HI! My name is… (WHAT?) My name is… (WHO?) My name is… JIM LUERS!
Back in April, State broadcaster VTV and weekly political gossip rag Quinto Dia quoted White House spokeman Jim Luers saying that reports that the U.S. is investigating Diosdado Cabello are “totally false”.
Days later, El Nacional called the White House to confirm if any Jim Luers worked there. The answer? Nope.
This week, El Nacional kept up its search for this Jim Luers, asking the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and the FBI’s NYC offices. The answer, once again: “no Jim Luers here”.
Interestingly enough, some Caracas Chronicles commenters brought the case to our attention at the time and noticed that Luers has been quoted in multiple times in Venezuela-related news by either State media or other outlets. The fun thing is that in each of those articles, his work description shifted from spokeman to investigator to FBI agent to analyst and so on.
A real jack of all trades, then.
Argentinean journalist Mario Szichman launched his own inquiry for Tal Cual and published this article in late April, which confirmed the phantasmagoria surrounding Mr. Luers. But that has not stopped State media outlets and even PSUV MP (and journalist) Earle Herrera from going ahead and quoting Mr. Luers. That report, btw, comes from State news agency AVN just came a couple of weeks ago, which probably was the reason why El Nacional went ahead with its follow-up article.
Jim Luers, it’s pretty clear, just doesn’t exist. Yet the hegemony still trusts him 100%. And that’s show how far it will go to impose their version of the story.
Caracas Chronicles 
I can’t believe how sloppy this post is, Gustavo. If you’d done just a little bit of research, you’d know that Jim Luers is real. He’s actually the spokesperson for Little Debbie. (https://youtu.be/s8rev7S3lC8)
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Gustavo is clearly a fascist looking to destabilize Venezuela…
/s
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The Hegemony has difficulty spelling names that aren’t from the patria. As I think caracas chronicles has pointed out, they have trouble spelling period. So it could be Jim Hendrix for all we know.
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I believe his correctly-spelled name is Jim LOSER, and he’s in black ops, ergo you can’t Google him.
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Another bullshit from hegemoncorp, as usual.
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Any relation to William Luers? former Ambassador to Venezuela. http://www.state.gov/p/io/unesco/members/48907.htm
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So far, I haven’t found any connection. Thanks for the tip.
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Back when we heard Irwin Cotler would join Lopez’s defense team, Telesur used a fake South African official quote saying Cotler was not a part of Mandela’s legal team.
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There is the anchor on PBS Newshour, Jim Lehrer which when pronounced badly and quickly which a spanish accent could be misconstrued as Jim Luers. I wonder whether some idiot chavista is trying to pass things off as coming from that source? Long shot, but maybe that is the person they are trying to say created all this mis-information?
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So then they got confused about the difference between a journalist and an FBI Agent?
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I dunno, guys, looks pretty legit to me…
https://twitter.com/RealJimLuers
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Well, my journalistic career is now over.
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No, read the profile. It is totally false. Por amor de dios que cara es un FBI agent “with responsibility”for the western Hemisphere? o eres un spokesman de la casa blanca o eres FBI, y realmente con la construccion, es totalmente falso
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No sé, para mi es logico. OK, sí, un poco casual que la cuenta haya sido abierta esta tarde, y justo después de salir el articulo de GEHA, pero fijate bien, la foto tiene una bandera gringa. Debe ser de verdad. Ademas lee los tuits bien, se nota que ese carajo conoce la política de la casa blanca en detalle.
Bueno, ni modo GEHA habrá que retractarse…
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Bueno… back to sell empanadas with my old man.
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I’m sure Mr. Lawrence E. Strickling will be amused about this shenanigan. Someday. If he ever finds out. Perhaps.
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/page/2011/lawrence-e-strickling
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Your journalistic career, Gustavo, has been saved by Johnny! I would hazard that the photo on the ntia link is of Lawrence Strickling and that the twitter account is bogus (sorry, Quico). Nice detective work, Johnny! How the heck did you discover that one?
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Verrrrryy interesting, Jim Luers says White House Backs Maradona for FIFA presidency.
That right THERE, tells you it’s legit.
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This profile was only just made. I don’t know how legit it is!
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You’d almost think someone ON THIS VERY COMMENT THREAD had started it…
;)
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Almost as if…
Bien hecho, Francisco.
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Well played. You may have a second career at The Onion.
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I was thinking earlier today that this screamed for a parody twitter account. Chiguire-esque.
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te apuesto 3 lochas a que en VTV, Telesur van a usar esta cuenta para probar la existencia de este fulano…
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“The White House confirms that it is rubber and you are glue.”
It is on Twitter… It MUST be true!
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Jim Luers is gonna be really mad when he finds out about this “Lawrence E. Strickling” using his picture
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/blog/2015/innovation-collaboration-and-sharing-35-ghz-band
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That will justify the fraud charges.
Obviously, if that picture is really Lawrence Strickling, Caracas Chronicles should contact him and ask that fraud charges be filed with the threat charges (see above).
Conviction would be doubtful, but ownership of https://jimluers.wordpress.com/about/ could be traced back to whoever paid the bill.
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Brilliant. If all else fails you have a job at The Onion
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That photo of Jim (ahem …) on twitter could have come out of some brochure as one of the guys you need to see if you have a claim against Allstate Insurance. Or maybe Dos Equis is quietly grooming him as their next ‘most interesting man in the world?’ I dunno. That Jim Luers is surely a weird looking guy..
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Whoever is tweeting for RealJimLuers has been working nearly constantly for the last day.
