Talk:Charles Foster Johnson

message: The following text is bot highly POV and unattributed. Can it be removed?Scott Adler 00:10, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The shift in tone of the LGF warblog is adequately covered by the entry for the warblog itself; list of themes he does not discuss on his blog are also not germane to this bio.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dragula (talk • contribs) 02:37, 29 September 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: LGF

message: Should it be included?  Here's the picture: , which was taken from this Forbes list of famous bloggers:  --aishel 18:28, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Johnson's picture 

message: Lance,
If you are reading this please e-mail me.
Thanks, Zeq 10:49, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lance 6 Wins  

message: I see nowhere on the Internet to connect Charles Johnson the blogger and Charles Johnson the guitarist. I've always heard that Charles Johnson the blogger was a programmer by occupation, not a musician. Because this article is on the blogger and many of the artist related attributes are not-so-verifiable, I'm taking the liberty to remove any references to the musician. --hello, i'm a member | talk to me! 05:56, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, after rereading the article, it seems like it's best not to remove the references now. I would like a comment on this. --hello, i'm a member | talk to me! 05:58, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Two of the external links, http://www.nysun.com/article/8711 and http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/62000, are Reliable Sources for this connection. Cheers, CWC 09:04, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Update: both those links are now referenced in the article, following a clean-up I just did. The NY Sun profile is now the very first reference, which I feel strengthens the article. Thanks for the wake-up call, Member. Cheers, CWC 10:48, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Jazz guitarist?

message: Our statement that Johnson
:now describes himself (per neoconservative writer Irving Kristol) as "a liberal who got mugged by reality"
has had a "citation needed" tag since February 2007. I'm fairly sure Johnson would accept that description, but I could not find any example of him using those words. Does anyone have a link to such an example? CWC 10:48, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Liberal mugged by reality?

message: He gained increased public attention for debunking Dan Rather’s National Guard memos about George W Bush during the 2004 US presidential campaign.
Calling them "Dan Rather's National Guard memos" seems a bit imprecise; that could read (to someone unfamiliar with the incident) as though Rather created the memos. I'll rephrase this a bit (no objection to the content, just want to word it more precisely). Actually, while I'm at it, "National Guard memos" is vague, saying nothing about what the controversy was over, so I'll expand that just a bit.75.139.32.246 09:42, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: "Dan Rather's" memos?

message: Before becoming famous as a blogger, and before the formation of CodeHead, Charles Johnson created software published under the name "Little Green Footballs". I can't seem to find anything on the internet about it, though. The CodeHead reference given in the article doesn't mention the original LGF, but you can see an allusion to it in the name of one of the CodeHead products, "Little Green Selector". LGF's best known Atari ST software is probably a mouse cursor management desk accessory called Mouskamania, if memory serves me correctly. It is mentioned in this old doc, but no credit is given. It just seems so odd I can't find anything online about the old LGF. Maybe I can find something in my old issues of STart magazine, I'm certain I have his software in my collection. Surely, somebody else remembers this. Xot (talk) 07:40, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, I'm surprised this didn't turn up before, but I found what I was looking for. This issue of ST-Log has an article by Charles F. Johnson about his Mouse-Ka-Mania! utility. If you look at the second image you can see "Copyright 1987 Little Green Footballs" in the upper-right corner of the dialog box / cursor editor. If someone could figure out if this should go here or in the LGF page, that would be great. If someone wants to make the addition, that would be even better. Xot (talk) 08:27, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Little Green Footballs (software) 

message: His recent and sustained attacks on Glenn Beck, Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, and others are easily documented (a wide variety of his own posts to point to). I've included them after clearing off someone who was obviously pretty mad and had rewritten the article with some non-truthful (and non-BIO) stuff as well.
Can I get some help putting the sources in correctly? Thanks!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.197.10.222 (talk) 16:10, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Attacks on Beck, Geller, Spencer, HotAir, etc 

message: I think lumping Johnson in with conservatives isn't correct. He's supported some positions that conservatives held in the past, but he's always been squeamish about being called a conservative. Indeed, he made a point of telling audiences that his positions on many issues aren't right-leaning. And he recently made this official on LGF, with a blunt post called "Why I Parted Ways With The Right". And IIRC correctly, he generally wasn't considered to be a right-winger before 9/11, so I think classifying him as a conservative is a mistake, and he might well agree with that. I think more to the point, he's a hawk on national security issues, but not on others. Harry Truman, LBJ, and JFK were national security hawks, but otherwise liberals, and Johnson is probably closer to this model than any other. He certainly takes many, many positions that are considered to be outright liberal stances, so if we're hell-bent on classifying people, "Hawkish Liberal" or "National Security Liberal" would probably be more accurate than "conservative" in his case. He's closer to Joe Lieberman than George Bush.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/35243_Why_I_Parted_Ways_With_The_Right
DesScorp (talk) 16:09, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: As with every biography on this site, this one should draw from reliable sources. I could link any article on Johnson's site as a reference to support the statement that he just takes himself very seriously, but that wouldn't be a good way to go about writing an encyclopedia. Find the articles, before labeling anyone. Nevard (talk) 14:35, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

text: See also Meet the Former Right-Wing Blogger Who Realized Conservatives Are Crazy, alternet.org, 2012-05-07. Visite fortuitement prolongée (talk) 20:26, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  CJ leaves the Right