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Larry Sinclair: This is EXCELLENT News For Obama!
Larry Sinclair held his press conference at the National Press Club today.
To quote Idiotic: This is EXCELLENT News for Obama!!!!
You have to read the at least HuffPo's account of the sitcom, but here are at least a couple of gems worth taking to the loo for a laugh:
And pay Sinclair has -- for the venue and its microphone, as well as for a kilted lawyer (with a suspended license) named Montgomery Blair Sibley, who informed those assembled that his preferences in dress were arrived at as a way to secure comfort for his unusually large sexual organs. "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."
[snip]
As for the evidence he provided, it amounted to a few phone numbers -- registered under different names and in different states -- that Mr. Sinclair claimed he used to call, variously, a limousine driver, the deceased choir director of Trinity United Church of Christ, and others. Clearly, it is now the duty of the mobile phone companies to open up these records to court scrutiny. (Forgive me for not reprinting any of the "evidence" in full here. Should you care to see it, Sinclair promised a version would be made public on his website, one free of the several errors which vexed him during his public statement today.)
Is it just me, or do you feel like singing: "Another One Bites the Dust?"
Let's be a little empathetic here: Mr. Sinclair is apparently suffering from a brain tumor.
That explains a lot. However, it doesn't explain the willingness (or greediness?) of the National Press Club to take the poor man's money and give him the "opportunity" to make himself look every part the fool. They should have sent him to the party room at the nearest Red Roof Inn. At least he didn't have to brave the hecklers at Stu Chuckles' Comedy Corral and Coin Laundromat.
On the bright side, he did get front page coverage on Weekly World News, bumping the off Brangelina's newly adopted 6-headed Alien toad baby. So at least he's got that goin' for him.












Comments (31)
Wasn't this guy hanging around outside the building where the Democratic Party held its RBC meeting recently? Seems I remember reading about him hanging around handing out fliers printed with smear material. He had quite a few enthusiastic takers there, according to reports I read. I guess this crazy schlub took the interest he got from those protesters as a sign that his story might get some traction.
Sinclair's probably genuinely mentally/emotionally disturbed. The poor doofus has a pretty long criminal record: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/11164.html
And unfortunately, it looks like his "legal counsel" and others are eager to exploit him and take his money.
Perhaps the press club should review and revise its policies regarding rental of its press rooms.
June 18, 2008 6:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yep, he sure was...
The NPC does have to explain a little about why they would take this guy's money and give him a platform. Even though they removed their logo from the backdrop, the fact they let him speak there gave a since of legitimacy that should not have been.
June 18, 2008 7:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Who is funding this a$$?
June 18, 2008 7:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Probably not McBush. He can't afford to waste the money.
June 18, 2008 7:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
...uhh... right... because if you're going to be arranging covert drug trysts, then clearly the right way to do it is via the medium of your church's choir director?!? What the heck?
June 18, 2008 7:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
The AAKM.
The American Association of Kilt Manufacturers.
June 18, 2008 7:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Larry Sinclair ended his press conference by being arrested and led away in cuffs:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0608/Sinclair_arrested_and_other_notes_from_the_Press_Club.html
June 18, 2008 8:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks Jade. Did you read this on Politico (just posted):
'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." '
And why am I not surprised?!? Sinclair and Bower have so much in common (and I'm not talking about what's under the kilt!).
June 18, 2008 8:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, just saw that... since Sinclair and Bower were both wearing pants we can assume they are at the opposite end of the spectrum than "the Full Monty" Sibley.
June 18, 2008 8:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
I hope these last few months put an end to what little cred Will Bower had left as a political blogger.
What an over-wrought, grand-standing, destructive, foolish asshole he is.
June 18, 2008 10:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
John McCain should pick this man for VP.
June 18, 2008 8:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks, Jade. I read that today and sent a link to my coworker who first sent me the "Obama is a Crack-Smoking Gay Who Gets It On In Back-Seats of Taxi's" email.
