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False-Flag Troll, IRL

Posted on | October 13, 2012 | 58 Comments

I can pretty much guarantee that this man photographed at a Romney rally in Lancaster, Ohio, is not in fact a Republican, but rather is a plant sent out by the Democrats as a dirty trick.

  • Clue #1: Wearing a “Romney/Ryan” sticker on the back of his T-shirt. Nobody does this. Nobody.
  • Clue #2: It’s kind of chilly in Ohio this time of year, and the guy’s wearing only a T-shirt, while those around him are wearing coats.

My guess is that this guy also wore a coat when he entered the rally, then stationed himself toward the back of the crowd (in front of the riser where the press photographers are stationed) and then removed his coat to expose the T-shirt, with the explicit purpose of having it photographed.

. . . aaanndd, Clue #3: No name? A press photographer is going to take a picture like this and make no effort to ID the guy? Nuh-uh.

Speaking of which: I decided to go over to the American Spectator blog last night and write a lengthy explanation of exactly why the vicious creep James Pogue can go straight to hell.

Finally: We had an unfortunate incident in which a commenter got smacked by Wombat’s Troll Hammer for some things the commenter was saying about Mormonism. This was an unfortunate incident, I say, because the commenter was in fact a tip-jar hitter, who generously contributed to the Shoe Leather Fund to support last month’s Ohio trip. And so I’ve urged Wombat to restore the commenter’s privileges, after making a polite explanation of the problem.

This is as good a place as any, perhaps, to reiterate the policy: I have neither the time nor interest to monitor comments for off-topic or offensive content. Thus, Wombat is the designated Troll-Smasher, and the policy is whatever Wombat says it is. So if you’re in the comments having an argument and Wombat says to knock it off, please comply.

We are at the GAME FACES stage of the campaign, folks. Election Day is barely three weeks away, and we can expect the Leftists to be out in force with all sorts of false-flag/concern-troll antics, so Wombat is apt to on hair-trigger alert, ready to smash the hell out of anything that looks even vaguely trollish. Ergo, Wombat’s warnings should be taken quite seriously, lest we have any further unfortunate incidents.

Also, at some point this upcoming week, my plan is to go off on a long campaign-trail trip that might go all the way to Election Day, so now would be a good time to contribute to the Shoe Leather Fund, as it usually takes three or four business days for the cash to get from the tip jar to my bank account. Thanks for your patience and generosity.

Polls are quite encouraging for Romney (Nate Silver continues his slo-mo walkback with the Forecasting Model) which means that the end of our Long National Nightmare may now be within sight.

 

Once we get to Nov. 7, we can go back to snarking at celebrity meltdowns and all the other fun stuff that makes America great. But meantime . . .

GAME FACES.




 

UPDATE: Speaking of game faces, I got so distracted yesterday I forgot to link Friday’s column at The American Spectator:

Vice President Joe Biden took Americans on a one-way trip to Malarkey-ville [Thursday] night, with a weirdly aggressive debate performance in which, according to one count, he interrupted his Republican rival 86 times. Even many of those who generally approved of what Democrat spinners referred to as Biden’s “happy warrior” act expressed concern that the vice president was, to quote CNN’s Gloria Borger, “condescending at times” toward Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan.
Make that “condescending at all times,” and you may have a consensus that would include even the debate’s liberal moderator, Martha Raddatz of ABC News. Biden’s behavior resembled the hypomanic phase of bipolar disorder, as he grinned incongruously or faked laughter in reaction to Ryan’s answers, rudely scoffed at the Republican’s policy proposals as “bluster” and “loose talk,” and bulldozed past whatever feeble attempts Raddatz made to halt his repeated filibusters.
Arrogant? Overbearing? Angry? If those are your ideal qualities in a vice president, Biden’s your man. . . .

Please read the whole thing.

UPDATE II: Welcome, Instapundit readers! And the professor is right:

Whenever the Dems are in trouble, they start this sort of thing. They’re in trouble now. Expect the bylined Democratic operatives formerly known as journalists to help as much as they can.

UPDATE III: Thanks to the commenter who pointed this out:

Another Hate Hoax? Democrat Worker
Attacked Denver Campaign Office


Comments

58 Responses to “False-Flag Troll, IRL”

  1. Jackie Wellfonder
    October 13th, 2012 @ 6:29 pm

    Copy that! Game Faces!

