is something fun about antagonising angry people who I fundamentally disagree with. Your incandescent rage and frustration really amuses me. And my favourite bit is when you tell me to FOAD.

Charles lowered the boom in #295:

Since ConventBabe just admitted that her only purpose in posting comments here is to antagonize people, especially when emotions are raw following an atrocity like yesterday's bus bombing, I've decided not to let her (if it is a "her") continue with this disgusting game.

This amoral creature is now banned. If it somehow manages to slip through the block, anything else it posts will be deleted. I won't allow any more discussions to be derailed by its nonsense.

Conventbabe was a pretty rotten apple. But the vile responses of the some of the lizardoids to her didn't earn them any haloes either.

ChenZhen - Case Study 37 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-10-30T15:23:00.000-07:00

Ah, a dude worthy of following in the footsteps of the legendary Nodrog! ChenZhen joined LGF in 2006, and quickly became an intelligent contrarian, poking holes in LGF (il)logic. So naturally, the illiterati quickly labeled him as a troll and heaped insults upon him.

Including the Lizard King himself. On July 28, 2007, in a thread entitled "Freed Gitmo Inmates Immediately Return to Jihad," Charles blamed "lefties" for the depredations of some freed Jihadists. Starting in #23 with a simple statement:

I suppose if you think hard enough you could find a way to blame the left for just about anything.

ChenZhen started a major flamewar with furious lizardoids, including Charles. Follow the thread as Chen destroys the lizardoids' arguments, including tough guy Charles, who admitted defeat in #369 with his usual good grace:

Ok, I'm done with you. That was so convoluted and twisted that I'm ready to admit I was wrong when I said you weren't dumb.

ChenZhen was a marked man.

On September 5, 2007's "GOP Debate Poll," ChenZhen was revealed to have committed further apostasy by commenting once on the dreaded STALKER BLOG, otherwise known as LGF Watch. The discussion begins with a scolding from Sharmuta in #563. Chen defended himself in #585 with a quite reasonable reply:

It was one post, fer chrissakes. It was something I would have posted over here if the subject came up. I look at the blogosphere as one big forum, really.

And look at this huffy, ridiculous reply from Sharmuta in #597:

Has anyone ever told you that actions speak louder than words? Has it occured to you how your actions might look to others here at LGF? But most importantly, do you even care? Honestly- you've made it impossible for me in the future to ask people here to give you an argument instead of snarky comments. The stalker blog? Even I have limits.

Sharmuta, as usual, is incorrect - there is no limit to her obsequious mendacious obtuseness.

And look at this hatred from irregular regular Cattt in #600:

Chen, I like you. Really do. But I hate the stalker, and I hate the stalker's blog, and I don't consider him, or it, part of the blogosphere. I consider it beyond the pale. I've posted, just for an example, on an Indymedia blog - it was cool - they were fair with me and my posts. I've posted on your blog - you were nice to me - it was fine. But the stalker is a sicko - he's mental. He's ooze. He's dirty. He's a Chinese finger puzzle. A black hole.

Worse than Indymedia - now that's BAD! NY Nana added some pointless nonsense in #660, for your reading pleasure. Later in the thread ChenZhen challenged Sharmuta to define "Stalker Blog," - a challenge which Sharmuta evaded as usual.

ChenZhen's final doom came on October 2, 2007's "Beam in the New Republic's Eye." (which, by the way, was Charles' inglorious attempt to capture some Rathergate-style attention in 2007) Chen took a contrary view to many (but not all) lizardoids - that Rush Limbaugh was crazy stupid to attack Iraq war vets as phony. But of course Sharmuta and Killgore Trout went for the ad hominems again, and also brought in a ChenZhen headline from his own blog mocking LGF's shilling reaction to this story. This brought the following dire warning from the Lizard Tyrant himself in #261:

You're close to rolling your last comment here. Decency is apparently foreign to you.

Definition of LGF decency (for Zombie's dictionary): KOWTOWING TO EVERY RIDICULOUS NOTION CHARLES JOHNSON GETS INTO HIS WOODEN HEAD! Charles then lowered the boom in #269:

In fact, I'm officially tired of being stabbed in the back by ChenZhen, and he is now welcome to pursue his agenda without trying to disguise it.

The usual lizardoid glee erupted, most notably from the soon to be banned GCP'er John Schneider in #271, showing his true contemptible colors.

ChenZhen has his own blog, which is worth a look. He has his own critique of Little Green Footballs there, worth a read, including an amusing sockpuppet turn as "Mr. Poopypants." I think the poopypants remained at LGF after his sockpuppet got banned.

Ma, Mama, and Marm - Case Study 36 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-10-29T15:12:00.000-07:00

Mama Winger. 29,634 posts from 2006 on. Definitely made pissant Big Steve's prolific poster list before she got the boot - since unbooted.

Ma Sands. 10,760 posts from October 2006

EC Marm. 12, 804 posts from July 2006

Three prolific lizardoids. Three females (or at least with female names - there is some evidence that EC Marm was actually male). Their posts were generally shallow and low on substance - one gets the impression of three old coots on their Kentucky homesteads, a bible in one hand and a handgun in the other, with a "family tree with no branches" genealogical chart on the living room wall.

It was the bibles that got them banned from LGF.

EC Marm was the first to go. His/her last appearance on LGF was not memorable - on July 25, 2008. But things were apparently going on with Gagdad Bob and Babba Zee, disgraced ex-lizards, and by August 8, EC Marm was a goner. Charles announced as much on post #735 in a thread entitled: "McCain Ad Suggest Obama is the Anti-Christ?": By the way, for the record, I blocked 9 accounts belonging to 'EC Marm'. I'm not surprised he has even more.

As for Ma Sands, her last appearance was in the "Overnight Open Thread" of August 2, 2008. But on July 31, 2008, in a thread entitled "Karadzic Defiant in Court," she showed her extreme religious colors in a catfight with Medaura18586, starting in #439. A hint of what was to come came in Medaura's response in #444, which included the following swipe: By the way, glad to have you back. I thought you were gonna stay on gagdad bob's site bashing Charles all day from now on. And A. Van Hilten decided to be the snitch in #497, quoting Ma Sands from Babba Louie's deranged site bashing Charles and (gasp!) welcoming other banned LGF'ers like LanceKates. This was the end for Ma Sands.

As for Mama Winger: Her last appearance at LGF was on August 2, 2008, in a thread entitled "Recommended: Ken Miller's 'Only a Theory'," about Charles Johnson's favorite new cause - evolution. Starting in #491 she got into it with A. Van Hilten, one of Johnson's more dogmatic evolutionists. He soon got feisty - look at this attack in #497!

BTW, unless you really want to dispell once and for all any doubts about your utter lack of morality, I'd suggest that you drop the ad-hominem arguments presto. The fact that I live in Spain has nothing to do with the merit of my arguments, capisce, Mama Wingnut? (Further I suggest that you refrain from posting my first name, or I'll report your comment to the janitorial engineer asap.) Unless, that is, you want me to draw attention to the fact that you do believe in "demonic possesions" and such, à la Bubba Djinnall. You have no sense of decency, that's plain to see. But I've become accustomed to having religious zealots like you posting personal data about me, i.e. attacking me instead of my arguments, which you apparently can't counter with reason. But, as you know, two can play this game. So, tell us, how's your lupus?

Fissures in the Lizard Nation facade were really become chasms around now. The nasty flames continued - with the nastiness mainly emanating from Mr. Van Hilten. After Mama Winger left the building, he accused her of backstabbing Charles in post #639, bringing up the now disgraced Gagdad Bob and another creationist site that Mama Winger had praised that had bashed Charles and LGF.

So guess who was gone? Hint: it's not A. Van Hilten. In #671 LGF toadie Salamantis provided a breathless and detailed report on the goings on with Gagdad Bob's site, upon which Ma Sands (and presumably Mama Winger) had been posting. Charles immediately responded in #672: I've checked out what is going on at that blog, and anyone who approves of it and posts comments there will now have more time to do it. Because they're not welcome to continue using my web site.

And a followup in #675, with a gratuitous slap at Gagdad Bob: I just took a few minutes to actually read the volumes of verbiage Gagdad Bob has been posting, and wow. Just wow. The guy is seriously unhinged. The intellectualism of Gagdad was apparently too much for Charles to stomach - he prefers his creationists to be stupider, so as to be easier to dismiss.

And then let's look at what informant Salamantis posted in #679: Besides LGFers Kirly, Mama Winger Yank in theEU, and Ma Sands, I have found that Lance, Babbazee, Goodbye Natalie, ChenZhen and Kepler Sings have posted there in the last ten days, but I believe, although I am unsure, that the latter folks are already gone from here. Of course, I might not recognize some nicks; other folks might post there under different nicks, and still others post anonymously. There is a Sal who occasionally posts there, but I assure everyone that it is not me. Not to mention that it is surpassingly obvious just from reading his/her posts.

It's hard to have too much sympathy for the likes of Mama Winger, Ma Sands, and EC Marm - their religious obtuseness and willful blindness to the facts of life in our world are obvious to all. But when faced with an informer like Salamantis - the lowest of the low - it's hard not to see these people as religious martyrs, figuratively burned at the LGF stake.

POSTSCRIPT: There is, apparently, a smidgen of justice in the LGF universe. On September 12, 2008, nasty-boy A. Van Hilten got the boot (he now deserves his own entry to explain his sorry story). And on September 14, 2008, with no apparent explanation, Mama Winger was back! The thread was "Sunday Evening Open," and she announced her presence by reporting on a Cubs no-hitter. Hosannas and praise rained down on the beloved Mama Winger, and she graciously accepted the adulation.

There was no report from Charles regarding Mama Winger's sudden reappearance. I can only surmise that she did some serious boot-licking to get back in the Lizard Tyrant's good graces.

But I can find no other instance of a banned lizardoid returning to the fold by Charles' sufferance, unless you count the claim of Nanny and the Professor, er, I mean the Baron and Dymphna of Gates of Vienna, that they were briefly banned before becoming unbanned during the November 2007 Vlaams Belang brouhaha. But more on that kerfluffle later ...

Ed the Weatherman - Case Study # 35 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-10-23T08:26:00.001-07:00

He started out in the pre-registration days on LGF as Ed Moran. Once registration came he had several registrations including Ed al Qahool Martyrs Brigade, and Ed Abu Gomex (or something like those). His passion was the weather, and his main contribution to LGF was incessant weather reports - most notably Hurricane Gordon, which he reported upon with great glee. Politically he was a casual yet extreme right-winger, with strong Catholic religious overtones. He also is some sort of an oil engineer, and is married to a Mexican-American woman and has darling little children. His home is somewhere within the confines of the Lone Star State.

But he made a BIG mistake in 2006-07 - he joined the Gulf Coast Pundit (GCP) gang - home of unreconstructed and bitter ex-lizardoids such as Reaganite and Rayra, along with more moderate ones swept up in the carnage like Mike C. and Jheka. He was perhaps the last man standing with posting privileges at both sites. Ed's attempt at reconciliation between Charles and the GCP exiles in early October was strongly rebuffed by the lizard king.

We began to see comments from Ed like this, on September 20, 2007's "Terror Sponsoring Arab States Buying U.S. Companies." (#738):

I'm a little sad. I see that Jheka has been banned for being a bit too vociferous in his defense of Reaganite yesterday.

I am about the last person left that frequents both GCP and LGF. I like people on both sides, including people that detest each other. They will say rather unplesant things about LGF and Charles over there on occasion, but usually only when their name is mentioned over here. It is pretty obvious there is a level of mutual interest. They check LGF, LGFers are checking GCP.

I think, as a whole, LGF and GCP are generally on the same side, and perhaps the bitterness is because they are so close ideologically.

Anyway, I like people on both sides, I will try my best not to get banned here at LGF, and when certain threads get going over there, I stay well clear.

I disagreed a lot with Jheka, he is far more liberal than I am, not surprising, as he is an immigration lawyer. Or was. We had a few sharp disagreements. But he was a fine intellect, and for a Jewish guy from Russia, seemed to know his American Con law quite well. I'm sorry to see him go.

Again, I really am doing my best to be supportive to the good people I know here and there, and I am not cruising for a banning. I just wish we could all get along, especially since LGF and GCPers probably agree on 90% of the issues.

Maybe the best thing is an 'amicable divorce'. Just don't see or speak of each other. And I can be the friendly St. Bernard puppy that LGF and GCP have joint custody of.

Nice try, Ed. Maybe if you had decided to become Charles' rottweiler bitch, your analogy would have held up!

On November 19, 2007, he posted in two threads, "LGF Technical Update," and "Monday Night Open." His comments were innocuous, the most notable was an argument that, whatever Fjordman's faults were, posting anonymously was not one of them.

And then he was gone. Charles later claimed that the reason for the banning was that Ed was making anti-LGF comments over at Gulf Coast Pundit (GCP). This has some undoubted truth to it - it's hard to see how anyone could post regularly at GCP and not be filled with bile against AtS (Across the Street, the term for Little Green Footballs in GCP lingo). Charles would later say that Ed was "a bigger jerk than I had ever imagined," a term that Ed proudly displays as stationery on his GCP posts

Ed has certainly gotten his revenge over at GCP, referring to the Lizard Tyrant as "Chuckles the Clown," and attaching scabrous and often obscene pictures of clowns to his posts. He continues the incessant weather reporting over there. An attempt to bring weather reports to Gates of Vienna was shut down by the other commenters, who are WAY too serious about their Islamohatred to be concerned about mere weather.

Ed's banning represents the final, irrevocable split between Charles Johnson and the Gulf Coast Pundit gang. It is now verboten for lizardoids to even be seen stalking over there. Occasionally Reaganite will post a liquor-laced rant in the "Anything Goes" section of the GCP Forum telling the "stalkers" (those viewing the site but not logged in or registered), to stop hiding and step to the plate. Of course when the Nodrog stepped the plate, Reaganite and the gang promptly started throwing beanballs and brushbacks! But intellectual honesty has never been a hallmark of that bunch ...

