Did Bruce Eberle get Gannon top White House access?

[BlackVelvet04]

2/19/2005
The missing link? Partner of GOPUSA founder has checkered past as Republican moneyman
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Did 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 relative of Bobby Eberle, the founder of GOPUSA and Talon News–may be the missing link.
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=104

[theorist]

1. Attn: Rawstory people

Check out Mike Krempasky's comments here:

:snip:
Bobby and Bruce aren't related (at least not close enough to merit mention). When GOPUSA purchased MillionsOfAmericans.com, it was a happy coincidence that they shared the last name - that's why Bruce introduced Bobby with the phrase (this is from memory, so forgive me if it's not precise), "you might say he's part of the Texas clan of Eberles." Much as I might say there's a West Virginia clan of Krempaskys (I think there might actually, be - but I've no idea how far removed they are).
:snip:

http://whyareweback.blogspot.com/2005/02/krempasky-schools-left-on-gopusa-part.html

This may warrant a slight correction of this sentence in the article linked to in the original post.

"Bruce W. Eberle–a relative of Bobby Eberle, the founder of GOPUSA and Talon News–may be the missing link."

[diamond14]

2. 'gannon': ",...there was a LOT OF MEAT that came out........" LOL

LOL....

"Asked why he did not, in his function as a White House reporter, even try to interview White House officials, he said, "I thought there was a lot of meat that came out of the press briefings."


:puke:

[Roland99]

3. This is the money link!! This should be on the homepage!

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.

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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.

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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.”

[Wind Dancer]

4. Interesting comments made by McCain. n/t

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. Last march Bruce and Bobby merged their websites

Supposedly Bobby bought the site and Bruce's email list for an undisclosed amount. Where the hell did Bobby get the funds such a transaction? In what other ways were the Eberle's working together? How involved was the WH is these deals?


http://www.millionsofamericans.com/

Mar 10, 2004

An important message from Bruce Eberle to MillionsOfAmericans.com Activists

I have some good news for you. As someone who opted-in to receive communications from www.millionsofamericans.com you have been receiving regular updates on conservative and Republican issues from me. You're one of nearly 250,000 patriotic Americans who have opted into the MOA web site and have taken action on behalf of important conservative projects and programs.

The good news is that www.millionsofamericans.com is now combining forces with www.gopusa.com to bring you even better reports and news on hot conservative topics. Bobby Eberle (of what you might call the "Texas branch" of the Eberle clan) founded www.gopusa.com several years ago. With news sources across the nation and in key places, Bobby Eberle has created one of the best outlets for conservative news and insight in the nation and today www.gopusa.com has some 50,000 opt-in subscribers.

[Roland99]

6. And wasn't it reported that Guckert/Gannon was working for GOPUSA

before he starting working at Talon News?


James Guckert has been involved with a key Bush money man for YEARS!

[DoYouEverWonder]

7. Who was behind Gannon

when he went to work in SD to help Thune beat Daschle?

[Roland99]

8. See this article (found this via another thread up here)

http://nashuaadvocate.blogspot.com/2005/02/credible-evidence-emerges-that-jeff.html