Wednesday, February 20, 2008

New standards in journalism

This handsome gentleman on the right here is the new star of WorldNetDaily. Despite the evidence to the contrary -- namely, the obvious color coordination problems between the hat and the last-pressed-in-1987 shirt--this man asserts that he is indeed gay (or, as WND would say, "gay written in quotation marks because gay still means 1890s happy to us, dernit") and once had a cocaine-fueled tryst with presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama in a Minnesota hotel.

Despite the crackerjack reporting done by WND on this case, which apparently consisted of watching this guy's YouTube video, the mainstream media has not yet picked up on this breaking story. Not even a Drudge siren yet. But just wait. This guy's going to prove his case by using a polygraph test. Basically, we'll be holding him to the same standards as one of the fine ladies and gentlemen who would appear on MTV's "Exposed."

Using WND's same standards of journalism, however, let me attempt to play a bit of devil's advocate, here. Using my imaginary reverse aging machine to determine what the man in question, Larry Sinclair, looked like in 1999, when he was a spry lad of 37 or so, let me just say -- not a chance. Sorry. Even if Obama had been trolling around upscale Chicago lounges in his limo for crack and tricks, perhaps thinking that Y2K was just going to end it all anyway, the odds of him picking up someone that looked like Sinclair, even a de-aged-by-eight-years Sinclair, are zero. There's a reason the guys from the escort services don't look like that. Not exactly a high-demand item, let's just say. The chances, in fact, are probably about as big as the chances that Sinclair would be able to get past the velvet rope of an upscale Chicago lounge.

Now, some might say WND is just throwing whatever slime it can, hoping some of it eventual sticks to the wall, particularly since another top headline on the right is "Obama mentor identified as communist." And there's another whole story about Obama's campaign, surprisingly enough, refusing to comment on this.

But nay. Go on, WND. Pursue this story and prove us all wrong. By the way, here's a scoop: Mike Huckabee and I once shot up crystal meth in a Wheeling, W.V. Knight's Inn, followed by seven hours of reciprocal fisting and a room service order of squirrel taquitos. Truly. I look forward to seeing your interview request in my inbox tomorrow.

(Sorry for the graphic imagery, but hey -- they started it!)

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

No matter where you go you always find comments from the Obama TROLLS. I thought the RON PAUL Trolls were bad. They are so messed up and don’t even know it. Important famous people are caught in this Obama CULT. Its sad. You can’t talk sense to them. THey have to wake up on their own.

Larry Sinclair is real and he is honest.

Anonymous said...

I DON'T GET IT...

Red, White and Blue are a problem?

And, last I checked, Obama looked like a cross between E.T. and Steve Urkel in 1999, much as he does now, the only difference is that in 1999 he walked around with a Newport dangling from his ruby lips as he fought off his depression from getting kicked around by Bobby Rush.

Owned and served.

Mike said...

Oh, geez. I'm FAR from an "Obama troll," darling. I didn't even vote for him, in fact.

Anonymous said...

Can crazy people make false allegations against famous ones?

Gee, let’s ask Tucker Carlson and John Fund - hardly standard-bearers for the liberal media - since they were both falsely acccused of sexual improriety by two DIFFERENT crazy people. Look it up.

Type in either one of their names and the word “rape” into Google and you’ll see it for yourself.

Any loon can make a charge against someone.

As Carlson said, it used to be that when a sex scandal broke, if the actual charge wasn’t true, at least something was - the candidate or person accused did something sexual.

Then he was accused of rape in Louisville by some woman. He spent thousands of dollars not only proving he wasn’t there at the time of the alleged rape - but also that he had never been to Louisville in this entire life!!!!

Perhaps the standard of accuracy in a major media-story should be a little higher than a self-recorded You Tube video, a self-respresented case filed in Federal Court (which would accept my lawsuit against the moon for shining too bright - if I had the filing fee) and interviews by people who’s blogs make Oliver Stone movies look like recorded bits of actual history.

Come on!

Rebel Yankee said...

Mike,
my little darling taquito...in much the same way not even Bobby Brown would have been caught with this guy in a crack den, I refuse to believe that you would have been engaging in one of WND's approved list of deviant sexual acts with Mike Huckabee.
Unless it was so you could blog about it years later.

Mike said...

Of course, anonymous #3, but WND will pick up and run with any of crazies' accusations, all phrased in a libel-proof manner (which is not really that hard to do against a public figure). It's their version of push-polling.

It's like the whole "Kerry had an affair" story that wafted into the mainstream media and was quickly disproven.

nikoeternal.com said...

Yours is the first blog I've encounters with the same template as mine! GRRRRRRRRR

Mike said...

There's a lot of us with the template, Niko. Think of it as a special club. :-)

nikoeternal.com said...

YAY LETS HAVE A PARTY!

Mike said...

I'll bring the elegant guac!

Evol Kween said...

He looks like a fine ol' bear to me!

Corine said...

I love you, Mike!
Corine
http://www.corinescorner.com
xo ;-)