Rayra and the Gulf Coast Punditeers - Case Study # 34 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-10-22T08:02:00.001-07:00

Of course this is the classic purge according the GCP'ers, but as the Nodrog has dug up, it pales in comparison with the Discarded Lizards Massacre of 2008, already in an earlier case study. But the GCP preeners, posers, narcissists, and egomaniacs will undoubtedly insist that THEIR "First Purge" was the most important.

Anyway, the GCP crowd had been growing increasingly restive on LGF in the year since that alternative forum began. By the Summer of 2006 Reaganite had left the building, Ann was whining about the "good ol' days" long gone on LGF, and our old friend (in the words of LGF Watch, "a few tacos short of a combination plate") Rayra was getting Charles into jams and scrapes with, among other things a death threat against some CAIR malefactor. It all came bubbling to a head on a September 1, 2006 thread entitled "Hizballah Sets Up Shop in Venezuela."

Rayra was off on a full-on rant, with his usual genocidal blood-curdling crap - see, e.g., in response to a question, "Can we take on the whole world ourselves?",

Couple hundred assasinations. A few score cratered runways. Big whoop.

And then in #85 he took on one of his many nemeses, Storagemanager, with a profanity-laced attack. And then in #90 he used the "C" word, and Charles deleted the entire post. This incensed Rayra further, and he continued his tirades and attacks in numerous posts on this thread. He viciously turned on antisocial_ist, who, starting in #146, asked him repeatedly to stop his swearing.

Finally, Charles stepped in, at #173:

rayra: I'm tired of getting emails from offended women--many of whom are NOT commenters, but just people who read this stuff and are offended--and I don't blame them for being offended. Knock it off, or start your own blog and deal with the crap yourself.

But Rayra attacked back, and Charles reiterated the point in #193:

I'm serious. Start your own blog. Then you can insult whoever you want to insult, and ban whoever you want to ban, and deal with all of the crap that comes with it. If this isn't a satisfactory answer, then you're welcome to take your comments elsewhere.

Then things got even nastier. Rayra started demanding answers from Charles, to which Charles responded in #209:

Really? You're demanding answers from me, rayra? And if I don't answer, you'll... do what? Leave? Post more death threats to CAIR officials? Take potshots at me behind my back at other blogs? Oooh. Now I'm terrified. Grow up, you freaking bully.

After several more back and forths, in #223 Charles announced:

Have fun, kids. I'm out of here.

This opened up a field day for Rayra and his gang, which interestingly included the now favored Killian Bundy. In #231 Rayra, among a profanity-laced response, brought up his pet theory - that "Charles" was not Charles Johnson on this thread, but an earlier monitor lizard:

Now I'm really thinking this isn't Charles. Too childish. wtf, who is this nancy?

Keepandbear added to the theory in #238:

That was the poorest impersonation of Charles that could ever be done. They could at least have reviewed some previous posts and used the proper idiom and vernacular.

Ann, Swampwoman, Buckaroo, and jpsfudimo joined in the bashing.

Stringart had an interesting theory:

I've long thought that Charles is Gordon's older brother. It's the only thing that could explain not only not banning the dumbass, but giving him a rotating title. Way back when, Mrs. Johnson always made Charles take Gordon when he went out to play. Well, it's now a habit - Charles still has the brat with him. Tonight, Charles forgot to lock the computer up and Gordon is pretending to be him. And like everything else Gordon does, he's failing miserably.

Of course nutcases like 1389 and Rayra have occasionally taken this obvious joke post seriously!

In #283 Charles showed up again:

I just came back and read what's been going on in here. Thought I'd let everyone have their say. I'm now shutting off posting privileges for those who think this is a horrible place, and I'm a "cowardly fraud." Go insult me elsewhere. I know you will.

And Rayra, Ann, Swampwoman, Buckaroo, Keepandbear, and Jpsfudimo were goners. Reaganite was also banned at this time. American Infidel was also allegedly banned after this thread - however, she didn't appear on it. The initial object of Rayra's fury, Storagemanager, eventually was escorted from the lizardoid building in May 2008.

As an interesting sidelight, Sarah D., another GCP'er, was also banned at this time, although she claims that she wasn't even on LGF because of a power outage at her home. An LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED investigation shows that Sarah D., poster 22,440 times at LGF, submitted her last post on August 29, 2007, in a thread entitled "Three More Charged." It was an innocuous post, not a reason for blockage, and thus her story pans out. I still have some suspicions, because Sarah D. was among the more vicious and pig-headed among the GCP ejectees, and her word is not always to be trusted.

In retrospect, the ejection of the GCP'ers was a good thing for LGF - except that Charles Johnson the egomaniac clearly let the power go to his head. He had tasted mass-banning blood, and he craved more!

Marsouin - Case Study # 33 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-10-21T08:01:00.001-07:00

Marsouin was an infrequent lizardoid - registered in February 2007 and owner of only 187 posts. In June 2008 his LGF career was terminated.

His mistake began on a June 7, 2008 thread entitled "Brussels Journal and Jean Marie Le Pen." Charles hadn't fully switched obsessions from European fascists to American creationists, and he included this warning in the text of his post:

Any bloggers who are still linking to Brussels Journal should take a long hard look at what they are promoting.

Marsouin came along in #84 to question this logic:

But does Brussels Journal endorse his [Jean Marie Le-Pen] fascist views? It may but I haven't noticed it. The link simply provides a source of the information of anti-liberal policies, one that BJ and the FN happen to share.

Charles came right back in #88:

When you publish the writing of a known Holocaust denier and fascist, yes, you are endorsing them. You're not seriously suggesting that someone can just "impartially" use a neo-Nazi as a source, are you?

There it ended for now, but Marsouin was a marked (and doomed) lizardoid. Five days later (June 12), on a thread entitled "Melanie Phillips and the Obama Derangement Syndrome," Marsouin posted again:

With this guy's lurid background ceaselessly streaming out for the past few months, he is still standing strong. He's got to be the ultimate teflon candidate. And what better sign that his popularity among supporters cannot be in any way be based on rational thought?

Yes, its objectionable on a normal level, but this is a comment that fit right in with the blinkered LGF worldview. In fact, it got a +5 rating. Except that Charles had a long memory, as he showed in #98:

And in one of your recent comments at LGF, you were defending the Eurofascist site Brussels Journal. [link] You ignored my question about it. Would you like to answer now?

Marsouin didn't answer, so in #594 Charles badgered further:

Note to "marsouin" -- if you don't answer my question in #98 within the next five minutes, you're losing your account. I know you're still online.

And in #606, the guillotine fell, as Charles intoned:

Five minutes is up.

Now admittedly Charles was in a bad mood on this thread, which also saw part of the Great Discarded Lizards Chainsaw Massacre of 2008, as well as the banning of IbrahimX (to be discussed).

But Charles' treatment of Marsouin is bullying, pure and simple. It was a sign of how mean, petty, and low the Lizard Tyrant had become.

Natalie/Littlesquirt - Case Study # 32 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-10-20T08:09:00.001-07:00

Natalie is a young woman with a blog, that can be found at this address: http://littledoor.blogspot.com/. She seems nice enough - completely wrong on most issues, but not a troll-ette like BabbaZee, for example. She posts a lot on Gates of Vienna. And she plays the Violin, which, as the Nodrog can tell you, is not easy and makes everyone short of Joseph Mengele worthy of at least a little respect.*

But Natalie is no longer welcome at Little Green Footballs, as she recounted in a July 1, 2008 entry on her blog. With the screen name "littlesquirt," she registered on October 2007 and made a grand total of six comments, stopping her commenting when the whole Vlaams Belang flamewar started (she was definitely on the side of the European "Fascists").

But Natalie couldn't keep completely away, and she discovered two interesting facts, one through her own ingenuity, the other through suffering the consequences of that ingenuity:

1. LGF allows (now "allowed") comments on any thread back to 2001 to be up-dinged or down-dinged; and

2. Charles Johnson had set up an elaborate LGF spy system to inform him of these kinds of trivial actions, worthy of anything the NKVD could have devised in the 1930's Soviet Union.

Natalie went back to a thread in October 31 2007 involving a flamewar between Fjordman, before he was banned, and Charles/Lizardoid sycophants ("Vlaams Belang and the White Supremacist Cesspool"). She updinged comments by some, and downdinged others. But Charles Johnson's spy machine had found out, and in June 30, 2008's "Monday Afternoon Open," he breathlessly reported the outrage in #22:

Just threw someone under the bus who was going through an old Vlaams Belang thread and up-dinging all the fascist sympathizers.

He then went on to report that the miscreant was none other than "littlesquirt," and went on to report that a devious sockpuppet, with the completely untraceable name of "littlesquirtsmother," had also logged in to check things out. Both were wiped off the LGF map. Charles gloated with Yezhovian glee in #53:

LGF Spy rawx.

After this outrage, Charles decided to shut off comment ratings after a post is 30 days old. So Rayra's down-dings from 2005 will remain unsullied!

Natalie/littlesquirt commissioned a neat little button for everyone's blog, stating "I've been banned from Little Green Footballs. Have you?" She's a good kid, but one day she'll realize that, while Islam can be a menace, there aren't any head-choppers hiding under her bed. And she'll realize that, while Charles Johnson is a contemptible human being, he's actually right on this particular issue - Fjordman is a fool, not a sage, and the Serbian nationalists are just as crazed as any Al Qaeda cell, just less effective in their slaughtering.

* For those of you wondering - Mengele was a violin player and lover of classical music, which you too can find out by googling "Joseph Mengele Violin."

The Mystery of Albusteve - Case Study # 31 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-10-18T16:37:00.000-07:00

Albusteve was an innocuous lizardoid, registered on April 8, 2007, with 2,200+ posts to his credit. But seven months later Albusteve disappeared from Lizard Nation abruptly, under circumstances that remain mysterious.

On November 4, 2007, in a thread entitled "Snow Slams Media in Free Speech Speech," Albusteve quickly went OT, starting in #28, on musical themes. His main argument was that Led Zeppelin was overrated and not that good, a position for which he got some good-natured disagreement from other musically-minded lizardoids.

But we're not entirely sure about all of Albusteve's arguments, because all of his posts on this thread have been deleted - only snippets of his posts quoted by the other illiterati tell us part of what he was writing. Stevieray in #160 noted the mysterious disappearance, and none of the lizardoids could figure out why. And unlike in other situations, Charles did not come on to crow about this latest banning. So what happened?

One theory - that Charles is a huge Led Zeppelin fan and considers any criticism of the band to be the equivalent of supporting the British National Party, can be discounted.

A better theory is that Charles discovered during this thread that Albusteve was a sock puppet. He registered in April, 2007, after the slow motion Gulf Coast Pundit purges had began, and his posts were inane and innocuous, like those of many GCP'ers (see, e.g. John Schneider, Mike C.) The best theory is that he was a sock puppet for one of the GCP'ers. My best guesses are either Mike C., who was banned several months earlier, or John Schneider, who was banned some time after October 31, 2007. But I could be wrong.

Any comments clearing up the Albusteve mystery would be greatly appreciated. Even from the Lizard Tyrant himself.

UPDATE (January 2009): Song and Dance Man's post in the comments has been verified by Albusteve himself, who has been reinstated into the Little Green Kingdom and is now merrily posting away again.

Bigel - Case Study # 30 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-10-17T07:59:00.000-07:00

Now we come to one of the all-time greats of LGF - the notorious, often-inimitated (but never very successfully) Bigel. According to the Gulf Coast Pundit anti-LGF mythology, the prolific Bigel was the original "snake in the garden," first ruining the Lizardoid paradise.

How did Bigel accomplish this? First, he was not only virulently anti-Muslim, but also virulently anti-European and, when it suited him, virulently anti-American. He frequently called not only for genocide against Muslims (pretty common on LGF prior to Charles' crackdowns in response to the negative vibes he was getting from the rest of the blogosphere about his maniacal followers), but also against perfidious Europeans who failed to support Israel sufficiently. Usually his call for Death to Europe took the form of proposed nuclear annihilation.

When the LGF old guard, now exiled to GCP, took him on, Bigel refused to back down, and numerous flame wars erupted to sully the spirit of Lizard Nation. The stupid curmudgeon Reaganite, as usual, led the LGF orthodoxy (or so he thought). Interestingly, while Reaganite and Ed the Weatherman, among others, clashed with Bigel, other lizardoids, such as Zulubaby (the Jewish branch of the LGF family tree) often came to his defense, thus triggering more flames.

And what bugged the future GCP illiterati most was that Charles refused to ban Bigel, despite his murderous rhetoric. There had been some warnings from the lizard dominatrix, and promises from Bigel to behave, but then inevitable backsliding.

Finally, Charles had enough. The breaking point occurred on an April 15, 2005 thread entitled "Anti-Semitic Studies." In #6 Bigel decided to "stir the pot," as they say, with this nugget:

Ed Mahmoud et. al.. Reaganite was on here the other day, saying you are a wuss who can't hold your liquor. He also claims he's been drunk in more places than you. Are you going to let those insults to your manhood go unchallenged?

Ed quickly deflected this and took it as a joke, but of course the humorless Reaganite (a disgrace to his namesake) did not. In #368 he had this to spew (edited for decency):

Not only are you psychotic, you are a f***ing liar. Provide a link and prove it.

To which Bigel responded:

Reaganite #368 [quoting previous post] I can't. It was a lie. I admit it. I did it to stir the pot. Ed acted exactly as I thought he would, and say "So what?", and you acted exactly as I thought you would and get all blown out of shape. I had a big grin on my face when I read your post.

This caught the attention of the Lizard King (he wasn't a tyrant, yet). The boom came down in post #562:

This is really beyond the pale. LGF is not here for you to abuse other posters with lies, bigel. After promising to rein in the rhetoric time and time again, you've slipped all the way back and then some. When you're not raving, you make decent contributions to the site. But I'm not going to allow this to become a place where people are deliberately jerking other posters (and me) around. That's just crappy. You're blocked. And if I recall correctly, you've already gotten more than one chance.

This led to a mixed reaction. NY Nana had this to say in #610:

Hello, all! Regarding Bigel? If he is banned, then why are evariste, octopus and nodrog still here? Just my 2¢

She further riffed on this theme in nauseating detail in #624. Zulubaby agreed in #615:

I hope that moronic Gordon is next. I'll take bigel over Gordon any day.

