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==Political views==
==Political views==


Charles Johnson's views on political issues took a sharp turn to the center in 2009. His essay [http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/35243_Why_I_Parted_Ways_With_The_Right "Why I Parted Ways With The Right"] is an attempt to explain his switching sides from [[Conservatism]] to [[Left-wing politics]]. Those issues include:


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1. Barack Obama. A critic of [[Barack Obama]] in the lead up to Obama's election as President of the U.S.<ref>http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/he_was_for_it_before_he_was_against_it/</ref>. Charles Johnson has became supporter in 2009.
Charles Johnson's views on political issues took a sharp turn to the left in 2009. Those issues include:

⚫
1. Barack Obama. A critic of [[Barack Obama]] in the lead up to Obama's election as President of the U.S.<ref>http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/he_was_for_it_before_he_was_against_it/</ref>. Charles Johnson has became an enthusiastic supporter in 2009<ref>http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/37066_For_Tim_Blair_A_Sincere_Apology</ref>.


2. Sarah Palin. From a supporter, Charles became a harsh critic of her, describing her as crazy<ref>http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/37387_Video-_The_Sarah_Palin_Voters_Guide</ref>.
2. Sarah Palin. From a supporter, Charles became a harsh critic of her, describing her as crazy<ref>http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/37387_Video-_The_Sarah_Palin_Voters_Guide</ref>.


3. Global Warming. Until recently, Johnson referred to [[Global Warming]] as a fraud, and mocked Al Gore for promoting Global Warming<ref>http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/24534_Heed_the_Goracle</ref>. He recently changed his mind about this issue as well <ref>http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/35246_A_Climate_Skeptics_Conversion A Climate Skeptic's Conversion</ref>.
3. Global Warming. Years ago, Johnson once referred to it as a fraud, and mocked Al Gore for promoting Global Warming<ref>http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/24534_Heed_the_Goracle</ref>. Together with the other major issues named in this list, he his mind about this issue as well<ref>http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/35246_A_Climate_Skeptics_Conversion A Climate Skeptic's Conversion</ref>.

4. Right wing media which he considers to be propagandist, conspiracy theory pushing and fear mongering. As to, Left-leaning media such as the Guardian and [[MSNBC]]. He criticised them in the 2007 US Presidential Campaign as biased towards Obama. He still sharply criticizes them for biased reporting on Israel.


5. Militant Islamism. Johnson is a harsh critic of Islamism and Islamic terrorism. However, Johnson has been very strong in distinguishing between terrorists and innocent people. He remains a strong supporter of the state of Israel. In his split from the right, Johnson made clear that he has no tolerance for the increasingly shrill, bigoted and sometimes genocidal calls against all Muslims to be heard from certain members of the American right wing punditry, many of whom used to be his associates in the blogoshpere. Johnson was alarmed and dismayed at increasing association of those bloggers with neo-Nazi, neo-Confederate and white supremacist movements. He made very clear that he wants no part in any group with such people.
4. [[Mainstream media]]. He accused the MSM ([[Mainstream media]]) as late as 2008 of being biased in favor of [[Obama]]<ref>http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/30069_Media_Hyperventilating_Over_Hillary_Ignored_Mrs._Obama</ref>, but later accused it of being biased against Obama<ref>http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/36250_Tim_Blair_Investigative_Reporter</ref> - a bias which he blamed for his own previous (pre-2009) anti-Obama stance.


Johnson has distanced himself from the right which he considers to have gone into a spiral of madness. He famously wrote an essay about why he split from the right. As of 2010, Johnson has clearly expressed on numerous occasions, that he has no patience for what he sees as the race baiting, anti-science and anti-intellectualism of the current American right wing. He has written extensively about what he considers to be faux outrages, open lies and propaganda by right wing bloggers, Fox news and commenters like Rush Limbaugh, Alex Jones and Ann Coulter (to name a few). This has led many of his former right wing associates to despise him. He considers himself to be a centrist, and he has written with some passion himself about how he was misled by propaganda he now utterly rejects.
5. Militant Islamism. Johnson used to be a harsh critic of Islamic violence. He is credited with coining the sarcastic term of "Religion of Peace" to Islam. Recently he sharply shifted positions on this issue and now blames the Right of Islamophobia<ref>{{cite web |author=Charles Johnson |title=Why I Parted Ways With The Right |url=http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/35243_Why_I_Parted_Ways_With_The_Right |publisher=Little Green Footballs |date=November 30, 2009 |accessdate=December 1, 2009}}</ref>. This has led many of his former right wing associates to despise him. However, while most right-wing commentators regard him now to have "converted" to the Left, Johnson considers himself to be a "centrist", and has repeatedly accused the [[Mainstream media]] for misleading him to his previous [[conservative]] opinions.


==Discography ==
==Discography ==

Revision as of 08:30, 30 November 2010

Charles Foster Johnson (born April 13, 1953) is an American blogger, software developer, and former jazz guitarist.[1] He has played on 29 albums.

