👨💻'Blair is a self-professed liberal troll from Maine who has made it his full time job to troll gullible conservatives and Trump supporters into liking and sharing his articles.' 🧝♀️says this excellent article by Maarten Schenk.
👨💻'Sometimes he is also known under his nickname "Busta Troll" but many pen names are used on his websites, such as "Flagg Eagleton", "Freedom", "Captain Jellypants", "Butch Mannington" or "Captain Buck Atlantis".'
🧝♀️And Leonard Terwilliger-Smith, Ezekiel Wilekenmeyer, Frank Wilekenmeyer, Charles Topher, Christopher Lyman, Stryker, and Kevin Kopper, that last one being a fictional conservative invented by his buddies, a goat herd of liberal trolls. Yes, he and his band of stupidoes are way into that whole moronic and annoying goat meme business too.
Christopher Blair, (we're not even sure if that's his real name), is a huge trolling hoaxer, responsible for tons of fake news story memes aimed at conservatives. He has a group of liberal cronies called the "goat herd" who are responsible for even further miscreant on the net. Deceiving to win the trust of conservative web page owners so they can gain admin privileges and then fill the pages with spammed goat images and other dumb dreck memes.
Their goal is to "mess with conservatives" and by getting them to spread their stinking bollox memes, to destroy the credibility of the entire non-left.
Chrissy is so fired up about other dumb trolls ripping off his site, and mad at Snopes and others for debunking his trash, and resulting in sites like FB clamping down on his meme misinformation madness.
Justin Hook is the troll behind TheFakeNewsGenerator.com trumpers.live is also a stupid fake news site probably another one of Chrissy's...
Other sites that may or may not have associations with Chrissy Blair and Justin Hook:
Faux Christianity sites. Sites that pretend to be the worst possible stereotypes of Christianity in an anti theist's rosy dream.
Christwire.org, landoverbaptist.net, bettybowers.com, and objective.jesussave.us! One is a faux blog/news site similar to Theonion, one is a fictional church, one is another fake ministry of some kind, another is a spinoff of the fake church. All are parodies showcasing the anti-theist's ultimate fantasies of what they want Christians to be. Christwire was spawned by some people who apparently claimed to really be or have been Christians at one time, aiming to prank the left and see what garbage about Christians they are eager to swallow.
That is dishonest, childish, sheer stupidity. It does nothing at all to help Christianity's reputation on the net.
Landoverbaptist came out as a delayed vengeance on Liberty University by Chris Harper after being expelled years before.
Back to the subject of Christopher Blair...
Politifact's Joshua Gillin's informative and indepth though far from flawless article also says: If you're fooled by fake news, this man probably wrote it
That article says:
😏'Under the banner "America’s Last Line of Defense," his website’s About Us description said it is run by "a group of educated, God-fearing Christian conservative patriots who are tired of Obama’s tyrannical reign and ready to see a strong Republican take the White House."'
🧝♀️Pants on fire! *Scowl*
😏'In reality, the Last Line of Defense is run by one person, Blair, mostly under the pseudonym Stryker. He started with partners, he said, but he is currently the "only partner with a public face."
The site is a carefully curated social experiment, Blair said, designed to "feed the Hoverounders their daily need for hate and their undying urge to blame everything in the known universe on Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama."'
🧝♀️The way over-opinionated troll's stupid hoaxing sites are:
thelastlineofdefense.online
reaganwasright.com
potatriotpost.com (also new)
ladiesofliberty.net
nofakenews.online
fakenewscodex.com
fakenewscodex.com/network/flagg-eagleton-network/
notmypot.us
He also co-owns and/or writes for:
Liberaland.com
AlanColmes.com
GOPocalypse.com
AddictingInfo.com
AintItCoolNews.com
Another article by Maarten Schenk says:
👨💻More interesting seems to be the link to "Dildo The Donald" (dildothedonald.us), a site that lets visitors buy and send various sex toys to the White House, customized with special messages to President Trump. The domain name of the site appears to have been registered on April 6, 2018, also by Christopher Blair. It looks like an attempt to take the trolling from the virtual into the physical world.
