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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">stub</font></div><div><table class="cquote" style="margin: auto; border-collapse: collapse; border-style: none;"><tbody><tr><td><div style="padding: 4px 50px; position: relative;"><span style="position: absolute; left: 10px; top: -6px; z-index: 1; font-weight: bold;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“</font></span><span style="position: absolute; right: 10px; bottom: -20px; z-index: 1; font-weight: bold;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">”</font></span><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Seeing this vile Holocaust revisionism at the highest levels of Israeli govt makes me glad I renounced the “anti-jihad” creeps years ago.</font></div></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 4px 10px 8px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: right;"><cite style="font-style: normal; position: relative; z-index: 2;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">—Charles Johnson after seeing Netanyahu blame the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_al-Husseini" class="extiw" title="wp:Amin al-Husseini" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span title="Wikipedia: Amin al-Husseini" style="">Mufti of Jerusalem</span></a><sup style="line-height: 1;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_al-Husseini" title="wp:Amin al-Husseini" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><img alt="Wikipedia's W.svg" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" /></a></sup>" for the Holocaust<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[1]</a></sup></font></cite></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Little Green Footballs</b>&nbsp;(LGF) is a website that went from vehement, racist, hate-speech right-wing warblog in 2001 to vehement anti-right-wing blog in 2009 while retaining the same tactics of ridicule, personal rivalries, banning of dissenters, and&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/43548_Anatomy_of_an_Evil_Smear" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">calling opponents "evil."</a>&nbsp;LGF is the creation of Charles Johnson, one of the leading boosters of the Iraq War in the early days of the blogosphere. His posts only bordered on hate speech as he popularized the canard of "<a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Islamofascism" title="Islamofascism" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Islamofascism</a>" and LGF is cited often in&nbsp;<a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Norway" title="Norway" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Norwegian</a>&nbsp;mass murder&nbsp;<a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Anders_Behring_Breivik" title="Anders Behring Breivik" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Anders Behring Breivik</a>'s anti-Muslim "manifesto." But Johnson fostered more open&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/magazine/24Footballs-t.html?pagewanted=all&r=0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">vileness in the LGF comments section</a>: Muslims were "vermin," the activist that was killed by a bulldozer in Israel, Rachel Corrie, was renamed "St. Pancake" while Palestinians required "sterilization," and the beating of protesters was openly advocated while "targeted genocide" was a popular solution to America's problems.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After helping establish many of the loony wingnuts (like the&nbsp;<a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller" title="Pamela Geller" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">epically insane Pamela Geller</a>) still running amok to this day, Johnson parted ways with the right wing and attempted to retroactivLely cleanse LGF and his own personal reputation by&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/showc/23/8656429" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">scrubbing his site</a>&nbsp;of incriminating blog posts, banning most active members, and denying his previous warmongering bloodlust with a kind of "what, little old me?" denial of responsibility.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Johnson has spent much of his time on LGF in Twitter wars with&nbsp;<a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Glenn_Greenwald" title="Glenn Greenwald" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Glenn Greenwald</a>, until Greenwald got smart and began ignoring him</b>. Ironically, as of 2014 Charles Johnson has found a new #1 nemesis&nbsp;<i>having almost his exact same name</i>--wingnut Internet troll Charles&nbsp;<i>C.</i>&nbsp;Johnson--and the LGF Johnson takes pains while writing posts to point out that his doppelganger Johnson&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/44406_Chuck_C.Johnson_and_His_Neo-Nazi_Friends" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"is not me."</a>&nbsp;Sadly for LGF Charles, Charles C has been&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/05/troll-charles-johnson-banned-from-twitter-207688" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">permanently banned</a>&nbsp;from Twitter. This may leave the former Charles with no option but Twitter&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Masturbation%7C" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">self-abuse.</a></font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">L<b style="">ittle Green Footballs</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(</span><b style="">LGF</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">) is an</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">American</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_blog" class="mw-redirect" title="Political blog" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">political blog</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">run by</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_designer" class="mw-redirect" title="Web designer" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">web designer</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Johnson(blogger)" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Johnson (blogger)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Charles Johnson</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. In its beginning years, the site had a</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_politics" title="Right-wing politics" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">right-wing</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">orientation and known for its advocacy of the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Terrorism" class="mw-redirect" title="War on Terrorism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">War on Terrorism</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Iraq War</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, as well its strident criticism of political Islam. The blog moved away from the right around 2009.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#Overview" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Overview</span></font></a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#Name" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Name</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#Alteration_and_deletion_of_posts" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Alteration and deletion of posts</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#Software" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Software</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#Notable_events" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Notable events</span></font></a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#Killian_documents" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Killian documents</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#Charitable_contributions" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Charitable contributions</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#Pajamas_Media" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Pajamas Media</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#Doctored_photographs" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Doctored photographs</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#Awards" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Awards</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#Recurring_themes" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Recurring themes</span></font></a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#Pre-2009" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Pre-2009</span></font></a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#Slang" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.1.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Slang</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#Monitoring_and_exposing_rival_websites_for_revisionist_editing" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.1.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Monitoring and exposing rival websites for revisionist editing</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#Ideological_influences" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.1.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Ideological influences</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#Palestinian_child_abuse" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.1.4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Palestinian child abuse</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#Rachel_Corrie" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.1.5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Rachel Corrie</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#Intelligent_Design_criticism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.1.6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Intelligent Design criticism</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-19" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#Post-2009" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Post-2009</span></font></a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-20" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#Edward_Snowden" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.2.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Edward Snowden</span></font></a></li></ul></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-21" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#Registration_and_posting_protocols" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Registration and posting protocols</span></font></a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-22" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#Posting_filter" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Posting filter</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-23" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#Rivalries" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Rivalries</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-24" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#Redirects" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Redirects</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-25" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#Controversies" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Controversies</span></font></a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-26" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#Allegations_of_anti-Arab_and_anti-Muslim_sentiment" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Allegations of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim sentiment</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-27" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#Google_and_Websense" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Google and Websense</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-28" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#Statements_about_Ron_Paul" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Statements about Ron Paul</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-29" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#Statements_about_Vlaams_Belang" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5.4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Statements