Okay, so I am out stumbling around on the web, and I decided to mosey over to Billy Cox's blog. (Ain't been by in a month or so.) So I am perusing the topics and titles and see one that interests me. (Blindfolds & cigarettes) I am a reformed smoker (I had my last cigarette on Oct. 31, 1996) so I decided to check out what was on Billy's mind. The following is that entry and I thought you all might find it of interest.
Blindfolds & cigarettes
by Billy Cox
June 08, 2009
The great thing about covering the White House is, pretty much anybody can get badged. As Jeff (not his real name) Gannon proved with Talon (not a real news outlet) News during the Bush administration, you can even peddle flesh on the side with a male escort service and it’s cool. So long as you adhere to certain protocols, like not hanging bat-style naked from the light fixtures in the Brady Briefing Room, or asking questions about UFOs.
Now, along comes Stephen Bassett, who founded the Extraterrestrial Phenomena Political Action Committee 10 years ago in hopes of generating open UFO hearings on Capitol Hill. In the latest chapter of his Million Fax On Washington campaign at Million Fax on Washington , he’s urging Americans to pressure the White House Correspondents’ Association by swamping the press corps with e-mails, letters and faxes. Because he wants answers to some entirely legitimate questions from Team Obama. Such as:
Does the administration intend to follow up on John Podesta’s public call for the declassification of federal UFO records? What is the White House reaction to former First Lady Hillary Clinton’s involvement with the “Rockefeller Initiative” to get UFO material into the public domain? Would the administration provide immunity to current or former federal employees whose testimony could violate their security oaths?
Assuming you could even goad one of the cherries who doesn’t know any better into contemplating such an act of heresy, the trick is to keep the hounds on the scent of the message, not the messenger. And considering how the latter is much less complicated than the former, this is where Bassett stumbles.
One of the most provocative UFO podcasts on the Net is The Paracast with Gene Steinberg and David Biedny, which airs on Sunday nights. Bassett made an appearance on March 1, which gave Biedny a chance to question him about the credibility of some of his speakers at his periodic “X-Conference” seminars. For good reason.
At a 2007 “X-Conference” in the National Press Club, the media might well have focused on guests such as retired USAF Capt. Robert Salas, who documented eyewitness accounts of how UFOs tampered with nuclear missile silos in 1967. Or on Nick Pope, whose tenure on the British Ministry of Defence’s UFO desk in the Nineties convinced him to publicly advocate transparent scientific studies of whatever this weirdness is all about.
Instead, making the biggest splash in the MSM was Alfred Webre, the Canadian sensationalist who described New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson as “an employee of a secret CIA extraterrestrial liaison program” harboring “inside knowledge.” Webre, the godfather of an international movement called Exopolitics designed to facilitate democratic diplomatic relations with ET, has called the 9/11 attacks “a false flag operation conducted by a corrupt military and elite international war crimes racketeering network” with “evidence of a hyperdimensional involvement.”
You get the drift. So Biedny was questioning the credibility of another speaker scheduled for an “X-Conference” gathering in April when Bassett, steamed, retorted that credibility “is not an issue in the disclosure process. And your opinion of him is virtually irrelevant. You voice it all you want, but don’t bring it up to me. I just don’t care.”
To describe it as a heated exchange would be like calling Godzilla dyspeptic (https://www.theparacast.com/podcasts/paracast_090301.mp3). Two months later, Bassett still has choice words for the Paracast hosts, but concedes that “I did not respond in a manner I should have.” He does, however, continue to argue that government credibility is the only issue that matters, and how critics who dwell on the “peccadillos and the invidual aspects of the people in this field” are missing the big picture.
Well. Maybe that’s true — for any other subject. But there aren’t any reliable Cliff Notes for UFOs, nor even a consensus for where to begin. Even primary source material is grist for scalding debate. In the unlikely event that a Beltway editor were mildly intrigued by the Rockefeller Initiative, giving the assigment to a White House reporter would be like dispensing a blindfold and a cigarette.
