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SeekingAZ -> RE: Right Wing Flame War (1/27/2010 3:39:45 AM)
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ORIGINAL: thornhappy
Right Wing Flame War
This story's about the outcome of a flame war against Little Green Footballs.
"Now it is eight years later [after its founding], and Johnson, who is 56, sits in the ashes of an epic flame war that has destroyed his relationships with nearly every one of his old right-wing allies. People who have pledged their lives to fighting Islamic extremism, when asked about Charles Johnson now, unsheathe a word they do not throw around lightly: “evil.” Glenn Beck has taken the time to denounce him on air and at length. Johnson himself (Mad King Charles is one of his most frequent, and most printable, Web nicknames) has used his technical know-how to block thousands of his former readers not just from commenting on his site but even, in many cases, from viewing its home page. He recently moved into a gated community, partly out of fear, he said, that the venom directed at him in cyberspace might jump its boundaries and lead someone to do him physical harm. He has turned forcefully against Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, nearly every conservative icon you can name. And answering the question of what, or who, got to Charles Johnson has itself become a kind of boom genre on the Internet."
I thought the article was interesting since I've heard of that blog for years, and the article points out a lot of the weaknesses in online debate. I've seen a lot of the same styles here, especially since the moderation's loosened up.
Ok, lets see.
Some blogger:
A). Exposes Rathergate, apparently not the first, but due to some technical skill proves the case in an easy to understand manner and merits tons of conservative blog interest which is understandable due to the mainstream media bias it illustrates.
B). Said blogger then goes paranoid and weird and all the cross linking disappears.
Why are the consequences of any of this unexpected (or interesting) ?
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