Is Gov. Warner's Blogger A Zodiac Freeper?
(Note: I just want to make clear that this article - and past and
future related articles - have absolutely nothing to do with the
views, thoughts, etc. of the online news magazine that I work
for...which is named elsewhere on this blog but won't be on this
series...which continues here)
What are the odds that a frequent poster at Free Republic shares the
same strange made-up nickname as a well-known Democratic blogger
almost certainly appears to use? (for the reasons why I write "almost
certainly" see near the bottom of this post)
What are the odds that a frequent poster at Free Republic would have
mentioned attending a high school in the Los Angeles area not far from
where a well-known Democratic blogger grew up?
What are the odds that a frequent poster at Free Republic would have
mentioned going to see the Mariners play in Seattle at the same time a
well-known Democratic blogger would have been living not too far from
there?
What are the odds that a frequent poster at Free Republic and a
well-known Democratic blogger would both be heavily addicted to
political polling?
What are the odds that a frequent poster at Free Republic would be
against the war in Iraq but like...hell...any well-known Democratic
blogger would have no solution becaue they're too cowardly to say
'let's get the fuck out now?'
What are the odds that a frequent poster at Free Republic would write
"Harris is the best, bar none, polling out fit out there, if they say
it, I believe it, and your a fool to not" about a poll which puts
Howard Dean only 5 points behind President Bush in January of 2004?
What are the odds that a frequent poster at Free Republic would refer
to a blog entry at the Howard Dean Website written by someone who's
friends with a well-known Democratic blogger and who started out
blogging at that well-known Democratic blogger's website?
What are the odds that a frequent Free Republic poster would gloat
about how well two politicians, including Dean, have made use of
meet-ups which a well-known Democratic blogger pretty much pioneered:
Not doing too good. I don't really see how using meetup nationally
will help Thune anyway, in South Dakota. You know who is using
meetup effectively (besides Howard Dean) is Toomey in Pennsylvania.
He's gotten over 300 in a few weeks, and if it grows at that rate
to next spering, he'll have a grassroots army, and will beat
Specter.
What are the odds that a frequent Free Republic poster would write
that the media could never destroy a candidate that the Internet built
up?
The "mainstream" media built Dean up. That's bs, the media only
paid attention to HD after he'd already been built up by the
deaniacs on the internet... I doubt the media will have any such
affect of being able to tear down HD-- they didn't create him.
Before you go thinking that this may be some sort of "Yes Men" agent
provocateur deal, perhaps you should take a look at the frequent Free
Republic poster's first three postings which were all about baseball
and written within a month after 9/11, a strange time to be starting
some sort of insidious, inside instigator campaign (I use "insidious"
because at the close of Vis Numar's Free Republic posts which
concluded in 2005 there are a number of comments mocking Republicans
that have been "outed" as gay).
Just who the hell is Vis Numar? And more importantly, if these
coincidences add up how will this be spun by his "gravy train"
friends?
'Almost certainly' reasons
1. At this list of Vis Numar posts there is a post entitled "Nov 6th,
2001 Virgina Governor Election." Click on it and check out the name of
the author of the post. Then go back to the list and check some more
of the older entries.
2. The following comment left at a posting on this page: "Sally, did
you see Jerome Armstrong on C-Span yesterday morning? He was
representing MYDD, of course, and I couldn't help but think I was
looking at Vis Numar. But what do I know? hay hay - He was very
impressive!!"
3. #268 on this Democratic Underground page, Vis Numar, links to MyDD
in October of 2001 (and this post from November of 2001).
4. This Democratic Underground post by Vis Numar in June of 2002 links
to MyDD twice (so does this Vis Numar post also from June of 2002).
5. Vis Numar at Democratic Underground slams the DLC to support Howard
Dean.
If Jerome Armstrong is Vis Numar then his defending statement appears
to be in error since "the early 2001 days" conflicts with the fact
that Vis Numar was still doing political astrology as late as last
year (at least I think it's political because it's way over my
head...something about how the GOP being obsessed with "gonad
politics" and how the Republicans wouldn't be able to stop Terry
Schiavo's husband from pulling the plug maybe because of "Neptunian
issues" and how "the republican chart represents the ideals of the
US"...sure as hell got me).
Then there's this Reuters article from November 2002 which ran in at
least two newspapers on the west coast and is online at Zogby's
Website that conflicts with Jerome's statement that astrology "has
nothing to do with what I consult with in online political strategy"
just a little bit I would think:
One of the more nontraditional forecasters online is Jerome
Armstrong, the braintrust behind MyDD.com (www.mydd.com). After
working as an options and futures trader, MyDD founder Jerome
Armstrong said political forecasting was a natural extension of his
interest.
Unlike the major network pollsters, he likes having his own Weblog
for its flexibility and independence.
"With the Weblogs you can change your mind (often) looking at all
the information out there ... You can make a quick summary of what
that race looks like from the perspective of locals," he said.
Armstrong does not hide his liberal political bias or the fact he
uses astrology to analyze some competitive races, but he strongly
contends that the accuracy of his forecasts take priority over his
personal views. For the record, he is predicting the Democrats will
gain seven seats in the House resulting in a 219-216 majority while
slightly increasing their tenuous majority in the Senate.
In addition, a Who Is search on MyDD.com reveals that Jerome Armstrong
purchased the url for his Website in May of 1999 yet MyDD's archives
can only be searched as far back as April of 2001, which leads me to
my final question:
What the hell was at MyDD.com before April of 2001 and has Jerome
Armstrong saved copies of the files that may have been deleted just in
case there are [I'll be nice and not include the end of this
sentence]?
