The Man Who Wasn’t There (B. Eberle)
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February 22, 2005
Billmon: 02/22
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Something’s happening here
What it is ain’t exactly clear …
Earlier I expressed my befuddlement over the entire Gannon episode. Now the denials that Bobby Eberle even exists, at least according to McClellan and the Texas Republican Party, imply that there’s something Bush’s pawns really don’t want anybody to know. Maybe for once the fascination of Americans with lurid scandals will actually do some good, by convincing the media to investigate this more deeply. The whole Gannon scenario is simply too weird to be an accident.
Posted by: Aigin | Feb 22 2005 19:43 utc | 1
Billmon is wrong on one point here. Bruce Eberle is not Bobby Eberle’s brother. The Houston Chronical has corrected it’s statement on this.
Anyhow, its funny how the Republican Party doesn´t know anything and is totally unrelated to a Republican activist that runs a website and “give me money” e-letter spam business named GOPUSA.
Billmon,
Go! Go! Go!
You’re in your old rare form again
only without the distraction
of having to spend your time
responding to us
instead of your research.
I love your new format for expressing insights.
Posted by: Juannie | Feb 22 2005 22:24 utc | 3
Vague Eyewitness
Scroll down to fourth entry…………… nuff said
Posted by: Cloned Poster | Feb 22 2005 23:14 utc | 4
Aigin: “the entire Gannon episode”….. I vote we call it As DeepThroat Lay Dying…..
Read exc. links posted to Hunter Thompson’s articles yesterday. He makes the point that somehow never occurred to me – Nixon wasn’t overthrown until JEdgar kicked. Obvious. Rovie is a pretty good substitute. While I’m enjoying this as much as anybody – and waiting breathlessly for a juicy bit to show up in my inbox from Betty Bowers, when she returns from Seventh Heaven – I think those calling for an investigation are worse than insane.
In fact, I suggest that everyone call their Senators & urgently request that they call it off – til Blogdom has nailed things down anyway. It’ll be 9-11 Investigation Redux. In that doozy, they covered up all the evidence of what happened & who helped/hid their heads like good Germans & instead voted for a domestic Surveillance/”Intel.” Honcho. So, now we’ve got an architect of terrorist states running things here at home….Wait ’til them chickens start laying eggs.
And now, apparently having learned nada from that fiasco, people are screaming for wants an investigation of this? Does someone really think that the upshot of a Congressinal Investigation is going to be – Oh shucks guys just bad judgement, so solly… Just seemed like the easiest way to sneak bozo’s boyfriend into the Velvet Prison everyday……
Seriously people, grow up, listen to the funeral dirge for democracy being played…..everything either is shoehorned into that by the fascists & theocrats who run everything, or is made to disappear down the memory hole…..
Rovie will start threatening to smear the history of every committee member’s transactions w/prostitutes over the last yr – real or imagined – all over hell…..The facts will be buried & they’ll commence a witch hunt on bloggerdom….Howieboy Kurtz, himself said in Sun. interview w/John A(mericablog) & ?, that this is all about the bloggers getting outta hand….So, if he’s giving them the carte blanche, why should they pass up the opportunity…..
Can’t someone just quietly call the xDems. fave pornographer & have him take care of it?? Prob. the most fun he’ll ever have anyway?
Anybody w/me on this?
Posted by: jj | Feb 23 2005 5:13 utc | 5
Love the formatting Billmon did on the Wafer Thin Mints post.
All will get dirty watching the explosion.
Well jj I’d be with ya on this, and if you think about it the mainstreammedia has always been a Coke bottle lens when it comes to seeing the truth, let alone reporting it. And these “investigations” are just organ- grinder demonstrations ment to pick up political coinage and to mesmerize the public with a dancing monkee. So far the Gannon thing has been perfect. A little grass-fire burning up and down the Bush propaganda ediface, undiluted by the official word, it keeps going, generating in the process more energy, more confidence, more mystique, and a lot of hailarity. The bloggangs would be stupid to give any of this away while it’s still hot, least they appropriate it to sell Cadallac cars with Lead Zeppelin.
Posted by: anna missed | Feb 23 2005 9:53 utc | 7
billmon put a picture of hitler and a reference to the non-existent elders of zion on the same page. i wonder when that dimwit troll will pop up and call him names.
Posted by: name | Feb 23 2005 10:33 utc | 8
A nice catch by Josh Marshall. The group that made the anti AARP ad is colocated with a marketing company that is working for a bunch of Republican organisations. (as expected)
Bobby Eberle is known in 9/11 circles as one of the much quoted witnesses who saw flight 77 plow into the Pentagon.
GOPusa, by B. E, 2002
WitnessList,B.E.quoted
The date of the original report has been questioned and is now (to me) lost in the limbo of the internet.
And from B. E (my bold):
In September 2001, as my company began to grow and reach more people, I thought the timing was right to return to Washington to promote the venture on Capitol Hill. I was invited to attend a conference in D.C. which was scheduled for September 9-11, and I knew that would be the perfect occasion to do some corporate promoting in addition to attending the conference events.
September 11, 2001 was a bright and brilliant day in Washington, D.C. I had enjoyed two full days of policy briefings and discussions, and on that Tuesday, I was looking forward to doing something a bit different. After briefly attending the final day of the conference in the morning, my plan was to spend the rest of the day seeing the marvelous sights that Washington, D.C., has to offer and visiting Capitol Hill.
Driving in from Virginia with the top down on my friend’s convertible, I was enjoying the clear blue sky and crisp air. I also paid moderate attention to the news radio station that my friend tuned in. I’m not a regular listener of news radio, but that morning was different. We had already seen reports on television of the first plane hitting the World Trade Center. We thought it was a very odd event, so we dialed in the news as we drove into town. At about 9:15 a.m., we heard reports of the second attack.
AmericasVoices
Posted by: Blackie | Feb 24 2005 18:51 utc | 10
Having scandals followed by cries of condemnation (for some of them only of course) followed by Investigations or Inquiries or Special Commissions or whatever is not only ridiculous but a sure sign that both laws and what one might call instituted procedure are not being followed, or, worse, actually no longer matter to anybody. So I agree with jj (if not 100%.)
What laws were broken in the Gannon scandal? Who was a victim? Clearly, the WH does not take its vettting of journalists seriously, and anyone with the right connections can bypass the security checks, etc. This is hardly prudent and points to blatant hypocrisy (terrarism!) but big news it is not. One can just hear some high-up forcibly stating:
I did not sleep with that man!
(Nobody slept.)
Posted by: Blackie | Feb 25 2005 17:24 utc | 12