I couldn't believe what I was reading,kos. The National Press Club is going to give a criminal, a character assisinator access to their stage on 18 June to smear a serving US Senator, and candidate for the Presidency of the United States, Senator Barack Obama?!
THE National Press Club, are you kidding me?! Deplorable. My open letter as attached to the petition to rescind the invitation follows.
1330h 13 June Added > Colorado Warrant Link for Larry Sinclair.
as appended to the petition @ FDL:
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After a 100 years at 'The Club' it's come to this? 'Larry Sinclair is being ushered onto the national stage at THE National Press Club on June 18'
This Larry Sinclair?
"Larry Sinclair is making allegations that Obama had sex and used drugs with him in 1999. Whitehouse.com offered $100,000 if Sinclair could pass a polygraph test; Sinclair took the test, and failed."
Are you kidding me? This National Press Club?
"The Club founders laid down a credo which promised "to promote social enjoyment among the members, to cultivate literary taste, to encourage friendly intercourse among newspapermen and those with whom they were thrown in contact in the pursuit of their vocation, to aid members in distress and to foster the ethical standards of the profession."
No, seriously, THIS National Press Club?
"The National Press Club has been a part of Washington life for nearly 100 years. Through its doors have come all of the Presidents of the United States since Theodore Roosevelt, as well as kings and queens, prime ministers, premiers, senators, congressmen, cabinet officials, ambassadors, scholars, entertainers, business leaders, and athletes. Its members have included all of the Presidents of the United States since Warren Harding and most have spoken from the Club's podium."
'The World's MOST Prestigous News Club'...?
I think not, if you're to be measured by your own Ethics as outlined by;
Walter William's Journalist's Creed
"This creed was written by Walter Williams (1864-1935), the man who founded the world's first school of journalism at the University of Missouri and perhaps contributed more toward the promotion of professional journalism than any other person of his time."
"I believe in the profession of Journalism."
"I believe that the public journal is a public trust; that all connected with it are, to the full measure of responsibility, trustees for the public; that acceptance of lesser service than the public service is a betrayal of this trust."
"I believe that clear thinking, clear statement, accuracy and fairness are fundamental to good journalism."
Deplorable is what you are, and what you are doing in hosting this character assisinator.
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A 'sample' of Larry's supporter rhetoric:
#johnnypeepers Says:
Saturday, March 15, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Larry, these are the darkest of days, but there is a glimmer of sunlight on the horizon. The evil forces that are colluding to assassinate your character cannot stand the disinfectant of the sunlight.
Obama is a Luciferian ambassador who will destroy the fabric of this one great Christian empire. You are our only hope to end his destructive reign. His minister’s anti-American racist tirades are helping too, but that is a different matter altogether.
I am praying for your health and safety. Please do not meet with others unless you are in public. Do not accept food or drinks from anyone you do not know. May G-d be with you Larry - you are not alone in this fight for righteousness.
Nothing like opening your doors to the likes of folks like these NPC... like i said in my open letter to the NPC, deplorable.