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Post by Moses on Feb 20, 2005 0:18:34 GMT -5
Your comments on the Guardian story are excellent! Meanwhile, this " best of the blogs" has posted a series of photos of Bush doing strange things w/ Marines-- don't know how to interpret them, but their caption has to do with Bush having been "Gannonized".... (photos are Feb. 19 post) . I won't post the photos here because they are disgusting. yuck. Bush is icky.
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Post by RPankn on Feb 20, 2005 2:51:27 GMT -5
Bush is weird. Something developing at DU on this story, but a lot of details are unconfirmed, so it shouldn't be taken as truth yet. Ties into the Franklin Community Credit Union stuff stonefruit posted on the CT board. The focus is a business called Capitol City Escorts, located at 4000 Cathedral Ave. NW in Washington, D.C, which apparently is known to be a CIA front. Shares the same address as 'The Westchester' apartment building, along with a real estate business and real estate appraisers. Within close proximity to The Naval Observatory where, of course, Cheney lives. Apparently, Capitol City Escorts' escorts were listed on one of the sites "Gannon" had a profile on. Here's the link: www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3144209#3145432
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Post by RPankn on Feb 20, 2005 8:26:51 GMT -5
Politics: Gannon's Enemies ListNewsweekFeb. 28 issue - Jeff Gannon is considering suing liberal interest groups, bloggers and others for a "political assassination" that drove him from his job as a reporter for a conservative news outfit called Talon News, he told NEWSWEEK. Gannon, whose real name is James Guckert, singled out Media Matters—a "well-funded" liberal group headed by longtime "attack dog" David Brock. ("Everything we wrote about him came from the public record," Brock replied.) It remains unclear how Gannon got routine White House press access for nearly two years; he acknowledged he first began getting clearance to White House press briefings in early 2003 as a representative of GOPUSA, a group headed by Texas GOP activist Bobby Eberle—months before Eberle even created Talon News. Gannon said he had no access to White House aides outside the press room, nor did he try to interview any. When President Bush called on him at a press conference last month—during which he asked a question with false info about Sen. Harry Reid—"nobody was more surprised than myself," said Gannon. —Michael Isikoff and Holly Bailey © 2005 Newsweek, Inc. www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6999385/site/newsweek
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Post by RPankn on Feb 20, 2005 9:02:40 GMT -5
GOP dirty tricksters trying to sabotage AMERICAblog by John in DC - 2/19/2005 02:38:00 PM Well, isn't this interesting. Defenders of Gannon are now phoning people who post comments on AMERICAblog, they pretend to be me, and ask the person to stop posting on the forum. This happened to a good friend of mine who posts here (guys, get a clue, don't call a friend of mine and pretend to be me), and now it's happened to someone else. First off, when you use a phone, there's an electronic paper trail. Second of all, when you pretend to be someone else, you're very likely bordering on a crime. If this story is so hot that Gannon's, and/or the White House's defenders, are feeling the need to try to sabotage this blog, well all I can say is thanks, and I'm posting this publicly so perhaps we can get another media story out of this. In the meantime, folks, maybe you shouldn't post your full name to your comments, and be assured I'd never phone any of you. One more point, this is pure Karl Rove. His MO is to contact people during a campaign and pretend he's representing the other candidate, then do something obnoxious. Good to know we're getting to them, and if any reporter wants the story, give me a holler. americablog.blogspot.com/2005/02/gop-dirty-tricksters-trying-to.htmlBe careful of misinformation... by John in DC - 2/19/2005 07:45:00 PM Folks, just a word of caution to everyone on visiting our site, but also to the good folks working like dogs at DailyKos, World o Crap, and everyone else on this story. I'm starting to sense some disinformation coming our way, especially in the comments section of the blog. We've all finally captured the attention of the mainstream media and made this story a story. We've also captured the attention of the Bush administration and other GOP bad guys, and I suspect they're trying to feed us bad info so we jump on it, print it and thus they can try to debunk all of our good work. All I'm saying is that I recommend everyone be doubly careful about sussing out any information you find, see printed, or receive before running it on your blog, emailing it around as truth, etc. Everyone has done such great work to date, let's make sure we don't let these guys win at their dirty tricks. :-) americablog.blogspot.com/2005/02/be-careful-of-misinformation.html
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Post by RPankn on Feb 20, 2005 9:16:21 GMT -5