Other Lizardoids, such as Geepers and Jheka, cheered Bigel's demise.

On a thread the next day (April 16, 2005) entitled "Antisemitic Barrage in Los Angeles," Charles almost apologetically explained his decision in post #113:

Bigel knows that he has broken his promises to me. And that's all I have to say about it, except to note that I would have preferred not to block him, but he left me no choice.

Bigel went on to post at Discarded Lies, increasing the estrangement between the Discarded Lizards and Charles Johnson.

Bigel's banning is interesting for three reasons:

1. I believe that it was the first banning of a major LGF player. Other "trolls" and "freakazoids" had been given the boot, but Bigel was an LGF mainstay. And it took Charles a long time to get to April 15, 2005.

2. Despite this banning, the bad taste lingered at LGF. The Reaganite/GCP curmudgeons remained unhappy, because Charles had let Bigel linger for so long at LGF. The Jewish wing of LGF (Zulubaby, NY Nana, Maine's Michael, Ploome Heinie) were unhappy that Bigel was thrown under the bus (to use a 2008 metaphor three years too soon). And the comments of Zulubaby and NY Nana, "If Bigel, why not the Nodrog and others," became commonplace among these lizardoids.

3. Unfortunately for the GCP losers, Charles wasn't so hesitant to use the banning stick as time went on. When it became time for them to be thrown under the bus, Charles was much more ruthless than he had been with Bigel.

1389 - Case Study # 29 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-10-16T08:06:00.000-07:00

"1389" - now how would a lizardoid get a name like that?

1389 first registered with LGF on March 18, 2007, and managed 688 posts in about eight months. At first, he/she/it (not sure of the gender of this creature) fit right in with the LGF anti-Islamic mantra. But then Charles stepped into it with the whole Vlaams Belang controversy, and 1389 showed what side he was on in that fight. He became a prime defender of the alliance with European fascist/racists against Islam, and thus found himself on the losing side of this still-festering internecine conflict.

On November 23, 2008, in "Friday Afternoon Open," 1389 posted #183, a series of links, the first of which was to a ridiculous article absolving the Serbs of all responsibility in the Bosnia and Kosovo conflicts. Not a position out of the LGF mainstream, as the Nodrog had acidly pointed out on several occasions.

But that was it for 1389. The next day, on "Saturday Night Link Depot," Dead Sea Squirrel made a terse announcement in #2:

1389 - this user is blocked.

The lizardoids were a bit perplexed. Dirk Diggler in #69 asked:

Who the hell is 1389?

MandyManners in #75 stated:

She seems to be a pretty decent anti-jihadist.

But it was soon revealed. 1389 had a separate site, upon which he spewed venom against Charles and LGF - also he was a regular poster on Gates of Vienna and Gulf Coast Pundit, both Bozo no-no's in LGF land. Charles would have none of it.

And finally Charles figured out what "1389" represented - sort of. In post #340 on a November 30, 2007 thread entitled "Threatening Dr. Sanity," he noted that:

And by the way, '1389' is a code word for the ultra-nationalist Serb movement.

And there you have it. 1389 was an unrepentant Serbian ethnic-cleanser wannabe. In the Year of our Lord 1389 the Serbian army under King Lazar was annihilated in the Battle of Kosovo by an Ottoman Turkish army, led by their Sultan. And Serbia came under a Muslim Turkish Ottoman yoke for almost 500 years. Not a pretty fate, but the idea that today's Serbs would still nurse grudges based upon events from the 14th Century is mind-boggling.

On his/her own blog, 1389 voiced unrepentant sentiments for ethnic cleansing of all Kosovars, Bosnians, and Muslims from the Balkans. He even deleted a questioning comment from, of all people, Ed the Weatherman, as was noted in a GCP thread. He spouted off in Gates of Vienna, when the Nodrog took him on, actually claiming that the Nodrog was Charles' sock puppet!

Well, 1389 is gone from LGF. And it's a better place without this particular netizen.

Jeppo-Oppej - Case Study # 28 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-10-15T08:20:00.000-07:00

Jeppo was a short-lived (late 2007, early 2008) poster who was accorded the honor of getting the "Nodrog" treatment, and the lizardoids, tired of actually arguing with facts, started calling him "Oppej." He registered on August 11, 2007, and logged 387 posts before his demise. He was definitely a contrary voice in the whole Vlaams Belang controversy, arguing that European Fascists had their good points - mainly hatred of the dreaded Moooslims.

On February 6, 2008, it all came crashing down on a thread entitled "The Six Word Motto Contest" (as we have seen, this thread also saw the end of our Paulian "Heynow"). In #216 Jeppo tried to get in everyone's good graces with a motto based upon Mexican-hatred, usually a vote-winner among the lizardoids, with

On our knees grovelling before Mexico ... /Viva el Presidente McCain!

Not noticing the -9 by his first post, he tried the same theme again in #263:

Press #2 for Espanol por favor.

But he couldn't escape his past, and Sharmuta replied in #281 with a motto destined to goad Jeppo:

America- vlaams belang can't win here.

Jeppo continued, and in #498 he really sunk himself with:

Please dis our White Protestant heritage

Jeppo kept it up with a few more lame racist mottoes, until Killgore Trout (alleged monitor lizard) replied in #586:

I really don't know why Charles lets you post here. I guess you make the White Nationalists look stupid so he still allows it.

And the Lizard King weighed in at #648:

That's enough of "jeppo" and his pimping for fascists.

And Jeppo-Oppej was a goner. Of course, Sharmuta had to drool all over herself in #657:

Oh, thank you! You ROCK!

Fellow chief sycophant Killian Bundy had to make a stupid joke, and a threat:

jeppo fall down go boom. /next?

Highrise in #1255 blubbered:

You have the patience of Job, I swear.

- which didn't save her three weeks later!

Jeppo was a contrarian - but a few years earlier on LGF he would have been just fine, because contrarians on the extreme end of the LGF issue points were sometimes dissed, sometimes tolerated, even sometimes encouraged, but never banned. Regardless of the appropriateness of Charles' decision to ban him, the sycophancy shown by the remaining lizardoid kings, queens, and eunuchs was a (nauseating) sight to behold!

Reaganite - Case Study # 27 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-10-14T09:18:00.001-07:00

And now back to one of the foundation stones of the Lizard Empire - the illustrious Reaganite. Having been an early poster to LGF (starting in December 2002), he always had a friendly word for one of his fellow long-time illiterati. He also was in turns egotistical, bloody-minded, sarcastic, elitist, and, if some of his enemies can be believed, drunk. His professional background was represented as being a former secret service agent. Some time in 2005 or 2006 he married Ann, another lizardoid whom he courted after a meet-up (yes, there were apparently lizardoid meet-ups back in the day. The Nodrog was NOT invited!).

His LGF career is filled with petty bickering, flaming, and an occasional long absence in a fit of pique. Among his flame enemies at one time or another: American Infidel, Bigel, Taxfreekiller, Jehu, Savage Nation, Zulubaby, BabbaZee, and, of course, the Nodrog.

Late in 2005 there was quite a kerpluffle regarding a spinoff site called LG Colloquium, Hurricane Katrina, and waylaid lizardoid relief shipments. We covered that in our last case study on Bayou King. Out of it rose Gulf Coast Pundit, with Reaganite an initial member. Reaganite's churlishness increased after this.

On May 12, 2006, in a thread entitled "Drudge: Bush Plans National Guard on Border?", Reaganite made what turned out to be his swan song on LGF. This thread is quite interesting on many accounts - starting about mid-way through. In #301 Reaganite's least favorite fellow poster (American Infidel, with many, many others in the running) disparaged Reaganite, as she was wont to do.

But in #455 Reaganite turned his guns on his latest bete noire, Babba Louie (BabbaZee, or BZ), with the results of an investigation:

For those interested. I traced BZ's sock puppets myself using NeoTrace Pro. All the IP addresses were identical. If she has a broadband provider, her IP address is static (doesn't change) if she is dial-up, her IP address is dynamic (changes every time she logs in). For all three of her sock puppets to have exactly the same IP address is a statistical impossibility.

Where are what she was sockpuppeting is lost to history - but this is how petty Reaganite could get. And Charles called him on it in #490:

You know, this obsessive focus on other posters is really getting stupid, and incredibly annoying. And I especially do not appreciate the blatant attempts to "poach" LGF readers. That is simply crappy behavior.

This all seems to stem from the desire of one group to have members of another group banned from posting. In my humble opinion, you should all be ashamed of yourselves. You're acting like high school kids. And the people who are derailing discussions, from what I can see, are the ones coming in and attacking other posters.

I'm going to start shutting off comments on every post where this happens.

And Reaganite responded in a huff in #493:

Please delete my account. I will not be back.

Charles responded in #502:

I've asked more than once for people to stop this petty bickering, because it is incredibly unpleasant to read. And unless you're personally involved, it's also incredibly boring. Incredibly unpleasant and boring. These are not good traits. And reaganite, although I'd rather not, I'll be happy to block your account.

Rayra responded in #548 with what was (for him) a semi-lucid response, to which Charles gave this reply in #564:

rayra: I'm sorry you feel that way. Same goes for [Engineer]. But I'm not going to start banning one group of people simply because another group demands it. You're asking me to pick sides, and I'm not going to do it. Defend your opinions, or don't. Argue with trolls, or ignore them. It's your choice.

I defend my opinions every day by posting here, and this kind of personal grudge fighting only gets in the way. Trolls debunk themselves with their silly comments, and making them into huge enemies who need to be defeated and driven out is not only counter-productive, it makes them happy.

And I reiterate (not to rayra), inviting people to leave LGF and post elsewhere is crappy behavior, and I wouldn't do it to any of you.

My, my, have things changed! I can't imagine the imperial Charles Johnson being this obsequious to any of his lizardoid subjects today! And the last sentence is, of course, blatantly contradictory to the many, many times Charles has "invited" those who disagree with him to do just that (followed by a banning).

This thread continued with back and forth until Charles actually had to close it, and invite those still dissatisfied to

continue bashing me at Gulf Coast Pundit

. An invitation they've taken up for the last 2+ years!

Three months later, Reaganite was among the first "banned of brothers", victims of the September 2006 massacre, which we will get to eventually. Other than his nasty comments on GCP, his crime at this time was apparently to be married to Ann, who was directly involved in the massacre thread.

From his boorish behavior at Gulf Coast Pundit, he has clearly learned nothing from his on-line experiences, and remains an unreconstructed curmudgeon to this day.

Bayou King - Case Study # 26 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-10-13T13:22:00.001-07:00

The strange case of Bayou King now comes before us as a case study. Registered December 1, 2004, 2,428 posts to his name. His 15 minutes of LGF infamy began with Hurricane Katrina in September, 2005, and its aftermath with Hurricane Rita. Two noted LGF irregulars, RebTex and 'nam Grunt, were in the path of the devastation, and Bayou King was coming to the rescue. In posts #125 and #126 of September 25, 2005's "Cycle of Violence: 96 Miles," NY Nana and Astrodome Dov noted that Bayou King was coming to the rescue of the distressed lizardoids, including this nugget of info from Dov:

Let the ones who missed it know that Bayou_king has a Paypal account sent up for Reb/Nam/Bordm. /I wouldn't spam a thread LOL. Dig Deep Lizards, we have people in trouble.

Apparently the lizardoids responded. On September 28, 2005, Bayou King had the following amazing trumpeting in #418 (edited for profanity:

Send the money to me. F*** the Red Cross! they're serving a few hotmeals at crossroads, but as a major brand-name receiver of donations, they get an F! Donate to our lizard fellows at PayPal.com using my e-mail address: expresley@cox-internet.com. All levity aside, i am kicking the Red Cross' ass... and that as a one-man operation!

Hosannas rained down upon the selfless Bayou King from the gullible lizardoids.

On October 7, 2005, on a thread entitled "Singapore Jails Bloggers," Bayou King went OT in post #81 by reporting that 'nam Grunt HAD BEEN FOUND! The excruciating detail that followed omitted the relevant information that 'nam Grunt had been found spitting on a wounded Muslim soldier at his nearest VA Hospital, but oh well ... More hosannas from the gullible lizardoids followed.

The next day, in "Saturday Morning Open Thread," Bayou King reported on his visit with 'nam Grunt in #641:

The point of having steak and beer with 'Nam Grunt was to raise his spirits after a trying experience. Also left him a lot of food, gasoline, and $170 cash for short-term expenses. He is staying for awhile until he gets Red Cross money and then finds a place to live. Then i and/or RebTex will help him move out.

And then some cracks started appearing in the saintly facade of Bayou King. On October 10, 2005's "Monday Morning Open Thread," RebTex was conversing aimlessly about his hurricane troubles with other concerned lizardoids, when in # 530 he had this to say:

RightyMouse - PLEASE don't send ANYTHING in my name to Bayou King! Your help is greatly appreciated!

When questioned, he followed up in #540:

Bayou King is taking liberties about distributing the earmarked donations. For some reason, he doesn't think I should recieve any of the relief. What he has brought, he has made VERY clear that he expects it back. After manty e-mails last evening, it became painfully clear that he didn't deliver relief, he delivered a loan. I have a real problem with that line of thinking.

This started a quite interesting discussion between RebTex and Bayou King, which soon devolved into an all-out flame war.

Bayou King continued over the next two months posting incessantly about his exploits, and taking occasional potshots from some of the other lizardoids. On December 27, 2005's "Tuesday Afternoon Open Thread" he had a final mini-flame war with Rebtex.

And then he was gone. On December 28, 2005's "Pakistan Honor Killing Watch," Bayou King posted something in #15 that got him both deleted and banned. And then in #104 Bayou King showed up with his first sockpuppet, "Mustang," and blubbered away:

well, i am free now. as my nic has been banned i can never be held accountable for anything in this forum. which is good. it never would have been accepted anyway. those with a prejudgment toward guilt, and ignoring everything done to help the unfortunate, would have been continued the jihad and continued to disrupt the blog.

now i will try to reclaim my life. one day when we all die everyone will see what was done and realize it was an incredible thing that happened with the generosity of this blog, and my dedication to duty, and i will forgive those who drove me out of here.

i believe i just got the goodbye look. goodbye, and God Bless.

