Sockpuppets: Iamready is Stoller and I am not Areyouready! Snark or Not ?-You Decide. Add to Hotlist

by holden caulfield, Wed Sep 26, 2007 at 11:27:38 PM EST

Here’s the news. Iamready is Stoller’s sock puppet.

I was only joking when I first wrote this to iareready today – but now its clear (to me at least!) that I was right.

Earlier today, for jollies, which I sorely needed after reading here in a post that Hillary was a threat to the future of the world because she was a hard laugher, I was being a smart ass and trying to push IM because I was annoyed and disappointed with him because he wouldnt stand up for me when some numnuts at Kos BANNED me a couple of nights ago. I was miffed at IM because these bozos had claimed that I was a sockpuppet for Areyouready and though IM had acknowledged that I was not, he didn’t raise his voice to say, “hey, he ain’t.”. So, I decided to amuse myself, by poking him with a stick and asking if he was really Stoller’s sockpuppet (you will read that I have found common traits)and then I wondered, goodness, what if he really was?

Sockpuppetry – what is with everybody going nuts about people using different name? I mean wtf? Everybody is using an alias, so what’s the diff? Worrying about that, I don’t get and if someone does it, I couldn’t care less. Hell, i believe that Triumph – the Insult comic dog is the best comic/political pundit in the biz and he is afterall, a sock puppet too.

Personally, I think the worst thing about these sites is the sport of stomping on dissent by banning those who disagree with an aggressive majority or a tyrannical moderator. (ie. Bowers)

My banning was based on that I had quoted a joke line from Hillary’s appearance on Letterman a few weeks ago. It was from her top ten list of why we should elect a woman to the White House and it included this line: “We need a President that if lost, will pull over to the side of the road to ask directions….Am I right ladies?” So, I had included the line “am I right ladies” as a (I thought) funny tag…and next thing I know some punk with the moniker “Yoshimi” (who wrote that “he fucking hated myDD”, by the way) started to get his clown college of followers to buy into the idea that I was areyouready because he/she had also used that as he/she’s tag line. Before I knew it, I had been gang 0′d and BANG! Id been silenced! Without asking me if this was true or giving me a right to explain.

I was trying to make a funny and they BANNED me for it!

Tyrants!

Not like I really give an F. If I really cared I’d just register under another name and move on – but isnt it really about the point of the thing?! Banning those that actually dare to dissent is anti democratic. Both big D and little d.

And I frigging hate bullies…

Now back to Stoller/iamready

So three times after iareready had acknowledged that I was not areyouready, I publicly (at this site) asked him to stand up and tell those bullying thugs that they had banned me unfairly. Each time, he did not respond and each time I got a lil’ more annoyed at iamready. And so, I started to pay more attention to the typings of this poster and I noticed something. Something very odd. Iamready, like Stoller just LUVS to use the very annoying insider lingo used by SOME political campaign workers. Ive been around Presidential politics for a long time, working on campaigns since my freshman year in college and I’ve always HATED that “jive” talk.

“Burn rate”, q1, q2, q3…”ground game”…”Potus”. Yuck!

Iamready uses all that same BS insider slang (learned from watching reruns of the West Wing I’m sure) as Stoller and he thinks he knows everything about everything (just like Stoller)and you can tell…he’s just DYING to tell ya he went to dear ol’Ha-Vard, just like good ol’ Matt Stoller keeps on reminding us he did…

And then I started to realized that the two of them both annoyed me in another same way. They both reminded me of the brand new kid who somehow believed that by – birthright or somethin’ – he already knew EVERYTHING! This folks, is a very common thing with campaign working kids. I mean, Stoller writes ALWAYS as if he is the “One and Future King of the Democratic Party”. And what’s his background, his level of ACTUAL experience? As far as I know, he has worked on one (1) actual campaign as a net root outreach guy in a Senate race in Jersey. Ok, great. Good on ya. But, now he seems to believe and writes as if he has the historical knowledge and the right to tell EVERYONE in the Democratic Party what to do about anything, everything. And how much real time experience does he have working in real life Democratic campaigns, 2-3-4 months?

Lordie – not that this makes him a bad guy – it sure as hell doesn’t – but it also doesn’t give him the wisdom of Soloman.

Hell, a couple of months ago I actually read him write that if Hillary is elected president, that “we (he always uses the royal we doesn’t he)may have to consider ‘primary-ing’ her in 2012″

Yikes! Stoller-boy who was scurrying across Harvard yard in his birkenstocks in 2000 when we tragically had the government stolen out from underneath of us by a street gang made up of the GOP, the MSM, Naderites and the Supreme Court 9…now is saying that if we are actually able to – by doing everything exactly right – win back this Government – he was saying basically, lets give up all our advantages of a hard won (please God please!) incumbency, and risk giving it right back! OhmyGod! What a wack-a-fool!

But, I don’t think all bad thoughts about young ambitious Matthew.

Last week I read his interview with that very fine fellow, General Wesley Clark. In that interview, Stoller spoke as a guy who looked up to and respected and actually, differed to a man with greater experience and knowledge. Wow! I was actually touched. And even though for a short while, he seemed to try to get the General to admit that Hillary is a HORRIBLE choice to be our nominee, but when Wes pushed back and said no, she’d make a fine leader, Stoller didn’t whine for long at all and gave the General his due for being an honest man making his honest and personal choice. Once again, wow, it seemed there might be hope that Stoller might actually be able to develop the grace to turn his fierce intellect into actual wisdom.

