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| Netlore Archive: Email flier claims T. Bubba Bechtol, supposedly a part-time city councilman in Pensacola, Florida, was ejected from a radio studio for remarks defending the torture of Iraqi prisoners | |||
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Email example contributed by Art R., 3 September 2004:
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Subject: City Councilman Ejected T. Bubba Bechtol, part time City Councilman from Pensacola, Florida, was asked on a local live radio talk show the other day just what he thought of the allegations of torture of the Iraqi prisoners. His reply prompted his ejection from the studio, but to thunderous applause from the audience. "If hooking up an Iraqi prisoner's scrotum to a car's battery cables will save one American GI's life, then I have just two things to say: "Red is positive, black is negative" |
Comments: True, sort of. A quick Google search reveals that there is a T. Bubba Bechtol, that he lives in Pensacola, Florida, and that he did make public comments resembling the above.
Mr. Bechtol is not, however — nor has he ever been — a city councilman, "part-time" or otherwise; he's an entertainer, self-described on his Website as a stand-up comic/recording artist.
On his Weblog, Bechtol says he made the statement during a July 2004 performance, "and radio has picked it up and ran with it." His words were transcribed into an email towards the end of August and have circulated on the Internet ever since.
"Yes, I said it," writes Bechtol. "No, I'm not sorry I said it and I meant every word of it and I will continue to use it in my show when appropriate. It is exactly how I feel."
Sources and further reading:
T. Bubba Bechtol
Official WebsiteT. Bubba Bechtol's Weblog
Containing "T. Bubba's Random Thoughts"
Last updated: 09/13/04