about Vlaams Belang</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-30" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#Media_attention_in_the_United_States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Media attention in the United States</span></font></a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-31" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#2002" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2002</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-32" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#2005" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2005</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-33" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#2006" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2006</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-34" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#2009" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6.4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2009</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-35" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#2010" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6.5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2010</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-36" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">7</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-37" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">8</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">External links</span></font></a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Overview">Overview</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Little_Green_Footballs&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Overview" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The site originally had a "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_wing" class="mw-redirect" title="Right wing" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">right wing</a>"<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup>&nbsp;orientation. It was one of the most well-known and vehement pro-War on Terrorism websites in the early days of the blogosphere. Johnson stated in 2006:</font></p><blockquote class="templatequote" style="overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 40px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I'm not pretending I'm giving equal time to both sides. But I do think what I'm advocating, and what I believe in, is the right side.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_3-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-autogenerated1-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After eight years of being a leading right wing blog, LGF started condemning racism and the far-right (especially the Belgian party&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlaams_Belang" title="Vlaams Belang" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Vlaams Belang</a>). After that, the site abruptly switched sides and now "LGF has become better known for the various fights it picks with many on the right."<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span title="The material near this tag possibly uses too-vague attribution or weasel words. (June 2014)">who?</span></a></i>]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-David_Weigel_4-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-David_Weigel-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup>&nbsp;During the transition period, Johnson deleted many of his more extreme past entries on the site, deleted entire comment sections, and banned many of the former right wing commentators from the site.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More recently, in 2009, Johnson stated</font></p><blockquote class="templatequote" style="overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 40px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I don't think there is an anti-jihadist movement anymore. ... It's all a bunch of kooks. I’ve watched some people who I thought were reputable, and who I trusted, hook up with racists and Nazis. I see a lot of them promoting stories and causes that I think are completely nuts.<sup id="cite_ref-David_Weigel_4-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-David_Weigel-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup></font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On November 30, 2009, Johnson blogged that he was disassociating himself with "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_politics" title="Right-wing politics" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">the right</a>," writing: "The American right wing has gone off the rails, into the bushes, and off the cliff. I won't be going over the cliff with them." He has been heavily critical of conservatives and libertarians since then.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Earlier, after&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks" title="September 11 attacks" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">the September 11, 2001 attacks</a>, Johnson—who has described himself as "pretty much&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center-left" class="mw-redirect" title="Center-left" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">center-left</a>&nbsp;before 9/11"<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup>—transformed his blog into a discussion of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_conflict" title="Arab–Israeli conflict" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Arab–Israeli conflict</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">LGF won the "Best Israel Advocacy Blog" award from the&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="Jerusalem Post" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jerusalem Post</a></i>&nbsp;in 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup>&nbsp;In 2004 Gil Ronen, a reporter for Internet news outlet&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arutz_Sheva" title="Arutz Sheva" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Arutz Sheva</a></i>, stated that "If anyone ever compiles a list of Internet sites that contribute to Israel's public relations effort, Johnson's site will probably come in first, far above the Israeli Foreign Ministry's site."<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States</a>, LGF is perhaps best known for playing a key role in exposing the fraud of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents" class="mw-redirect" title="Killian documents" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Killian documents</a>&nbsp;regarding President&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">George W. Bush</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-LGF12526_10-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-LGF12526-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-HK2004.0919_11-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-HK2004.0919-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup>&nbsp;which preceded the resignation of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS" title="CBS" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">CBS</a>'s&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Rather" title="Dan Rather" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Dan Rather</a>. The site won the&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Post" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Washington Post</a></i><span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-left: 0.1em;">'</span>s reader poll for Best International Blog in November 2004<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup>&nbsp;and played a role in bringing attention to altered photographs in the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adnan_Hajj_photographs_controversy" title="Adnan Hajj photographs controversy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Adnan Hajj photographs controversy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup>&nbsp;In July 2008, LGF identified that photographs of Iran's missile test had been altered,<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup>&nbsp;and was credited by much of the media for this.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Name">Name</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Little_Green_Footballs&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Name" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The name "Little Green Footballs" has not been explained by Charles Johnson. The most he has said about it is:</font></p><blockquote style="overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 40px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I am at liberty to reveal that it has something to do with an incident in my youth that happened in Japan.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a></sup></font></p></blockquote><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Alteration_and_deletion_of_posts">Alteration and deletion of posts</span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In early September, 2010, it was discovered that Johnson had begun altering some posts and deleting others which expressed sentiments which were substantively similar to the ones he had recently been condemning others for. In one example, Johnson had been condemning opponents of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park51" title="Park51" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Park51</a>&nbsp;project as "bigots", though he had expressed similar opposition to the proposed&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_93_National_Memorial" title="Flight 93 National Memorial" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Flight 93 memorial</a>, which he described as an "Islamic Shrine". Johnson was discovered to have deleted these posts without acknowledging their deletion.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup>&nbsp;Johnson had also described the lead figure in the Park51 project,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feisal_Abdul_Rauf" title="Feisal Abdul Rauf" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Feisal Abdul Rauf</a>, as an "Islamic Supremacist," but later revised that description from the post without acknowledging the change.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Software">Software</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Little_Green_Footballs&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Software" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The software for the website was written by Johnson himself<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span title="The time period mentioned near this tag is ambiguous. (April 2013)">when?</span></a></i>]</sup>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP" title="PHP" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">PHP</a>. Until Spring 2007, all data was stored in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_file" class="mw-redirect" title="Flat file" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">flat files</a>. The website now uses&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL" title="MySQL" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">MySQL</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Notable_events">Notable events</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Little_Green_Footballs&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Notable events" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Killian_documents">Killian documents</span></font></h3><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Main article:&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents" class="mw-redirect" title="Killian documents" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Killian documents</a></font></div><div class="thumb tright" style="clear: right; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); padding: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 222px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Killian_memos_MSWord_animated.gif" class="image" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Killian_memos_MSWord_animated.gif/220px-Killian_memos_MSWord_animated.gif" decoding="async" width="220" height="99" class="thumbimage" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Killian_memos_MSWord_animated.gif/330px-Killian_memos_MSWord_animated.