2/19/2005 The missing link? Partner of GOPUSA founder has checkered past as Republican moneymanDid Bruce Eberle get Gannon top White House access? By John Byrne | RAW STORY Editor Reporters in Washington are scrambling to explain how a reporter with a dubious past got access to the president, and how his boss–a relative nobody in Republican Party circles–scored an exclusive interview with Bush’s closest advisor, Karl Rove. The tangled web of how a minor website got such high-level access, and possibly classified information, may have begun to unravel. RAW STORY has found a solid connection between the founder of Talon News and GOPUSA and a well-connected relative and business partner whose links to Bush advisors, dubious fundraising and marketing activities and paid commentators abound. Bruce W. Eberle–a member of the Bobby Eberle “clan” (according to his former website which Bobby bought), the founder of GOPUSA and Talon News–may be the missing link. Many have wondered how Bobby Eberle, an former engineer with no journalism experience who never donated to a political campaign managed to get Jeff Gannon so deep into the White House. Bobby received money from the Republican Party just once–a meager $165 for travel expenses when he spoke to the Smith County Republicans in East Texas. He did not receive an honorarium. But Bruce Eberle has donated to the Party. He and his wife Katherine each gave $2,000 to the Bush reelection campaign, the highest allowable by law. And what’s more, he’s raised money; Bruce boasts of raising more than $270 million for various organizations and campaigns, the vast plurality of them conservative. His clients have included Ronald Reagan, Pat Buchanan, Oliver North and former Bush Attorney General John Ashcroft. Bruce’s firm, Bruce W. Eberle & Associates, is also a top corporate sponsor of the Conservative Political Action Conference. Vice President Dick Cheney and top Bush advisor Karl Rove spoke at the conference Thursday. Both Rove and Bruce worked for Attorney General John Ashcroft; Bruce took over for Rove when Rove sold his consulting firm to join Bush’s presidential campaign. Both made much of their money in direct-mail fundraising. But more salient, perhaps, is Bruce’s dabbling in below-the-radar media activity, in which he pioneered a system which boasted of blurring the boundaries between advertising, polling and talk radio. Bruce also owns the Omega List Company, which manages and rents donor mailing lists. Beginning in 2000, it began selling similar services for e-mail, boasting that it was “a pioneer in the endorsement e-mail field.”<br> According to the Editor of PR Watch Sheldon Rampton, who wrote an article about it at the time, the Omega List website once featured a presentation by conservative talk radio personality Blanquita Cullum [ Crossfire used to bring this plastic surguried-witch on frequently, who explained how “endorsement e-mail” effaced the boundaries between paid advertising, opinion polling and talk radio. “You do what you do best!” Cullum said, in a feature that has since been removed. “Get on the air and talk to your listeners! Drive them to your website by conducting a daily survey or a contest on the topic of your choosing.” Eberle’s software then captured the names of respondents and added them to a donor list. “What happens next is a cakewalk,” Cullum added. “Omega will call you with an opportunity to send an endorsement e-mail to your list . . . and receive a royalty for lending your name to a cause, organization or product you believe in. . . . Omega gives you their specialized software absolutely FREE and presents you with an opportunity to earn an extra $25,000 or more annually.”<br> Bruce has also been at the vanguard of conservative activism on the Internet. After the 2000 presidential election, Bruce ran a website called AlGoreLost.org, which sought to derail a Florida recount by soliciting email addresses in a petition drive supporting then-Florida Secretary of State Katharine Harris, Sheldon says. The site failed to disclose that it was run by Eberle’s firm. AlGoreLost.org later became MillionsOfAmericans.com, which joined Bobby’s GOPUSA in March 2004. At the time, Bruce noted that GOPUSA had collected 50,000 opt-in email addresses. Given Bruce’s background in email harvesting, the comment may signal the two had been working together much earlier. According to PR Watch, Eberle also once ran a website which promised to donate 25 cents to the “conservative cause of choice” for each visitor to the site. The real purpose of the site was less charitable: by signing up, visitors had their emails added to a potential donor directory. Their “cause of choice” indicated the initiatives they would likely support in future appeals. The list of causes to which Eberle promised to “give” his quarters, wrote Sheldon, were his own clients, including the Linda Tripp Defense Fund, Oliver North’s Freedom Alliance and a fund claiming to defend police officers accused of brutality. Bruce counted the police officers who beat Rodney King as clients. He also at one point claimed to be raising money for Paula Jones’ defense fund, though the institute which actually paid Jones’ legal bills said they never received any money. Bruce’s fundraising has drawn ire and repeated charges of ethical misconduct, even from Republicans. In the mid-1990s, it was discovered that some $1.9 million of $2.2 million raised to “rescue” Vietnam prisoners of war was spent on “fundraising expenses” paid to Bruce’s firm. No prisoners of war were ever rescued, or, for that matter, even reported. Senator John McCain (R-AZ)–who was once a Vietnam prisoner of war himself–called Bruce and his associates “criminals and some of the most craven, most cynical and most despicable human beings to ever run a scam.”