Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

UFO truthers want to make Roswell an issue for 2016. Meet their lobbyist.
The WshingtonPost ^ | December 11 at 9:23 AM | Ben Terris

Posted on 12/11/2015 11:57:21 AM PST by BenLurkin

Bassett, a balding man with expressive eyes that seem to go from blue to green, has long had one goal: Get the government to admit it has been covering up proof of alien visits....

"I want to see disclosure by the New Hampshire primary," he said brushing crumbs off his black dress shirt and purple tie during lunch at the National Press Club this month. "And I can make the case that it's going to happen."

...Then came the tweet heard 'round the world.

The message came from Podesta, the former top aide in Bill Clinton's White House, as he stepped down after 11 months as special adviser for President Obama.

"My biggest failure of 2014: Once again not securing the disclosure of the UFO files. #thetruthisstilloutthere," he tweeted on Feb. 13.

It was retweeted thousands of times and picked up by mainstream media reporters across the country - most presenting it as a joke. But to Bassett and fellow believers, this didn't read like a bit of ironic Twitter humor. This was big.

...

"I believe Clinton's team has calculated that they cannot make it out of the election without first dealing with the ET issue," he said. "But what are her options? If she calls a press conference and gives it too much gravitas, she'll still have to deal with the fundamental question of why she hasn't talked about it in the last 23 years. The alternative is to trigger the press to ask her about it....Then she can measure exactly the amount of gravitas she wants to give it."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: UFO's
KEYWORDS: ufo; washingtonpost
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021 next last

1 posted on 12/11/2015 11:57:21 AM PST by BenLurkin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

Does anybody think that a Democrat president could keep this a secret?


2 posted on 12/11/2015 11:58:40 AM PST by Gen.Blather
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Gen.Blather

Would anyone believe a Democrat president if they said it?


3 posted on 12/11/2015 11:59:30 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

If Obama had a joint press conference with an alien. I would wonder what he was trying to distract us from noticing.


4 posted on 12/11/2015 12:02:44 PM PST by thorvaldr
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Gen.Blather

“Does anybody think that a Democrat president could keep this a secret?”

Not if it had a moonetary value ...


5 posted on 12/11/2015 12:06:34 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

Don’t worry. Until they ‘fess up,
Bassett will keep hounding them.
With his soulful eyes.


6 posted on 12/11/2015 12:09:24 PM PST by sparklite2 (Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Gen.Blather

Not past October before an election...


7 posted on 12/11/2015 12:12:08 PM PST by bigbob ("Victorious warriors win first and then go to war" Sun Tzu.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin
"I believe Clinton's team has calculated that they cannot make it out of the election without first dealing with the ET issue," he said. "But what are her options? If she calls a press conference and gives it too much gravitas, she'll still have to deal with the fundamental question of why she hasn't talked about it in the last 23 years. The alternative is to trigger the press to ask her about it....Then she can measure exactly the amount of gravitas she wants to give it."

Hillary & "gravitas"? LOL, the cackler? She's got bloody cash, not gravitas. And she's more than happy about the trade.

The ETs themselves would make sure she had nothing to do with their disclosure. Nor Obama, for that matter.

Besides, who needs a politician when you can just suddenly decloak a thousand ships, one floating above every world capital?

8 posted on 12/11/2015 12:23:03 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: thorvaldr

I’d think, “What has ValJar done with her hair?”


9 posted on 12/11/2015 12:25:18 PM PST by Rastus
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

Gabriel Green could not be reached for comment.


10 posted on 12/11/2015 12:30:00 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

Is he a paid shill for Big Saucer?


11 posted on 12/11/2015 12:39:17 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Slings and Arrows

Ping...or not.


12 posted on 12/11/2015 12:40:08 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: thorvaldr

The way lib policies play out they almost make me feel like they are planned by a malevolent extraterrestrial invasion force as a weakening the wall maneuver.


13 posted on 12/11/2015 12:57:56 PM PST by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

Facing a sound defeat by trump next summer it would be the only trump card the dems would have left.

Of course in the following inevitable chaos of disclosure obama could remain in office indefinately.


14 posted on 12/11/2015 1:00:34 PM PST by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Army Air Corps

Big saucer, big frisbee, and alcoa (big aluminium foil).


15 posted on 12/11/2015 1:01:33 PM PST by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

This is all so big a scam.

In their “evidence,” they claim they have a picture of a “mysterious. red-haired USAF Captain” who “came down from the Pentagon to cover it all up.”

Take a look at the picture, It’s Joe Kittenger the famous parachutist who jumped from over 100,000 feet in the 50s.

The “alien” was a leather, sand-filled wind dummy that Joe’s team moved on a stretcher because it weighed 200 pounds.

This always has been a scam to keep idiot tourists coming to Roswell.

It worked pretty well.... because.... and why else would anyone go to Roswell?


16 posted on 12/11/2015 1:03:01 PM PST by The All Knowing All Seeing Oz (Explaining Obama is very simple: He plays for the other team in every way possible.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin
An unidentified flying object crashed on a ranch northwest of Roswell, New Mexico, sometime during the first week of July 1947.

The transistor was successfully demonstrated on December 23, 1947 at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. Bell Labs is the research arm of American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T). The three individuals credited with the invention of the transistor were William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain.

Coinkydink or reverse engineering, you be the judge.

17 posted on 12/11/2015 4:46:05 PM PST by this_ol_patriot
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: this_ol_patriot

Those cute little aliens gave us the transistors so kids could carry radios where ever they went, blasting at all hours of the day with that rock and roll and all.

Insidious little monsters weren’t they?
Planting the seed for the destruction of western civilization.

;>)


18 posted on 12/11/2015 4:55:08 PM PST by Covenantor ("Men are ruled-...by liars who passing refuse the. news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: Covenantor
The aliens are us. We started messing around with wormholes and oopsied a test ship back 200 years. We are looking at our own future technology. Reverse engineering was easy since everything was in English.

We are still data mining, we had to build computers to access most of that stuff, the obstacle is in learning to manufacture it, that technology didn't come back with the ship but once you know a thing is possible it takes years off the roll-out time.

19 posted on 12/11/2015 5:05:08 PM PST by this_ol_patriot
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: this_ol_patriot

*interesting


20 posted on 12/11/2015 7:23:26 PM PST by Taffini ( Mr. Pippen and Mr. Waffles do not approve and neither do I)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson