More Fun in Obamaconspiracyville: In Which Larry Sinclair Gets Arrested

I blogged a few weeks back about a convicted criminal, Larry Sinclair, who'd been begging the media to cover his wild allegations about Barack Obama. Today Sinclair trotted into the National Press Club to air the allegations before what can literally be described as an audience of international press, and can more accurately be described as an amused bunch of people taking in a circus act.

It had been a difficult morning for Sinclair. The Politico's Ben Smith published a short feature on Sinclair's 27-year criminal record of fraud and petty crimes; Greta Van Susteren linked the story, and told viewers/readers why she has ignored him. "While the internet is a great communication and educational tool, it is also viral when it comes to smearing people," she wrote, prompting commenters to call her a cover-up artist and an agent of Barack Obama. It got worse when Sinclair's lawyer Montgomery Sibley—whose license is currently suspended in D.C. and Florida—showed up in a kilt and told reporters that his above-average endowment made slacks tight and uncomfortable. The Rev. James David Manning, who gained web celebrity in April for a YouTube'd sermon in which he called Obama a "long-legged mack daddy," sat in the crowd of 50 or so with his family. He didn't take questions.

How did Sinclair hold up? Rather terribly. He started with a lengthy statement that admitted most (not all) of his crimes and dispatched Sibley to run around the room with a microphone. As Seth Colter Walls recounts, most of the questions were legalistic and (somewhat) credulous. Sinclair was asked who funded the event (donors, over the internet), how he made his living (he's on disability), and whether Obama was "well hung" (I'm not going to dignify his answer here). The only new "evidence" he presented was the name of a limo driver and the bar where he claimed to have met Obama (who, in Sinclair's story, used his real name and job title as he rendevouzed with a cruising criminal he'd never met before).

I only got to ask one question: What time of day did Sinclair meet with Obama on November 6th and November 7th? In Sinclair's story, Obama partied with him on the 6th and traveled to his hotel in Gurnee, IL (an hour and change from Hyde Park) on the 7th. Sinclair smiled at the question. "We met in the early evening of November 6th," he said. "As far as a specific time on November 7th, I can not provide that to you." He added, parenthetically: "And I know where this question is coming from."

"You know where this question is coming from?"

"Thank you." Sinclair moved on and Sibley refused to let me ask another question. Why didn't I wait until the end of the press conference and rush up to the accuser? The second Sinclair stopped taking questions, he fled the room and reporters were denied access to anyone but Sibley. I was a little disappointed until I heard the reason. Larry Sinclair was arrested after the press conference and is being held by the Washington, D.C. metropolitan police. He's been charged as a fugitive from justice; one of his warrants can be seen here.

UPDATE: More details here.

UPDATE: The always-worthwhile Tim Shipman has his own account, in which I appear as a "journalist" who angers and stumps Sinclair.

Between coughing fits, Mr Sinclair claimed that he has given details of phone calls between him, the limousine driver and Mr Obama to the Chicago police. He was forced to correct one of the mobile numbers he read out, a typing error in the glossy printed statement we were each handed.

Mr Sinclair offered a hotel receipt that appears to show he was in the Chicago area at the time he claims his bizarre liaison occurred. But he was not able to provide any phone records from 1999.

He named the limousine driver as Paramjit Multani and said that the two had been in contact during the early part of the year but that now Mr Multani and his family have disappeared. This is convenient to say the least. The documents he supplied listed a limo driver as Rashpal Multani instead.

I feel deeply for the newspaper reporter who's assigned to dig into this—every indication is that Sinclair wants to send some people on a goose chase to stretch out his 15 minutes of fame. And is anyone surprised to find that Larry Johnson posted Sinclair's rambling statement in full? What is it about Obama and guys named Larry?

Comments

Adamness | June 18, 2008, 7:03pm | #

This is a great time to be alive.

Bill DerBerger | June 18, 2008, 7:06pm | #

They are trying to shut him up. Like the convict who had the goods on Bush's cocaine use.

Art-P.O.G. | June 18, 2008, 7:08pm | #

A line from Nas' "Ether" (one of the great diss tracks ever recorded) seems inappropriately appropriate to describe Sinclair: "You a dick-riding faggot, you love the attention"

Other Matt | June 18, 2008, 7:08pm | #

It got worse when Sinclair's lawyer Montgomery Sibley—whose license is currently suspended in D.C. and Florida—showed up in a kilt and told reporters that his above-average endowment made slacks tight and uncomfortable

Dammit, just got home, cracked a Mike's Lemonade, doing a bit of reading. Now look at the damn mess I made spraying it around the room through my nostrils.

Ames | June 18, 2008, 7:08pm | #

as a legitimately disabled person, I wonder how someone like sinclair can be receiving disability payments...

Statler and Waldorf | June 18, 2008, 7:12pm | #

...and whether Obama was "well hung" (I'm not going to dignify his answer here).

Weigel knows the answer to that -- he sucks it often enough.