Won't you pour me a Cuban breeze, Gretchen? Amazingly, while Mustang was soon banned, this post remained up.

And then we get into some comedy. Some lizardoids started talking about Bayou King and Mustang soon after #104. And in #137 a creature named Cedrchopr had this to say:

Are you not aware that Bayou_King helped a lot of people after the hurricanes? I'm not sure it rates an "oh well."

I am curious though what he said to get deleted.

Charles came on in #147 to announce an interesting fact:

'cedrchopr' is the same person as 'Bayou_King'.

. And all three were gone. By the way, Bayou King must have known the hammer was going to fall, because he registered sockpuppet Mustang on November 23, 2005 and made 112 posts, and Cedrchopr showed up on December 4, 2005 and made 47 posts. But his misuse of the sockpuppets was truly comical.

In post #904 of this thread, Charles explained why Bayou King had gotten the banning stick:

Bayou_King was blocked because I became aware he was using several accounts, pretending to be different people and paying compliments to himself.

Bad form, indeed! 'nam Grunt gave a postscript in #920:

Thanks Charles, I was wondering why so many folks were asking LGF'ers to send him money when they didn't even know him, I met the guy and thought he was ok, oh well live and learn.

But there's an important part of this story - Bayou King's escapades led to the creation a new web creature, known as "Gulf Coast Pundit." Its genesis also involved some complicated maneuverings involving a website adjunct to LGF known as LG Colloquium, started by Kentucky moonshine boy Justdanny. The shock waves through lizard nation started pretty quickly. Let's look at post # 332 on a November 27, 2005 thread entitled "Saturday Evening Open Sea," as lizardoid Foreign Devil reacts to attacks from the GCP gang:

You people should examine your own motives. You can't put down the Islamists for their sins if you don't clean up your own backyard.

This whole lizardoid minion thing has become a sick joke. It meant something at one time. Now it's all about little cliques and bitchiness.

If you notice, you've driven off Vickie, Bayou_King and a lot of good folks. I sent a lot of money to the Gulf to help out and was glad to do so. Money I could have used elsewhere because I don't have a lot. I thought we had a community here.

What we have is a bunch of 'Heathers' who pile on (as I see Ann has done--very mature of you Ann) and I don't want to be part of it anymore.

Being an LGFer no longer means what it used to.

Big cracks in Lizard Nation! And Charles had quite a mess on his hands. His solution, as we shall see, was to begin the morphing from the Lizard King to the Lizard Tyrant.

Bottehond - Case Study # 25 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-10-11T15:03:00.000-07:00

Bottehond was a late 2007 addition to the lizardoid stable, and soon not a welcome one. He was a Gates of Vienna partisan, a European, and a critic of Charles' sudden departure from the anti-Jihad stable (at least the racist, fascist, anti-semitic, and sometimes intelligent Brussels Journal wing of the movement). Often ridiculed, he persisted for a while.

On May 15, 2008, he was banned, on a thread entitled "Thursday Afternoon Open." In #113 he posted to a link about events in Holland, and was immediately and gratuitously called out in #127 by LGF sycophant Render. Charles was gratuitous in #133, writing:

Not you again.

(subtext: HOW DARE YOU DISAGREE WITH THE LIZARD KING)

In #142 bottehond responded:

Suppose I am right in my views. This is all over Dutch media, by the way, and will be so all over Europe, tomorrow. You could kick me off LGF if you dislike my input. You are the boss. I don't mind.

Charles responded dismissively in #153:

I'm not going to kick you off. You're one of the most tedious and illogical of the fascist apologists, and you discredit yourself.

Bottehond (#157):

Your assessment of me is all wrong. I don't mind.

Charles (#159):

No, it's not.

Bottehond (#179):

Yes it is.

Charles (#180):

There's no point in allowing 'bottehond' to post here any more. This creep has been completely exposed as a Eurofascist shill, and he's not welcome to post his garbage at LGF any more.

NA, NA N'NA NA! Sorry, Bottehond, in 2003 you would have been welcomed at LGF, but the NEW IMPROVED Charles Johnson is too good for you now!

Levi from Queens and the Great Discarded Lizard Chainsaw Massacre of 2008 - Case Study #24 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-10-09T08:34:00.000-07:00

We start our case study with a look at one of the best of LGF and Discarded Lies - Levi from Queens. This gentle soul posted less than 2,000 times on LGF from 2004 through 2008, appearing infrequently after the April 2005 dustup between Discarded Lies and Charles' partisans. His posts were inevitably well-mannered, well-argued, and informative. It almost pained him to disagree with someone, and when it had to be done it was done as a gentleman. He gave his reasons for seldom posting on LGF in a February 2008 Discarded Lies blogfest devoted to dissing the Nodrog:

I am somewhat surprised that CJ banned Gordon. A part of why I no longer post much at lgf is a lack of texture in the threads which once was provided by trolls and Gordon. Agreeing with 200 other people is minimally entertaining.

But back on LGF, on June 11, 2008 a little imbroglio broke out on a thread entitled "White Supremacists for Obama." In #234 Discarded Liar "Q" showed up to dispute statements Charles was making about some of his idols:

You may disagree with their politics or philosophy, but it's ludicrous to call Lawrence Auster or Ian Jobling, of all people, "pro-nazi", let alone "neo-nazi" (unless your definition of a nazi is "someone I deem totally uncool").

Auster is a traditionalist conservative and an outspoken critic of paleocon pathologies. (Also, he's of Jewish ancestry.)

Jobling broke with American Renaissance over their failure to decisively disassociate themselves from the real nazi scum. He's a supporter of Jews and Israel and an opponent of Ron Paul.

SPLC hysterics is a poor guide to the actual state of things.

Post #235 was from KevinV, another DL'er. Q and KevinV had been LGF'ers back in the day - Q with almost 5,000 posts to his name, KevinV with just over 2,000.

But Charles must have been looking for an excuse to wield the banning stick, and two disagreers from his former friends at Discarded Lies provided just the foil he needed. Both Q and KevinV's posts were deleted (the quote was helpfully provided by Charles in his sneering response to Q in #237). And in #238 Charles gleefully pounced:

After reviewing Q's recent posts, and the links he's been posting, his barely-disguised racism is no longer welcome at LGF.

When KevinV posted in protest in #252,Charles immediately deleted in and responded in #253:

Thanks for making that perfectly clear. You're free to post that kind of fascist-sympathizing garbage at your own site, but not at LGF. Bye.

And POOF!, KevinV was blocked. He went back to Discarded Lies and reported it, and an almost comical chain of counterattacks and prompt deletions and bannings by Charles occurred. Sent packing were AlphaMu43 (#254), Lewis (#262), and Stormi (#264) - Charles definitely did NOT bring back that sunny day!

But Charles wasn't done. On June 12, 2008, in a thread entitled "Melanie Phillips and the Obama Derangement Syndrome," he crowed in #48:

Another long-time LGF poster has come out as a fascist sympathizer tonight, and is no longer welcome at my site. It takes a long time to flush out these creeps, unfortunately. [Link to previous night's massacre]

This thread then became an amazing series of bannings and blockings, as Charles vowed to "clean house." He mentioned 12 bannings on this very thread in post #319, and in #417 he named six Discarded Lizards who had been blocked: Megan, Stormi, Lewis, AlphaMu42, KevinV, and Q. Several of the other bannings were apparently of people who were merely using their lizard-given rights to down-ding posts they didn't like.

And then in #436 Charles breathlessly posted:

I've been informed that there is a group of people at Discarded Lies who are planning to start posting crap at LGF, in revenge for banning KevinV.

In #449 he posted a link to the DL thread in question. This opened up a full-scale lizardoid purge hysteria over the evil DL bunch. In #467 Charles showed his additional paranoia:

I've already caught a couple of creeps who are lurking here with accounts, and reporting over there on search results.

Speaking of Frank IBC, apparently.

Purge mentality hit big time when Sharmuta reported in #472 that DL'er "Airforcewife" still maintained an LGF account. And in #516 realwest further snitched:

I didn't see where she said that, but did see where Levi from Queens said that airforcewife and he may be the only two members of Lies to still have posting priviliges here. Hope Charles changes that to ZERO.

And Charles obliged in #518 with:

They're gone.

And that was the end of Levi from Queens' LGF career. Charles followed up in #543 with a bleg for more informants and tattlers:

If anyone knows of any other Discarded Lies people who still have accounts here, please let me know.

And then Charles used his handy-dandy zinger to find ten, yes TEN, Discarded Lizard stealth accounts that had been logged onto that evening, and blocked them all, five belonging to the evil one Evariste himself.

And there's more! NY Nana snitched on a dual LGF/DL'er named CBA in #628. CBA came on in #712 with this:

Charles, It appears you are about to ban me because I am a regular at Discarded Lies. This is most certainly your prerogative. However, if you do so, I hope you will also remove the current contents of your FAQ page, the vast majority of which I wrote way back when (both the original FAQs, and the updates that included suggestions from the others credited at the end of the page.) Thank you.

And look at the Lizard Tyrant's measured response in #716 and #717:

You should be ashamed of yourself. And don't worry, your FAQ page is removed. Enjoy your new friends.

There's only one word for this Stalinist side of Charles Johnson: CREEP!

Among the other doomed Discarded Liars: Lady Redhawk, with 661 posts to her credit, the last of which was on April 24, 2005 --- Annie, with only 96 posts to her name, the last of which was on May 31, 2005, and Gutterfiend, with only 22 posts, the last of which in January, 2005. Floranista and Meg also got the banning stick.

The Discarded Liars celebrated with a fun thread on their own site, featuring a Zorkmidden slide show, which can be found here: LORD OF THE BANNED As I said, they have a lot more fun there than in Morlock-land. Another interesting point - two of the Discarded Liars prominently featured in Zorkmidden's little escapade - Jefe and Right Wing Conspirator - aren't actually blocked on LGF. And neither is the despicable V the K, who didn't participate in the massacre, but is quite a regular at Discarded Lies, peddling his usual Republican shilling propaganda. An oversight, perhaps, but I think the Discarded Liars are through with LGF anyway, so their remaining sockpuppets will go unused.

And let's end this long massacre thread with a note from a class act, Levi from Queens, posted on the Discarded Lies thread so helpfully linked to by Charles as #369

:As I have found previously in my life, acting unfailingly courteously will not always get you the same response. The same response happens mostly, but you act courteously because it is the proper Christian act, not because of the response. Some times you will not get it. I am disappointed in Charles. And I get to giggle too.

LGF's loss. DL's gain.

Savage Nation - Case Study # 23 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-10-08T08:45:00.001-07:00

Savage Nation was a fixture of the lizardoid scene, with 21,323 posts to his "credit."

But any attempt to find Savage Nation on LGF now will be fruitless. The only clues are 1) responses to someone named "Savage Nation" in other posts, which, if you follow the thread, will lead to a "deleted" post, and 2) (available only if you are a registered lizard) - a click on 21,323 "deleted" post footballs will show "Savage Nation" - THIS USER IS BLOCKED - posts 0."

How did this happen?

First of all, Savage Nation was not one of the more intelligent, or admired, lizards. Picking a nickname based upon one of the all-time creeps of AM talk radio didn't help - Michael Savage is so bad that he is repugnant to a lot of lizardoids. And Savage Nation often posted extreme anti-Islam sentiments, which became less in favor as 2007 rolled into 2008 and Charles had decided to clean up his site's image as best he could.

Add in personal dramas, and it was the last straw. Some time in June 2008 Savage Nation posted a threat to shoot his daughter's boyfriend. Charles decided that was enough, and banned him. But Savage Nation apparently was not done. He picked up a sock puppet, "Cutestguy" (gag) and began posting again.

It call came crashing down on August 14, 2008, in a thread entitled "Saudi Arabia Off the Hook." In post #1 "cutestguy" stated

Game's over folks. Islam won.

Some back and forth with other lizardoids was suddently interrupted with a news bulletin from the Lizard King himself in #78:

You're 'savage nation,' aren't you?

The anger spilled over in #92:

I do not freaking believe this. That was definitely 'savage nation' back again with another name. Now blocked again.

And Charles imposed the "death penalty" in #98:

I'm now going to delete every comment posted by this troll.

And he didn't just mean "cutestguy." In #126 Charles imposed the most draconian death sentence in the history of his blog:

I'm also going to delete every comment posted by 'savage nation.' I'm pissed. This as***le was gaming me.

And "poof," Savage Nation was history. As he put it in a discussion on a GCP thread,

Charles got all pissy with me cause I was using a sockpuppet so the pussy flushed all 7 years of my posts right down the memory hole.

(Interestingly enough, he is definitely on double-secret probation over at GCP - which stands for Grumpy Cack-handed Pissants).

Apparently Savage Nation is also involved with this website, a new entry on the anti-LGF scene. Not as amusing as the Nodrog's epic, but worthy of a look-see every now and then. Savage Nation appears to have learned a bit from his experiences, and seems a bit more subdued now.

Meanwhile, back on the "Savage Nation - what Savage Nation?" thread, we have some truly nauseating examples of lickspittling by the remaining lizardoid losers. See, e.g., #99 Sharmuta (to Charles):

It's always surprising to me that so many think they can fool you.

But Lifeofthemind in #188 had an interesting observation:

Charles I know you have to pay for the storage and bandwidth but purely in the interest of science I wish you could save the records of posts by characters like you know who in an archive. Something about the memory hole that disturbs.

None of the clueless remaining lizardoids appeared to care.

But cane_loader on the LGF2 site put it even better:

Funny how charles johnson thinks he’s doing something historically important with LGF. At one time, before the “stun” setting on the ban stick morphed into the “overkill” setting, he was doing so. No longer. how’s it going to look and of what use will his site be “when the historians write his chapter” when LGF’s archived threads are gutted shells, chock full of [deleted]s left by banned posters? Gonna be as historically useful as a felt coat locked in a closet for 50 years w/o mothballs. Dude is like a human termite eating his own house. Every single poster’s body of comments that is flushed down the memory hole diminishes LGF’s value as a full-spectrum archive of the evolution of the zeitgeist. Needless to say that the blog owner has a very narrow view of free speech.... The current condition of LGF in which posters may not freely speak without fear of being banned smacks of paranoia, dysfunction, and “battered spouse” syndrome. Actually sort of sad and an object lesson in what happens when a blog owner loses perspective and turns his firepower inward, rather than outward.

