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Barack Obama is the target of a shadowy smear campaign designed to derail his bid for the US Presidency by falsely claiming he had a close friendship with an attractive African-American female employee. The whispers focus on a young woman who in 2004 was hired to work on his team for his bid to become a senator. The woman was purportedly sidelined from her duties after Senator Obama’s wife, Michelle, became convinced that he had developed a personal friendship with her. The allegations were initially circulated in August, just two weeks before the convention at which Obama finally beat his...

Now there's news of a sex scandal... Apparently, Rep. Mahoney is caught up in his own sex scandal: The discrepancies in where Mahoney claims his primary residence and the address listed on his voter I.D. card (a barn) are supposedly due to the fact that Mahoney and his wife no longer share the same address. Apparently, Tim Mahoney, through one of his consultants, has paid a former staffer, Trish Allen, $250,000 in hush money to keep a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by Mrs. Allen against Congressman Mahoney from the public view. This is the reason for the conflicting addresses. Mrs....

"I can't believe no one has mentioned his philandering," a former political aide tells Radar, adding that she herself was subjected to Warner's advances in the late '90s and had heard "stories about Mark and many interns." "This can't be isolated. I have to believe this stuff is all over," a former D.C. consultant tells Radar.

Barack Obama’s former pastor has been cavorting with another man’s wife, whom he romanced while she worked at a church in Dallas run by one of his disciples, according to a report in the New York Post. Elizabeth Payne, 37, told the Post that she and Rev. Jeremiah Wright, 67, had a sexual relationship this year and that she was fired from her job when the affair was made public. Payne had been working at Friendship-West Baptist Church as a secretary to the Rev. Frederick Haynes III, a longtime Wright protege.

The first thing I thought of when I heard about John Edwards admitting that he was shtooping the Hunter chick was how my pet DUmmie ants would react. The moment I came home, I took a look at my DUmmie Ant Farm to watch them form the circular mill over this scandal. So let us all take a look inside the DUmmie Ant Farm at this THREAD titled, "Edwards Admits Sexual Affair; Lied as Presidential Candidate." As usual the DUmmie ant rantings are in scandalous Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, still laughing over Edwards "admission" that...

ABC Radio news just announced Sen. John Edwards will admit to the affair with Rielle Hunter in an interview with the network, but insists the child is not his. We return you to your regularly-scheduled FReeping.

RUSH: An update on the John Edwards situation out in Los Angeles broken by the National Enquirer. Two interesting things here: "A hotel security guard at the Beverly Hilton told FoxNews.com that he intervened this week between a man he identified as [the Breck Girl] and tabloid reporters who chased down the former presidential hopeful after what they're calling a rendezvous with his mistress and love child. The Beverly Hilton hotel guard said he encountered a shaken and ashen-faced [Breck Girl] who he did not immediately recognize in a hotel men's room early Tuesday morning about 2:30 and was in...

Picture the scene from the DUkes of Hazzard. Same theme music. Only instead of the sheriff chasing the Dukes' Dodge Charger, it is reporters from the National Enquirer chasing John Edwards all around the basement of the Beverly Hilton with the chase ending up in a restroom where the Breck Girl remained trapped for 15 minutes until rescued by hotel security. In case you haven't heard about this Edwards scandal, here is an excerpt from the National Enquirer STORY: Edwards went out of the hotel briefly with Rielle, they were observed by the NATIONAL ENQUIRER and then went back...

Barack Obama's VP shortlist might have gotten shorter: The National Enquirer yesterday published a story claiming it had caught John Edwards meeting with an alleged mistress and illegitimate child. Then again, the Enquirer hasn't been able to produce quotes, photos or even eyewitness accounts. And the mainstream media seems to be ignoring it, for the most part. TalkLeft, among others, hopes it isn't true. And thus far, the claims don't seem to have hurt Edwards politically — although the Corner has something worth noting: ...after first seeming to take himself out of the running, he put himself back in the...

UPDATE: The NATIONAL ENQUIRER is revealing new details about the political scoop we broke yesterday - the secret meeting between Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards and Rielle Hunter. A team of ENQUIRER reporters caught the married ex-senator visiting his mistress and secret love child late Monday night at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles hotel. As we reported previously, Edwards arrived at the hotel at 9:45 p.m. (PST) Monday, driven by a friend in a BMW, and was seen by ENQUIRER reporter Alan Butterfield. We can now reveal that the man who drove Edwards was Bob McGovern, the same...

