The Smear Campaign continues...
At this point none of the independent eye witnesses have been interviewed.
Gieselman makes the following post to kpftilab, a list controlled by Dan
Jones.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: greg gieselman [mailto:aachen@firstnethou.com]
> Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 12:36 PM
> To: kpftilab@yahoogroups.com
> Cc: buzzanco@jetson.uh.edu; chickpea_@hotmail.com;
> exitvalrie@yahoogroups.com; hingham@igc.apc.org; ommusic@hotmail.com;
> scooter@radio4houston.org; wb4j@yahoo.com; renteria22@yahoo.com
> Subject: Re: [kpftilab] Re: LAB votes 4 investigation of Buzzanco
> incident
>
>
> sun 12:00p hou/10:00a pt
>
> torry et al:
>
> *** once again, torry, what you said simply isn't true...for a
> host of reasons,
> among them:
>
> * objection to buzzanco's remarks, behavior + demeanor that day
> [and others]
> is not restricted to any identifiable faction, group, race, creed, color,
> nation, trade, gender, religion, height, weight,
> alleged politcal affiliation, sexual orientation...or any other
> known criteria.
>
> * no one has suggested that he be taken off the air.
> even--perhaps esp--the
> people at whom he
> screamed his various insulting remarks + slurs.
>
> * more importantly, even those persons who disagree with him
> strongly, have
> asserted in his
> defense, publicly, positively and repeatedly, that buzz gives
> good radio, and
> that he and his opinions,
> however inaccurate or unpleasant they may be, most assuredly
> should remain on
> KPFT.
>
> NB: buzz has chosen not to extend this courtesy to those persons
> who disagree
> with him, even though spirited debate from all quarters is
> explicitly a tenet
> of the mission statement.
>
> . . . . .
>
> bob knows bloody well his behavior that day was outrageous +
> wrong. and so do
> the more than half a dozen people who were there to share it with him.
> everyone makes mistake. everyone gets angry
> at one time or another. everyone says things he/she regrets.
> my guess is
> buzz very much regrets this entire incident ever happened. only
> he can make it
> go away. torry, it's time for you to drop the agitprop ca-ca
> that buzz is the
> injured party. he knows better.
>
> gg
>
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=165346&article=8162
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=165346&article=8353
>From: "Torry Mercer" <torrymercer@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: kpftilab@yahoogroups.com
>To: kpftilab@yahoogroups.com
>CC: buzzanco@jetson.uh.edu, chickpea_@hotmail.com,
>exitvalrie@yahoogroups.com, hingham@igc.apc.org, ommusic@hotmail.com,
>scooter@radio4houston.org, wb4j@yahoo.com, renteria22@yahoo.com
>Subject: Re: [kpftilab] Re: LAB votes 4 investigation of Buzzanco incident
>Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 07:18:52 -0500
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >--- In kpftilab@y..., "Edwin Johnston" <edi@h...> wrote:
> > > >feel free to forward<
> > >
> > > Last night the KPFT Local Advisory Board voted in favor of an
> >investigation
> > > of the "Buzzanco incident." Pacifica national board
member, George
> >Barnstone
> > > will chair an ad hoc committee to get to the facts of the case.
> > > What is not in dispute are the facts of what Bob Buzzanco said
on
> >the air
> > > during his program following a program titled "Jewish Voices"
which
> >featured
> > > specially invited guests and hosts. Buzzanco came on the mic
to say
> >that
> > > (paraphrasing): "The following hour was something you'd
expect to
> >hear on
> > > FOX News. They are apologists for Israeli terrorists. We now
return
> >you to
> > > regular Pacifica programming." As well as (paraphrasing):
"That
> >show has no
> > > place at all on Pacifica radio." It's all on tape as an
air check.
> >The
> > > facts in dispute are whether Buzzanco called American Jewish
> >Committee
> > > member, Donna La Paz, a "Jew" in a deliberatley derogatory
manner
> >as she
> > > claims, which Buzzanco denies. However, Buzzanco had denied to
the
> >KPFT
> > > manager that he said what he did on the air, until the manager
told
> >him he
> > > had it on tape.
