Somebody Alert Charles

This will probably cause the folks over at Little Green Footballs to clutch their chests and require CPR.

A German artist is posing 1,250 garden gnomes with their arms outstretched in the stiff-armed Hitler salute in an installation that he calls a protest of lingering fascist tendencies in German society.

But hey, it's all good and the German government has given it a stamp of approval.

Displaying Nazi symbols is illegal in Germany but a court ruled earlier this year that Hoerl's gnomes were clearly satire and thus allowed.

Relax, it's a joke.

I'm probably the last guy on the web to say something about what has happened over at LGF in the last few months, where the only topics discussed anymore are rampant neo-Nazi sympathizers behind every misdeed in the world and the danger that creationists pose for the survival of the western world.

So to make them feel better there is this story about Ohio seeking the reinstatement of the death penalty for a professed real neo-Nazi.

Bloggers once again draw the attention of CAIR

The story that started it all.

Now it appears that the St. Louis reporter who reported on it along using a CAIR press release has decided to go after Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs fame.

CAIR, an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundations charity terror trial, once again is enlisting the aide of the FBI to investigate Charles and others who dared call attention to this huge monstrosity of a cell phone tower, er, prayer tower being erected in St Louis.

This story has its share drama with Mr. Johnson at the center of the storm and the reporter from the St Louis Post-Dispatch now getting personal.

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Now why the reporter decided to single out Little Green Footballs is a mystery (the paper also mentioned Gateway Pundit) This certainly isn't the first time Charles has found himself the center of attention and I am sure he will be fine.

If anything, it only further points to the growing influence blogs are gaining while their Mass Market Media predecessors continue to lose ther audience. The one possible reason for targeting these two is because their names are well-known, unlike somebody like me who tries to protect my identity to a certain degree.