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Larry Sinclair Ends His Press In Handcuffs

By hrebendorf - June 18, 2008, 8:26PM

Larry Sinclair, the guy who claims to have done cocaine and had sex with Barack Obama, held a press conference today at the National Press Club. At the end of the event, he was arrested and led away in cuffs. From Ben Smith's blog:

He was arrested by Washington, D.C. police after his press conference
there today, two officials at D.C.'s First District station confirmed
to Politico.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0608/Sinclair_arrested_and_other_notes_from_the_Press_Club.html

Comments (18)

Even more sad, but excellent news....

I actually feel kinda sorry for the poor bloke...

Posted by Jade7243
June 18, 2008 8:35 PM | Reply | Permalink

Haha!...what?

Posted by quasar
June 18, 2008 8:37 PM | Reply | Permalink

McCain/Sinclair '08. It would just make the humiliation complete.

Posted by Acewrap
June 18, 2008 8:43 PM | Reply | Permalink

He's had warrants out for a while for unrelated activities. I think it was brought up in a comment on this very site, and someone mentioned contacting the local authorities to let them know where he'd be...

Posted by demosaur
June 18, 2008 8:55 PM | Reply | Permalink

Here's ben Smith's report on Sinclair's rap sheet.

Posted by Chris Brown
June 18, 2008 9:00 PM | Reply | Permalink

Yeah, I noticed this when someone linked to a booking photo for Sinclair. The police website that hosted the photo clearly indicated that he had a warrant out for his arrest. I wondered how Sinclair could go to such a public gathering when he was a fugitive, and I wondered why the police couldn't just catch him there.

I'm still wondering on the first one. It's a pity they didn't arrest him before the talk started. Must have been republican cops.

Posted by Allsburg
June 18, 2008 10:53 PM | Reply | Permalink

You left out a couple of other funny occurrences.

Avi swung by Sinclair's press conference at the National Press Club today, an utterly strange scene whose highlight came from Sinclair's spokesman, Montgomery Blair Sibley, whose law license has been suspended, explained why he was wearing a kilt, explaining that it was more comfortable for "those of us on the other side of the genital spectrum."
At the Press Club, Avi also ran into Will Bower, a sometimes-Huffington Post blogger who founded “Party Unity, My Ass” – a group for die-hard Clinton supporters that are now backing McCain – and was invited by the McCain campaign last weekend to meet with the presumptive Republican nominee, and called Sinclair's story "worth exploring."

“I don’t think he should be written off without consideration,” he said when asked about Sinclair. “I think its worth exploring.”

Posted by Chris Brown
June 18, 2008 8:58 PM | Reply | Permalink

Will Bower should not be allowed to gloss over his behavior a few months from now, when his candidate, John McCain is trounced in the general election.

What little cred Will Bower may have had as a political blogger should now be vaporized. He, like Larry Johnson, shouldn't be given further serious consideration in any respectable venue.

Those guys should be relegated strictly to the places where smear mongers hang out.

Feh.

Posted by laurajordan
June 18, 2008 11:45 PM | Reply | Permalink