They’ll take the easy way out. They’ll go for the peccadillos and individual aspects. Every time. Guaranteed.
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Blindfolds & cigarettes
by Billy Cox
June 08, 2009
The great thing about covering the White House is, pretty much anybody can get badged. As Jeff (not his real name) Gannon proved with Talon (not a real news outlet) News during the Bush administration, you can even peddle flesh on the side with a male escort service and it’s cool. So long as you adhere to certain protocols, like not hanging bat-style naked from the light fixtures in the Brady Briefing Room, or asking questions about UFOs.
Now, along comes Stephen Bassett, who founded the Extraterrestrial Phenomena Political Action Committee 10 years ago in hopes of generating open UFO hearings on Capitol Hill. In the latest chapter of his Million Fax On Washington campaign at Million Fax on Washington , he’s urging Americans to pressure the White House Correspondents’ Association by swamping the press corps with e-mails, letters and faxes. Because he wants answers to some entirely legitimate questions from Team Obama. Such as:
Does the administration intend to follow up on John Podesta’s public call for the declassification of federal UFO records? What is the White House reaction to former First Lady Hillary Clinton’s involvement with the “Rockefeller Initiative” to get UFO material into the public domain? Would the administration provide immunity to current or former federal employees whose testimony could violate their security oaths?
Assuming you could even goad one of the cherries who doesn’t know any better into contemplating such an act of heresy, the trick is to keep the hounds on the scent of the message, not the messenger. And considering how the latter is much less complicated than the former, this is where Bassett stumbles.
One of the most provocative UFO podcasts on the Net is The Paracast with Gene Steinberg and David Biedny, which airs on Sunday nights. Bassett made an appearance on March 1, which gave Biedny a chance to question him about the credibility of some of his speakers at his periodic “X-Conference” seminars. For good reason.
At a 2007 “X-Conference” in the National Press Club, the media might well have focused on guests such as retired USAF Capt. Robert Salas, who documented eyewitness accounts of how UFOs tampered with nuclear missile silos in 1967. Or on Nick Pope, whose tenure on the British Ministry of Defence’s UFO desk in the Nineties convinced him to publicly advocate transparent scientific studies of whatever this weirdness is all about.
Instead, making the biggest splash in the MSM was Alfred Webre, the Canadian sensationalist who described New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson as “an employee of a secret CIA extraterrestrial liaison program” harboring “inside knowledge.” Webre, the godfather of an international movement called Exopolitics designed to facilitate democratic diplomatic relations with ET, has called the 9/11 attacks “a false flag operation conducted by a corrupt military and elite international war crimes racketeering network” with “evidence of a hyperdimensional involvement.”
You get the drift. So Biedny was questioning the credibility of another speaker scheduled for an “X-Conference” gathering in April when Bassett, steamed, retorted that credibility “is not an issue in the disclosure process. And your opinion of him is virtually irrelevant. You voice it all you want, but don’t bring it up to me. I just don’t care.”
To describe it as a heated exchange would be like calling Godzilla dyspeptic (https://www.theparacast.com/podcasts/paracast_090301.mp3). Two months later, Bassett still has choice words for the Paracast hosts, but concedes that “I did not respond in a manner I should have.” He does, however, continue to argue that government credibility is the only issue that matters, and how critics who dwell on the “peccadillos and the invidual aspects of the people in this field” are missing the big picture.
Well. Maybe that’s true — for any other subject. But there aren’t any reliable Cliff Notes for UFOs, nor even a consensus for where to begin. Even primary source material is grist for scalding debate. In the unlikely event that a Beltway editor were mildly intrigued by the Rockefeller Initiative, giving the assigment to a White House reporter would be like dispensing a blindfold and a cigarette.
They’ll take the easy way out. They’ll go for the peccadillos and individual aspects. Every time. Guaranteed.
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