{"id":190405,"date":"2009-12-01T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/01\/props-to-a-right-winger\/"},"modified":"2009-12-01T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T23:30:00","slug":"props-to-a-right-winger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/01\/props-to-a-right-winger\/","title":{"rendered":"Props to a Right Winger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Johnson of LGF <a href=\"http:\/\/littlegreenfootballs.com\/article\/35243_Why_I_Parted_Ways_With_The_Right\/comments\/#ctop\">disassociates himself from the raving right<\/a>, declaring those who support secular fascism<sup>*<\/sup>&#8220;, those who support Christo-fascism<sup>\u2020<\/sup>, those who promote bigotry and white supremacy<sup>\u2021<\/sup>, the anti-science right<sup>\u00a7<\/sup>, the homophobic right<sup>\u00e6<\/sup>, anti-government loonies<sup>\u00df<\/sup>, hateful conspiracy nuts<sup>\u00d8<\/sup>, the frothing at the mouth right wing blogosphere<sup>\u00c6<\/sup>, anti-Islamic bigots<sup>\u00b1<\/sup>, and insane Obama Haters<sup>\u00a5<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>What is more interesting than this essay, which, after all, is not the first such essay against the insanity of the far right from a member of the not-so-far right, are the comments, which are generally supportive, and rather thoughtful, so the reader of Little Green Footballs deserve some credit here too.<\/p>\n<p>One interesting bit of meta, as Mr. Johnson notes, is that he got a spike in traffic from his post, even though it was something that he, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/littlegreenfootballs.com\/article\/35245_What_Did_I_Say_Something\">wrote it in about three minutes last night<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s always the way.  The stuff that you feel is pearls of wisdom is largely ignored, and the stuff that you throw away gets the nod&#8230;.File it under hoocoodanode.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americablog.com\/2009\/12\/major-conservative-blog-little-green.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Americablog+%28AMERICAblog%29\">AMERICAblog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note that the footnotes below are direct quotes, and I spent a lot of time looking up the <a href=\"http:\/\/ascii.cl\/htmlcodes.htm\">HTML codes<\/a> for the footnote symbols.<br \/><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Pat Buchanan, Robert Stacy McCain, etc.<\/span><br \/><sup>\u2020<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Operation Rescue, anti-abortion groups, James Dobson, Pat Robertson, Tony Perkins, the entire religious right, etc.<\/span><br \/><sup>\u2021<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Pat Buchanan, Ann Coulter, Robert Stacy McCain, Lew Rockwell, etc.<\/span><br \/><sup>\u00a7<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">creationism, climate change denialism, Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, James Inhofe, etc.<\/span><br \/><sup>\u00e6<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Sarah Palin, Dobson, the entire religious right, etc.<\/span><br \/><sup>\u00df<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">tea parties, militias, Fox News, Glenn Beck, etc.<\/span><br \/><sup>\u00d8<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Birthers, creationists, climate deniers, etc.<\/span><br \/><sup>\u00c6<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Hot Air, Free Republic, Ace of Spades, etc.<\/span><br \/><sup>\u00b1<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, etc.<\/span><br \/><sup>\u00a5<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">witch doctor pictures, tea parties, Birthers, Michelle Malkin, Fox News, World Net Daily, Newsmax, and every other right wing source<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Johnson of LGF disassociates himself from the raving right, declaring those who support secular fascism*&#8220;, those who support Christo-fascism\u2020, those who promote bigotry and white supremacy\u2021, the anti-science right\u00a7, the homophobic right\u00e6, anti-government loonies\u00df, hateful conspiracy nuts\u00d8, the frothing at the mouth right wing blogosphere\u00c6, anti-Islamic bigots\u00b1, and insane Obama Haters\u00a5. What is more &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1118,1003,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta","category-philosophy","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}