But wait, there's more. The site comes with a message that reads:
Dildo the Donald is sponsored by America's Last Line of Defense in cooperation with Dildos For Douchebags, a subsidiary of Doctor Buttstuff.
No threats of violence will be passed along to the White House. Please don't ruin everyone's fun by being stupid.
The website dildosfordouchebags.org seems to offer the same "gifts" for sale but lets you send them to anyone you like (or don't like, more likely). That website was registered anonymously on April 7, 2018 but we wouldn't be too surprised if it turned out to have been a certain Maine-based troll again given the site's design and wording.
The biggest surprise was the link to doctorbuttstuff.com (NSFW if you still needed the warning with a name like that) which had its domain registered on January 16, 2018 by Christopher Blair too. It is a straight up porn site linking to several other similar sites, all registered around the same period by Blair as well. (We didn't check out all the other links, three was enough, thank you very much).
We are not exactly sure what this new development means but we don't exactly look forward to fact-check things posted on a site named "Doctor Buttstuff" I can tell you that. Let's hope he keeps it real and we don't get any reader reports about fake porn that needs to be investigated...
Updates:
6 months ago John Prager sent us following comment:
👹"Oh, you just wait, it's going to get wackier and zanier!"
🧝♀️*Rolling eyes* And no, I'm not surprised...
Joshua Gillin's article goes on to say:
😏'The website does make clear its true purpose, saying it "is a satirical publication that uses the imagination of liberals to expose the extreme bigotry and hate and subsequent blind gullibility that festers in right-wing nutjobs."'
🧝♀️ Funny how it's called "imagination" coming from liberals trolling the net with stupid hoaxes, and "extreme hate and bigotry and blind gullibility" when a conservative re-shares them.. or when conservatives start hoaxes, it's called "trolling" or "rumour/astroturfing/whisper campaigns".
😏'"The good chunk of the population who believe aren't based in reality," Blair told PolitiFact. "They're the people who buy the National Enquirer. Tucker Carlson doesn't just get killed, he gets murdered by a blacked-out Ford Explorer." (We rated the Carlson story Pants On Fire).'
🧝♀️Well bully for you...
😏'TheLastLineOfDefense.org’s articles often depend on simple subjects that evoke knee-jerk reactions.'
🧝♀️Oh, naturally...
😏'They can get quite elaborate.'
🧝♀️In other words, they can tell some great big lies and expand on them like crazy!
😏'One series of posts about conservative rocker Ted Nugent changed narratives three times. First, Nugent was killed in a hunting accident. Then, he was murdered. Then, he faked his own death.'
🧝♀️Because the first stupid meme didn't make a big enough splash for a big enough lulz, so they just kept on trying to push more panic buttons...
😏'"The strategy was to mess with conservatives," Blair told us in an email. "That's always the strategy."'
🧝♀️Of course it is... How noble and upstanding!...Not...! Troll...
😏'The coup de grace came when the site posted another follow-up blaming a "libtard" blogger from AddictingInfo.com for coming up with the Ted Nugent hoax. Someone named Leonard Terwilliger-Smith, a.k.a. Les Truthful, was behind it all, the site said.'
🧝♀️*Boo-hiss!* It's 'coup de gras' not 'coup de grace' which just goes to show this article is not without suckage.
And 'Terwilliger'? Oh really, that's so obviously a dumb sounding faked up crap name.
😏'Of course, there is no such person.'
🧝♀️Oh but of course not. Duh! I figured that much.
😏'Blair wrote a fake saga about Fox News Channel's Tucker Carlson allegedly being assassinated in a car crash.'
🧝♀️Wake me up when this snore-fest list is through.
😏'Finding an audience
While Blair aimed to point out how gullible "hardcore, Trump-loving sheep" can be, he said TheLastLineOfDefense.org has a strong liberal following, too. He said the split between left and right is about equal, as many readers flock to his page to see what outlandish thing people might believe.'
🧝♀️Oh naturally...................
😏'The traffic can be high, with more than 1 million views in a month, he said. The best he ever saw for a single post was when he published a fake story that called Florida for Trump on Election Day — at 3 p.m. in the afternoon, hours before polls closed.'
