Little Green Footballs

Little Green Footballs (often abbreviated as LGF) is a weblog run by California web designer Charles Johnson. Much like neo-conservative icon Irving Kristol, Johnson claims that he was "a liberal who was mugged by history" — in this case, by the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Slang and posting protocols

The LGF comments board is heavily laced with in-group slang - not least by the webmaster, who sometimes claims credit for coining the political epithet "Idiotarian." Other terms popularized by the site include "moonbat" and "Islamonazi."

Related Topics:
Slang - Political epithet - Idiotarian - Moonbat - Islamonazi

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Like other highly partisan political forums on the Internet (e.g., Democratic Underground), LGF attracts dissonant outsiders. LGF claims not to ban posters for dissenting opinions; all registered users are supposedly welcome to express their opinion. Critics say that dissenters are drowned out by supporters, and even legitimate critiques have been banned outright. Per one LGF user's "Troll Detection Kit":

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"Trolls' beliefs follow a standard outline, whose roots are in the anti-American, Jew hating, Marxist rhetoric of Noam Chomsky, Said, etc. along with generous doses of Jewish loony-leftist rhetoric, courtesy of Israel's New Historians (read: anti-Zionists) and Jewish anti-Semites such as Ben Shapiro."

Related Topics:
Anti-American - Jew - Marxist - Noam Chomsky - Said - Leftist - Israel - New Historians - Anti-Zionists - Anti-Semites - Ben Shapiro

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As the volume of comments from argumentative newbies rose with the site's increasing profile, many regular users requested a simple registration system; Johnson obliged them in June 2004.

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Newbies - June 2004

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