Well said, cane_loader. It remains to be seen whether the almost complete obliteration of Savage Nation (Charles hasn't yet deleted all the posts that responded to a Savage Nation post, so a vestige of his former existence remains) from LGF will be used to eliminate others no longer in favor with the Lizard Tyrant. Savage Nation, despite his prodigious posting, had a lot of fluff among his over 21,000 comments. That's not true of a lot of other ex-posters now on Charles' purged list.

At least Nodrog's Greatest Hits are safe! (unless Charles hacks Blogger)

Qburn - Case Study # 22 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-10-07T08:31:00.000-07:00

Q-burn was a relatively minor poster, with 1,500 posts to his credit from 2006. An unmemorable lizard. But on May 14, 2008, Q-burn got caught up in the "deleted Babba Louie" imbroglio. And that was the end of Q-burn.

On that date's "Wednesday Early Morning Open," BabbaZee had made the mistake of quoting a deleted poster's ravings, and had gotten her post deleted too. It became quite a cause celebre. Late in the game (#1010) Q-burn asked an innocent question:

Why was BabbaZee #207 deleted? It still stands quoted in #219.

Charles responded, but Q-burn was persistent. The tone of Charles' replies became increasingly exasperated, until Q-Burn in #1060 ended what would turn out to be his last LGF post with:

Prove me wrong and I will apologize. I know what I saw.

The Lizard King doesn't like to be asked to verify or justify anything. In #1061 he scrawled back:

No, I'm not going to "prove you wrong." ... I honestly don't care whether you apologize or not. I have absolutely no reason to lie about this, and I'm insulted by your demands.

And then immediately following in #1062, out came the banning stick, sneer mode:

And clearly, you don't value your LGF account, or you wouldn't be accusing me of lying for some unknown ulterior motive. Bye.

But then Charles "restored" BabbaZee's offending post, so that all could see he was right.

In a couple of subsequent threads, Charles whined that Q-burn was now making accusations on BabbaZee's blog, including that:

Now Q-Burn is at BZ's blog, insinuating that I edited BabbaZee's post to insert that quote. I didn't, of course. This is really getting sick.

(post #137 in 5/14/08's "Anti-Israeli Subversion on Wikipedia" thread.)

What really happened with BabbaZee's deleted and then undeleted post? Who knows, and who really cares. (However, see one of the comments in the Babba Louie (and Gagdad Bob too) case study # 21 for a suggested explanation of what really happened on that dark and stormy day, which we will call the "Kitty Genovese" explanation)

What it shows is the increasing paranoia of Charles "Queeg" Johnson(as gagdad Bob would put it). It also shows the fractious and churlish nature of the lizardoid illiterati. United in a sense of Islamohatred, most are too petty to put aside other, competing ideologies.

Babba Louie! (and Gagdad Bob too) - Case Study # 21 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-10-06T08:23:00.000-07:00

On July 23, 2008, in post #1051 of a thread entitled, "Overnight Open Thread," Charles Johnson took a momentous step - although perhaps not shocking, considering recent events. He banned BabbaZee, the Queen of LGF, with over 63,000 posts to her "credit." Here's what the Lizard Tyrant had to say that night/morning:

Note: Gagdad Bob has posted a really vicious attack on me, and BabbaZee liked it so much she linked to it at her blog, which is now a home for disgruntled ex-LGF commenters. These people no longer have LGF accounts.

How did LGF get to this point? In BabbaZee's long LGF career she made a few enemies, but they weren't the kind of enemies that would lead to banning - for example psychoRayra of Gulf Coast Pundit infamy had a few vulgar and obscene epithets to gild her with. She always threw pointless insults at the Nodrog, knowing that in a fair fight he would demolish her. She started her own blog, known as The Outraged Spleen of Zion, which is definitely a member of the psychedelic category of the political right wing.

But in early 2008 she started turning against LGF. Her ire was directed several times at the "monitor lizard" concept, most notably the insufferable and nauseating Sharmuta.

And then, on May 14, 2008, in a thread entitled "Wednesday Early Morning Open," BabbaZee made the last of her 63,000+ posts. A troll named "Droplet" had infested the thread, and BabbaZee attacked and swore at him in #207. But a "monitor lizard" had apparently decided to delete BabbaZee's post, because she quoted extensively from post #82 of Droplet's which had been deleted. BabbaZee had run afoul of the sometimes-enforced rule that posts attacking a deleted post, but which quoted from that post, would be deleted too. And the fact that it occurred before 6 in the morning, when a "monitor lizard" was undoubtedly on duty, seemed to incense BabbaZee further. She noted in #221 that her post #207 had been deleted, and ended with:

See yez.

She posted once more though, in #264, and had this to say about the situation, in her inimitable BabbaZee style:

Mmmmhhmmm ... maybe one of the monitors is on the famous babbahatey bowling team because there was no reason to delete that comment. LOL - especially given some of the comments made to me over the last few weeks that stand.

Delete it again, big monitor. [and then she repeated #207 in its entirety!]

And that's the last time BabbaZee posted on LGF. At the end of the thread Charles came on and scolded everyone:

I've restored BabbaZee's post #207, so everyone can see who's telling the truth and who is freaking out about nothing. I'm disgusted with the behavior of some long-time lizards in this thread.

A minor LGF character named Q-burn met his end on this thread for challenging Charles, and so did the tedious and prolix Storagemanager. And Ma Sands clearly almost got the boot too, as this rather amusing and pathetic exchange shows:

Ma Sands: (#1064) Charles. You okay? Your Mom? Charles: (#1065) Excuse me? You can read all this, and ask me if I'm OK? What does my mother have to do with this? Ma Sands: (#1066) Love ya.

By the way, the Nodrog gives his personal best to both Charles and his mother.

A month later, still no BabbaZee, and on June 7, 2008, her name came up again in yet another LGF thread ("Unwelcome Linkage"). Charles had this to say:

For the record, I am very disappointed in her. She apparently bought into the crazy mass delusion that I went in and edited her post to add something she didn't write - something I would never do. When I asked her to stop feeding this delusion, she refused. Very disappointed.

And then Gagdad Bob enters the picture. He's a much more minor LGF character - the cleverest thing about him was his LGF nickname. He was one of many lizards who became unhappy around this time by Charles' sudden obsession with exposing the "Intelligent Design" crowd for what they were, idiotic creationists dressed up as scientists. (see, e.g. his tussle with Charles on the June 13, 2008 thread "Friday Night Science Thread.") In mid-July, 2008, on his own blog, he posted a long, rambling, semi-coherent attack on LGF, Charles, and the cause of science everywhere. BabbaZee linked approvingly to Gagdad Bob's attack on her site. And Charles then called it Finis on both of them. Gagdad now refers to the mighty Lizard King as "queeg," amidst his pseudo-intellectual ramblings on his own site.

No one is safe on LGF any more. Sycophancy is running amok. BabbaZee was a raving loon, but she had personality. Without her, LGF is a duller, if also less psychedelic and psychotic, place

And now for a new twist to this whole blog - fairness to Charles. At the end of the June 7, 2008 "Unwelcome Linkage" thread, several posters had some great comments on the whole nature of anonymous WWW postings and its negative impact on LGF and other popular blogs. Hermeneutics in #995 had a lot of interesting and intelligent things to say, and Charles thanked him in #998, including this comment:

The biggest realization for me was that unless I began to take charge and stop worrying about hurting people's feelings, the ones with mental issues would quickly drag things into the gutter. I know some people say they miss the "old days" at LGF when anything went, but for me those were not such good times.

Perhaps Charles just waited too long to kick ass and take names!

But enough sympathy for the Lizard King-Tyrant. We'll be back to our regular Charles-bashing in our next installment.

Wimbledon Womble/Alas - Case Study # 20 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-10-04T17:57:00.000-07:00

And now we come to a poster with two identities in six short months. He started out as Wimbledon Womble, registering on August 3, 2007. On October 20, 2007 in "Islam vs. Islamists," he ran into an apparently drunken Ploome Hineni, with mirthful results.

The post by Johnson was about a PBS show critical of Islam. Wimbledon Womble was part of a "liveblog" of the show, and made suitable anti-Islamic comments. Then the topic turned to Barack HUSSEIN Obama, and Wimbledon Womble made a series of critical, but not defamatory, posts. In #415 Ploome Hineni, the LGF village idiotess, made a comment, to which WimbledonWomble responded sensibly in #457.

And then in #483 Ploome Hineni suddenly took a vicious turn, with the following little missive:

You know how to spell GOOGLE? and biography? guess your education stopped at grammar school.

And a full-out flame war erupted, lasting over 200 posts. On one side were Wimbledon Womble and (for a time) Galloping Granny, and on the other were Ploome Hineni and then Killian Bundy and other LGF sycophantic stalwarts. The fight got increasingly heated. Among Wimbledon Womble's many statements was this one in #611:

Okay, so ploome hineni is just a dominatrix bitch manque. Who cares? S/he/it is an ass either way.

In #640 the wretched NY Nana threw Wimbledon's recent registration on LGF at him. Wimbledon Womble got caught up in the heat of the argument, and in #717 he gives a tortured explanation his side of the story.

And then, in #723, Charles stepped in.

I guess I'm expected to be the day care center manager again. OK, I can do that.

Wimbledon Womble never appeared on an LGF thread gain, although Charles later claimed that he wasn't banned until late November 2007, after making disparaging remarks on Gates of Vienna, or somewhere else even less important.

So no more Wimbledon Womble. And then on December 3, 2007 "Alas" registered. And on February 2, 2008, he got into a raging flame war again, although this time over a real issue. Charles was sneering at his new enemies at Gates of Vienna with "The Definition of Irony." Alas came on and argued for rapprochment between LGF, GOV, and the rest of the anti-Jihad coalition. The rest of the lizards would have none of it, subjecting Alas to the same mixture of actual argument, insults, inside jokes, and innuendo, that they tried to use on the Nodrog. And in #902 Alas called them on it:

Let's face it. One of the problems with LGF compared to other sites that deal with similar issues (i.e. Islamism and related questions) is that LGF is a very insular community with a clear long-standing in-crowd and a clear out-crowd, as well as a certain doctrine. I don't blame Charles for any of that, since it is largely spontaneous. It is, however, something that limits the site in many ways. Too many quips and not enough good-faith dialogue. Peace out.

It didn't work. In #1073 Charles had this to say:

Why is it that you only comment in threads about fascists, and then only to tell everyone how insignificant the problem is, and how stupid everyone is? You very obviously have an agenda, and you're not fooling anyone.

And then a month later, on March 12, 2008, it was buh-bye Alas, on a thread entitled "Make No Mistake - They Don't Support the Troops." In #87 he posted a comment with a link to Gates of Vienna - a new LGF Bozo No-no. In #98 Charles the clown came down hard:

Alas: if you want to post links to Gates of Vienna, do it somewhere else. I consider that to be just as bad as posting approving links to Stormfront.

And a little Lizard Tyrant investigation led to the following pronouncements: (#150)

The user with the name 'Alas' is the previously banned Eurofascist supporter 'WimbledonWomble' and it is now banned again.

(#160)

Not kidding. It re-registered about 2 weeks after being banned, and even used the same password. These people must take me for an idiot.

ed note: No, just a preening egomaniac.

Heynow - Case Study # 19 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-10-03T23:41:00.001-07:00

Heynow is a great example of the "Ron Paul phenomenon," which hit LGF in late 2007 and early 2008. Charles was repulsed by Ron Paul's isolationism, and spent many threads attacking him. Unfortunately for Charles, Paul's supporters, being libertarian MENSA types, were gaming the world wide web in Paul's favor. They flooded on-line polls, and infiltrated websites. Johnson soon lost all patience with their tactics.

As is evidenced by the short, mysterious LGF life of "Heynow." He registered on January 3, 2008, and did his only LGF posting on February 6, 2008's thread entitled "The Six-Word Motto Contest." Charles was asking the LGF'ers for their own entries into the New York Times' contest. Heynow appeared at #141 with his contribution:

Ron Paul for Republican presidential nominee!

In #151 he tried to "fit in" with LGF by making another proposal:

Muhammed, pigs s**t be upon him!

but in #221 Ringo the Gringo pointed out that the contest was for a six-word motto for the U.S., not an LGF credal statement (well, Ringo didn't exactly say that, but that's what he meant!).

Back in Paulian mode, heynow proposed the following motto in #228:

Haven't won a war since WW2.

In #278 he proposed:

America, the bush clinton family oligarchy.

In #290 he "came out of the closet" and wrote:

Alright Ill come out of the closet! I AM A PAULIAN! However Im sure many of you will corrupted once the picture becomes clearer.

He then helpfully added in #314:

I was thinking of voting for McCain, but then I'd just as well vote for some corpse dug up in the cemetery.

In #353 he wrote:

Listen I'm just trying to make this thread more entertaining. The posts were beginning to sound too homogenous.

Little did Heynow realize the lesson learned bitterly by the Nodrog and others - homogeneity was a prized attribute on Little Green Footballs!

And then Heynow got really weird, talking about anal rape and sex with 4-year olds and weird internet porn and being off his meds. And then, he was gone. Not even an explanation from Charles. And all of his posts were deleted - the snippets I have exhumed are all from quotes from other posters attacking him. Whether he was truly a Paulian or not, who knows? - the lizardoids obviously decided he was in order to discredit their foes.

Heynow - a one-thread wonder.

Rightasrain - Case Study # 18 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-10-02T08:16:00.000-07:00

Rightasrain was a big-time lizardoid in 2004 and 2005, posting at Babbazeeish levels (13,000 in 13 months). Rightasrain was/is 1) female, 2) Jewish, 3) a lizardoid regular in terms of policy, and 4) EXTREMELY irritable.

Her downfall came on December 5. 2005. Three days earlier, she had been the victim of a sliming from the inimitable NY Nana (see comment #160 on "Palestinians Break Deal (Dog Bites Man)"). So on this thread she came rip-roaring out, accusing all and sundry fellow lizardoids of blaming the Americans on a thread entitled "And Again," about another suicide bombing in Israel.

