Without a legitimate Twitter acct, and a following of just a few dedicated RWNJs on his “news” site, it’s pretty clear that CCJ will never have enough money to launch an actual lawsuit against anyone anyway, much less Twitter.

The Unrealized Defamation Threats of Charles C. Johnson

adamsteinbaugh.com

The “book” about Coolidge CCJ claims he wrote? Hardly believable since anyone with an idea can get plenty of help in getting something published if they can reel in enough suckers to do the job for them. All kinds of semi-literates get books published with help. But I doubt CCJ made enough money from the Coolidge book to set him up for 6 mos. I haven’t read it, but a ghostwriter and decent editor can shape up mostly anything from a puffed up outline of a previously written effort. I think CCJ curried enough favor among a certain few RW people to get his idea into a publishable form for Encounter Books, which had published many other RW personalities and even announced in 2009 it would no longer allow the NYT to review its books due to their “liberal” perspective. However, any effort to access Encounter’s website meets with failure: encounterbooks.com

Enough RW types encouraged this vile person and he’s been the recipient of a lot of wingnut welfare, such as the paid internship at the WSJ (“Robert L. Bartley Fellowship”) and jobs at other RW outlets.

Notice this from Amazon: “Charles C. Johnson is an independent writer. His work has appeared in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The L.A. Times, City Journal, The New Criterion, Reason, Tablet Magazine, and The Claremont Review of Books, and he has been the recipient of both the Robert L. Bartley Fellowship and Eric Breindel Award at the WSJ, the Robert Novak Award at the Philips Foundation, and the Publius Fellowship at the Claremont Institute. He lives in the San Gabriel Valley with his fiance and is presently writing a political biography of Barack Obama.”

Where’s the “political biography of Barack Obama”? It’s been 2 yrs already. I suppose he’s alienated the ones who helped him with the Coolidge book?

BTW, GotNews site is down this am.