btw, the only reason you would compare rolling stone to the national enquirer is to get an obama jab in there.
mmm, no, just to point out that media outlets that are not traditionally associated w/ "reporting" have been breaking some interesting stories of late.
Gore would have to be hitting on a man and or boy for the story to be about a Republican so what are you getting at? You're losing it basso. Quick, check the blogs to post more crap!
Gore hitting on a dude would be newsworthy? why is that? is there something offensive/newsworthy about swarthy manbearpig sex?
contemporaneous statements Former Vice President Al Gore speaks at the Millennium Summit on Thursday, April 22, 2010 in Montreal. A close friend of a Portland massage therapist who accused former Vice President Al Gore of groping her says the therapist told her soon after the 2006 encounter that she'd been violated and assaulted by "someone in the higher ups." Donna Burleigh of Keizer said her best friend didn't identify the person, but when Gore returned to Portland years later, her friend "freaked out." "She freaked and split. She said her predator was back and coming to town. She up and left," Burleigh said. Burleigh said she knew her friend had obtained a lawyer and thought she was trying to pursue a civil case, so she was surprised to see the National Enquirer splash the allegations on its website this week. More on Gore » More stories about the accusations against Al Gore » Read the Portland police reports "She's not out for freakin' money. This lady, all she wants is this man accountable for his actions," Burleigh said. Within a few days of the Oct. 24, 2006 encounter at the Hotel Lucia in downtown Portland, Burleigh said she spoke by phone with her friend. "She told me 'Donna, I was assaulted by someone in the higher ups.' It broke my heart, and I said, 'God, I'm sorry.' " Her friend didn't go into details, Burleigh said, but said it was during the course of her work. She kept saying "things are going to come to a head" and worried that there'd be "all kinds of media coverage," Burleigh said. "She said she was meeting with a rape crisis unit, stuff like that," Burleigh said. "She said it was a high authority person who has a lot of power. She was scared of him." Burleigh said her friend was insulted by what occurred, stressing that she takes her licensed massage therapist job seriously. The therapist also has health problems and the incident made them worse, Burleigh said. "When she got violated, she has not been the same since," Burleigh said. "She was talking about how she wanted to go to the hospital because she was having panic attacks, then it started getting worse." The editor of the National Enquirer said Thursday the tabloid didn't pay the Portland massage therapist for its story. The statement rebuts reports that the paper paid $1 million for the story that it broke a day earlier online. "We did not pay the therapist or any representative of hers," Editor-in-Chief Tony Frost said. "In fact, she was unaware the story was being published." The statement said the tabloid initially heard about the story through a tip. "We had to do a great deal of work to establish that the information was correct and to determine the validity of certain documents that our reporters later discovered." According to Portland police, no one from The Enquirer contacted the bureau to discuss the allegations, or requested the police reports or sought interviews with investigators. Randall Vogt, the woman's attorney, had reported to Portland police in December 2006, two months after the encounter, that Gore made "unwanted sexual advances" during a massage session. But the woman didn't show up for three interviews with police because Vogt said she didn't want the publicity. Then, on Jan. 8, 2009, the therapist came to Portland police with a lengthy written statement, detailing her allegations of Gore's sexual advances and answered detectives' questions. Portland police didn't investigate or contact the district attorney's office and closed the case, citing insufficient evidence. This month, on June 3, the therapist returned to Portland police, asking for a copy of her statement, presented some clarifications and said she was going to take the case to the media, police said. Police are expected to release the clarifications today. In her 2009 statement, the therapist told police she was called to Hotel Lucia about 10:30 p.m. after Gore gave an environmental talk at the Rose Garden. She told police he pushed her hand to his groin, fondled her buttocks and breasts, thrust his tongue in her mouth and threw her down on the bed and climbed on top of her as tried to push him away. According to police reports, the woman said in 2009 that she'd been a licensed massage therapist for about 12 years. She said she had a professional diploma from The Oregon School of Massage, completed training at Northwest Acupressure Institute and preliminary Chinese medicine studies at the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine. She received her bachelor of science in liberal studies at Portland State University in 2002. Burleigh, who runs S&D Exotic Bird Rescue out of her Keizer home, said she and the therapist share a love of birds and other animals. They met about seven years ago, when she brought a Macaw named Toto to Burleigh and she found it a good home. The macaw was too loud for the apartment where the therapist was living. The therapist was also on the rescue's board of directors, and helps people find new homes for their animals via Craigslist. "She's a big-hearted person, with birds of her own -- Quakers, African Gray, Senegal," Burleigh said. Neighbors of the therapist said the woman is outgoing and known for striking up conversations. "She's a very spiritual person," said Pepe Moscoso, an artist and photographer who lives in the same Southeast Portland apartment complex. "We'd talk about the Zodiac and other astrological things." She always talks to him and his wife when they're walking outside with their daughters. "She's friendly enough to stop and say hi to you on the sidewalk," neighbor Rusty Pranger said. She tries to speak Russian phrases to some of their immigrant neighbors, he said. Law enforcement experts said the time delay in reporting the details of the crime poses a "tremendous" challenge for investigators and prosecutors. The veracity of the complaint could be compromised, said Broward County Sheriff's Sgt. Adam Hofstein, supervisor of the special victims unit that handles sex crimes in Fort Lauderdale. "Your forensic evidence is waning, the time weighs on people's recollections and their credibility." Yet, Hofstein said, in a case like this, "We are still going to take all the steps. You are still within the statute of limitations, you still have a felony." Harry O'Reilly, a retired New York City detective sergeant who headed its special victims unit and now teaches sex crime investigative tactics to law enforcement, said police might consider massage therapy somewhat of a "dubious profession," and may not follow up since the victim didn't provide details until more than two years later and it does not rise to a rape allegation. But since the case involved such a high-profile person, "one would follow it up -- not necessarily because of the gravity of the case, but because of the people who were involved and the potential consequences."
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Man, either he did or that woman has one hell of a vivid imagination. The details in the report are truly weird. Of course, I don't think his guilt should be assumed by anyone since there's no evidence and the police and her lawyer have dropped it. But, as was pointed out in an earlier post, there is a world of difference between a Democrat with a sexual failing (even a criminal one) and a Republican, in that one party runs on "family values" and the other doesn't. The key word here is "hypocrisy," which is the only reason the private sex lives of Republicans are of any importance at all to the national discourse. I don't care, for example, what Larry Craig does except that he has so stringently opposed all rights for gays when he clearly is one. Same goes for Newt Gingrich going after Clinton when he was cheating himself (not to mention that he did so after divorcing his wife on her death bed, all the while promoting family "values"). The list goes on and on. Of course, if this is true of Gore (and really who could possibly know), he is guilty of some small hypocrisy in trying to make a character issue (10 years ago) of his loving marriage with Tipper, but it's not like he ever tried to bring legislation into it, in all his years as an elected official, as the various sexually deviant Republicans do almost as a rule before they prove they're full of ****.
one small correction: if the allegations are true (big if), this case is not about sex, but about assault. the details are salacious, but attempted rape has nothing to do with sex.
I'm not saying Gore is or isn't guilty. I'm not into blaming or casting doubt on a potential victim either. I just wondered if basso believes Gore is guilty or innocent. Generally when people show this much interest in a case they have an idea one way or the other.
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The notorious stain on the pants saved by an Oregon masseuse from the night she claims she was sexually assaulted by Al Gore tested negative for semen The accuser also told the Tribune that she failed a lie detector test. poor basso but so what! right? The damage is done and you've successfully tarnished the reputation of the former VP
Haha I thought this was about me. Got all scared. Anyway, one incidence of groping is not a big deal.
