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    CmcalumnaJ.K. Trotter
    12/09/14 12:30pm

    Long time reader who has never commented, but I absolutely had to when I saw this article. I went to undergrad with this fool at Claremont McKenna College. He was just as despised there as he is now. He was a notorious instigator and had no friends. The college was waiting for him to graduate and leave so they wouldn't have to deal with his ludicrous exposés. He was known to have an Asian fetish because he wanted a submissive woman. Hilariously, he graduated being best known for pooping on the (I think I'm remembering the floor right) 7th floor of Stark (a dorm). I'm sad this idiot is getting any attention at all, but I hope this guy becomes famous for the same reasons he was in college, his public pooping problems.

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      MWarnerMCmcalumna
      12/09/14 12:51pm

      I think we need some elaboration on this poop story.

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      jimmyvluv4uCmcalumna
      12/09/14 1:00pm

      Interesting... he loves to brag about his "hot asian wife" on twitter.

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    CCJ Facebook FriendJ.K. Trotter
    12/09/14 1:44pm

    This is from his facebook account late last night. I don't know how to screenshot the whole thing.

    Charles C. Johnson

    10 hrs Edited

    Dear past classmates,

    I have received a number of emails, tweets, and phone calls, etc. from you and want to make some things clear about me and you now.

    Please relay this message widely as it needs to be internalized by you about me.

    I wasn't friends with most of you. Most of you weren't particularly kind to me throughout my academic career. That's fine. I didn't ask for it. I did well despite you. I wrote books, formed companies, got married, traveled widely, and had interesting, formative experiences.

    Perhaps you were angry at me because I was poor. Perhaps it was because I was neuroatypical. Perhaps it was because my mother was ill. Perhaps it was because we didn't get along because I was busy making a living and doing interesting things while you were not. Perhaps you were mad because your parents saw more of themselves in me than you and so liked me more and you were resentful. There are many reasons why weaker people dislike strong people: jealousy, misunderstandings, hatred of what's different.

    That's not important now.

    Now that I have some measure of notoriety and success, I do not owe you phone calls or responses to your condescending "concern" for me. Please know that most of these emails will be deleted or archived. Some will be openly mocked. Others may be retweeted or written about in future things.

    Some of you have talked to the press about me and pretended that we were close. We were not but you've decided to trade on relationships we never had in the hopes of seeing your name in the press. This is pathetic.

    Here's what you may not do:

    You may not accuse me of racism, sexism, blah blah-ish without asking me for my point of view first. I may or may not choose to give it to you.

    I'm also not interested in your pop psychological explanations about what's wrong with me.

    The truth of the matter is that I'm the happiest I have ever been doing the work I love doing. I'm very busy on that project.

    I have lived a colorful, difficult, exciting, crazy life thus far and it's only just beginning. I make no apologies for it. I have made and will make mistakes and some of them may be huge. But I have lived life on my own terms.

    Those of you I count as true friends, you know who you are. I owe you the world.

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      J.K. TrotterCCJ Facebook Friend
      12/09/14 1:46pm

      Oh dear.

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      AssimilateCCJ Facebook Friend
      12/09/14 1:51pm

      There are many reasons why weaker people dislike strong people: jealousy, misunderstandings, hatred of what's different.

      Or, it's because you're an insufferable dick and you deserve to be hated.

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    ChekhovsGum(ItsGonnaPop!)J.K. Trotter
    12/09/14 1:44pm

    Can we stop calling him a journalist? I went to college with this kid (Claremont McKenna College) and he was crazy back then (maybe even more so). More importantly, he has no journalistic training. There were no journalism courses offered at Claremont McKenna or really at any of the schools in the Claremont Consortium (definitely no journalism major).

    In College he would harass people through his blog—he seemed to enjoy outing gay people (this was around 2008/Prop 8 and the editor of the campus paper was not out to his parents or something? The exact details were always a bit unclear). He also supposedly would grab pictures and screenshots off of people's facebooks to blackmail/harass/attack them later in life (like if they wanted to run for office or whatever). He also tried to have a professor fired for "supporting terrorists" (the Professor, who was Palestinian, had supported some boycott of Israel...).

    Going to school with him was kind of terrifying—our Government Department had a lot of old Reagan Officials and probably some lingering Nixon cronies who completely enabled his school-yard fascism (that's how he is so plugged into the Conservative scholarship world). There is no doubt in my mind that at a different time and place he would have gladly been over-seeing Stalinist Show Trials and gleefully ordering executions...I have more stories but his M.O. is harassment and frivolous lawsuits so I am censoring myself a bit on this public comment page

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      J.K. TrotterChekhovsGum(ItsGonnaPop!)
      12/09/14 2:06pm

      Yeesh.