Rick H. | June 18, 2008, 7:23pm | #

Quibble: I believe the third paragraph's made-up Franco-Anglais idiom should be spelled "rendezvoused."

concernvoter | June 18, 2008, 7:41pm | #

Larry fears for his life after this exposure and therefore this arrangement: be arrested after the press conference. Come on! This is so obvious! Remember he told the public he received a serious death threat?!

name withheld to protect the guilty | June 18, 2008, 7:45pm | #

This schmuck claims he gave Obama $250 to buy him a ball; no wonder he's got an ax to grind. I'd be pissed too if I got ripped off like that. Who the hell pays $250 for a ball?? Was he buying one for Obama too?

concernedvoter | June 18, 2008, 7:46pm | #

Larry knews what he was doing. That was what Larry wanted - laid himself off as messenger and to be arrested and be asked all quiestions and given a chances to provide details of what really happened. There were more than Obama himself whatever illegal drug or sex, there was a human life taken away. Young was murdered and the silience is unusual. The murder case is still under quiet investigation out there. People, don't assume those polices are fools!

brdc4 | June 18, 2008, 7:49pm | #

is the kilt thing with the lawyer true? did he really wear a kilt because he was "so well-endowed" that he said normal pants wouldn't fit him?

blobby | June 18, 2008, 7:52pm | #

Anyone who could still possibly think that this guy has even a sliver of credibility should seriously consider having their heads surgically removed from their rectums.

agum | June 18, 2008, 7:55pm | #

Larry fears for his life after this exposure and therefore this arrangement: be arrested after the press conference.

Larry: TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS!
Auctioneer: But the bid is already up to $8000, sir.
Larry: How do we know it's not a fake? It looks like a fake.
Auctioneer: I wonder if I could ask the gentleman to get into the spirit
of the proceedings.
Larry: My money is as good as anybody's!
Policeman: You'd better leave, sir.

Kwix | June 18, 2008, 7:56pm | #

Dave,
I suppose less interesting things could have occurred in DC on a Wednesday, eh? Hell of a way to start off the day.

cmd | June 18, 2008, 8:00pm | #

Does this mean the HRC Alamoists (or the Russert Grave Dancers, as I may start calling them)have to find another polygraph failing felon to rally behind?

What about that guy that pickets military funerals? He must be available since they passed that law....

Lazlo | June 18, 2008, 8:01pm | #

Someone said

"They are trying to shut him up."

Uh, who exactly is trying to shut him up? I mean this was his big day at the NPC, his chance to clear the record and provide all the damning evidence against Obama, and what did he provide? Not a damn thing.


This guy is some wacked out meth head criminal loser whose 15 seconds came and went like a fart in the wind. What a complete idiot he is , giving himself all this attention and he didn't know there were warrants out against him?

Mitch and Nan | June 18, 2008, 8:02pm | #

Nan and I arranged for Larry's arrest this afternoon.

You can read the story on our blog.

Thanks for reporting it.

Warren Commission | June 18, 2008, 8:02pm | #

Much like his cocaine use, Barack Obama greatly exaggerated his homosexual "experimentation" in order to throw the Clinton Smear Machine off track.

Seitz | June 18, 2008, 8:03pm | #

Gurnee, IL (an hour and change from Hyde Park Must have been before they started that damn construction on the Edens. It took me two and a half hours to get from Mundelein to Lincoln Park two weeks ago. Goddamn IDOT!

Warren Commission | June 18, 2008, 8:07pm | #

When will the real Obama scandals be revealed?
His "associations" with the Communist-front "Old Left" since conception?

His ties to corruption and organized crime in Chi-Town?

Obama is much more, and much less, than he seems.

Will his handlers be revealed before the election?

joe | June 18, 2008, 8:10pm | #

Damn, send in the clowns, huh?

Metal Messiah | June 18, 2008, 8:12pm | #

It got worse when Sinclair's lawyer Montgomery Sibley—whose license is currently suspended in D.C. and Florida—showed up in a kilt and told reporters that his above-average endowment made slacks tight and uncomfortable.

You know, when I was a younger I used to think David Lynch movies were weird.

I stopped thinking that a long time ago.

joe | June 18, 2008, 8:16pm | #

My air sacks have never felt so good!

Laughing Like Crazy | June 18, 2008, 8:19pm | #

Is there a video of the press conference on the Internet? I want to see the part where his disbarred lawyer says he wears a kilt because he's too well-hung for pants!!

Happy Jack | June 18, 2008, 8:19pm | #

showed up in a kilt and told reporters that his above-average endowment made slacks tight and uncomfortable.

Either baggy pants have gone out of style, or he has to to hide the tusks that go with the trunk.

Warren Commission | June 18, 2008, 8:24pm | #

Obama clearly has masterful "handlers".
He isn't running around like the typical Democrat POTUS candidate, exaggerating his exploits in the 'Nam contrary to indisputable history, making manic grandiose claims to having invented the internet,telling americans they will have to get used to turning down the thermosat, eating like 3rd worlders and taking the bus......
Wait! Scratch that last one. It seems even the most masterful of handlers fuck it up sometimes.

dan fROMDELAWARE | June 18, 2008, 8:26pm | #

Speculation is he was busted on a Delaware warrant. Woo-hoo!

t. j. | June 18, 2008, 8:31pm | #

has reason talked themselves into being obama supporters now? ("well in a WAY he's alright for libertarianism...") after listening to welch rant about mccain and not wanting to vote for the libertarian guy who wrote the defense of marriage act maybe they've made up their minds to cover only the lunatic obama attacks and made it seem as if all criticism of obama is invalid.

