Guess who used that phrase?
Blogging was originally an alternative to mainstream media, but now it's kind of been dominated, especially on the right, by people who are emotionally driven, and not very rational about a lot of things.
It's Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs, in the
most unintentionally hilarious interview evah! Actually, it had sort of been brewing in my subconscious for a long, long time. . . .
(Ever since he went off his meds.)Something just triggered it off, I don't know what it was. . . .
(He ran out of commenters to ban.) I actually fought against being classified as a right-wing blog for a long time. . . .
(He also fought being classified as a textbook case of borderline personality disorder, with less success.)I began to read everything I could get my hands on about [global warming]. Scientific journals, books. And the evidence just piled up and piled up, until I could no longer be a denier. . . .
(CJ's next subject of intense study? Seppuku.) What started the break for me was when I realized a lot of the right wing bloggers, the so-called anti-jihad bloggers, were making alliances with groups, in Europe, that I consider to have fascist roots.
("Pamela Geller's breasts taunted me!") I wish that more bloggers would start to think critically about what they're writing.
BWAAA-HAHAHAHAHAHA! Excuse me while I wipe the coffee off my laptop keyboard, Charles, but you couldn't earn a living as a writer if your life depended on it. And is there
any blogger less capable of critical thinking than you? By comparsion, Andrew Sullivan is the soul of self-aware rationality.
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