Stacy McCain a Racist? Yeah, Like I’m a Slender Reed.
When I came across the news that Charles Johnson, the proprietor of the Little Green Footballs blog, has called Stacy McCain a white supremacist and a neo-Nazi, two thoughts ran through my head.
1) I haven’t heard Johnson’s name in an awfully long time. Is he still blogging?
2) Charles Johnson is about to find himself in an entirely new dimension of pain once Stacy’s friends jump in on this.
It turns out my first thought was wrong. Charles Johnson is still blogging, if that’s what you want to call his daily assortment of grumps about those darned tea partiers and all the racket they’re making that keeps him awake at night. Or maybe the racket comes from the voices in his head telling him that everyone hates him and they’re all out to get him.
Anyhow, Johnson is still blogging and he’s decided that his blog would make a great platform from which to launch attacks against whatever mortal enemy he’s decided he has this week. Hence his attack on Stacy. I’m sure that Stacy did something horrible to Charles to have earned him the Lizardoid Jihad. Maybe called Johnson a bad name or cut in front of him to take the last bit of scrambled eggs from the buffet line at the Swanky Top Blogger Headquarters Cafeteria. Perhaps Johnson’s just tired of Stacy beating him up and taking his lunch money. It’s hard to tell these days what causes his spontaneous temper tantrums. Perhaps he misplaced his testicles somewhere and has been living with a pair borrowed from the estate of Michael Jackson.
Anyhow, Johnson’s on Stacy like a chihuahua on a Great Dane and it’s only because Stacy is a good man and not the vicious rage and hate-filled maniac that Johnson wants us to think he is (wait…Stacy McCain filled with rage? Yelling at co-workers? Seriously? Stacy McCain? Has Charles Johnson ever watched Stacy work a room? The man is the exact opposite of rage.) that he hasn’t turned and bitten the yap dog’s head clean off.
But lots of others have torn into Johnson, as they should have. The very notion that my friend Stacy is a racist is laughable. He might as well accuse Stacy of being a liberal. But Johnson knows that if he can make the accusation often enough, some small bit of it will stick to Stacy by dint of repetition. He’s not out to make an honest accusation but to smear a man’s good name.
That is not the act of an honorable man but of a limp-wristed coward.
Stacy doesn’t need my help to mount a defense against the thin mud Johnson and his army of sewer-dwellers is slinging, because the charge is self-evidently ridiculous, but I will say this. Stacy can not possibly be a racist because he is a real journalist, unlike bloviating bloggers like me. No honest to God journalist would ever countenance cutting themselves off from a potential source of a story because the didn’t like the color of the source’s skin. That would be insane. I know Johnson doesn’t have a tremendous amount of contact with the actual world deep within his Fortress of Ineptitude, but it doesn’t take a lot of smarts to know that if you won’t take someone seriously because they’re not white, you’re not going to be able to do very much reporting. More than that, though, Stacy is truly and honestly interested in people. He wants to hear their stories and share his own. He thrives on human contact and the mix of the crowd. I’ve seen Stacy at work. Believe me when I tell you that when he hits a room, he’s not looking at skin color. He’s looking at a bunch of people whose stories he has never heard. Racists don’t care about people. Stacy does and if you ever want proof of that, just watch him do his job one day.
That would, however, involve leaving your house and going out into the bright scary world where people occasionally get loud and they might call you bad names, so I understand why Scaredy Chuck doesn’t do it very much.
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Charles Johnson has been suffering for quite some time from "Andrew Sullivan Syndrome." This is a debilitating condition where prominent bloggers, who seem intelligent and level-headed, suddenly go insane and lose all touch with reality.
Charles Johnson's condition not only manifests itself in his posts but also in how he has banned everyone who disagrees with him. I'm a conservative and I've been banned from posting on his site. From conversations with others, it appears that banned conservatives may actually outnumber still-not-banned conservatives at that site which I believe is still considered a conservative site.
