Nick Berg's Father Weeps for Zarqawi
The father of Nick Berg is a tool of MoveOn.org and International ANSWER, and he responds in predictable moonbat fashion to the death of the man who decapitated his son: Father of Zarqawi victim draws no comfort from his death.
johnson updated that post several times not to walk back from the ugly sentiment, but to push back forcefully against those who had the temerity to criticize him. pagano's criticism was appropriate and understandable:
What I'm shocked by are the several execrable moral idiots here who watched the video, harvested the kid's slaughter for the orgy of righteous rage it bestirs, and then denounced Berg's father for being "LLL", for expressing bland anti-Bush sentiment because his kid was massacred. Do you have any clue how classless that is? Do you think Nick Berg would want that? Is it possible to be this fathomlessly unaware?
we can't look back into the comments section to see how the argument played out, but it's reasonable to suppose that it concluded with charles banning pagano; similar in many ways to my own experience.
when pagano subsequently raised the fact that johnson was mentioned numerous times in the oslo terrorist's manifesto and cited the collection of screenshots of johnson's memory-holed hostings of fjordman's essays at diaryofdaedelus, johnson attempted to shout the fact out of the room by tweeting to the effect that "pagano hangs out with serbian genocide deniers!!" which is johnson's shorthand calumny against diaryofdaedelus.
to describe diaryofdaedelus in those terms is basically a lie. diaryofdaedelus is a meta-blog dedicated to mocking littlegreenfootballs and exposing charles' hypocrisy. the narrow agenda accommodates a wide-ranging audience. it's contributors include people who never stopped being islamophobes as well as people who never were islamophobes and who's connection to the pre-2009 lgf consisted solely of criticizing the blog's hate-mongering. the "serbian genocide denier" is one guy, formerly "rodan" of lgf. as i suspect he was when he was getting hat-tipped and updinged by charles at lgf, his contributions are in equal measure frequent and worthless, filled with errors of logic and grammar. the material cited by pagano is from chen-zen, a center-left poster who was a critic of lgf when charles was promoting fjordman's essays as "must-read" material.*
in any case, charles attempts to delegitimize pagano's tweet with this ad hominem claim despite charles himself having propagated the false claim that the oslo terrorist was fjordman. charles' source for the claim was the norwegian national socialist party.
and that was the least of it from a week in which johnson managed to insinuate himself into the media mainstream as the primary source that the oslo terrorist was incited by pamela geller, that geller had "blood on her hands" and that geller had revised an old post of hers to cover her complicity in encouraging the violence in olso, ALL WHILE IGNORING:
1) charles johnson was the original "bigot blogger" who was on the scene when breivik is adduced to have begun planning his attack.
2) charles johnson plucked geller from his own comments and established her blogging career.
3) charles johnson promoted and hosted fjordman's essays.
4) charles johnson profligately blogged about norway's "muslim problem" in apocalyptic terms.
5) charles johnson himself is positively cited in the oslo terrorist's manifesto...
6) ...more than twice as much as geller, and...
7) ...in such a way that one must conclude that charles johnson's website was the oslo terrorist's portal to the other writers he cites.
8) charles johnson has unethically revised posts on his blog, deleted more than one hundred others, and blocked archive.org from cacheing his site in order to hide his past statements from scrutiny.
in fact, "ignoring" is the wrong word. johnson threatened a columnist at forbes magazine with a libel suit this past week for merely stating the minimal case that breivik had apparently read his site.
johnson hasn't been able to memory hole any more of his posts. there are complete archives of his site available to those who know where to look and any further shennanigans would be noticed. i did notice a small change when browsing through johnson's old fjordman posts, answering the question of just what kind of people johnson was promoting when he was frequently speaking of the "muslim menace" in norway and what his attitude was toward catching out potentially dangerous racial ideologues before they act on their beliefs.
the thread is "Finnish Mindcrime Watch"
Finnish Mindcrime Watch
Finnish blogger Mikko Ellilä has been notified that he will be interrogated by police under Finland’s “incitement against groups” law.
all is well there. the thread is intact, but notice that charles has gone back and truncated the link. the link originally lead to this item at gatesofvienna: Muzzled in Finland. what you find by following through is that the man charles is trying to make a martyr of in his "mindcrime" post was espousing racial nationalist views which were noxious enough to get him booted from the anti-jihad group blog he had been posting at. the particular post which brought him under investigation is translated here: (link).
perhaps that's not a big story, but something worth noting in passing as charles is making a big stink about geller whitewashing norwegian extremism from her blog. that charles is an abject hypocrite on this matter is old news, but it's worth revisting with the knowledge that the extent of johnson's unethical revisionism of his own blog is yet unknown.
i'd also like to thank richard silverstein for allowing me to derail a thread on his blog to discuss johnson.
if you click over there, check out the poster what calls themselves "chayma". what a character, no?
*not that i really feel obligated to do this, but chenzen is my only conduit of communication with diaryofdaedelus, and i've not been silent when the vintage lgf'ers have made excuses for racism.
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