McCain camp blasts blockbuster NYT story
Toledo, OH — The McCain campaign is pushing back HARD on the New York Times for finally running the long-awaited article–which we first learned about in December--alleging that Sen. McCain had an improper business and personal relationship with female lobbyist, Vicki Iseman.
Both McCain and Iseman deny a romantic relationship and the campaign says there is no evidence that McCain gave the lobbyist or her clients preferential treatment on Capitol Hill.
Campaign Communications Director Jill Hazelbaker released a written statement tonight: “It is a shame that the New York Times has lowered its standards to engage in a hit and run smear campaign. John McCain has a 24-year record of serving our country with honor and integrity. He has never violated the public trust, never done favors for special interests or lobbyists, and he will not allow a smear campaign to distract from the issues at stake in this election. Americans are sick and tired of this kind of gutter politics, and there is nothing in this story to suggest that John McCain has ever violated the principles that have guided his career.”
Senior McCain campaign officials call the New York Times story (which contains a lot of innuendo) an “outrage” and are accusing the paper of a deliberate smear prompted by pressure from the New Republic (TNR) magazine–which was planning on running a critical story about the Times’ decision to originally bow to campaign pressure and withhold the article late last year. McCain campaign officials say they received phone calls from TNR two weeks ago asking for comment on the potential article.
Asked about the article upon arriving in Toledo, OH tonight–McCain personally had little to say on the story: “I haven’t seen it yet, so I can’t comment.” His first press conference is scheduled for 9am Thursday morning.
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Larry Sinclair Files Federal Suit against Obama
Robert Novak Hinted at Sinclair’s Allegations in October
Larry Sinclair has filed a federal suit against Barack Obama and others for harassment since the gay man released his video on YouTube alleging that the Senator from Illinois and Sinclair shared gay sex and cocaine in the back of a limo in Gurnee, IL in 1999.
arry Sinclair’s federal lawsuit against Obama [Click on images to enlarge.]
But don’t expect to see anything in the MSM.
That would mean that they would have to explain why the suit was filed. That would mean that they would have to lift their “black out” of the Sinclair story.
The Larry Sinclair story about Barack Obama continues to get the silent treatment from the MSM.
To us, that is the real story of the affair.
I see they’re reporting on John McCain what a bout this story??
We watched as the Main Sream Media judiciously ignored hard cold facts collected in the John Edwards-Rielle Hunter Love Child story by the National Enquirer. It appears that Obama will get the same courtesy.
Now this morning, Big Head DC claims that YouTube, which is owned by Google, has attempted to suppress the popularity of Larry Sinclair’s video allegations about Obama.
As reported in DBKP’s “Obama: Larry Sinclair Claims Gay Sex, Drugs in 1999 with Barack“, Sinclair says in the videos that he used cocaine with Sen. Barack Obama and performed a sex act on him in 1999.
What scandal did the MSM press have no problem getting enthusiastic about last fall?
Asked about the article upon arriving in Toledo, OH tonight–McCain personally had little to say on the story: “I haven’t seen it yet, so I can’t comment.” His first press conference is scheduled for 9am Thursday morning.
Am I actually to believe that john mccain hasn’t read the new york times story. That would have been the 1st thing I’d read - If someone is spewing such garbage about me. I think we as American voters deserve the chance to hear from his own lips - not from his camp, before we cast our votes on 3/4.
At least this GOP scandal concerns an adult man and an adult woman for a change.
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Why is this a smear and the Ron Paul New Republic not? Fox AP have special duties under the first amendment that you are not living by. You have neglected to report McCain and Bush family involvement in the S&L Keating scandal which cost the American taxpayers 1.4 t. In todays credit crisis this is bordering on criminal. To report that Moveon.org is reporting this is irresponsible. I am a conservative small government republican. The fact that Bill Kristol and his warped neo-con ideas have ruined the party of Goldwater and Regan. You deserve getting severe blowback from your actions and misrepresenting yourself as journalist.
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OBAMA ‘ROBBED’ IN NY
By GINGER ADAMS OTIS
February 16, 2008 — Barack Obama’s primary-night results were strikingly underrecorded in several districts around the city - in some cases leaving him with zero votes when, in fact, he had pulled in hundreds, the Board of Elections said yesterday.
Unofficial primary results gave Obama no votes in nearly 80 districts, including Harlem’s 94th and other historically black areas - but many of those initial tallies proved to be wildly off the mark, the board said.
In some districts getting a recount, the senator from Illinois is even closer to defeating Hillary Clinton.
Initial results in the 94th, for example, showed a 141-0 sweep for Hillary Clinton, but the recount changed the tally to 261-136.
