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National Press Club faces demands to ban Barack Obama smear merchant(Larry Sinclair vs.KosKids!)
UK Telegraph ^ | 6/13/08 | staff

Posted on 06/13/2008 8:17:15 PM PDT by pissant

The National Press Club has been inundated with complaints over its decision to stage a press conference by Larry Sinclair, a man of mysterious background who has been peddling sex and drugs claims about Barack Obama for several months.

A member of the club’s staff confided that the office had struggled to cope with calls demanding to know why one of Washington’s premier media platforms had been given over to Sinclair.

The liberal blog firedoglake says it has 7,500 signatures an online petition urging the club to rescind its decision.

According to the website, and other blogs, Sinclair failed a polygraph for the claims he had made about the Democratic nominee.

Many of those objecting to the club can be assumed to be angry Obama supporters. The senator's campaign this week launched a website, Fight the Smears, to debunk claims about his religion, his family and his wife's personality that have circulated widely in emails, on blogs and sometimes been picked up by the mainstream media.

In an emailed statement, Sylvia Smith, the National Press Club’s president, explained that the club had merely rented out a room to Sinclair, and was not sponsoring the event.

“By renting a room for an event, we are not promoting or condoning or agreeing with the issues or policy positions or people involved in these events. We believe in the ability of reporters to ask good questions and report news or not as they see fit from events that take place at our location,” she said.

The website for the 100-year-old institution, which regards itself as the premier journalism club in the world, boasts that it has played host to “kings and queens, prime ministers, premiers, senators, congressmen, cabinet officials, ambassadors…” among others.

It also states that the club’s chief purpose is to "provide people who gather and disseminate news a center for the advancement of their professional standards and skills, the promotion of free expression, mutual support and social fellowship".

On this occasion it has apparently decided to honour its commitment to free expression over social fellowship.


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: larrysinclair; obama; pressclub; whokilleddonaldyoung
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I'll bet the Obama camp, the DNC and every other vile leftwing organizartion is ringing the NPC's phone off the hook. ROFL!!
1 posted on 06/13/2008 8:17:16 PM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant; BossLady; Lancey Howard

Now, wea re starting to get somewhere!


2 posted on 06/13/2008 8:17:55 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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I wonder if this will ever see the light of day?


3 posted on 06/13/2008 8:25:00 PM PDT by gidget7 (Duncan Hunter-Valley Forge Republican!)
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To: pissant

Umm... Could we ban both?? It would increase civility in politics by 100%.


4 posted on 06/13/2008 8:29:00 PM PDT by Accygirl (My Savior already came to the Earth.. His name was Jesus, not Obama)
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To: gidget7

Considering the fact that he has a June 18th presser at the NPC and it alone has given him MSM coverage for the first time, we can only hope. The Obamunists are in a major snit. LOL


5 posted on 06/13/2008 8:29:42 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth launched their campaign against Kerry on May 4, 2004 at the National Press Club. Of course, it was only covered by a couple of journalists and I think the stuffed the story.

http://npc.press.org/calendar/calendar.cfm?whatmonth=5&whatyear=2004


6 posted on 06/13/2008 8:30:07 PM PDT by HerrBlucher
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But the momentum of teh Swifties was just too damn overwhelming to ignore. I can’t wait until Larry runs his first ad on TV. LOL


8 posted on 06/13/2008 8:32:01 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: gidget7

There’s no whitey tape as all the smart conservative bloggers pointed out. Larry Johnson was the guy who insisted that Rove was going to be indicted and therefore is not credible. The best quote that I heard about the whitey non-scandal is that it’s a problem for Clinton’s supporters that they would spread false rumors about the Messiah’s wife and it’s a problem for the Messiah that said rumors were plausible.


9 posted on 06/13/2008 8:32:38 PM PDT by Accygirl (My Savior already came to the Earth.. His name was Jesus, not Obama)
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To: kburi

ping


10 posted on 06/13/2008 8:33:47 PM PDT by BufordP (Had Mexicans flown planes into the World Trade Center, Jorge Bush would have surrendered.)
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So much for the loony left’s shouts about first amendment rights. These are the same people that hysterically screamed “first amendment rights” anytime someone even as much as questioned the evil smears and lies spread by the hate-filled low life Micheal Moore in his fraudulent Fahrenheit 9/11 film, which was given given non-stop 24/7 cover by the lame-brain media, before the 2004 elections.
For my money, Larry Sinclair is a much better human being than Micheal Moore.
Of course Sincliar should be given every opportunity to have his say.
What is Obama afraid of?
Could it be that he did indeed have sexual relations with that man?
If Obama’s never met Sincliar, why is he so afraid to let Sinclair have his press conference?
11 posted on 06/13/2008 8:36:41 PM PDT by KevinJohnson
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To: pissant
So much for the loony left’s shouts about first amendment rights. These are the same people that hysterically screamed “first amendment rights” anytime someone even as much as questioned the evil smears and lies spread by the hate-filled low life Micheal Moore in his fraudulent Fahrenheit 9/11 film, which was given given non-stop 24/7 cover by the lame-brain media, before the 2004 elections.
For my money, Larry Sinclair is a much better human being than Micheal Moore.
Of course Sincliar should be given every opportunity to have his say.
What is Obama afraid of?
Could it be that he did indeed have sexual relations with that man?
If Obama’s never met Sincliar, why is he so afraid to let Sinclair have his press conference?
12 posted on 06/13/2008 8:36:48 PM PDT by KevinJohnson
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95% chance says he did indeed ‘have sex with that man, Mr. Sinclair’.


13 posted on 06/13/2008 8:38:04 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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Yeah, Sinclair’s declarations are a LOT more exciting than the Swiftees detailed and boring documentation of Kerry’s trickery, deceipt, and treason. They will not be able to stuff the story.


14 posted on 06/13/2008 8:41:28 PM PDT by HerrBlucher
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They must be asking themselves, WWRD, in honor of their hero.

Russert, that is.

15 posted on 06/13/2008 8:42:42 PM PDT by Defiant (Leave it to the Dems to nominate someone so bad I may be forced to vote for McCain.)
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Why else did the lie detector tests cost $900,000 to administer?


16 posted on 06/13/2008 8:43:17 PM PDT by willyd (Tickets, fines, fees, permits and inspections are synonyms for taxes)
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To: pissant
I don't think anyone could dream up something about obomba that would lower my opinion that I have of him now.
17 posted on 06/13/2008 8:44:24 PM PDT by Big Horn (I am bitter, I just want to eat my waffle.)
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To: HerrBlucher
I hear he's got a picture of Obama with a goat that somebody faxed him from a Kinkos in Texas, that seemed to meet the bar for evidence in the last presidential election.
18 posted on 06/13/2008 8:46:16 PM PDT by Old North State
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I had never heard of the liberal blog firedoglake — was it really a liberal blog, I wondered. Yes! A search for the F-word in the comments got many hits — it truly is a liberal site. Lots of feeeeeeeeeeelings there.


19 posted on 06/13/2008 8:55:11 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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that seemed to meet the bar for evidence in the last presidential election.

Well, it met the bar for attacks on Bush anyway.

20 posted on 06/13/2008 8:55:20 PM PDT by HerrBlucher
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