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Killian_memos_MSWord_animated.gif/440px-Killian_memos_MSWord_animated.gif 2x" data-file-width="450" data-file-height="202" style="border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></font></a><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><div class="magnify" style="float: right; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Killian_memos_MSWord_animated.gif" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2215%22 height=%2211%22 viewBox=%220 0 11 15%22%3E %3Cg id=%22magnify-clip%22 fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%23000%22%3E %3Cpath id=%22bigbox%22 d=%22M1.509 1.865h10.99v7.919H1.509z%22/%3E %3Cpath id=%22smallbox%22 d=%22M-1.499 6.868h5.943v4.904h-5.943z%22/%3E %3C/g%3E %3C/svg%3E"); display: block; text-indent: 15px; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; width: 15px; height: 11px; user-select: none;" /></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Killian_memos_MSWord_animated.gif" title="File:Killian memos MSWord animated.gif" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The animated GIF image</a>&nbsp;created by Charles Johnson and posted at LGF, comparing a 2004-era Microsoft Word document made with default settings to the document that CBS presented as a typewritten memo from 1973.</font></div></div></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">LGF was one of four sources, along with the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line(blog)" class="mw-redirect" title="Power Line (blog)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Power Line</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allah_Is_in_the_House" class="mw-redirect" title="Allah Is in the House" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Allahpundit</a>&nbsp;blogs and the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Republic" title="Free Republic" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Free Republic</a>&nbsp;discussion forum, who conducted the initial investigation of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Rather" title="Dan Rather" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Dan Rather</a>'s assertions on&nbsp;<i style=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60_Minutes" title="60 Minutes" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">60 Minutes</a></i>&nbsp;that the Killian documents were genuine.</span><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Charitable_contributions">Charitable contributions</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Little_Green_Footballs&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Charitable contributions" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Little Green Footballs supporters have helped raise thousands of dollars for&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_of_America(company)" class="mw-redirect" title="Spirit of America (company)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Spirit of America</a>'s "Friends of Iraq Blogger Challenge".<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a></sup>&nbsp;Supporters also donate pizzas for&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Defense_Forces" title="Israel Defense Forces" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">IDF</a>soldiers.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a></sup>&nbsp;In the immediate aftermath of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina" title="Hurricane Katrina" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Hurricane Katrina</a>&nbsp;several registered users also offered their direct services donating and transporting goods to the hardest hit, inviting contributions from other readers.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a></sup>&nbsp;Johnson also posted a number of links to charitable efforts&nbsp;<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a></sup>&nbsp;and thanked his readers for their response.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Pajamas_Media">Pajamas Media</span></font></h3><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Main article:&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pajamas_Media" class="mw-redirect" title="Pajamas Media" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Pajamas Media</a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In late 2005 Johnson, along with blogger and author&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_L.Simon" title="Roger L. Simon" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Roger L. Simon</a>&nbsp;launched a news site called&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pajamas_Media" class="mw-redirect" title="Pajamas Media" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Pajamas Media</a>&nbsp;(briefly called&nbsp;<i>Open Source Media</i>) featuring mostly&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism_in_the_United_States" title="Conservatism in the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">conservative</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism" title="Libertarianism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">libertarian</a>&nbsp;bloggers and journalists (e.g.,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin" title="Michelle Malkin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Michelle Malkin</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Reynolds" title="Glenn Reynolds" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Glenn Reynolds</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Barone(pundit)" title="Michael Barone (pundit)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Michael Barone</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammy_Bruce" title="Tammy Bruce" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Tammy Bruce</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Podhoretz" title="John Podhoretz" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John Podhoretz</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ledeen" title="Michael Ledeen" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Michael Ledeen</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Seipp" title="Catherine Seipp" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Cathy Seipp</a>) with some&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism_in_the_United_States" title="Liberalism in the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">liberal</a>&nbsp;participants (e.g.,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Corn" title="David Corn" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">David Corn</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Cooper" title="Marc Cooper" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Marc Cooper</a>). The name refers to&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Klein(CNN)" title="Jonathan Klein (CNN)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jonathan Klein</a>'s comment about bloggers working in their pajamas.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As of 15 September 2009, Johnson has removed all links to&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pajamas_Media" class="mw-redirect" title="Pajamas Media" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Pajamas Media</a>&nbsp;sites<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[27]</a></sup>&nbsp;from Little Green Footballs.</font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Doctored_photographs">Doctored photographs</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Little_Green_Footballs&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Doctored photographs" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Main article:&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adnan_Hajj_photographs_controversy" title="Adnan Hajj photographs controversy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Adnan Hajj photographs controversy</a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On August 5, 2006, LGF showed how a photograph of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beirut" title="Beirut" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Beirut</a>&nbsp;after an Israeli air strike taken by&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuters" title="Reuters" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Reuters</a>&nbsp;photographer&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adnan_Hajj_photographs_controversy" title="Adnan Hajj photographs controversy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Adnan Hajj</a>&nbsp;was manipulated before being published by Reuters.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ynet0806_29-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-ynet0806-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[29]</a></sup></font></p><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">See also:&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Prophet_III" title="Great Prophet III" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Great Prophet III</a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On July 10, 2008 the website documented alterations to photos of Iranian missile tests.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[30]</a></sup>&nbsp;Fox News credited the website for discovering the doctored photos.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-31" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[31]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Awards">Awards</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Little_Green_Footballs&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Awards" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Little Green Footballs once had two annual awards; The Fiskie and The Fallaci. The Fiskie was named after journalist&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fisk" title="Robert Fisk" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Robert Fisk</a>, in a blog post<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-32" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[32]</a></sup>&nbsp;where Johnson notes that, after having been captured and beaten by Afghan refugees, Fisk claimed he sympathized with them. The award was given to people who in the previous year best embodied the "Idiotarian" worldview. The Fallaci was named after the late&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriana_Fallaci" title="Oriana Fallaci" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Oriana Fallaci</a>, and given to people who in the previous year best embodied the "Anti-Idiotarian" worldview.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Johnson had previously allowed his users to nominate and vote on candidates for both awards. The Fallaci was discontinued without explanation after 2007. Johnson quietly removed a link to her memorial site from the blog during his ideological shift in 2008. The Fiskie was discontinued after 2009. That year, rather than allow the community to vote,<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-33" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[33]</a></sup>&nbsp;Johnson unilaterally awarded the Fiskie to&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck" title="Glenn Beck" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Glenn Beck</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-34" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[34]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Recurring_themes">Recurring themes</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Little_Green_Footballs&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Recurring themes" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Pre-2009">Pre-2009</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Little_Green_Footballs&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Pre-2009" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Slang">Slang</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Little_Green_Footballs&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Slang" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Discussing slang terms used by Johnson and his readers, Paul Farhi, a writer for the&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Post" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Washington Post</a></i>, notes:</font></p><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;"><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>...Little Green Footballs doesn't always traffic in subtlety and nuance. Dissenting points of view often are dismissed as "idiotarian" or "LLL" (for "loony liberal left"), and Islam is mockingly referred to as "RoP", meaning "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_of_Peace" class="mw-redirect" title="Religion of Peace" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">religion of peace</a>".