And thank you, too, Jade, for correcting me on the "Smedley" v "Muttley" laugh. I am so embarrassed that I got Muttley's name wrong, but glad someone who watched that show faithfully could correct me.
You go, girl.
Beautiful avatar, btw.
June 18, 2008 8:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tks...
Muttley was always my favorite...
a few other cartoon favorites...
there was Deputy Dawg... Quick Draw McGraw and El KaBong...
the snack loving dog that leapt into the air and floated down (whose name suddenly escapes me... senior moment...)
June 18, 2008 9:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
So many people mention El Kabong to me, and unfortunately all I can picture is a bong. So I just ran into the other room and asked my roomie who El Kabong is, and he said, "Yeah, he's that big horse with the little donkey side-kick".
And I ran through all the cartoons I've seen in my life, and picked up a picture of a little donkey with a sombrero on, and my roomie said, "Yeah! That was his sidekick".
My memory is still foggy, but some things do come back to me now and then.
Thanks for that!
June 18, 2008 10:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
But, I obviously digress. Carry on with the great post.
June 18, 2008 10:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
El Kabong was Quick Draw McGraw's alternate identity, so named for "kabonging" malefactors over the head with a guitar that never seemed to break. His sidekick was the redoubtable Baba Looey.
Wasted youth...
June 19, 2008 8:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
Baba Looey! Oh god, childhood memories flooding in ... I'd forgotten how much I forgot.
June 19, 2008 11:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
El Kabong was the secret identity of Quick Draw McCraw! His relationship with the donkey always seemed a little creepy in a Batman and Robin sort of way.
June 19, 2008 12:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
I want to know who posts his bail.
June 18, 2008 9:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Rec'd.
As I've commented elsewhere, I'd be curious to hear Steve O’Hearn's take on this turn of events.
What say you, Steve?
Is the Chair of the NPC's New Media Committee gonna weigh in? Opine? Condescend (again)?
I'll be watching your space for updates, but I have to admit I'm expecting crickets:
http://pressblog.org/npc/SteveOHearn/
June 18, 2008 9:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Chino Blanco,
Good point about Hearn, I don't think anyone is holding their breath waiting for sanity over at the NPC. Check out their blogs page, you'll never guess who's hosted there: Jeff Gannon! I shit you not. Former White House "reporter", & gay prostitute. Course, when you think about it, tricking for money is probably great exp if you hope to work at the Bush white house....
June 19, 2008 5:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
The snaxk-loving dog's name was Snuffles.
You're welcome!
June 18, 2008 11:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oops -- I meant snack-loving dog, sowwy!
June 18, 2008 11:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why is this whacko getting coverage?
June 19, 2008 1:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
Jade, I'm sorry to tell you this, but I had never heard of this person until you publicized him here.
Congratulations.
June 19, 2008 12:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Don't thank me...
you can thank Politico who brought him to my and others' attention months ago... in part due to the zealots there who warned us all to beware of the pending Larry Sinclair expose. And I recall seeing a lot of similar posts at Jake Tapper's place, the same zealots, the same threats... and at the NYT, WashPo, HuffPo, and more...
Yeah, thank the same people who keep the Obama is a secret Manchurian Muslim, America-hating, radical commie Christian racist stuff going...
and thank the National Press Club, who sold the guy a few minutes with a microphone.
June 19, 2008 1:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Who the fuck is Larry Sinclair?
June 19, 2008 2:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL, wow. Do you live in a place with no access to media at all, loki? If you do, can I come and live there with you? It would be really good for me. I don't have the heart to go into the whole shabby tale. Google it, but remember: Once you have seen a thing, you can't unsee it....
June 19, 2008 5:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
A nut that is a couple of fries short of a Happy Meal!!!!!!!!!1
June 19, 2008 2:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
**He's a freeper avatar.
June 19, 2008 2:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
puma = pathetic, unsated masochists alliance
June 25, 2008 3:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
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