GOP aide busted for fake blog posts on liberal sites

[kurth]

GOP aide busted for fake blog posts on liberal sites
09/25/2006 @ 10:46 am
Filed by RAW STORY

Liberal bloggers in New Hampshire busted an aide to Rep. Charles Bass (R-N.H.) who was posing as a liberal blogger on such blogs as Blue Granite, NH-02 Progressive and others. Bass’ office admitted culpability to HOH and said the staffer would be “appropriately disciplined.”

The unnamed aide to Bass — who, like many others in his party, faces a tough re-election fight — was routinely trolling liberal New Hampshire political blogs calling himself “IndyNH” and more commonly IndieNH, pretending to be a progressive. Finally, after noticing that lots of things he said just didn’t add up, a couple of the bloggers traced IndieNH’s IP address to the House of Representatives. And they thought, “How many offices in the U.S. House would be interested in one race in New Hampshire?” The answer: Very few. Probably only one.

Laura Clawson, who runs the Blue Granite blog and writes as “Miss Laura,” told HOH that she and another blogger easily traced IndieNH’s IP address to the House server. They could even see the searches Mr. or Ms. IndieNH was doing to gather opposition research on Bass’ challenger, Paul Hodes (D), such as “Hodes and gay marriage” and “Hodes and taxes.” The poseur had raised suspicions among liberal bloggers after he pooh-poohed a recent poll showing Bass tied with Hodes and suggested that Democrats should not waste any more time or money on the Hodes race and instead should invest their resources in other races. “I am going to look at the competitive race list to figure out where to send another mydd.com/netroots donation and maybe help out in other ways,” IndieNH posted. “Maybe CT or NY for me — they are at least close by. Anyone interested in pooling NH efforts for some of those races? Maybe we could even go help out for a few days in buses or something in November?”

After Clawson posted a notice on her site informing IndieNH that he (or she — Clawson wasn’t sure) had been rooted out as a GOP aide in Bass’ office, the postings ceased. The aide’s job could cease, too. John Billings, a spokesman for Bass, acknowledged that “we have questioned the staff and found that a staffer in this office did indeed post to some blogs under the pseudonym ‘IndieNH.’ There was no good reason for this, just a serious lapse of judgment, and the staffer will be appropriately disciplined.”...

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/GOP_aide_busted_for_fake_blog_0925.html

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Damned trolls are everywhere . . . . n/t

[bryant69]

2. Apprioriate discipline in this case

presumably means transfer to a more lucrative position.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[Lerkfish]

5. LOL! three of us posted almost simultaneously with the same idea

[ShortnFiery]

7. Yes the more you can upset and divide the voting populace,

The more accolades you get within the Republican Party. :eyes:

They have no shame and win by disenfranchising voters. :grr:

[rodeodance]

3. “appropriately disciplined.” wonder what color the medal will be?

[Lerkfish]

4. "appropriately disciplined" with a fat bonus and job in the private sector

along with a hearty pat on the back and invitations to company picnics and keys to the executive washroom, I reckon.

[kestrel91316]

6. "appropriately disciplined" - right - betcha they recommend

Bush hand out one of those Presidential Medals of Freedom.

Betcha the person gets a promotion and raise.

[meisje]

8. so someone the internets turns out to be not who they say they are?

Oh the drama

[hpot]

9. "and the staffer will be appropriately disciplined."

In Repug translation:

"Heckuva job indie, here is your medal".

[tridim]

10. Great, so will the thousands of other professional RW trolls

be "disciplined" too? Or do we have to catch them first?

[EST]

11. Sure he will be disciplined...

by giving him an all expense paid trip to the Cay Club Aquarius, or some such "hard time" establishment.

Publicon=liar

[jobycom]

12. The Republicans will reprimand him sternly for getting caught. nt

[Bitwit1234]

13. On Forums Also

On the MSN forum...along about time for elections there are certains nicknames that suddenly re-appear. And they pan and twist and slur and smear. Regular posters by now know they have to be con plants. Why else would they only appear near the elections. Most just ignore them.

[HuffleClaw]

14. while distasteful, trolling is not a crime