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COULD IT BE?
By Greg L | 14 July 2006 | Blogs | 15 Comments
I see some eerie similarities between Velvet Elvis and a previous blogger who I very much liked to read. It should be interesting to watch and see what this new addition to the Velvet blogging world will do.
UPDATE: Looks like he’s really taking the battle to TC. Ouch!
UPDATE #2: additional coverage at Two Conservatives here.
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Whoa, momma! Thank you, thank you very much. However, just as many people do tributes to my work who are not me, this site is merely a tribute to the departed original velvet one. So, to set the record straight before people get all shook up by the wrong impression, I’m not him and he’s not me. Got it?
Besides, Nixon deputized me, so I’m not going to be going near crossing any lines like that.
I’m sure the tribute will be appreciated. I’ll be watching.
Greg,
Thank you for the link to this blog.
Greg,
Velvet Elvis is AWESOME! He has outed Vince for the sham he is: a phony loser who wrote under dozens of names in an effort to jack up his viewership ratings and transh conservatives. What jerk Vince has turned out to be.
Vincent probably isn’t much less perfect that I am, although I don’t post on my own blog using aliases. While I don’t always agree with his take on things, he does get a lot of information out there which otherwise might not be known.
Heck, I’m at least as big a jerk as he is. I’m just a different one. He joins the rest of us sinners in being imperfect, something I’m sure he is well aware of.
Vincent is a young man, who made some questionable decisions and hasn’t yet owned up to them. But he knows what he did, and so I figured nobody else needed to tell him or confront him, he’s his own person and answers to himself and his God.
He’s probably not the only blogger who has posted to his own blog under different names.
I bet there’s a lot of overlap in other posters at sites as well (people making comments and then using other names to answer their own comments or agree with them). The only person who would know is the person who runs the blog.
I still find it interesting that TC booted all his people, and publicly said it was because he was taking a new direction, but if you look now he’s got more people than he had before, and several of the same people he supposedly “booted”. He’s allowed to have his own reasons for actions on his own blog of course.
While we’re talking about TC, pop over there right now (9:30 pm est) — it looks like they’ve had some trouble, the only posts available are from Mitch, the latest is from July 6th, and you have to be “logged in” to leave comments.
Wonder if it’s related…..
I clicked on Velvet Elvis’s links to the posts earlier in the day and were brought to the actual posts on TC. Now, all those posts are gone from TC.
Thank you, Velvet Elvis, for preserving the evidence of this duplicity!!!
Well, I think we should reserve judgment until we know all of the fact, if we ever do.
If true, I somehow doubt that I won’t be condemned for my “fixation” on the evils of anonymity/pseudonymity.
I wonder why the posts on “Elvis’s” site are all from February and March. Wasn’t that about the time of the purging of contributors? (I’m not sure; time flies.)
Why wait until now to do this outing? Is there some point besides gossip? Mysterious.
I wonder who the Elvis guy is? (It sounds like you have an idea Greg!) It’s interesting that he acts like he has no idea how he got this info - it’s just on his word-thinga-ma-jiggy sometimes, he said. Strange, coy, little girl-ish language for an adult. His “word thinga-ma-jiggy” seems to be WordPress - the program used to create some blogs (maybe Vince’s too; I don’t know.)
I will say that seeing all of those comments together - they do sound awfully similar in “voice”. However, the ip address is one of a block from cox in Fairfax. I don’t know if cox there uses dynamic or static ip addresses. That could make a difference regarding whether all of these were Vince or not.
They use static.
Emma, I’m interested in Greg’s response if any, because he has more knowledge of how the computer stuff works. But even if they used dynamic (and most seem to use at least semi-static addressing), some of the alleged posting ip addresses were close enough together in time that it would strain credibility to think the first poster logged off and released the address and then another poster logged in, took the address, and posted.
Most cable providers use a DHCP server that will assign a given MAC address the same IP address over and over.
Want a new IP address? Change your MAC address.
I’ll leave it as an excercise for the reader to figure out how to do that.
As far as I can tell, these comments were all posted from the same host, or from behind a NAT firewall that had this IP assigned. The chances that these were different posters who happened to stumble on the same DHCP lease are astronomically low.
Greg, I really wish I understood anything you said after “As far as I can tell….”