Ex President Bill Clinton missing for some time since skipping on a lecture in Scotland has been found. A Canadian newspaper found Bubba holding hands with a new friend. (Picture Included)

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Posted by Heather Muse at 11:15 AM, June 11, 2008 With all the comparisons to JFK that Barack Obama has had lately, it's about time he gets his own Marilyn Monroe. Actress Scarlett Johansson has made her support of Obama no big secret. In the past she's quipped that she's "engaged" to the presumptive Democratic nominee (actually, she's betrothed to actor Ryan Reynolds) and appeared in his star-studded "Yes We Can" YouTube video. Now the Lost in Translation star tells Politico.com that she and Obama are pen pals.The Daily News is all over the story, declaring on page 3, "OMG!...

<p>According to Politico, the actress frequently e-mails the Democratic nominee, campaigns tirelessly on his behalf, hosts lucrative fundraisers and appeared in the “Yes We Can” viral video that got 10 million views its first week online.</p> <p>The actress has been an Obama supporter for years, even before the first Democratic caucus in Iowa, and doesn't even try to hide her affection for the candidate. “I am engaged to Barack Obama,” she said back in January, joking with reporters after a USO tour to the Persian Gulf. “My heart belongs to Barack.”</p>

The Continuing Saga of a Man who Stretched his 15 Minutes of Fame into 4 months.Larry Sinclair, the one-man, lawsuit-filing, banana-nut-bread-baking, Obama-accusing, money-begging, blog-spawning, running-from-the-law intimidation machine has had his initial lawsuit (against Barack Obama for intimidation and other Legal Larryisms) dismissed by the court. When this FACT (which was linked to the original court documents) was recently reported by DBKP's LBG, we were told (by a loyal Larry Legion enlistee) that our "information was obsolete". Larry himself characterized our reporting as "misinformation". Another Larrysuit was cited--there are several, including one against three anonymous posters who disagreed with Larry's World...

What does Democratic presidential front-runner Illinois Senator Barack Obama, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, a man named Larry Sinclair and Trinity United Church of Christ’s murdered homosexual choir director have in common? According Mr. Sinclair, maybe quite a bit. According to Sinclair, he has given new evidence to Chicago police linking Obama to the murder . . .

Obama accuser Larry Sinclair's "prominent" attorney, Montgomery Blair Sibley, has been suspended by the Florida State Bar for a period of three years. According to the web site, Overlawyered.com, Sibley's suspension is also reciprocal in Washington, D.C.. Sibley has been representing the man who accused Senator Obama of nights of alleged illicit gay sex and illegal drug use in the back of a rented limo and a motel in Gurnee, Illinois in November of 1999. ALSO at DBKP.com: Larry Sinclair: DBKP LIBRARY of Stories and Videos Over 25 Stories and videos chronicling the exploits of Larry Sinclair, the gay man...

I have posted a video statement on YouTube in the event anything should happen to me, it is clear that Police are to investigate as a homicide. I do believe from all my heart that the increased threats being made against me must be taken seriously. "Hello, I am Larry Sinclair… On Jan 18, 2008 I posted a video on You tube, in which I stated that on 2 separate occasions, in November 1999, I performed oral sex on Barack Obama, and that while I snorted cocaine, Barack Obama smoked crack cocaine; since the release of that video I have...

Larry Sinclair. Larry Sinclair. Larry Sinclair. There, if we say it three times maybe the MSM will promote and investigate his claims. If there is one bit of truth in Sinclair's claims then they are a major national story. Why isn't it? Is he lying or telling the truth? And what can be done about getting the story to the overall public?

Choir director at White House Hopeful's controversial Chicago church shot to death. Presidential hopeful Barack [Hussein] Obama has become tangled in a gay-murder probe rocking his controversial Chicago church as insiders ask: How much does he really know about the choir director's savage slaying? So far, Chicago cops' investigation into the murder of the Trinity United Christian Church's gay choir director has come up empty. But a top Chicago private detective tells GLOBE he believes the shooting death of 47-year-old Donald Young may be connected to Obama, who belongs to the church once headed by scandal-scarred preacher the ["]Rev.["] Jeremiah...

