Comments on: Larry Johnson Goes Pfft

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:57:31 +0000

on second thought, apologies for posting the link (unnecessary spam)

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:32:57 +0000

And of course the story has changed again – correction, it’s been “clarified”…

noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/06/03/larry-the-liar/

Larry stepped in it, figured it would only stay within that little bubble of angst he’s created. And when it got out didn’t know how to handle it (hence the evolving story).

Pretty sad

By: Zaius Nation

Zaius Nation — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:46:21 +0000

I love that movie! I fear that Michael Rennie and Gort are here to steal jobs from hardworking Americans, though.

By: Quaker in a Basement

Quaker in a Basement — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:46:10 +0000

@ Duros:

“Oh, Jena.”

Haw!

By: Quaker in a Basement

Quaker in a Basement — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:43:59 +0000

Funny. The same people going off on Larry Johnson now were sucking his ass when he was going after the Bush administration on Iraq and Valerie Plame.

How times change.

Also funny: The same people pretending George Bush isn’t a “real” Republican spent the last eight years defending his every stupid move.

They’s a-changin’.

By: funknjunk

funknjunk — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:08:01 +0000

yeah, Johnson is quite a turd, sorry to say. now that the response from Charles T. Payne, Obama’s great uncle, is out and about, talking about his experiences in WWII, I’m sure we’ll all see the apology from Larry sometime soon….. I’m sure…..

By: Crusty Dem

Crusty Dem — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:35:23 +0000

Jerry, you might have missed the original post where Johnson promised a tape by 9AM Monday because he altered the post. Apparently be realized his bluff was being called so he tried to hide it. I’m pretty sure it’s still on teh intertubes somewhere.

And Johnson is wrong. Period.

By: jerry

jerry — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:57:09 +0000

I don’t know if a tape exists or not. I don’t imagine how it could be kept secret, if it does exist.

But when I saw Johnson’s first post, I saw the word “news” and got the distinct impression that he was not going to post any video. Later when it went viral, I couldn’t imagine why people thought he was going to post the video.

Is Johnson right or wrong? Who knows. The CIA has been snookered before. They’ve snookered others, and it will happen again.

Regarding whitey/why’d he, all I can say is I loved Alvy Singer in Annie Hall. “You know, I was having lunch with some guys from NBC, so I said, ‘Did you eat yet or what?’ And Tom Christie said, ‘No, JEW?’ Not ‘Did you?’…JEW eat? JEW? You get it? JEW eat?”

By: Plantsmantx

Plantsmantx — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:08:27 +0000

Add to that the fact that It’s only in the past couple of days that we’ve heard any mention of Farrakhan being there. In my mind, that would be a newsworthy as her supposedly saying “whitey”. Why wasn’t there any mention of this in Johnson’r first post on the subject.

Oh, and… what black person in 2008 uses the slur “whitey”?

By: Duros62

Duros62 — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:28:51 +0000

Him and Joe Wilson both.

By: SpiderJ

SpiderJ — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:56:13 +0000

I’m going to back up Jay on this one…I was actually pretty impressed with Johnson’s writings on the Plame affair. That said, I think he’s gone off the rails somewhere in his fever to take down the scary young man poised to earn the Democratic nomination.

By: Duros62

Duros62 — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:59:26 +0000

“Why’d he ignore Jena”?

Because she’s a drunken skank?

Oh, Jena.

Never mind.

By: Enlightened Liberal

Enlightened Liberal — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:35:08 +0000

Whitey do this? Probably to kneecap Obama so that Hillary would lose to McCain.

Funny. The same people calling McCain a liberal for supporting immigration reform are now supporting him for president. See? We can play this all day.

By: Duros62

Duros62 — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:34:31 +0000

He is the Mr Bean of spooks

Win.

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:24:12 +0000

Funny. The same people going off on Larry Johnson now were sucking his ass when he was going after the Bush administration on Iraq and Valerie Plame.

How times change.

By: Crusty Dem

Crusty Dem — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:12:04 +0000

I find the knowledge that the execrable Larry Johnson is ex-CIA explains so many fuckups of the “intelligence community”, both in intelligence gathering and in operations. He’s a complete dolt, a moron, completely out of his depth even in the blogosphere, I just can’t begin to imagine him matching wits with the Soviets, the Israelis, or even the Italians. His idiocy is only exceeded by his profound sense of self-importance as he bumbles his way from one clusterfuck to the next. He is the Mr Bean of spooks, the Peter Sellers as James Bond in the original Casino Royale, a real-life Maxwell Smart. Only his hijinks come bereft of charm and accompanied with obvious racism. I only hope that an Obama nomination sends him slinking back to his former party, where he can release his demons without remorse, repercusion, or even notice.

By: Robster

Robster — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 06:59:27 +0000

I’m glad this turned out to be nothing. Put the bubbly on ice, fallas. I think we’re going to have a coronation within the next 24 hours.

By: Warren Terra

Warren Terra — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:33:28 +0000

One additional point, since I (for my sins) read some of Johnson’s rants today, after laughing like a maniac when John Cole (or was it one of his commenters initially?) pointed out Booman’s “Why’d he -> Whitey” notion.

In some of his posts explaining to his followers how Booman is spreading dishonest propaganda fed him directly from Obama Campaign HQ, Johnson’s reply is “if this is their cover story then why is Michelle Obama on the same stage with Farrakhan”? or some such – I may be dumb enough to read Johnson once, but not enough to go back for links or quotes now.

Now, the funny thing, as a commenter to John Cole’s site noted, is that Booman’s transcript includes something along the lines of “Why’d he ignore Jena”? And Jena was in December 2006. Obama’s campaign formally started in January 2007, with speculation all the preceding fall.

If you believe Michelle Obama gave a speech standing next to Farrakhan in 2007, I’ve got a bridge I think you’d be interested in.

By: jr

jr — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:57:08 +0000

A sundown townie’s job is never done

By: ursula

ursula — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:42:40 +0000

This is great! Thanks for posting! And isn’t Tayor Marsh just a lush? Can’t believe I ever liked her or her blog.