A Phony Kos Komment at WaPo

Fri, Feb 2, 2007 at 11:36:39 am PST

Bob Owens picked up on a fake comment pretending to be by Markos “Screw Them” Moulitsas of the Daily Kos, under William Arkin’s pseudo-apology at the Washington Post.

I thought it smelled phony, as I emailed and told Bob. Glenn Reynolds went to the source and confirmed it:

I emailed Markos and he responds: “Yeah, it’s bogus. I alerted the WaPo about it but my email seems to have been ignored. There’s been a rash of that lately — people impersonating me. I suppose it’s an occupational hazard.”

Right on the money, Kos. It is an occupational hazard. Your fellow travelers on the left have been impersonating me for years, posting obscene and racist comments all over the internet under my name, signing up my email address to listservers and spammers, Google-bombing LGF to make anti-LGF sites come up in search results, and all kinds of other harassment tactics.

I could almost sympathize with Kos on this one, but the fact remains that he did originally write those words about “mercenaries,” and he still stands by the statement. So in this case, that comment at the WaPo qualifies as “fake but accurate.”