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'''Charles Foster Johnson''' (born April 1953) is editor of the political blog [[Little Green Footballs]]. He is credited with producing flak that has undermined journalists or their accounts. Following the Israeli war against Lebanon, when Johnson disseminated flak to undermine the credibility of news accounts about Israeli massacres, Johnson was bestowed a prize for "promoting Israel and Zionism."<ref> [http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1952099,00.html Israel ups the stakes in the propaganda war], Stuart Purvis, The Guardian, 20 Nov. 2006.</ref> Israel National News (Arutz Sheva) has referred to Johnson as a "Righteous Gentile" (he isn't Jewish) because of his support for Israel (see Ronen).<ref> Gil Ronen [http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/62000 At Israel's Right, Arutz Sheva, IsraelNationalNews.com, 11 May 2004, accessed 24 August 2010.</ref> Johnson's blog has been described as follows: | '''Charles Foster Johnson''' (born April 1953) is editor of the political blog [[Little Green Footballs]]. He is credited with producing flak that has undermined journalists or their accounts. Following the Israeli war against Lebanon, when Johnson disseminated flak to undermine the credibility of news accounts about Israeli massacres, Johnson was bestowed a prize for "promoting Israel and Zionism."<ref> [http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1952099,00.html Israel ups the stakes in the propaganda war], Stuart Purvis, The Guardian, 20 Nov. 2006.</ref> Israel National News (Arutz Sheva) has referred to Johnson as a "Righteous Gentile" (he isn't Jewish) because of his support for Israel (see Ronen).<ref> Gil Ronen [http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/62000 At Israel's Right, Arutz Sheva, IsraelNationalNews.com, 11 May 2004, accessed 24 August 2010.</ref> Johnson's blog has been described as follows: | ||
| − | :Although it tilts right politically, it provides a cornucopia of information about radical Islam here and abroad that ought to be of use to anyone with an interest in the subject, and Mr. Johnson edits it with intelligence and wit. ("Religion of Peace Kills 14,Wounds 3," is one of his characteristically cutting headlines.) If you believe that the war on terror is necessary, that the occupation of Iraq is ultimately generous in intent, and that the level of Muslim immigration to the West poses a serious threat, then this is surely a Web site for you. | + | :Although it tilts right politically, it provides a cornucopia of information about radical Islam here and abroad that ought to be of use to anyone with an interest in the subject, and Mr. Johnson edits it with intelligence and wit. ("Religion of Peace Kills 14,Wounds 3," is one of his characteristically cutting headlines.) If you believe that the war on terror is necessary, that the occupation of Iraq is ultimately generous in intent, and that the level of Muslim immigration to the West poses a serious threat, then this is surely a Web site for you.<ref>Brendan Bernhard, [http://www.nysun.com/on-the-town/blogger-who-helped-to-dislodge-dan-rather/8711/ The Blogger Who Helped to Dislodge Dan Rather: Little Green Footballs Was an Innocuous Web-Design Site — Then Came September 11], New York Sun, 3 February. 2005. Accessed 24 August, 2010. <ref/> |
[[Image:CharlesJohnson.jpg|right|thumb|Charles Johnson (blogger)]] | [[Image:CharlesJohnson.jpg|right|thumb|Charles Johnson (blogger)]] | ||
==Chapters== | ==Chapters== | ||
===Sinking Dan Rather=== | ===Sinking Dan Rather=== | ||
From the New York Sun article: | From the New York Sun article: | ||
| − | :Mr. Johnson's biggest coup so far came when, together with some other bloggers, he exposed the forged documents with which CBS's ''60 Minutes'' sought to undermine President Bush’s claim to have served | + | :Mr. Johnson's biggest coup so far came when, together with some other bloggers, he exposed the forged documents with which CBS's ''60 Minutes'' sought to undermine President Bush’s claim to have served honourably in the Texas National Guard during the Vietnam War. It was Mr. Johnson who, copying the forgery from a PDF file CBS posted on its Web site, retyped the memo using Microsoft Word’s standard settings, and found that his version was identical in every detail to the one Dan Rather claimed had been typed on a manual typewriter some three decades earlier.<br>As he typed the first sentences and found that the lines were all breaking the same way, Mr. Johnson said he felt chills running down his spine. "In a way it’s bigger than Watergate, because Watergate wasn’t an attempt to influence an election," he told me, adding that he is still stunned by CBS’s gullibility and ineptness."It shows you the amount of desperation at work. It overrode all of their journalistic impulses. They lost all their ethics. That’s the big story -- they did it because they wanted Bush not to be elected."<ref>Brendan Bernhard, [http://www.nysun.com/on-the-town/blogger-who-helped-to-dislodge-dan-rather/8711/ The Blogger Who Helped to Dislodge Dan Rather: Little Green Footballs Was an Innocuous Web-Design Site — Then Came September 11], New York Sun, 3 February. 2005. Accessed 24 August, 2010. <ref/> |
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===Undermining news about Israeli massacres in Lebanon=== | ===Undermining news about Israeli massacres in Lebanon=== | ||
Revision as of 15:23, 24 August 2010
Charles Foster Johnson (born April 1953) is editor of the political blog Little Green Footballs. He is credited with producing flak that has undermined journalists or their accounts. Following the Israeli war against Lebanon, when Johnson disseminated flak to undermine the credibility of news accounts about Israeli massacres, Johnson was bestowed a prize for "promoting Israel and Zionism."[1] Israel National News (Arutz Sheva) has referred to Johnson as a "Righteous Gentile" (he isn't Jewish) because of his support for Israel (see Ronen).[2] Johnson's blog has been described as follows:
- Although it tilts right politically, it provides a cornucopia of information about radical Islam here and abroad that ought to be of use to anyone with an interest in the subject, and Mr. Johnson edits it with intelligence and wit. ("Religion of Peace Kills 14,Wounds 3," is one of his characteristically cutting headlines.) If you believe that the war on terror is necessary, that the occupation of Iraq is ultimately generous in intent, and that the level of Muslim immigration to the West poses a serious threat, then this is surely a Web site for you.Cite error: Closing
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Affiliations
- LittleGreenFootballs (Blog)
- Richard North (blogger) -- they spread each other's flak
- ↑ Israel ups the stakes in the propaganda war, Stuart Purvis, The Guardian, 20 Nov. 2006.
- ↑ Gil Ronen [http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/62000 At Israel's Right, Arutz Sheva, IsraelNationalNews.com, 11 May 2004, accessed 24 August 2010.