Perhaps more solid evidence Jerome was a Freeper and worse
....
If this post attracts attention, then not only will I be Swift Boated
by bloggers financially tied (or just plain stupid) to these two
clowns, the online news magazine that I work for may also come under
assault, but when Jerome Armstrong decided to use Howard Dean - a
person I truly admire...unlike a certain friend of Jerome's who was
backing another candidate for president at the time he was hired which
no one seems to think proves that he has no convictions or ideology -
in order to prop up his recently-tarnished image rather than address
multiple unanswered questions that have nothing to do with his SEC
case then that was the last straw.
Add to that: Markos' post about how his friends getting jobs proves
"people power" works; ingenuous posts by Digby and Atrios which Swift
Boat critics that have objected to Jerome's political astrology by
claiming that they're just being anti-religious even though there's a
difference between reading your horoscope - as I do - and using it in
your work which these two acclaimed bloggers leave out as they often
leave out anything that conflicts with their partisan punditry; a
campaign by a number of true liberal bloggers - as opposed to the
phonies at the tippy-tippy-top - to destroy a journalist who already
published an apology and correction; a number of smart liberal
bloggers that I've always respected who have gone on a vicious, slimey
Swift Boating campaign against the few bloggers and journalists who
have objected or raised questions the last few weeks (and the last few
years), and one utterly, disgusting post by one Chris Bowers which
implies that if politicians give him and his friends money he will
shut his mouth (none of these clowns deserve links...find their
doggerel by googling or technorating it if you don't believe me).
The fact of the matter is that there are two people (actually 4) that
have an immense amount of power in the liberal, progressive and
Democratic blogosphere, and there are many reasons to believe that
they possess no real ideology and that they are only in the game to
gain money and power. And it's about time the "people powered
movement" wake up and find new leaders, and the politicians hiring
their friends back the fuck away from all of them before even more
news comes out (much of that news has already been alluded to at this
blog since November of 2004 when I saw through the Matrix and is
searchable through my archives).
My critics will charge me with jealousy and prior grudges...but anyone
who's familiar with my work knows that I am more liberal than any of
them, and that I don't let my partisanship infect my work. Some of my
work has been embraced and linked by bloggers of all stripes - except
by the A-list bloggers who know that I've seen through their phoniness
a long time ago and have blacklisted me. If I was the kind of person
to leak personal emails (or private phone conversations) I could post
a number of things written by some of those A-list bloggers who have
lauded my work and my knack for research, yet have never or hardly
linked to me.
The truth is that I have no absolutely no desire to replace any one of
these A-list bloggers. I seek the truth...not ways to get Democrats
elected. If my party does wrong then I will investigate it and report
it. But even though I feel less like a blogger and more like a
journalist these days, I can't sit back and let a bunch of clowns plot
to take over the world with the help of an even bigger clown and
KINGPIN that has bankrolled them and their friends and is in the
process of creating a Vast Left Wing Conspiracy to the tune of $80 to
$200 million dollars (note to Jerome critics: that money is the reason
why Jerome kept his job, not his friendship with a not-even-much-of-a
blogger...and if you got their crappy non-ideological book then you
can find the name of the KINGPIN close to page 1).
Nearly two years of research have led me to this point...and the truth
is not going to be pretty for an awful lot of people on my side of the
blogosphere...so I warn all true liberal bloggers from the A to Z
ranks to start backing away from these compromised characters ASAP.
To be continued.
Update:
Not everyone on this side of the blogosphere is acting like David
Brooks' lambs - man i hate that cocky, unremovable smirk on Brooks'
face, hardly ever agree with him, but except for confusing a lackey
for the KINGPIN, he got pretty much everything right.
Marisacat linked to me pretty quick today, and she's got a plethora of
posts at her site with a plethora of links to blogs and etc., covering
this embarrasment that we've all allowed to fester to the point where
the right will use it against all of us for ages and ages.
Speaking of the right, while there's a few right-leaning blogs that
have been doing some damn good digging, I believe the evil genius who
discovered the horoscope, DU, and freeper Vis Numar angles was Riehl
World View, and if this blogger ever puts the amount of thought, time
- as it seems he did - and work into other stuff as he has on this
story then we could be in trouble.
And Donkey Cons has been relentless in his mocking attacks these last
couple weeks, even if he he-thinks-ironically keeps on advertising a
book that he wrote in the process.
Back to the left, Roger Cadenhead at Workbench and Drudge Retort is
one of the bloggers mentioned above who has been Swiftboated the past
week, one "outed" blogger notoriously known as Kos' enforcer came out
of retirement to defend his friend (ha I kind of like that guy cause
he's such an asshole and he is wickedly smart...but methinks he
protests too much about others reporting what he should have mentioned
a long time ago himself since his media outlet which raises money for
candidates reaches over 2 and-a-half million readers a week) and
another guy I won't mention was pretty merciless to Roger but I'd also
consider him a friend or an ami and I just think he's being misled.
Thanks also to Ryan at Malkin(s)watch for linking to me and advising
his readers to stop reading "Atrios, Kos, or MyDD for the next week if
you can help it." I would never stop reading Daily Kos because there's
so many great diaries over there, and I've been friendly in the past
with and I've worked on stuff with two of the front pagers, and one of
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