More Greenwald Dishonesty
If you’ve read my grand fisking (the real thing, that is, not just the Cliff Notes) you might find it hard to imagine what new kind of dirt there could possibly be on someone as serially mendacious as he. Ace and Patterico have the goods. And if anyone other than Glenn Greenwald has recently posted a comment about Glenn Greenwald on your blog using the IP address 201.37.43.117 or 201.17.101.161, so do you.
UPDATE: Slightly shorter Greenwald: Them’s not sock puppets, them’s my roommates. All of ‘em. Even Ryan Allen, the guy who emailed me from across the house to confirm my C.V., rather than leave his precious computer for five whole minutes to talk to me face to face. I sure got him back, though, by sending him a perfectly sterile, coulda-been-written-to-a-perfect-stranger email response that didn’t even acknolwedge any of our gazillion past conversations when I’ve bragged to him about my time at Wachtell before. That’ll teach him to email me from the living room, the big geek.
July 20th, 2006 at 8:06 am
You’re just jealous because you don’t have a Constitutional litigator sock puppet with a New York Times bestselling book and Senators reading from its comments in very important Senatorish hearings about the bad president.
Or, this is simply just Hi-freaking-larious. One of the two.
July 20th, 2006 at 11:53 am
Get Ready For The Latest Blog Dustup!…
Heh. A little fancy detective work by some righty bloggers may have Glenn Greenwald looking a little silly.
From Patterico:
Boy, we sure do have a dedicated Glenn Greenwald fan there.
Or should I say “fans”?
Because these comments are,…
July 20th, 2006 at 3:27 pm
Not only are they the same IP, but they’re all in Montevideo, Uruguay! Wow, this is getting weird!
July 21st, 2006 at 1:27 am
No, they’re not. As its name suggests, the American Registry for Internet Numbers only controls IP addresses based in America. What you found in Montevideo, Uruguay was not an ISP at all, ARIN’s Latin American and Caribbean counterpart, Latin American and Caribbean IP Address Regional Registry. To check an IP addresses controlled by LACNIC, you have to use their whois server, which is conveniently located at whois.lacnic.net. Try both IP addresses there, and you’ll find that they both resolve to a single IP, NET Serviços de Comunicação S.A. of São Paulo, Brazil. Nothing weird about that, at all.
The only thing that is weird is that Greenwald expects us all to believe he’s living with five other guys in Brazil, all of whom have Anglo names, and all of whom just happen to be able to write English natively. Actually, I take that back – for Greenwald to expect his readers to believe something that ludicrous is not weird at all; in fact, it’s par for the course. No, what is weird is how many of his readers are taking his word for it.
July 21st, 2006 at 5:11 pm
I wonder if it’s they’re taking his word or if they just don’t care what he’s doing on those other evil blogs.