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Little Green Footballs (LGF) is an American political blog run by web designer Charles Johnson. The site critically covers the activities of American right-wing from a center to far-left perspective. For years at its beginning, the site was right wing and known for its advocacy of the War on Terrorism and the Iraq War, as well its strident criticism of political Islam. ==Overview== The site originally had a "right wing" orientation. It was one of the most well-known and vehement pro-War on Terrorism websites in the early days of the blogosphere. Johnson stated in 2006: After eight years of being a leading right wing blog, LGF started condemning racism and the far-right (especially the Belgian party Vlaams Belang). After that, the site abruptly switched sides and now "LGF has become better known for the various fights it picks with many on the right." During the transition period, Johnson deleted many of his more extreme past entries on the site, deleted entire comment sections, and banned many of the former right wing commentators from the site.〔http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/magazine/24Footballs-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0〕 More recently, in 2009, he has claimed that: On November 30, 2009, Johnson blogged that he was disassociating himself with "the right", claiming that "The American right wing has gone off the rails, into the bushes, and off the cliff. I won’t be going over the cliff with them." He has been heavily critical of conservatives and libertarians since then.〔(Little Green Footballs - Why I Parted Ways With The Right )〕 Earlier, after the September 11, 2001 attacks, Johnson—who has described himself as "pretty much center-left before 9/11"— transformed his blog into a discussion of the Arab-Israeli conflict. LGF won the "Best Israel Advocacy Blog" award from the ''Jerusalem Post'' in 2005.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2005 Jewish and Israeli Blog Awards )〕 In 2004 Gil Ronen, a reporter for Internet news outlet Israel National News, stated that "If anyone ever compiles a list of Internet sites that contribute to Israel’s public relations effort, Johnson's site will probably come in first, far above the Israeli Foreign Ministry's site." In the United States, LGF is perhaps best known for playing a key role in exposing the fraud of the Killian documents regarding President George W. Bush, which preceded the resignation of CBS's Dan Rather. The site won the ''Washington Posts reader poll for Best International Blog in November 2004〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2004 Best Blogs - Politics & Elections Readers' Choice Awards )〕 and played a role in bringing attention to altered photographs in the Adnan Hajj photographs controversy.〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=Charles Johnson )〕 In July 2008, LGF identified that photographs of Iran's missile test had been altered, and was credited by much of the media for this. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Little Green Footballs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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