Charles Johnson Explains The Crazy Hating
Well, not really. Little Green Footballs on why he flipped from right to left. The explanation is a little thin. It’s more an illustration of how he’s flipped out, from right to left. But apparently it works like this: If you disagree with any element of half of the American body politic, you disagree with the whole thing. This makes you saner, more compassionate, more embracing of diversity. Probably smarter, too.
And if you agree with any element of half the American body politic, you agree with the whole thing, and you are a crazy hater. But the whole thing is crazy and hateful. That’s an inference, because he doesn’t really get into it. He really only offers the broadest outlines of his crazy hate problem, basically how some people drive him crazy, and he hates them. Which is too bad, because even if you buy the premise that broad swaths of America are crazy and hateful, it doesn’t get into what he finds so attractive about the presumeably sane, loving, rational part. I would have preferred a detailed description of the moment when all that inclusive thoughtful concern hit him like a silver bullet, when the switch flipped on the bright shining light on the road to Damascus, when … enveloped by its warm, mentally balanced, nurturing embrace … he started frothing about the hateful craziness. Also, how the crazy hating on his new side of the aisle fits into his new anti-hate/crazy world view. Not on offer in this brief crazy hate-a-thon. But it’s pretty obvious he bought this line that it is all about crazy hateful bigoted insurrection, which comes across ironically as crazy and hateful sounding. Unfortunately I never read his site enough — largely because its content was never much more sophisticated, informative or entertaining than this crazy hatefest — to offer any meaningful analysis of where, when and how the crazy hate obsession kicked in. Scroll down for calming beach views!
Moderate Voice, taking all that in moderation, examines room for moderate growth. Doesn’t address whether LGF can lay claim to any of that turf. Hateful craziness in defense of loving sanity is no mental illness?
The Other McCain picks through the train wreckage for clues as to when it went off the rails.
Jawa engages with crazy.
Lefty Pam’s House Blend, curiously, devotes a large part of her Charles Johnson appreciation to a discussion of the weakness of her own side. No, not the crazy, bigoted hating … the impotent uselessness:
… this administration and Congress would need the 100% control on the Hill and a completely impotent GOP to find the spine to do anything of consequence without selling the whole farm to cover their political posteriors.
That may be an overly rosy view of Democratic governing potential. Anyway, I thought they basically had that already.
Back to the matter at hand. First Andrew Sullivan, now Charles Johnson … what is it about the flip that brings on the swamp fever crazy?
Althouse notes that crazy is as crazy always was.
A.J. Strata sounds a note of Chuck-bayah (my Lord). Explains that Johnson is a victim … driven mad by people on the right, leapfrogged the center for the looney left. I guess that explains why everyone else is suddenly a pack of Belgian neo-nazis siegheiling Pat Buchanan. Strata says he was thoughtful and rational before he went off the deep end. I dunno … I always picked up arrogant, unpleasant and full of himself — even by blogospheric strandards – and that’s just with people he had marginal differences with. Anyway, if you can’t hang, the kitchen door’s over there. I can’t wait to see what happens when he PO’s his new pals.
Da Tech Guy: Glenn Reynolds drove Charles Johnson crazy! OK, that’s not exactly how he put it, but it’s part of this thoughtful examination of the subject. The dire Instalanche withdrawal effect, which led sudden onset Andrew Sullivanheimers and frothing FireDogHydrophilia. With helpful graphic and hurtful vid.
Another Black Conservative: Who you calling a white supremacist?
Maguire on the Four Horsemen of the Ablogalypse: With the defection of the Islamophobic hate site also known as LGF to Kumbayahtown, there’s only one still riding … Reynolds.
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December 1st, 2009 at 8:11 am
Hey, Chuck!
Shark!
December 1st, 2009 at 8:20 am
[...] Jules Crittenden – He really only offers the broadest outlines of his crazy hate problem, basically how some people drive him crazy, and he hates them. Which is too bad, because even if you buy the premise that broad swaths of America are crazy and hateful, it doesn’t get into what he finds so attractive about the presumeably sane, loving, rational part. I would have preferred a detailed description of the moment when all that inclusive thoughtful concern hit him like a silver bullet, when the switch flipped on the bright shining light on the road to Damascus, when … enveloped by its warm, mentally balanced, nurturing embrace … he started frothing about the hateful craziness. Also, how the crazy hating on his new side of the aisle fits into his new anti-hate/crazy world view. [...]
December 1st, 2009 at 8:45 am
[...] Chucky has a screed up saying why he left the Right. Like he was ever there. The Other McCain, Jules Crittenden, The Jawa Report, and Israel Matzav destroy Mad King Charles’ whiny girly man [...]
December 1st, 2009 at 8:46 am
[...] Chucky has a screed up saying why he left the Right. Like he was ever there. The Other McCain, Jules Crittenden, The Jawa Report, and Israel Matzav destroy Mad King Charles’ whiny girly man looooooonacy.Crossed [...]
