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Title: Attorney Says Anti-Establishment Candidate Debra Medina Was Set Up by Glenn Beck
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URL Source: http://www.gcnlive.com/wp/2010/05/0 ... dina-was-set-up-by-glenn-beck/
Published: May 4, 2010
Author: Pat Shannon
Post Date: 2010-05-04 11:17:11 by christine
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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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#1. To: christine, all (#0)
Ms. Medina: “I have not been out publicly questioning that, but I believe that the American people have not seen all the evidence.” Had Medina stayed fixed on point with this very accurate answer, rather than folding like a cheap suit in the subsequent days that followed, all would have been well. Medina has Medina to blame, nobody else.
Thanks for the additional information of the set-up. Very well executed; especially the dead mike.
Bad precedent. I mean, we might start blaming ourselves! ;)
Einstein took the cake. Boas ate it.
I believe, if she had been up to speed/well versed on the issue of 9/11--and the info is there for anyone who wants it--she could have done herself some good. If I had been in her shoes and Beck asked me what he asked her I would answer his question with another question, one about the Salomon Brothers Building (#7) and if he didn't think it odd that a reporterette from the BBC was saying it had fallen while it was clearly still standing behind her. And then I would mention that no plane hit it and that no steel-framed skyscraper had EVER fallen just because of fire before 9/11 and none had since. She could have made Beck look like a blithering idiot and government stooge. She just was not well prepared.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Indeed. If one gets into the muck and mire of politics, they should come prepared at ALL TIMES. There is no replay, you must be ready to fire at any moment, stumble and stagger, they have you nailed.
Say what you mean, and mean what you say. She failed on both counts and thankfully will now be relegated to political obscurity.
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "You've got to put right and wrong above legal and illegal. Because when tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty; and it is not rebellion at all, it is submission to the higher law that our government is in rebellion to. We're not the rebels, they're the rebels."
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "You've got to put right and wrong above legal and illegal. Because when tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty; and it is not rebellion at all, it is submission to the higher law that our government is in rebellion to. We're not the rebels, they're the rebels."
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "You've got to put right and wrong above legal and illegal. Because when tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty; and it is not rebellion at all, it is submission to the higher law that our government is in rebellion to. We're not the rebels, they're the rebels."
I found her initial reply to Beck fine, it was when (a few days later) she referred to "Truthers" as despicable that her effort imploded. And to make matters worse, she denied she used the word despicable as if we on the net didn't have a full audio transcript available. As I said, she's a footnote in TX political history.
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "You've got to put right and wrong above legal and illegal. Because when tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty; and it is not rebellion at all, it is submission to the higher law that our government is in rebellion to. We're not the rebels, they're the rebels."
her mistake was going on beck in the first place.
You might have had a long list of questions but you would have been cut off before you got to the second one. You would have been talking into a dead microphone while Beck and crew made fun of you and called you a nut. I would have limited it to one long question about WTC 7. That would have flummoxed that dumb@$$ and maybe made some people think a little.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. deleted
The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "You've got to put right and wrong above legal and illegal. Because when tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty; and it is not rebellion at all, it is submission to the higher law that our government is in rebellion to. We're not the rebels, they're the rebels."
No room for nice guys in TX politics. It is an especially brutal state for campaigning.
I'm thinking about casting a "blank" ballot (if the Diebold machine will let me) this November to protest the whole election process.
_________________________________________________________________________ Gov Rick (I won with only 38%) Perry needed to reduce the competition.
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?”
#2. To: christine (#0)
#3. To: Jethro Tull (#1)
Medina has Medina to blame, nobody else.
#4. To: Jethro Tull (#1)
Had Medina stayed fixed on point with this very accurate answer, rather than folding like a cheap suit in the subsequent days that followed, all would have been well. Medina has Medina to blame, nobody else.
Lord Acton
#5. To: Jethro Tull (#1)
Medina has Medina to blame, nobody else.
#6. To: Cynicom (#5)
#7. To: christine (#0)
#8. To: James Deffenbach (#4)
#9. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#3)
#10. To: James Deffenbach (#4)
#11. To: Jethro Tull (#1)
#12. To: Jethro Tull (#1)
computer counted ballots are ballots that have been counted in secret, and with all probability not the way one voted.
#13. To: Eric Stratton (#8)
I would have had a list of questions to counter with that was so long it would have taken months to answer them all, starting with If 9/11 was so on the level, then WTF is the FedGov afraid of since the turning over of every single stone could only possibly produce more evidence to support their position, right Glenn!
Lord Acton
#14. To: James Deffenbach (#13)
#15. To: christine (#0)
#16. To: christine, Lod (#0)
Obama is the miscegenated bastard of a white communist whore. True story.
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#17. To: TooConservative, christine (#15)
No room for nice guys in TX politics.
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