Of course not. A few days back, HuffPo commentator Dennis Perrin alleged that he received death threats from LGF commenters. Now he’s responding to CJ’s demand to prove it, and to hand over the names that allegedly threatened him. Charles pointed out that his allegation:

At Little Green Footballs, several commenters bluntly advised me to leave the site, or they would track me down via my IP address and kill me. Probably hot air, but there are plenty of crazy people in the world, and arguing at an anti-Arab racist site wasn’t worth taking the risk, however slight.

is impossible. Why? As a commenter at LGF, no one would have his IP address but Charles himself.

Well, now Perrin claims he “can’t remember” his user name and that it actually took place 5 years ago.

It’s been brought to my attention that Charles Johnson, the Mud King of the Widdle Gween Nerfball tribe, is upset with my contention that I received a death threat at his fine site many years ago. “Man up,” ChazJo growled, beating his chest as his followers grunted their approval. “Prove it, or retract it.”

I’ve also received several emails from what I suspect are Nerfballers, daring me to do the same thing. So, in the interest of full clarity, and because I want to get back to some actual work, here’s the deal.

There was never a death threat made against “Dennis Perrin.” This is because “Dennis Perrin” didn’t use his real name when commenting at ChazJo’s joint. “Dennis Perrin” used a single, anonymous tag — a rare practice online, I’ll concede, but what the hell, you only live once. What that tag was I have no idea, since I posted there maybe five years ago, two computers and three hard drives in the past.

I knew very little about that site’s politics at the time, as I was relatively new to the Web, so I thought I could argue from a different perspective in good faith. Umm, right. My biggest mistake was insisting that the Palestinians are human, which is science fiction to Chazzy’s tribe. Several commenters told me to leave, and one said that if I didn’t, he’d track my IP address and “hunt” me down, encouraged by a few others. Now, whether this was possible or not, I don’t know, but as I said in my earlier post, I figured, f*ck it, and moved on.

Amazing. He can’t remember his own tag, can’t produce evidence it happened, etc. Yet, he can make blatant allegations against LGF and its commenters on The Huffington Post, recanting the details of exactly how he claims they’d track him down.