6 Sep 2023 3:56 pm
Oh Jesus thank you.
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WASHINGTON (CN) - A man whose memoir leveled accusations of gay sex, drug use and murder at President Barack Obama does not have to face defamation claims from a political blogger he accused of rigging a lie-detector test, a federal judge ruled.
Larry Sinclair made headlines during the 2008 presidential campaign with a short YouTube videoin which he claimed that he and Obama had engaged in gay sex and drug use one night in a limousine during Obama's tenure as an Illinois state senator in 1999.
Daniel Parisi, a political blogger for the now defunct Whitehouse.com, challenged Sinclair to take a polygraph.
The results indicated that Sinclair had lied, but Sinclair claimed that an anonymous telephone tipster told him Parisi had rigged the polygraph with Obama's adviser, David Axelrod.
Sinclair says he called Parisi about the allegations, but Parisi failed to respond. Sinclair also forwarded the information to a Chicago Tribune reporter who spoke with the anonymous tipster.
In a 2009 memoir titled "Barack Obama & Larry Sinclair: Cocaine, Sex Lies & Murder?", Sinclair said Axelrod paid $750,000 to rig the polygraph and that "the polygraph exam was announced by the internet pornography fraud Dan Parisi."
The book also claims Obama tried to cover up the murder of a church choir director, who Sinclair says was Obama's other gay lover.
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WASHINGTON (CN) - A man whose memoir leveled accusations of gay sex, drug use and murder at President Barack Obama does not have to face defamation claims from a political blogger he accused of rigging a lie-detector test, a federal judge ruled.
Larry Sinclair made headlines during the 2008 presidential campaign with a short YouTube videoin which he claimed that he and Obama had engaged in gay sex and drug use one night in a limousine during Obama's tenure as an Illinois state senator in 1999.
Daniel Parisi, a political blogger for the now defunct Whitehouse.com, challenged Sinclair to take a polygraph.
The results indicated that Sinclair had lied, but Sinclair claimed that an anonymous telephone tipster told him Parisi had rigged the polygraph with Obama's adviser, David Axelrod.
Sinclair says he called Parisi about the allegations, but Parisi failed to respond. Sinclair also forwarded the information to a Chicago Tribune reporter who spoke with the anonymous tipster.
In a 2009 memoir titled "Barack Obama & Larry Sinclair: Cocaine, Sex Lies & Murder?", Sinclair said Axelrod paid $750,000 to rig the polygraph and that "the polygraph exam was announced by the internet pornography fraud Dan Parisi."
The book also claims Obama tried to cover up the murder of a church choir director, who Sinclair says was Obama's other gay lover.
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