As yet, none of the results have been certified, but a ballot-by-ballot canvassing of all voting machines has begun, a board spokesperson said. Many of the mistakes were chalked up to human error — and some Clinton tallies were wrong as well. In several congressional districts she was shown as having received zero votes when in fact she got hundreds, Boe said.
Brooklyn City Councilman Charles Barron called the understated figures “outrageous.”
“I think this is an all-out effort to stop a campaign that is about to make history and render America’s first black president,” he said. “We need some kind of independent or federal agency to investigate this.”icate that she may not even come out the winner - Obama currently has 116 votes to her 118.
Larry Sinclair has offered to take a lie detector, and yet, is that all over the news? I thought maybe the eclipse last night was a sign that the aliens were coming to take Obama back to planet LALA! This election has become nothing more than a glimpse at how powerful the media has become.
I AM VERY DISAPPOINTED THAT THE BLOGS REPORTING ABOUT LARRY SINCLAIR AND BARACK OBAMA HAVE BEEN ALL OVER THE NEWS ONLINE BUT NO ONE IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA IS REPORTING THIS STORY EVEN THOUGH LARRY SINCLAIR HAS FILED A FEDERAL LAWSUIT AGAINST OBAMA AND HE HAS AGREED TO A LIE DETECTER TEST. ARE YOU SO UNFAIRLY AGAINST HILLARY CLINTON THAT YOU WILL NOT REPORT ANY NEWS ON THIS EXPLOSIVE INFORMATION EVEN THOUGH SENATOR MCCAIN HAS A STORY OUT TODAY WITH JUST ABOUT THE SAME AMOUNT OF EVIDENCE AS THIS PERSON HAS AGAINST BARACK OBAMA. PLEASE DO NOT FORGET THAT YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE FAIR AND BALANCED!
OBAMA THE CHANGE AGENT -CNN — Striking similarities between Barack Obama’s words and those of Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick during his 2006 election campaign have raised eyebrows and attracted traffic on YouTube. The stump speech Barack Obama has been giving aimed at convincing voters that his campaign is not just about lofty rhetoric — is from Patrick, Obama’s campaign acknowledged over the weekend.
Obama said he goofed on votes angered fellow Democrats in the Senate when he voted to strip millions of dollars from a child welfare office on Chicago’s West Side. But Obama had a ready explanation: He goofed!
Also announced he had fumbled an election-reform vote the day before, on a measure that passed 51 to 6. The next day, he acknowledged voting “present” on a key telecommunications vote. He stood on March 11, 1999, to take back his vote against legislation to end good-behavior credits for certain felons in county jails. “I pressed the wrong button on that,” he said. Obama was the lone dissenter on Feb. 24, 2000, against 57 yeas for a ban on human cloning. “I pressed the wrong button by accident,” he said.
But two of Obama’s bumbles came on more-sensitive topics, he backed legislation to permit riverboat casinos to operate even when the boats were dockside.
The measure, pushed by the gambling industry and fought by church groups whose support Obama was seeking, passed with two “yeas” to spare — including Obama’s. Moments after its passage he rose to say, explaining that he had mistakenly voted for it.
Obama would later develop a reputation as a critic of the gambling industry, and he voted against a similar measure two years later. But he was clearly confused about how to handle the issue at the time of his first vote, telling a church group that he was “undecided” about whether he backed an expansion of riverboat gambling. And, months earlier, he had voted in favor of a version of the bill.
Obama’s vote sparked a confrontation after he joined Republicans to block Democrats trying to override a veto by GOP Gov. George Ryan of a $2-million allotment for the west Chicago child welfare office. being responsible,” said Sen. Rickey Hendon, accusing Obama of voting to close the child welfare office.Obama replied “I understand Sen. Hendon’s anger, I was not aware that I had voted no on that piece of legislation.
He voted against requiring medical care for aborted fetuses who survive. Abortion opponents see Obama’s vote on medical care for aborted fetuses as a refusal to protect the helpless. Some have even accused him of supporting infanticide.
OBAMA LOOSES JOBS FOR MINORITIES
Ms. Obama, VP Chicago Hosp, that charges minorities 6 times as much, isn’t cold hearted enough; she also caused hundreds to loose their 11.hr jobs, to be more efficient she said! In 05, elected to the BOD Westchester-based TreeHouse Foods, she received $12,000 and $33,000 from a subsidiaries, in Nov announced closing its La Junta, plant, that claimed the jobs of 153 workers, most of them Hispanic! Huge blow to a rural town jobs paid a starting wage of $11hr, Company pays top execs like MICHELLE OBAMA tens of millions a year while destroying middle-class America. Raises the question not only about corporate values but about Barrack Obama’s own values. Specifically, while he bashes Wal-Mart, why does his wife, make $45,000 and up a year serving on the board of Chicago comp that pays her a very hefty amount of money while laying off mostly minority workers in economically deprived areas? No. 1 customer is Wal-Mart???