Apparently it mentions Donald Young, the murdered gay choir director of Obama’s Trinity Church of Christ. This is all getting incredibly interesting, considering the fact that Reverend Wright recently retired and the church is building him a mansion within a stone’s throw of Louis Farrakhan’s in Tinley Park. I haven’t read the globe article yet, but I know that people are circulating the flyers that I posted earlier. This is a grassroots movement - someone called Hannity and Colms and Colms said he was aware of the story, and the caller was so surprised he got through, he was rendered...

I Will disclose the identity of the Driver face to face on any live nationwide broadcast with Barack Obama and David Axelrod. Lets see who runs from this opportunity to address the TRUTH as Barack Obama claims he wants to tell to the American People. The following was written by Eric Gibbons, aka FirehouseGallery on Youtube on 2-24-08 CNN, MSNBC & FOX all know about this, and others. They have researched this story and will not air it because it is libelous, inaccurate, and fraud based on the ranting of a very sick man with a self-admitted mental disorder and...

YouTube Suppressing the Popularity of the Sinclair Video? After a hard day of non-reporting, the watchdog reporters of the Mainstream Media like to gather to compare the notes they didn’t take. 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...

Taken from; http://larrysinclair0926.spaces.live.com/ Everyone wanting to make this go away says there is no evidence. Obama supporters have continue to claim I was in a mental institution, even posted one post (but took it down just as quick) that I was in Federal Prison (until the realized the middle name and birth dates were wrong), among many, many other outright false statements about me. My Hotel reservation was made through Choice Hotels International central reservations originally for November 3, 1999 thru November 6, 1999. Confirmation number 78096854. My stay was extended from November 6, 1999 through November 9, 1999 directly...

This was sent to me by Mr. Sinclair about an hour ago. THE FOLLOWING WAS POSTED BY ME ON WHITEHOUSE DOT COM A FEW MOMENTS AGO. MR. PARISI HAS FAILED TO REPLY TOANY EMAILS SENT HIM SINCE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. I AM CONTACTING THE FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION THIS DATE AS WELL. Obama and Axelrod are paying $750,000 to WH's Dan Parisi for this scam he set up which is now falling apart in front of his eyes. It is amazing what kind of information people send you when they see you being screwed over. I am posting all email communications between...

State records seem to conflict with Governor Paterson's claim that a busy schedule as lieutenant governor required him on more than a dozen occasions to spend the night at expensive hotels in Albany on the taxpayer's dime rather than at his home in the suburbs. A copy of Mr. Paterson's 2007 official schedule obtained by The New York Sun shows that sometimes Mr. Paterson opted to stay at a hotel the night before a day that was free of official morning activities. Records suggest that many times Mr. Paterson's day did not begin until 9 a.m. On one occasion, he...

Report: N.Y. Gov. Paterson Used State Funds for Trip to S.C. With Former Mistress Tuesday , March 25, 2008 AP ALBANY, N.Y. — A published report says that years after Gov. David Paterson said he ended an affair with a state employee, he traveled with her to South Carolina while working on Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign. The Times Union of Albany says he billed the state for the trip. Paterson spokesman Errol Cockfield didn't immediately respond to a request for comment today. He told the newspaper he couldn't explain why records show Paterson and the $151,000-a-year employee were...

March 19, 2008 -- ALBANY - An attractive Olympic gold-medalist says she had a close personal relationship with Gov. Paterson earlier this year - during which time she recorded a series of secret telephone conversations with him. Track-and-field athlete Diane Dixon, of Brooklyn, also told The Post that she had received a private message yesterday morning from Paterson, asking if she was speaking with the media. Dixon, 43, said Paterson, 53, was "mostly responsible" for getting her a badly needed job earlier this month with the city Department of Education in Crown Heights' District 17.

The Eliot Spitzer prostitution ring scandal is the PERFECT situation for jokes. I am sure there will be a plethora of such jokes. Therefore please post on this thread all Eliot Spitzer jokes that you hear. Let this be the Eliot Spitzer Joke Resource Center. Oh, and don't forget to post any such jokes made by comedians.

Just off the phone with some old proverbial friends and fiends at the network assignment and producers' desks in New York. Here is the latest on the “Le Affaie de Spitzer.” They expect Gov. Spitzer is negotiating a deal so as to not be indicted, and will resign as part of that deal. He probably has other legal problems beyond just paying some hooker to get his wick wet. What funds did he use? If done before, did he file false income tax return to hide the expenditure? He could even be prosecuted under the Mann Act for bringing the...

