I shoulda known it was a syncophant. As Vade observes, having been caught out it's time for gore3000 to go into "pretend it didn't happen" mode. He is not apt to reply himself, but I stand by what I said to him (even though it wasn't him).
The nice part about these episodes when he hides out to let his lies and gaffes blow over is that everybody gets a vacation. He gets a vacation from us. We get a vacation from him. The only bad news is that good things end.