Return of the Mack | June 18, 2008, 8:32pm | #

What does the Rev. Manning have against big-titted white women?

Happy Jack | June 18, 2008, 8:36pm | #

I only got to ask one question

Your big chance Weigel, and you blew it.

You could have asked about the NaftaSuperhighway, and uploaded his response on YouTube.

Seitz | June 18, 2008, 8:38pm | #

Laughing Like Crazy: Click on the link under "Mitch and Nan" at 8:02. There's a video on their site.

quite confined | June 18, 2008, 8:44pm | #

From Seth Colter Walls report of the press conference:

"I don't know why men wear pants," he said with a poker face. "It's a function of male genitalia. If you're size normal or smaller, you're probably comfortable with [pants]. ... Those at the other end of the spectrum find them quite confining."

Makes you wonder if this guy is intentionally trying to sabotage his client. Of course it's not like his client needs any outside help discrediting himself.

joe | June 18, 2008, 8:51pm | #

Warren Commission,

I find your ideas interesting, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Ali | June 18, 2008, 8:53pm | #

This stuff is crazy. Strange times.

Pro Libertate | June 18, 2008, 9:04pm | #

Bagpipes. Kilts. It's the Scottish Renaissance! Haggis and scotch all around!

Hugh Akston | June 18, 2008, 9:18pm | #

This has to be a DNC black bag job. Trying to out-smear the GOP before they can gat any good dirt on Obama. By the time the Red team has any legitimate dis, the press will dismiss it as the boy who cried whitey.

Elizabeth | June 18, 2008, 9:18pm | #

I got such a chuckle out of this story.

TallDave | June 18, 2008, 9:37pm | #

I'm not sure why there's this focus on rumors while facts coming out about Rezko are largely ignored.

Maybe it's because I'm in IL and it's a bigger story here.

agum | June 18, 2008, 9:48pm | #

It got worse when Sinclair's lawyer Montgomery Sibley—whose license is currently suspended in D.C. and Florida—showed up in a kilt and told reporters that his above-average endowment made slacks tight and uncomfortable.

You know, when I was a younger I used to think David Lynch Mike Myers movies were weird funny.

Fixed that for you, Metal Messiah!

TallDave | June 18, 2008, 9:51pm | #

Wow McCain's calling for 45 new nuclear pwoer plants.

Is Obama anti-nuke? Haven't heard anything one way or the other.

Let's start a rumor!

YogiBear | June 18, 2008, 9:51pm | #

Circus clowns for McCain. Go McCain.

Laughing Like Crazy | June 18, 2008, 9:58pm | #

Seitz 8:38, I watched the link but it doesn't show the lawyer being questioned about the kilt. Damn!

So Drunk he Doesn't Want to Admit his Handle | June 18, 2008, 10:02pm | #

cracked a Mike's Lemonade

So you are a 16 year old girl or a "man who is no man"?

By the way I need to go get more beer. These livers don't destroy themselves!

Paul | June 18, 2008, 10:03pm | #

In which you have a nice title for the post *laffin*

Show props to the Mitch and Nan crew - they have been tireless in keeping papatard in check and, indeed, arranged for his arrest.

TallDave | June 18, 2008, 10:18pm | #

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDmyToTYBE

Hmmm, he sounds vaguely in favor -- "we should explore nuclear power as part of the energy mix" -- before veering off to talk about werewolves, Dick Cheney, and other scary monsters like Big Oil.

So Drunk he Doesn't Want to Admit his Handle | June 18, 2008, 10:20pm | #

What kind of grocery store closes at 10 PM?

fnord | June 18, 2008, 10:25pm | #

The question concerning whether or not Sinclair knows if Obama is well-hung is indeed, evidence, despite your protestations to the contrary.

Why is Reason.com censoring damning evidence concerning the most statist presidential candidate?

Is this still a libertarian publication?

joe | June 18, 2008, 10:27pm | #

If I were backing a candidate with such a bleak outlook that his only chance of winning was to mount a campaign of slander against my opponent and hope it was credible...

and I saw some loon who was also mounting a campaign of slander against that candidate, for his own purposes...

and I was afraid that a constant stream of absurdities like that would undermine the credibility of my own slander campaign...

why, I'd probably try to change the subject whenever people started talking about it.

Not Laughing So Hard Now | June 18, 2008, 10:33pm | #

The Plot Gets Thicker?

After I got finished laughing at the well-hung lawyer in the kilt, I did some more clicking around, and found out that Larry Sinclair is not the one who paid for the room where the press conference was held.

It was paid for by "Veritas Federal Media," which appears to be the same as "Veritas Media Group." It has some interesting political ties to the far right wing.

Its owner is a far right-wing consultant who appears on Fox, CNN, and CNBC, and owns at least one radio station.

It seems as if someone other than just an oddball ex-con and his weirdo lawyer might have had an interest in spreading this junk.

Naga Sadow | June 18, 2008, 10:39pm | #

Soooooo . . . a kilt is more comfortable than pants if you're well hung? Thanks for the tip, now I've gotta find a store that carries kilts!

SIV | June 18, 2008, 10:44pm | #

What kind of grocery store closes at 10 PM?

All the ones that aren't open 24 hours

So Drunk he Doesn't Want to Admit his Handle | June 18, 2008, 10:59pm | #

SIV: Good, now tell me why I can't get a woman.

