Bob Lord

Oh Thucky, you have been a bad, bad monkey. [I think that was a Bill Murray line from Ghostbusters 2]

Three Sonorans has posted the comments the Thuckmeister made at their site. It’s a tough call, but those comments may be even uglier than the ones he posted here. Here’s the link: “MAS=KKK” says John Huppenthal; asserts book ban was not his, but TUSD’s doing.

I’ve copied below Three Sonorans’ compilation of the comments they perceived to be the worst, but they need to add this one to their list:

You have an ethnic majority, hispanics, oppressing an ethnic minority, small business owners, exacting a property tax and paying to force students to undergo a toxic indoctrination.

Got that? Those evil Hispanics are oppressing small business owners.

And, yes, some of these comments also were made from the Department of Education IP address.

The Three Sonorans selection of worst comments follows after the jump.

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So, sorry, or sorry he got caught? To ask that question typically is to answer it. And that certainly is the case with our friend Huppenthal.

The gap between sorry and sorry about being caught is a mile wide. You can’t be on both sides of it.

The tell-tale sign that someone only is sorry he got caught is the “non-apology apology.” And ole Thucky aka Huppenthal has treated us to a humdinger of a non-apology apology. Former BfAZ writer and friend of the blog David Safier captured a bit of this in his post at The Range, Huppenthal Admits He Is “Thucydides” and “Falcon9.”:

No surprise here, including his politician’s non-apology apology: “I sincerely regret if my comments have offended anyone.” In typically clueless fashion, Huppenthal’s statement is more of a defense of his actions than an apology, citing the anonymity of the Federalist Papers (which I mentioned in a post a few days ago) to justify his use of “Thucydides” and “Falcon9” to express his ideas in public. Yes, the Federalist Papers were anonymous, and yes, writing anonymously is fine. But Huppenthal went beyond mere anonymity and used the posts to defend and promote himself, frequently writing about himself in the third person. That’s deception, pure and simple. It’s so despised on the web, it’s got its own name: sock puppetry.

The statement Huppenthal sent to the Republic didn’t refer to his serial editing of Wikipedia in 2006, or at least it wasn’t mentioned in the excerpts in the article. Also not mentioned was Huppenthal’s own defense of his Wikipedia editing, saying it was “honest” because it wasn’t anonymous.

But David only scratched the surface. Consider the lead-up to the non apology:

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