I received this in my email this morning, requesting a clarification of my Dr. Bob Basso blog posts. Apparently some bloggers decided to reprint the events taking place with regard to Dr. Basso’s audio taped interviews with Jerry Doyle and the Thomas Paine videos, and now some contradiction of sorts seems to have arisen.
Rest assured, the contradictions aren’t with me, The Jerry Doyle Show, Jerry Doyle or ZAPEM. Those reports are accurate and reflect only what was said by the man himself. My response is therefore as follows to the comment:
“Update: Citizen Wells reports that Dr. Basso himself says the above was started by blogosphere rumor.
Isn’t it nice to know that the place that starts rumors is also the place that calls them such? -Phil”
First of all, I have no idea who these people are who took it upon themselves to reprint my articles without me knowing about it and then add their spin to it, and secondly, that’s not an update. That’s a back-pedaling out of what Basso originally said.
Since I’m the one who blogged that story that you guys reinvented all over the “blogosphere”, let me state that the interview credit goes strictly to Jerry Doyle, whom I communicated with prior to posting the audios as a matter of public information.
Don’t bother crediting ZAPEM (that merely consolidates news and portals people out more than in) and do not bother quoting me to boost your blog visits. The interview was done by Jerry Doyle and we received permission to promote it from him while we waited to hear further news. In fact, Jerry, a very nice guy by the way, wrote us back and said that he was working on getting a follow-up from Mr. Basso and to “hang tight”. So we did. While Jerry was busy with his work, we provided the details. Simple as that.
I also love the way these people think nothing of reprinting or using material they didn’t do a lick of work on without even contacting those involved to say even “Hello”, and then turn around and try to discredit Jerry Doyle and anyone else who attempted to investigate. Did anyone even bother to call Jerry and ask him his side before they decided to assume that the clarification was even true? Nope, they did not.
Instead, Dr. Basso was the one who chose to pick another venue, who didn’t investigate, and then somehow air a claim that the “invitation” wording was a rumor spread about on the internet. Pardon me, but the direct quotes speak for themselves and they’re on audio tape. The use of the word “invitation” comes from Mr. Basso directly, not the internet. The use of the word “summoned” comes directly from WorldNetDaily.com Inc., an independent news company.
So let’s review what was said to Jerry Doyle, shall we? On 3-27-09, Mr. Basso stated the following to Jerry Doyle during a radio broadcast interview:
“I have no intention of attacking the president of the United States. I respect the office. And until this thing clarifies itself… because there’s an awful lot of misinformation out there. Until we get any kind of response from the White House that this is a valid invitation, or it’s not some kind of a scheme or some kind of roundabout way put forth on the internet or by calling our offices and not really representing Mr. Obama. I am not for or against any political party. But I do respect the office of the presidency.
And as I told you when we first spoke, if I hear anything when this thing clarifies, if in fact it is an honest and truthful and transparent invitation, … and I want to thank all those people and apologize for not answering you necessarily on email or otherwise, but we are being overwhelmed with requests and with good wishes, and we appreciate that… But I absolutely guarantee you, if in fact this is true, I am not going to be intimidated and I am not going to the White House or to Congress or anywhere else on a bended knee. I am their employeer, as all of your listeners are. And I will go there not with that smugness, but with that understanding of our democracy.”
Those are exact quotes taken from the audio. So, I fail to see how this is the interpretation of the internet netizens, or even a rumor, as Mr. Basso now alleges. The quotes speak for themselves and people derived what they did, using real “common sense“.
To now hear Mr. Basso claim that,
“This whole idea of the president of the United States summoning me to the White House is false. Let me repeat that again and again. It’s false. It did not happen. What happened was weeks ago, a month ago, I got a call from a blogger that said, ‘Is there any truth to the fact that President Obama has seen your video and is very upset about it and wants to talk to you?‘ And I said, ‘As far as I know, I have not received any comment from the White House. No one has contacted me.’”
So now we see that the story has indeed, changed. Not only that, but Dr. Basso never returned to The Jerry Doyle Show to follow it up. Instead, we see a totally different claim being made in a totally different venue. Also, if no one contacted Dr. Basso, then I’d certainly love to know who it was from “Congressional Security” in this video who Dr. Basso says contacted him to advise not to encourage people to put tea bags in envelopes and send them to Washington, D.C., as they were destroying them.
Anyway, that’s certainly a far cry from the interview Dr. Basso gave to Jerry Doyle when he clearly implied that there was an invitation, per Dr. Basso’s own description on audio tape, including that someone was even calling his office. Furthermore, the follow up interview with Jerry Doyle and Dr. Basso didn’t reveal anything that we’re hearing now. Suspect? Judge for yourself. The only thing we were waiting on was the same clarification that Dr. Basso said he was waiting for.
Horrific “misunderstanding”, indeed. No, it’s more like a total 180 if you ask me. But it didn’t come from The Jerry Doyle Show and it didn’t come from ZAPEM who hosted the recordings. I have no idea where World Net Daily, Inc. got their information from as we never talked to them. Sorry to say, but the contradiction comes from Dr. Basso, himself. Neither myself or ZAPEM made any claim as to what those tapes have to say. We don’t have to. They speak for themselves.
What’s curious to me is why Dr. Basso didn’t do this clarification on The Jerry Doyle Show, who has been waiting anxiously to follow it up for their listeners. He certainly had ample time and we were monitoring it for updates. Instead, it was entertained in a completely different venue that seemed to have missed the point entirely of why myself and ZAPEM even bothered to report on it.
Let me make this perfectly clear so all of you anonymous people in the blogosphere can quote me clearly. I’m not doing this for ratings. I couldn’t care less if you read my bloggings or not. I would probably love nothing better than to stay out of politics completely, because all I’ve seen so far is cut-throat shenanigans. I say what’s important to me and what I believe is important to those who think like me. I DO have a dog in this race and it’s called “my country”. I’m not making any apologies for that, my bloggings or cow-towing to people who think this is a “fun” game and taking score of some stupid popularity contest. In fact, I’ll probably just rip you apart and make mince-meat out of you when pull another cowardly stunt like this again.
You might even want to even grow a pair and take it up with me direct.
-Kamira
