Iâm nominating a chap called Leo Sherlock, one of a small but growing and increasingly vocal neo-conservative weirdo types populating the alt-right fringes of the Irish media.
Leo is the robo-conservative type who spoke exclusively in clichespeak from the audience during last nightâs Late Late Show. Heâs the brother of pro-life misery monger Cora Sherlock.
Leo runs a right-wing ânewsâ website, the name of which Iâd rather not mention, which is extremely inaccurately named, but a good reverse analogy for its name would be if I started a website called âThe Conservativeâ to print communist propaganda. The website makes Joe.ie look like the New York Times, the Guardian and the Sunday Business Pot put together such is it awfulness.
The website engages in widespread plagiarism of articles which it passes off as its own, without giving any credit to the publication or journalist who produces the content.
Leo also has a penchant for writing bullying tweets, such as this one to a woman who went public about travelling for an abortion:
He also has a penchant for setting up pseudonyms on internet forums or comment sections whenever people expose what he does, to legally threaten people for printing his name (he always laughably claims to be a random unconnected person while doing so), despite himself publishing his contact details including his mobile phone number for public consumption on the contact page of another website he owns.
Thereâs some hilarious reading about him in the following links.
http://www.politics.ie/forum/media/222426-new-conservative-online-newspaper-theliberal-ie-who-behind.html
Sure enough Leo gets involved to threaten people in the comments section of the Dublin Inquirer article, and posts some utterly hilarious stuff in the Politics.ie thread, such as naming himself as a target for murder, such as, from page 47:
[quote]I forcefully reiterate Tom OâGorman was a political activist and he was brutally murdered with reasons still not fully known.
Leo Sherlockâs life is potentially endangered with his private information displayed in the manner which it is in this thread.[/quote]
The Facebook page of his website runs âcompetitionsâ with prizes of holidays and such in order to attract âlikesâ, and boy has it been successful. Nobody ever found out the identity of the winners. though.
Quoting a comment from the Dublin Inquirer article, Leoâs clickbait site was the 612th most visited website by Irish internet users as of June 7th, 2016, yet had 317,325 Facebook âlikesâ as of that date. By comparison, RTE, the 18th most visited website by Irish internet users, had 246, 599 âlikesâ.
As of the time I write this post, Leoâs clickbait site has 414, 485 Facebook âlikesâ. I really wonder how he could have got them.
The chap is a loon and a fantasist.
Please log in here, Leo (under a pseudonym, while claiming itâs not you), you fucking cunt.