SIV | June 18, 2008, 11:03pm | #

You have the same size brain as they do.
Women like bigger brains, the kind lesbians and straight guys have.Ron Bailey explains it all on another thread. Scroll is your friend

Greg | June 18, 2008, 11:03pm | #

AS long as we're in the gutter, I want to know what the answer was when he was asked how "well hung" Obama is!! And, more to the point, how was Sinclair in a position to know???

MikeB | June 18, 2008, 11:04pm | #

Is this still a libertarian publication?

Good point fnord. I have yet to figure out why this crap is posted here. Wouldn't it be far batter to compare and contrast the horrible economic and liberty destroying policies of Obama McCain with those of Bob Barr.

I honestly can't figure out how people believe that Obama isn't just another power hungry dirt-bag

SIV | June 18, 2008, 11:07pm | #

Whoops

Some new guy named Mike Riggs links the homo "brain science" story, not Bailey.

Warren Commission | June 18, 2008, 11:09pm | #

I honestly can't figure out how people believe that Obama isn't just another power hungry dirt-bag

Obama is just an ignorant tool. His master handlers are the power-hungry dirtbags.

MikeB | June 18, 2008, 11:14pm | #

Obama is just an ignorant tool. His master handlers are the power-hungry dirtbags.

Thanks for the clarification. I think I agree with that statement and your prior one reguarding Oswald a few decades ago.

So Drunk he Doesn't Want to Admit his Handle | June 18, 2008, 11:15pm | #

Is this guy calling me a homosexual?

Johnny LaRue | June 18, 2008, 11:16pm | #

I guess that's why you see so many black guys wearing kilts.

Warren Commission | June 18, 2008, 11:23pm | #

Think of Obama as a Black Laurence Harvey.

and his handlers as Angela Lansbury

TallDave | June 18, 2008, 11:24pm | #

Uh oh, according to Glenn Reynolds CNN has started another scurrilous rumor about Obama:

In an interview with Fortune to be featured in the magazine's upcoming issue, the presumptive Democratic nominee backed off his harshest attacks on the free trade agreement and indicated he didn't want to unilaterally reopen negotiations on NAFTA.

http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/18/magazines/fortune/easton_obama.fortune/

Heh, another move toward libertarianism. Obama looks better every day since the primary ended.

SIV | June 18, 2008, 11:27pm | #

I'm merely offering a potential scientific explanation for you predicament.

joe | June 18, 2008, 11:29pm | #

Since this is turning into an open thread anyway:

SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE UNITED STATES SENATEREPORT ON THE U.S. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY'S PREWAR INTELLIGENCE ASSESSMENTS ON IRAQCONCLUSIONSOVERALL CONCLUSIONS - WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION(U)

Conclusion 1. Most of the major key judgments in the Intelligence Community's October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), Iraq's Continuing Programs for Weapons of Mass Destruction, either overstated, or were not supported by, the underlying intelligence reporting....The major key judgments in the NIE, particularly that Iraq "is reconstituting its nuclear program," "has chemical and biological weapons," was developing an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) "probably intended to deliver biological warfare agents," and that "all key aspects - research & development (R&D), production, and weaponization - of Iraq's offensive biological weapons (BW) program are active and that most elements are larger and more advanced than they were before the Gulf War," either overstated, or were not supported by, the underlying intelligence reporting provided to the Committee...The assessment that Iraq "is reconstituting its nuclear program" was not supported by the intelligence provided to the Committee...The statement in the key judgments of the NIE that "Baghdad has chemical and biological weapons" overstated both what was known and what intelligence analysts judged about Iraq's chemical and biological weapons holdings.

SIV | June 18, 2008, 11:31pm | #

You can trust the science

Naga Sadow | June 18, 2008, 11:44pm | #

Dammit Joe!!! I don't need a silly thing like a congressional hearing to tell me that there was a total fuckup concerning intelligence on WMD's!!! You post something funny right now!

Hugh Akston | June 18, 2008, 11:44pm | #

I honestly can't figure out how people believe that Obama isn't just another power hungry dirt-bag

We're all well aware that Obama is just as power-hungry a dirtbag as the next guy. The problem is that this late in the election, the only choices we have are to cast ones vote for one of two pandering, disingenuous malefactors, or to throw ones vote away on a pandering, disingenuous malefactor of a certain third party.

Or, as I have advocated all along, sit this one out.

Naga Sadow | June 18, 2008, 11:47pm | #

Sorry Joe. Just bored at the moment. Didn't mean to lash out like that.

MikeB | June 18, 2008, 11:51pm | #

Hugh, I still think it would be better if the LP got a large percentage of the vote. Then more of their platform might be taken seriously and incorporated in to one or both of the majors. An even better outcome might be the eventual collapse of one of the major parties.

Bob Barr isn't perfect, but I find myself agreeing with 90% of what he claims. My Obama McCain level of agreement is about 15%

Besides, as Obama and McCain are almost identical, a vote for either would be wasted.

Kolohe | June 19, 2008, 12:04am | #

Did Sinclair break in, or was he invited?

If he was invited, isn't that like a baleen whale sized feeding of a meat space troll?

So Drunk he Doesn't Want to Admit his Handle | June 19, 2008, 12:05am | #

Look at your own hands before holding mine.