🧝♀️More stupidity...
😏'The post telegraphed the extreme improbability of such a pronouncement in a presidential election, but still garnered 500,000 clicks, Blair said.'
🧝♀️And no doubt he was laughing his fool but off the whole time...
😏'He added that awareness of fake news has kept any post from blowing up like that since. But even with his liberal fans and conservative marks,'
🧝♀️Keep that in mind, people, liberal fans, conservative MARKS!
Like I've always said, a conservative-targeting meme is a liberal's best friend!
😏'Blair said he didn’t believe he was swaying opinions or had altered election results in any way.'
🧝♀️Typical troll stupidity, copping out of responsibility for their dumb dreck, as always. "Mehehehehahahaha don't look at me, I'm not responsible for the hair-brained things I write!"
Yeah sure...
😏'Blair likened his offerings to the audiences that believe the "left-wing lies" on other sites.'
🧝♀️So where is that list of sites? I noticed they are conspicuously absent here.
😏'"You’re not gonna change anyone’s mind," he said. He claimed that a thoughtful reader would know he’s serving up bogus stories.'
🧝♀️That doesn't cut it. This troll is all about lulz and getting clicks/hits, spreading memes, and getting attention, and making money off this dishonest crud.
The sad fact is memers don't think twice, they just spread memes. Trolls know that, and take full advantage.
😏'"The average person searches Google, sees it isn't there, finds the about page link and immediately understands," he said.'
🧝♀️The average person isn't even likely to know about his lousy sites to begin with, let alone how many there are.
😏'But it’s flawed to assume no one’s opinion is affected, Dartmouth government professor Brendan Nyhan said.
"I keep seeing proprietors of supposedly satirical fake news websites using this excuse, but I know of no research to suggest it is accurate," Nyhan told us via email. "It seems more like a way to make the other side look bad and/or make money while spreading misinformation."'
🧝♀️Exactly. It's nothing but a cowardly cop-out.
😏'Michelle Amazeen, a Boston University mass communications professor, has been working on research that shows fake news sites can influence the types of stories that partisan news media covered.
Readers, too, are affected by a psychological phenomenon called the illusory truth effect, she said. If someone is repeatedly exposed to false information, they can eventually start to think it’s true, even if they know better.
"By actively encouraging the spread of disinformation, Blair is facilitating its repetition," Amazeen said. "Repetition breeds familiarity. Familiarity encourages belief."'
🧝♀️And from here, it breeds contempt.
😏'A troll by any other name'
🧝♀️Is still a troll...
😏'Reliable information about Blair, or Busta Troll, or whatever name he may be using, is fragmented at best.
For weeks, PolitiFact traded emails with the person who answered TheLastLineOfDefense.org’s email, allegedly a man named Ezekiel Wilekenmeyer.
There were no references to anyone by that name in any government records database we consulted. There is a Twitter account in limbo, but Wilekenmeyer did not, as far as we could tell, exist in real life.
PolitiFact backtracked through Busta Troll’s online trail and looked up aliases associated with the character. When we found Blair on Facebook, we cross-referenced him on criminal databases and looked for him in property records. And even when he started talking to us online, we were wary enough to take his story with a grain of salt — because you can never be too sure about a troll.'
🧝♀️Except that it is a troll, so a liar, hoaxer, miscreant, a lout.
😏'Blair told us the Wilekenmeyer account belonged to him. Other outlets had previously reported TheLastLineOfDefense.org was run by a man named Christopher Lyman.
Blair uses his own characters to aid in his elaborate storylines, discrediting the very people he has made up. Lyman also was a fake name, devised during an elaborate 2014 scheme to reveal the identity of Busta Troll, an online persona known for "goating" conservative Facebook pages.'
🧝♀️It has been firmly established that this creep has no life.
😏'As Busta Troll, Blair would gain the trust of the Facebook page administrators, earn his own administrator privileges, then post scads of photos of goats, leading the victims to ultimately shut down the page.'
🧝♀️Again with the freaking stupid goat obsession. Oh, give it a rest!
