January 22, 2005 7:54 AM

Another DUMB@$$ AWARD wiener

Carnival of the Smear Job

DUMB@$$ AWARD wiener #182: Charles Johnson

Apparently, ‘tis better to be thought a self-righteous, reactionary, self-superior troll than to be Charles Johnson. It would seem that my dark little corner of da Interweb has attracted the attention of the aforementioned Mr. Johnson, proprietor of one of the most rabid and widely-read anti-Muslim weblogs out there. He seems to have taken umbrage at my mention of Little Green Footballs in the edition of Carnival of the Vanities that I hosted this week.

Let me first say that I appreciate Mr. Johnson feeling threatened enough that he felt the need to impugn my integrity. Had he simply ignored me, nothing would have happened. Since he chose to focus his considerable opprobium in my direction, I got twice the traffic that I normally do. A wise man once said that ANY publicity is good publicity. Another once said something to the effect of, “Be careful, you’ll only encourage him.” They were spot on. Clearly, Johnson feels threatened by the sentence or two I wrote about his thinly-veiled hate site. Given that he is one of the most widely-read weblogs out there (What does THAT say about the state of popular culture??), I am flattered that he saw fit to excoriate me. Hey, guess what, Charles; I’ve been called far worse by far better people than you.

Of course, there is nothing that he can say that would particularly upset me. This isn’t my first run-in with the trolls at LGF, merely the silliest one. The comments to Johnson’s post are rather comical…if you can ignore the sheer ignorance and lunacy.

Anything titled “People’s Republic”…. well you know where THAT’s going to lead.

In another post, Johnson has the temerity to use the term “moonbats” to ridicule protesters who happen not to share his point of view. Gee, Charles, when’s the last time YOU took a good look in the mirror? Or read the comments on your site?

Johnson has conveniently managed to close off comments and registration, so of course he can carefully control access to his precious comments and exclude “moonbats” like myself. It sure seems like someone is threated by diversity of opinion, eh? Of course, were I to feel the need to get into a pissing match with Johnson and his lunatic fringe, I might have contributed something like this:

Lighten up…no disrespect (or respect) was intended or implied. Perhaps if you didn’t take yourself and your views so seriously, this wouldn’t even be an issue. Regardless, thanks for the plug…. ;0)

Charles Johnson can have his hate-filled corner of the Internet. That is the beautiful thing about a free society. Johnson and his band of self-important trolls might want to keep that in mind. In the meantime, Charles, enjoy your DUMB@$$ AWARD. You have truly proven yourself deserving and worthy of such a high “honor”.

Update (10.53am): Charles and I have made our peace. I will now slink back into the primordial ooze of my enforced obscurity…. Who’s the DUMB@$$ now, eh?? ;0)

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