Little Green Footballs Readers: Kill Them All Now!
February 19, 2007 -- 2:14 PM EST // // Post a Comment
Okay, so Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs has responded to my post below. I had noted that Johnson appeared to have advocated the assassination of foreign leaders in this post yesterday. Now Johnson has responded, accusing me (with striking originality) of -- yawn, yawn, yawn -- aiding and abetting America's enemies:
Greg should spend a bit more time cultivating a sense of humor and a bit less defending the honor of open, avowed enemies of America.
Hey, I thought my post was kinda funny! Didn't you catch the gags about Ann Coulter and Howie Kurtz? Oh, well -- we can't all be as witty and clever as Johnson is, alas.
Incidentally, it's going to come as a crushing disappointment to his readers that Johnson was joking about targeting foreign leaders, as he appears to be saying. Those readers, after all, took him very seriously indeed. If you can stand it, check out some of the reader comments on his original post:
Johnson does say one thing that deserves a quick reply, though. He writes of my post: "He even put up a screenshot, as if he thinks I’m going to be so humiliated by his exposure of my bloodthirsty wingnuttitude that I’ll immediately delete my post and try to hide the evidence of my transgression."
Nope -- wrong again. This blog actually makes it a policy to use screen grabs in place of blockquotes where possible for the purposes of illustration. Examples here and here. What's more, the joker's original post was basically nothing but a picture -- of course one would screen-grab it. Believe me, no one who's familiar with the constant flow of bigotry, jingoism and bloodthirsty war-shrieking of LGF would ever make the mistake of imagining that Johnson has the capacity to be embarrassed by anything he posts.
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