<br> While working with Ashcroft, Bruce gave him a donor list valued at $1.7 million in apparent violation of campaign finance laws, according to ethics groups. In July 1998, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch revealed that at least 50 percent of Ashcroft’s political action campaign money, intended for Republican candidates, had been paid to firms controlled or associated with Eberle. Bobby and Bruce’s “relations” are nebulous–they have been reported not to be blood relatives by a conservative website, though Bruce himself says they are members of the same “clan.” Bobby works out of Texas; Bruce’s firm is based in Virginia. Clarification: Some have noted that Bobby and Bruce are not close relatives, an assertion this article never alleged. Bobby and Bruce have not commented on their relations, though they did press the Houston Chronicle, which incorrectly reported that they were brothers. Human Events, a conservative website which prints articles from Bobby’s firm, says they are not blood relatives; Bruce himself says that Bobby is a member of the Texas Eberle “clan.” The URI to TrackBack this entry is: rawstory.com/news/2005/wp-trackback.php/104#nosmileys
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Post by Moses on Feb 20, 2005 9:37:14 GMT -5
I think the disinformation referred to may be the conspiracy theories re: the CIA that Madsen and others are peddling. Advancing and peddling conspiracy theories are a known means of distracting groups from the real issues.
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Post by RPankn on Feb 20, 2005 10:03:05 GMT -5
[Padraig Pearse posts, or used to if he hasn't been run off yet, at Smirking Chimp, right? If anyone knows him, please thank him for this informative and thought-provoking diary entry.
This is just speculation, but another interesting possibility is that "Gannon" was working deep cover for the CIA and his purpose was to infiltrate the Republican "velvet mafia." Given his past, the CIA could easily disavow any involvement he had with the agency. Perhaps his cover as a reporter was blown purposely by current and former anti-neocon factions to bring down key members of this administration before the war plans for Iran and Syria got too far along.
Gay facts and fantasies in Propagannon research
by padraig pearse Sat Feb 19th, 2005 at 17:42:54 PST
Lots of well-meaning Kos's are reluctant to explore the gay aspects of this story for fear that it unfairly targets people because of their sexuality and distracts from the "real" issues.
My hope here is to help narrow the discussion along lines of probability as narrowed by an experienced perspective
As a seasoned gay man of a certain age I'd like to examine some of the facts that have been unearthed and to infer these facts' larger meaning from the perspective of a gay "insider". And I can tell you, from the amount of hand-wringing over the horror of leftie bloggers making a big deal over poor Jeff's former, and, overlapping career, that they are terrified that the extent of Bush's intimate Gay network will be exposed.
Given their monstruous treatment of our nation's Gays, they deserve it. Having ridden to electoral victory by unleashing the worst homophobic bigotry we've seen in decades, it is fit and just that this maelstrom of hate turns against them. (I'm sure they know the Bible quote?: "He who sows the wind, reaps the whirlwind"?. In an earthier version I've heard the same principal expressed as "He who stirs the nuts, gets to eat it"
But the Gay network may also provide substantial clues as to the Dirty Tricks department of Team Bush. I think it likely there is huge overlap.
REPUBLICANS AND THEIR GAY UNDERWORLD
That many Gay Republicans should prefer the closety games of the 1950s over the open Gay culture that arose out of the post Stonewall era should come as no surprise. They are reactionaries after all. In fact, I know Gay men of a certain age and income who routinely excoriate "the f*gs" while nonetheless indulging appetites and behaviours that would leave Margaret Sperling's head spinning. But since the lights are out in their orgy rooms, good Republicans are happy to just overlook and pretend not to see. It is the public avowal of affection that makes them crazy over the gay marriage issue. To compare Gay marriage to a perversion, as right next to bestiality is on the face of it insane. Gay people seeking to have stable monogamous relationships accepted into their families and their communities are, in key respects, far more conservative and traditional than the many gays in the republican party who scuttle around in the shadows, procuring illicit sex and using sites like MilitaryEscortM4M.com.