CNBC, no friend of Elliot Spitzer for his investigations of business just interrupted news programming for this announcement. They note Spitzer is married with children No link yet

<p>Gov. Eliot Spitzer has informed his most senior administration officials that he had been involved in a prostitution ring, an administration official said this morning. He is set to make an announcement . . .</p>

Media Bias: When a lame attempt at stirring up a John McCain version of the Gennifer Flowers scandal falls flat, the New York Times raises the silly notion that he could be constitutionally ineligible to be president.The Gray Lady took quite some flak over its quadruple-bylined story last week insinuating a romantic relationship between presumptive Republican presidential nominee and a Washington lobbyist. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which regularly features Times stories, refused to run it because of "serious flaws," according to its managing editor. The story, he said, "used a raft of unnamed sources," didn't have "anything approaching convincing material," was...

Sixty-Six Percent Say 'Smear!' The Gray Lady's smear piece on John McCain got 66% of Rasmussen respondents believing that the paper deliberately trying to kneecap the Republican frontrunner. Only 22% think that the paper had clean motives in publishing the unsubstantiated gossip: The Times recently became enmeshed in controversy over an article published concerning John McCain. Sixty-five percent (65%) of the nation’s likely voters say they have followed that story at least somewhat closely. Of those who followed the story, 66% believe it was an attempt by the paper to hurt the McCain campaign. Just 22% believe the Times was...

I have come under some criticism for my criticism of the New York Times for its criticism of Sen. John McCain. Many readers of last week's New York Times article about McCain, including me, read that article as suggesting that Sen. McCain may have had an affair with a lobbyist eight years ago. The Times, however, has made clear that its story was not about an affair with a lobbyist. Its story was about the possibility that eight years ago, aides to McCain had held meetings with McCain to warn him about the appearance that he might be having an...

Well, it's not what one might think. They have a correction on an irrelevant point in a completely discredited article -- but at least it's right at the top: A front-page article on Feb. 21 about Senator John McCain’s record on lobbying and ethics, including his role in the Keating Five case, described incorrectly the reprimand delivered to three other members of the Senate in 1991 for intervening with government regulators on behalf of Charles H. Keating Jr. The Senate Ethics Committee rebuked the three senators for improper behavior, but under a parliamentary agreement the full Senate did not censure...

Sen. John McCain, the presumptive GOP nominee for president, has been linked by documents and testimony to another alleged case of what critics are calling influence peddling, this time involving a minority broadcaster in Pittsburgh. The New York Times last week published a major, controversial expose that insinuated McCain had a romantic relationship with telecommunications lobbyist Vicki Iseman, whose clients had a large stake in decisions made by the Senate Commerce Committeee McCain headed. The report, however, was denied by McCain and widely discredited for lack of evidence. According to his own testimony, it wasn't until he decided to give...

Gennifer Flowers is putting the tapes of her recorded conversations with Bill Clinton during their 12-year affair on the auction block, Vegas Confidential learned Monday.

If you're the New York Times's Jim Rutenberg or Bill Keller the last person you probably want in your corner is Dan "National Guard Forgery Story" Rather. Yet on the syndicated "Chris Matthews Show," Rather jumped to their defense, on last week's McCain hit piece, by declaring them "outstanding journalists." Now Rather did hedge a bit saying if the story wasn't true they could be "in a heap of trouble," but he concluded, that in the end, their reporting should be trusted because they were: "Very responsible journalists."

Accoring to a comment he made on his Youtube page Mr. Sinclair has passed the polygraph test. He was attacked by some people who left disrespectful comments and Mr. Sinclair lashed out and told some of the details of the polygraph test. He posted some comments on the page and names the Limo Driver as is P. Multani from the 5 Star Limo Service as the driver of the limo that he used with Senator Obama. He is also donating some of the money from WhiteHouse.com to charity.

The man who recently made allegations that Senator Barack Obama met him back in 1999 for sex n drugs in the back of limo has failed not one, but two polygraphs. The site, Whitehouse.com, had offered Sinclair the sum of $10,000 to take a polygraph plus another check for $100,000 if he passed. To prove they were not bi-partisan the site also offered the woman at the center of the McCain lobbyist mini-scandal, Vicki Iseman, the same offer. Whitehouse.com used the services of highly respected polygraph expert, Dr. Ed Gelb. Sinclair passed a drug test before taking the tests, both...