Obamas attack on middle class and minorities- The Crowns and employees of their family-run holding company have given at least $195,000 to Obama’s presidential campaign. Maytag shut the Galesburg plant after Labor Day 2004 Union member say senator did little to save jobs in the blue-collar town of 37,000. Obama connection to Maytag: Lester Crown, company’s director’s records show, has raised tens of thousands of dollars for Obama’s campaigns. Maytag shut the Galesburg plant after Labor Day 2004.
Black voters are choosing black candidate based on skin color not merit and not what he can do to help our failing country. What a serious shame…we are giving away another election. Thank the media! Obamas speeches address just black voters. The same person who claims he is not running on race? It sure isn’t experience or who is best to run this country. Don’t believe it will work in the general election He truly had divided voters since SC win. No one is so naive as not to think that black resentment towards whites could render Senator Obama unelectable. NOW IT’S TIME FOR THE MEDIA TO SCRUTINIZE OBAMA LIKE THEY HAVE DONE TO EVERYOTHER NON-BLACK CANDIDATE. MEDIA HAS FAILED AMERICAN VOTERS
Man files Federal Lawsuit against Obama regarding GAY sexual act and drug use claims **
Larry Sinclair posted a video to YouTube claiming to have used cocaine and engaged in a gay sexual act with Obama when Obama was a state legislator in 1999. In the video, Sinclair claims he and Obama met on two separate occasions, that Obama used crack cocaine and that Sinclair performed an oral sexual act on Obama both evenings. Now Obama and company are quickly trying to quiet this man, but Sinclair has filed a federal lawsuit. Sinclair filed suit against Obama and his campaign guru David Axelrod in Minnesota district court for allegedly attempting to abridge Sinclair’s right to free speech, and for waging an intimidation campaign against him. check out the video on youtube for yourself:
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This has also been covered by The Smoking Gun but no one else.
America wants to know: where’s the media coverage on this???? We deserve to hear the truth!
[www.worldnetdaily.com] is the latest website covering the story.
John writes…
You have neglected to report McCain and Bush family involvement in the S&L Keating scandal which cost the American taxpayers 1.4 t. In todays credit crisis this is bordering on criminal.<<<
Oh you mean the Keating scandal in which McCain was cleared of wrongdoing by a Democratic committee? Keep grasping…you’ll get a straw someday and if you don’t I’m sure you will just create one.
The interesting thing is that the man that investigated McCain concerning the Keating Scandal said that this was BS.
I hope the NY Times gets sued and found liable for damages.
To “Texas Voter”:
Please limit your comments to your opinion. To quote your comment”before we cast our vote on 3/4″ . You should change your comment to “before I cast my vote on 3/4″. Don’t speak for this Texan…The New York Times endorsed John McCain prior to Super Tuesday and McCain won all the delegates there since it’s a winner-take-all delegates. This newspaper should make up its mind. Does the New York Times want to endorse him or smear him?? It’s losing even more credibility. What a shame!!
OOPS……….”Houston, I think we have a failure to launch……” Houston, your comment to “Texas Voter” is unnecessary. I, too, am a Texas voter, and I would NEVER have considered the comment to have been out-of-order as you did. Texas Voter implied a cohesiveness among Texas voters; his/her comment was NOT meant as a directive to YOU. Funny you would interpret it that way!
To say “before we cast our votes on 3/4″ is in NO way inappropriate. But I guess different people read things in different ways……….when I read what you said about not speaking “for this Texan,” it sounded a little isolationist, a little paranoid. I’m not trying to be argumentative at all, just pointing out how YOUR reply to Texas Voter sounded to ME.
The NY Times is just trying to smear McCain now because he’s probably going to be the Republican Nominee.
John McCain is nothing more then an offering to the Democratic Gods since well before the race began the Republican leaders knew there was no chance of retaining the White House. So to make this dog and pony show more viable to the American voters they offer up McCain as their sacrificial lamb for slaughter to portray their support for him when in fact they are looking to groom their candidates for the 2012 race. This will mark the end for McCain’s political career when his chances for re-election to the Senate do not look any brighter as well.
