The Clinton campaign gets personal.

[fancycwabs]

While reading a post on the election results over at resk's LJ, I happened on a fierce, on-message comment by one crystal40, an apparent Clinton blog spammer. Has anyone else witnessed this? Is this a new development?

In case said culprit or anyone else associated with the Clinton campaign (I'm looking at you, Mark Penn) reads this, any Clinton spam will get money donated to the Obama campaign. Just fair warning.

(Confidential to Mark Penn: If you'll give me half of what you bill to Clinton, I'll vote any way you tell me to.)

Comments

Re: crystal40's bio

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

So, said individual spammed exactly one blog? Hmm.

Re: crystal40's bio

[resk.livejournal.com]

Yup. She found mine and that was it.

I feel . . . special?

Re: crystal40's bio

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

Perhaps a sock monkey for someone you know? Does a whois for the IP address turn up anything?

Re: crystal40's bio

[resk.livejournal.com]

I don't know how to look up IP addresses. Here's hers: 71.124.42.50

GOOD RUCK!

Re: crystal40's bio

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

OrgName: Verizon Internet Services Inc.
OrgID: VRIS
Address: 1880 Campus Commons Dr
City: Reston
StateProv: VA
PostalCode: 20191
Country: US

NetRange: 71.96.0.0 - 71.127.255.255
CIDR: 71.96.0.0/11
NetName: VIS-71-96
NetHandle: NET-71-96-0-0-1
Parent: NET-71-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: NS1.BELLATLANTIC.NET
NameServer: NS2.BELLATLANTIC.NET
NameServer: NS2.VERIZON.NET
NameServer: NS4.VERIZON.NET
Comment:
RegDate: 2005-01-18
Updated: 2005-08-15

OrgAbuseHandle: VISAB-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: VIS Abuse
OrgAbusePhone: +1-214-513-6711
OrgAbuseEmail: abuse@verizon.net

OrgTechHandle: ZV20-ARIN
OrgTechName: Verizon Internet Services
OrgTechPhone: 800-243-6994
OrgTechEmail: IPNMC@gnilink.net

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Re: crystal40's bio

[resk.livejournal.com]

So this "business owner in Southern Illinois" is posting from Reston, VA.

Interesting.

Re: crystal40's bio

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

I think that's probably Verizon's home, not crystal40's

Re: crystal40's bio

[k-sui.livejournal.com]

Or perhaps just created one for each incident of said ham-handed intrusiveness?

Either way, I actually kind of admire it. It's mildly deceitful, sure, but so is politics. I also like the fact that it took all of five minutes for he to be pants'd. Kudos.