I have been with my partner 25 years this summer and I personally am sick and tired of being told that my only option is to have a lavender marriage with an understanding lesbian or a loveless marriage with an unsuspecting woman while trolling public toilets and internet chat rooms on the side. You tell me which of these is the more honorable?
GANNON, GAY PROSTITUTION AND THE WHITE HOUSE
While it might seem thrilling to imagine that Gannon found a sponsor through his website the chances of that are actually next to nil. Far more likely is that he met his sponsor in a more refined setting. In New York there is a piano bar on the East Side that fancies itself a bit of a British gentlemen's club. The place is filled with older men of means and younger men on the make. Prostitution is never mentioned. For a young gay to quote an hourly rate would be a fatal error. In this refined atmosphere we're not talking about by the hour rent-boys but long-term investments: what I've always called mortgage boys.
The young men on the make are not teenagers. They are reasonably well educated and well groomed; in their late 20s, 30s, even 40s and are all hoping to find an older gentlemen who might "mentor" them.
The reason why $$$ is never discussed is because the true value of the John's fantasy is that this isn't just tawdry or naughty but that there is some sort of relationship developing. Somewhere along the line there'll be college "fees", medical bills, a car, a cruise, a fortnight in Aspen or the Hamptons. Or, of course, a job. You get the picture.
Anyway, if this was the ruse under which Gannon scored his Sugar Daddy, the Daddy may never have known about the websites and the hooking. Gannon might (as the phantasy required) have similarly fed him a long story. Didn't Gannon once say he had been living off "savings" - That sounds like a perfectly good way to disguise an illicit cash flow and may well have been the perfect line to feed his sugar daddy. It helped create the impression that Gannon really is one of the boys, one of the club. Well bred, wants to write, has savings or a trust fund. Sound political views. Bingo.
If Gannon really was working the circuit I'm sure he sought to hide his side-line in the Flesh trade and that, in that scenario, his "mentor" may not have known. My short hand reading says - possibly Eberle told Rove or McClellan that Gannon was cool and -wosh - he's in. Everyone knows that these types of events have a front stage and a backstage - we should see if a Jeff Gannon or a JD Gurket is signed in anywhere else in the White House or the Eisenhower Building (Isn't that what the Old Executive Offices are now called? I haven't been to DC in decades)
Once it all seems doable and Gannon seems to be fitting in, OR because the Press Room needs this added layer of subterfuge, Talon News is born.
BOB EBERLE, PAUL DICKERSON and GOPUSA
When NBC ran an item on Gannon the other evening they cut in a snip of stock footage of Bob Eberle talking about his political action group, GOPUSA. While I know that Bob Eberle is married (who isn't wink-wink) I couldn't help but hear my gaydar ring a bit when I saw him.
Interestingly it has since been reported that Texas Republicans are distancing themselves from Eberle with almost universal declarations that no one knew him. This, in itself, suggests they know something about the relationship between Eberle and Gannon and are running scared from it. (http://nashuaadvocate.blogspot.com/2005/02/texas-republican-party-denies-knowing.html)
There is a photo of born-again Bobby on a recent GOPUSA posting - March 24, 2004 (http://www.gopusa.com/company/welcome_moa.shtml
Bob Eberle writes:
"Thanks also goes out to Paul Dickerson, Charlie Weldon, and Terri Hillhouse of the GOPUSA team for their valuable insights".
This, largely overlooked, diary from FOYA (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/18/224553/157) noted that while the last two names are formerly affiliated with GOPUSA) that Dickerson was a mystery and so a long list of URLS referring to Dickerson where cited. Some of them were interesting to me in ways that FOYA might not have gleaned.
The list shows that Dickerson was a Bush Ranger in 2004, raising over 200k for the re-election campaign. Two of them are largely gossip items placing Dickerson in the center of prominent Texas Republicans. One introduces Dickerson at a Houston fundraiser for Bush and notes how he brought a "client" with him - I quote:
(Sorry, I don't know how to box it so I'll set it off another way)
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Paul Dickerson is an example. Only 33, Dickerson is a Houston lawyer and he is not well known. But he is highly valuable to the Bush campaign, one of 187 "Rangers" who have each raised at least $200,000. He is one of many fresh faces behind Mr. Bush's financial operation, which has minted scores of new fund-raisers and molded them into the most effective money machine in presidential campaign history.