But rightasrain was breaking a cardinal LGF rule - don't upset the mood on a story about an Israeli suicide bombing! The Nodrog was dinged for this several times - the only proper responses were rage, sorrow, and calls for immediate transfer/expulsion/liquidation of the Palestinians/Arabs/Muslims.

She soon got into it with Zulubaby, Maine's Michael, Quark2, J. Lichty, alkmyst, and a few others whom I've overlooked. I wouldn't recommend going through this thread in excruciating detail, it would be like walking across the floor of Death Valley in mid-July. Rightasrain took on all comers, even getting into a flame war about whether Micronesia properly supported Israel! Her last comment was #683, a typical bit of obtuse argument. The thread turned into a royal mess, as subsidiary flame wars broke out involving Murqtaad, Reaganite, and the above-named individuals, among others.

And then NY Nana in #709 and #711 brought out the joyous news, Rightasrain had been banned! No explanation from Charles on this thread, but the next day (December 6, 2005) on "Palestinians Celebrate Mass Murder," he commented in #114:

I don't know whether rar is completely banned or just having a time-out. All I know for sure is that I saw behavior in that thread that was way over the line, especially with such a sensitive subject, and it was clear where it started.

It certainly wasn't a knee-jerk decision, and it wasn't because anyone asked me to do it. I make these decisions myself, and usually after an enormous amount of provocation, because I don't like to block people.

What's more, I don't usually explain this stuff, because I don't want to open the door for people to start second-guessing, and telling me, "But so-and-so was worse!" Consider this a one-time only explanation.

Well, that's a crock - Charles has no problem "explaining" why the offensive lizardoid was banned, and evidence shows he certainly doesn't mind blocking anyone he damn well wants to. Rightasrain has never returned to LGF.

Paxnhymn - Case Study # 17 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-10-01T08:22:00.000-07:00

Paxnhymn was a charter member of the LGF Christianist brigade. The Nodrog and he had many battles over the alleged fundamentally evil nature of Islam. As for his name, the "Pax" (peace in Latin) was belied by his often blood-curdling calls for Islamic eradication.

So Charles' veer into anti-creationism in the Spring of 2008 caused lizardoids like Paxnhymn no end of grief. This shows clearly in July 2, 2008's "Simberg on Defending Science." Paxnhymn opened up the first volley in post #1 with:

CHARLES GIVE IT A REST!

Charles promptly answered with a one word, two letter response in #12. Paxnhymn got a -11 for that outburst on the lizardoid suck-up meter. In #58 the Lizard Lord followed up:

I won't be guilt-tripped into avoiding the subject - you're wasting your time and my bandwidth with the constant complaining.

Paxnhymn then spent the rest of the thread arguing with other lizardoids that LGF was getting a lot of God-bashers into the thick of things, leaving believers like himself at a loss.

He took six days to stew, and then on July 8, 2008, on the thread "Science: The Ringed Giant," He let loose with a doozy in #127. What he said is not known, since the comment and Paxnhymn were almost immediately deleted. The pronouncement came from Charles in #131:

'paxnhymn' decided to exit in a blaze of hateful glory, but unfortunately for him his comment has been deleted, along with his account.

And at this point it is clear that Paxnhymn was either temporarily deranged, terminally stupid, or both, because he used a "sock puppet" (an alternative identity and registration) to immediately post some more derangement in #133, where he was promptly exposed by Charles in #134 and again deleted. What a knucklehead!

The lizardoids, with the exception of a cryptic comment from Killgore Trout in #145, fawned all over Charles for his decision. Charles snarkily posted again in #140:

Pretty amazing how much spite and hatefulness these self-professed "devout" people can muster.

But Paxnhymn was clearly a fraud all along, or at minimum a massive hypocrite. Like a lot of lizardoids, and like Charles Johnson himself.

Elric66 - Case Study # 16 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-09-30T08:10:00.000-07:00

This particular lizardoid burst onto the scene in October 2006. He was just a garden variety islamohater, and a rather banal one too. Here's what he had to say in #103 on October 3, 2006's "Koran Found in Toilet, CAIR Springs into Action:"

Islam is a hate crime.

Elric probably spent a few days coming up with that gem!

But this lizardoid was one of the more prolific ones. In five months he managed to make 5,680 posts. If he had lasted 4 1/2 years like the Nodrog, at that rate he would have been projected to have posted 63,000 times, or the same amount as LGF's reigning poster queen (except that pissant Big Steve doesn't recognized the banned and blocked in his list) BabbaZee.

But Elric didn't make it that far. It all came crashing down on a March 9, 2007 thread entitled "Islamic Charity Operators Charged - CAIR Seethes" (although given the bad blood on this thread Elric66 had clearly alienated a few other lizards with some dustups before this date in his short career). Elric and Galloping Granny got into an intellectual scuffle over the limits to freedom of religion in the U.S. (Elric wanted to ban Islam pre-emptively, Galloping Granny correctly pointed out that Islam couldn't be banned, only its practicioners who carried out crimes)

But the argument took a weird turn in #107, when Elric 66 posted:

So would you be OK with a member of NAMBLA babysitting your granson if he had a clean record?

Cartman entered the fray in #116 with:

IMO, that's not an equivalent analogy.

To which Elric66 replied in #125:

Why not? Because it hits close to home?

And full-out flames erupted. Cartman replied with an expletive in #135, and then noisily exited the lizard kingdom (voluntarily) in #165. (Unfortunately for all, he eventually returned) In #167 J.D. asked Elric66,

What the hell is wrong with you?

EC Marm called him "crass," and after his reply had this to say in #194:

You pathetic piece of s**t. I'll tell you what, I'm gone, too, if you don't get the stick. Goodbye everyone, it was fun.

And then Ed the Weatherman laid into Elric66 too, starting in #230. And the psychotic queen of LGF (until she was given a figurative Anne Boleyn haircut by Charles a yearlater), BabbaZee, laid into Elric66 too.

And Elric's response to all of this? Obtuseness, evasion, pathetic attempts at turnabout, tone-deafness, and most of all, a refusal to admit any error. In #260 Charles lowered the boom:

OK, I read through this, and Elric66 -- you're getting a timeout. It's a real pain to have to deal with things this way, but I can and will, rather than have another thread on an important topic turn into baiting and personal squabbling.

Apparently the timeout became permanent, because Elric66 has never returned to LGF.

EtNorskTroll - Case Study # 15 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-09-29T09:32:00.000-07:00

EtNorskTroll - a second rate Fjordman. And Fjordman was pretty sub-par to begin with, as we just saw. EtNorskTroll had over 3,500 posts on LGF, but the twin whammy of Fascist Europeans and Creationists eventally got him the boot.

On April 20, 2008, Charles posted "Stein's 'Expelled' Exposed?," the first in what was to become the great Spring 2008 LGF obsession (now going on long into summer and into Fall). Over 2,300 posts on this particular thread, and EtNorskTroll showed up near the end at #2311 with a defense of the existence of God. After several posts he got an award from LGF curmedgeon A. Van Hilten (who is still around because he's on Charles' side - the side of atheism) in #2354, who bestowed on EtNorskTroll the "biggest load of crap on this thread" award.

But the next day the real action began - a return to the Brussels Journal/Gates of Vienna/Atlasshrugged/Flip DeWinter etc. etc. flame wars. Charles posted "Spencer" Why the Anti-Jihad Resistance is not about Race." Robert Spencer, intellectual Islamophobe, was still, apparently, on Charles' side, despite attendance in Fall 2007 at that notorious Brussels Journal conference. EtNorskTroll made a passing reference to arguing with BabbaZee in #736 and was promptly slimed by her in #744. EtNorskTroll had burned a lot of bridges in the Fall of 2007, not enough to bet banned, but he was definitely on thin ice.

And the ice broke two days later on April 23, 2008. The thread was "Gates of Vienna Attacks Robert Spencer," and in #78 EtNorskTroll started a contrarian viewpoint. He followed up in #482. I won't bother trying to explain his point of view, because it is irrelevant, tends to non-sequitur, and is typical of EtNorskTroll's status as the poor man's Fjordman. Charles sneered back in #494 with:

You got dinged down because it's a stupid question and you spam every thread related to fascists with that garbage.

And then EtNorskTroll continued the stupid contrariness in posts #525 through #527. An amusing interlude occurred when Oladunk in #533 asked Charles to delete his/her/its account, including some mysterious runes written for EtNorskTroll. Charles response in #542?

Delete your own goddam account!

But Charles reconsidered in #547 with:

On second thought, I'll grant your wish. Now I just need to get the stink of a Nazi sympathizer out of this thread.

And in #554 Charles lowered the boom:

I've also had enough of your two-faced nonsense, EtNorskTroll. Go hang out at Gates of Vienna. And don't bother sending me email - it will go straight into the trash.

Did you mean to write "Eurotrash," Charles? Are you and Bigel now on the same side?

EtNorskTroll now hangs around Gates of Vienna with Fjordman and other intellectual superiors.

Fjordman - Case Study # 14 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-09-26T16:22:00.001-07:00

Now we get to a biggie. A BIGGIE. It's so big that we don't need to delve into murky comments to get this story.

Fjordman was an LGF player. He wasn't a little pissant poster, he wasn't even a big pissant poster (although he did post sometimes, and a lot of his posts were full of - well - "piss"). He was an adjunct of the LGF Islamohatred machine - the European outpost (northern European, that is). He had his own blog from February to December 2005, but then shut it down (it's still available for viewing) because it's a lot easier to insinuate yourself at more well-read blogs. One of which was LGF.

Fjordman first got a link from Charles on March 2, 2005, in "Scandinavian Rape Epidemic," a particularly odious part of the Islamo-hating rhetoric evoking memories of the phantom "big black guy" threat against white women so beloved of U.S. Southern racists, KKK'ers, and lynchers. This was the first of 18 LGF threads devoted to Fjordman's sagas, the last of which was on April 2, 2007 ("Norwegian Muslim Cabbies Refusing to Carry Guide Dogs"). Many of these threads slobberingly link to the beloved, brilliant, and prescient Fjordman at (gasp!) Gates of Vienna! In between, Fjordman received 17 hat tips from Charles for supplying various and sundry stories for the LGF link mill. For those of you interested, you don't even need to be an LGF member to find them - just use the general LGF search function and type in the word "Fjordman." The only pitfall is that you have to do a search month-by-month. And he's really a prolix one-trick pony.

That all changed in October, 2007. We'll look more closely at this story in our Case Study of Atlasshrugged coming up, but Charles, starting with a small endnote to a generally laudatory thread about a Brussels anti-jihad conference, started a firestorm of flames on his thread and others.

What's interesting about the Fjordman incident is that Charles didn't just put up a snarky post announcing a banning - he blasted Fjordman in no less than three posted threads with Fjordman in the title. The first, on November 14, 2007, is entitled "Fjordman's Dramatic Exit(s)." Fjordman had apparently come and gone in a huff several times on recent threads, and now he had announced his permanent exit in a post at Gates of Vienna. Charles mocked him as

the person using the synonym "Fjordman"

and accused him of evading Charles' arguments.

As an aside, here's what Dead Sea Squirrel wrote in post #472 in this thread:

As if this whole thing weren't surreal enough, there's a long comment at GoV attacking Fjordman and implicitly defending Charles from The Poster Formerly Known as Gordon, but the basis of the attack, as usual, is that the Islamic threat to Europe is exaggerated, even in Sweden. Another questionable "ally" we can do without.

As the GCP gang would say, HEH!

On November 18, 2007 out came "Fjordman's Obsession," Charles whined that Fjordman was smearing him at "five or six sites" and had this to say:

It’s bizarre and obsessive behavior, bordering on character assassination, but it’s what I’ve come to expect; it’s how Fjordman and his fellow travelers obfuscate and divert attention from the real issues.

If that weren't enough, Fjordman appeared in the title of yet another LGF thread on December 9, 2007: "Fjordman: Still Obsessing, Still Obfuscating." There's some nonsense about a "black rat" and then Charles had this to say about why he was trumpeting this:

I wouldn’t even bother responding to this, but once again Fjordman’s attack article is appearing at numerous web sites—so it needs to be answered. The enormous effort being put into this deceptive smear campaign is quite remarkable.

And Charles has even seriously considered vandalizing his site to rid it of the slavering, slobbering praise he used to lavish upon the Norwegian Nincompoop. He had this to say in post #333 on a June 12, 2008 thread entitled "Melanie Phillips on the Obama Derangement Syndrome":

I've actually considered going through the LGF archives and deleting all my posts that link to his articles, now that I see clearly what he's promoting. But I have an aversion to revisionism. If someone tries to smear me with those posts at some point, I'll simply admit that I was wrong about Fjordman. Because I was.

As we shall see, with the right lizardoid traitor, Charles would have no problem vandalizing his site with a mass deletion.

One has to have some sympathy for Charles on this one - having to deal with a blowhard like Fjordman. But what is most interesting is how Fjordman quickly morphed from LGF bosom buddy to LGF pariah. At some point during this whole imbroglio Fjordman was officially banned from LGF.

And even when Charles is right - we should not be cozying up to fascists in a campaign against Islam - his usual vindictive, graceless, classless self comes stinking through.

Storagemanager - Case Study # 13 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-09-26T08:17:00.001-07:00

Storagemanager was an extremist even by LGF standards, often calling for the total eradication of Islam on the planet. With over 23,000 posts to his name, Storagemanager was certainly a regular irregular - he'd be on pissant Big Steve's list if he hadn't been banned. His most famous moment came when Rayra's tirades against him (or her? - the tirade included use of the dreaded "c" word) led to Rayra expulsion from the LGF Garden of Eden back in 2006.

But Storagemanager was often a nasty guy, and it finally caught up with him. May 14, 2008's "Wednesday Morning Open" was indeed a momentous thread. A leftist troll named "Droplet" was infesting the thread, and many of his posts were deleted. And then one of BabbaZee's posts was deleted, because she quoted a deleted post from Droplet, running afoul of Charles' sometimes-enforced rules. Storagemanager immediately came to BabbaZee's defense in #233 with:

Why?...and the racist bastards post stood!

