My Open Letter To The Loozard King and his minions:
Today, Charles Johnson of 1.0, posted a misleading and patently false thread at his site whining that The Blogmocracy was participating in “Assassination Rhetoric” and “threatening the life of the President.”
Usually, I would ignore the paranoid rantings of Mr. Johnson (as it is his site and he can do whatever he wants there; as can we here) but this claim is a serious charge, and an outright LIE.
If he feels so threatened by The Blogmocracy that he must criticize us, then fine, but do so legitimately, and honestly! I welcome the competition. However, what he has done here is simply an outright lie, and serious misrepresentation of the facts dealing with exceptionally serious issues regarding our President.
The so-called proof Mr. Johnson gives of this claimed “assassination rhetoric” is a post by “Bill Jenkins” (a poster, but not Admin here) quoting Thomas Jefferson. (It is #6 on the “Leftists Love Their Autocrats” thread from yesterday.) [*at the time of Mr. Johnson’s thread there were 56 posts on the “Leftists Love…” thread) There are a few major problems with Charles’ claims however.
(1) The comment Mr. Johnson uses for his principal argument is not directed at the President. In fact, it isn’t directed at anyone. (Go to the thread and see for yourself.) The so-called “proof” that Mr. Johnson gives that this comment is “assassination rhetoric” is that it shows a picture of President Obama with the comment. What he purposefully omits is that this picture has nothing in particular to do with the comment, but instead is just “Bill Jenkins” avatar which is attached to all his comments. Furthermore, if the comment were directed any anyone, it would have been at the subject of the overall thread: Thomas Friedman. (I am not stating however that threats towards Mr. Friedman would be proper, but they are hardly “assassination rhetoric” “threatening the life of the President.”
(2) In his post, Mr. Johnson blatantly alters the original comment by adding in a link, and language that wasn’t part of Bill Jenkins’ post. I presume the “Lizardiods” aren’t going to take my word for it, but you don’t have to. This fact is evidenced by Mr. Johnson’s own screenshot which he uses as so-called evidence. You will notice that in Mr. Johnson’s attack, the words: “(With a picture of Barack Obama.)” [Which interestingly used to have a link to a picture, but now the link has been removed on LGF. Who is the one doing the hiding Mr. Johnson?] was added to “Bill Jenkins” comment.
The flaw in Mr. Johnson’s argument however is that there is no picture of Barack Obama there, nor was there ever! Just look at the screenshot provided. This language connecting the comment to President Obama was falsely added by Mr. Johnson to bolster his lie. As is stated in #1 above, yes there is a pic of Obama present, but it is simply the avatar that accompanies ALL of “Bill Jenkins'” comments and thus had nothing specific to do with the comment in question.
(3) Mr. Johnson then goes on to whine about some of The Blogomcracy’s posters’ statements about him. Unlike Mr. Johnson, I am not going to lie – those two statements are true, and for the most part in context. I don’t agree with these personal jokes regarding Mr. Johnson, but at least here he is not lying – they were said. I will agree, they are rude, and inappropriate – but so what! Was it not Mr. Johnson who told most of us to “get off his blog”, and if we didn’t like the restrictions, etc. on LGF that we should “go get our own blog?” Well guess what Mr. Johnson, and those “Lizardoids” reading this, WE DID. So quit your whining, and stop being so thin-skinned. You and I both know that these expressions of humor, and anger are not legitimate or actual threats against you. If we are going to participate in such purposeful melodrama over comments made at blogs, maybe we will have to take seriously all the threats against the Liberals, the U.N., the “Palestinians”, etc., that have occurred at LGF over the years.
(4) Last is Mr. Johnson’s disingenuous use of a post from a long time ago by former Admin “Avideditor” to attempt to claim that these types of posts are typical of The Blogmocracy. This claim however is again proven false by Mr. Johnson’s own so-called “proof”. He attaches screenshots from “Avideditor’s” own site complaining that we removed him as an Admin, and banned him from our site (something we rarely do) because of that comment.
This doesn’t prove that “assassination rhetoric” against the President is typical, but quite the opposite – it proves that despite our exceptionally liberal policy towards free speech on our site, and strict policy against banning people, the Admins at that time found “assassination rhetoric” against the President (even in question form) to be appalling, and beyond-the-pale and thus acted accordingly by banning the person who made the comment.
Counter to Mr. Johnson’s underlying claim, they didn’t encourage this type of rhetoric, or consider it acceptable, but instead took the huge step here to ban an Admin for said comment. This fact is further proven by the realty that “Avideditor” is angry at The Blogmocracy, and had to make his Anti-Blogmocrcy comments (those used by Mr. Johnson) from his own site and not ours!
Mr. Johnson is outright lying, and obviously thinks so low of his “lizardoids” that he expects them not to see the blaring flaws in the so-called evidence he provides. This is probably why he bans anyone that comes here, or elsewhere to find out the truth for themselves. I however think higher of them then he does apparently, and know that when provided with honest evidence they will make the right conclusion.
Assassination rhetoric against the President of The United States is a very serious offense, and something the Admins here take exceptionally serious. Not only is it against the law, it is WRONG! As Mr. Johnson inadvertently proves, when we are aware of it, we are so offended that we are even willing to ban a long time associate, and Admin because of it.
Mr. Johnson’s claims are disingenuous, false, and pathetic. Criticize us if you must, but at least have the honor to do so honestly!
(*I would have been more than happy to have posted this “face-to-face” on LGF, but we all know how that goes.)
Discuss and/or just enjoy this open thread.
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Update ~ by bar
Yes my comment was, upon reflection not very funny at all, I thought it was, but then you can see my brain size in my avatar and that’s not my brain, that’s the tumor growing on my brain.
The not-so-funny comment was made in the context of Charles Johnson revealing my personal info on his public blog. He had just revealed a persons real name that posts here. It appears it was purely out of vindictiveness.
I made that comment in the context of “if he outs me, I am not sure if I care, but then its not that long of a drive to Culver City……”
I did not mean it as an actual threat of bodily harm to Charles, although I understand why it was taken that way. So my sincere apologies to Charles Johnson for my “threat” of bodily harm.
Now of course Charles failed to mention the context of my comment which was based on his comment, I wonder why?
Perhaps he violated his own rules or he doesn’t want you to really know the low levels he will stoop too in defense of his own “honor”?
Tags: Open thread