BILL KELLER, the executive editor of The Times, said the article about John McCain that appeared in Thursday’s paper was about a man nearly felled by scandal who rebuilt himself as a fighter against corruption but is still “careless about appearances, careless about his reputation, and that’s a pretty important thing to know about somebody who wants to be president of the United States.” But judging by the explosive reaction to the 3,000-word article, most readers saw it as something else altogether. They saw it as a story about illicit sex. And most were furious at The Times... I think...

The White House sided with Sen. John McCain and accused The New York Times on Friday of repeatedly trying to "drop a bombshell" on Republican presidential nominees to undermine their candidacies. White House deputy press secretary Scott Stanzel... "I think a lot of people here in this building, with experience in a couple campaigns, have grown accustomed to the fact that during the course of the campaign, seemingly on maybe a monthly basis leading up to the convention and maybe a weekly basis after that, the New York Times does try to drop a bombshell on the Republican nominee. "And...

A day after insinuating that John McCain had an affair with lobbyist Vicki Iseman, all of the romance appears to have disappeared from the New York Times. Faster than one can say Roberta Flack, the flak taken by the Gray Lady has apparently resulted in a Soviet-style purge of the sexual allegations from their story. Recall this in paragraph 2 of the original article: A female lobbyist had been turning up with him at fund-raisers, visiting his offices and accompanying him on a client’s corporate jet. Convinced the relationship had become romantic, some of his top advisers intervened to protect...

INDIANAPOLIS — Senator John McCain declared the battle over on Friday morning, but by then his lieutenants believed he had already won the war. Conservative radio talk show hosts who had long reviled Mr. McCain, the Republican presidential candidate from Arizona, had rallied to his defense. Bloggers on the right said that this could be the start of a new relationship. Most telling, Mr. McCain’s campaign announced Friday afternoon that it had just recorded its single-best 24 hours in online fund-raising, although it declined to provide numbers. Both sides traced the senator’s sudden fortunes to an unusual source, The New...

Earlier today, I linked to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and its editor's essay about the journalistic defects in the New York Times hit piece on John McCain. David McCumber chose not to run the Times' article in the Seattle P-I despite having the rights to it on syndication. Andrew Malcom at the Los Angeles Times reports that another paper also killed the story -- despite being owned by the New York Times: But one interesting aspect of this combined political and professional controversy went widely unnoticed. The Boston Globe, which is wholly owned by the New York Times, chose not to...

Impressed with the fabrication of the story regarding John McCain, the National Enquirer today announced they will seek a buyout of the New York Times. Said an anonymous spokesperson, "We are truly amazed that a major newspaper, supposedly in the mainstream and the purveyor of "All The News That's Fit To Print", would undertake a story of this magnitude with no basis in fact. We consider it on a par with our own "Tabloid" style that has enabled us to rocket to the top of the supermarket check-out rack". "We make our living based on readers who are too stupid...

The embattled executive editor of the New York Times defended its John McCain story Friday with a novel explanation for the flood of critical e-mails the newspaper received: slow-witted readers. "Personally, I was surprised by the volume of the reaction," Bill Keller wrote in a Times Web site Q&A forum. Readers posted 2,000 comments and sent in 3,700 questions. "I was surprised by how lopsided the opinion was against our decision, with readers who described themselves as independents and Democrats joining Republicans in defending Mr. McCain from what they saw as a cheap shot," Keller added. The problem, Keller went...

Rarely has a "scandal" faded as quickly as the one in which the New York Times implied Sen. John McCain had a "romantic" relationship with Washington lobbyist Vicki Iseman. After a one-day news blitz of everyone talking and speculating about the consequences of the Times front page "expose," the allegations have not only been scaled down, but are even being used as a fundraiser for McCain among conservatives. Without a persuasive followup, the reputation of the Times is taking a hit for running a major story based almost entirely on innuendo and insinuations from anonymous sources -- on what was...

John McCain just shoved his whole stack into the middle of the table and put his credibility and candidacy on the line. He just threw down the gauntlet to the New York Times by flatly denying every point of a front-page story that implied McCain had an affair nine years ago with a 31-year-old Washington lobbyist, then used his influence as a committee chair to promote the interests of her client. The Times' front-page story of the alleged romance was based on two anonymous sources the Times identified as former aides to the senator. The Washington Post quoted John Weaver,...