It turns out that Storagemanager was guilty of the same, and some of his posts attacking (and quoting) Droplet were also deleted. In #674 he stated:

I guess Babba and I are on a hit list.

You see, it was the evil monitor lizards, at work!

Note, for posterity, that Storagemanager had dozens of posts on this thread, and most of them were links to various news stories on diverse and sundry topics, many of them from obscure sources. Not sure what Storagemanager does outside of Mommy's basement - or maybe the "storage" he manages is Mommy's broom closet.

On the same day's (May 14, 2008) post entitled "Lebanese Government Capitulates to Hizbullah Demands," Storagemanager bleated again in #37 that he did not know why his previous post was deleted. This earned him the wrath of the Lizard Tyrant in #49, who thundered:

If your comment is deleted, and you don't like it, you're free to go start your own blog and post that comment at it. I do not owe you an explanation, and demanding one will not be received well.

Storagemanager meekly backed down in #56.

But this was apparently enough for Johnson. The next day (May 15, 2008), he had an announcement to make in post #104 of "Thursday Evening Open:"

And before anyone asks, 'storagemanager' is no longer welcome here. I should have banned him a year ago.

Charles further explicated in #136:

The creep has posted more than 1500 links here, and thousands of comments, and every single one of them is about the horror of Islam. When I would post on other subjects, he made disparaging comments. If I posted something humorous, he would post, "How can you laugh, when Islam is the most horrible thing that ever happened to mankind?" I think it's pretty obvious that I have my own criticisms of Islam, but I should have listened to that inner voice that was telling me for years: "this guy is deranged."

There was another interesting exchange on this thread, which came after a bad week for long-time lizardoids getting thrown under the bus (as we shall see): In #21 the sycophantic Zombie made a funny, to which Charles added in #45, showing what he really thought of some of his former long-time lizardoids:

re: #21 zombie

So, after we nuked Mecca, the Muzzlims there mutated and evolved to become gay men. One said to the other, "I demand the right to get married!" The other replied, "But then I won't be able to exercise my God-given right to an abortion!" So instead they sat down and watched a DVD of The Passion of the Christ and were inspired by it to uplug their sister from the life-support system.

I think that about covers it -- except for "and then Charles deleted my post and lied about it because he's a big poopy head."

Adios, Storagemanager! Although he can still be found lurking at BabbaZee's deranged den and other ex-lizardoid haunts, peddling his Islamohate.

Mike C. - Case Study # 12 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-09-25T08:32:00.001-07:00

Mike C. was a long-time and prolific poster on LGF, with well over 20,000 posts to his "credit." He was one of the most reasonable of the lizardoids, which isn't necessarily saying much, but he occasionally actually agreed with the Nodrog against the usual suspects.

But Mike C. made a fatal move - he joined the dreaded ex-minions of (cue evil music) GULF COAST PUNDIT! Starting in 2005, allegedly in the wake of some squabbling about Hurricane Katrina (about more later), Gulf Coast Pundit (GCP) had become the new Discarded Lies, a hangout for disgruntled lizards and ex-lizards. In September 2006 a number of lizardoids were evicted, led by the psychotic Rayra, and migrated full-time over to GCP (once again, about more later). Mike C. had headed over there as well, although he and others (notably Ed the Weatherman) remained in both camps.

But "both camps" wasn't acceptable to Charles Johnson any more. On August 2, 2007, Charles posted "CAIR Executive Director Placed at Hamas Meeting." Early the next morning (2 AM PDT) Mike C., in #240, posted an OT link and added a meek little bomb for a footnote,

Hat Tip: Rayra.

Perhaps it's just coincidence that Mike C. put this on when the Lizard King was undoubtedly asleep at the switch. RTLM in #241 wished for Rayra and Reaganite to return to LGF, to which Mike C. replied in #245:

They are not going to be allowed back in, and wouldn't come if they were.

Mike C. then went on an innocuous tangent. But morning rose, the Lizard King awoke from his lair, and he didn't like what he saw. Charles thundered in #775 (responding to RTLM in #241):

Rayra and reaganite are not welcome at LGF. And Mike C -- your constant references are getting on my last nerve. A moronic post from Rayra was responsible for a CAIR complaint to the FBI. Maybe you'd like to see that happen again?

> Lizard Tyrant paranoia continued in #807:

And let me make that even more clear. Mike C: if you post another 'hat tip' to Rayra, or to anyone at Gulf Coast, I'm going to block your account. I've had it with these snide little comments.

The next night, at exactly the same time (2 AM PDT), Mike C. appeared on August 3, 2007's "Game Over for Beauchamp," with

Good Morning, Dead Thread.

After some banter back and forth, Mike C. answered another poster in #752 with what turned out to be his last LGF post. It was the GCP trademark term,

Heh.

Nonic in #781 had this to say:

Mike, it's been worrying me........... You DID see Charles' comments directed to you personally yesterday, right?

But it was too late. The Lizard King again awoke from his slumber, and apparently took another look over at the GCP Forum. He didn't like what he saw (it is no longer available for us non-privileged, non-chosen and banned ex-GCP members) because he thundered in #821:

Mike C, by the way, will now have more time to spend at Gulf Coast Pundit. This morning, it dawned on me that I was indulging a two-headed snake, after a quick look at the nasty crap being posted there. And that's the last time I visit that place.

Except it hasn't been the last time he's visited that place, as will become glaringly obvious with some of our later case studies!

Jwaksman - Case Study # 11 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-09-24T07:54:00.000-07:00

In September 2007 Charles and Lizard Nation were in a frenzy over the visit by the Iranian President to Columbia University. They wanted to see the worst - that Columbia actually supported Ahmedinejad. But they received some contrary information, and at first Johnson considered it. It came from two Columbia students, Lanaty and Jwaksman. Jwaksman is apparently a member of Columbia's Hillel Club, and was present at the event. In "An Email from a Columbia Student," on September 24, 2007, Charles actually invited Jwaksman and Lanaty to register as lizardoids, outside of standard registration time.

In #169 Jwaksman made his first post, and after a few perfunctory responses from polite lizardoids was lit into by some of the most wood-headed LGF ignoramuses - Ploome, Cobra, and the one and only Taxfreekiller. In a series of posts up to #209 he expressed increasing frustration with the pig-headedness of his opponents. And in #212 Charles showed whose side he was on with a snarky comment:

LGF: Still a tough room.

I guess the schizophrenia ward at Bellevue is also a tough room, eh Charles?

The earnest, sincere, and naive Jwaksman participated in three additional threads in his LGF career, totaling 143 posts - when he dove in, he dove in hard. The other threads he actively participated in were September 25, 2007's "Badger-Herald Writer: Iraqi Terrorists Have a Right to Kill U.S. Soldiers," and September 29, 2007's "CAIR Goes After John McCain." The frustration and anger that the well-educated Jwaksman shows with the LGF ignoramuses shows through big time in these threads.

Two weeks later, on October 12, 2007, Jwaksman dived in a final time on "CNBC to Ron Paulians: We're on to You." His attempts to provide rationality on the issue of Ron Paul earned him only rants from the likes of the psychedelic (or psychotic) BabbaZee. But I think Jwaksman's statement in post #103 is a bright beacon of rationality on LGF that appears too infrequently, so I'll repeat it here:

I'm not trying to criticize LGFers in particular, this is just about humans in general. We have this bad habit as a species of launching biting attacks on people just because they hold a certain political belief. If you oppose Affirmative Action then you're a racist. If you support Israel than you're an islamophobe. If you oppose Israel's policies than you're an anti-semite. If you support medicare for children then you're a communist.

Unfortunately, you can't judge someone by their position on a single topic. People can have varying logical and ethical reasons for reaching the same conclusion. Different types of people can hold similar beliefs. Let's not jump to huge conclusions about people we haven't met.

Something's obviously going right with the Columbia University education system.

The fight between the sublime (Jwaksman) and the ridiculous (the rest of LGF) continued, until Charles ended it in #183 with his usual cruel, sneering tone:

So long, kid. You bother me.

Jwaksman was blocked.

The great question this country faces is whether our future lies with earnest, thinking young adults like Jwaksman, or cynical, dishonest hacks like Charles Johnson. God help us if it's the latter.

The Discarded Liars, Round One - Case Study # 10 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-09-23T08:26:00.000-07:00

In late 2004, several of the more energetic lizardoids, lead by an odd one (Palestinian? Gay? Computer Whiz?) named Evariste, started a new thread entitled LGF Watch Watch (don't ask). It soon morphed into a new blog entitled Discarded Lies, billed as an adjunct to Little Green Footballs "when things got too crowded" on the main stage. At first Charles welcomed the new addition, but in the Spring of 2005 fractures started appearing.

A side note - there is currently an "LGF Watch Watch" site on blogspot which dates from late 2005, authored by someone named "Pablo," which is NOT our subject site. The original LGF Watch Watch morphed into Discarded Lies in 2004.

Signs of the fractures are shown on April 10, 2005's "LGF's Military Wing," The first volley was fired by LGF's moonshine division member, Justdanny, in #166:

Charles, Your headline doesnt fit the truth of the man behind the curtain in this post.

"With friends like Discardedlies ..." should be the title. And,

"Friends of and honored regulars at Discarded Lies are in an assault on some members of the Lizard Family at lgf. One of the DL regulars posted this story at indymedia, as an effort to damage the reputation of a LGFer." should have been your post.

With friends like that backstabbing chatterers at DL ...

In #285 Evariste told justdanny to "get a life." This brought on LGF (now GCP) bully and alleged lush Reaganite in #301, who had this to say:

You sure have a lot of nerve showing up here. What's wrong, the hits dropping on your blog? STFD & STFU

This led to a full-scale flamin' melee between Evariste and Frank IBC on one side, and Justdanny, Reaganite, and Iron Fist on the other. Bad blood alert!

Two days later, on April 12, 2005, the Discarded Lies gang noted on their own blog that they had been "delinked" by Johnson (no longer on the blogroll). rokbassist in #187 reported on the report, and babbazee commented in #197:

long ugly petty sniping stories from what I understand. Not worth burning the bandwidth for it, I am sure Charles had adequate reason to de-link it.

And Lizard Tyrant spoke up in #243:

I really have nothing to say about Discarded Lies, except that I am very disappointed in the direction they've chosen. Evariste is now posting the details of emails I sent to him, even though I asked him not to, so if you're curious I'm sure you can find out.

In #263 and #264, Charles further complained about events going on AT THIS MOMENT on Discarded Lies that validated his decision. Evariste showed up in #270 to state: <

Well, Charles, I'm not giving up on you, even though you've given up on me. I still love you.

What a soap opera! And then a little laughter. In #271, someone named smugmonkey had this to say:

Charles Johnson - from hippie to conservative blogger to whiny bitch. Bravo.

Another amazing fact - both Evariste and smugmonkey have a -1 "ding" on their side - since this system was instituted until Summer of 2007 some obsequious lizardoid actually went back two years to ding these two particular posts! And give positive ratings to others.

Smugmonkey got banned, as revealed by Rayra with a typical foul outburst in defense of Charles and attacking Discarded Lies in post #314. He also revealed another example of Charles' and LGF's thin skin - Discarded Lies had the audacity to allow VIEW FROM IRELAND to post! - and even provide a guest editorial! Another amazing little tidbit - despite Rayra's vigorous defense of Charles, this particular post ALSO got a -1 ding from someone - Rayra hatred is oblivious of actual content! Check out Powderfinger's vile outburst in #340, but since Powderfinger is still a member in good standing, his post has a +1. Barf me out!

I believe that this was Evariste's last post on LGF. Zorkmidden and Stormi, two other Discarded Liar originals, had already left the building. Frank IBC lingered on until later in 1995, then disappeared. Frank IBC indicated that he had been banned "for searching through the archives too much," and another Discarded Liar known as "joem" (LGF "nick" unknown) also stated that he was banned for the same reason, but it is unclear whether any of the other discarded lizards were actually banned and blocked at this point.

We'll discuss the bloody fate of the remainder in a later case study.

Discarded Lies continues on its merry way, with many ex-lizardoids. The blog's style can best be described as neo-con camp. It continued to provide a home for View from Ireland and another notorious ex-lizardoid, Bigel. They seem to be having a lot more fun over there than the morlocks of Little Green Footballs these days ...

In an aside, the term "Discarded Lizards" was introduced by LGF Kentucky Moonshine Regiment Irregular Justdanny in a thread on April 16, 2005 entitled "Another Lefty Smear." There's quite an interesting flame war on this thread between the DL'ers and the regular irregulars. The DL'ers responded on their own site by renaming Justdanny as Justdummy. The latter is far more appropriate a name for this particular Daniel Boone wannabe lizardoid loser.

View from Ireland - Case Study # 9 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-09-22T09:42:00.001-07:00

And now back to the misty memories of LGF 2003, before registration and monitor lizards and all of the police state attributes of LGF 2008. In addition to the legendary Nodrog's debut, 2003 was the year for View from Ireland, who supplied a VERY persistently contrarian viewpoint to the LGF irregulars on all sorts of issues, most notably the true nature of Rachel Corrie and Israel in general. For her efforts she earned several nicknames, including the Howling Banshee, Celtic Witch, and Spew from Ireland.

A good example of her persistent contrarianism can be found on her last major post, on November 19, 2003, entitled "Hilarious Item of the Day." You can scroll through her comments, which tended to the pedantic, obscure, and long-winded, until we get to #122, when the Lizard King lowered the boom:

By the way, I've finally had enough of "view from Ireland." I let her post her nasty digs and moral equivalence for almost a year, but it has become very clear that her main purpose in posting here is simply to derail discussions into silly irrelevance. This one is now an ex-view from Ireland.

Note the unbounded joy shown by the lizardoids, who reached new levels of hyperbole and insult as they laid their hosannas upon him (see, e.g., Honorary Atomic Jewish Redneck in #133, who called her "the Celtic Eva Braun."). But LGF Watch put it best, noting that without her LGF was a "cozier" place for the ignorant, lazy illiterati.

