Awesome: major right wing blogger now says the movement has become “ a bunch of kooks"

[bos1]

http://washingtonindependent.com/39629/civil-war-raging-in-right-wing-blogosphere

Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, jazz musician and Web designer Charles Johnson has devoted his blog, Little Green Footballs, to exposing Muslim extremism in and outside the United States. His targets have included the Council on American-Islamic Relations, filmmaker Michael Moore, Reuters, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Dan Rather, and the late pro-Palestinian activist Rachel Corrie — who some LGF commenters (not Johnson) call “St. Pancake,” a tribute to the Israeli steamroller that killed her. LGF helped write the lexicon of the self-styled “anti-Jihadist” blogosphere — from “moonbat” (”an unthinking or insane leftist”) to “anti-idiotarian” (”anyone who grasps the significance of and does his or her best to combat the post-9/11 political alliance between the ‘Old Left’ and militant Islam”).

But in the early days of Barack Obama’s presidency, LGF has become better known for the various fights it picks with many on the right — including conservative bloggers, critics of Islamic extremism, and critics of Islam in general who used to be Johnson’s fellow travelers.

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This has the blogger’s peers asking themselves the same question, over and over: What the heck happened to Charles Johnson?
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“I don’t think there is an anti-jihadist movement anymore,” Johnson said. “It’s all a bunch of kooks. I’ve watch some people who I thought were reputable, and who I trusted, hook up with racists and Nazis. I see a lot of them promoting stories and causes that I think are completely nuts."

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. "hook up with racists and Nazis"

makes you wonder if they weren't really fellow travelers with these groups all along. There's a mindset that defines the world in terms of "us" and "other", the latter being always bad, the former always good. No shades of grey for these folks--everything is black and white.

[hvn_nbr_2]

2. Lie down with wackos and kooks. Wake up with racists and Nazis. nt

[JuniperLea]

3. Distancing himself from the pack...

When the harsh light of reality is shone upon his flock... easier to distance oneself, methinks.

[old mark]

4. They have been that way all along - wonder what made him change

his mind?

Could he be the smart conservative people have been looking for?


mark

[JuniperLea]

7. Haha! I doubt it... but that is a great angle!

Snipe hunting is funny:)

[bos1]

5. It's like he finally learned what was obvious

that these anti-muslim extremists were the same type if not exactly the same group as the neo-Nazis and other reactionary whackos.

[JuniperLea]

6. A rose by any other name... eom

[Laelth]

8. Nearly every conservative ...

... if they have even the slightest bit of an open mind, after watching events unfold, and judiciously examining the truth, over time, ends up being ... a liberal.

This has happened to a good number of Supreme Court Justices over the years. It's just a fact. The truth has a liberal bias.

Nice to see that Johnson, in the end, has an open mind.

:dem:

-Laelth