</i><sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_3-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-autogenerated1-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></dd></dl></dd></dl><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Monitoring_and_exposing_rival_websites_for_revisionist_editing">Monitoring and exposing rival websites for revisionist editing</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Little_Green_Footballs&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Monitoring and exposing rival websites for revisionist editing" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Charles Johnson's posts on LGF frequently call attention to what he regards as unethical revisionism on the part of rival blogs.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-35" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[35]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-36" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[36]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-37" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[37]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-38" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[38]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-39" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[39]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-40" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[40]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-41" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[41]</a></sup></font></p><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Ideological_influences">Ideological influences</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Little_Green_Footballs&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Ideological influences" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Charles Johnson's posts on LGF frequently cited the writing of authors representing&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservative" class="mw-redirect" title="Neoconservative" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Neoconservative</a>&nbsp;viewpoints, such as&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Davis_Hanson" title="Victor Davis Hanson" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Victor Davis Hanson</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer" title="Charles Krauthammer" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Charles Krauthammer</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Steyn" title="Mark Steyn" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Mark Steyn</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lileks" title="James Lileks" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">James Lileks</a>, and Oriana Fallaci</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Johnson has expressed a strong disdain for the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_protests" title="Tea Party protests" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Tea Party protests</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Since his strong break with the right, he has come to openly criticize many of those same writers. He frequently references climate blogger Peter Sinclair</span><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-42" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[42]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;in posts about global warming.</span></font></p><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Palestinian_child_abuse">Palestinian child abuse</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Little_Green_Footballs&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Palestinian child abuse" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Johnson often posts photos taken by Associated Press and Reuters photographers, among others, of Palestinians dressing their children in paramilitary uniforms, or in clothing emblazoned with violent slogans such as "Death to Israel." These children are often shown carrying real guns and even wearing mock-ups of the explosive belts used by suicide bombers. Johnson refers to such photographs as evidence of Palestinian&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abuse" title="Child abuse" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">child abuse</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-43" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[43]</a></sup></font></p><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Rachel_Corrie">Rachel Corrie</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Little_Green_Footballs&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Rachel Corrie" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Johnson has stated many times that he is disgusted with media coverage of the death of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Solidarity_Movement" title="International Solidarity Movement" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">International Solidarity Movement</a>&nbsp;activist&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Corrie" title="Rachel Corrie" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Rachel Corrie</a>, who was killed by an Israeli&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulldozer" title="Bulldozer" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">bulldozer</a>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafah" title="Rafah" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Rafah</a>, a town in the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip" title="Gaza Strip" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Gaza Strip</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-lgf6228_44-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-lgf6228-44" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[44]</a></sup>&nbsp;Johnson disputes the ISM's account, holding that Corrie, who was regularly mocked as "Saint Pancake" on his website, was "trying to 'protect' a house used for drugs and weapons smuggling".<sup id="cite_ref-lgf6228_44-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-lgf6228-44" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[44]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-45" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[45]</a></sup>&nbsp;Johnson states:</font></p><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;"><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>Rachel Corrie was emphatically not a "peace activist". She sided with terrorists and criminals, and advocated—in fact, was excited by—violence and mass murder.</i><sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated2_46-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-autogenerated2-46" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[46]</a></sup></font></dd></dl></dd></dl><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In support of this view, he has cited<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated2_46-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-autogenerated2-46" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[46]</a></sup>&nbsp;a diary entry<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-47" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[47]</a></sup>&nbsp;from Corrie, which Johnson characterizes as expressing the view that Palestinian violence towards Israel is justifiable and laudable.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated2_46-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-autogenerated2-46" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[46]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In posts about her on LGF, Johnson often features a photo of Corrie burning a hand-drawn American flag and surrounded by Palestinian children.<sup id="cite_ref-lgf6228_44-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-lgf6228-44" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[44]</a></sup></font></p><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Intelligent_Design_criticism">Intelligent Design criticism</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Little_Green_Footballs&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Intelligent Design criticism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">LGF has been ideologically opposed to&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Design" class="mw-redirect" title="Intelligent Design" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Intelligent Design</a>, and Johnson regularly posts to criticize the subject<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-48" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[48]</a></sup>&nbsp;and those who endorse it. He is particularly critical of Louisiana Governor&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Jindal" title="Bobby Jindal" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bobby Jindal</a>&nbsp;on this point. In 2009, he stated that the Republican Party's having visible advocates of Intelligent Design is one of the reasons that the Democrats were in power.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-49" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[49]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Post-2009">Post-2009</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Little_Green_Footballs&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Post-2009" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Edward_Snowden">Edward Snowden</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Little_Green_Footballs&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Edward Snowden" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Johnson has been critical of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden" title="Edward Snowden" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Edward Snowden</a>&nbsp;and his&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosures(2013%E2%80%93present)" title="Global surveillance disclosures (2013–present)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">disclosures</a>. In 2014, he asserted that "Snowden himself committed a truly massive violation of civil liberties".<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-50" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[50]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Registration_and_posting_protocols">Registration and posting protocols</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Little_Green_Footballs&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Registration and posting protocols" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Posting_filter">Posting filter</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Little_Green_Footballs&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Posting filter" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Johnson has put<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span title="The time period mentioned near this tag is ambiguous. (February 2011)">when?</span></a></i>]</sup>&nbsp;in place a filter which stops LGF members from using certain derogatory and racist terms in their posts to the site. Johnson stresses that the number of comments filtered in this way are "minuscule." The filter is intended to prevent abuse going unnoticed.