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Little Green Footballs is a political weblog edited by a California graphic designer named Charles Johnson. Little Green Footballs mostly concerns Middle Eastern affairs and terrorism (with an emphasis on Palestinian terrorism) and Neoconservatism (United States), with occasional mention of bicycle sports, Macintosh computers, and space news.
Johnson was a professional guitarist who accompanied top jazz artists like Al Jarreau both onstage and in the studio for many years. In the 1980s, he was one of the first computer programmers to code for the Atari.
Little Green Footballs evolved over the years. Originally, it was a blog on programming and web page design—Charles and his brother Michael have a successful web design business—with some humorous news items. After the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks, LGF became a warblog.
In keeping with the blog's neo-conservative tone, some say that Johnson was "a leftist until he got mugged by September 11." As he stated in the interview listed below:
- Why do they hate us?...Now I think the question is a pointless one, not because we shouldn't self-examine, but because the answer lies within the Islamists, not within us -- and understanding them will not achieve anything, except to the extent it allows us to defeat them.
Charles Johnson is a professed admirer of controversial pundits Daniel Pipes and Oriana Fallaci. He coined the term "idiotarian."
On Thursday, October 16, 2003, Little Green Footballs was subjected to a Denial of Service attack along with other sites on the Hosting Matters system for a few hours.
Little Green Footballs has a dedicated following, but some posters prefer a angry, emotional style of discourse bordering on Hate speech. This has lead politically correct observers to accuse the site of racism and Islamophobia.
These accusations are hotly disputed by the site's many defenders, who call themselves "Lizardoids" (SEE: Reptilian humanoid) As is often the case with sites addressing controversial topics, LGF also attracts many Internet trolls (aka Morlocks).
Recently, Johnson has begun requiring posters to register, but how this will affect the site's fascinating dynamics remains to be seen.
External links
- Little Green Footballs
- LGFWatch
- The LGF Quiz
- The LGF Quiz Blog
- Arutz Sheva - Israel National News article on LGF and interview with Charles Johnson
- The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler