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From: Conservative News Alerts Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 Subject: Man Who Says He Had Sex With Obama Vindicated?
Man Who Says He Had Sex With Obama Vindicated?
(WND.com) Two recent developments have bolstered a campaign by Larry Sinclair to advance the sensational claim in his 2009 book "Barack Obama & Larry Sinclair: Cocaine, Sex, Lies & Murder" that he and Barack Obama twice engaged in homosexual acts accompanied by cocaine use.
On May 17, lawyers representing Internet bookselling giant Amazon.com filed a brief in federal district court arguing that Sinclair's book is not defamatory.
Last week, Robert Braddock Jr. – the Democratic Party operative who taped the lie detector test administered to Sinclair in February 2008 – was indicted in an unrelated matter by federal authorities and charged with conspiring to conceal campaign donations.
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Two recent developments have bolstered a campaign by Larry Sinclair to advance the sensational claim in his 2009 book "Barack Obama & Larry Sinclair: Cocaine, Sex, Lies & Murder" that he and Barack Obama twice engaged in homosexual acts accompanied by cocaine use.
On May 17, lawyers representing Internet bookselling giant Amazon.com filed a brief in federal district court arguing that Sinclair's book is not defamatory.Last week, Robert Braddock Jr. – the Democratic Party operative who taped the lie detector test administered to Sinclair in February 2008 – was indicted in an unrelated matter by federal authorities and charged with conspiring to conceal campaign donations.
Braddock's polygraph concluded Sinclair was lying.
But Sinclair continues to insist the charges in his book against Obama are true and that he has been a victim of a White House-organized campaign to discredit him.
Amazon claims
As WND reported, U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Leon dismissed a libel case against Sinclair for Sinclair's claim that top Obama adviser David Axelrod paid $750,000 to rig the results of the polygraph test.
Leon ruled in his Feb. 28 opinion dismissing the case that the plaintiffs, Daniel Parisi and his Internet porn site Whitehouse.com Inc., failed to show Sinclair had published any knowingly false statements. The judge concluded Sinclair had taken appropriate steps to verify information before publishing it.
Parisi filed March 30 jointly with Sinclair a "Stipulation and Order of Voluntary Dismissal," which effectively ended Parisi's claims against Sinclair.
Parisi, however, decided to appeal Leon's March 31 order dismissing the libel case against Amazon.com.
"The issue before this Court is narrow and straightforward: Must an online bookseller stop selling a book based on mere allegations that its content is defamatory?" the lawyers for Amazon.com wrote in a brief filed with the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia May 17. "The answer is no, particularly where, as here, a separate unchallenged ruling of the District Court determined the book was not defamatory."
Noting that Leon's opinion had established a standard of "actual malice" in the case, the Amazon.com lawyers argued that the case against the online bookseller could not be sustained because it could not be proved that Sinclair's book was false or that Sinclair had written the book in reckless disregard of whether it was false or not – a definition of "actual malice" set in the famous 1964 Supreme Court case, New York Times Co. v. Sullivan.
"I believe Amazon attorneys prepared a very strong and correct brief," Sinclair told WND. "And I agree with Amazon's reference that the Parisi brief appears to be more for the purpose of further publishing vicious attacks against me personally than it is to challenge the legal findings of the District Court in their March 31, 2012, dismissal of Parisi claims as they relate to Appellee/Defendant Amazon.com Inc."
The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has scheduled Parisi's appeal against Amazon.com for oral argument on Sept. 20 at 9:30 a.m.
Sinclair told WND he plans to be present for the oral arguments.
Lie detector
Meanwhile, the campaign for U.S. House of Representatives conducted by Connecticut Speaker of the House Chris Donovan was rocked last week with the arrest of his campaign finance director, Robert Braddock Jr.
Braddock recorded the Sinclair lie detector test in his capacity as the director of business development for the website Whitehouse.com.
According to an affidavit FBI Special Agent William B. Aldenberg filed last week in federal court in Connecticut, Braddock arranged for Donovan's campaign to accept "conduit contributions" from individuals, "the purpose of which was to conceal the fact that the individuals actually financing the payments had an interest in legislation which was expected to and did come before the Connecticut General Assembly during the 2012 legislative session."