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-51" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[51]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Rivalries">Rivalries</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Little_Green_Footballs&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Rivalries" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Johnson and LGF "regulars" (the self-proclaimed "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptilian_humanoid" title="Reptilian humanoid" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Lizardoids</a>") have engaged in a number of high-profile&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feud" title="Feud" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">feuds</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaming(Internet)" title="Flaming (Internet)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">flame wars</a>, pitting LGF supporters against readers of other blogs (e.g.,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Kos" title="Daily Kos" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Daily Kos</a>&nbsp;and later&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin#Hot_Air_website_and_MichelleMalkin.com" title="Michelle Malkin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Hot Air</a>) and alternative media sites (e.g.,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fark" title="Fark" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Fark</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg" title="Digg" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Digg</a>).<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As of 2014, one of Charles Johnson's main targets is an&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right" title="Alt-right" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">alt-right</a>&nbsp;figure and well-known&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll" title="Internet troll" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Internet troll</a>&nbsp;with the same first and last name as him. When speaking of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_C.Johnson" title="Charles C. Johnson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Charles C. Johnson</a>, the LGF owner takes pains to point out that this doppelganger "is not me."<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-52" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[52]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Redirects">Redirects</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Little_Green_Footballs&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Redirects" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Johnson often redirects incoming links from sites critical of LGF to the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Defense_Forces" title="Israel Defense Forces" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Israel Defense Forces</a>&nbsp;homepage.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-53" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[53]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-54" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[54]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Following a news release which&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_American-Islamic_Relations" class="mw-redirect" title="Council on American-Islamic Relations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">CAIR</a>&nbsp;sent to pay-for-play organization PRNewswire.com, Johnson redirected the news release's link traffic to a site regarding&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_American-Islamic_Relations" class="mw-redirect" title="Council on American-Islamic Relations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">CAIR</a>'s alleged ties to terrorist organizations.&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_American-Islamic_Relations" class="mw-redirect" title="Council on American-Islamic Relations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">CAIR</a>responded by having the links removed from the press release.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-55" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[55]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Controversies">Controversies</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Little_Green_Footballs&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Controversies" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Allegations_of_anti-Arab_and_anti-Muslim_sentiment">Allegations of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim sentiment</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Little_Green_Footballs&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Allegations of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim sentiment" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">R. J. Smith, writing in&nbsp;<i>Los Angeles Magazine</i>, stated that LGF is a "dysfunctional mix of beautiful photos Johnson takes on coastal bike rides and constitutionally protected hate speech" which "believes all Muslims are terrorists until proven innocent."<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-56" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[56]</a></sup></font></li></ul><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_Hooper" title="Ibrahim Hooper" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ibrahim Hooper</a>, spokesman for the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_American_Islamic_Relations" class="mw-redirect" title="Council of American Islamic Relations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Council of American Islamic Relations</a>&nbsp;(CAIR) called Little Green Footballs "a vicious, anti-Muslim hate site" and says that the FBI has "investigated several threats of physical harm against Muslims posted by Little Green Footballs readers".<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_3-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-autogenerated1-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columnist" title="Columnist" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Columnist</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonia_Zerbisias" title="Antonia Zerbisias" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Antonia Zerbisias</a>&nbsp;has described LGF as a "virulently anti-Muslim/Arab website".<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-57" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[57]</a></sup></font></li></ul><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Google_and_Websense">Google and Websense</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Little_Green_Footballs&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Google and Websense" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In March 2005, Johnson called attention to Google's inclusion of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_supremacist" class="mw-redirect" title="White supremacist" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">white supremacist</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Vanguard(American_organization)" title="National Vanguard (American organization)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">National Vanguard</a>&nbsp;site (and simultaneous exclusion of LGF) in its news index; the NV site has since been dropped.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-58" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[58]</a></sup></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In April 2007 Johnson reported that Little Green Footballs was being blocked by&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Websense" class="mw-redirect" title="Websense" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Websense</a>&nbsp;under its "Racism and Hate" category.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-59" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[59]</a></sup>&nbsp;Websense admitted that the site had been thus categorized briefly (but incorrectly) and subsequently reversed the decision.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-60" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[60]</a></sup></font></li></ul><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Statements_about_Ron_Paul">Statements about Ron Paul</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Little_Green_Footballs&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Statements about Ron Paul" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Johnson removed Ron Paul's name from straw polls regarding the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_United_States_presidential_election" title="2008 United States presidential election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2008 Republican Presidential nomination campaign</a>, asserting that Ron Paul's supporters were fraudulently gaming the vote script to increase Paul's numbers: "The bottom line: if Ron Paul supporters weren’t spamming, he would still be in our polls. I really don’t have any nefarious motives here; I just don’t like being gamed, and since I run these silly unscientific polls I don’t have to put up with it."<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-61" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[61]</a></sup>&nbsp;According to Johnson, the tactic used was an organized campaign by Ron Paul supporters to notify other supporters of online polls and vote in them.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In December 2007,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism" title="Libertarianism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">libertarian</a>&nbsp;writer&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Weigel" title="David Weigel" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">David Weigel</a>&nbsp;accused Johnson of launching a "smear" against&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Republican</a>&nbsp;presidential candidate&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Paul" title="Ron Paul" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ron Paul</a>, writing in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason_Magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="Reason Magazine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Reason Magazine</a>&nbsp;that:<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-62" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[62]</a></sup></font></li></ul><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;"><i><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Little Green Footballs has moved, over the space of a few weeks, from mercilessly mocking&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Paul" title="Ron Paul" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ron Paul</a>&nbsp;and banning him from its straw polls to putting him at the center of a conspiracy for worldwide Nazi domination.</font></i></dd></dl><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Johnson's allegations were picked up in the&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Times" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">New York Times</a></i>&nbsp;"Medium" section, where&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Heffernan" title="Virginia Heffernan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Virginia Heffernan</a>&nbsp;cited LGF's coverage of claims by&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_White(neo-nazi)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bill White (neo-nazi)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bill White</a>, writing:<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-63" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[63]</a></sup></font></p><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;"><i><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Little Green Footballs, the hawkish and rigidly empiricist blog that first furnished evidence of memo-forging in the Rathergate case, has started due diligence...</font></i></dd></dl><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Statements_about_Vlaams_Belang">Statements about Vlaams Belang</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Little_Green_Footballs&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Statements about Vlaams Belang" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the wake of the Brussels Counterjihad 2007 conference held on October 17–18, 2007, Charles Johnson became openly critical of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlaams_Belang" title="Vlaams Belang" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Vlaams Belang</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Democrats" title="Sweden Democrats" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Sweden Democrats</a>, political parties he believes to be fascist or neo-Nazi in character.