Patterico Commenter aunursa Finds a Liberal Sock Puppet
Patterico reader aunursa has uncovered another liberal sock puppet. He writes:
Patterico,
I don’t know if you’ve been following the indictment of former San Francisco liberal talk show host Bernie Ward. For details see here.
It turns out that Ward was busted when he allegedly sent child-porn pictures to a dominatrix who lives in Oakdale (near Yosemite.) The woman contacted authorities.
Ward’s AOL screenname was Vincentlio. A Google search under that name brings up this alt.radio.talk message board from 1996.
Vincentlio:
it is clear that limbaugh is losing audience but north and liddy have to be the worst….as for one of the best..and newest..you have to listen to bernie ward….he took hightowers place and he is the strongest liberal on theair….he auditioned for crossfire but they wont give it tohim becuase he ate john sununnu alive and theydont want someone that strong on the lberal side
Reading this reminded me of Glenn Greenwald, Thomas Ellers, and Rick Ellensburg … and the four pillars.
Indeed. Nice catch by aunursa.
The link to the Contra Costa Times article says that Ward’s lawyer claims that Ward accessed the child porn in order to do research on a book. Do you suppose he was collaborating with Pete Townsend on that one?
JVW (b03dfa) — 2/17/2008 @ 12:44 pmThe message board link is hilarious. After Ward sock-puppeted support for his show as Vincentlio, several commenters lambasted Ward’s talk-show skills.
Pure comedy gold!
Paul (236e0e) — 2/17/2008 @ 1:46 pmWell done, indeed. There are many impressive commenters here.
DRJ (3eda28) — 2/17/2008 @ 2:34 pmIs it just me, or does the political affliliation of this fellow seem to have played a role in the lack of coverage of this. Can you even begin to imagine the self-lefteous outrage had this been someone from the right? Good Allah, their screeching would be deafening, yet this goes largely unreported in the MSM.
JD (75f5c3) — 2/18/2008 @ 5:34 am