Who is Jerome Armstrong, anyway?

Alon Levy's picture

Submitted without comment: Ron Brynaert at Why Are We Back In Iraq? has a long post providing some evidence that Jerome Armstrong is the same person as a Freeper named Vis Numar.

[Link] What are the odds that a frequent poster at Free Republic shares the same strange made-up nickname as a well-known Democratic blogger almost certainly appears to use? (for the reasons why I write "almost certainly" see near the bottom of this post)

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What are the odds that a frequent Free Republic poster would gloat about how well two politicians, including Dean, have made use of meet-ups which a well-known Democratic blogger pretty much pioneered:

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2. The following comment left at a posting on this page: "Sally, did you see Jerome Armstrong on C-Span yesterday morning? He was representing MYDD, of course, and I couldn't help but think I was looking at Vis Numar. But what do I know? hay hay - He was very impressive!!"

These and the other pieces of evidence offered are not really slam dunks, but I think they're worth investigating. My operative assumption about the liberal/Democratic divide is that the Democrats are interested primarily with Democratic victories as the only way to advance the liberal agenda. But Ron's post suggests that at least for Armstrong, what matters is power and victory, rather than an agenda or even partisanship.

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gordo's picture

Anti-science is anti-science

As commissar points out, astrological predictions turns out to have the same value as coin flips. I've seen Republicans attack liberals for being anti-science, and I think that they're right to the extent that we ignore such silliness.

commissar's picture

Look at this DU post

made by Vis Numar

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