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-64" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[64]</a></sup>&nbsp;This resulted in a falling out with several other prominent right-wing bloggers, including&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_West" title="Diana West" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Diana West</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-65" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[65]</a></sup>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Spencer(author)" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Spencer (author)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Robert Spencer</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-66" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[66]</a></sup>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fjordman" title="Fjordman" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Fjordman</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-67" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[67]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Media_attention_in_the_United_States">Media attention in the United States</span></font></h2><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="2002">2002</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Little_Green_Footballs&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: 2002" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSNBC" title="MSNBC" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">MSNBC</a>'s Will Femia wrote of LGF:</font></li></ul><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;"><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;"><i><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This site is the focus of considerable controversy for its focus (and particularly the focus of the constituents in its comments section) on Islamic culture and dogma as the source of Islamic terror. As a popular, active, and well presented site, it is worth checking out, but some may find its content hateful or even racist.</font></i></dd></dl></dd></dl><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Syndicated columnist&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Taranto" title="James Taranto" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">James Taranto</a>&nbsp;defended LGF after MSNBC 'smeared' Johnson.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-68" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[68]</a></sup></font></li></ul><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="2005">2005</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Little_Green_Footballs&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: 2005" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity_Fair_(magazine)" title="Vanity Fair (magazine)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Vanity Fair</a></i>&nbsp;theater critic&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wolcott" title="James Wolcott" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">James Wolcott</a>&nbsp;characterized the LGF community as&nbsp;<i>"sort of like a disorganized&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Rally" title="Nuremberg Rally" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Nuremberg Rally</a>, a lot of angry ruffians with nowhere to go...."</i><sup id="cite_ref-headhunters_69-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-headhunters-69" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[69]</a></sup>&nbsp;after Johnson described an attack on&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Pipes" title="Daniel Pipes" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Daniel Pipes</a>&nbsp;by Wolcott as "the sort of high-toned writin’ that made Vanity Fair the journalistic juggernaut it is today".</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weekly_Standard" title="The Weekly Standard" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Weekly Standard</a></i>&nbsp;described LGF as one of "the saner precincts of the blogosphere".<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-70" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[70]</a></sup></font></li></ul><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="2006">2006</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Little_Green_Footballs&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: 2006" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pajamas_Media" class="mw-redirect" title="Pajamas Media" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Pajamas Media</a>&nbsp;contributor&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Seipp" title="Catherine Seipp" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Cathy Seipp</a>&nbsp;wrote in&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Review" title="National Review" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">National Review</a></i>&nbsp;that:<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-71" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[71]</a></sup></font></li></ul><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;"><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;"><i><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I'm losing patience with this notion, surely one of the most successful media&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Lie" class="mw-redirect" title="Big Lie" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Big Lies</a>&nbsp;of the past few years, that Charles runs a racist hate site. By now it's been repeated so often that even normally reasonable people believe it.</font></i></dd></dl></dd></dl><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="2009">2009</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Little_Green_Footballs&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: 2009" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Charles Johnson and LGF received attention from the leftist blog the&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huffington_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="Huffington Post" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Huffington Post</a></i>&nbsp;because of a blog post of Johnsons disassociating himself from "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_politics" title="Right-wing politics" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">the right"</a>&nbsp;because of perceived, "anti-Islamic bigotry that goes far beyond simply criticizing radical Islam, into support for&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism" title="Fascism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">fascism</a>, violence, and genocide," embracing of conspiracy theories, and hate speech.<sup id="cite_ref-huffingtonpost.com_72-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-huffingtonpost.com-72" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[72]</a></sup></font></li></ul><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="2010">2010</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Little_Green_Footballs&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: 2010" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Author and journalist Jonathan Dee wrote a lengthy profile of Johnson for&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Magazine" title="The New York Times Magazine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The New York Times Magazine</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-73" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[73]</a></sup>&nbsp;Johnson later criticized the article for its negative slant and for lending too much weight to the opinions of people whom, Johnson wrote, the&nbsp;<i>Times</i>&nbsp;would "normally assign to the 'wacko far right bigot' category".<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs#cite_note-74" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[74]</a></sup></font></li></ul><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="References"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">References</font></span></h2><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div>The long read</div><div><b>The myth of Eurabia: how a far-right conspiracy theory went mainstream</b></div><div>
</div><div>Once an obscure idea confined to the darker corners of the internet, the anti-Islam ideology is now visible in the everyday politics of the west. How did this happen? By Andrew Brown</div><div>
</div><div>Fri 16 Aug 2019 01.00 EDT Last modified on Fri 16 Aug 2019 07.48 EDT</div><div>
</div><div>In July 2011, a quiet European capital was shaken by a terrorist car bomb, followed by confused reports suggesting many deaths. When the first news of the murders came through, one small group of online commentators reacted immediately, even though the media had cautiously declined to identify the attackers. They knew at once what had happened – and who was to blame.</div><div>
</div><div>“This was inevitable,” explained one of the anonymous commenters. And it was just the beginning: “Only a matter of time before other European nations get a taste of their multicultural tolerance that they’ve been cooking for decades.”</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Europe has been infested with venomous parasitic vermin,” explained another. “Anything and everything is fine as long as they rape the natives and destroy the country, which they do,” said a third.</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As the news grew worse, the group became more joyful and confident. The car bomb had been followed by reports of a mass shooting at a nearby camp for teenagers. One commenter was “almost crying of happiness” to be proved right about the dangers of Islam. “The massacre at the children’s camp,” another noted, “is a sickening reminder of just how evil and satanic the cult of Islam is.”</span></div><div>
</div><div>A couple of hours after the first reports of the bomb explosion in central Oslo, a few doubts emerged to cloud the picture: “Because the targets in the shooting were all good little leftists, won’t the shooter be played up as a rightwing extremist, whatever his actual motives?” one person asked.</div><div>
</div><div>When information emerged to suggest that the attacker might be a “tall Nordic guy”, one of the commenters, who called himself “Fjordman”, realised the true nature of the disaster: “Judging from some of the recent information, it must be treated as a serious possibility that this is actually some Timothy McVeigh, not a Muslim. It is too early to tell. If that is indeed the case … it would practically destroy my country, and make the working conditions for people like myself incredibly difficult for a long time to come, I’m afraid.”</div><div>
</div><div>The truth turned out to be worse than Fjordman feared. The massacre in Oslo had not been committed by Muslims. It was the work of a white supremacist, Anders Behring Breivik, who had detonated a bomb in Oslo, killing eight people, and then shot dead 69 others, many of them teenagers, at a youth camp run by Norway’s Labour party. And, according to the manifesto he published online<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, Breivik had been directly inspired by Gates of Vienna – the blog where all these comments appeared on the day of his massacre. Breivik called the ideology that justified his murders “The Vienna school”, after the blog.</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fjordman, whose real name is Peder Are Nøstvold Jensen, now lives in obscurity in provincial Norway. He outed himself as the man behind the pseudonym to a Norwegian tabloid in the weeks following the massacre – but<b>&nbsp;managed to avoid testifying at Breivik’s trial, thanks to the intervention of high-powered lawyers paid for by the Middle East Forum, a rightwing American group that would later sponsor Tommy Robinson&nbsp;</b>– real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon – in Britain. Nonetheless, Jensen’s influence on Breivik, however indirect, had been considerable.</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Breivik borrowed part of the title of his manifesto, A European Declaration of Independence, from one of Fjordman’s blog posts, and many of the chapters in it were simply reprintings of Fjordman’s postings on various blogs, mostly Gates of Vienna, but also a far-right and passionately anti-EU site called the Brussels Journal.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>Gates of Vienna was, and still is, run by Edward “Ned” May, an American computer programmer from Washington DC.</b>&nbsp;It was among the first in a wave of blogs that urged the US to war after the shock of 9/11, and almost certainly the most fanatically anti-Muslim. It takes its name from the siege of Vienna in 1683, when an Ottoman Turkish army was defeated by a Polish-led one. Its essential thesis is that this was only one battle in a long war and that Europe and its civilisation are constantly threatened by a Muslim invasion.</div><div>
