THE FACE OF A DEMOCRAT AND LIAR (anti-war march phony is exposed by FReeper)

chron watch dot com ^ | 8-27-05 | John Armor

[doug from upland]

The Face of a Democrat, and a Liar
Written by John Armor
Monday, September 26, 2005

On 26 September the Associated Press ran the photograph below on its wire service, with the titles, “Thousands Protest the Iraq War,” and “Jeb Eddy joins thousands of demonstrators to protest the war in Iraq on Saturday.” This photo was taken by Noah Berger, who presumably also obtained the information for the cut lines run with the photo. The impression of Mr. Eddy, his sign, and the AP photograph of both, is that Mr. Eddy is a disgruntled Republican. This impression is a deliberate lie, which the AP should have caught.

Source: SFGate.com

A Google search finds a Jeb Eddy, software writer and author in Palo Alto. A search of Federal Election Commission records shows that Mr. Eddy made the following political contributions: to John Kerry for President, $250 on 5/23/04, and six contributions to the Democrat National Committee of either $250 or $500 between 9/25/98 and 2/25/04.

Mr. Eddy may LOOK like the false image of a Republican – older, white, wealthy male, with a craggy face that’s been out in the sun, and the touch of silver in his hair. But he is no such thing. He is a Democrat.

He’s pretended to be a disgruntled Republican before, in a demonstration joined to a speech by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi in the San Francisco Library to attack President Bush’s proposals for Social Security reform, in February. SFGate.com reported Eddy as saying:

“ ‘This is one of the most visible ways in which the Republicans are misleading America,’ said Jeb Eddy of Palo Alto, who carried a sign proclaiming that he was ‘ashamed’' of the GOP on the topic.” That article then referred to “Margaret Garvin of San Francisco, another registered Republican.” While this author doesn’t know the bona fides of Ms. Gavin, this reference suggests that Eddy represented himself as a registered Republican.

Don’t the reporters of these false-Republican appearances by Mr. Eddy have computers? Don’t they know how to push the buttons for a Google search, or an FEC records search? These things are really simple.

Or, perhaps the reporters have the personal view that Republicans should be trashed on public issues, and that a photograph of a disgruntled Republican is an excellent way to accomplish the desired result. In any event, the reporters did not check him out. And since Mr. Eddy has played this game before, it seems he is counting on the press not to do its job, and help him get away with his public lies.

So, look at this face. It is the face of Democrat dishonesty. It is also the face of complicity of the press in promoting the lie, by not bothering to check out the truth of the “facts” of the person in the photo.

About the Writer: John Armor is a First Amendment lawyer and writer who lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. John receives e-mail at John_Armor@aya.yale.edu.

[mware]

Anyone send this to Brit Hume for his Grapevine????

[rwfromkansas]

Well, I guess I can understand not checking out what he claims in a cutline. They should verify it, but I have more tolerance for that screw up.

It is a big deal that another paper failed to check out his claims when they were doing an article and QUOTING him.

That is outright failure.

I know if I were writing a story about this, I would have checked him out, even if the person claimed to be a Dem ashamed of Clinton or something during the impeachment situation. It is what a good journalist would do. You simply do NOT take claims at face value.

[gondramB]

Yep that would be interesting.


I found this "Eddy was a member of the inaugural class of Public Management Program of the GSB, a program oriented towards applying traditional business practices to the public sector."

Maybe he has some Republican roots down deep after all. :)

[Publius6961]

RATs claiming to be Republicans are on the increase.

It's been so blatant and obvious for so long that whenever it happens on the radio I simply accept that it's another loser preteding and role playing the playbook. It's like they've conditioned us to accept it as real.

Freaky.

[blam]

Excellent article. Thanks for the catch CongressmanBillybob.

[tet68]

Excellent job John, this is were freepers rise above
the opposition!

Thanks again.

Tet.

[Loud Mime]

Liberals, by nature, cannot rely on the truth.

[reagan_fanatic]

[God luvs America]

funnny!!

[doug from upland]

I AM SORRY I MISSED THIS PREVIOUS POST. I DID A SEARCH, BUT THE TITLE WAS DIFFERENT.

[Steve_Seattle]

"I'm a liar and proud of it."

You ought to send that to Hannity along with the original and an explanation of what happened.

[Congressman Billybob]

I am not "crockspot." That's why I thanked crockspot at the end of the article I wrote. His/her work made it easy for me to write my article.

John / Billybob

[lormand]

I hear this guy named "Paul" call into KLBJ often. Sometimes he claims to be an Iraq war vet when not claiming to be a Republican. He once even claimed to be a "Ron Paul" Conservative, that's right, Conservative, and the hosts did not even catch that (Ron Paul is a anarchist who bathes libertarian).

I don't have caller ID like the "Mark, Sam and Ed" do, but how can they not know?

[xcamel]

Bada Bing!!

[KC Burke]

fyi

[Congressman Billybob]

The way I wrote my tagline when I submitted this article did thank "crockspot, on the Internet." ChronWatch, unfortunately reverted to my standard tagline -- I've written for them for more than two years. I freely acknowledge, as I have on many of my last 300 articles, that my writing would be impossible without the excellent research that others have done on the Internet.

John / Billybob

[Congressman Billybob]

Freepers ARE great at exposing frauds. But not this time. The write-up is mine, word for word. But the fundamental research was done by crockspot, who is not (to the best of my knowledge) a Freeper.

John / Billybob

[maggief]

http://www.santaclaracountyforkerry.com/newsletter/letter7.html

Events listed at JohnKerry.com:

Alternative Republican Convention
On Thurs Sept 2, George Bush wil give his acceptance speech. We will hit mute and instead hear from Republicans for Kerry including former Congressman Pete McCloskey. Sponsored by Peninsula Republicans for Kerry, this event is open to all, regardless of Party. We especially welcome other Republicans, though, whether already Kerry supporters or just "Kerry curious."
Thursday, Sept. 2 at 6:00pm
Home of Jeb and Edith Eddy
Palo Alto, CA 94301

http://volunteer.johnkerry.com/event/view/?id=14962

Alternative Republican Convention
WHEN: September 2 @ 6:00 PM
WHERE: Home of Jeb and Edith Eddy
Palo Alto, CA 94301
Just South of Oregon Expwy
HOST: Gail Slocum

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:UB3cFdNEtYsJ:www.smdailyjournal.org/article.cfm%3Fissue%3D06-23-05%26storyID%3D44325+jeb+eddy+palo+alto+republican&hl=en&client=firefox-a

Protest greets Arnold

Jeb Eddy, a Republican since the 1970s, joined protesters Wednesday wearing a blue blazer and khakis. The 35-year Palo Alto native said up to 10 percent of local Republicans are also unhappy with the governor’s special election plans.

“I think there’s a lot of other Republicans that feel the same way I do, but they’re afraid to come out,” Eddy said.

[Political Junkie Too]

Don’t the reporters of these false-Republican appearances by Mr. Eddy have computers? Don’t they know how to push the buttons for a Google search, or an FEC records search?

If they did, they wouldn't have repeatedly given us Greg Packer as the face of the man on the street. (or maybe they thought that we didn't know, so that was okay at the time?)

-PJ

[doug from upland]

Thanks for the clarification.