😏'This spawned an entire group of liberal trolls on Facebook that Blair called "the goat herd."'
🧝♀️So over-done and stupid. This dumb goat thing was around before bronies.
😏'An alleged conservative named Kevin Kopper offered a $1,000 bounty to find Busta Troll after Kopper said his Facebook page also had been hijacked.'
🧝♀️That's like the Encyclopedia Dramatica hoax claiming the site would shut down unless they received donations. Yuck! Bogus as all heck, and a greedy cash-grab.
😏' The money led to subsequent claims that Busta Troll was Christopher Lyman, a cabinetmaker from Orono, Maine, who umpired Little League games.'
🧝♀️Scary to think this creep might actually be managing anything to do with little kids. And of course Lyman is another alias, so hopefully that whole backstory is bogus as well.
😏'Except not only was Lyman a faux name and story, Kopper was entirely made up, too, the invention of another group of liberal bloggers that Blair would not identify.'
🧝♀️Of course not, trolls are thick as thieves.
😏'Busta Troll posted about it on his own page, admitting the yarn was faked. The subterfuge also was the subject of a 2015 YouTube video:
This video appeared on YouTube after an elaborate scheme to unmask Busta Troll as Christopher Lyman, which was another pseudonym.
Busta Troll was actually a name Blair said he started using in 2013, while writing real posts for Liberaland.com. He used it on AlanColmes.com in 2014 and 2015, and is now Busta Troll on another site he said he currently co-owns, GOPocalypse.com. (The Nugent saga and why he did it is chronicled on that site.)
He used the name Christopher Blair at AddictingInfo.com as recently as a year ago, and Blair said he wrote as both Blair and Charles Topher at AintItCoolNews.com until last fall. He also used the name Frank Wilekenmeyer, he said.
Facebook eventually shut down Busta Troll’s own page, leading Blair to adopt Busta Troll as a profile photo on Blair’s Facebook page, "so everyone would know who was giving them their hyperbole."
There are few details on Blair’s profile: A birth date of Dec. 19, 1971. A job description of "Paid Liberal Troll." A few family photos. He told PolitiFact that he actually is a volunteer Little League umpire at a small town in Maine, echoing a detail of his Lyman alias.'
🧝♀️Hopefully that isn't true either.
😏'He does make money off his websites, he said, although it’s not the only way he makes a living. Facebook’s efforts to cut down on fake news, which PolitiFact is a part of, is effective for smaller websites that don’t carry disclaimers, he said. But he’s not worried about how it may affect him or his projects.
"I discovered that Facebook following plus blog plus ads equals income," Blair said.
He’s looking for future business opportunities, and is considering stepping outside the political realm next.'
🧝♀️So look out, there just might be a rise in sick kid hoaxes, wild stories about snow snakes and rat dog sheep hybrids being raised in bonsai jars, and stories about spider-sprouting cacti etc..
Oh, and one more thing that's a laugh and a half is that other stupid fake news sites have stolen his stupid stories, stripped him of credit, deliberately omitted that these stories are fake, naturally, and this troll actually gets all hot and bothered about it. Well how exactly can you steal credit from someone who uses tons of bogus names anyway?
Joshua Gillin's article says:
😏'However outlandish, Blair’s stories attract readers — and copy cats.
Fake news websites in places like Albania and Macedonia steal Blair’s stories and repost them without credit. The sites are run by "a bunch of whiny teenagers," Blair said,
🧝♀️Which is so much worse than being run by a whiny middle-ager, I suppose...Pathetic.
😏'noting that he has dealt with many sites by notifying service providers of the infringement and blocking some countries from accessing his site altogether.'
🧝♀️Blocking some countries, hey, look there, that's discrimination! It's bigotry! It's hate! :p
😏'Yes, a fake news author is concerned about plagiarism.'
🧝♀️Oooooooh pooooooor baby, Chrissy, waaaaaaaaaah, poor, poor baaaaaaaaaybeeeeeeee!
Well this is one time someone actually deserves to get ripped off. I'd love to see the whole rotten lot of trashy troll sites and the losers who run them, go down, hard, and permanently.
And conservatives really do need to ditch the memes...!