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'Charles Foster "Icarus" Johnson' (born April 13, 1953) is an American Jazz guitarist, software developer and blogger.[1]
He has played on 29 albums. His weblog, Little Green Footballs, is one of the top 50 most popular blogs on the Internet.[2]
Charles Johnson was born in New York and raised in Hawaii. He launched his first career (as a jazz guitarist) in the mid-1970s. Extensive recording credits include at least three albums that went gold: ''Reach For It'' by George Duke, ''School Days'' by Stanley Clarke, and ''Live in London'' by Al Jarreau.
He later co-founded CodeHead Technologies,[3]
which marketed productivity and desktop publishing software (mostly hand-coded in assembly language) for the Atari ST computer.
In 2001, Johnson founded a web design firm called "Little Green Footballs" with his brother Michael. Little Green Footballs began as a testbed on the company's website.
Israel National News has referred to Johnson as a "Righteous Gentile" because of his support for Israel. At Israel's Right
Johnson was raised Roman Catholic but now considers himself an agnostic.
Johnson is a co-founder of Pajamas Media.
Johnson, and other conservative bloggers, gained attention during the 2004 U.S. presidential election for their role in exposing as forgeries several memos purporting to document irregularities in George W. Bush's National Guard service record. (See Killian documents and Killian documents authenticity issues.) CBS news anchor Dan Rather presented the memos as authentic in a Sept. 8, 2004 report on ''60 Minutes Wednesday'', two months before the vote. Days after the broadcast, Johnson showed the documents, supposedly typewritten in 1973, could have been created easily on a modern computer using Microsoft Word.[4]
In 2007, Johnson rewrote the Little Green Footballs software to use MySQL and AJAX.
Johnson says he is a former liberal who was deeply affected by the September 11, 2001 attacks and now describes himself (per neoconservative writer Irving Kristol) as "a liberal who got mugged by reality".
According to Johnson, "political correctness has kept a lot of the hard truth from being spread by the mainstream media."[5]
Johnson coined the term "idiotarian"[6],
popularized the epithet "moonbat"[7]
and promoted the sarcastic use of the phrase "Religion of Peace" to describe Islam.[8][9][10]
He also coined the term "fauxtography"[11]
to describe the publishing of manipulated photographs by news services such as Reuters and the Associated Press. (See 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict photographs controversies and Adnan Hajj photographs controversy.)
Johnson has described the theory of global warming as "the international left’s newest article of blind faith" and "recommends Michael Crichton’s book ''State of Fear''".[12]
After the Virginia Tech shooting, Johnson indicated that he opposed stricter gun control by posting on his website an episode of Penn and Teller which is strongly critical of any such moves. [13]
★ 1976 ''School Days'' with Stanley Clarke
★ 1977 ''I'm Fine, How Are You ''with Airto Moreira
★ 1977 ''Reach for It ''with George Duke
★ 1977 ''Garden of Love Light ''with Narada Michael Walden
★ 1978 ''Don't Let Go ''with George Duke
★ 1978 ''Don't Ask My Neighbors ''with Raul DeSouza
★ 1979 ''Follow the Rainbow ''with George Duke
★ 1979 ''Future Street ''with Pages
★ 1980 ''Nielsen Pearson ''with Nielsen Pearson
★ 1980 ''Rocks, Pebbles and Sand ''with Stanley Clarke
★ 1981 ''Pages [1981] ''with Pages
★ 1983 ''Not the Boy Next Door ''with Peter Allen
★ 1984 ''In London ''with Al Jarreau
★ 1984 ''Live in London ''with Al Jarreau
★ 1987 ''All In the Name of Love ''with Atlantic Starr
★ 1988 ''Guitar Workshop: Tribute to with Otis Redding ''
★ 1989 ''One Passion ''with Michael Paulo
★ 1991 ''Dream On ''with George Duke
★ 1993 ''Art & Survival ''with Dianne Reeves
★ 1994 ''L.A. ''with Hiroshima
★ 1995 ''Piel Ajena ''with Eduardo Capetillo
★ 1996 ''George Duke Greatest Hits ''with George Duke
★ 1996 ''Is That the Way to Your Heart ''with Kazu Matsui
★ 1998 ''A Song a Day ''
★ 2000 ''When I Hold You in My Heart ''with Clay Mortensen
★ 2000 ''Rare Collection ''with Jaco Pastorius
★ 2001 ''Pages [2001] ''with Pages
★ 2003 ''Punk Jazz: The Jaco Pastorius Anthology ''with Jaco Pastorius
★ 2003 ''In Between the Heartaches ''with Phyllis Hyman
1. The Blogger Who Helped to Dislodge Dan Rather
2. Popular Blogs
3. The Story of CodeHead Software John Eidsvoog
4. Bush Guard Documents: Forged Charles Johnson
5. Blogger Takes Aim At News Media and Makes a Direct Hit
6. Anti-idiotarian bloggers Charles Johnson
7.
A search for posts on ''Little Green Footballs'' containing the word "moonbat", conducted October 15, 2006, found 686 matches dating back to August 4, 2002
8. Scenes from a Peaceful Religion Charles Johnson
9. Peaceful Religion Sweepstakes Charles Johnson
10. Religion of Peace Charles Johnson
11. MSM Fauxtography Watch Charles Johnson
12. The Great Global Warming Swindle Charles Johnson
13. Gun Control: Clever or Stupid? Charles Johnson
★ ArtistDirect.com - Charles Johnson musical biography
★ ArtistDirect.com - Charles Johnson recording credits
★ The Charles Johnson Interview John Hawkins
★ Charles Johnson's links on the web
'Charles Foster "Icarus" Johnson' (born April 13, 1953) is an American Jazz guitarist, software developer and blogger.[1]
He has played on 29 albums. His weblog, Little Green Footballs, is one of the top 50 most popular blogs on the Internet.[2]
| Contents |
| Biography |
| Political views |
| Discography |
| References |
| External links |
Biography
Charles Johnson was born in New York and raised in Hawaii. He launched his first career (as a jazz guitarist) in the mid-1970s. Extensive recording credits include at least three albums that went gold: ''Reach For It'' by George Duke, ''School Days'' by Stanley Clarke, and ''Live in London'' by Al Jarreau.