</div><div><b>On these varied online forums, the narrative was always the same: a liberal cabal was conspiring with hostile Muslim powers to hand over the decent working people to Islam.</b>&nbsp;This was the animating myth of the bloggers, calling themselves the “counter-jihad”, who congregated at Gates of Vienna and other like-minded sites – and inspired both the violence of Breivik and the message of the racist far-right parties that have transformed European politics in the past decade.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But all of these later conspiracy theories took inspiration from a founding myth of contemporary Islamophobia:&nbsp;<b>an invented plot, known as “Eurabia”, to destroy European civilisation.</b>&nbsp;This is the doctrine that Jensen promoted and Breivik acted on, a hidden underpinning of a movement that has changed the world.</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Once an ideology confined to the kookier corners of the internet, the idea of Eurabia is now visible in the everyday politics of the US, Australia and most of Europe: when Trump tweets about stabbings in London and falsely claims that crime in Germany is “way up”, he is invoking the Eurabian myth, taken as fact on Fox News, that European liberals have surrendered their cities to Muslim criminals.</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The spread of the belief that&nbsp;<b>elites</b>&nbsp;conspired to push Muslim immigration on their native populations is also the story of a conspiracy theory that was nourished on some of the very first blogs and message boards, started appearing in mainstream discourse after 9/11, and then<b>&nbsp;took on a life of its own,</b>&nbsp;even while the supposed facts behind it were exposed as ridiculous. It is a lesson in the danger of half-truths, which are not only more powerful than truths but often more powerful than lies.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Eurabia is a term coined in the 70s that was resurfaced by<b>&nbsp;Gisèle Littman, an Egyptian-born Jewish woman who fled Cairo for Britain after the Suez crisis</b>, and then moved to Switzerland in 1960 with her English husband. She wrote under the name of Bat Ye’or (Hebrew for “Daughter of the Nile”). In a series of books, originally written in French and published from the 1990s onward,&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">she developed a grand conspiracy theory in which the EU, led by French elites, implemented a secret plan to sell out Europe to the Muslims in exchange for oil.</span></div><div>
</div><div>The original villain of Littman’s story was General Charles de Gaulle. It is difficult for an outsider to understand how&nbsp;<b>De Gaulle,</b>&nbsp;who led the French resistance to the Nazis and was probably the greatest conservative statesman in French history, could be reinvented as the man who betrayed western civilisation for money. But Littman had lived many years in France, and the French far right hated De Gaulle, and indeed tried several times to assassinate him. Not only had De Gaulle fought the Vichy government, he had also admitted defeat in the long and hideously bloody war of Algerian independence – granting an Arab Muslim country its freedom at the expense of the French-Christian settler population, who had to retreat to France (and whose descendants formed the backbone of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s National Front).</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Agreeing to Algerian independence was understood by the French far right as a betrayal. De Gaulle had been brought out of retirement and restored to power in 1958 because he was believed to be on the side of the settlers in their war, which was opposed by much of the left. And so, to the far right, the Mediterranean came to seem like the frontline in a long, shifting struggle between rival colonialisms, Christian and Muslim, in which the Muslims had won a great victory in Algeria. Where would their new advance stop?</span></div><div>
</div><div>Littman’s argument, framed by her experience in Egypt (which a French force had invaded, along with the British and Israelis, in 1956), was that Islam imposed a second-class status on all non-Muslims, whom they ruled. This status of “<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">dhimmi</span>tude” – a coinage of Littman’s, meaning subjection to Islamic rule on pain of “forced conversion, slavery or death” – was now to be extended to Europe.</div><div>
</div><div>According to Littman, her books describe “Europe’s evolution from a Judeo-Christian civilisation, with important post-Enlightenment secular elements, into a post-Judeo-Christian civilisation that is subservient to the ideology of jihad and the Islamic powers that propagate it.”</div><div><div>
</div><div>She saw tentacles of the great conspiracy in committees of blameless tedium and obscurity, such as the Euro-Arab Dialogue, an institution set up by the European Economic Community and the Arab League in the 70s to promote greater discussion between the regions. Her conspiracy theory was dismissed in 2006 by the Israeli historian Robert Wistrich as “the protocols of the elders of Brussels”, but what mattered more was the place he chose to challenge her ideas: a conference in Jerusalem on antisemitism to which she had been invited despite her lack of academic status. September 11 had changed everything for Littman, she told Haaretz after the conference: “In the United States, I am certain that the September 11 attacks woke people up, including the Jewish community that had previously ignored me, because it belongs more to the left.”</div><div>
</div><div>She explained to Haaretz the future she saw for Europe. “We are now heading towards a total change in Europe, which will be more and more Islamicised and will become a political satellite of the Arab and Muslim world.”</div><div>
</div><div>This was the idea that the Norwegian Jensen was enchanted by, and which, as Fjordman, he transmitted to Anders Breivik.</div><div>
</div><div>&nbsp;[Marine Le Pen, president of France’s far-right National Rally (formerly National Front) party, applauds the former US presidential adviser Steve Bannon after his speech at the party’s annual congress in March 2018.]</div><div>
</div><div><b>Jensen is unusual among Eurabia believers in that he has actually had some experience of the Muslim world and even speaks Arabic.</b>&nbsp;He is the son of a socialist politician in Norway and studied Arabic in Cairo – his earlier university studies in Bergen had included English (which he writes fluently), Russian, Arabic and Middle Eastern history. In 2000, he had been interviewed by the local paper back in Norway, and spoke enthusiastically about his hosts in Egypt: “Outside the tourist areas, you meet friendly, hospitable, curious and open people who want to get to know you. I have been part of their daily lives. We’ve been invited to their homes, and talked and smoked shisha together.”</div><div>
</div><div>That was Jensen’s first encounter with Islam, and he was still in Cairo at the time of the 9/11 attacks. He says he saw then that there were some Muslims who celebrated the slaughter, and he also saw that this wasn’t reported in the Norwegian papers. The next year, he worked for the Norwegian Refugee Council in the disputed city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.<b>&nbsp;Unusually among Scandinavians who have worked with Palestinians in Israel, he identified with the Israelis.&nbsp;</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">He narrowly escaped a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, at a bar where two of his colleagues had been killed in another attack the previous year. The experience cemented his growing fear and loathing of Islam.</span></div><div>
</div><div>The fact that the Norwegian press took a generally pro-Palestinian line while he and his friends had been the victims of Palestinian terrorism helped to convince Jensen that Islam was an existential threat to European civilisation which the politically correct establishment was wilfully ignoring. Like Littman, he seems not to acknowledge any element of nationalism in Palestinian consciousness: it is all either Arab or Muslim. In fact, the belief that Islam is hostile to national consciousness is quite widely held on the right: the philosopher Roger Scruton brought it up in a controversial speech on nationality in Hungary in 2013, in which he contrasted European Christian nations with Islamic empires.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 2003, Jensen returned to Norway, where he attempted to make a name for himself as a public intellectual. At first, he was hostile to feminism, accusing feminists of destroying Norwegian manhood. But the focus of his concerns soon switched to Islam.</span>&nbsp;He started writing under the pseudonym “Norwegian Kafir” on an American blog called<b>&nbsp;Little Green Footballs</b>, which loudly and fervently supported the invasion of Iraq. From then on, his writing appeared in English, on American-hosted blogs. There, he hammered into shape the narrative of elites, specially identified with the EU, who are destroying and betraying Europe by the deliberate encouragement of mass immigration.</div><div>
</div><div>At this point in time, the Eurabian conspiracy appealed largely to those who had long perceived a conflict between Islam and the Judeo-Christian west – with Israel as a beleaguered and persecuted outpost of western values.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;These people, largely on the American right, were among the earliest exponents of Eurabia – but as they never ceased to complain, theirs was not an attitude very widely shared in Europe. What would soon supply the emotional force of the fantasy was another set of ideas about global migration, less conspiratorial in their essence, but much more widely accepted among generally apolitical Europeans. These, also, originated in France, where they were known as the<b>&nbsp;“great replacement”.</b></span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The idea of the great replacement had its origin in a blatantly racist French novel of the 1970s, The Camp of the Saints,</span>&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">in which France is overthrown by an unarmed invasion of starving, sex-crazed Indian refugees when the French army is not prepared to fire on them. The<b>&nbsp;moral of the book is that western civilisation can only be saved by a willingness to slaughter poor brown people. Steve Bannon, among the founders of the rightwing news site Breitbart and a former adviser to President Trump, has referred to it repeatedly.</b></span></div><div>
</div><div>Throughout the 80s and 90s, the naked racism of The Camp of the Saints kept it largely out of public debate. But the rise of Islam as a global force allowed the question to be recast. If the threatening masses were defined by religion rather than by skin colour, then hating them could be presented as an intellectual commitment rather than a racist one.</div><div>