TallDave | June 19, 2008, 12:14am | #

Hugh, I still think it would be better if the LP got a large percentage of the vote. Then more of their platform might be taken seriously and incorporated in to one or both of the majors.

Yeah that's why I'm voting LP, as my state's a foregone conclusion (I'm in IL). If we could break 10% it might open some eyes, or at least raise some eyebrows.

larry larry quite contrary | June 19, 2008, 12:32am | #

Here are the questions Mr Sinclair recommends the media ask Sen. Obama.

Will Reason follow up on these?

or do you only investigate the financials of libertarian candidates?

---
1. Why won’t Senator Obama provide his cellphone numbers and telephone records for all his personal and official cell phones held by him for the time period of November 3, 1999 thru November 8, 1999, when we met?

2. Why won’t Senator Obama provide his cellphone numbers and telephone records for all his personal and official cell phones held by Senator Obama or September 2007 – December 23, 2008, the murder of Donald Young?

3. Why won’t Senator Obama provide all email communication both personal and campaign related to and/or from AKP Message & Media from January 18, 2008 through February 29, 2008 for Senator Obama, David Axelrod and David Plouffe?

4. Why won’t Senator Obama provide proof of all payments made from AKP Message & Media, Obama for America, David Axelrod, David Plouffe, and Senator Obama’s accounts for the period of January 18, 2008 through February 29, 2008?

David Weigel | June 19, 2008, 12:38am | #

larry larry quite contrary - Should presidential candidates, or any public figures, be expected to release personal information when a criminal accuses them of something? Seriously? If Sinclair answered my question about November 7 - when Obama allegedly spent 3 hours traveling to and from Gurnee for drugs and sex - I would request Obama's schedule from that day to see if it matched. Since Sinclair puts the burden of proof on Obama, we can safely ignore Sinclair.

I feel deep sympathy for the people being bilked out of their money by this guy.

TallDave | June 19, 2008, 12:44am | #

Should presidential candidates, or any public figures, be expected to release personal information when a criminal accuses them of something?

I accuse you of running a child prostitution ring!

Now, let's see your bank records, scumbag.

TallDave | June 19, 2008, 12:48am | #

Hmmmm. Weigel remains strangely silent on his bank records.

I think we're on to something here.

The Wine Commonsewer | June 19, 2008, 12:50am | #

DAVE! Come clean. You ARE sleeping with Michelle Obama, aren't you?

TallDave | June 19, 2008, 12:56am | #

Is it true Michelle Obama called you "her tighty little whitey?"

We're going to need all your personal communications from the last 30 years.

TallDave | June 19, 2008, 12:59am | #

BREAKING NEWS: Weigel Camp Does Not Deny Tot-Prostitution, "Tighty Whitey" Charges

Brian24 | June 19, 2008, 1:08am | #

I feel deep sympathy for the people being bilked out of their money by this guy.

Strange. I feel NO sympathy for the people being bilked out of their money. By THIS guy?

karen marie | June 19, 2008, 1:10am | #

man oh man, has this guy churned up some hilarious crazies or what?

contrary | June 19, 2008, 1:12am | #

I guess that's a no?

You can't ask for Obama's schedule for that day along with, say the financial records regarding the Obama campaign, Axelrod, Whitehouse.com because of pique... or just because it's impolite to investigate an establishment politician I guess?

If the criminal Tony Rezko makes statements regarding Obama, Reason won't follow them up, since Rezko is a criminal?

McCain is McCooked! | June 19, 2008, 1:23am | #

Sounds like a GOP Homo backroom fraud to me...

Orange Line Special | June 19, 2008, 1:39am | #

A question Weigel forgot to ask is discussed here.

I realize this isn't LibertyRidge or WacoTexas, but isn't a bit odd that he wasn't arrested before or after his big appearance?

At the link above, I was going to use the word "Stalinist" to refer to the reaction of some to the incident. That also might be too strong, but it's not far off.

meee | June 19, 2008, 1:54am | #

I heard that Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho ("Mr. Wide Stance") wants to post bail for'im.

Anita Dickens-Hyde | June 19, 2008, 1:56am | #

Montgomery Silbey's boasting reminds me of an old joke:

Which of the Beatles had the most prominent male endowment?

Peter Best

eh | June 19, 2008, 2:10am | #

So what exactly would be the motivation for this Sinclair guy to be seeking to 'extend his 15 minutes'? Is he trying to get his disability payments stopped?

TallDave | June 19, 2008, 2:34am | #

My guess was he was angling to get into the porn biz.

Syd | June 19, 2008, 3:33am | #

From his record, I'd say he's hoping to make money out of it somehow. Through a payoff by Obama's (fat chance) or through getting donations from suckers on the right wing.

JMR | June 19, 2008, 5:06am | #

fnord, how do you know Obama's more statist than McCain? To me, it's looking like an even match. One's more of a tax/socialist statist and the other's more of a censor/militarist statist, but they're clearly both statists to the extreme. Also, for the record, I resent the idea that Republicans somehow "own" my vote because I'm a libertarian no matter what they scrape from the bottom of their barrel.
JMR

Darkness | June 19, 2008, 5:55am | #

"or through getting donations from suckers on the right wing."

That seems the most likely. They are easy to milk, just ask Ralph Reed.

"-- before veering off to talk about werewolves, Dick Cheney, and other scary monsters like Big Oil."