[Continued in next post]#nosmileys
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Post by RPankn on Feb 20, 2005 10:03:50 GMT -5
At Bush's fund-raising visit to Houston on March 10, for example, Dickerson, brought Michael Ames, an investment banker he hopes to entice to do business with his law firm. "I ask clients to come along, instead of bringing some sweet young thing," he said. "As a young associate, I want to make a partner." Ames, who gushed about the high-powered event at the Hilton Americas, said he wanted to work with Dickerson, who clearly scored points at the reception. Dickerson told reporters that he can enhance his career by mixing colleagues and would-be clients with his campaign connections, even though he insisted, "that wasn't my motivation getting started." Ironically, Dickerson said he has yet to offer up his own money to the campaign, but his willingness to put in hundreds of hours and thousands of phone calls transformed him over the last year into a six-figure fund-raiser, one of the most valuable commodities in politics. ***************** There's a lot of interest in that seemingly innocuous bit of filler. The "only" 33 Dickerson is clearly unmarried as the only option to bringing a "client" he cites is "bringing some sweet young thing" (he doesn't say "my wife", does he?) In fact, the whole thing sounds like a boilerplate closet-case cover and I suspect the reorter was tipping her hand by telling us that his "client", Michael Ames "gushed" - a long time euphemism for an effeminate man. (Her use of the word "entice" to describe Dickerson's ambitions towards Ames is also telling) (Actually these four paragraphs are telling in a lot of ways - but not for today) AND WAIT - when we look at another one of the links so thoughtfully dug out by FOYA we find this - another social column - this time in the Houston Chronicle - www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/features/shodge/2933125 covering a huge White House Party for about 700 Texas loyalists. Here we find Dickerson (of the old Bush family linked law office of Haynes and Boone) partnered, again, with another man, one Rex Lamb. A quick google search shows us that Rex is president of the Houston Young Republicans. While it may only be a coincidence that their names are fused together, I suspect that Dickerson's companion would have been mentioned - had he had one other than Mr Lamb, and that the same would apply for Rex Lamb. In short, columns of this type are usually very keen to get the pairings right and to not give offense by naming only one half of a couple. On top of that, the etiquette of naming gay couples is usually discret enough so that it could be read as just happenstance. It could, of course, just be happenstance but the very ambiguity of it is telling. So, what can we infer from this? Let's add one other factoid about Dickerson touched on in the item quoted above - He's a new face, someone who, like Bob Eberle himself appears to have played a much lower key role in the party prior to 2000. My inference? Well, I think we've touched on a Hot Potato issue, that, in fact, Gannon's indiscretion is running the risk of exposing the entire Velvet Mafia of Texas that rallied behind Bush's election strategy. As a "new" member of the Bush team wouldn't it be logical to think that he'd been brought on board by campaign manager, Ken Mehlman? So, in essence, far from having knowingly sponsored a rent boy, I think they've all been taken for a loop - winking eyes through short-hand conversations and just assumed that Gannon's bona fides were in order. As of today, the whole chain of command is terrified that this thing might spin out of their control GOPUSA AS ROVIAN FRONT GROUP What is interesting in tracing the origins of GOPUSA is that Bobby Eberle appears to equivocate about when his organization actually began. Although he most often cites 9-11 as a key to the inspiration to go big time, other reports suggest that GOPUSA was, in fact, founded, in Texas, in 1999. The lead here suggests a strong possibility that Rove needed a "front" group to act as a propaganda arm of the campaign and that the far better connected (though even more dubious financially) Bruce Eberle agreed to help create GOPUSA for his (brother? Cousin? Nephew? - has anyone solved this yet?) Bobby to oversee, or front for. Is the confusion because GOPUSA was actually created before Bob Eberle had anything much to do with it? That he, too, had been brought on board? That GOPUSA and TALON news were not just some simple little advocacy group seems highlighted by their role in the South Dakota campaign, of which we already know quite a lot and has been well-documented by SusanG and others. In summary for today, my hypothesis is that under the able scrutiny of Karl Rove, members of Texas's closety gay underground were brought in to similarly create a dirty tricks arm of the campaign. Most members of GOPUSA probably had no know idea that any of this was happening. That was desirable. The secret leveraged world of gays and espionage neatly overlap. Indeed, gays and networks of gays have long been a staple in the clandestine world for those very reasons. While it is possible that Gannon's cover may have been deeper, that, indeed, the whole MilitaryStudM4M.com was itself a black op entrapment scam should not be discounted, I think it unlikely that they would have allowed Gannon to cross over. On the contrary, I suspect that they are all flabberghasted and blaming Bobby for having ever brought Gannon in on the scheme. My