Eberle interviewed by Hou Chronicle. "Jeff did his thing, I did my thing"

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/politics/3048193

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 Eberle of Pearland, denied in an interview that the correspondent was an administration plant or was given preferential treatment as a Republican partisan to ask soft questions.

Breaking his silence on the events, which have been portrayed by Democrats as a Republican effort to manipulate news, Eberle said "it took me by surprise" in early 2003 when the freelancer he had taken on as Jeff Gannon said he was gaining White House accreditation under his given name, James D. Guckert.

Eberle, 36, an aerospace engineer with a yen for conservative politics, said the disclosure raised no red flags about Guckert's journalistic credentials or professionalism.

Eberle said that in the two years that Guckert wrote for the Gopusa.com Web site and for the Talon News agency, he had not kept track of his volunteer reporter.

"Jeff did his thing, I did my thing," Eberle said.

Guckert resigned soon after a news conference when he asked Bush: "How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?" referring to Senate Democrats.

Eberle said it was not his idea of a proper question.

:evilgrin:

was never inquisitive enough to wonder why a freelancer he employed used a different name to gain White House accreditation? Some fuckin' news organization. It says everything I need to know about RW news sources. Shit, CNN isn't that fuckin' stupid.

Why are you calling him a freelancer, Bobby?

You're the guy who hired him, aren't you?

Are you telling us that you're a client?

Oh, yeah, he's given a interview. People never lie in interviews. That clears everything up. This fount of all that is honest and true is spilling his guts. He would never lie for the Chimp, has no hidden agenda, he didn't know what an "employee" of his was doing. Then he wasn't really his employee, there was no news service, Guckert was just a paid plant if all he says his true. Eberle is a liar and that is exactly what we need to start calling this people to their face. Enough patty cakes and politeness - go for the jugular and don't let loose.

Feeling particularly blood thirsty this morning. I am just so sick of these jerks who "go on record" and people pretending they have any credibility at all.

"Eberle, 36, an aerospace engineer with a yen for conservative politics, said the disclosure raised no red flags about Guckert's journalistic credentials or professionalism."

What disclosure?