Bruce Eberle
told CBS that Bobby is from the 'Texas branch of the Eberle clan'.
Yet in this Kos diary there's a reporter being told that the two "are not related by blood."
I think the Eberle's are related in some way, and are trying desperately to down-play that fact.
To highly-connected conservatives, I'd imagine the Gannon story is radioactive - something they want to be as far from as possible. (You've also got the Texas Republican party saying they've never heard of Bobby Enderle.) Bobby Eberle, meanwhile, is saying he won't say anything about his former reporter, Jeff Gannon.