[lbo-talk] Little Green Fascists?

[Nathan Newman]

Catch this story from Tech Central Station, a rightwing site, about a recent
blast by the rightwing at various blogs who dared to point out that the
deaths of mercenaries last week should not be considered more tragic than
the death of regular soldiers or Iraqi civilians:
http://www.techcentralstation.com/041304F.html

I was somewhat in the storm-- and had some Democratic party ads yanked as
part of it, so it's a fun little story, with the Little Green Football
fascists part of the leading charge against the unpatriot blogs.

Nathan

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Subject: [lbo-talk] Little Green Fascists?

Why is it names Little Green Footballs anyway?

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http://www.drmenlo.com/lgfquiz/

I was inspired to build this quiz when I noticed that comments on
Littlegreenfootballs.com (a popular warblog) tended to be indistinguishable
in tone and content from the writings of Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler,
and the other architects of the "final solution."

Always indistinguishable? Well, maybe not - but close enough and often
enough to be pretty disturbing. Yes, the quotes I've used here are all
"cherry-picked" - from LGF and the Nazis both - but since the webmaster
patrols LGF pretty thoroughly it's fair to say that his site is as defined
by what he allows (e.g., calls to "sterilize" the "subhuman" Palestinians)
as it is by what he doesn't (e.g., criticisms of Israel or George W).

If you need a reference point to understand what I'm trying to accomplish
with this, think of the "Al Gore? Or the Unabomber?" quiz that floated
around the WWW a couple of years back.

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