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  • 'Rand Fan' Impersonator Apologizes for Being an Idiot and Quits Columnist Job

    08/31/2010 11:04:47 AM PDT · by PJ-Comix · 8 replies · 1+ views
    NewsBusters ^ | August 31, 2010 | P.J. Gladnick
    Does anybody out there remember Tyler Collins who earlier this month had the distinction of performing perhaps the worst political impersonation ever recorded? Collins later claimed that his "performance" at Kentucky's annual Fancy Farm picnic was just satire but for satire to work, it must have even a slight degree of credibility. Nobody bought Tyler's obvious act which was so humiliating that all he accomplished was embarrassing himself and becoming a Web laughingstock. In fact, "Rand Fan" Collins, who was also a columnist for the Crittenden Press, was so embarrassing in his entirely unconvincing role as a Tea Partier that...
  • More About Tyler Collins, the Man Who Posed as a Rand Paul Fan, Complete With Tinfoil Hat

    08/11/2010 12:48:01 PM PDT · by Second Amendment First · 97 replies · 2+ views
    Slate ^ | August 11, 2010 | David Weigel
    I just talked to Tyler Collins, who politely declined to comment as he adjusts to life as the subject of a multi-tier campaign of citizen journalism investigating his life as a Democratic activist. You know Collins. He was the guy who dressed up as a slack-jawed "Rand Paul fan," wearing a tinfoil hat and holding a sign that echoed/parodied conservative fears about illegal immigration.Why is Collins lying low? Because he has a long picture and paper trail as a Democratic activist.