POWIP Piece of Work In Progress – Former Abode of Dan Collins

Man Who Begged Obama at LinkedIn Forum Positively Identified

The man who begged Obama at LinkedIn's online forum to "take me up the butt, please" has been identified as a former Atlantic blogger.

The Blaze's Meredith Jessup also discovered the story behind this piece of guerrilla theater:

Turns out that Robert, who describes himself as a Bolivian Marxist, is indeed a student at Georgetown Law, and does have parents.  After that, though:

According to the Daily Kos, Robert should be commended as “a patriot” for spelling out the reason people are protesting.  “If you can watch it without being affected, you are as heartless as Dick Cheney,” the site notes.

There’s just one problem: Robert Stephens’ story is (surprise!) completely bogus.

Phone inquiries into the county property records & taxpayer services office reveal that the Stephens family home is not and never has been in foreclosure, that property taxes had been paid in full this year and the remaining balance on their mortgage for the half-million dollar home is less than one year’s worth of tuition+fees at their son’s law school.

The nail in this empty protest‘s coffin is a delightful phone conversation I just had with Robert’s mother, Marquita, where she admitted Chase Bank indeed was not “taking” their home from them. Instead, due to a recent “reduction in income,” they’ve decided to hold a “short sale.”

When I asked Mrs. Stephens if she and her husband planned to stay in their suburban St. Paul, Minn., surroundings after the sale, she told me they weren’t too keen on the idea.  The area is “a bit too conservative,” she said.

Much more fun at Conservative Commune, where I also have up a bleg that so far has netted me $5, in case any of you remembers me.  I've been en fuego on Solyndra/LightSquared there, if I do say so myself.  So . . . in your orisons.

I'm going to reboot this blog, too, as I'll have time on my hands after work in Wisconsin, as soon as I can get out there.  Hope to see you around.

Dan Collins

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