December 1st, 2009 at 9:11 am
[...] Chucky has a screed up saying why he left the Right. Like he was ever there. The Other McCain, Jules Crittenden, The Jawa Report, and Israel Matzav destroy Mad King Charles’ whiny girly man [...]
December 1st, 2009 at 10:20 am
[...] update! Reality proves too much for another denialist, so another frothing-nutjob hateblogger takes a hard left on the Sully Train. The asylum is getting as crowded as the underside of the Hopenchange Express [...]
December 1st, 2009 at 11:07 am
It’s like any other religious conversion. There is no one more fanatical, more willing to prove himself a True Believer, than a recent convert.
My comment to him (#1340 on the thread, wonder how long it will last) was that he had parted ways with reason, and would not be missed.
December 1st, 2009 at 11:36 am
[...] Jules Crittenden: And if you agree with any element of half the American body politic, you agree with the whole thing, and you are a crazy hater. But the whole thing is crazy and hateful. That’s an inference, because he doesn’t really get into it. He really only offers the broadest outlines of his crazy hate problem, basically how some people drive him crazy, and he hates them. Which is too bad, because even if you buy the premise that broad swaths of America are crazy and hateful, it doesn’t get into what he finds so attractive about the presumeably sane, loving, rational part. I would have preferred a detailed description of the moment when all that inclusive thoughtful concern hit him like a silver bullet, when the switch flipped on the bright shining light on the road to Damascus, when … enveloped by its warm, mentally balanced, nurturing embrace … he started frothing about the hateful craziness. Also, how the crazy hating on his new side of the aisle fits into his new anti-hate/crazy world view. Not on offer in this brief crazy hate-a-thon. But it’s pretty obvious he bought this line that it is all about crazy hateful bigoted insurrection, which comes across ironically as crazy and hateful sounding. Unfortunately I never read his site enough — largely because its content was never much more sophisticated, informative or entertaining than this crazy hatefest — to offer any meaningful analysis of where, when and how the crazy hate obsession kicked in. Scroll down for calming beach views! [...]
December 1st, 2009 at 11:41 am
I never thought of Charles as of the Right. But I thought of him as fairly rational in his way for a long time. And so I’ve been greatly saddened not only by his irrationality but the foul mouthed invective I received from him when I tried to query him upon it.
I truly cannot explain it.
December 1st, 2009 at 11:51 am
[...] Jules Crittenden offers a useful roundup of other reactions, including this from Ann Althouse: “Personally, I don’t need to go through the exercise of figuring out what happened to Johnson. I’ve avoided him all these years because he seemed too extreme and hateful. Now, he’s fired up about other people being extreme and hateful? And he’s fired up in a way that seems extreme and hateful?” [...]
December 1st, 2009 at 12:17 pm
[...] who is quoted by Ann expands on it: I would have preferred a detailed description of the moment when all that inclusive thoughtful [...]
December 1st, 2009 at 5:12 pm
[...] Blair:Scroll down for calming beach views! Jules Crittenden explores Charles Johnson’s crazy hatred.Jihad Watch:Libelblogger Charles Johnson: Why I Parted Ways with Sanity and Truth-TellingThe [...]
December 1st, 2009 at 5:32 pm
[...] spent much time being critical of them, so much so as to level near-libelous accusations based on such flimsy associations as linking to a site, or having a casual conversation with his [...]
December 1st, 2009 at 6:39 pm
[...] you do not know about the kerffle du jour (link, link, link, link), you’re not missing much, but if you know about all three and the author of the quote [...]
December 1st, 2009 at 7:18 pm
American Power tracked-back with, ‘Charles Johnson Completes Auto-Excommunication From the Entire Conservative Blogosphere’.
December 1st, 2009 at 10:00 pm
“Why I parted ways with the Right”
Reasons unimportant…just go away.
December 1st, 2009 at 11:03 pm
[...] Charles Johnson Explains The Crazy Hating OK, not really. Little Green Footballs on why he flipped from right to left. The explanation is a little thin. It’s more an illustration of how he’s flipped out, from right to left. But apparently it works like this: If you disagree with any element of half of the American body politic, you disagree with the whole thing. This makes you saner, more compassionate, more embracing of diversity. Probably smarter, too. (tags: charles_johnson) [...]
December 2nd, 2009 at 11:42 am
See the difference in denying the Holocaust and Global warming is that there are photos of one that everyone can view and the other while at one time there ‘were’ photos, they were thrown out but you can see some stylized drawings of it.
December 2nd, 2009 at 11:14 pm
[...] these people have more: Ace o’ Spades Jawa Report Jules Crittenden Dan Riehl James Joyner and Robert Stacy [...]