This behavior is what I have come to expect from small minded liberals both within the MSM and on the Internet. It just highlights a basic dishonesty in the Liberal personality.

Again andrew demonstrates his willingness to back any wrongdoing by another leftie. You have no ethics, man.

steve(FN) gets his dig in at capitalism, but fails to recognize that Hiltzik isn’t a supporter of capitalism, but just a liar employed by the LATimes.

I refused to take the LATimes when I lived in Orange County. They are a dishonest paper from top to bottom. That paper was so full of crap that I couldn’t use it as a catbox liner. The cats thought the box was full and refused to use it with the LATimes as the liner.

Patterico notes the Washington Post reports that Pulitzer Prize winning LA Times columnist Michael Hiltzik’s weblog has been suspended because of Hiltzik’s practice of praising himself and damning his critics using “sock puppet” identities. Patteri…

Maybe I should forward LAT my resume … naw, weather is too perfect in LA

UpdateThe Los Angeles Times blog that Michael Hiltzik blogs has been taken down for violation of Times’ ethics guidelines. In part because Mr. Hiltzik did not identify himself when on Independent Sources and in fact denied being him when confron…

In forensics, there are software applications that performe something called stylometry. They are used in many cyberstalking cases and such. They analyze a person’s writing wrt things like grammar, misspellings, punctuation, number of words per sentence, etc. Given a large enough dataset, they can be remarkably accurate.

I’ve often thought it’d be interesting to run them on a lot of the comments sections online.

LATimes

Using multiple names in an attempt to hide your already anonymous self to make a particularly offensive comment, or create phony allies for your arguments is considered bad form, and cowardly, and has resulted in lots of people being run off of websit…