Little Green Footballs

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Little Green Footballs (LGF) is a website that went from vehement right-wing warblog in 2001 to vehement anti-right-wing blog in 2009 while retaining the same tactics of ridicule, personal rivalries, the banning of dissenters, and calling opponents "evil." LGF is the creation of Charles Johnson, one of the leading boosters of the Iraq War in the early days of the blogosphere. His own posts only bordered on hate speech as he popularized the canard of "Islamofascism" but he fostered more open vileness in the LGF comments section: Muslims were "vermin," the activist that was killed by a bulldozer in Israel, Rachel Corrie, was renamed "St. Pancake" while Palestinians required "sterilization," and "targeted genocide" was a popular solution to America's problems.

After helping establish many of the loony wingnuts (like the epically insane Pamela Geller) still running amok to this day, Johnson parted ways with the right wing and attempted to retroactively cleanse LGF and his own personal reputation by deleting past blog posts, banning most active members, and denying his previous warmongering bloodlust with a kind of "what, little old me?" denial of responsibility.

These days, Johnson spends much of his time on LGF in Twitter wars with the likes of Glenn Greenwald and other mirror images of his own insular vanity and lack of self-awareness.

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