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March 28, 2007
Deceitful Troll Hounded Cathy Seipp on Her Deathbed
Posted by Dave Blount at March 28, 2007 8:31 AM
As conservative columnist, blogger, and media critic Cathy Seipp lay on her deathbed, hours away from losing her long fight with cancer at age 49, a strange letter appeared on the website www.cathyseipp.com, supposedly written by Seipp herself. As described by Fox News:
In what came off as more bizarre rant than heartfelt apology, her supposed "very last blog entry" called her years of journalism a "shoddy," "despicable" and "irresponsible" career as a "fourth-rate hack." Her political stance? All a mistake.
The fiery, unwavering supporter of George W. Bush supposedly said she'd done a complete 180 in the past year and was now an implied supporter of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y. What was even more perplexing was that "Seipp" was taking mean-spirited potshots at her own daughter, Maia Lazar, whom she called an "obnoxious" and "arrogant" wanna-be "skank" who was "mentally ill." Throughout the letter, the one person whom "Seipp" seemed most sorry for ever having offended was Maia's 10th-grade journalism teacher, who had frequently clashed with mother and daughter. Finally, "Seipp" said she was probably to blame for her own illness — the "venom" she'd spewed for years was responsible for her terminal cancer.
The actual author was a cyberstalking troll by the name of Eliot Stein, a former online talk-show host and stand-up comic who briefly taught Seipp's daughter in a journalism class. The obsessive bitterness often characteristic of moonbats motivated him to register the domain name www.cathyseipp.com (Seipp's real site is www.cathyseipp.net). Stein's phony site has at last been taken down.
Fortunately Seipp had no knowledge of what Stein had just posted in her name when she passed away.
On a tip from Wiggins.
