Charles Johnson Moved to a Gate-Guarded Community?

My good friend Reliapundit at the Astute Bloggers suggests that we should just lay off blogging about Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs. Well, if the concern is that conservatives are giving King Charles too much time in the spotlight, that's nothing compared to the accolades coming in from the mainstream leftist media. Exhibit A this afternoon is James Rainey's excursion in sycophancy at the Los Angeles Times, "A Blogger's Parting With the Right."

JammieWearingFool picked up on the story. Particularly of interest there is Rainey's description of C.J. as "husky," which is of course a euphemism for "fat." Kind of like George Costanza:

Or in the words of Weasel Zippers, "This is what he really looks like, a fat, bloated, beady-eyed jerkoff ..."

But I noticed something that goes a little deeper to King Charles' narcissistic personality disorder. It turns out that the Lizard Freak relocated to a gate-guarded community from the implied death threats he mentions at the piece:

Johnson's posting on Nov. 30, “Why I Parted Ways with The Right,” created a maelstrom in some corners of the blogosphere and the Twitterverse. Onetime hyperlinking pals have called him a tyrant and a traitor. Earlier, one had questioned his sanity.

In Johnson's mind, he has not really changed but merely shifted his focus. Where once he was preoccupied with national security, staking out a hawkish, pro-military position, he now spends more time focusing on his liberal social views, and gripes with conservatives who disagree. "I like to think," he told me this week, "I am pretty independent of [the] political winds."

But not totally immune. As I talked to Johnson in his office, an alert flashed on one of his two giant computer monitors. An angry screed targeting him on another website concluded: "I think a visit to Mr. Johnson's home might be warranted. Anybody got his address?"

Such veiled threats are at least one reason why Johnson, 56, relocated not long ago. He remains in the Los Angeles area, but now is in a gated community.

The man who once decried vitriol spread on liberal websites now says: "The kinds of hate mail and the kinds of attacks I am getting from the right wing are way beyond anything I got when I was criticizing the left or even radical Islam."

These are fantasies of persecution, I'd guess. But it's par for the course for someone who's whole schtick is about remaining relevant some way, some how. And right now that means transmogrifying into a useful idiot for the leftist press.