Oh, thank goodness, someone is finally going to start addressing the werewolf problem. You wouldn't know how hard it is to deal with this without a larger initiative. Hey, try to get the cops interested in a suspected pack in the woods behind your house sometime if you don't believe me. On the upside, fewer deer eat the landscaping now...

John C. Randolph | June 19, 2008, 6:16am | #

Hold on a second... Greta Van Sustern, a member of Elron Hubbard's criminal nut-cult, which has done a whole lot more than its share of smearing people (google for "fair game" and "operation freakout"), is complaining about smearing?

I'm pretty sure that this Sinclair is a nutcase, but this is rather like hearing Goebbels call someone a racist.

-jcr

Taktix® | June 19, 2008, 7:41am | #

I'm pretty sure that this Sinclair is a nutcase, but this is rather like hearing Goebbels call someone a racist.

Godwin at the buzzer!

Incidentally, I wouldn't go around berating Van Sustern for her membership in the Hubbard cult -- her dad was half-alien.

Xenophobe!

TackyParker | June 19, 2008, 7:46am | #

I went to the same church as Monty Sibley in Rockville, and he wears a church. We chatted one time while our daughters were trick-or-treating the Rockville city hall and nearby lawyers offices (near the church) and he told me he wears a kilt because of his Scottish heritage.

He also told me he was suing the Supreme Court.

I would find the tale of his eccentricity funnier if his client Deborah Jeane Palfrey hadn't committed suicide earlier this year after her case was lost (yes, I think he was her civil lawyer not her criminal defense lawyer, but still...)

TackyParker | June 19, 2008, 7:47am | #

Bah, need more coffee. He also wears a kilt to church I meant.

Billy Bob Neck | June 19, 2008, 8:32am | #

I can't understand for the life of me why you'd believe a murderous,left-handed, gay, negro, crackhead voodoo priest over a man who maybe had a little bit of trouble in his life! I got a chart that shows why Larry Sinclair is telling the truth! - http://billybobneck.com/?p=298

Matt | June 19, 2008, 9:08am | #

Where was your line of questioning going on the timetable thing?

tarran | June 19, 2008, 9:23am | #

Tactix,

Not xenophobe - xenuphile!

jtuf | June 19, 2008, 9:37am | #

A few points:

1) Criminal charges should be settled in the courts, not over the web.

2) One person's "speaking truth to power" is another person's "smear". At first glance, it is difficult to tell the difference. That's why I start with skepticism as a general rule.

3) Obama has a multi-million campaign fund to fight smears with. The local police officer or freeholder does not. Now that we know how smears spread on the internet, maybe readers should evaluate all reports more thoroughly before repeating them with so much certainty.

Brian Wood | June 19, 2008, 9:45am | #

Man, you are feeding into the insanity. This was Larry's BIG moment to bring out the goods. He didn't do it because he didn't have anything. His "I know where that question is coming from" statement he made when asked what time he had met Obama to have sex/drugs.

Also, take into consideration this: Larry said Obama, when they first met, told Larry his name and occupation (his Youtube and blog stuff). Then Larry says, on this day, Larry's big "I will give the public the proof" day, Larry says he didn't know who Obama was when they met and didn't know who he (Obama) was until he saw Obama make his 2004 speech at the Democratic convention, when Larry was across the border in Mexico. That's a big fat fucking "HUH?"

This guy is a goof ball. He is looking for a payoff AND he is milking people on the internet for thousands of dollars in the hopes that Larry really might have something. He doesn't have anything. It's a non story. Move on.

Mitch and Nan went undercover to Larry's event and called the marshals from there. Plus, to have arrested Larry before the news conference would have inflamed the conspiracy theory nut jobs out there. "See? They had him arrested to silence him." Although if you read Larry's blog, you will see that his followers/financiers are claiming Larry had himself arrested because he felt his life was in danger.

joe | June 19, 2008, 10:26am | #

About that first update:

If the Blogger News Network actually provided "High quality English language" news, they wouldn't have written this: Larry Sinclair–the gay man who’s accused Senator Barack Obama of sharing gay sex and drugs with him in a Gurnee, IL hotel room in 1999–held a press conference at the National Press Club today.

Pointing out that the sex a man shares with another man, who is gay, is "gay sex," is at best mediocre-quality English language.

joe | June 19, 2008, 10:31am | #

Godwin at the buzzer!

Three!

Two!

One!

"Goebells."

Bzzzzzzzttttttt!

Count it!

Jordan Clinton | June 19, 2008, 11:10am | #

Mitch and Nan | June 18, 2008, 8:02pm | #
Nan and I arranged for Larry's arrest this afternoon.

You can read the story on our blog.

Thanks for reporting it.
______________________________________________
What a pile of BS..lol You live in Paris, yet YOU arranged for Larry's arrest. What a huge ego you both must have.
Federal Marshalls arrested Larry and he is being held for the Pueblo warrant. If he is not picked up by the Colorado Authorities in 24 hours he will be released. Mitch and Nan had absolutely nothing to do with it. Standard procedure here in the USA. There two gasbags are huge liars.

delarius | June 19, 2008, 11:13am | #

Wonkette/Blackbook contributer Liz Glover was there to cover the scene>


THE VIDEO LINK IS HERE

liztv.biz/joke.mov

Jordan Clinton | June 19, 2008, 11:16am | #

What all you Obamabots overlook is the fact that Obama could very well be on the Down Low and involved in drug use, but he is your messiah, so you don't care, make fun and discredit LS all you want, but there are real reporters, not maniacal Obama blogers, investigating this as we speak.I was born and raised in Chicago, and Obama is one of the most corrupt Chicago politicians we have ever produced. His fall will come fast and hard.
Yes, Hillary is in the wings waiting.