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Agreed, it’s impressive
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Si vale que carajo más ocioso…
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El semanario venezolano Quinto Día, del 17 al 24 de abril de 2015, reseñó en su contraportada que “definitivamente no prosperó la denuncia contra Diosdado Cabellos en Estados Unidos. El informe del vocero Jim Luers, advirtió que las acusaciones de un militar de la armada que pidió refugio (Leamsy Salazar), resultaron totalmente falsas”.
Crystal clear, the charges against Diosdado CabelloS did not go through. However, the charges against Cabello may have…
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Hilarious
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This is too good to be true… I wonder if the gov’t made Jim Luers up or if someone has been trolling them all along… It’d be beautiful
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My bet is that they made him up, they aren’t THAT stupid, despite appereances.
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well… If they made him up, and they are not that stupid, why not change the name every time they made up a story?
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Why bother? The Kool-Aid drinkers won’t read US press releases or believe El Nacional.
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If you throw enough s__t against a wall, some of it will stick.
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Aquí Javier
Basic Account Info
usuario @: RealJimLuers
Nombre Asociado: Jim Luers
Id del Usuario: 3235355665
Hay otros usuarios autorizados a escribir en esta cuenta, True es si False es no: False
Fecha de Creacion: Wed Jun 03 18:13:05 +0000 2015
Lugar Registro del Usuario: Washington, DC
Usuario permite saber donde se emiten sus tweets? True es si, false es no: False
Idioma usado para editar la cuenta del usuario: en
La cuenta tiene el avatar original? True si, False no: False
Lugar a efectos de GMT: None
La cuenta esta verificada por Twitter: False
URL asociado a la cuenta: https://t.co/ZPf6lgaaHi
Numero de seguidores: 18
A cuantas cuentas sigue: 101
Cuantos Twits ha emitido: 20
En cuantas listas aparece este usuario: 1
Descripcion de la cuenta: White House Spokesman and FBI agent with responsibility for the Western Hemisphere/Vocero de la Casa Blanca y Agente del FBI Para el Hemisferio Occidental
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Go ahead, you can open a Twitter account
http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/
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I take offense to your questioning of my existence
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I looked up your picture in your Twitter account in Google, Google found it and it seems to belong to Lawrence E. Strickling who in March of this year was a US Governent Official at the Dept of Commerce
I can not post pictures here but you can go to my post where you can see the pictures at: http://notiven.com
So, is Mr Strikling using your picture or you are using his
Lets see how long your Twitter account will last
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And I take offence at YOU pretending to be me!
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Guys
I looked up the picture of that Jim Leurs place in Google, Google found it and it seems to belong to Lawrence E. Strickling who in March of this year was a US Governent Official at the Dept of Commerce
I can not post pictures here but you can go to my post where you can see the pictures at: http://notiven.com
Javier
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Plenty of time to joke around:
“One review in the British Medical Journal found that hunger strikers who choose to continue taking in fluids begin to feel severe starvation symptoms after around 35 to 40 days. That’s when many develop confusion, hallucinations and convulsions. Shortly after, they begin to experience organ failure, which can lead to death on its own or to fatal heart attacks”.
Lopez is a triathlete, gotta be more concerned about Ceballos.
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Jim Loony?
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Jim Luers is enormously touched at the beatification of Archbishop Romero…
https://jimluers.wordpress.com/2015/06/04/statement-by-the-president-on-the-beatification-of-archbishop-oscar-romero/
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love the “About” in Jim Luers’s website:
“I am a White House spokesman and FBI agent with responsibility for the Western Hemisphere.”
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Whoever is behind that blog and twitter has entirely too much time on their hands
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I totally agree with you
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Take your Tomato QUico!
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Quico, the page you present shows Jim Luers introducing himself as “whitehouse spokeman and FBI agent”….somehow it reminded me of the famous “Roger Ranget, heroe de multitudes y tío simpático a más no poder” ….or maybe a Mel Brooks character.
I think Maxwell Smart should investigate.
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Finally we have a John Galt, it couldn’t be more appropriate and timely, ours is sort of goofy, but it will have to do.
I will start: WHO IS JIM LUERS?
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Quico – as the Brits say – you are totally taking the piss! Thanks for the laughs this morning, guys.
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Is he on loan from the FBI to the White House or the other way around?
Come on guys, how can anyone believe this guy is real?
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Agent Luers was recently transferred as a Special Consultant from the DHS, Homeland Security.
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Hello guys, let me post an update on this case.. I swear I’m not making this up lol!
Apparently, the “Real” Jim Luers just opened a new twitter account:
https://twitter.com/RealJimLuers?lang=es
I googled his profile pic on twitter, it let me to a real Lawrence E. Strickling from the US Dept. of Commerce:
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/page/2011/lawrence-e-strickling
#CATFISH
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Lol, sucks to be late to the party. In any case, Jim Leuers just doppleganged itself (this time cropping the photo to avoid google image search):
https://twitter.com/RealJimLuers?lang=es
I have the name of this one on the tip of my tounge, can’t remember it.. do u guys have it?
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Never mind…. que boletas..
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US Secretary of Treasury
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Vote this one of the top ten posts of the year for redefining Absurdizuela for me.
Two thoughts on Luer: first, I thought it might be a case of bad spelling. I mean, Venezuelans have mangled standard english spelling to the extent they can’t even spell “John”: http://www.el-nacional.com/politica/Venezuela-rechaza-declaraciones-funcionario-EEUU_0_640735960.html
Then it occurred that the name rings a bell. Indeed, there is a famous “luer lock” (see the wikipedia) named in honor of the 19th-century German medical instrument maker Hermann Wülfing Luer. Perhaps someone was inspired after sitting in a hospital too long awaiting treatment?
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For Townie, that was my question. I knew Ambassador Luers in Caracas. I believe he had two tours, there but am not sure. I don’t think it is a very common name. Maybe someone just picked out a last name of someone State Department related and changed the first name.:-)?!
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