Hmm, stick me with a pin and tickle me with a feather!

So, I wondered is it actually possible that iamready is young Matt? I actually haven’t read enough of either of them to compare their thoughts or opinions, besides knowing that both of them think that Hillary is just some big, stupid, silly girl…but there was more proof that very possibly…iareready is actually Stoller.

The actual coup degrace or smoking gun if you will. The guy is just dying to tell us that he is.

Evidence. iareready’s post of this eve. A post called, with an expected insidery title – The Money Game.

In it he gave this clue, to quote:

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Now both camps are pooh-poohing the expectations game.

Yes, that is part of the money game.

Clinton camp is stating that Obama is going to raise 30M. Now I am here to TELL YOU, if he does that, I will reveal myself. OK?

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Wha?

Poster lori commented on this”

“What the hell do you mean by that .

Are you some sort of alien or something.”

and Stoller/iamready responded:

“We are ALL ALIENS on these sites, ok?”

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Now finally, FINALLY, something that Stoller/iamready has said that I actually agree with 100%. You see, I’m an Alien too. I agree, ain’t we all?

OK, Stoller/iamready the gig is up, come clean. Drop your sockpuppet. Tell us that this really tis you.

And if it is you, lord god man, find a hobby, get outside, go to a museum or something. Hell, watch TV! You already are pumping out 10 or 15 diaries a day it seems at open left and STILL you feel the need to write for both here and at KOS!? Have you no fears of carpal tunnel syndrome? Take a break buddy, it’s a long ass time until November of 2008.

It’s true, after his moment of sorrow with Clark, I’m not so mad at Stoller anymore. Now, if he’d just get his good buddy Chris to actually understand that Dissent is a GOOD THING in a democratic (both big and lil d) society and get him to the turn from the tyrannical side of his nature, just as General Clark seems to have gotten Stoller to question the absolute infallibility of his own mind, then I wouldn’t be mad at him either of them anymore.

Because, sometimes – both these guys really do some really fine work.

Remember this, if iamready really is Stoller, above all, Democratic politics is a team sport and our team has been around for over two hundred years now. Though we admire your hard work in recent years, please acknowledge once in a while, that others were working with your same zeal before you discovered how important this fight was – through staring at your computer screen in your dormroom. And even before you, we too were fighting this fight this with the same level of idealism that you claim for yourself today.

Nuff said. And if I’m wrong and iamready is not Stoller.

Nevermind…

Btw, I wrote this while listening to tonights debate. Wasnt that fun?! We relearned that Russert is a putz and learned something fresh from Gravel – that ya can burn the credit card companies for $90,000 and later brag about it on national TV. And they can’t do shit about it! The USA – what a wonderful place!

If Obama doesn’t have the nads to sit in the audience of an important event bc he’s not on stage, how will he ever stand up to or against [insert name/organization/problem here].

Bwak Obama for dog catcher!

Hey Obama, your right there!!! We can see it’s you, how about saying something like: I’m Barack Obama, or, my name is Barack Obama hmm??

But to say: “This is” I found this unbelievably funny, I couldn’t stop laughing.

I also read an article about the gathering for ‘Little Rock Nine’.
Bill Clinton spoke among others, and Hillary was there.
I haven’t seen much of this event covered in the media, but I wish I had, because one thing I read stood out to me.
It said Obama was also supposed to be there, but cancelled apparently when they heard Hillary not only would be there, but would have a seat ONSTAGE with Bill and ‘some others’ and the Little Rock Nine that was being honored and remembered. Haha! I would have loved to see Hillary on stage, and Obama down amongst the crowd, really visually showing his standing in the polls!
Mike Huckabee was there as well, but left early, before the Hillary praise begun!

I’m currently watching the videos from this day, if you want to see it, you’d have to watch the videos in order, as they are split up, start from the top.
Hillary got some good attention as Bill mentioned to the crowd that this may be the final time they’ll see him speak, and Hillary listen.
And several of the Little Rock Nine people spoke of Hillary in their speeches praising her. And Melba Patillo Beals, one of the Little Rock Nine, gave a really warm tribute to Hillary.
Also some good moments caught on video of Hillary whispering to Bill, and them holding hands. I haven’t seen this yet, as I’m still watching the videos, but read that.

Here’s the link.
tinyurl.com/2mo6nk

The most interesting one for me was the Fox/Dyanmic poll asking between Hillary and BO- it’s been reported 4x and the last time before this month was in March. The undecideds are moving. We’ll see more of them move in the next 4 months, but it was weird to see double digits erase to single digits.

I just cancelled plans with a girlfriend of mine to stay home to watch debates. Her mom is a big Hillary fan, but she’s not. Yet. I just know better than to watch the debates in her presence. It would scare her off.

It’s like soccer mom’s with fulltime jobs who still manage to do all the cooking, cleaning, shopping, chauffeuring, etc.. I wish we had an “Enjoli” type commercial to post online to remind those idiots that she does more and does it better than everyone else out there.

“I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan….”