  2. reliapundit
    October 13th, 2012 @ 6:39 pm

    CLUE THREE: HE’S FACING AWAY SO NO ONE CAN ID HIM.

  3. KBK
    October 13th, 2012 @ 6:47 pm

    Actually, when we marched for Romney in the 4th of July parade here in Wolfeboro, a number of us (wearing official Romney tshirts) put Romney stickers on the back. Get them coming and going (the back was blank). Of course, our shirts looked nothing like that one.

  4. eddie
    October 13th, 2012 @ 6:57 pm

    That looks like a man who caused a disturbance at a Tea Party event in St Louis last year. I saw his pic in Gateway Pundit.

  5. Rob Crawford
    October 13th, 2012 @ 6:58 pm

    He was purposefully putting the campaign sticker next to the Democrat-produced t-shirt.

    (How do I know it’s Democrat-produced? Because they’re the only ones who organize their politics around race anymore.)

  6. LouAnnWatson
    October 13th, 2012 @ 7:02 pm

    follow him to an approved concealed carry zone and tell him to sod off

  7. eddie
    October 13th, 2012 @ 7:12 pm

    Here is a link to a video of him at the Tea Party event in STL.
    sharpelbowsstl.blogspot.com/2010/04/dem-shill-wears-nazi-gear-to-tea-party.html

  8. Wombat_socho
    October 13th, 2012 @ 7:14 pm

    As a general rule, if I ask you to shut up about whatever you’re ranting about, and you don’t, the next step is going to be the banhammer. Most of you regular commenters know this. Anyway, I’ve written to the person in question about the unfortunate incident and hope to see him back in the comments.

  9. Alfred Bellows
    October 13th, 2012 @ 7:17 pm

    Major fail by the DNC here, but if you go to the link, you’ll see that the vast majority of commenters have completely been suckered by this and believe this is the face of the RNC and its allies. Sadly, the abettors in the MSM are winning many small battles, and the undereducated masses are willingly swallowing this line along with the hook and the sinker.

  10. smitty
    October 13th, 2012 @ 7:26 pm

    Does he wear a green helmet when hanging out in Gaza, one wonders?

  11. vndk8r
    October 13th, 2012 @ 7:45 pm

    Look in the dictionary for the word “Hubris.” Easy to find. It’s right next to the picture of Joe Biden. If this jerk had interrupted me as much as he interrupted Ryan, I would have drawn him quietly aside and said “Interrupt me again, you smarmy so and so, and I will tear your face off on national television.” But that’s just me. I don’t suffer fools gladly.

    Oh, yeah, the current meme of the party in power is that the other party is “whining about the debate.” Should be easy for them to recognize, they’ve been whining about the Bush “legacy of meltdown” for three and a half years.

  12. Matthew W
    October 13th, 2012 @ 7:53 pm

    Excellent find !!!

  13. David Pittelli
    October 13th, 2012 @ 8:27 pm

    Well the hair is different. What makes you think it’s the same guy? (Too bad apparently no one standing near him got a picture of his face.)

  14. David Govett
    October 13th, 2012 @ 8:27 pm

    I’ll wager that a Democrat shot out the window at the Demo office.

  15. scrubjay
    October 13th, 2012 @ 8:51 pm

    The “White in White House” person looks very much like the “proud racist” confronted at a Tea Party rally in this video:
    http://www.youtube.com/verify_controversy?next_url=/watch%3Fv%3DGYfmShJe5MA%26feature%3Dplayer_embedded

  16. Matthew W
    October 13th, 2012 @ 8:58 pm

    That is why it is nearly impossible and completely senseless to try to have an intelligent, informed, adult discussion with those brain stems because they already have that preconceived notion of us.

  17. Matthew W
    October 13th, 2012 @ 8:59 pm

    Also, this is soooooooooooooooooooooooooo obvious a plant that even the Democrat Stooges in the MSM aren’t going for the bait.

  18. Knocko
    October 13th, 2012 @ 9:19 pm

    Doesn’t his neck look more weathered than his shiny bald head? He hasn’t been bald for long. And if he was a real skinhead or even a wannabe, where are his tattoos?

  19. Wombat_socho
    October 13th, 2012 @ 9:22 pm

    Instapundit noted that this was the case the last time this happened at that office.

