Comments on: “Truth”: the press, the movies, and the present-day Minitrue https://thenewneo.com/2015/09/16/truth-the-press-the-movies-and-the-present-day-minitrue/ A blog about political change, among other things Thu, 17 Sep 2015 18:31:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Ymarsakar https://thenewneo.com/2015/09/16/truth-the-press-the-movies-and-the-present-day-minitrue/#comment-922093 Thu, 17 Sep 2015 18:31:21 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=52646#comment-922093 If I recall correctly, one of his posts said he did take a new job and the timeline was consistent with his ideological “change”. It wasn’t really a change though, more like weaklings obeying the hierarchy.

Hard to tell after so many years and Google not having enough spybots to check it on. http://www.redstate.com/diary/barrypopik/2009/12/01/goodbye-little-green-footballs/

Essentially Johnson is a true believer of the Left’s homo and thought police mini cultures. Which has expanded over the years to envelope much of the real estate of America. Well, power wise at least. His resistance to Islam was purportedly about fighting lies and totalitarian beliefs… but it is difficult for him to keep that front up when his own Leftist colleagues are miniature storm troopers and fascist totalitarians.

You know how it is.

]]> By: Ymarsakar https://thenewneo.com/2015/09/16/truth-the-press-the-movies-and-the-present-day-minitrue/#comment-922036 Thu, 17 Sep 2015 16:00:47 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=52646#comment-922036 Later, as you say, he found his way back to the liberal reservation, where he has remained.

Most of the fields a computer guy works at in the US is surrounded by Democrats. It’s not like he “found himself back in the fold” so much as he was already surrounded by the fold and took the path of least resistance, for his job career.

]]> By: J.M. Heinrichs https://thenewneo.com/2015/09/16/truth-the-press-the-movies-and-the-present-day-minitrue/#comment-921926 Thu, 17 Sep 2015 04:22:23 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=52646#comment-921926 The original catch was by a chap named “Buckhead”, at Free Republic. He checked out the docs as published by CBS online, immediately after the program finished, (c.10pm EDT). Most people picked up the discussion the next morning, which is when Charles at LGF decided to try retyping one memo using MS Word and its defaults.
A summery here: http://www.replicatedtypo.com/koalas-use-a-novel-vocal-organ-to-produce-unusually-low-pitched-mating-calls/6856.html

Cheers

]]> By: neo-neocon https://thenewneo.com/2015/09/16/truth-the-press-the-movies-and-the-present-day-minitrue/#comment-921902 Thu, 17 Sep 2015 02:18:07 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=52646#comment-921902 blert:

Charles Johnson was a Democrat or libertarian (and I’m not sure which, actually) who was energized by 9/11 and the War on Terror to fight against Islamic terrorism. He also was a computer guy who happened to immediately see the possible problem with Rather’s Killian memos, and hit on a very graphic way to show the problem. It made him famous, and his traffic skyrocketed.

Later, as you say, he found his way back to the liberal reservation, where he has remained.

]]> By: blert https://thenewneo.com/2015/09/16/truth-the-press-the-movies-and-the-present-day-minitrue/#comment-921898 Thu, 17 Sep 2015 02:07:59 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=52646#comment-921898 neo…

IIRC His discovery caused his blog to explode with ‘hits.’

He was linked to from all over, Instapundit… et. al.

What would kick Dan Rather is that ideologically Charles Johnson is very much a son of the Democrat party — and not really a super fan boy of George W. Bush.

It’s just that the phony document was too much for Charles to endure.

CJ’s biggest concern is that Muslim culture and atrocities not destroy Western liberalism.

He found his way back to the Democrat reservation — as a fresh visit to LGF would attest.

I’d type cast CJ as ESFJ.

http://www.16personalities.com/esfj-personality

He means well, but tends to be a tad strident.

]]> By: neo-neocon https://thenewneo.com/2015/09/16/truth-the-press-the-movies-and-the-present-day-minitrue/#comment-921882 Thu, 17 Sep 2015 01:04:55 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=52646#comment-921882 blert:

Yes, it was Charles Johnson. I remember it well.

]]> By: blert https://thenewneo.com/2015/09/16/truth-the-press-the-movies-and-the-present-day-minitrue/#comment-921878 Thu, 17 Sep 2015 01:00:33 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=52646#comment-921878 I thought that Charles Johnson of LittleGreenFootballs claimed to be the first// practically the first to discover the fraud.

For type and typesetting, fonts and all the rest were his bailiwick.

He’s gone on to zig zag all over the opinion space, last I looked he was aping Stalin: thought crime — splittist — deviant — crimes against the narrative…

Oh my !

]]> By: vanderleun https://thenewneo.com/2015/09/16/truth-the-press-the-movies-and-the-present-day-minitrue/#comment-921862 Wed, 16 Sep 2015 23:38:16 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=52646#comment-921862 “Some smells are very fragrant, to those with a nose for them.”

Agreed. The nose knows.

]]> By: submandave https://thenewneo.com/2015/09/16/truth-the-press-the-movies-and-the-present-day-minitrue/#comment-921835 Wed, 16 Sep 2015 21:26:19 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=52646#comment-921835 “[T]hough the documents themselves may be falsified, both Mapes and Rather view them as more a piece of corroborative evidence”

If the manufactured documents were just a “piece” and “corroborative,” then why have we never been given the main body of “evidence?”

I don’t think that word means what they think it means.

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