Synthetic identity theft – hmmm…sounds like Kim Zigfeld aka La Russophobe. A veritable tornado of sock puppets, all defending each other, all claiming insult and flinging charges of hypocrisy when anyone asks who the heck exactly this person is and why they’re an authority on Russia. All twisted fingers libeling others like fingers from the same demented hand.

But who knows. Maybe there really are a “Dave Essel”, “Leonard Daulton”, “Oliver Bronson”, etc. The Washington Post certainly gave Kim Zigfeld the benefit of the doubt, but suspiciously violated its own editorial guidelines by printing a letter to the editor about an article four months old that very few people read. Why? Here’s the link.

http://larussophobeexposed.blogspot.com/2009/01/washington-post-violates-own-guidelines.html

From the Post’s letter to the editor guidelines:

3. The letter must include the writer’s full name, home address, e-mail address, and home, business and cellular telephone numbers. Anonymous letters will not be considered, nor does The Post permit the use of pseudonyms.

4. Letters must disclose the writer’s involvement, affiliations or relationship with the subject matter of the letter.

7. We prefer letters that cite an article or item that has appeared in the print edition of The Post within the past three weeks; we do not publish letters that respond to Web site-only articles or items.

Either it was an innocent mistake, and a fake identity was presumed to be a real one, or the “Tblisi Post” is living up to its name as basically a broadsheet of Russia-bashing, some of it paid for by Saakashvili’s PR firms, and some of it just plain old Cold War habit.