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Attorney Says Anti-Establishment Candidate
Debra Medina Was Set Up by Glenn Beck
By Pat Shannan
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!”
Pat Shannan is the assistant editor of American Free Press. He is also the author of several videos and books including One in a Million: An IRS Travesty and I Rode With Tupper,
detailing Shannan’s experiences with Tupper Saussy when the
American dissident was on the run in the 1980s. Both are available from
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(Issue # 5, February 1, 2010)
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