estimation is that a network of Texas Gays have been instrumental in Bush's rise to power and that a few of them just got very sloppy in a way that risks outing all of them. That's the reason why there's been this whole attempt to frame the issue as being about Gannon's personal life - they know perfectly well it's their OWN personal lives that that they're trying to protect. Again, it's NOT GANNON'S PERSONAL LIFE - IT"S THEIR OWN. Blackmail is a subtle art and is often used by those nearest to us. I'm not talking about "emotional" blackmail in the pop psychology sense but something more nuanced. In a secretive culture, like the gay underworld - that I wish could finally disappear altogether - blackmail isn't as crass as open exhortion, the threats are often unspoken. In fact, pressure can be applied in even apparently friendly ways as lovers, ex-lovers, or friends yield simply to accommodate and protect everyone. Three days ago I spoke with a contemporary of mine, who'd been a regular at CBGB's and places like the 9th Circle who had become a staunch Republican. Although he lives in DC we met in one of the old 70s landmarks we'd each known 30 years ago as he was visiting New York for a few days. (He was keen to tell me about the Constitution Ball he attended this year.) When I asked him just what all this was about, all these secret gays - the whole pack of them - he gave me one of those looks that says "Girl, this says it all" and said, in a whispered tone, "Karl Rove." He refused to elaborate. As he was off-the-record I'll keep his name off the main dairy for the moment until I speak with him again. I don't think he's near as well connected as he'd like to be but I take it - on face value - as a fair estimate of the gossip current in DC `s gay watering holes. Given the astonishing number of alleged CLOSETED gays in key White House/RNC positions and in their MEDIA outlets it really baffles me how they get away with the amount of malicious and damaging gay baiting they do. On a closing note, I think that until we find where the money for all these shenanigans came from (and GANNON/TALON seems the first to possibly derive from laundered money or slush funds. - (IMPORTANT POINT!!!) The others -Williams, Gallagher et alia - were all receiving merely misappropriated funds! LOL My suggestion, if we're looking for slush funds, is go for the off shore ENRON accounts? Get every lunch receipt, every bus ticket, every memo available to the public domain. I'm sure you'll find BILLIONS of dollars were being siphoned off into secret slush fund accounts that are occasionally kicking back into TEAM BUSH operations. This could well be one of them. A good job would be to see what links any of these B-list characters from Texas have with Enron and might have been privy, even signatories, to those mysterious off shore accounts - Bob Eberle, Paul Dickerson, Ken Mehlman, Dan Gurlie, Jay Banning, Scott McClellan, Karl Rove, Rick Perry, George W Bush.....it might just lead somewhere. REMEMBER In all likelihood the first few times Gannon was in the Press Room (which does have a separate entrance, doesn't it?) he was already in the White House. Has anyone the know-how to access sign-in sheets at the Building's various entrances? I hope I haven't gone on too long. I just felt that the amount of speculation about the gay side of the story was going too far from what the reality might truly be. I merely wished to lend my own perspective on the speculation and attempt to focus it all in a more forensic manner. I think the issues are important. The gay angle is but one of several that need to be unearthed. Believe me, at some point there will be considerable overlap and, possibly, immolation. Thanks for taking the time to read my contribution and a quick thanks to Susan G and the other many excellent researchers here at Kos. I hope my two cents adds something to the discussion. www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/19/204254/937
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Post by Moses on Feb 20, 2005 10:34:39 GMT -5
I'm so glad you found him!! He's extremely knowledgable esp. about the British imperialist zionism -- which many of us here are relatively unfamiliar w/.
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Post by Moses on Feb 20, 2005 10:56:14 GMT -5
Paidraq is such a genius, and so patient w/ the rest of us. It has been frustrating to read these stupid "it's about this" posts/articles as though the issues don't converge, as Paidraq describes.
This administration can be boiled down to one m.o.: bribery, blackmail, extortion. They are heavy handed in their administration of the strap to the world, but they are also subtle, with this cruel m.o., underflowing everything.
And the wierd, closeted, secret sexuality that seems to flow through their every agenda and action. Look at their method of torture, their emphasis on "loving discipline"-- this coming from the highly suspect Republican "Christian" fundamentalist propaganda organization, whose names come up linked w/ these players.
As Paidriq describes, you cannot separate out the gay issue, and its manifestations in the conduct of this group.
I think also that one reason they want to keep gayness illicit, in addition to the ones Paidriq describes in terms of their natures and sick sexuality (that is, their psychological twistedness), is that to make gayness about wholesome love would not only ruin their fun, but eradicate a huge part of their extortion and blackmail and other operations that are based on keeping it illicit.
