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At San Antonio convention, expect Perry pitching himself, immigration rumbling, vice chairman election Things appear so dandy for Texas Republicans, delegates to this week's party convention could be excused for decamping to San Antonio's River Walk rather than sticking out the big show. How do you fuel a fire when your candidates have won every statewide election since 1998? Fred Meyer, state GOP chairman in the early 1990s when Democrats held legislative majorities and the governorship, sees the party's rah-rah role on the decline. The party's Austin operatives are outnumbered by well-funded elected officials, with its once-mighty message role skinnied...

Religion Under Attack in America Posted by Bobby EberleNovember 22, 2005 at 7:27 am A new poll released this week reveals some disturbing findings, yet the results can hardly be called surprising. Americans, by a clear majority, feel that religion is “under attack” in America. From schools, to department stores, to public display, more and more, the religious is being replaced by the secular. According to the poll American Attitudes Toward Religion In the Public Square, sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League, 64% of those surveyed agreed with the statement that “religion is under attack” in America. Only 32% disagreed with...

Is There a Backbone in the House? By Bobby Eberle June 27, 2005 The proverbial smoke is once again pouring from my computer. Am I alarmed? No. The computer meltdown is not being caused by a virus or some other sneaky gremlin, but rather by the heated temperature of the e-mails from irate readers across the country -- loyal Republicans and strong conservatives. The elevated blood pressures are driven by a sense of hopelessness. Conservatives want results, and the lack of action by our Republican majority is wearing down the faithful. Republican leaders are wandering aimlessly with no backbone to...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3146235 Ronbrynaert (133 posts) Sun Feb-20-05 01:39 AM Original message Help Take Down GOPUSA I've been blogging about this bullshit "news organization" for a few weeks...only I've been focusing on the "journalistic" aspects of it. But I need help. I've been posting articles that prove that Bobby Eberle and his talon newsers not only take stuff from government and gop press releases....they also plagiarize from the mainstream media. Bobby himself is a thief. I need help going through stories and finding more examples...please email me or come to my site and leave a message or get in touch with me...

Web Site Owner Says He Knew of Reporter's 2 Identities By RALPH BLUMENTHAL OUSTON, Feb. 19 - The operator of an activist Republican Web site and news service said Friday night that he had known for two years that his White House correspondent went by two identities. But the operator, Robert R. Eberle, denied in an interview that the correspondent, Jeff Gannon, whose real name is James D. Guckert, was an administration plant or was given preferential treatment as a Republican partisan to ask soft questions at briefings. Mr. Guckert, who wrote for the Gopusa.com Web site and its offshoot...

Scandal places his Pearland-based Internet enterprise under a microscope Until employing a reporter who used a fake name to gain access to the White House and insult Democrats during a nationally televised briefing, Bobby Eberle managed to keep a low profile while amassing a conservative Internet following. Though Eberle was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 2000, Texas Republican officials this week declined to talk about him and even denied knowing him. But Eberle — a former aerospace engineer who has never contributed to a political candidate and works out of his $225,000 home in a sprawling Pearland...

Former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer was so concerned about Talon News reporter James Guckert's potential ties to the Republican Party that he stopped calling on him at press briefings for about a week in 2003, Fleischer told E&P today. "I found out that he worked for a GOP site, and I didn't think it was my place to call on him because he worked for something that was related to the party," Fleischer said in a phone interview. "He had the editor call me and made the case that they were not related to the Republican Party. He...

WASHINGTON – After a pointed question at a White House press briefing two weeks ago, a massive left-wing investigation of Talon News and Jeff Gannon's personal and business affairs was launched and was said to reveal that he was associated with homosexual website addresses. Left-wing bloggers, specifically Media Matters, which ironically is run by former conservative and once-closeted homosexual David Brock, have made a name for themselves by taking the scalp of this conservative journalist by the name of Jeff Gannon. His crimes were that he was too pro-Republican, attended White House briefings, and asked questions unfair to Democrats. This...

Bobby Eberle holds a doctorate in engineering and works for Lockheed Martin Corp. He's also the president and chief executive officer of GOPUSA, which he calls "a conservative news, information and design company dedicated to promoting conservative ideals." He might be called a Republican activist. Eberle has served as president of the Houston Young Republicans, director of club development of the Texas Young Republican Federation and as a three-term state chairman of the Texas Young Republican Federation. He was a delegate to the 2000 Republican Convention in Philadelphia and was vice chairman at large of the Young Republican National Federation....