Specifically, Braddock solicited campaign contributions from "roll-your-own," or RYO, smoke shop owners who sought to defeat a proposed Connecticut law that would have imposed on them a tobacco manufacturers' designation requiring a substantial licensing fee and tax increase.
Aldenberg's affidavit detailed a series of recorded calls and meetings with undercover FBI officers in which Braddock arranged at least two payments of $10,000 to Donovan's campaign. The payments consisted of four $2,500 checks in one instance and three checks amounting to $10,000 in the second. The contributions were made in the names of "conduit contributors," or payments made by one person in the name of another.
The scheme was designed to hide the fact that the RKO smoke shop owners were making the campaign contributions in exchange for Donovan's agreement to kill the revenue measure.
The affidavit recommended Braddock be indicted for conspiring to unlawfully conceal campaign contributions in violation of federal statutes.
Braddock was fired by the Donovan campaign after his arrest.
According to Courant.com, Donovan temporarily relinquished some of his duties as speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives in the wake of Braddock's arrest but has not abandoned his congressional bid.
The tax measure effectively died May 9, when the Connecticut legislative session ended without either chamber calling for a vote.
In reporting the incident, the Connecticut Post described Braddock as "a hired gun from North Carolina who over a short career has raised millions for several campaigns" and "is known as a savvy, cool-under-pressure operative," who once worked "for an adult entertainment website."
The Connecticut Post further reported that Donovan's campaign had been selected from a pool of prospective candidates recommended by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
Sinclair noted on his website that Braddock, since his indictment, has scrubbed from his social networking Web postings his prior links to Brook Colangelo, chief information officer at the executive office of President Obama and the CIO of the Democratic National Committee from 2007 to 2009.
Two recent developments have bolstered a campaign by Larry Sinclair to advance the sensational claim in his 2009 book "Barack Obama & Larry Sinclair: Cocaine, Sex, Lies & Murder" that he and Barack Obama twice engaged in homosexual acts accompanied by cocaine use.
On May 17, lawyers representing Internet bookselling giant Amazon.com filed a brief in federal district court arguing that Sinclair's book is not defamatory.Last week, Robert Braddock Jr. – the Democratic Party operative who taped the lie detector test administered to Sinclair in February 2008 – was indicted in an unrelated matter by federal authorities and charged with conspiring to conceal campaign donations.
Braddock's polygraph concluded Sinclair was lying.
But Sinclair continues to insist the charges in his book against Obama are true and that he has been a victim of a White House-organized campaign to discredit him.
Amazon claims
As WND reported, U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Leon dismissed a libel case against Sinclair for Sinclair's claim that top Obama adviser David Axelrod paid $750,000 to rig the results of the polygraph test.
Leon ruled in his Feb. 28 opinion dismissing the case that the plaintiffs, Daniel Parisi and his Internet porn site Whitehouse.com Inc., failed to show Sinclair had published any knowingly false statements. The judge concluded Sinclair had taken appropriate steps to verify information before publishing it.
Parisi filed March 30 jointly with Sinclair a "Stipulation and Order of Voluntary Dismissal," which effectively ended Parisi's claims against Sinclair.
Parisi, however, decided to appeal Leon's March 31 order dismissing the libel case against Amazon.com.
"The issue before this Court is narrow and straightforward: Must an online bookseller stop selling a book based on mere allegations that its content is defamatory?" the lawyers for Amazon.com wrote in a brief filed with the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia May 17. "The answer is no, particularly where, as here, a separate unchallenged ruling of the District Court determined the book was not defamatory."
Noting that Leon's opinion had established a standard of "actual malice" in the case, the Amazon.com lawyers argued that the case against the online bookseller could not be sustained because it could not be proved that Sinclair's book was false or that Sinclair had written the book in reckless disregard of whether it was false or not – a definition of "actual malice" set in the famous 1964 Supreme Court case, New York Times Co. v. Sullivan.
