Who would Do Something Like This?

[sheshe2]

Source of false, frightening Hurricane Sandy information is GOP “consultant,” Romney supporter

Posted on Tuesday, October 30, 2012, 11:08 am by GottaLaff
During last night’s Sandy storm disaster, a Twitter user who goes by @comfortablysmug tweeted scary, false information about New York City. The tragedy is that Twitter went with them in a big way, the tweets got retweeted and were taken seriously. Even news broadcasts ran with the information– which again was not true– until ConEd, the MTA, and Wall Street sources could correct them.
http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2012/10/30/source-of-false-frightening-hurricane-sandy-information-is-gop-consultant-romney-supporter/

[niyad]

1. who would do something like this? a repuke, of course.

[Cirque du So-What]

3. Correct

BuzzFeed has the details, but here are the bones:

What @comfortablysmug didn’t count on, apparently, was losing that anonymity. Based on photos he censored and posted to the account but I found unedited elsewhere, @comfortablysmug is Shashank Tripathi, a hedge-fund analyst and the campaign manager of Christopher R. Wight, this year’s Republican candidate for the U.S. House from New York’s 12th congressional district.

FEC documents show Wight has paid Tripathi thousands of dollars this election cycle as a “consultant.” @comfortablysmug has been a vocal supporter of Mitt Romney and posted tweets suggesting he attended this year’s Republican convention. He’s listed here by a local Republican group coordinating volunteers for a Romney phone bank. He’s 29 years old.

[Brother Buzz]

2. I thought comfortablysmug was Romney's internet handle

[Indpndnt]

4. Oh, come on!

His handle is obnoxiouslysmug.

[Brother Buzz]

6. I understand he has, like, 100,000 sock puppets on Facebook

I'm just saying.

[SubgeniusHasSlack]

5. Nope

just his MO.

[GeorgeGist]

7. S-O-C-I-O-P-A-T-H

They have no conscious.