We’re one lesbian away from a bona fide Fleet Street “trend”. Further to yesterday’s post, a lesbian blogger who helped unmask the Syrian lesbian blogger as a middle-aged American male has herself been revealed to be a middle-aged American male:
In an apology to its readers, one of the other owners, Linda Carbonell, wrote: “The past three days have been devastating for all of us on LezGetReal. ‘Paula Brooks’ has been a part of our lives for three years now.”
Mr Graber told the Associated Press news agency he set up LezGetReal to advance the gay and lesbian cause. He said he felt he would not be taken seriously as a straight man.
Yeah, tell me about it.
Miss Brooks, the founder of LezGetReal, turns out to be Bill Graber, a 58-year old construction worker from Ohio. Mr Graber feels that he should at least receive credit for unmasking yesterday’s faux-lesbian blogger, 40-year old college student Tom McMaster:
Mr Graber defended his actions, saying he had helped unmask Mr MacMaster by tracking his posts to computer servers in Edinburgh.
“He would have got away with it if I hadn’t been such a stand-up guy,” Mr Graber told AP.
The trouble is finding a lesbian blogger who isn’t a stand-up guy.
Just for the record, Jonah Goldberg, Mark Krikorian, John Derbyshire and I are all 23-year old lesbians. We started this site as a joke when we were drunk one night and had no idea so many gullible people would fall for such an obvious hoax. For public appearances, we hire 57-year old male 12th-year Social Construct Studies students who’ve been short of cash since the sperm donor clinic closed down.
[UPDATE: I like the way The Hyacinth Girl puts it:
Are there any lesbian bloggers out there that are actually female? Or are they a bunch of muffin-topped 40 year old college students with serious moobage?
Wasn't Serious Moobage a conspiracy thriller a few years back? Something about Halliburton putting something in the water supply? Ralph Fiennes with prosthetics?]
We're ALL 23 year old lesbians, now!!
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"These incidents have aroused strong suspicion that 'Amanda Marcotte' is actually a fictional character created by Ace of Spades."
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Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI too am a twenty something lesbian. I have always had a thing for flannel clad chicks with short hair and comfortable shoes. That makes me a lesbian, right?
I kid, because I love. In this case, I love lesbians. So much so I have spent a considerable sum of time and money, a dollar at a time usually, supporting local lesbians. None have turned out to be middle-aged men enrolled at the local university, thank goodness.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbusePhony outs another phony, then claims he's a stand up guy.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHA.
You mean people LIE on the Internet? Wow!
You have to wonder-- how many of Anthony Weiner's "tweets" went to 43-year-old men liing in their parents' basement?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI just KNEW it!
Steyn looked too good in flannel to be a man.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"“He would have got away with it if I hadn’t been such a stand-up guy,” Mr Graber told AP."
Sounds like a line from some deranged Scooby-Doo episode.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI'm outing myself. I'm really a 23 year old liberal creating art to share at Burning Man.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThis kinda feels like that show where they entrap pedophiles by posing as kids on the internet and then show up at the house with the camera crew. "To Catch a Predator"? Is that it? And the media is the creepy guy sneaking out of his mother's basement for a fix.
For the record, I am a transgendered shaman from the Siberian steppes, for whom time is immaterial, who is brother to the passing wind and sister to the very clods of earth, within whom the human chord resonates, and whose views on current events are updated daily at the Huffington Post.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseBrother to passing wind. That's a good one! Brings to mind a political roundtable on the telly.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAnd his cousin, Breaking Wind.....
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIs an Air Bender someone who can't quite manage to break wind?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseNo, an Air Bender is one whose flatus is so rich and profound that what the unenlightened call the "laws of physics" are distorted and warped by the expulsion, and the very air itself appears to "bend" much like a mirage. see Obama, Barack H.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseOh! You mean quantum physics.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abusesorta, just with less science and more stink
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseLying to push a political agenda is what some folks do, claiming "good intentions" as a defense.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHilarious.
But it's a misdirection from the obvious truth that a good portion of the NR staff writes like 23 year old lesbians. And I'm not talking about the ones Steyn named.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThis made me laugh outloud this morning. I remember when 'Paula Brooks' trolled Gaypatriot.net and was promptly swatted down by the regulars (straight and gay).
Best of all, she was accusing the people assaulted in Wisconsin of staging their own assault.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseCut them some slack. They're white guys in the Victims' Party. They had to create a victimized persona just to fit in.
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