"I believe Amazon attorneys prepared a very strong and correct brief," Sinclair told WND. "And I agree with Amazon's reference that the Parisi brief appears to be more for the purpose of further publishing vicious attacks against me personally than it is to challenge the legal findings of the District Court in their March 31, 2012, dismissal of Parisi claims as they relate to Appellee/Defendant Amazon.com Inc."
The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has scheduled Parisi's appeal against Amazon.com for oral argument on Sept. 20 at 9:30 a.m.
Sinclair told WND he plans to be present for the oral arguments.
Lie detector
Meanwhile, the campaign for U.S. House of Representatives conducted by Connecticut Speaker of the House Chris Donovan was rocked last week with the arrest of his campaign finance director, Robert Braddock Jr.
Braddock recorded the Sinclair lie detector test in his capacity as the director of business development for the website Whitehouse.com.
According to an affidavit FBI Special Agent William B. Aldenberg filed last week in federal court in Connecticut, Braddock arranged for Donovan's campaign to accept "conduit contributions" from individuals, "the purpose of which was to conceal the fact that the individuals actually financing the payments had an interest in legislation which was expected to and did come before the Connecticut General Assembly during the 2012 legislative session."
Specifically, Braddock solicited campaign contributions from "roll-your-own," or RYO, smoke shop owners who sought to defeat a proposed Connecticut law that would have imposed on them a tobacco manufacturers' designation requiring a substantial licensing fee and tax increase.
Aldenberg's affidavit detailed a series of recorded calls and meetings with undercover FBI officers in which Braddock arranged at least two payments of $10,000 to Donovan's campaign. The payments consisted of four $2,500 checks in one instance and three checks amounting to $10,000 in the second. The contributions were made in the names of "conduit contributors," or payments made by one person in the name of another.
The scheme was designed to hide the fact that the RKO smoke shop owners were making the campaign contributions in exchange for Donovan's agreement to kill the revenue measure.
The affidavit recommended Braddock be indicted for conspiring to unlawfully conceal campaign contributions in violation of federal statutes.
Braddock was fired by the Donovan campaign after his arrest.
According to Courant.com, Donovan temporarily relinquished some of his duties as speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives in the wake of Braddock's arrest but has not abandoned his congressional bid.
The tax measure effectively died May 9, when the Connecticut legislative session ended without either chamber calling for a vote.
In reporting the incident, the Connecticut Post described Braddock as "a hired gun from North Carolina who over a short career has raised millions for several campaigns" and "is known as a savvy, cool-under-pressure operative," who once worked "for an adult entertainment website."
The Connecticut Post further reported that Donovan's campaign had been selected from a pool of prospective candidates recommended by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
Sinclair noted on his website that Braddock, since his indictment, has scrubbed from his social networking Web postings his prior links to Brook Colangelo, chief information officer at the executive office of President Obama and the CIO of the Democratic National Committee from 2007 to 2009.
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Larry Sinclair claimed president's campaign paid to rig polygraph
Larry Sinclair – who claims he twice engaged in sexual activity and used cocaine with Obama in 1999 when Obama was an Illinois state senator – was accused by Internet publisher Daniel Parisi of making false and damaging statements that led to the demise of Parisi's porn website, Whitehouse.com, in 2008.
The alleged defamation did not center on Sinclair's charges of sex and drugs with Obama but on Sinclair's claim in his 2009 book that the Obama campaign and top adviser David Axelrod had agreed to pay Parisi $750,000 to rig the results of a polygraph test.
Parisi failed to present any evidence that Sinclair's claim about Axelrod and the Obama campaign was false, wrote U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Leon in his Feb. 28 opinion dismissing the case.
Parisi filed March 30 jointly with Sinclair a "Stipulation and Order of Voluntary Dismissal," which effectively ended Parisi's claims against Sinclair and Sinclair Publishing.
Sinclair recounted in his book, "Barack Obama & Larry Sinclair: Cocaine, Sex, Lies & Murder," Parisi's offer to pay him $10,000 to take a polygraph test regarding his charge that he engaged in sexual acts with Obama in Chicago.
