Little Green Footballs

{{hatnote|This has nothing to do with a sport played by [[Little Green Men]].}}
[[Image:Breivik_has_a_sad.jpg|thumb|upright|220px|Before going on to murder children, Breivik cried in his manifesto about how betrayed he felt by Charles Johnson's sudden U-turn on Muslims]]
{{media}}{{cquote|Seeing this vile Holocaust revisionism at the highest levels of Israeli govt makes me glad I renounced the “anti-jihad” creeps years ago.|||Charles Johnson after seeing Netanyahu blame the "{{wpl|Amin al-Husseini|Mufti of Jerusalem}}" for the Holocaust<ref>"Seeing this vile Holocaust revisionism at the highest levels of Israeli govt makes me glad I renounced the “anti-jihad” creeps years ago.", Green Footballs, twitter, 2015, archived at [https://web.archive.org/web/20190524100608/https:/twitter.com/Green_Footballs/status/656999360165601280 archive.org]</ref>}}

'''Little Green Footballs''' (LGF) is a website that went from vehement, [[racist]], [[Hate speech|hate-speech]] [[right-wing]] warblog in 2001 to vehement anti-right-wing blog in 2009<ref name=wp>{{wpa|Little Green Footballs}}</ref> while retaining the same tactics of [[Ad hominem|ridicule]], personal rivalries, banning of dissenters, and [http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/43548_Anatomy_of_an_Evil_Smear calling opponents "evil."] LGF is the creation of Charles Foster Johnson {{lived|1953}}, one of the leading boosters of the [[Iraq War]] in the early days of the blogosphere. His own posts only ''bordered'' on hate speech,{{efn|Which, mind you, [[Damning with faint praise|isn't exactly a stellar picture…]]}} as he popularized the canard of "[[Islamofascism]]", and LGF is cited often in [[Norway|Norwegian]] mass murder [[Anders Behring Breivik]]'s [[Islamophobia|anti-Muslim]] "manifesto". But Johnson fostered more open vileness in the LGF comments section: Muslims were "vermin," the activist that was killed by a bulldozer in [[Israel]], {{wpl|Rachel Corrie||,}} was renamed "St. Pancake" while [[Palestinians]] required "sterilization," and the beating of protesters was openly advocated while "targeted [[genocide]]" was a popular solution to America's problems.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/magazine/24Footballs-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 Right-Wing Flame War!], Jonathan Dee, New York Times Magazine, Jan 24, 2010</ref>

After helping establish many of the loony [[wingnuts]] (like the epically insane [[Pamela Geller]]) still running amok to this day, Johnson parted ways with the right-wing and attempted to retroactively cleanse LGF and his reputation by scrubbing his site of the most incriminating blog posts,<ref>[http://littlegreenfootballs.com/showc/23/8656429 Comment], Charles Johnson, Little Green Footballs, Sep 13, 2010</ref> banning most active members, and denying his previous warmongering bloodlust with a kind of "what, little old me?" denial of responsibility.{{cn}} Or at least, [[Wikipedia]] carries allegations that Johnson has been surreptitiously editing comments by other users to push his point of view, but Wikipedia's usual standards of referencing are not used to justify these claims, unless one considers an archive of a below-the-line comment on Australia's ''Daily Telegraph'' website to be authoritative.<ref name=wp/> Will nobody in the [[lamestream media]] expose this scandal?

Johnson spent much of his time on LGF in [[Twitter]] wars with [[Glenn Greenwald]], until Greenwald got smarter and began ignoring him. Ironically, in 2014, Johnson found a new #1 nemesis, ''who almost has the exact same name:'' Wingnut internet troll and [[Holocaust denial|Holocaust denier]]<ref>Adam C. Smith (February 5, 2018). [https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2018/02/05/matt-gaetzs-state-of-the-union-guest-admits-he-questioned-holocaust/ "Matt Gaetz’s State of the Union guest admits he questioned Holocaust"]. ''Tampa Bay Times''. "ChuckCJohnson: I do not and never have believed the six million figure. I think the Red Cross numbers of 250,000 dead in the camps from typhus are more realistic." (This Holocaust denial talking-point is [[Holocaust denial#The Red Cross statistics|refuted here]]).</ref><ref>[https://www.adl.org/glossary/charles-c-johnson "Charles C. Johnson"]. ''Anti-Defamation League''.</ref> {{wpl|Charles C. Johnson}} {{lived|1988}}. LGF Johnson takes pains to point out that his [[doppelgänger]]-by-name Johnson [http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/44406_Chuck_C._Johnson_and_His_Neo-Nazi_Friends "is not me."] Sadly for LGF Charles, Charles C. has been [http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/05/troll-charles-johnson-banned-from-twitter-207688 permanently banned] from Twitter, which may leave the former Charles with no options but to Twitter self-abuse.

Since dumping the [[neocon]], things have been quieter, but as of 2020 it's not dead yet. In 2015 it launched a crowdfunding campaign which raised $11,237 of its $20,000 goal.<ref>[https://www.gofundme.com/f/little-green-footballs-fundraiser Little Green Footballs Fundraiser], GoFundMe.com, launched May 6, 2015, accessed October 20, 2020</ref>

==Name==
The origin of the name is unclear; even Wikipedia, which loves etymologies almost as much as obscure edit wars, can only quote Johnson: "I am at liberty to reveal that it has something to do with an incident in my youth that happened in Japan."<ref name=wp/>

==External links==
* [http://littlegreenfootballs.com/ Website]
* [https://twitter.com/green_footballs?lang=en On Twitter]

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