The Boy From Brazil

Apparently our boy from Brazil likes to pretend to be a number of boyz on the Internet. According to the research of some, his IP address matches three comments on this thread on my blog from commenter Ryan. And there's allegedly a great deal more.

If this is true, it appears Constitutional scholar Greenwald is quite a sock puppet. I thought he was all about on line integrity? Or doesn't it matter when the sock puppet is wearing a fruit salad hat and doing the merengue in Brazil?

From said particular IP address in comments here:

I e-mailed Greenwald yesterday about this, pasted BumperStickerist's accusations, and asked Greenwald if it was true. This is what I just received in response:

"Thanks for sending that.

I worked at Wachtell, Lipton as a Summer Associate after my second year at NYU, as a pre-Bar Associate during my entire third year at NYU and once I graduated, and then as a practicing Litigation Associate once I was admitted to the New York Bar.

Anyone who says that I did not practice law there after I passed the bar is lying -- and deliberately so, I would think, since nobody who says such a thing could possibly have any basis for knowing that.

In any event, I can't imagine what point anyone thinks they're making. Wachtell is known to be the most selective law firm in the country. What point do they think they're making, exactly?"

You people are morons, seriously. You run around claiming things without having any idea if there true. And then when you get exposed as liars, you slink away and repeat the next lie.

Posted by: Ryan | Tuesday, July 18, 2006 at 10:24 AM

What's happening here is obvious. Instapundit is so full of frustration and anger towards Greenwald's criticisms that he links to every loser and sicko who writes a single negative thing about Greenwald, no matter how extreme, deranged, bitter, etc.

So now they're all trained that if they want attention and traffic from their master, they need to be good little attack poodles and write about Greenwald - the more personal and inane, the better. Insty has linked to 10 posts like this, at least, in the last week.

Dan needs attention and traffic - he doesn't exactly have a lot of either - and this is the only way he can get it. Greenwald is his meal ticket.

Posted by: Ryan | Monday, July 17, 2006 at 04:31 AM

Or, better yet, head on over to Sadly No where they are mocking the utter idiocy of Xrlq's "frisking" -

http://sadlyno.com/archives/003294.html#comments

Xrlq is exactly one of those guys I was talking about. He has been whining away in obscurity, averaging 200 visits a day. 200 a day! That's basically his mom and her friends. But then he wrote about Greenwald, got links from everyone, and, like Riehl and others, is now trying to milk it for all it's worth. This tells you everything you need to know about xrlq:

http://www.sitemeter.com/a=stats&s=s15xrlqcounter&r=35

He should be thanking Greenwald, just like Rehil should. Let him try not to write about Greenwald anymore and see how many people go back to reading him.

Posted by: Ryan | Monday, July 17, 2006 at 09:42 AM

As I said above, allegedly there's a great deal more.

Update: Apparently more sock puppetry, or posts by Greenwald's Cabana boy here at PW.

Comments

[Jeff G]

"Wilson's" IP is 201.17.101.161

Is that an IP Greenwald used?

I'll grab a screenshot when I get a chance.

I sure hope it isn't him. Not after Andrew Sullivan gave him such a ringing endorsement.

[capt joe]

Wow, first the townhouse list membership and now sock puppetry. Kos will be so disappointed.

Let me quote patterico about Greenwad. What a douchebag!