Assange Analog?

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Julian Assange and Jerry Eversole - more in common than strange last names?

Here's a Fluxus riddle:  What do WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and Harris County Commissioner Jerry Eversole have in common?

Answer:  a lot more than you might think.

In addition to the fact that both were recently indicted (Assange for rape, Eversole for bribery); locked in irons and dragged before magistrates for arraignment (Assange in the UK, Eversole in Houston); both men also sport a mean Silver Fox do (Assange from worrying about 'a Jack Ruby style assassination',  Eversole from being 67 years old.)

OK, ok.  Periscope admits to playing the old Separated@Birth? game made popular by pioneer snarkzine Spy in the 90's.  We could go on, but Spy's been shut down over a dozen years now and S@B gets boring quickly.

So what do WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and Harris County Commissioner Jerry Eversole have in common?  Really?

How about this: both of them really, absolutely, completely pissed off the wrong people (more about that tomorrow).

Our Answer above notwithstanding, here's one interesting thing Assange and The Commissioner definitely don't have in common:  Assange seems to have exerted masterful control of the media as he exited a jail cell in London a week ago. Whereas Periscope has observed that Eversole's mouthpiece, Houston criminal defense legend Rusty Hardin, found it necessary to retain legal PR whiz Mary Flood for his client - and yet Eversole was still described as "chewing gum and flush-faced " by Houston journalist without an editor Chris Moran.  

And while Moran may have not gotten his journalism training at Harvard, Flood got her law license there and only practiced three years before becoming a media practitioner.  She's smart, well regarded and (assuming she can coax Eversole into forgoing the Juicy Fruit when a lens is present) will no doubt do an effective spin job for him.

If Periscope were doing her job (alas, no one asked us...) we'd certainly think about the Julian Assange angle.  Not the hair...  the part about pissing off powerful people - which can land you in irons on either side of the Atlantic Ocean.

We know full well who Julian pissed off.  Say... just about every high level politician in the G20.  Dumb move - but at least he's got a nobel laureate standing next to him telling everyone he's a noble guy on a noble mission.

If anyone in Harris County politics actually likes Jerry Eversole.... Periscope has yet to read or hear an account of it.  There's a fairly well established axiom in the PR biz is that if the only guy saying good things about you is your lawyer - he should say them quietly.  Probably not in the cards for Rusty to talk softly - those who carry big sticks seldom do really.  But you would think Flood could flush out a guy who at least 10% of the jury pool recognizes to say that Eversole was a hell of a baseball coach or something.  Anything positive.

Anybody?

Ferris?

Tomorrow:  so who did Jerry piss off?