by NewKid » Sat Mar 04, 2006 9:22 am
Certainly possible, Gotnoscript, certainly possible:<br><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Consider the following list of self-described witnesses: Gary Bauer, Paul Begala, Bobby Eberle, Mike Gerson, Alfred Regnery, and Greta Van Susteren. Many of them need no introduction, but let's run through the list anyway:<br><br>Gary Bauer: Talking head and former Republican presidential candidate who has been linked to the notorious Project for a New American Century. <br>Paul Begala: Democratic Party operative and nominally liberal punching bag on CNN's "Crossfire." <br>Bobby Eberle: President and CEO of GOPUSA, a portal of right-wing propaganda.<br><br>Mike Gerson: Director of George W. Bush's speech writing staff. <br>Alfred Regnery: President of Regnery Publishing, another portal of right-wing propaganda -- one that has seen fit to bestow upon the world the literary stylings of Ann Coulter, the Swift Boat Veterans, and numerous other accomplished liars.<br><br>Greta Van Susteren: Nominally liberal legal analyst for Fox News.<br><br>I don't know if the Tattoo theorists are aware of this, but all of the people on that list share at least one thing in common: they are all professional liars. It is their job, individually and collectively, to lie to the American people. On a daily basis. They are, by any objective appraisal, propagandists for the state. So if all of them are selling the same story, in the face of compelling evidence to the contrary, it is probably best to assume that they might not be telling the truth.<br><br>Let's take a look now at some of the other people that are hawking the same story: Dennis Clem, Penny Elgas, Albert Hemphill, Lincoln Leibner, Stephen McGraw, Mitch Mitchell, Patty Murray, Rick Renzi, James Robbins, Meseidy Rodriguez, Darb Ryan, Elizabeth Smiley, and Clyde Vaughn. And who are they? Allow me to handle the introductions:<br><br>Dennis Clem is a Deputy Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. <br>Penny Elgas sits on the FDIC Advisory Committee on Banking Policy, alongside of Jean Baker, who just happens to be the Chief of Staff at the Office of President George H.W. Bush. <br>Albert Hemphill is a Lt. General with the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization. <br>Captain (now Major) Lincoln Leibner is a communications officer for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.<br><br>Stephen McGraw is a former U.S. Department of Justice attorney reborn as an Opus Dei priest. <br>Colonel Mitch Mitchell serves as a CBS News war spinner military consultant. <br>Patty Murray is a United States Senator (D-Washington). <br>Rick Renzi is a United States Congressman (R-Arizona). <br>James Robbins is a contributor to National Review, a national security analyst, and a Senior Fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council (I, by the way, have decided that I should refer to myself as a Senior Fellow at the Center for an Informed America). <br>I'm not sure exactly who Meseidy Rodriguez is, but his name appears in legal filings concerning Dick Cheney's top-secret energy policy meetings, which probably isn't a good sign.<br><br>Vice Admiral Darb Ryan is the Chief of U.S. Naval Personnel. <br>Elizabeth Smiley is an intelligence operations specialist with Civil Aviation Security at FAA headquarters -- which means that she is one of the people who inexplicably failed to perform their jobs on September 11, 2001, possibly because she was busy watching phantom jetliners crashing into the Pentagon. <br>Brig. General Clyde A. Vaughn is the deputy director of military support to civil authorities -- which means that he is another one of the people who inexplicably failed to perform their jobs on September 11, 2001, possibly because he was also busy watching phantom jetliners crashing into the Pentagon. <br><br><br>Anybody see anyone on that list that they would want to buy a used car from? No? How about Colonel Bruce Elliot or Major Joseph Candelario? Or Lt. Cols. Stuart Artman or Frank "Had I not hit the deck, the plane would have taken off my head" Probst? Still no? Then how about Elaine McCusker, a Co-Chairman of the Coalition for National Security Research? Or retired Naval Commanders Donald Bouchoux or Lesley Kelly? How about Shari Taylor, a finance manager at the Defense Intelligence Agency, or Philip Sheuerman, the Associate General Counsel for the U.S. Air Force?<br><br>How about any of the names on this list: Bob Dubill, Mary Ann Owens, Richard Benedetto, Christopher Munsey, Vin Narayanan, Joel Sucherman, Mike Walter, Steve Anderson, Fred Gaskins and Mark Faram? Aside from claiming to have witnessed the attack on the Pentagon, what do these ten people have in common? <br><br>snip<br><br>Despite the dubious nature of Mr. Faram's account, he did at least provide us with some useful important information -- specifically, that USA Today and Navy Times are both part of the Gannett family of news outlets. Actually, if Faram weren't so modest, he would have noted that Gannett also publishes Air Force Times, Army Times, Marine Corp Times, Armed Forces Journal, Military Market, Military City, and Defense News. In other words, it's just your typical independent, civilian media organization.<br><br>Having established that, let's now take a look at who our group of mystery witnesses are (or who they were at the time of the Pentagon attack):<br><br>Bob Dubill was the executive editor for USA Today.<br><br>Mary Ann Owens was a journalist for Gannett.<br><br>Richard Benedetto was a reporter for USA Today.<br><br>Christopher Munsey was a reporter for Navy Times.<br><br>Vin Narayanan was a reporter for USA Today.<br><br>Joel Sucherman was a multimedia editor for USA Today.<br><br>Mike Walter was a reporter for USA Today.<br><br>Steve Anderson was the director of communications for USA Today.<br><br>Fred Gaskins was the national editor for USA Today.<br><br>Mark Faram was a reporter for Navy Times.<br><br>Is it just me, or does anyone else detect a pattern here? <br><br>Now, it is my understanding that the Tattoo theorists claim, for the most part, not to be 'coincidence theorists.' So, I guess that the question that I have is this: exactly how many Gannett reporters and editors does it take to make a conspiracy? I could accept that maybe two or three of them might have been, purely by chance, in position to witness the attack on the Pentagon. Hell, being an open-minded kind of guy, I might even be willing to go as high as four or five. But ten?! Ten?! What are the odds that ten of the alleged Pentagon witnesses would be from the same news organization?<br><br>Perhaps some readers are thinking that maybe there is a simple explanation for this statistical aberration -- like maybe the Gannett building is ideally located to provide a view of the attack, or maybe everyone was riding together on a Gannett ride-sharing bus. But neither of those appear to be the case, since only one of the ten Gannett journalists claims to have witnessed the attack from his office, while all the rest maintain that they just happened to be positioned in various strategic locations near the Pentagon. So unless USA Today staff was holding its annual company picnic on the Pentagon lawn that morning, it seems to me that there is something seriously wrong with this story.<br><br>Amazingly enough, no fewer than five of those ten Gannett reporters and editors (Benedetto, Munsey, Narayanan, Sucherman and Walter) were able to specifically identify the plane that they saw as an American Airlines jet, and a sixth (Faram) managed to capture the only known photographic images of something vaguely resembling a twisted piece of wreckage from an American Airlines jet! I have to note here that it's a damn good thing that we had proactive and incredibly observant reporters like the USA Today staff swarming all over the scene of a pending national tragedy. I guess that when you're a seasoned professional, you just have a sixth sense about where to be and when to be there. That's probably why Eugenio Hernandez and Dave Winslow, two Associated Press reporters, were also on the scene to witness the attack. Hernandez, by the way, is a video journalist -- but not the kind of video journalist who shot any actual video footage. <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr68e.html" target="top">www.davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr68e.html</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br> <p></p><i></i>