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  21. Mike Rogers
    October 13th, 2012 @ 9:24 pm

    Whenever I hear the word ‘malarkey’, I think either of the buffoon from MA, Ed Malarkey, or the late great cartoon strip, Lickskillet:
    http://www.thegentlemanfromlickskillet.com/characters/themalarkeys.htm

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  23. JeffS
    October 13th, 2012 @ 9:44 pm

    If you are referring to the Denver Dhimmicratic office, they used a hammer. One was caught in the act; oddly enough, he was a Dem race worker back in 2008. Imagine that.

    And one wonders where the sickle was.

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  27. Bob Belvedere
    October 14th, 2012 @ 12:12 am

    Bang-on. I’ve been trying to tell our VRWC brothers and sisters for several years now to not even bother trying to engage Leftists in any discussions. They don’t want to listen.
    Somewhere [down there] Jim Jones is laughing his arse off.

  28. Mike Rogers
    October 14th, 2012 @ 1:38 am

    Even over at Buzzfeed, some are calling it photoshopped. If you blow the picture up, the pixelation of the Romney sticker is coarser than the shirt. Somebody dropped in the image of the sticker.

  29. Wombat_socho
    October 14th, 2012 @ 4:11 am

    I miss that strip. Wish they’d try to make a go of it as a webcomic.

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  32. tim117
    October 14th, 2012 @ 8:57 am

    It was 70 degrees in Ohio yesterday

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  35. Hank DeCat
    October 14th, 2012 @ 2:14 pm

    Everyone else in the picture have jackets or sweatshirts on. I’m going with my lying eyes, but thanks.

  36. Stogie Chomper
    October 14th, 2012 @ 3:03 pm

    Yep, the image was a photoshop. I’ve discovered the original image and posted it here:
    http://saberpoint.blogspot.com/2012/10/t-shirt-describes-obama-supporters-true.html

  37. john
    October 14th, 2012 @ 4:05 pm

    ummmm how many others are in that picture?

  38. Butthurt_socho
    October 14th, 2012 @ 5:37 pm

    Whinebat_socho can’t handle anyone disagreeing, so bans them. You’re all man, my friend. Too bad your ex wife didn’t think so.

  39. Zilla
    October 14th, 2012 @ 5:38 pm

    TEa Party logic: Someone caught us = Must be a trap by liberals

  40. Bob Belvedere
    October 14th, 2012 @ 5:58 pm

    This, of course, is not the real Zilla.

    Is that you Patrick, “Paleo Pat”, Chuck Adkins, Detroit Right, Charles Patrick Adkins, Old Right Blogger, k8cpa – or whatever you’re calling yourself these days? If so, you might want to turn on the heat in your Mother’s basement – Winter’s coming.

  41. Hank DeCat
    October 14th, 2012 @ 6:06 pm

    ummmm, at least 3 others clearly — 5 others if you count the 2 somewhat blurry ones.
    Can you even see?

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  43. liamascorcaigh
    October 14th, 2012 @ 7:56 pm

    “hypomanic” – do you mean “hypermanic”?

  44. K-Bob
    October 14th, 2012 @ 8:33 pm

    When they magically know you are whatever-they-say-you-are, you have to use magic to fight back.

    I call this magic, “ignore their pathetic, miserable existence.”

  45. Ignorance is Bliss
    October 14th, 2012 @ 11:08 pm

    I’ve been looking through the Getty Images site for other images of the same event by the same photographer, to see if I could see the same shirt-wearer.

    Check out this image:
    http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/republican-presidential-candidate-former-massachusetts-gov-news-photo/154034168

    On the right size is a grayed-over rectangle watermark with the image number, and the photographer’s name.

    Check out the man by the bottom left corner of the watermark. Dark hat, sunglasses.

    Why do I thing this might be our guy? He’s back against the fence. He’s next to someone in a white sweatshirt, same as in the buzzfeed picture. He’s wearing a grey coat, while in the buzzfeed pict it looks like he has something grey down by his left hip.

    Anyone have any thoughts? Anything to support or refute this hypothesis? Any thoughts on how to pursue this further?

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  47. K-Bob
    October 15th, 2012 @ 6:40 am

    I forgot the obvious point: Anyone here that would not harass that man until he left? Maybe left shirtless, even? I know I’d be in the guy’s face, big time. You all would, too.

    That’s how we know it’s fake.

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