Someone needs to tell WBAL-TV that Kristinn's not a woman...Courtesy of DocRock:
DC Chapter Warlord, Mr. Kristinn Taylor
Posted on 12/14/2005 5:13:35 PM PST by conservative in nyc
The WBAL-TV 11 News I-Team has uncovered new information surrounding the mysterious Web user known as MD4Bush.
In private e-mail exchanges, MD4Bush coaxed Joe Steffen, a former aide to Gov. Bob Ehrlich, into discussing rumors about Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley's personal life on the conservative Web site, FreeRepublic.com.
The 11 News I-Team has uncovered e-mail addresses used to register the MD4Bush account on the Free Republic Web site. The 11 News I-Team does not know who opened the MD4Bush account.
According to a source familiar with the MD4Bush postings, the e-mail address used in October 2004 to open the MD4Bush account is: ryanrock2004@yahoo.com.
Sources said that e-mail address was later changed to rodoherty@mddems.org, then changed for a third time to brianwaverly@yahoo.com. That third e-mail address remains as the address registered on the Free Republic account, which remains open.
Free Republic Web founder Jim Robinson refused to publicly disclose the electronic trail of MD4Bush; however, he authorized a statement weeks ago, as follows:
"Free Republic has evidence that an mddems.org e-mail address is associated with the MD4Bush account. This is not just coincidence," Free Republic spokeswoman Kristinn Taylor said.
According to Free Republic, anyone who has the password to the MD4Bush account could change the e-mail registration address at any time. It is not known how many people may have had access to that password.
MD4Bush used e-mails to coax former gubernatorial aide Joe Steffen into discussing rumors on a conservative Web site about the personal life of Baltimore's mayor. The e-mail address information obtained does not shed light on the actual users of the MD4Bush account, nor does it reveal whether someone attached the Ryan O'Doherty e-mail address to the account without his knowledge.
(Excerpt) Read more at thewbalchannel.com ...
ping!
What exactly is the problem? I'm missing the point.
LOL. So much for truth in reporting......
Actually, I imagine most freepers like myself have become bored with this intrigue because they don't know what the heck went on or is still going on. I don't think anyone cares a hoot anymore.
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So, what are they going to do, bust us all out? I'd like to see them get me fired. I think we should start tracking some of these guys down and posting their personal details. Good for the goose etc.
Someone needs to do some fact-checking... :-)
Thanks, this is big stuff!!
LOLOL......oh boy!!! er girl, er whatever!
Don’t be too hard them. At least WBAL, both TV and radio have been the lone voice in Maryland continually dogging this story… other stations..cricket….cricket….cricket
conservative in nyc did an excellent job of explaining the story.
He shore has purdy lips tho.
If all of this is accurate, that would be most of what FR was in a position to know about the identity of MD4Bush.
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Y'all should check out the video on the site. It's obvious that the additional "PC-ification" of the Kristinn's identity came from the web editor, since the actual quote shown on the screen says "spokesperson." Also, the video points out that our boy Ryan was the tech person at mddems.org, in charge of e-mail addresses, etc.
Dirty tricks.
These Maryland Dems got the idea from me....probably.
I posted at DNC Kick Ass a remark after they got Saddaam that was reported on FOX News Channel and multiple sources as coming from a Democrat.
Just do a google search of my name and you will see what I posted. It made national news as part of the Dem meltdown.
Oops.
I read the excerpt and shrugged. "Damn," I thought to myself, "I thought Kristinn was a man."
Then my mind recalls actually SEEING pics of Kristinn and damn, they were pics of a MAN. I shrug again. "Maybe I was looking at the wrong person," I think. "Maybe there was a woman in the picture."
Will I ever learn not to trust these "journalists" with the facts?
Sometimes, too smooth for my own good.
Do you know what it's like to be known by friends and family as a die-hard conservative and to have your post reported on national news as coming from a liberal?!
"..According to a source familiar with the MD4Bush postings, the e-mail address used in October 2004 to open the MD4Bush account is: ryanrock2004@yahoo.com..."
In order to activate a password a valid email is necessary, but the IP of the computer would remain the same. What MD4Bush did to conceal himself would only work in a case where the administrator of a site was not sufficiently interested in tracking him down.
The FR feature that allows changeing e-mail registration address at any time is for the convenience of the users and won't help conceal the identity of the computer the posts were made from.
What she say?
Giving orders to folks who don't work for you seems to make one a wimmin.
I kind of figured.
Excellent post.
To all, be sure to view the video story (maybe a couple of times to catch the complex links to the all the players).
For his good work in getting Steffen fired, Ryan O'Doherty has been rewarded with a no-compete appointment to a newly created position with the Baltimore Metropolitan Council, which is associated with Baltimore city hall.
If so, how?
When was the 3rd email changed ... after the article???
No offense, Kristinn, but you're the ugliest woman I've ever seen! ;-D
That was my point.
The other information would be what IP addresses were associated with those logins....possibly from the Dems' cave? That would show it wasn't just someone using RyDo's e-mail address, but ...
In order to activate a password a valid email is necessary, but the IP of the computer would remain the same. What MD4Bush did to conceal himself would only work in a case where the administrator of a site was not sufficiently interested in tracking him down.
Exactly.
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That's what I kept waiting to hear in the video...but they didn't explicitly say.
Someone needs to tell WBAL-TV that Kristinn's not a woman...Courtesy of DocRock:
I am fortunate to have met Kristinn in 2000 and he's no woman, but a good guy!
Again, the video is very good...and in the video, it says "spokesperson."
But more than that, I encourage all FReepers to check out the video for the "plot thickens" elements. :-)
Everything published on FreeRepublic, whether public or private, is preserved and is ultimately part of the public record.
Your utterances will be available to your friends, your enemies, your children and their children.
That is one ugly woman!
Why would anyone do that? Steffen was a GOP operative that they wanted to get. I don't see any possible advantage to "frame" O'Doherty, though I would not be surprised if he claimed that.
The use of the first mail drop shows an intent to hide his identity. The use of the regular email was most likely laziness or possibly because he forgot the password to the maildrop or, more stupidly, used the FR password for the mail drop and wanted to delete it.
Yes..I was just wondering if this info helps tighten the noose in any way.
Since none of the MSM are interested (it doesn't fit their profile), and law enforcement isn't interested, it's beginning to look like this character is going to skate.
Thank you sooo much, conservative in nyc, for staying on top of this and posting updates. Yes, ever since the last big headline, I've been wondering where's the boot landing next!. MDDEMS... Hmph.
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Excellent interview you gave to Neil Cavuto. Points you made eleven months ago regarding upcoming Iraqi elections, the lack of positive new media coverage and failure of the Bush administration to effectively communicate our successes in Iraq are as true today as when you gave the interview (the day before the Bush second inauguration).
MD shenanigans ping to you, nunya...
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Excellent interview you gave to Neil Cavuto. Points you made eleven months ago...Ooops!
I forgot to identify that clip as an OLD video of kristinn on TV...
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