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Too bad we don’t have an Ambrose Bierce around to write a 21st Century American Political Dictionary. A good start would be positive ads as the lies I have told about myself and negative ads as the lies I have told about my opponent(s). Lakoff and Luntz have given a good start for the proposition the gaming is in the naming and that framing is better aiming.

Let’s see…near-sociopathic self interest…narcissistic need for attention…reckless disregard for facts and truth…tendencies toward delusions…sounds like he’ll fit right in with the rest of the right wing media machine.

Wow, political books are a completely different animal than I am used to. For technical books they usually give you three months to write and then publish three months later.

Thirteen+ months out seems like a long time.

I didn’t get into the correspondence with the publisher, because I was already tired of looking in this story for some basic background on the guy. He’s a “journalist” who “has written for major national newspapers and magazines?”

So, that’s all we need to know? What’s the evidence for those descriptions? Him blogging drivel doesn’t count. And what does his experience as an “oppo” researcher comprise? For whom has he worked, and when? I’m not sure what the story is here – that he talked to you and forwarded some emails he traded with an editorial assistant?

I haven’t followed this story very closely, but everything I’ve seen about this guy (pictures, statements, actions, general attitudes) seems to indicate that he might be mankind’s ultimate example of a smarmy, sociopathic, right-wing douchebag, and I wanted to know more. After having read this I don’t know anything more except that he has a book coming out and that his sub-literate, platitude-riddled bio is entirely free of any actual biographical information.

OK, he wrote a book called “Why Coolidge Matters,” which has been blurbed by the likes of Michelle Malkin and Tucker Carlson, as well as Ted Cruz. His bio for that book follows. It reveals him to have precisely the background you would imagine after looking at his picture and reading a tweet or two of his: a guy who might well have started grooming himself to be a propagandist and a ratfucker at the age of 12, after deciding to make Lee Atwater his hero and planning to grow up into an unholy combination of Don Segretti and Alex P. Keaton – but puffier, doughier, and more caucasoid. You can’t just call him a journalist without including caveats - it’s hard to imagine this guy ever having worked a cops beat or been screamed at by an editor for getting a tiny fact wrong. He’s a professional bullshitter and flamethrower. He’s physically and intellectually 25. Emotionally, still 12.

“Charles C. Johnson is an independent writer. His work has appeared in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The L.A. Times, City Journal, The New Criterion, Reason, Tablet Magazine, and The Claremont Review of Books, and he has been the recipient of both the Robert L. Bartley Fellowship and Eric Breindel Award at the WSJ, the Robert Novak Award at the Philips Foundation, and the Publius Fellowship at the Claremont Institute. He lives in the San Gabriel Valley with his fiancée and is presently writing a political biography of Barack Obama.”

There is more here:

http://charlescjohnson.com/

It’s sad to be so consumed by hate and negativity. Isn’t there any enlightenment in the Tea Baggers’ world? A positive, uplifting vision affecting all America?

Can we PLEASE not refer to this propagandizing jackass as a ‘‘journalist?’’ It’s an insult to the profession.

Asperger’s with a virulent reactionary politics and racial resentment is not a good combination.

St. Martin’s Press?
Say it ain’t so.

Teabagger All-Star for sure. Playing left out everywhere else.

The book is tentatively scheduled to be published on July 7, 2015.

By then, the repo man will be visiting the oppo man.

Oh, I am going to be heel-clicking happy when karma catches up with this chinless asshat!

Yeah, color me shocked.

Doesn’t matter how many books or how much money, dweeb…

You’ll always be paying for sex.

Um, you HAVE seen the rest of the “profession” right?

his last “book”

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #186,843

He really does have a face made for punching.

Thanks but that’s far more than I need to know about Mr Johnson. If there are more like him then we are doomed as a species.

How soon before the New York Times is forced to ask, “Is Charles C. Johnson the future of journalism?”

Seriously, the only thing standing between this dude and a Pulitzer is a disgruntled government contractor and a massive leak of classified documents.