Art-P.O.G. | June 19, 2008, 11:18am | #

Ever have the last sentence give away your entire psychology?

Jordan Clinton | June 19, 2008, 11:20am | #

My only psychology is Obama is a fraud.

Name | June 19, 2008, 11:41am | #

The US is the funniest reality show on tv.

What? It's not just a tv show?

Wow.

Sad.

Fred | June 19, 2008, 11:48am | #

C'mon, Jordan: save some tin-foil for the rest of us!

PC | June 19, 2008, 11:50am | #

I don't know about the drug allegations, but considering his effeminate disposition, his wife calling him an accessory, and his bowling technique, Obama could very well be in the closet.

Jordan Clinton | June 19, 2008, 11:51am | #

You'll need your tin foil to keep your prozac in once you messiah goes down for the liar and fraud he is. His poll numbers are dropping every day, and now with his refusal to take public financing for the GE, his numbers will plummet even further.

PC | June 19, 2008, 11:53am | #

He's also a fabulous dresser.

mch | June 19, 2008, 11:54am | #

Larry Sinclair–the gay man who’s accused Senator Barack Obama of sharing gay sex and drugs with him in a Gurnee...

There are gay drugs?

Art-P.O.G. | June 19, 2008, 11:55am | #

My only psychology is Obama is a fraud.

Ever have a sentence make no sense...or too much sense?

You'll need your tin foil to keep your prozac in

??????

broadsword | June 19, 2008, 11:56am | #

The republicans here are so funny, so desperate to believe anything negative about Obama, they'll listen to a fraud and pronounce his flailing accusations fact.

You know, like they did with Chalabi to get us in to this stupid war in the first place.

Tell us all again how 'curveball' is a trusted source, why don't you.

Jordan Clinton | June 19, 2008, 11:59am | #

I have been a democrat for 36 years. I am most of my friends and family will NOT be voting for Obama, no amount of tin foil will ever change that.

Manamongst Hussein | June 19, 2008, 12:13pm | #

Concernvoter, he is in fear because he was wanted in like three states...you're an idiot...how about the below:

Just after this Press Conference...
themitchandnanshow 19 Jun 2008 06:21

We run an insane blog which exists solely to belittle and toy with Larry Sinclair.

After carefully coordinated work, we had Larry Sinclair arrested on outstanding warrants just outside of the National Press Club. You may read about it here:

http://themitchandnanshow.wordpress.com/

Loved your article and analysis.

Thanks Tim!

Mitch and Nan

joe | June 19, 2008, 12:14pm | #

Jordan Clinton, I find your ideas interesting, and would like to subscribe to your newsletters.

Or maybe that's just Obama's poll numbers - which are totally dropping by the day - talking.

WAKE UP AMERICA!

Jordan Clinton | June 19, 2008, 12:19pm | #

I'll repeat my earlier post. Mitch and Nan had nothing to do with Larry's arrest. Greta at gretawire is claiming the same thing..lol


What a pile of BS..lol You live in Paris, yet YOU arranged for Larry's arrest. What a huge ego you both must have.
Federal Marshall's arrested Larry and he is being held for the Pueblo warrant. If he is not picked up by the Colorado Authorities in 24 hours he will be released. Mitch and Nan had absolutely nothing to do with it. Standard procedure here in the USA. There two gasbags are huge liars.

Citizen Nothing | June 19, 2008, 12:21pm | #

The thing I love best about these kind of threads? The dems and reps who show up to comment make us libs look almost sane.

GG | June 19, 2008, 12:33pm | #

Barry Obama could have his pick of any gay man's crack he wanted, for free.

Barack is too handsome, too charming and too shrewd to hook up with the likes of Larry Sinclair whom is just a gross, scuzzy n'er-do-well.

Anyone who buys Sinclair's whopper is a sucker.

Art-P.O.G. | June 19, 2008, 12:34pm | #

Good point, Citizen Nothing. Paranoid schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder know no political affiliation!

Art-P.O.G. | June 19, 2008, 12:36pm | #

I am most of my friends

Revealing mistake. Get help, OK?

Happy Jack | June 19, 2008, 12:55pm | #

I still think it would be better if the LP got a large percentage of the vote.

I'm gonna assume that you and Silbey have the same definition of large.

Art-P.O.G. | June 19, 2008, 12:57pm | #

Anyone who buys Sinclair's whopper is a sucker.

But anybody who buys BK's Whopper has a truly refined palate.

Chris Potter | June 19, 2008, 1:15pm | #

From the Telegraph update:

“I don't know why men wear pants,” he said. “It's a function of male genitalia. If you're size normal or smaller, you're probably comfortable. Those at the other end of the spectrum find them quite confining.”

Jordan Clinton | June 19, 2008, 1:22pm | #

Art-POG-drop dead troll..Thank you!

