http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Texas-Democrats/message/7278
Fellow Progressive Populist Caucus Members:
Our brother, Bill Burkett is under siege by the Carl Rove smear machine. Bill
is a charter member of the PPC and our friend.
Regards . . . Penny
Love the MSM feeding frenzy!
Everyone ganging up on CBS and Dan Rather – not because he’s a fraud, but because they want the market share. I don’t really care why, I just like that it is happening.
Burkett needs to be subpoenaed in any case. Last time I checked forgery was still a crime in the good ol' US.
Memogate? I swear that name was already taken by the Clinton administration.
Beckett's role is to shield more important people, to be expendable if the need arises. He may have been involved, but would Dan Rather fall on his sword to protect just Beckett? I don't think so.
""I love the guy," Staudt said of Bush. "I'm so tired of this negative crap about him that I'd like to volunteer to build a barn and take you press guys out behind it and kick your asses."
Very funny! Problem is, the libs wouldn't understand it at all. Would NOT have a single clue why that statement is funny. Not one.
There's also been a web site up and on the web pushing this story since October 5, 2000. Using The Wayback Machine you can see what's been on the site:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.awolbush.com
It appears that someone has been funding this story and pushing it for four years running. Who are the people behind the web site? What is their connection to this current memo controversy?
Some digging, while holding my nose it is hard to type that way by the way, turned up links to thomaspaine.com, mention of a "Martin Heldt", there is mention about a refusal to follow two direct orders for a physical (hmmm, wonder where that claim showed up lately?), etc. too much to stomach this early in the AM.
The site's registration information lists:
Registrant:
Tell the Truth, Inc. (AWOLBUSH-DOM)
3 Harbor, #315
Sausalito, CA 94965
US
An older registration had this info:
Administrative Contact:
Easton, Will (WEO45) weaston@IGC.ORG
Tell the Truth, Inc.
4130 Cesar Chavez #60
San Francisco, CA 94110
415-563-8277
Could it be the "Will Easton" who introducted Dr. Dean out in San Francisco earlier this year?
http://sf4dean.com/gallery/SFMar18/HowardDean_03_18_04_009
The same "Will Easton" who is organizing "supporters of Barbara Boxer, Democrat from California, to discuss organizing and mobilizing for her 2004 Senate run."
http://boxerforsenate.meetup.com/8/
The same "Will Easton" who is involved with the Institute for Global Communications (IGC)? http://www.igc.apc.org/
Not sure if this is the same "To Tell the Truth, Inc." that got a contract from the Allegheny County in Pennsylvania this month:
APPROVED EXECUTIVE ACTIONS - 9/7/04
EXEC. ACT. AUTH.
COST
CENTER/JOB OBJECT DEPARTMENT VENDOR DESCRIPTION AMOUNT
882-04 9/3/2004 203105 63010
Administrative
Services Tell The Truth, Inc.
To enter into an Agreement for consultation services for
M/W/DBE and the Department of Administrative Services.
Estimated Cost: $56,000 $56,000.00
www.county.allegheny.pa.us/exaction/sept2004/240907.pdf
BUMP!
---Cleland confirmed that he had a two- or three-minute conversation by cell phone with a Texan named Burkett in mid-August while he was on a car ride. He remembers Burkett saying that he had "valuable" information about Bush, and asking what he should with it. "I told him to contact the [Kerry] campaign," Cleland said. "You get this information tens of times a day, and you don't know if it is legit or not."---
What would Burkett be doing with Cleland's cell number? I think Cleland has revealed more than he intended.
Great report, first rate, the top of the top!
What best describes Dan Rather's relationship with his peers?