From: www.dangerousminds.net
Charles Johnson: Why I Parted Ways with the Right Part I
Charles Johnson: Why I Parted Ways with the Right Part II
It was the blog post heard 'round the world. When Charles Johnson wrote Why I Parted Ways With The Right in the space of a few minutes and posted it on his popular Little Green Footballs blog, he had no idea the firestorm it would set off. Nasty denunciations, death threats and a New York Times magazine feature article later, Charles Johnson joined me for a lively discussion about what happened to him, the Darwin-hating, know-nothing Creationists and the frenzied insanity (and racism) of the anti-Obama right ....
ANALYSIS
Of course, skeptic cat is not a political blog by any stretch of the imagination. Skeptic Cat, himself, literally gets ALL of his news from Comedy Central and, with his new work schedule, only one or two days a week, at that. This particular blogger, Charles Johnson of littlegreenfootballs.com caught the attention of the Skeptic Cat Blog through his railing against pseudoscience in his now famous blog entry Why I Parted Ways With The Right.
To be fair, there is an equal amount of pseudoscience, short sightedness and, yes, bigotry in certain parts of the Left-Wing-Blogosphere as well. Anti-Zionist rhetoric I have particularly found to be disquieting. I also feel the film What the #$*! Do We Know!? to have been every bit as deceptive as Ben Stein's - Expelled: No Intellegence Allowed ... Perhaps a bit more so in that Stein's Film made it quite clear that Intelligent Design Creationism was not accepted at all by the scientific establishment whereas WTBDWK would have had you believe that modern physics supports juvenile fantasies about Channeling the spirits of 35,000 year-old warriors from Atlantis, etc ... And one could go on and on from the pernicious promotion of homeopathy on the Huffington Post to Dennis Kucinich claiming to be in contact with extraterrestrials ....
That said, I haven't seen folks who are into New Age sorts of things, as of yet, attempt to use the force of law to impose their beliefs upon the nation. A case could be made that America was founded upon certain Occult ideas equally as valid as the case being made for The Declaration Curriculum and yet no one on the "Religious Left" seems to be attempting to press their rights in quite that way .... YET!
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