For those of you watching from home, here's the run-down: A couple of entries ago, Elbow posted an impassioned non-sequitor for Kerry supporters to consider voting for Nader. Thinking that an authentic Naderite has to be far rarer in this day and age than a Bush supporter pretending to be one, and spurred by the ostentatious clue he left in linking to a very conservative blog, I outlined my skepticism in a post—to which Elbow protested, saying that he is indeed a mean green Nader fiend. Still unsatisfied I summoned 15 minutes' worth of energy and discovered that, in fact, Elbow is Dellis, the proprietor of Wunderkinder, to which Elbow provided an innocuous link from the start. (As it happens Dellis trolls a friend's site pretty frequently, so confirming his IP address wasn't exactly unraveling the Grassy Knoll.)
There you have it. I don't know about you but I am shocked to discover that there are tools on the Internet. From the Party of Lincoln, no less!
Posted by Kriston at October 19, 2004 4:19 PMI can't quite figure out what he was doing. Some bizarre master plan to deliver a slightly-smaller landslide of DC votes to Kerry?
Probably there's some freeper thread where they wring their hands and cackle maniacally and figure out how to destroy Kerry via the internets...
Posted by: tom at October 19, 2004 4:44 PMDrats! And he would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you darn kids!
Posted by: susan at October 19, 2004 4:55 PMMaybe he just wanted to play Tucker to my Jon Stewart?
Then again, I'm even more of a dick on my own Web site than I am on other people's. . . .
Posted by: Kriston at October 19, 2004 4:55 PMDon't forget all us Texas readers, whom he probably wanted to sway in order to make the Texas landslide for Bush even greater.
So we can get back to normal G.p now, right?
Posted by: matty at October 19, 2004 8:03 PMWell done. A little real life drama every once in a while is refreshing. Now go ahead and come clean. It is obvious that Kriston put Dellis up to this in a sort of Dan Rather stunt to boost his chances at next year's Koufax award.
Posted by: David at October 19, 2004 8:15 PMConfounded! Another Rovian plot exposed. Back to the drawing board. --s
Posted by: j.scott barnard at October 20, 2004 1:37 PM