> > > At last night's meeting, KPFT manager, Duane Bradley said that
after
> > > confronting Buzzanco on the incident, Buzzanco apologized (to
> >Bradley).
> > > Bradley also said he was composing an apology to the guests of
the
> >Jewish
> > > Voices program on behalf of KPFT. (Q: Will Buzzanco apologize
to the
> > > guests?) Bradley also said that he was angry at Buzzanco for
his on
> >air
> > > comments which were "Wrong!" and related that all programs
produced
> >at
> > > Pacifica stations are "regular Pacifica programming",
meaning that
> >Buzzanco
> > > was quite arrogant to claim that his show is the only one to
> >represent
> > > Pacifica (or those who he approves of, IMO.) The Jewish Herald
> >newspaper
> > > sent the KPFT manager a letter of complaint concerning the issue.
> > > So, the witnesses will be gathered and the evidence will be gone
> >over. Then
> > > we shall get a complete report.
> > > From what I got out of Bradley's statements last night, this
will
> >help us
> > > set some rules for on-air decorum and decorum at the station,
> >generally.
> >
http://www.houston.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=3168
But not all Buzzanco's words
by .-D 9:10pm Tue Apr 30 '02
edi@hal-pc.org
He also said that the station-invited guests had "no place on Pacifica
airwaves" a half hour alter and is alleged to have called American Jewish
Committee member, Donna La Paz, a "Jew" to her face, in a derogatory
manner.
For these and more reasons, buzzanco's comments and rude behavior are being
investigated by Pacifica officials.
More words
by .-D 9:16pm Tue Apr 30 '02
edi@hal-pc.org
According to the station manager, at the last Local Advisory Board meeting,
Buzzanco denied saying these things on the air, but then when confronted
with the fact that the manager had heard the recordings, he was forced to
provide and apology to the station manager for violating station policy for
trashing fellow KPFt broadcasters on the air.
After the investigation, I would hope that he is forced to apologize to the
guests themselves and the listeners as well.
http://www.mcabee.org/lists/newpacifica/May-02/msg00212.html
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=154569&article=3288
A historian friend told me that Buzzanco who academic
schtick was to go to meetings and piss and
Tue May 14 21:31:56 2002
208.191.151.209
moan that they were ignoring him cuz he was a Leftist.
(like reactionary HIV/AIDS denyer Pete Dusberg used to do at all the
retrovirus meetings I went to in the 80s)
Finally everyone got so sick of him bellyaching that they gave Buzzanco an
award to shut him up.
Maybe if we give him the first annual KPFT anti-first amendment award for
his heroic efforts to silence debate, he'll quit sulking and get back to his
synchophantic Chomsky interviews.
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=154569&article=2421
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=154569&article=2426
.-D
Oh, Scooter-pie, bee-Hayve!
Fri Apr 26 20:13:08 2002
206.180.129.247
Curt "Scooter" Schroell is scared of what the investigation will reveal.
This is Scooter's new nickname for George Barnstone, which he applies in his
usual sadistic manner: "If the stuffed suit Garland appointed Barnyard
moron
..." The points that Scooter leaves out of his rant are that KPFT guest
programmer, Donna La Paz, of the American Jewish Committee claims that KPFT
programmer, Bob Buzzanco called her a "Jew" to her face in an intentionally
derogatory manner, that he leered at and tried to intimidate the guests
while they were on the air, and violated a station policy of not abusing
fellow KPFT broadcasters over the KPFT airwaves. As well, Scooter implies
that all the guests were drawn from the Israeli Consulate in Houston, which
is completely untrue. A consular official was on the program, but so was Ms.
La Paz, a Rabbi, and other representatives of the Jewish community in
Houston. Buzzanco also said of the guests of the program on his own program
directly afterwards, that they "have no place on Pacifica airwaves."
Scooter
is trying to prevent a proper investigation from taking place and is lying
about the incident to serve that aim.