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An Open Letter to Charles Johnson

Charles1164 Wrote: Jan 29, 2010 1:28 PM
I, too, used to ba a loyal, daily reader of lgf. No more. I turned to it today for the 1st time in months, because someone else at work had the sports page.

I came across your letter to him and agree with you wholeheartedly. Thank you for your thoughtfyl analysis.

It is sad to see the direction that Charles has turned with his obsession with creationism, hie out-of-context tirades against those on the right he disgrees with; and his guilt by association campaigns.

Sadder still is to see the profound transformation of a once thoughtful,insightful thinker into a loose cannon.

On Sunday, The New York Times Magazine featured an article on Charles Johnson, whose website -- littlegreenfootballs -- had for years been very popular among conservatives and among all those who believed that Islamic terror and Islamic religious totalitarianism were the greatest expressions of contemporary evil. The reason for the article was that Mr. Johnson has made a 180-degree turn and is now profoundly, even stridently, anti-right. This is my letter to him.

Dear Charles:

As you know, over the years, I was so impressed with your near-daily documentation of developments in the Islamist world that I twice...

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