Somehow I doubt the LA Times will ever get around to profiling their bête noire
Patterico. Instead hack columnist James Rainey slobbers over angry left
Ponytail Man.
Back when he built his Little Green Footballs website into a favorite of the conservative right, Charles Johnson liked to write about the "Loony Left" and "Bush Derangement Syndrome."
He would pair accounts of extremist violence with sarcastic headlines about Islam, the "Religion of Peace." A 2006 anti-war rally in Washington went down as an "Idiotfest" and activist Cindy Sheehan "Mama Moonbat."
Imagine the surprise among conservatives to learn -- in a series of postings over nearly the last two years, and then in an official declaration of estrangement a little more than a month ago -- that their darling did not love them anymore. Maybe he never did.
Johnson's posting on Nov. 30, “Why I Parted Ways with The Right,” created a maelstrom in some corners of the blogosphere and the Twitterverse. Onetime hyperlinking pals have called him a tyrant and a traitor. Earlier, one had questioned his sanity.
It's a lot more than one. Of course Rainey is basically clueless as to who Ponytail Man really is and probably never even heard of him until he started trashing conservatives and sucking up to the left.
I won't pretend to have read enough of the husky, pony-tailed blogger's work to give a full report card on his tactics, or politics.
Yeah, but he's happy to label others.
In recent months, Johnson's jabs at right-wing icons have been more frequent. He now regularly takes digs at Fox News, vitriolic blogger Michelle Malkin and, with particular glee, Glenn Beck.
How has Rainey determined Michelle Malkin is a
vitriolic blogger? Or is he taking the husky pony-tailed blogger's word for it?
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