I know. I know. I know, I know, I know. When are we going to get beyond Teh Johnson? Soon. Soon, I say. But this hilarious situation with his NYT article is the gift that keeps on giving, and I can’t resist.
For those of you not familiar with Ann Althouse, she’s one of the law prof bloggers. She’s a law professor at University of Wisconsin – Madison. And even though she was an Obama supporter, she’s not a moonbat, and quite contritely criticizing him up one side and down the other these days. And you can call her a lot of things, but stupid and ignorant aren’t among them.
So I was a little surprised when she even bothered to comment on the dumb situation at LGF 1.0. But comment she did:
So Belgium got to him?! Here’s this guy who somehow can’t go to a conference, and then he fixates on somebody in the audience at a conference, and then makes all kinds of connections from there. Well, there’s something very strange about the mind of Charles Johnson. Does it mean anything more generally about right-leaning people on the web? Does the NYT want it to?
Well, now. That wasn’t very nice. Chucky didn’t think it was very nice, either. So he whines on his site:
A very ignorant post from someone who knows nothing about it. I make no apologies for wanting to distance myself from European fascist groups — and there is no doubt that they wanted to get me on their side at one point.
Oh, Chucky. Oh, Chucky Chucky. That weren’t not so smart. One thing I learned a long time ago is don’t try to tangle with a lawyer, and whatever you do, don’t try to tangle with a lady lawyer.
The expression “I make no apologies” would only make sense if I had somehow criticized him for wanting to distance himself from European fascist groups, which I didn’t do. I just puzzled over how his mind put together the problem that he needed to take action about. I make no apologies for not knowing anything more about it than I could read in the New York Times… or for finding the old Little Green Footballs too hateful to want to read.
Ann, don’t make the mistake of having high expectations of that mind. It’s not wired right. It says weird things like: “Althouse is clueless, yet her mouth still runs.”
This kind of bullshit insult doesn’t make me want to do any more research about Johnson. I read a NYT article about him and wrote a short post about it. If there is some mysterious backstory that’s missing from the NYT, why not tell me about it? I’m not a useless, ignorant person because I don’t know it, whatever it is. Why lash out like this? I’m sticking with my original impression that he’s got too much free-floating anger. Toxic.
Yup, Ann. That’s about the size of it. That, and I think that there’s also ample evidence that Mr. Johnson has a problem with women. Particularly smart women who speak their minds. Exhibit “A”: the toxic hatred of Sarah Palin.
P.S. – some of the comments on Althouse’s blog are kind of funny. Seems like some ex-lizards showed up. It looks like our Rose dropped in.
P.P.S. – After thinking about this for a little bit, it seems like a fresh pair of eyes can see things that should have been obvious. It really bears thinking about how it is that this Californian know-nothing latched onto such an obscure Belgian group, and this was the beginning of the big change. It sure seem to imply that someone more connected to Europe has been whispering sweet leftisms into his ear for a couple of years now. Someone un-Mata Hari-like, perhaps?
Tags: Althouse, New York Times
