My husband and I headed over to the RBC meeting this morning, just to walk around with our coffee and check out the Hillary supporters protesting. We were a little surprised at how few there were, but less surprised by the rhetoric, vitriol, and Lanny Davis-esque talking points we heard as we walked through the crowds.
We headed for home too soon though, I guess, because we missed the day's big celebrity--Larry "I did drugs and had sex with Obama" Sinclair. And the warm reception that Clinton supporters gave him. For those of you, like me, waiting for the RBC committee members to come back, read more below the fold...
As Eve Fairbanks over at TNR reports:
Larry Sinclair, the Minnesota man who took to YouTube to allege that Barack Obama had oral sex with him in the back of a limousine in 1999, is one of the belles of the ball.
Wait, one of the belles of the ball? But hold on...why would anyone take a certified nutbag like Larry Sinclair seriously? Surely most of the Clinton supporters gave him the cold shoulder, right? You know, in the interest of not looking like total and complete opportunists, right? Right? RIGHT?
Oh, so wrong:
"They almost made me cry this morning when they told me to get out of there," the blond Sinclair--who's looking roly-poly and giddy in a blue-and-white striped shirt with a pack of Marlboros protruding from the breast pocket--says, referring to several nervous protest organizers who tried to evict him when he first showed up at the rally site early this morning carrying a box of "Obama's DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS: Murder, Drugs, Gay Sex" fliers. Since then, though, he goes on, "I have been totally surprised by the reception I have received!"
He's not kidding. Clusters of people in Hillary shirts ask to take their photo with him, one woman covered in Clinton buttons introduces him to Greta Van Susteren, and he estimates he has handed out 500 fliers. "You could improve your credibility if you downplayed the gay sex and focused on the drugs," sagely advises one Hillary supporter with auburn hair and elegant makeup.
That's right. These middle-aged moms, furious over what they perceive as the media's sexist treatment of Hillary--positively pugalistic over the Hillary Nutcracker and the famous pulling-out-of-the-chair-for-her--were giddy as debutantes upon meeting the crazy ex-con who wanders about telling horrible lies about Barack Obama for attention:
In the thirty minutes I stand with him, only one woman expresses disgust at his fliers and his willingness to chattily discourse on whether Obama is "good in bed."
And it gets even worse. The same people who were outraged (and rightly so) over the not-so-whisper campaign about Vince Foster are now accusing Obama of murder. Yes, that's right. Murder. As Fairbanks relates:
But the rhetoric from the top has imparted its poison below, and the bitterest criticisms of Obama gain traction as they circulate through the virulently-pro-Hillary echo chamber. "Would you rather have a president who had an affair [Bill Clinton] or one who was a murderer [Obama]?" Jeannie, the Greensboro Democrat, asks a fellow in a floppy Tilley hat and Hillary buttons. "That's a good point," he replies.
And if you want to know who Obama's supposed to have murdered...you'll have to come out to DC and ask the Clinton supporters yourself. I'm afraid to go back out there again.