One of the more odious hucksters floating around the periphery of the campaign is Larry Sinclair, the Duluth man who claims he and Barack Obama shared a night of drugs and hot, man-on-man action in November of 1999. Sinclair also is known under thirteen different aliases (including "Mohammed Gahanan"), has stolen acquaintences' personal information to defraud them, and is wanted for forgery and theft in Delaware and Colorado. So let's just say he's not the most credible person in the world.Now, it's possible that Larry Sinclair is telling the truth about Obama, despite a lifetime of chicanery, a failed lie detector test, and the fact that Obama appears to have not been in Illinois at the time. It's also possible that I am, in fact, the Tooth Fairy. However, neither is particularly likely. Nevertheless, Sinclair held a presser today at the National Press Club today to further detail his charges against Obama. How'd it go? About as well as one might expect:
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.
[...]But don't worry -- the conference ended with a bang.
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).
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;So the lesson here, ladies and gentlemen, is that karma is as karma does. Also, you probably shouldn't hold a high-profile press conference when you're wanted on felony charges in at least two states.
