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(s)Elections See other (s)Elections Articles Title: Attorney Says Anti-Establishment Candidate Debra Medina Was Set Up by Glenn Beck Victor Thorn interviewed Debra Medina’s lawyer, who produced a smoking gun in the railroading of the gubernatorial candidate and darling of the Texas tea party movement. The same week that Victor Thorn exposed Glenn Beck (AFP, April 28, 2010) for the deceitful fraud that he is, this writer interviewed Debra Medina’s lawyer, who produced a smoking gun in the railroading of the gubernatorial candidate and darling of the Texas tea party movement. Ms. Medina, 47, was the little-known, grassroots, constitutional candidate campaigning against two political behemoths—incumbent Rick Perry and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson—for the Republican nomination for governor of Texas. Around the first of the year, when people began to pay attention to the upcoming March primary, they also noticed Ms. Medina begin to make a Sarah Palin-like impact with policies stressing property rights and gun ownership. She said that her first official act as governor would be to hang a copy of the Constitution in her office. Her popularity began to grow, and her numbers—quickly doubling from 4 percent to 8 percent in the polls—sped upward. When that figure kept expanding and soon tripled to 24 percent, crowding Sen. Hutchinson at the top and leaving the incumbent governor in a floundering third place, Rick Perry became concerned—concerned enough to resort to dirty tactics. At his office in Austin, Texas, Attorney David Rogers gave AMERICAN FREE PRESS the details. “Here is what no other reporter has,” he said. “Rick Perry avoided road signs and direct mail expense and instead began to network his campaign funds into team compensation. It was simple. The more people you could bring on board, the more money you would make. I understand one of the college boys at UT earned over $25,000 just signing up new recruits. Eventually, Perry had over 30,000 campaign workers, an unheard-of number in a gubernatorial campaign.” Indeed it is. “The problem was that these workers had an unbridled access to Internet blogging that went unpoliced,” Rogers went on, “and it made no difference to Perry what they wrote, because he could not be implicated.” Yes, not an unusual ploy in the netherworld of dirty tricks. It was much like the CIA or the FBI hiring mob hit men to do their assassinations for them. That way, if anybody gets caught, the agency is never “involved.” According to Rogers, the chief “hit man” for Perry was Dave Carney, a New Hampshire-based Republican neo-con who was once described as “the wizard behind the curtain.” Carney’s other clients include conservative political action committees and 527 groups in various states. He also served as White House Director of Political Affairs under George H.W. Bush. The stage was set for the “assassination” of Ms. Medina when she unwittingly stepped into Glenn Beck’s “Dealey Plaza” on Feb. 11. A condensed version, albeit verbatim, unfolded six minutes into the interview with the exchange that follows here. The reader should be aware that Ms. Medina had campaigned for a year prior to this and had never mentioned 9-11, but when Carney posted an Internet blog the day previous to her radio interview, tarnishing her with the “anti-government” label, all was in readiness. Beck: “When I said that I was going to have you on, you can’t imagine the mail, pro and con, but there was a theme that ran against you, and that is: “You’re a 9-11 truther.” Ms. Medina: “Well, there is lots of mud that people would like to throw at Debra Medina, but that’s the first time I’ve heard that accusation. [laughs] That’s an interesting one.” Beck: [pressing for something more definitive] “Do you believe that the government was in any way involved with the bringing down of the World Trade centers [sic] on 9-11?” Ms. Medina: “I have not been out publicly questioning that, but I believe that the American people have not seen all the evidence.” Beck: [amid loud chatter and laughter in the background not previously heard] “I think the people of America might think that might be a ‘yes.’” From this point, Ms. Medina seemed a little bewildered and rambling, and the next day’s newspapers said “Debra self-destructs,” and that she “shot herself in the foot” when she wouldn’t take a position on whether the U.S. government was behind the 9-11 attacks on the World Trade Center. What the world never learned, according to attorney Rogers, was that Ms. Medina’s headset was mysteriously silenced for the few seconds during the hoopla and Beck’s remark about it being a “Yes,” and she never heard either. For that reason, she could not counter, and her inadequate reply that followed then made her appear to be waffling and indecisive. Seven minutes after the interview ended, Gov. Perry’s automatic computer phones began to dial thousands of voters all across the state of Texas. His voice then began to belittle Ms. Medina for her “wayout and fringe” beliefs that 9-11 was an “inside job” etc. Because of the brief time between the broadcast and the calls, it was immediately evident to Rogers that such an elaborate production would not have been possible unless it had been prepared prior to the radio show. Further significance of Beck’s subterfuge was his final on-air comment, jubilantly addressing Perry: “Rick, I think you and I could French-kiss right now!”
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#15. To: christine (#0)
No room for nice guys in TX politics. It is an especially brutal state for campaigning.
#17. To: TooConservative, christine (#15)
Gov Rick (I won with only 38%) Perry needed to reduce the competition.
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