Maybe Johnson is just following Rule 4…?
Maybe, but Johnson's traffic numbers are (or at least were) bigger than Stacy's. It wouldn't be worth it to pick that sort of fight.
On the other hand, Stacy seems to be doing just fine…
Oh no, Stacy is following Rule 4, and Charles is following him right down into that hole. I mean, some of Stacy's posts today are very nearly taunting.
It's less like a Chihuahua and a Great Dane now; it's taken on the distinct impression of a cat playing with a mouse.
Stacy will be fine. And Charles will continue to wane…
Quoted from and linked to at: STACY MCCAIN: 'A FINE MAN OF OUTSTANDING CHARACTER'
I find conservative intellectual dishonesty so refreshing. There is a tremendous amount of information about Robert Stacy McCain and none of it is good. A certain group of conservatives denigrate Lindsey Graham, but praise a man with documented ties to Vdare, American Renaissance, and some of the nastiest "conservative" voices out there.
Strange;
SJR
The Pink Flamingo
Your charges of racism are baseless. Stacy McCain is, by direct and personal experience, not a racist in any way, shape, or form. You should be ashamed of yourself for joining in the slander.
I'm sorry that your support for Lindsey Graham (who did enable Democratic racist attacks against Miguel Estrada) has blinded you.
It's not strange. It's sad.
Ms. Reidhead, I freely admit I have not been a regular reader in the blogosphere for very long. Under- and unemployment drives one to strange and desperate hobbies. But from my earliest days of reading, it was evident that Charles Johnson had an ever-growing laundry list of accusations, annoyances, and archenemies and that on closer examination, the arguments he used to support his claims against said people or opinions were baseless. So even if one was completely unfamiliar with Stacy McCain's work, a quick review of Johnson's blog would very quickly erase any credibility his comments might have been given.
However, that being said, Johnson's ad hominem attacks are now beginning to cross the line from laughable into libelous. Good ole' Charlie must have little green footballs rattling around in the place of his brain if he takes every single word on "The Other McCain" seriously. That's what makes McCain's humorous postings so funny–they're snarky, satirical pieces written as straight news commentary. And not one of them, nor one of his honest-to-goodness news stories (the kind the MSM used to report so long ago), could even be remotely construed as racist.
This is not about anything Stacy McCain–or anyone else on the LGF hit list–said or wrote. This is about jealousy and insecurity, pure and simple. Every single person Johnson doesn't like seems to be a talented writer with a solid following. It seems to me as if he's decided the conservative side of the playground is just too crowded, so he's throwing a fit and stomping off to the liberal swingset, where being crazy is not only condoned but is actually applauded as an asset in all political candidates. But I'm betting the Kool-Aid drinkers on the other side of the fence are not going to be willing to play with him for all that long.
I hope Charles gets used to throwing around those little green footballs all by himself.
"A certain group of conservatives denigrate Lindsey Graham, but praise a man with documented ties to Vdare, American Renaissance, and some of the nastiest “conservative” voices out there."
You might want to spend a little time reading VDARE and American Renaissance before shooting your mouth off about them. Documented ties! Oh no!
And yeah, what sort of conservatives would actually denigrate LINDSEY GRAHAM!
I suppose the sort who are actually conservative.
Looking at his crappy web site, it seems that Pink Flamingo is another of those "conservatives" who get their marching orders from the Southern Povetry Law Center. What's your LGF name, Ice Weasel?
When I was in elementary school there were these girls who would cry, "Ewwwwww! COOOOTIES!" at the class nerds. Then they would say it to those who talked to the class nerds. Then they would say it to those who would talk to those who talked to the class nerds.
Eventually everyone had "cooties" but them.
That's Charles Johnson. All he's doing is pointing and crying "Ewwwww! COOOOOTIES!" at everyone who is not him.
What a pathetic, whiny little nine year old girl he truly is. Throw him a Barbie doll and get him out of here.