I have to admit to not reading Little Green Footballs in a long time. The few times I did go there it seemed to be just a mainstream right of center site that regurgitated Neocon talking points. I dismissed it as a less hysterical version of Frontpagemagazine.com. Well, the founder of LGF and also of "Pajamas media", Charles Johnson, made a splash Monday with this post announcing his "break" with "the right":
Why I Parted Ways With The Right
But in reading his list of reasons for why he is breaking with "the right" I don't get a warm fuzzy feeling. Lumping in Lew Rockwell (and by extension Ron Paul followers and libertarians) as well as all tea party types and anyone who so much as questions "global warming" with white racialists and the sad, paranoid, tribalistic, kooks of a site like Freerepublic.com is the tip off.
The other tip off is the absence of any major Neocon names from his list of kooks.
His "break" with "the right" is really him just re-aligning himself with the liberal wing of the two party fraud.
Essentially Johnson has seen the writing on the wall and knows that "the right" is being Kookified and he doesn't want to be caught on their side of the fence when the process is completed (which it will be by the next presidential election).
His "break" is actually nothing of the sort for he quite intentionally has grouped wholly disparate ideologies and outlooks that offer real potential for true opposition to the Beltway oligarchic stranglehold on our national political process with the legions of Palin-esque kooks now being presented by our media as the face of conservatism and of the GOP.
Johnson's "break" post is simply an established blogger trying to re-align himself with the ascendent side of the DC two party fraud. And his lumping of all "anti government" tea party types in with his list of kooks is the purposeful telegraphing to the establishment that he is ready, willing, and able to be their boy.
He has simply gone from being a "National Review" type war hawk to being a "New Republic" type war hawk. Call me underwhelmed. A wholly cosmetic change. LGF remains what it has always been- an establishment echo chamber.
Thanks to reader Destro for bringing this to my attention.