In the deal, Parisi would pay $100,000 if the polygraph showed Sinclair was telling the truth. In a modified agreement, Sinclair was paid $20,000 to take the test. He failed it, according to an examiner's report, and two other examiners corroborated the result, the judge's opinion said.
Parisi alleges Sinclair made defamatory statements in the book, including his assertion that "the polygraph was rigged and was arranged by Dan Parisi and Obama Campaign advisor David Axelrod."
The judge, however, said Parisi failed to show Sinclair had published any knowingly false statements and concluded that he had taken appropriate steps to verify the information before publishing it.
Citing precedent, the judge argued that when the victim of the alleged defamation is a public figure, like Parisi, the statement in question must amount to more than negligence. The statement must be made with actual malice, he wrote, with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard as to whether it or not it was true.
Furthermore, Parisi couldn't support his claim that Sinclair' statement was false, the judge said.
"The complaint contains no factual allegations, other than the plaintiffs own assertions that the statements were false," Leon wrote.
Sinclair's source of his allegation against Parisi and the Obama campaign was an anonymous phone call, but he tried to confirm the information with Parisi, who refused to respond, Leon states in his opinion. Also, a Chicago Tribune reporter contacted the tipster and affirmed Sinclair's statement, the judge said.
Along with Sinclair and Sinclair Publishing, Parisi had sued radio talk show-host and Internet author Jeffrey Rense, who wrote the forward to Sinclair's book; booksellers Books-A-Million and Barnes & Noble; book distributor Ingram Content Group; and Internet retail giant Amazon.com.
Parisi still plans to appeal Leon's dismissal of the case against Amazon.com, now the only remaining defendant.
Parisi's suit effectively stopped the hardcover printing of Sinclair's books, with used copies selling for as much $600 on Amazon.com. While defending himself in court, Sinclair was able to sell a paperback edition of the book on his website, LarrySinclair.net.
Sinclair told WND in a telephone interview that he stands by the claims in his book.
"I still believe all the charges I have made are true, and I have seen nothing to date that would change my beliefs," he said.
He also continues to stand by his primary charge against Obama.
"I know from personal experience that Obama lied when he said he had given up drugs in college, and I can attest in detail to the fact Obama engages in homosexual sex," Sinclair said.
In addition, Sinclair says he believes that the murder of Donald Young – the homosexual choirmaster at Rev. Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago – was an attempt to protect Barack Obama's secrets. Young was murdered shortly before the 2008 Iowa Caucus.
In the lawsuit, Parisi had sought from Sinclair $30 million in damages for himself and his various corporations, including Whitehouse.com Inc., Whitehouse Network LLC and White House Communications Inc.
Parisi claimed he created the entities to function as news agencies.
Sinclair represented himself in court while Parisi was represented by Patton Boggs, one of the most expensive, prestigious and politically connected law firms in the nation's capital.
Sinclair, with no formal legal training, is not a lawyer licensed to practice law in the District of Columbia.
WND could not reach Parisi for comment. Richard Oparil, Parisi's attorney at Patton Boggs, also did not return WND calls asking for comment.
In January 2008, when Sinclair initially came forward to make his charges against Obama, he admitted to his criminal past, including having served prison time in Florida, Arizona and Colorado.
by A little 'tongue'n cheek' humor (no pun intended :-) -- rfh source: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/c/chordettes/lollipop.html | Amos and Andy Dealing with being Gay in the 1950s.mp4 watch on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=griMGY-JLvo video source: http://youtu.be/griMGY-JLvo (2m53s) Uploaded by kaabee on Jun 18, 2011 In this short clip of the Amos and Andy show we see the Kingfish, Andy, Amos and Calhoon dealing with being gay (and "fighting" that fact). Long before Seinfeld tackled the issue of being Gay, we see that the issue of being gay was 1st addressed in this classic (albeit controversial) television series from the 1950s. Pioneering in 1st addressing this issue in a time when even married couples on television slept in twin beds this was a bold step. They deal with this not directly, but by implication. Shocking by today's standards? No. Shocking by 1950's standards? I would say - absolutely. This was the only episode where the issue was even implied. |
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