This is a dark, sick bunch.
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Post by Moses on Feb 20, 2005 12:18:09 GMT -5
I went back and looked at the Washington Post Co/Newsweek/MSNBC story by Isikoff, and look at how he framed it: just like Kurtz, Blitzer: as a pissing match between a "well-funded" "liberal" interest group and a poor wittle (David Corn too on this angle) victim guy who is getting picked on.
So, we have two from WashPostCo mis-framing the story along the lines of Gannon-- and speaking almost exclusively to him, and typing up what his says/his side.
Notably, this is the duty that Isikoff seems to be assigned-- digging up dirt and putting out dirt for one side, and burying it (because if he doesn't print something it will be too obvious) for another entity.
Remember the PRC spy who had slept w/ two FBI agents who had been a main source of WashPoCos/ Schmidt/Isikoff's "Chinagate" story? He also minimized this story, which, incidently, or not so incidently, involved a newspaper heir now Chairing the Homeland Security Department: Cox, and the gay Chair of Rules: Drier. (both from California). Isikoff failed to mention any of this, though he had been mighty close to both.
Perhaps there is another newspaper heir involved in all of this, by the name of Graham?
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Post by Moses on Feb 20, 2005 13:18:57 GMT -5
Note that this article, positioning Rove as a sexual object for women, even touting the thongs for sale on his website! appears in the SAME ISSUE of "Newsweek", and written by Isikoff's "co-author" on the "Gannon story". Talk about sleepers and prostitution! Could it be any more obvious that they are pimping for Rove AND his merchandize in a "news" magazine? MSNBC.com Rove: Rhymes With 'Love'? [/size] Newsweek Feb. 28 issue - Karl Rove has earned a lot of nicknames, among them "The Architect," "King Karl" and even "Turd Blossom," as George W. Bush affectionately calls him. But what about Karl Rove, political heartthrob? As a keynote speaker at the Conservative Political Action Committee's annual conference last week in Washington, the newly appointed White House deputy chief of staff attracted an overflow crowd of nearly a 1,000 GOP faithful, including hundreds of college students who crammed into the room. At the back of the pack stood Michelle Morrow, 19, applauding wildly and taking pix with her digital camera. "He is my political idol," she said. "I wish I could meet him." She's not alone. To raise money on the campaign trail last year, Rove offered "private briefings." Cost: $4,000 per person, plus another $1,000 if you wanted a picture with the strategist. For the budget-conscious, there's always the ILoveKarlRove.com Web store, which sells, among other things, a $10 thong emblazoned with his photo inside a large pink heart. Rove, who was unavailable for comment, tries to downplay his celebrity. When introduced at CPAC as a fan of Mark Hanna's, President William McKinley's political guru, Rove insisted that he admired McKinley more. "McKinley was the guy in charge, not Hanna," Rove said. "The president reminds me of that all the time." —Holly Bailey © 2005 Newsweek, Inc. URL: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6999391/site/newsweek/
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Post by RPankn on Feb 20, 2005 17:21:57 GMT -5
What is Newsweek trying to do? Butch Rove up by portraying him as "one of the boys" and the object of women's desires to distract from the gay angle of the story? Please. For as long as I have been going to political bulletin boards and sites -- almost 3 years now -- there's been speculation about Rove's sexuality. Commenting on his "manly" relationship to W does nothing because there's been speculation about his sexuality as well.
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Post by Moses on Feb 21, 2005 13:12:04 GMT -5
Right wing media on "Jeff Gannon"-- they seem to be following the "don't ask/ don't tell" policy-- which of course isn't their job-- their job is the opposite. So why the silence? The outrage at this guy getting picked on by the "left" just because of his "private life"? Weren't these guys the same ones who howled that "don't ask/don't tell" was an affront to god?
To me, the even bigger scandal is the silence of the media, when, clearly, they would be screaming and there would be impeachment and other hearings, and wall-to-wall coverage, if this were a Democrat/Clinton.
