“Are you a hypocrite? It would appear so.”

No, I am simply someone who just walked in the door and is only now sitting down to edit and address comments on my blog. Perhaps you’ll notice that I haven’t posted or commented on my blog at all since before that comment was left?

Besides, you have a lot of nerve complaining about a joke post under your name when you were the one who started the very same thing in this very thread.

“if you had half a brain you could figure out that someone is posting under my name”

And if you had bothered to read the original thread and my first comments here, you would have seen that I was originally giving you the benefit of the doubt and assuming those comments were left by someone posing as you. As I said in my first comment, “Based on the comments at Boyd’s and Westmoreland’s, I’m inclined to think that it’s not actually Tabor.”

But then you come along and in *your* first comment on this thread say, “Yes, I am posting on all kinds of blogs these days.” Which is, at best, ambiguous, and at worst seems to imply that you did make the posts in question. I have no idea why you would say something like that rather than, “No those posts weren’t made by me.” We could have avoided a lot of back and forth.

Now the remaining question is who is posting under your name? Have you asked your friend Kouri about it? As I pointed out, there are a couple of comments on Westmoreland’s blog that make it look as though it could be him. Plus, I’ve also noticed that Kouri has been making very similar comments on behalf of John Cox. Maybe he’s posing as you for some reason. Or perhaps it’s someone else, for some unknown reason is posing as both of you. I’m not sure which possibility seems more odd.

“So, the question is do you do what is right or do nothing?”

Do what is right, as I would have whether you had complained or not. Actually, when I first saw the comment I was simply going to delete it out of consideration for you. But I suppose I should just edit it and leave the joke intact. After all, I wouldn’t want to be a hypocrite and handle it differently than I did the posts under my name.

no offense – but if you had half a brain you could figure out that someone is posting under my name – http://davidboyd.org/posts/1159407038.shtml#2535 – I address it here.

So, the question is do you do what is right or do nothing?

Oh, yeah, I almost forgot: Fred Smith, Fred Smith, Fred Smith — he’s dreamy too.

(Edit: another bogus post, reattributed since it’s not actually from Tabor. -PS)

I originally was pretty sure the Smith comments were not posted by Tabor, because of his denial on Boyd’s site. However, his first comment here makes it much more ambiguous – at the very least he doesn’t seem at all concerned anymore with the idea that someone may be impersonating him. It would be nice if Nathan would just clearly state whether or not he’s been posting any of the Fred Smith comments around the blogosphere.

This post? He does indeed mention Smith in his comment. Or is there another recent one?

My own self-importance is astounding.

(Edit: Above comment is also (obviously) not actually posted by me… someone doesn’t seem to be too happy about the questions this incident is raising. Name edited for clarity. -PS)