Art-P.O.G. | June 19, 2008, 1:23pm | #

Art-POG-drop dead troll..Thank you!

Clever! I keed...I keed...

Thomas Mc | June 19, 2008, 1:29pm | #

They need to hook him up to a lie detector that gives him electroshock treatment every time he tells a lie.

Mark In Irvine | June 19, 2008, 1:31pm | #

too freaking hilarious ... you just KNEW that this Sinclair bozo's story was too outlandish to be true ... what a waste of bandwidth (not HERE - I mean everywhere else that there was stuff about this Sinclair guy)

Jordan Clinton | June 19, 2008, 1:38pm | #

Thomas Mc | June 19, 2008, 1:29pm | #
They need to hook him up to a lie detector that gives him electroshock treatment every time he tells a lie.

________________________________________________

Thomas. I totally agree Obama should do this.

Mark in Irvine, His story has not yet been dis proven or a lie. You only wish that was the truth

Art-P.O.G. | June 19, 2008, 1:43pm | #

You only wish that was the truth

......

Jordan Clinton | June 19, 2008, 1:44pm | #

The truth will come out sooner or later.

joe | June 19, 2008, 2:00pm | #

Art-POG-drop dead troll..Thank you!

Ladies and gentlemen, Koko the Talking Gorilla!


Warm person nice gorilla stink ball.

Jordan Clinton | June 19, 2008, 2:16pm | #

Art, you are such a sad pathetic little troll, that garbage doesn't even deserve a comment.
When the great and powerful OZ...err I mean Obama goes down, you people will start committing mass suicide.

Dave S | June 19, 2008, 2:20pm | #

Obama and his thugs are doing a good job of covering this all up, I'm talking about the murders too.

The Chicago judge is stalling the investigation.

Since Obama is low enough to send his thugs into the caucuses to steal delegates through the use of threats, force, fraud and theft, this is totally believeable.

If some of these kiss-ass reporters got off their asses Obama would be charged with murder.

I guess we will have to wait for the GOP to hang him.

joe | June 19, 2008, 2:24pm | #

Art troll sad sad sad up down people.

Banana want.

Jordan Clinton | June 19, 2008, 2:32pm | #

Dave S. Finally an intelligent and articulate poster. I agree with you, the GOP will not hesitate to investigate and hang Obama before the GE voting.

Art-P.O.G. | June 19, 2008, 3:01pm | #

Art, you are such a sad pathetic little troll, that garbage doesn't even deserve a comment.

Look whatcha did, joe. You got me in trouble!

Art-POG-drop dead

I'm a pimp. And pimps don't commit suicide. [wink]

max thrax | June 19, 2008, 4:02pm | #

Anytime I think I might want to flirt w/ Libertarianism I come and read the comments at Reason. Just scared little boys w/o the courage to stand up and enlist, and too embarrassed to admit that they're Republicans. Hence Libertarians.

Comrade Rutherford | June 19, 2008, 9:37pm | #

Hey, lay off the kilt jokes! I wear Utilikilts brand unbifurcated men's garments strictly for the comfort.

Well, that and chicks dig it!

Naga Sadow said "I've gotta find a store that carries kilts"

Go here:
Utilikilts.com "We sell Freedom!"

joe | June 19, 2008, 9:51pm | #

Art POG,

I see you standing next to Jordan.

I pass behind you both.

I tap her on the shoulder nearest you, and walk away.

HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!

I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

skylights | June 20, 2008, 1:26pm | #

If this creep ever had a shred of credibility, it's down the toilet now. Don't expect to ever see this guy again.

Redheadache | June 20, 2008, 1:50pm | #

Just because Obama isn't doing chestbumps or flexing for the camera doesn't mean he's effeminate. For the Hillary supporters out there, don't you feel just a teeny weeny bit embarrassed about the way she's handled herself? I was originally a Hillary supporter myself until I realized that the only thing she's interested in is furthering her career. She's ambitious to the point of insanity.
For the republicans out there, wtf? You're supporting McCain?

Art-P.O.G. | June 20, 2008, 2:01pm | #

Just scared little boys w/o the courage to stand up and enlist, and too embarrassed to admit that they're Republicans. Hence Libertarians.

WTF? Man of straw?

I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

Nice :)

shane | June 24, 2008, 3:20pm | #

Larry Sinclair has thus far failed to produce a single viable piece of evidence. Is it any wonder nobody in the mainstream media wants to risk their career and credibility covering this farce?

I've been trying to get Mr. Sinclair to response to questions on his blog (simple ones, like "If you think Obama's phone records would prove you right, why don't you provide your phone records, they should work just as well, right?" ), but the blog is so heavily moderated that not one single real question can get through, and apparently even his own worshipers are now having a hard time posting due to overaggressive comment deletion.

I know several people who've tried to ask questions of Mr. Sinclair, but that is apparently not allowed on his blog, despite the fact that his blog clearly states "You may comment on any post, regardless of your position. However, please note that any and all abusive, threatening and vulgar comments and emails will result in your user name, email address and IP address being posted regardless and without the posters permission. You have been warned." .

Small wonder, huh? The guy who wants to force Obama to answer his questions will not answer anyone else's :)

I personally would love it if someone in the media just exposed this guy for the fraud he is. I'd watch that episode for certain, and I'm sure the advertisers would be well pleased by the number of viewers ;)

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