Comments on: Civil war among anti-jihadists

By: Pacts, Treaties and Alliances; Or choose your friends carefully in future « For the third time

Thu, 07 May 2009 00:19:04 +0000

[...] 7, 2009 Over at Pickled politics its lets point at laugh at the anti-Jihadis time, and in truth you would have to be made of stone [...]

By: Left Outside

Left Outside — Sat, 02 May 2009 22:51:25 +0000

The right in this country are only held together by a loathing of Brown and all things Labour. As soon as Cameron wins, as is looking inevitable, all hell is going to break loose here too. There is less wingnut-style lunacy in Britain, but there's definatley enough bile to make things really interesting.

By: kELvi

kELvi — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:12:36 +0000

What’s not to like about an avid biker, and steward of the environment, a relentless critic of crony capitalism, creationists, religious nutjobs of every stripe? If you like Hitchens you will need no reason to like Johnson. Let’s say anti-jihadists come in every stripe. Now Sunny and CJ biking together and debating the merits of shunning meat – that would be interesting!

By: susie

susie — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:05:15 +0000

I wouldn’t rush to pat Charles Johnson on the back to soon. A quick perusal of the Little Green Footballs site shows it is as vilely anti-Palestinian as ever.

By: Bartholomew

Bartholomew — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:34:31 +0000

Weirdly, Johnson cited me in an attack on Geller, over Geller’s support for the absurd “Lionheart”. See here:

http://barthsnotes.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/us-anti-islam-bloggers-argue-over-luton-protests/

By: Tom Griffin

Tom Griffin — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:23:41 +0000

One interesting manifestation of this American Neocon/European far-right alliance is the International Free Press Society: http://preview.tinyurl.com/daxt7x

As it happens, they gave an award to our own Melanie Phillips just this week: http://tinyurl.com/cfd5we

By: dave bones

dave bones — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:32:15 +0000

Looking through all the links this is all just blogwars states style, but I would imagine blogwars in the States has a bit more impact than blogwars UK.

By: dave bones

dave bones — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:12:33 +0000

That is fascinating. AhhhhhJihaaaadiwatch!!! as I used to call it is a very popular site. One of my Repub pals met Pam Geller at that CPAC thing. She is a funny looking chick. They do all seem to be in the wilderness at the mo. They are calling for a resurgent religious right. I think they are barking up the wrong tree voter wise. If I was a Republican I would probably promote some of these enthusiastic Black conservatives who are popping up like that Alfonso guy.

I can’t be too enthusiastic about any right wing implosions just yet. The Tories wandered off soul searching when Blair got in. Portillo might have actually learnt something.

Is Obama the US’s Blair figure?

Time will tell. America also suffers from the tweedle dee/tweedle dum effect we have over here so I can’t see anything other than a reinvention of conservatism making its slow way back dependent usually on circumstances beyond a presidents control. I am not sure I want to see them burnt. I’d like to see all of us learn and communicate better. I think it is good to recognise the ideals behind what people say even if we disagree.