I Have Been Annointed

I'd suspected this for a while, but now that MariaC has jumped into the fray, I'm pretty much certain that the McCain campaign (or an enterprising group of volunteers, but I'm banking on McCain, since Kean Troll Jill Hazelbaker is at the communications helm) has an operative commenting on my site. (Or two, I guess.) So far someone named SergeantMajor (Roadrunner ISP 24.28.189, in El Paso, Texas) has dropped a lot of pro-McCain comments and links on my "How Much Will You Pay" post, and then left. Now MariaC (same details, down to the server. Like Sarge, joined blogger in October 08) has come to his defense.


What fun!

In case you're wondering what desperation smells like... take a whiff of the McCainites. They've targeted me.

Rob

Under the Bridge

Hmm.

Hmmm.

Hmmmmm...

I flatter myself, I know. But—just specalatin' on a hypothesis, here—imagine how desperate the McCainites must be if they really are trolling my l'il ol' insignificant blog?

Rob

The Troll We Deserve

I was checking up on campaign news on TPM, and I noticed Jill Hazelbaker's name cited as a McCain spokesperson. The name sounded familiar, and a little bit of trolling around in my blog archives put the name to the deed: Hazelbaker is the Kean Troll! I'd totally forgotten about her; I'm sure she'll give us a reason to remember her soon enough, though.

For instance, she might turn to stone if touched by sunlight. That'd be memorable.

Rob

These Are the Times That Try Men's Trolls

Well, it doesn't look like Jill Hazelbaker will be fired for trolling BlueJersey for Tom Kean Junior after all. But seriously, does anyone think that posting messages on a liberal blog is a wise use of her time? Kean really should show her the door.

In the end, it mostly goes to show what Junior thinks of as an appropriate use for his money. Imagine what he'd do with our money.

Let's keep this clown out of office, shall we?

Rob

Troll Trackin'

Sharon pointed this out, but I have to chime in with links of my own. The Star-Ledger and a New York Times blog, The Empire Zone, have picked up on the Kean troll story. From her "I don’t blog and it wasn’t me. Period." statement, it looks like Ms. Hazelbaker is still in the Denial stage of spin, shifting subtly toward Anger. Soon we'll get to Bargaining ("I'll get you an interview if you just shut up about the trolling..."), Depression ("Sigh... I used to have a career...") and Acceptance ("Since I've got all this free time on my hands, I might as well stay on the BlueJersey site and start flamewars!") It'll be fun to see how this goes.

The big question: How quickly do Internet trolls regenerate?

Rob

Dirty Trix

Using IP-tracking, bluejersey mods have uncovered that campaign staffers for Kean Junior are trolling bluejersey.com, leaving comments pretending to be disaffected Dems unhappy with Menendez. Silly Rabbits. Save it for the Newsarama boards so you can complain that Grant Morrison’s Batman run is getting some fill-in issues*. This is strictly amateur hour, desperation stuff.

Rob
*By John Ostrander and Tom Mandrake! Yay!