truthseeker

Only if you don't understand the lingo. *wink* to the rest of you. (Don't worry your oddly-shaped head over it. You'll find out very soon.) Sleep tight.

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No, I prefer "Most Glorious Aetherial Being Who Deigns to Address Lowly Corrupt Candidates. " Your command of punctuation is as highly-evolved as your rhetorical skills, your political acumen, and your moral sense. And off I go, on a beam of light.

Oh, wow. So I guess you really AREN'T Jonathan then! My mistake. Gosh. ;-) And a good night to the reality-based community as well.

Yes, well, that certainly seems to explain it all away doesn't it. Also, I'm not a dude. And you're not the Grim Reaper. You're the Hilarious Reaper! Thanks again for a night of absurdist humor, Chuckles.

C again.

Interesting. According to Rees' now-defunct website, he worked for many years as a legal assistant. This is just assinine. Who do you think you're fooling, dude?

This of course would be answer C: "I am someone-other-than-Rees, but I know him, and I can tell you that what he says is true. (followed by "I heard/saw/read...." or "Someone else said/saw/read...") "

Wow, Grim Reaper! You seem to know QUITE a lot about Jonathan Rees. Tell us, you bright and engaging thing, how it is that you're so intimately acquainted with his biography?

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The answer is obvious to everyone but him.

Funny, in that so-tragic-you-could-weep way. Missed the point again. Reading comprehension - C minus.

Answer H! Revising his original statement. Example: "When I said they were printed in the Dominican Republic, but later said it was Puerto Rico, what I MEANT was they were printed by a Puerto Rican company that owns a facility in the DR." See also "I know I wrote that I was the owner of Au Pied Cochon and am supporting Rees. And I realize now that Au Pied Cochon doesn't exist anymore. But, um, see, I also own another restaurant which has a different name and is located somewhere else...but technically I WAS the owner of Au Pied Cochon."

And of course, this is the ever-popular answer A: "I don't have to provide proof! YOU do the work!" AND, as a special ka-razy bonus, Answer E. as well! It has nothing to do with the issue in the previous post, in an attempt to divert attention away from the post that's embarassed him.

You're missing the point, Rees. Oops. I mean "Grim Reaper." Also: C. "I am someone-other-than-Rees, but I know him, and I can tell you that what he says is true. (followed by "I heard/saw/read...." or "Someone else said/saw/read...") "

"sort to say" eh? Hee hee. Also for those of you playing the home version, that would be: C. "I am someone-other-than-Rees, but I know him, and I can tell you that what he says is true. (followed by "I heard/saw/read...." or "Someone else said/saw/read...") "

HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!! "why waste time on such an event?" !! You're hilarious! And the STATISTIC! The perfect comic touch! If I didn't know better, I'd think you were actually SERIOUS about this!

Here's a handy guide to R--s's rhetorical arsenal. It's super-fun to guess which of the following responses he'll use when caught contradicting himself or when presented with any information or argument that further discredits him: A. "I don't have to provide proof! YOU do the work!" B. "You are Sam Brooks! You are Sam Brooks! You are Sam Brooks! and thus you are a liar." Variant: "You're Capozzi!" or "Your DCist Martin!" "You're (insert name of any local yahoogroup or blog moderator here) " C. "I am someone-other-than-Rees, but I know him, and I can tell you that what he says is true. (followed by "I heard/saw/read...." or "Someone else said/saw/read...") " D. Ad hominem remarks such as "You are all stupid." See also "You must be unemployed" "You're a communist!" "You are jealous" and "You are a f-g". E. Long, rambling rant that has nothing to do with the issue at hand in an attempt to divert attention away from the post that's embarassed him. Most posts fall into this category. F. "That's not true! It's not true! It's not!" (particularly when confronted with something uncontrovertible, such as IP address information.) G: "You fabricated that!" (used when shown an incriminating screenshot of one of his own posts/webpages.) H. Here's a fun one: Revising his original statement. Example: "When I said they were printed in the Dominican Republic, but later said it was Puerto Rico, what I MEANT was they were printed by a Puerto Rican company that owns a facility in the DR." See also "I know I wrote that I was the owner of Au Pied Cochon and am supporting Rees. And I realize now that Au Pied Cochon doesn't exist anymore. But, um, see, I also own another restaurant which has a different name and is located somewhere else...but technically I WAS the owner of Au Pied Cochon." I. "That's not important!!!'" (Often employed when confronted with contradictions such as "You said on website A that you had TWO kids. Now you say that you have three.") J. A lame, sometimes offensive, joke. Quite often, this will take the form of merely repeating a previous poster's -actual- joke, but changing the name "Rees" to "Brooks." This tactic is meant to make him seem like A Fun Harmless Guy, in addition to serving as another distraction from the substance of the previous post. K. "I'm being attacked!" This is used whenever he attacks someone else, usually his imagined political 'rival' or posts something that's patently false, and then gets criticized for it. I think that pretty much covers it. Note that none of the above tactics involve actually responding to the substance of the post they respond to. Hang on to this handy guide and see which one he'll use next. It's the party game that sweeping Ward 3!

Hmmmmm. I wonder who could have written that. Who could it -possibly- be? ;-)

And then there's little matter of this screenshot of a certain person's own, now-defunct, website. See the address bar for verification of its provenance. I scratched out part of the phone number cuz I'm decent like that ;-)

Ah, but Nelson. You'll note that the "candidate" typically left himself a convenient way to distance himself from his own comments: he'll claim that this was just what he "heard" when he's been "attending events" and "talking to voters". It's ALWAYS hearsay with this guy. When he gets weeded out in September, my guess is that he'll claim that he was A Simple Decent Man Of The People Brought Down By Effete Snobs. Just watch. "Snobs"! What a hoot. This whole thing reads like an editorial in a school newspaper: "I heard the 8th graders all think the 9th graders think they're SOOOO cool. "

Totally bizarre.

DC DEEP THROAT IP (203.22.204.202 and 207.69.139.150) dc_deep_throat@hotmail.com HAS BEEN BANNED! This has gone way too far. This is insulting and children can be reading this. If anyone has any pool with Yahoo, please find out who this person is. You're kidding right? The IP lookup and the "Multiple Alias Disorder" posts will help clarify what we - meaning those of us who try to counter this guy's hate speech and libel in the absence of active board moderation - have been saying for months now. Don't take our word for it (as the poster asks everyone to do.) I urge you to verify it to your satisfaction. Moderators of any Ward3 yahoogroup, as well as DCist, DCeiver, DCDL and the Washington Post DCWire can tell you more. There's a reason this is the only place this person posts this degrading nonsense, Luke. It's because he CAN. This certainly isn't the first example of revolting, sexually explicit gaybaiting he's engaged in here but to my knowledge it's the first time any moderator here has tried to stop him. They don't let him get away with it on any other boards. This, by the way, is no doubt why he began using proxies - he hadn't realized until we pointed it out that he had left a very public trail of IP addresses on Yahoo. It makes it harder to identify him, but not impossible. And in any case, the yahoogroups IPs have already unveiled him. (For example, go to the Tenleytown group, around August 24. Check out the IPs on the posts from Rees himself and Rees supporters. Same addresses, pre proxy.)

Human: You have my respect and gratitude for posting this. The GLBT community needs more allies like you. Thank you. (This, by the way, is exactly the sort of outrageous behavior that I referenced in my previous post about how I came to be on this board, watching rees, in the first place. I hope maybe you understand my feelings a bit better now, at least.) Truthseeker.