Biography

Charles Johnson was born in New York and raised in Hawaii. He launched his first career (as a jazz guitarist) in the mid-1970s. Extensive recording credits include at least three albums that went gold: Reach For It by George Duke, School Days by Stanley Clarke, and Live in London by Al Jarreau.

He later co-founded CodeHead Technologies,[2] which marketed productivity and desktop publishing software (mostly hand-coded in assembly language) for the Atari ST computer. In 2001, Johnson founded a web design firm called "Little Green Footballs" with his brother Michael. Little Green Footballs began as a testbed on the company's website.

Charles Johnson's animated GIF comparison of purported 1970s era typewritten Killian memos with 2004-era MS Word document using default settings

Israel National News has referred to Johnson as a "Righteous Gentile" because of his support for Israel.[3] Johnson was raised Roman Catholic but now considers himself an agnostic.[3]

Johnson is a co-founder of Pajamas Media, selling his stake in 2007.[4][5]

Johnson, and other conservative bloggers, gained attention during the 2004 U.S. presidential election for their role in exposing as forgeries several memos purporting to document irregularities in George W. Bush's National Guard service record. (See Killian documents and Killian documents authenticity issues.) CBS news anchor Dan Rather presented the memos as authentic in a September 8, 2004 report on 60 Minutes Wednesday, two months before the vote. Days after the broadcast, Johnson showed the documents, supposedly typewritten in 1973, could have been created easily on a modern computer using Microsoft Word.[6]

In 2007, Johnson rewrote the Little Green Footballs software to use MySQL and AJAX.

In 2009, Johnson indicated that he had "parted" with the right and gave several reasons for his decision to do so.[7]

Political views

Charles Johnson's views on political issues took a sharp turn to the center in 2009. His essay "Why I Parted Ways With The Right" is an attempt to explain his switching sides from Conservatism to Left-wing politics. Those issues include:

1. Barack Obama. A critic of Barack Obama in the lead up to Obama's election as President of the U.S.[8]. Charles Johnson has became supporter in 2009.

2. Sarah Palin. From a supporter, Charles became a harsh critic of her, describing her as crazy[9].

3. Global Warming. Years ago, Johnson once referred to it as a fraud, and mocked Al Gore for promoting Global Warming[10]. Together with the other major issues named in this list, he his mind about this issue as well[11].

4. Right wing media which he considers to be propagandist, conspiracy theory pushing and fear mongering. As to, Left-leaning media such as the Guardian and MSNBC. He criticised them in the 2007 US Presidential Campaign as biased towards Obama. He still sharply criticizes them for biased reporting on Israel.

5. Militant Islamism. Johnson is a harsh critic of Islamism and Islamic terrorism. However, Johnson has been very strong in distinguishing between terrorists and innocent people. He remains a strong supporter of the state of Israel. In his split from the right, Johnson made clear that he has no tolerance for the increasingly shrill, bigoted and sometimes genocidal calls against all Muslims to be heard from certain members of the American right wing punditry, many of whom used to be his associates in the blogoshpere. Johnson was alarmed and dismayed at increasing association of those bloggers with neo-Nazi, neo-Confederate and white supremacist movements. He made very clear that he wants no part in any group with such people.

Johnson has distanced himself from the right which he considers to have gone into a spiral of madness. He famously wrote an essay about why he split from the right. As of 2010, Johnson has clearly expressed on numerous occasions, that he has no patience for what he sees as the race baiting, anti-science and anti-intellectualism of the current American right wing. He has written extensively about what he considers to be faux outrages, open lies and propaganda by right wing bloggers, Fox news and commenters like Rush Limbaugh, Alex Jones and Ann Coulter (to name a few). This has led many of his former right wing associates to despise him. He considers himself to be a centrist, and he has written with some passion himself about how he was misled by propaganda he now utterly rejects.

Discography

References

  1. ^ Brendan Bernhard (February 3, 2005). "The Blogger Who Helped to Dislodge Dan Rather". The New York Sun. Retrieved July 12, 2007. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  2. ^ John Eidsvoog (June 6, 1991). "The Story of CodeHead Software". Retrieved October 15, 2006.
  3. ^ a b Gil Ronen (April 29, 2004). "At Israel's Right". Arutz Sheva Israel National News. Retrieved October 15, 2006.
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  6. ^ Charles Johnson (September 9, 2004). "Bush Guard Documents: Forged". Little Green Footballs. Retrieved October 15, 2006.
  7. ^ Charles Johnson (November 30, 2009). "Why I Parted Ways With The Right". Little Green Footballs. Retrieved December 1, 2009.
  8. ^ http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/he_was_for_it_before_he_was_against_it/
  9. ^ http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/37387_Video-_The_Sarah_Palin_Voters_Guide
  10. ^ http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/24534_Heed_the_Goracle
  11. ^ http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/35246_A_Climate_Skeptics_Conversion A Climate Skeptic's Conversion

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