Modified cross post from DemocraticDiva.com
AZ Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal has been revealed as a big old internet troll and my friend Bob Lord, whom I blog with at Blog for Arizona, is the one who broke the story. Here’s Bob being interviewed on Channel 5 in Phoenix Wednesday night, in a report that led the 10 pm broadcast.
Don’t forget all us little people, Bob, you media sensation! It was neat how this blog was mentioned on the segment and Hupp has popped into the comments section about a dozen times over the past few years, most often under the Falcon09 nom-de-sockpuppet. I will say that the stuff he posted has been fairly innocuous, with the exception of this comment to a post I did shortly after the Tucson mass shooting in January 2011:
Jared (Loughner) was a “fervent” atheist, smoked pot “daily” and his beliefs were described as “leftist”. Bill Ayers, the President’s mentor, is the CEO of the school activist program running at Jared’s high school ,which Jared participated in.
Want to connect some more dots?
That short statement has it all: Derailing from the issue of guns and lack of health care, insinuation that atheists are bad people, Reefer Madness, and conspiracy theory about the President. If Huppenthal really believes what he wrote there – and according to his own statement about his posting history he posted on blogs out of a sincere desire to enlighten and further public discourse – then he is maybe a tad too paranoid to be the top person in charge of Arizona schools. And no, it’s not “just joking” and it’s not “taken out of context”.
John Huppenthal’s former public position was that of Arizona Senate Judiciary Chairman where he was eager to say that, “ business likes the Arizona Court system as it is.”
A request to allow audience participation was met with a thrreat to have me ejected from the chamber. Some of those denied a voice in the hearing had traveled from Tucson. The topic was medical tort reform.
Huppenthal is delusional, which would automatically disqualify him from public office in most other states, but not in Arizona. I know of no one on the left who subscribes to David Wynn Miller’s linguistic conspiracy theories. The Tucson shooter, however, was (and may still be) a follower of Miller, which his own writings verifies.