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      CmcalumnaChekhovsGum(ItsGonnaPop!)
      12/09/14 3:04pm

      Fuck, I totally forgot about the witch hunt he started against that prof. He was really the worst kind of person and his hatred of everybody ran deep. He always pretended it was because he was poor or different but really it was because he was a creep. I can also concur the lack of journalism courses at the 5Cs. I am so glad to see fellow cmcers speaking the truth about this asshole.

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    howtocompensateJ.K. Trotter
    12/09/14 5:20pm

    The New York Sun closed more than six years ago - he wrote for it when he was 20?

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      J.K. Trotterhowtocompensate
      12/09/14 5:24pm

      I guess so? I can’t find any trace of him on NYSun.com, but maybe he placed a print-only column or something like that.

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      howtocompensatehowtocompensate
      12/09/14 5:28pm

      Seriously, I've worked for two of the publications he names and I've never heard of the guy.

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    Official Witch of Los AngelesJ.K. Trotter
    12/09/14 1:08pm

    On some days, when I'm feeling particularly idealistic and hopeful about the future, I take great pride in knowing my fellow 20 and 30 somethings will eventually change the cultural and social norms of this country. I like being a part of a demographic that, for the most part, has shunned homophobia and generalized bigotry in favor of equality and other feel good nonsense.

    On other days, I remember that this tool is literally the same age as me, and I curl up into a ball on the couch and drown my sorrows in a bag of potato chips.

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      Polish PeasantOfficial Witch of Los Angeles
      12/09/14 2:11pm

      Try bourbon. Tastes better, works faster.

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      Official Witch of Los AngelesPolish Peasant
      12/09/14 3:16pm

      Idea: Bourbon Potato Chips.

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    Medieval KnievelJ.K. Trotter
    12/09/14 11:34am

    Oh god. Anyone past the age of 14 who brands himself a revolutionary is insufferable and probably about as revolutionary as the act of buying a Che shirt at the mall.

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      AcuteWinnipegosisMedieval Knievel
      12/09/14 11:39am

      Let's put this guy and Russell Brand in a jar and shake it.

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    TheRoyalWeJ.K. Trotter
    12/09/14 6:32pm

    For what it's worth, I question his association with the Kauffman Foundation and Carl Schramm. I'm from KC and EMKF used to be a client of mine (2008-2012), which afforded me several weeks a year in their building and a couple of chances to meet Mr. Schramm during his tenure there. I never encountered Johnson's name on anything. I used to walk by the visiting scholars every day I was there and don't recall him or his name. Additionally, a search for his name returns no results on www.kauffman.org. Other past visiting scholars' writings or associations are fairly easy to find. Not his. Perhaps someone more skilled or with more time can dig up a legit link between the two, but I can't find it, aside from Johnson's own claims.

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      J.K. TrotterTheRoyalWe
      12/09/14 7:25pm

      Hmmmmmmmm that’s weird.

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      TheRoyalWeJ.K. Trotter
      12/10/14 10:28am

      Perhaps you could reach out to the foundation's media relations contact and ask them to clarify/confirm the nature of CCJ's past association with them? At the very least alerting them to his use of their name in association with his hateful and vindictive tactics might prompt them to send him a "cease and desist" if his association with them is as tenuous/nonexistent as I suspect.

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    CalRaiderJ.K. Trotter
    12/09/14 11:35am

    Occasionally I will drop on Twitter something like ""Oh Charles Johnson that blogger guy"" (and @ Mention his Twitter handle) and he usually then pipes in ""I am not a blogger I am an award winning journalist"" ....True Story. I will also then remind him I have more followers than him by just being nice.

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      MWarnerMCalRaider
      12/09/14 12:45pm

      There are fake parody Twitter accounts that have more followers than this guy.

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      Helena GloryCalRaider
      12/09/14 6:55pm

      Chuck C. Johnson is an Award-Winning Journalist.

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    Commenter7777777J.K. Trotter
    12/09/14 1:47pm

    He's one of those guys who claims he's not conservative, because he's such a bold independent thinker, and it's just coincidence that all of his ideals and targets align nearly perfectly with conservatism.

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      A House In VirginiaJ.K. Trotter
      12/09/14 11:39am

      pretty much.

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        MeFailEnglishThatsUnpossibleA House In Virginia
        12/09/14 11:46am

        I think you should have used the one where Cartman himself is ginger, unless you meant for it to be inaccurate, which would be very meta.

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        A House In VirginiaMeFailEnglishThatsUnpossible
        12/09/14 12:05pm

        I'm a white person feeding bigotry upon a white sub-clade; it's allowed.

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