He later co-founded CodeHead Technologies,[3]
which marketed productivity and desktop publishing software (mostly hand-coded in assembly language) for the Atari ST computer.
In 2001, Johnson founded a web design firm called "Little Green Footballs" with his brother Michael. Little Green Footballs began as a testbed on the company's website.
Charles Johnson's animated GIF comparison of purported 1970's era typewritten Killian memos with 2004-era MS Word document using default settings
Israel National News has referred to Johnson as a "Righteous Gentile" because of his support for Israel. At Israel's Right
Johnson was raised Roman Catholic but now considers himself an agnostic.
Johnson is a co-founder of Pajamas Media.
Johnson, and other conservative bloggers, gained attention during the 2004 U.S. presidential election for their role in exposing as forgeries several memos purporting to document irregularities in George W. Bush's National Guard service record. (See Killian documents and Killian documents authenticity issues.) CBS news anchor Dan Rather presented the memos as authentic in a Sept. 8, 2004 report on ''60 Minutes Wednesday'', two months before the vote. Days after the broadcast, Johnson showed the documents, supposedly typewritten in 1973, could have been created easily on a modern computer using Microsoft Word.[4]
In 2007, Johnson rewrote the Little Green Footballs software to use MySQL and AJAX.
Political views
Johnson says he is a former liberal who was deeply affected by the September 11, 2001 attacks and now describes himself (per neoconservative writer Irving Kristol) as "a liberal who got mugged by reality".
According to Johnson, "political correctness has kept a lot of the hard truth from being spread by the mainstream media."[5]
Johnson coined the term "idiotarian"[6],
popularized the epithet "moonbat"[7]
and promoted the sarcastic use of the phrase "Religion of Peace" to describe Islam.[8][9][10]
He also coined the term "fauxtography"[11]
to describe the publishing of manipulated photographs by news services such as Reuters and the Associated Press. (See 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict photographs controversies and Adnan Hajj photographs controversy.)
Johnson has described the theory of global warming as "the international left’s newest article of blind faith" and "recommends Michael Crichton’s book ''State of Fear''".[12]
After the Virginia Tech shooting, Johnson indicated that he opposed stricter gun control by posting on his website an episode of Penn and Teller which is strongly critical of any such moves. [13]
Discography
★ 1976 ''School Days'' with Stanley Clarke
★ 1977 ''I'm Fine, How Are You ''with Airto Moreira
★ 1977 ''Reach for It ''with George Duke
★ 1977 ''Garden of Love Light ''with Narada Michael Walden
★ 1978 ''Don't Let Go ''with George Duke
★ 1978 ''Don't Ask My Neighbors ''with Raul DeSouza
★ 1979 ''Follow the Rainbow ''with George Duke
★ 1979 ''Future Street ''with Pages
★ 1980 ''Nielsen Pearson ''with Nielsen Pearson
★ 1980 ''Rocks, Pebbles and Sand ''with Stanley Clarke
★ 1981 ''Pages [1981] ''with Pages
★ 1983 ''Not the Boy Next Door ''with Peter Allen
★ 1984 ''In London ''with Al Jarreau
★ 1984 ''Live in London ''with Al Jarreau
★ 1987 ''All In the Name of Love ''with Atlantic Starr
★ 1988 ''Guitar Workshop: Tribute to with Otis Redding ''
★ 1989 ''One Passion ''with Michael Paulo
★ 1991 ''Dream On ''with George Duke
★ 1993 ''Art & Survival ''with Dianne Reeves
★ 1994 ''L.A. ''with Hiroshima
★ 1995 ''Piel Ajena ''with Eduardo Capetillo
★ 1996 ''George Duke Greatest Hits ''with George Duke
★ 1996 ''Is That the Way to Your Heart ''with Kazu Matsui
★ 1998 ''A Song a Day ''
★ 2000 ''When I Hold You in My Heart ''with Clay Mortensen
★ 2000 ''Rare Collection ''with Jaco Pastorius
★ 2001 ''Pages [2001] ''with Pages
★ 2003 ''Punk Jazz: The Jaco Pastorius Anthology ''with Jaco Pastorius
★ 2003 ''In Between the Heartaches ''with Phyllis Hyman
References
1. The Blogger Who Helped to Dislodge Dan Rather
2. Popular Blogs
3. The Story of CodeHead Software John Eidsvoog
4. Bush Guard Documents: Forged Charles Johnson
5. Blogger Takes Aim At News Media and Makes a Direct Hit
6. Anti-idiotarian bloggers Charles Johnson
7.
A search for posts on ''Little Green Footballs'' containing the word "moonbat", conducted October 15, 2006, found 686 matches dating back to August 4, 2002
8. Scenes from a Peaceful Religion Charles Johnson
9. Peaceful Religion Sweepstakes Charles Johnson
10. Religion of Peace Charles Johnson
11. MSM Fauxtography Watch Charles Johnson
12. The Great Global Warming Swindle Charles Johnson
13. Gun Control: Clever or Stupid? Charles Johnson
External links
★ ArtistDirect.com - Charles Johnson musical biography
★ ArtistDirect.com - Charles Johnson recording credits
★ The Charles Johnson Interview John Hawkins
★ Charles Johnson's links on the web
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