</div><div>And the paranoid did have a large, shadowy half-truth to fall back on. The&nbsp;<b>demographic shrinkage&nbsp;</b>facing Europe is real and undeniable, and it was obvious in the early years of this century, too. So are the much greater birth rates in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia. In 2002, Russia and Pakistan both had populations of about 145 million; by 2017, Russia’s population was 144 million while Pakistan’s was 200 million.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The next stage in the development of a xenophobic populist worldview was for the two narratives to merge, so that Islam and Muslims became both a conspiracy and a demographic threat.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>The 9/11 attacks changed attitudes to Islam in much of Europe and the US. Israel and the US now shared a sense of being under attack from Muslims.</b>&nbsp;Without 9/11, Littman would have remained an obscure crank, and Jensen more obscure still. But the assault on the twin towers unleashed an immense backlash of wounded American pride and nationalism that led to the devastation of two whole countries, Afghanistan and Iraq, and countless deaths. It also fuelled a demand for explanations. Theories about the unique malevolence and danger of Islam answered a popular hunger. George W Bush declared at the time that the US had no quarrel with Islam, but many of his compatriots disagreed.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">One of the many bad fruits of 9/11 was the new atheist movement, a phenomenon marked by mutual self-praise and undeviating hostility to Islam</span>. Even if the ostensible target of much of the hostility was Christianity, the new atheists tend to consider Islam far worse and more “religious” a religion. The American writer Sam Harris’s breakthrough book The End of Faith from 2004 now reads like Bat Ye’or without the inconvenient scaffolding of easily disproved facts. “We are at war with Islam,” he writes. “It may not serve our immediate foreign policy objectives for our political leaders to openly acknowledge this fact, but it is unambiguously so. It is not merely that we are at war with an otherwise peaceful religion that has been ‘hijacked’ by extremists … Armed conflict ‘in the defence of Islam’ is a religious obligation for every Muslim man ... Islam, more than any religion humans have ever devised, has the makings of a thoroughgoing cult of death.”</div><div>
</div><div>In the run-up to the Iraq war, and after the invasion, coverage in American newspapers and on television was, to a European eye, jingoistic in the extreme. The possibility of defeat was unthinkable. Nonetheless, a new wave of bloggers began using the term “MSM” for “mainstream media” as a disparaging reference to the large media organisations’ pretended neutrality. One of the earliest and most influential of these was&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Little Green Footballs, founded and run by Charles Johnson, a Los Angeles-based former session guitarist with an interest in web design. It was typical of the moment that he was an opinionated amateur with no credentials, whose real advantage was that he could build websites at a time when this required some programming skill.</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Jensen, commenting on Little Green Footballs as Norwegian Kafir, made it a distribution point for Eurabian ideas. Another was Gates of Vienna itself, run by Ned May under the moniker Baron Bodissey after a sage in the sci-fi novels of Jack Vance. Then there was Jihad Watch, run by the American author Robert Spencer. Both Spencer and his frequent collaborator Pam Geller were banned from the UK in 2013 for making statements likely to foster hatred and violence between communities.</span></div><div>
</div><div>The only European blog of note in this constellation was the fanatically anti-EU site the Brussels Journal, where the Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan was a contributor. The Brussels Journal was run by Paul Beliën, a far-right Belgian journalist and author. Jensen was active on all these sites, taking part in discussions in which the Eurabian beliefs gave rise to something that called itself the counter-jihad movement.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Nowadays, when Facebook effortlessly spreads disinformation around the world, it is difficult to recapture the sense of revelation, and of belonging, that once accompanied the discovery of a new blog. The cramped but, to its adherents, strangely comforting thought world of the counter-jihad blogs turned politics into a gigantic online game. Anyone could play and everyone could find in it their inner child: “Some people think I’m weird; some think I am exceptionally intelligent,” Jensen had told a reporter when he was still a student in Cairo.</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The boundaries between these blogs and the “MSM” they affected to despise were porous. Some writers aimed for a high-minded tone about the dangers of Muslim immigration: the former Financial Times columnist Christopher Caldwell published in 2009 a book, Reflections on a Revolution in Europe, that recapitulates the idea of a slow-moving Muslim barbarian invasion from a position of Olympian disdain:</span>&nbsp;“Immigrants also bring a lot of disorder, penury and crime … Muslim culture is unusually full of messages laying out the practical advantages of procreation … If you walk north across the Piazza Della Repubblica in Turin, you see, mutatis mutandis, what the Romans saw. To the east, two well-preserved Roman towers remain, and so do the walls built to separate citizens from barbarians. Today, in the space of about 60 seconds on foot, you pass from chic shops and wine bars through a lively multiethnic market into one of Europe’s more menacing north African slums.”</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Some were less highbrow. In 2004, the Daily Telegraph gave a column to the Canadian prophet of American greatness Mark Steyn</b>, who had originally made his name as a witty critic of musical theatre. Doom and horror was all he saw in Europe’s future. As early as 2002, he said: “I find it easier to be optimistic about the futures of Iraq and Pakistan than, say, Holland or Denmark” – a remark he was still proudly quoting for Telegraph readers in 2005, when Iraq had become a slaughterhouse.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In terms that anticipated Jensen, Breivik and the alleged manifesto of the man charged with the Christchurch massacre, Steyn wrote (and the Telegraph published) this prophecy: “In a democratic age, you can’t buck demography – except through civil war. The Yugoslavs figured that out. In the 30 years before the meltdown, Bosnian Serbs had declined from 43% to 31% of the population, while Bosnian Muslims had increased from 26% to 44%.”</span></div><div>
</div><div>&nbsp;[painting naked white? woman sucks finger, others gawk; ‘Europeans, vote for AfD, so that Europe will never become ‘Eurabia’!’ reads a campaign poster in Berlin for the far-right party during this year’s European elections.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Compare Steyn in 2005 with the manifesto of Patrick Crusius, who confessed to murdering 22 people in El Paso earlier this month: “This attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas. They are the instigators, not me. I am simply defending my country from cultural and ethnic replacement brought on by an invasion ... America is rotting from the inside out, and peaceful means to stop this seem to be nearly impossible.”</span></div><div>
</div><div>In 2007, the believers in a counter-jihad began to meet up in the real world. After a preliminary meeting of bloggers, commentators and Danish and Norwegian sympathisers in Copenhagen, attended by Jensen, a conference was arranged by May and the far-right Flemish party Vlaams Belang, in Brussels in 2007. This brought together most of the ideologues of Eurabia, as they attempted to transform it from an idea into a movement. Littman was the keynote speaker<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. Others present were Geller and Robert Spencer from the US, and Gerard Batten, later briefly the leader of Ukip in Britain. Ted Ekeroth, of the nationalist, rightwing Sweden Democrats, also attended.</span></div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>As both Ukip and the Sweden Democrats rose to become powerful political forces</b>, anxieties about terrorism were subsumed into much wider anxieties about demography, and about status within the old order. The American anthropologist Scott Atran has carried out extensive research into the mindset of the young men who become Islamic terrorists: the combination of wounded pride with the delight of belonging to a movement which has both global, apocalyptic significance and a living presence in a friendship group is tremendously important in recruiting jihadis. The same dynamic operates among their enemies: Breivik was remarkable chiefly in that he was so solipsistic that he could radicalise himself without the aid of any friends in real life, only those he imagined on the internet. He had at one stage approached his intellectual idol, Jensen, via email, who brushed him off as “boring as a vacuum cleaner salesman”.</div><div>
</div><div>You do not have to be a jihadi to feel the tug of these compulsions. The counter-jihadis, just as much as their enemies, believed they were entering an apocalyptic battle between good and evil. This is a century of wounded pride and anxieties about status for almost everyone.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Despite all this, there were some signs, even before the Breivik killings, that the original Eurabian front would break up. Those who were opposed to immigrants in general began to separate from those who hated Muslims in particular</span>.<b>&nbsp;Johnson, the founder of Little Green Footballs, excommunicated most of his followers in 2010 because of their increasing closeness to parties of western Europe that he regarded as being descended from fascists –</b>&nbsp;the Vlaams Belang in Belgium and the Sweden Democrats, although he also denounced the English Defence League.&nbsp;<b>Johnson was a genuine philosemite, who could not forgive the taint of antisemitism.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The anti-immigrant right had good reasons for separating itself from the anti-Muslim right. If the logic of the “Vienna school” – Jensen, Spencer and Geller, May and Littman – led inexorably to civil war and the righteous slaughter of Muslims and their leftie enablers, then most of the right shrank back from it.</span>&nbsp;Commenters such as Douglas Murray and Caldwell quite genuinely believed that Breivik was insane, and that his actions had no relation to the ideas that he espoused. There may in this have been an element of self-deception, but it is also a testimony to the sort of instinctive, unthinking decency we all need sometimes to rescue us from the consequences of our ideas. It seemed that some kind of pragmatism would prevail.</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The hope now seems deceptive. What changed this was above all the election of the US president,&nbsp;<b>Donald Trump, whose then adviser Bannon was a believer in a “brutal, bloody ... global war” against “Islamic fascism</b>”. They showed that there was a huge constituency for racialised hatred and despair and – for them – no real negative consequences, electoral or otherwise, in pandering to it.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>Since Breivik’s massacre, his own beliefs have only become more widespread.&nbsp;</b>They have spread into the politics of all European countries. In the campaign for the European elections this May, the German far-right party AfD ran posters showing a naked white woman being pawed by dark-skinned men in Arab headgear. One had stuck his fingers in her unresisting mouth. “Europeans, vote for AfD, so that Europe will never become ‘Eurabia’,” said the caption. Millions of people who have never heard of Bat Ye’or, of Fjordman, or even of Breivik and Bannon, now understand that poster at a glance, and no amount of evidence will shake their certainty. They now believe all politics comes down to the words of one of Trump’s more recent tweets: “The losers all want what you have, don’t give it to them … Be strong & prosper, be weak & die!”</div><div>
</div><div>But who, in this situation, are the losers, and who are the strong? Last week, in an apparent attempt to emulate Breivik, a rich, disaffected young Norwegian, Philip Manshaus, shot his way through the entrance gates to a mosque in the upmarket suburb of Oslo where he lived and started firing at the congregation. He was wrestled to the ground by an unarmed 65-year-old Muslim, Mohammed Rafiq, who then held him down, with the help of another man, until the police arrived. On the Gates of Vienna blog, this episode was not deemed worthy of mention. Instead, its devoted readers were told that Muslims had been responsible for a recent outbreak of animal cruelty in Sweden.</div><div>
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