Three years ago, when my colleagues here at BfAZ and I exposed then Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal as a closet racist, I knew we had done the right thing. But I didn’t know how right it would prove to be. Huppenthal, or Thucky as we know him here, along with his predecessor, Tom … Read more
Bob Lord has posted in great detail about his “magical year” with Thucky, aka John Huppenthal, Blog for Arizona’s sock puppet blog troll. Bob posted on Facebook today: So, Huppenthal does a flip-flop-flip. Who knew? First, he bashes immigrants in anonymous blog comments. Then, he cries and says the comments are not what is in … Read more
Our sock-puppet blog troll “Thucky,” aka John Huppenthal, is in trouble again, this time for flip flopping on his support for the Common Core education standards. Actually this isn’t something new for Thucky, he has been doing this for some time now. He changes his stance on Common Core depending upon the audience to whom … Read more
It’s now two weeks since I requested additional information about the aliases John Huppenthal used and the sites at which he commented. A week ago, I gave him the benefit of the doubt. Now, it seems, he may be ignoring my questions. I’ll go out on a limb here. I think Huppenthal’s aliases went beyond Falcon9 … Read more
A month or so ago, John Huppenthal admitted to posting comments under the pseudonyms Thucydides and Falcon9 at Blog for Arizona, EspressoPundit, Three Sonorans, and Seeing Red AZ. But do we know the full extent of his commenting? Are there other pseudonyms? Are there other sites where he commented? I’ve asked his office these questions. I’ve also … Read more