CEO of grocery chain humiliated in NYT article for using sock puppet to tout company, products:
Mr. Mackey used the online handle “Rahodeb†(an anagram of his wife’s name, Deborah). In one Internet posting sure to enter the annals of chief-executive vanity, Mr. Mackey wrote as Rahodeb, “I like Mackey’s haircut. I think he looks cute!â€Â
Context provided with anecdote:
For high-profile figures, particularly members of political campaigns, sock-puppeting can be a shortcut to career disaster. In September, Tad Furtado, the policy director for the then-representative from New Hampshire, Charles Bass, a Republican, was caught posting under assumed names on Democratic blogs, arguing that the race was not competitive and that Democrats should focus their energies elsewhere. Liberal bloggers traced the source of the messages back to the House of Representatives and identified Mr. Furtado, who lost his job. His boss lost the election.
They also mention Hiltzik:
In April 2006, The Los Angeles Times pulled Michael A. Hiltzik, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, off of his blog because he had posted comments on blogs under an assumed name while feuding with readers. In November, New Republic magazine suspended its culture critic Lee Siegel after it determined that he had been energetically defending himself in the discussion forums of his New Republic blog, under the name “sprezzatura†(Italian for “making the difficult look easyâ€Â).
Hiltzik’s party affiliation, however, remains a mystery.
Paul Kedrosky, a venture capitalist in San Diego and author of the blog Infectious Greed, said he thinks that business people are increasingly resorting to sock-puppetry. “I’m convinced it’s broader than anybody knows,†he said, “I’m convinced this is the tip of the iceberg.â€Â
Gee, ya think? All of these people lost face. Somehow, Greenwald(s) are instead awarded with a plum assignment at Salon, because of teh integrity.
UPDATE: pretty good heh at Althouse
If you’re going to lose face it helps to start out with more than one. That’s just good planning.
“Salon” and “integrity” do not belong in the same sentence. Gleens fit right in there.
tw: system outrage
What a nimrod!
It’s n ot like he couldn’t tap one of hundreds of his peasant grocery minions to post from home. Ignorance of the ‘tubes is no excuse.
I’m aware of the gleen(s) puppetry, but did he ever fess up or is he still spinning denial?
Does Glenn(s) pull two paychecks from Salon?
“as well as dozens of lesser-known bloggers”
How many of these are Glenn(s)?
Gay men, if liberal, can be guilty of only one thing: caring too much.
And if caring about the outrages against our civil liberties is a crime, Glenn pleads guilty. Of love (for country) in the first degree.
TW: miserable Fianna. No idea who Fianna is, but would it surprise me to find out it’s another of Greenwald’s(‘s) aliases? No. No it would not.
Well, yeah, but was any of his stuff ever read on the Senate floor by some moron or another?
I’m still trying to work out what Socky McSockerson is outraged about…the courts are speaking on these gross violations of whatever he’s convinced are being violated, right?
Funny thing for one of the leading constituional authorities to not believe in, you know, the Constitution.
TW: Vote Northerner. Hmmmm…never suspected the generator for a Giuliani type…
I think we need a refresher. Does anybody have the link to the wuzzadem article about the multiple Gleens? Does anybody recall all of the differing names he used to proclaim from on high how brilliant Gleen is, how handsome he is, that he is a Constitutional scholar, and has been quoted on the Senate floor?
Weenie, indeed.
The multiple Gleens from Wuzzie are listed in his favorites bar at his place. Patterico’s illustrated Greenwald should be easy to Google.
<sigh>
Okay, I might as well come clean.
Iowahawk, Frank J. and Buckley F. Williams? They’re all me.
Boy, it actually feels kind of nice to have that off my chest.
My real name is Ping, and I blog from Nepal.
Crap. This makes the VP thing problematic.
Thanks, Dan. I have lost track of where those posts were, as my Treo has a limit to the number of bookmarks I can keep. The posts at Wuzzadem and Patterico about the asshattery of the sockpuppetry are great comedy.
Do you have money deposited somewhere that you need help retrieving?
I’m torn between to rejoinders:
1. “I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees.”
2. “My name is Luka. I live upstairs from you.”
Take your pick.
(TW: cretion states — dang those godbotherers, can’t even spell “creation”)
Torn between rejoinders . . .
Feelin’ like a fool…
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