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Category: askjohnlott
Jeff Johnson of CNSNews.com has a fourth story about the Lott parody site askjohnlott.org. Johnson discusses the evidence that Jonah Peretti is involved with the site and quotes Lott: "I don't see how one can get around that [Peretti]...
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Category: askjohnlott
The registration details for askjohnlott.org have changed: Registrant Name:Mary Rosh Registrant Organization:Center For Truth Registrant Street1:45 Main Street, 12th Floor Registrant City:Brooklyn Registrant State/Province:New York Registrant Postal Code:11201 Registrant Country:US Registrant Phone:+1.7182223892 Registrant FAX:+1.7182225621 Registrant Email:maryrosh@mail.com Compare with those...
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Category: askjohnlott
Scott Carlson at The Chronicle of Higher Education has a story (subscription required) about askjohnlott. He quotes Lott: "Someone called me up a couple of weeks ago, very angry, claiming that they got an e-mail from me, telling them...
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Category: askjohnlott
Iain Murray has a post where he insists that askjohnlott.org is not a parody, but an attempt by persons to pass off the site as being by John Lott himself without revealing their own identities or motivations. The only...
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Category: askjohnlott
After askjohnlott linked here some people decided that obviously I must be behind the site and emailed me to let me know what they thought of me. Nope. Not me. Using false identities is not my style. It was...
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Category: askjohnlott
Jeff Johnson has an story on the defacement of askjohnlott.org (now restored, by the way), but apparently both Lott and Larry Pratt suspect that the defacement was staged: "I think we have to assume that the owner of the fraudulent...
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Category: askjohnlott
Lott has a posting on his blog where he insists few will think that the site was set up with the intention of making others think that it was a parody. I don't agree, but you can judge for...
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Category: askjohnlott
The Fifty Minute Hour has the best line so far on the whole "identity theft" flap: John Lott is luckier than most victims of identity theft. After all, if one identity is stolen, he has another to fall back on....
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Category: askjohnlott
askjohnlott.org now just contains the following text: AskJohnLott.org was recently hacked by someone who values the Second Amendment but not the First. Although we at AskJohnLott.org can understand why pro-gun extremists would be afraid of free speech, we believe that...
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Category: askjohnlott
There is now a disclaimer at the bottom of every page at askjohnlott.org: This site is not run by John Lott, he has no affiliation with it. It is run by Mary Rosh. John Lott used Mary Rosh to...
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