Having had chance to meet ESR, I feel the same way. The guy is a gigantic blowhard who just straight up lies about whatever he thinks he can get away with.

I'm not going to go into the conversations I had with him online before meeting him and realizing on-first-sight it was all a crock of shit, but it suddenly brought new light to everything else I had ever read from him. He's a pathological liar and braggart.