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Backstory: Charles Johnson is not a conservative blogger. After 9/11, he joined ranks with Republicans as a convenience, because that was the right thing to do; he did some good things, most notably dissolving Dan Rather in a vat of acid (Charles got his 15-minute fame boost from that worthy episode) and he helped define the meaning of Islamofascism for many on the right. But things started going downhill at LGF just recently: people started seeing Charles Johnson jump on the anti-religion (oh, but religion is fine; I just hate evil Creationists!) bandwagon. In his zeal to promote the religion of Science (he wants to live forever, and how else to do that unless Science creates some Magic that'll extend his life? Evil Creationists, with their anti-science anti-evolution agenda might get in the way of Science, and the clock is ticking, don't you know?)

His LGF blog is tightly controlled; you can't post a message without having an 'account', and 'accounts' are given (and maintained) only for people who slavishly agree with...Charles Johnson. Nary a contrary word, or your account is closed, and you are banned. KOS and DU run similar memes in their posting requirements; but you'd expect a more 'open' approach on our side, wouldn't you?

Of course I had that inevitable run-in with Charles, over religion. I can't abide a snotty atheist, sorry, and Charles is front-and-center atheist. I now read Gagdad Bob instead of LGF (Gagdad has perfectly denominated Charles as "Queeg", btw; expect a pshop of that concept coming soon~!).

Here's a comment someone left at LGF last December (my last day reading that rag). I copied it to a notepad, refreshed the browser window to get the permalink, and poof! Charles had deleted the comment and banned the commenter.

This is your site Charles, and you can do want you want with it. But I have been a member here a long time, and it is quite obvious the mission of this site has changed. You may have always been an Atheist/Agnostic/Flying Spaghetti Monster type of guy, but this constant barrage against believers is fairly recent. I just wonder if you would explain why? You probably have done this, I would not have seen it because I have not been coming around here anymore, you are no longer in "my five" as it were.

I remember when this site was a big deal in the conservative/pro Israel world. Now I never see references to LGF from the MSM or even conservative sites. I am sure you know better than I do that the site has suffered. You simply can not be pro Amrerica, pro Conservatism, pro Israel, and anti-believers. Doing this makes the list of potential followers quite small. Again, this is your site, but we who have been here some time notice the change. I guess I should respect you more because this is "not good for business", so you must be doing it out of real conviction. I would be interested in hearing why you take every chance to attack believers and are willing to go from a big fish in a big pond to a very small fish in a pond with no other fish.

I guess this could and maybe has become an atheist site, and maybe you will find enough of them that are conservative, I doubt it but it is possible i suppose. But to anyone who was not here during the heyday of this site, this was not the type of stuff that went on back then.

Tom 321

I haven't been back to LGF since.

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