| We've had a rash of trolls around here lately, no doubt because Republicans are panicking that their campaigns are being exposed for being built upon a foundation of lies.
Almost without exception, these trolls have pretended to be Democrats, confused Democrats, wavering Democrats or former Democrats who just aren't so sure Menendez is up to par. They're actually all Republicans. Yesterday we pointed out that one user, who "wonder[ed] about the direction of our party" is the president of the NJ College Republicans.
Today, a pair of users (cleanupnj & usedtobeblue) whose accounts were created within 10 minutes of each other posted nonsensical comments just 15 minutes apart from the same IP address, meaning - it's the same person.
It looks likely this person was posting from Tom Kean Jr's headquarters. The IP address (70.90.20.85) is from a Comcast business account, and can be traced all the way to ge-5-1-ur01.union.nj.panjde.comcast.net - a GigabitEthernet interface 5/1 Comcast node in Union - before hitting a firewall. Tom Kean Jr's headquarters in Mountainside is 5 miles from Union. Even more interesting is that this same IP address has a history of making partisan changes to Bob Menendez's wikipedia entry in July.
New Jersey Republicans see their smear campaign collapsing before their eyes, and they're wetting their pants. So they've resorted to astroturfing blogs to try to stop the hemorrhaging. And they're doing a really sloppy job of it. Pathetic.
Update: AmadeusNJ, who calls himself a "lifelong liberal", is at least the third user who posts from the same IP address as the other two. |
