Biggest Hacks on Atlas?

[Dixie Reborn]

Which posters do you consider to be the most hackiest of them all?

[Free Bird]

KCDem

And Invisible Obama
Black and white is just emotional

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Our good buddy krazy krazen.

[morgieb]

Reckon Dr. Scholl/Invisible Obama is more hackish than KCDem and krazen. At least, I think he believes what he says more.

[retromike22]

Politico circa 2012

[Lief 🗽]

Politico circa 2012

Politico during the Romney campaign was really something else. I miss him quite a bit.

[retromike22]

Politico circa 2012

Politico during the Romney campaign was really something else. I miss him quite a bit.

My very first moderated post was when i made a thread called 'Where is Politico?' right after Obama won. I wonder if he left because the election result was too traumatic for him?

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

My good friend, Lief, of course.

[Negusa Nagast 🚀]

Politico circa 2012

Politico during the Romney campaign was really something else. I miss him quite a bit.

My very first moderated post was when i made a thread called 'Where is Politico?' right after Obama won. I wonder if he left because the election result was too traumatic for him?

He'll be back in late 2015 as an ardent anti-Christie hack.

[Hifly]

Dr. Scholl wins this prize. His posts are cringeworthy.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

I'm surprised BTRD hasn't been mentioned yet.

[Napoleon]

Lumine

[ElectionsGuy]

Mr "Invisible Obama" wins the prize. He defended a D internal that had the D up 2 in the North Dakota house race for crying out loud.

[Oakvale]

"Invisible Obama" or whatever, windjammer, various trolls.

[free my dawg]

Invisible Obama and FreedomHawk.

[SWE]

Sawx

[Miles]

"Invisible Obama" or whatever, windjammer, various trolls.

windjammer?

[Niemeyerite]

Freedomhack, Hifly, KCDem and Krazen.

[Yelnoc]

Poundingtherock (I think that was their name) took pro-Palin hackishness to the nth level.

[moderatevoter]

Okay, Windjammer is not a hack.

[Potus]

I'm a giant hack in person, less so on the forum.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I'm surprised BTRD hasn't been mentioned yet.

I don't make outlandish predictions. You never saw me predicting Obama was going to win Georgia or that Alison Grimes or Amanda Curtis is going to win or anything like that.

[IceSpear]

I'm surprised BTRD hasn't been mentioned yet.

I don't make outlandish predictions. You never saw me predicting Obama was going to win Georgia or that Alison Grimes or Amanda Curtis is going to win or anything like that.

One of those people is trailing by 20+ points, the other is trailing by 5 at most.

[Mr. Morden]

I think there are two separate things here:

1) Slavish devotion to a particular politician or political party.
2) Outlandish political predictions that favor said politician or political party.

Winfield, for example, is the uber-Mitt Romney hack, if we're going by the first criterion.  However, there are certainly others who would exceed him on criterion #2.  He did sometimes concede that Romney might not win the nomination (because the GOP primary electorate might be too stupid to understand how awesome he was) or the general election (because the general electorate might be too stupid to understand how awesome he was).  I think Politico outdid him on #2 by quite a bit.  Though it's been a while, so I might be misremembering.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

I'm surprised BTRD hasn't been mentioned yet.

I don't make outlandish predictions. You never saw me predicting Obama was going to win Georgia or that Alison Grimes or Amanda Curtis is going to win or anything like that.

That may be true (IDK, honestly), but your worldview seems incredibly hackish.  You seem to see almost everything with an element that is even tangentially connected to politics through the prism of hackish absolutism (pro-Democrat = good, any other point of view = horrible).  One of the most obvious examples of this is your argument that Family Guy is a great show (regardless of its merits) because it makes fun of tea-partiers while South Park is a horrible show (regardless of its merits) because it can be critical of unions (most of whom are generally reliabely Democratic interest groups).  In other words, you consciously seek to indulge your massive confirmation bias.

Another example is how you hate all Green Party candidates, regardless of their individual merits, simply because Ralph Nader ran as a Green Party candidate in 2000 and some have claimed he cost Gore Florida (never mind that the party refused to nominate Nader in 2004, encouraged Greens in competitive states to vote for Kerry, that Nader only mattered in 2000 because Gore ran a pretty crappy campaign, and that he was hardly the main reason Bush was declared the winner in Florida). This sort of proudly ultra-partisan worldview is a type of hackery IMO; a different type of hackery than the type we'd see from an InvisibleObama or a JJ, but definitely hackery.

I'm also not sure that Krazen and KCDem should be considered hacks since in both cases, there is good reason to think they are trolls who don't really believe a lot of what they say here.  Krazen is pretty right-wing on RedRacingHorses, but the difference between Krazen here and Krazen there is the difference between Glenn Beck on CNN and on Fox.  From the posts I've seen, he appears far more restrained there (though I admittedly haven't seen a huge number of his posts there) which suggests he is merely performing for attention here.  Krazen may really be a racist and a hack, but there's little reason to assume the tone of his posts is anything but a performance.  

As for KCDem, he may or may not be a sock, but at best he's a lurker who saw how much attention Krazen was getting and wanted to get in on the action, so to speak.  At worst, he's the sock of someone who decided to be a pseudo-Krazen; although I initially thought this was the case, I'm increasingly of the opinion that he's just an attention seeking ex-lurker.  In any event, I would differentiate between genuine hacks and trolls who adopt an OTT hackish persona in their quest for attention.