I’ve been so angry about him getting attention from the media now—now that no one reads him, and he’s firmly repudiated any use of logic—that I haven’t really known exactly whom to link about his recent profiles in The New York Times (ultimately even-handed) and Vanity Fair (not so much).
Not that I didn’t realize all along that that long trek back to the left was all about someday getting some ink in Vanity Fair. But it still pisses me off that these people played right into Johnson’s hands in that way.
In a way this has been easier for me: I’m one of those who never went to LGF very much, unless I was looking for links, because of its oversimplifying of the issues, and its blanket condemnations of Islam. So there’s a lot less to mourn for me.
But here’s Tim Blair, treating Chuckie Johnson exactly the way he should be treated: as an iJoke. Perfect.
Via Insty. And though there’s nothing about Chuckie’s most recent MSM appearances up at American Digest, it should be noted that no one—no one—pwns Chuck like Gerard does. (See this, and this.) I mean, I get tired as a general rule of reading about Chuckie, but when Gerard does it, I savor every freakin’ word.
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This sort of treatment is a given. I don’t know how long you’ve been in California, but if you were here in 94 think back to how the media treated a conservative Ariana Huffington when her husband was running for the senate. She was portrayed as a bit of a clown who was, at best, mostly harmless.
She switches to liberal and presto, she’s a deep thinker who’s all over the media. And this despite the fact that, if you think about it, her reasons for going liberal ought to be deeply embarrassing to the left.
(And since you’re some sort of editor, I apologize for my complete inability to properly use semi-colons, though they are, in actuality, in my opinion, tools of Satan…)
Thank you. At some point I’m going to get into Charles Johnson’s “prose style” and his “intellectual heft.”