Here's a sample of testimonials from Gannon's web site:
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Post by RPankn on Feb 21, 2005 17:28:05 GMT -5
Monday, February 21, 2005 GOP Spokeswoman May Have Lied in Denying Any Knowledge of Bobby Eberle, Owner of Talon News Sherry Sylvester, Spokeswoman for the Republican Party of Texas, Denied Knowing Jeff Gannon's Boss By ADVOCATE STAFF The Advocate was amazed when it found out, via a Houston Chronicle article, that the spokeswoman for the Republican Party of Texas, Sherry Sylvester, had denied any knowledge whatsoever of Bobby Eberle, owner of Talon News and ostensible employer of "reporter" Jeff Gannon. According to the Houston Chronicle, Sylvester, when asked about Eberle, said, "I'm not going to comment because I don't know him, and nobody here does." At the time, we at The Advocate considered that statement to be an impossibility, given Eberle's bio, which includes the following nuggets of interest: *** Bobby's political experience began through his involvement with the Republican Party of Texas and the Young Republicans organization. Bobby's activities within the Republican Party of Texas (RPT) include serving as a delegate to the 2000 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia. Bobby also served as a delegate to the RPT State Convention in 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2002. Bobby served on the RPT Education and Training Committee from 1998-2000. In 1999, Bobby was recognized with a unanimously approved resolution of commendation by the Republican Party of Texas for service and dedication to the Republican cause. Bobby served as President of the Houston Young Republicans, the Director of Club Development of the Texas Young Republican Federation, and as a three-term State Chairman of the Texas Young Republican Federation. *** Investigation by The Advocate may have finally put the squeeze on Ms. Sylvester's bizarre claim, as she and Bobby Eberle appear to have published, in 2003, news articles in the same issue of The Austin Review--Eberle on page 6, and Sylvester on page 13. Moreover, Sylvester, it turns out, is the Director of Texas Media Watch--making her oddly aloof for a woman who's supposed to have her ear to the ground with regard to media in Texas, as GOPUSA.com is certainly not an unknown entity there. As it says in the mission statement of Ms. Sylvester's organization (of which, the Austin Chronicle has speculated, "she appears to be the only employee"), Texas Media Watch will regularly report on news stories that demonstrate a bias in favor or against a policy, ideology or public figure. We will also identify a number of journalistic practices that routinely tilt the balance of news coverage. Our immediate objective at Texas Media Watch is to provide a set of standards for Texans to use in weighing the balance of a news report. Our larger goal is to enhance the credibility of Texas media and enliven the public debate. But she doesn't know Bobby Eberle, owner of a Texas-based conservative news outlet, "Talon News"? Really? They're not, The Advocate understands, at all obscure. Eberle himself boasts hundreds of thousands of "subscribers" for GOPUSA.com and its attendant "news" outfit. Perhaps that's why the Denton County [TX] Republicans list both Eberle's GOPUSA and Sylvester's Texas Media Watch among their website links. Or consider this: the Williamson County [TX] Republicans list GOPUSA.com as their top "political link." The Chair of the Williamson County G.O.P. is Bill Fairbrother, one of the founders of GOPUSA.com; his listed e-mail address remains a GOPUSA.com e-mail address. Indeed, GOPUSA.com lists Fairbrother as its Texas Editor. How in the world does the spokeswoman for the Republican Party of Texas not know that one of her Republican County Chairmen works with (or for) Bobby Eberle at GOPUSA.com? [Recall, also, that Sylvester said nobody at the Republican Party of Texas headquarters knew Eberle]. Want more? How about the fact that the top "Texas media resource" listed on GOPUSA.com's website is The Lone Star Report, the weekly publication of the Lone Star Foundation--which Foundation, according to the Austin Chronicle, is the sole source of funding for Sylvester's Texas Media Watch? And according to the archives of the San Antonio Express-News--for which Sylvester was (to hear The Austin Chronicle tell it) "a politics reporter"--Sylvester was writing for the Express-News at least in January of 2003, and perhaps later. Bobby Eberle's GOPUSA.com has been in consistent operation since at least January of 2000, according to an internet archive search, and Talon News was "founded" on March 29th, 2003. [Her own website touts her as "Sherry Sylvester: Political Writer"]. What kind of Texas-based "politics reporter"/"political writer" would Sylvester be to not know Bobby Eberle, whose outfit has been carrying politics-related Express-News stories on its website for years? [Perhaps some of Sylvester's, too? GOPUSA.com was running political articles from the San Antonio Express-News at least as far back as June 23, 2003; a search of the Express-News archives shows Sylvester was definitely a "political reporter" with the paper between, at least, December 2002 and January 2004]. Incestuous enough for you? And we've only given this issue a cursory glance. The Houston Chronicle needs to figure out if they were lied to; and if so, why. posted by News Editor at 2/21/2005 03:09:00 AM nashuaadvocate.blogspot.com/2005/02/gop-spokeswoman-may-have-lied-in.html#nosmileys
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