But this was pre-police state LGF, so the banning wall wasn't absolute. VFI snuck back in on November 29, 2003's "DUmmies Raving Again." In response to BarCodeKing's claim in #124 that dissenting opinions were allowed on LGF, the living proof to the contrary responded in #128 with a "riiight." Although Claudius in #130 noted that, in these pre-registration days, only Charles with his IP-locator could confirm that this was really View from Ireland. She apparently also snuck in on December 1, 2003's "Geneva Hosts Anti-Israel Festival" at #96 (no comments, because lizardoids were obsessed with countering the Nodrog himself on this particular thread).

And then Charles wised up. In December 2, 2003's "Death Cult Artwork", View from Ireland's contributions were summarily deleted by Charles. Her final LGF contribution was to cause mass confusion on December 15, 2003's "Saddam's Nuclear Program," when Charles "ghosted" several of her contributions and screwed up the post numbers big time, to which he admitted in #134 because he was "trying to counter a VFI infestation."

View from Ireland was, in her final LGF impact, apparently partially responsible for the messy divorce of LGF and Discarded Lies in early 2005, because the latter had the effrontery to allow her to post on their site. The horror!

But wait, there's more! Charles recently reported that his new handy-dandy IP locator showed him that View from Ireland continues to have an "unhealthy" interest in his site. Perhaps, like the Nodrog, she has become a WWW pathologist, and LGF represents the sickest of the sick!

Murqtaad - Case Study # 8 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-09-19T16:37:00.000-07:00

Another long-time LGF poster was Murqtaad - almost 5,000 posts during his LGF tenure, and generally he was a lizardoid in good standing, with sterling Islamo-hating credentials. Murqtaad is also a current or former member of the U.S. Armed Forces. He apparently would post often on the Friday drinking thread, or at least seemed to post while inebriated at times. And then in 2007 he was gone for a while, apparently at boot camp or in some other military endeavor.

When he came back, his drinking, combined with anger at Charles Johnson's deposit of his creationist supporters under the bus, led to his total meltdown and expulsion from LGF la-la land on June 27, 2008. The thread in question was "Creationist Bill Signed by Jindal," referring to the wonder-boy Louisiana governor, who wasn't so wondrous in his demolition of science at Louisiana's public schools. Charles was rightly outraged (if obsessed). In post #873, Murqtaad started out against the Lizard King:

Apparently God isn't real. That's the problem. I guess LGF is swingin' in the breeze.

Sharmuta responded in #883 with a single word:

Murqie!

It's apparently tough being a monitor lizard when one of your buddies goes off the reservation.

In #889 Murqtaad returned to attack a much earlier post (#114) by another Lizardoid in good standing, Lizard by the Bay, with this broadside:

What the hell do you call darwinism? That's a belief in the supernatural. For some reason fish grow legs? Wtf? And humans will grow gills at somepoint, right? Please. Spare me this idiotic nonsense. Pious agnosticism is a fantastic religion. You're just as bad as evangelical idiots, worse actually.

Sharmuta tried to humor Murqtaad, while Lizard by the Bay flamed back. A general melee ensued. In #934 "Murqie" had this to write:

My father got his Phd from U Penn. No offense to you, cause I'm no bible banger, but we have lost our religion. Man has destroyed God. I'm on leave for 3 more days and I am havin' real trouble relating to whats going on here at LGF. Maybe I'm lost... and drinkin too much, but I just don't get th absence of God anymore. We are not Kos. We are the warriors of truth. The defenders of the light. At least I hope. Or I may as well go awol

At this point, soothing words from the wondrous Sharmuta seemed to calm ol' Murqie down. But then in #1034, he noticed something he didn't like from a lizardoid named Slumbering Behemoth in #996 and went off again.

Lizard by the Bay slammed Murqie in #1043 with the following:

Come on guys, debating the genuine ID folks (ec marm, yehoshua, ArcherB) is one thing. Why anyone here wishes to engage murqtaad is beyond me. He is not an ID proponent. He's a pure creationist who wants Darwin banned from the classroom and the clock turned back on science education 100 years. His position is so extreme it is simply not worth the effort.

Besides, it's impossible to argue with a fanatic who has no use for reason. His only agenda is a desire to suppress any scientific discovery that threatens his faith-based understanding of the world. 500 years ago he would have been the guy burning "heretics" at the stake. Just let him be.

And then Murqtaad really went ballistic. He posted twelve times between #1041 and #1067. We have no record of what was said, except from the snippets quoted by outraged lizards in between, because each and every one of these posts was deleted, apparently by monitor lizard Sharmuta. She sanctimoniously read Murqtaad out of the LGF community in post #1086, calling him a drunk. In #1142 Charles acidly commented "The Meltdown continued all night, I see." And Murqtaad was no more. His drunken binge on Friday night earned him the ultimate hangover for a died-in-the-wool lizardoid Saturday morning.

An interesting post-script: On July 15, 2008 on a post entitled "Assassination Plot Against Tony Blair," our old lizardoid friend 'nam Grunt went ballistic and apparently supported the assassination attempt in #33. This post was promptly deleted. When called on it in #53, he stated, in typical 'nam grunt fashion:

Excuse me! Why would that be deleted? Obama has thrown them under the bus to get elected ruler of the world and is an apostate, and Tony has made their lives miserable as well for the last few years. stfu, and get yourself some business and stay out of mine, idiot!

This earned our old veteran the following admonition from Charles in #62:

If you post anything like that again, your account is going to be blocked.

As of today, 'nam Grunt is still a lizardoid, so he must have "taken the hint."

Anyway the reason for this digression is that, in comment #60, Lizard by the Bay had this to say:

Uh oh. 'Nam Grunt is going murqtaad on us.

A new entry for the LGF Dictionary, Zombie ol' buddy ol' pal!

Jehu - Case Study # 7 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-09-19T09:40:00.000-07:00

November 7, 2007, also saw the end of a far less sympathetic lizardoid irregular, Jehu. For those of you unfamiliar with the origins of this creature's LGF nick, here is a summary of the bloody biblical deeds of the original from Wikipedia. Jehu was often crude, scatalogical, and outright vile in his invective, often expressing wishes for slaughter not only of Palestinians and Muslims, but also the hated Mexicans and Mexican-Americans.

Jehu revealed his true nature on the same November 7, 2007 thread, "Robertson Endorses Guiliani" where Case Study #6, goodbye_natalie, met his demise. In #158 he started out by attacking neo-con (and Charles) favorite Tammy Bruce. In #223 he accused those who didn't like Pat Robertson on LGF of "hating Christians." OOPS! In #265 the Lizard King himself told everyone that he didn't like Pat Robertson!

In #256 he dug himself a bigger hole by blaming 9/11 on America's lax morality toward gays and others - another LGF no-no. He followed up in #257 with this:

Maybe your choice is to grow the hell up. Stop the pouting all of you. Your lifestyle is not the most sacred thing in the universe, the universe does not revolve around you. It is important for millions who do not live here...what happens in our politics, and perhaps it is important to the future of civilization, so let go of your dicks for five minutes and pretend there is something greater than you or you little viewpoint. Now I am out of here, obviously it is a sin to accept neo-Nazis, but Christian bashing (no wait it is just Robertson, wink, wink) is acceptable. Hatred is HATRED no matter the object, no matter the hater.

Actually a semi-lucid post, unusual for Jehu. He continued to vent in #348, joining goodbye_natalie:

To act like there is NOT some pent up anti-Christian bias in some of the posters here is to be in denial. To many times when some Christian leader, whatever his imperfections, is highlighted here on LGF, this same vile crap comes out, far to much for everyone to pretend it is just personal dislike of a singular person. It is used as a mask to advance an anti-Christian bias. I wonder what Christian leader would not get bashed by some segment of posters? All well and good, but lets mount our chargers and go after those "Facists," in Europe. Careful when you start exacting a moral code, you will be measured also. I wonder if some X liberals here are going to discover what happens when you begin demanding enforcement of YOUR moral code.

Then came Charles' threat in #363 against both goodbye_natalie and Jehu (see Case Study #6). And then, Jehu's LGF career was unceremoniously over. The profane bully has not been missed.

Goodbye_Natalie - Case Study # 6 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-09-18T09:09:00.000-07:00

One of the Nodrog's chief bete noire's in my later LGF career was goodbye_natalie (GN), a regular lizardoid who jousted with the Nodrog often. The origin of the screen name was a complete mystery to me. GN wasn't the worst of the lizardoids, but he certainly could be as obtuse and insulting as the rest.

But in a shocking turn of events in November, 2007, GN threw away his lizardoid credentials in one fell swoop. The thread was November 7, 2007's "Pat Robertson Endorses Giuliani." There were quite a few bannings on LGF around this time concerning the Vlaams Belang controversy, but GN took after a different issue. In #265 the Lizard King himself had opined:

I don't like Pat Robertson. This isn't "Christian-bashing," it's Pat Robertson-bashing.

Did I mention I don't like Pat Robertson?

But GN apparently decided he had seen enough of LGF, and his reply in #273 combined a broadside attack with a subtle innuendo:

I don't like Pat Robertson either because I think he's a phony. But that cuts both ways because you're no friend of Christians either Charles. There's an allowed double standard on this board from Catholic bashing to Protestant mocking that at the very least you allow. But you'd be real quick with the banning stick if somebody came in here mocking the Jews.

Is that because it might interfere with {umm, umm} personal opportunity?

Wow! First of all an attack on Charles and LGF for allowing anti-Christian posts. Second, a charge of hypocrisy for intolerance of alleged "Jew-mockery." And finally, an innuendo that Charles tolerated one and not the other because of his extensive ties to Israeli and Jewish lizardoids and the ad revenue their eyeballs could generate.

By the way, GN was also, without invoking the Nodrog, making a pointed reference to my banning on the scurrilous and ridiculous charge of Jew-baiting a month earlier. For which I will always appreciate Goodbye_Natalie.

Charles came back almost instantly in #277 with his usual combination of denial and threat:

If you don't like the policy at LGF, you're welcome to post elsewhere. I've deleted many anti-Christian comments, and banned several people for over the top statements. You don't have a clue what you're talking about.

And your smarmy comment about "personal opportunity" is highly offensive, by the way, as I suspect you realize.

Charles further expressed his august disapproval in #287:

I expect that kind of comment at lgfwatch or some loony left site. I don't expect it here, from a long-time commenter.

Charles was trying not to express his shock - a longtime lizardoid follower had suddenly turned on him - this was a new phenomenon on LGF.

The inimitable (thank the Lord) NY Nana had this to say in #338:

So I finally see the real goodby_natalie.

Come to think about it, there has been more evidence lately, but as a Jew, I find this comment to be pure Jew hate, something I had not seen before. We usually are singled out like this, even if it is irrelevant.

And if there has ever been a defender of any true religion, be it Christian or Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, etc., it is Charles.

You post stinks. Feh.

And in another developing pattern, when a long-time lizardoid went south, another would try to excuse the outburst. Diana in #347 tried to answer NY Nana's broadside with such excuses:

Nana, I think g_n's been having sleeping problems again. Whenever he does, he has these outbursts where he's incredibly nasty. Having been on the receiving end of it innumerable times, and gotten no help, perhaps we ought to extend a little charity.

But NY Nana would have none of it, and renewed her attack in #349.

Finally Charles put the nail in the coffin in #363:

There's a certain level of vitriol that I just won't put up with, and goodbye_natalie and jehu are welcome to find somewhere more conducive to their views.

Yes, Jehu was also banned on this very thread! As we will discuss later - he was quite a different lizardoid and deserves his own case study.

One last point - notice the boot-licking nauseating responses of Highrise, starting in #353, and Sharmuta, in #371. These two harpies brought sycophancy to new levels of outrageousness on LGF.

A final, FINAL note - goodbye_natalie paid a visit to this blog's sisterin November 2007 and had some nice things to say. He turned out to be much too good for Lizard Nation to tolerate!

Ranbutan - Case Study #5 - LGF BANNED AND BLOCKED

2008-09-15T09:29:00.000-07:00

From the misty memories of LGF in bygone years, we bring you the 2003 banning of LGF semi-contrarian Ranbutan. From the sycophantic Zombie Dictionary:

HWSNBN - He Who Shall Not Be Named. A euphemism used for discussing an especially disliked former commenter named Ranbutan without having to actually use his name. After Ranbutan stopped posting on LGF, the phrase He Who Shall Not Be Named was sometimes later used to refer to radio pundit Michael Savage, probably because he frequently complains on air how he is ignored by the media, and because the very mention of his name in most real-world conversations would be enough to start an argument.

What Zombie doesn't tell you is that Ranbutan "stopped posting on LGF" because he was banned. A review of Ranbutan's comments showed that he actually was quite a good LGF fit except for one issue - but that issue was a doozie. Israel. Ranbutan was skeptical of Israel, probably best put into a Pat Buchanan far-right grouping on the subject. But - even if Ranbutan had been more supportive of the "Zionist Entity," - unless a poster went along with the shrieking of Charles and the illiterati for "transfer" of Palestinians, or worse, then that poster was the subject of huge amounts of scorn and invective (the Nodrog himself is proof of that).

Anyway, on July 5, 2003, on a thread entitled "Mugabe Treats Himself," warfare broke out between Ranbutan (sometimes known as "Rantbutton" by the other illiterati) and Mommydoc, with Zulubaby playing a supporting role. A vicious, and deserved, attack on Reaganite in #21 set the stage. Look at his long erudite and sneering posts in #39, #46, #49 and #55, to get a flavor for this dude's antics.

Then there is a deleted post in #76, and it must have been from Ranbutan, and it must have included threats against Mommydoc and posting of personal information. At least that's based upon Mommydoc's followup comments in #77 and #78. "Rantbutton" had finally lost it, and he was banned. This was before Charles' elaborate systems were in place, so he may have snuck in under another name and another ISP at some point, but there really was only one Ranbutan. And he is no more.

But, unlike the unlamented Highrise (and like Nodrog), Ranbutan lived on. Look, for example, at the discussion on the July 12, 2003 thread "ISM Tool Gets the Vapors," where both Maine's Michael in #131 and Zulubaby in #137 defend Ranbutan and express sympathy for him, to some extent. Mommydoc in #93 remains unconvinced. But sympathy for anything other than Israeli settlers was never a Mommydoc forte ...