You have to admit that McCains never been preachy about morals and virtue (I don’t think). This stuff is only fun when the hypocrites get nailed. Like, say Vitters or Craig or Foley or Haggert or…………
Who in the hell is this guy Sinclair that everyones pinning their hopes on to stop Obama. Is it true that he said it on a YouTube video? You know if you heard it there i must be true. I don’t see whythis guy didn’t add a little boy in the car that Obam was didlin. Plus forget snortin coke. He should’ve had him slammin Heroin. Didn’t this guy say he’d take a lie-detector test? Why doesn’t he quit talking about taking one and just do it? I’d love to see the results of a bona-fide, legitimate test.
Well thing is there is a good chance this story is bogus.
Remember the CBS memogate fiasco, it turned out that story was complete BS, and the memo was a forgery.
TO CHRISTOPHER—Im well aware that bysome stretch of the imagination it could be true. Stranger things have happened. Im just saying on its face value it sounds so bogus. I have to claim ignorance on the subject. I’ll have to do some reading up. I’d like to know who Sinclair is? His background? A few quick facts just to see if this guy is credible. I’d like to know if this thing did start on YouTube? Because if it did, you’ve all been had. And most importantly, quit threatening about a lie-detector test. Just do it. Of course thats a test that both sides agree on the person who does it and a rep from both sides present durig the testing. Ifthis story has legs Obama would be a fool not to co-operate cause John Kerry learned when theres wild stories out there about you, you’d better respond to them. Id belief the results of a test administered like that. But somehow I feel this guy Sinclair has no intentions of taking one no matter what he says. This is just absurd.
HEY CHRISTOPHER—I just went over to YouTube and looked at Sinclairs video and Id hate to say it my man but you’v been had. I was sort of expecting to see a respectable looking guy. Boy was I wrong.. After seeing him, ask yourself, WOULD YOU FIND A GUY THAT LOOKS LIKE THIS IN A UP-SCALE LOUNGE? I don’t think so. For anybody to put any wieght in a video found on YouTube and in a guy like this coke-snortin punk is really pathetic. Hey Chris if it turns out this guys not a fraud, I promise I’ll come back and apologize to ya but right now it looks like you and others here are the victims of cruel hoax.
The media wont touch the Larry Sinclair story because they know he’s a fraud with no evidence.
Obama Accuser Larry Sinclair has a Criminal Record
The current issue of the supermarket tabloid Globe (March 3,2008)) devotes two full pages to the lurid drug and sex allegations of Larry Sinclair. The Globe notes that “Sinclair has provided no evidence to back up his outrageous Obama stories.”
Although Sinclair has provided no evidence to back up his outrageous Obama stories, the 46-year old man tells GLOBE that he’s spent time in prison in Florida, Arizona and Colorado on credit card fraud and other charges.
He also admits trafficking in cocaine and marijuana and “moving” people from Mexico to the United States.
He says he’s been disabled since a “work-related” accident in 2001 and has now been diagnosed with a brain tumor and given “a little more than a year to live.
This is just an attempt to smear Obama, who has been known to be pretty square and always has loved woman. In fact Obama is smarter than that.
Funny as to who was pushing this story… well the fanatic conspiracy theorist (ron paul supporters) not directed at the sane Ron Paul supporters, just the nutty ones.
Mad they can’t find dirt on Obama, who they have been bashing forever. Keep searching craigslist and offering money for dirty on Obama.
http://dallas.craigslist.org/pol/575878984.html
The liberals at NYT fired the opening shot in what could end up a dirty war with their hatchet job on McCain. Up to that point the campaign had been exemplory.
Now CNN is going for McCain in a big way with two major attacks on ‘The Campaign trail’ and ‘Larry King Live’ in the past two days.
Seems like FOX should be fair and balanced even if no one else is and rather than apparantly joining the liberal media in burying the Larry Sinclair story it should give equal time to both reports.
“LARRY SINCLAIR USING COCAINE / PERFORMING ORAL SEX ON BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, POSSIBLY THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, IN THE BACK OF HIS LIMOSINE….. ”
ISN’T THIS NEWS WORTHY OF OUR MAJOR NEWSPAPERS, THE WASHINGTON POST, NEW YORK TIMES, THE BALTIMORE SUN …
WHEN MAYOR MARION BARRY OF WASHINGTON D.C. GOT CAUGHT USING COCAINE WITH THAT YOUNG LADY FROM CALIFORNIA, IT WAS “FRONT PAGE NEWS” FOR WEEKS.
WHAT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT NOW IS , BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, POSSIBLY BEING THE FUTURE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, USING COCAINE / HAVING ORAL SEX PERFORMED ON HIM IN THE BACK OF A LIMOSINE IN 1999.
WASN’T THAT THE YEAR THAT HIS WIFE WAS PREGNANT WITH THEIR DAUGHTER.
WE “THE AMERICAN PEOPLE” NEED SOME IMMEDIATE ANSWERS”.