StopYassky.com blogger outed
The Daily Politics discovers the identity of the people - or person, rather - behind StopYassky.com - it's Lucy Koteen of DDDB. I'd guess she had some help, though - just a hunch.
Not very smooth, Lucy. You are now the story.
Update: Lucy Koteen has denied to Ben Smith that she is behind stopyassky.com. Notably, that blog is published via WordPress, not Blogger. Hmmmm. Speculation is invited as to how this newest twist came about. Did someone, perhaps, create a blogger profile linked to DDDB to discredit the attack web site?
And if so, who could that be?
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Nope
Submitted by mole333 on 26 May 2006 - 4:24pm.
The DDDB people and Yassky have nothing to do with eachother. Not likely.
I also should repeat that in all I have seen so far, both the Yassky and Owens camps have been pretty above board and transparant. I have mentioned some misinformation from the Clarke campaign, but generally the Owens and Yassky camps keep from getting too tough, as Brooklyn politics go. The supporters of each, however, as I have also mentioned, get pretty, shall we say, passionate in their words...myself included.
how clueless can you be?
Submitted by Liza Sabater on 26 May 2006 - 8:19pm.
DUH!
Anonymity is supposed to ... ahem ... keep you anonymous.
Geezus.
Well...
Submitted by mole333 on 26 May 2006 - 8:35pm.
In all honesty, I don't know how secret they meant it to be. I initially thought it sounded like DDDB. I agreed with most of what it said. I admit I found the tone more nasty than I like. But I found much of it factual and very much delivering the DDDB message.
When Gatemouth seemed certain it was the Clarke campaign I was surprised, but willing to defer to his apparant inside info. But I always thought it was DDDB.
And I never thought they necessarily cared if people knew.
Koteen
Submitted by Gatemouth (not verified) on 26 May 2006 - 9:39pm.
Never publicly named the Clark campaign anywhere. Never even named the poster. I did post my strong suspicions without using names and drew a map, but my major contention has always been that this person not Koteen) was behind the "Yassky-arson" stuff, and I know that for certain; the stuff was emailed to his extensive mailing list by him (a friend sent me a copy), written in his voice, and appeared almost verbatim on Ben Smith's site shortly thereafter. I've posted an apology for this error on Smith's site, and am doing so now here as well (this is it). I've also corrected my own blog (the only place where I stated it) so that it no longer reflects this error. But, as you know, my real concern was the "blood libel" (term used here only for reference).
Well...
Submitted by mole333 on 27 May 2006 - 5:38pm.
You succeeded in making it clear with out making it clear. Which is fine.
And if the somewhat confusing semi-quasi retraction by Ben Smith is correct, maybe you were right in the first place and I was wrong in my initial gut feeling.
Which goes along with my earlier diary that we all are getting too obsessed and quick to jump on everyone else over this race.
I think that this was a consp
Submitted by Gatemouth (not verified) on 27 May 2006 - 7:22pm.
I think that this was a conspiracy to discredit Gatemouth. Perhaps DDDB and FUSTB were both involved.
Oh, if THAT's the case...
Submitted by mole333 on 27 May 2006 - 7:46pm.
If it's a conspiracy to discredit Gatemouth, count me in : -)
stopyassky.com
It wouldn't surprise me at all if somebody in the Yassky campaign put her up to it. The idea being to convince people that Yassky's opponents are so desperate that they are resorting to high-end negative campaigning. Yassky then can point to this stopyassky.com site as his "proof" that while his opponents are mudslinging, he is the one candidate running a righteous, dignified, NON-negative campaign.
Its not an uncommon political tactic for a candidate to secretly back a negative ad against himself, so as to be able to proclaim that he/she is being unfairly attacked, and is going to take the political high road, proving he/she is the most dignified candidate in the race.
So Yassky's people could have backed this stopyassky.com web site purely so that when word of it got around, they could blame the Owens campaign or the Clarke campaign and accuse them of mudslinging.