Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Following the leads in the Gannon scandal

Bobby Eberle: owner of GOPUSA and Talon - "news services" - who hired Jeff Gannon....
Though Eberle was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 2000, Texas Republican officials this week declined to talk about him and even denied knowing him.

But Eberle — a former aerospace engineer who has never contributed to a political candidate and works out of his $225,000 home in a sprawling Pearland subdivision of new, color-coordinated burgundy and beige brick houses — finds himself a key player in a tawdry scandal that has captivated Washington.

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An engineer with Lockheed Martin until recently, Eberle became interested in politics after hearing about the violent 1993 deaths of Jennifer Ertman, 14, and Elizabeth Pena, 16, at the hands of drunken gang members.

He was motivated to get involved, he recalled, because, "There's something really, really messed up in the world."
  Houston Chronicle article

To get the impact of this, you really need to read the Gannon background. There's something really messed up, okay. And did he mention that his brother Bruce has a connection to Karl Rove?
Eberle's older brother, Bruce, runs a conservative Web site, Millions of Americans (millionsofamericans.com). The two sites joined forces in 2004, and Bruce Eberle started referring his readers to Bobby Eberle's site.

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"I'm not going to comment because I don't know him, and nobody here does," said Sherry Sylvester, a spokeswoman for the Republican Party of Texas, when asked about Eberle.

He was a Texas delegate to the RNC in 2000 and the spokeswoman of that party doesn't know him? Probably somebody there knows of him at least, wouldn't you think?
The three stories posted on the Talon site Thursday had no bylines or datelines and seemed to involve no original reporting, taking quotes from televised news conferences and news releases.
By Talon's standards, I could call myself a reporter.
Eberle is a churchgoing Catholic who is against abortion and in favor of prayer in school.

He believes religious people are "almost persecuted" in the United States.
Yeah. Almost.

So he hires a male prostitute to place in the White House press room?

Though his current goal is to grow his media companies, Eberle said he might run for public office "some day down the line."
No doubt.

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