6-25-10

Massage Therapist “Proud” She Gave Al Gore Massage

Thinking Out Loud

Al Gore spent a week or two vacationing at Figure Eight Island, North Carolina, in, as I recall, the early 2000s, and my massage therapist of a few years gave him a massage there. After she gave Al a massage she was bouncing off the walls and was as proud as could be for having been asked. Zero, zip, nothing negative about Al from her. Everything roses. She moved to Hawaii and I haven’t seen her for years. Won’t give her name. Her father is a big time doctor in Wilmington and she takes her massage therapy practice as seriously, in my opinion, as her father takes his medical practice. Actually I feel she went into massage therapy to heal as well or better than Dad.

There is one thing especially I like about Al Gore and one I don’t. Al did right to fight the communi$t$’ when they cowardly stole the presidential election in 2000. This sex allegation almost smells of typical Rothschild presidential rigging in anticipation of 2012 - head off at the pass and smear Gore’s name just in case it is brought up as a candidate. The communi$t$ are truly amazing. Just when I thought they could not dig up any president worse for freedom, mankind and the US Constitution than comrade Little George, they amaze me with comrade Barack “Hate the US Constitution and the Free Enterprise System” Obama.

Its my guess this Gore sexual assault mess is the Rothschilds' smearing Gore’s name early on just in case someone brings it up as a 2012 candidate for president. The Rothschilds work hard to keep the world in the sewer and they like what they’re getting from Obama - A true communi$t. The Bildeberg meeting just finished and this Al Gore blurb gives me the feeling the Rothschilds' presidential 2012 script is hot off the press. My initial guess - The Omega Agency gives Obama four more years. The game plan? Hufffingtonpost.com smears all other candidates except Obama. Then again I could be wrong. The bad guys are masters of deception. They may know there is nothing to the Al Gore mess and may be bringing Al back to prime time to help their cap and trade agenda. What’s Gore’s position on the carbon tax and how much the communi$t$’ want it may be behind the latest Gore publicity. Gore the carbon tax supporter is one thing about Gore I especially don't like. The bad guys may be mad at Gore because they had counted on him to tout their carbon tax and he is not.

WEDNESDAY, JUN 30, 2010

Portland police re-open Al Gore sex case

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/06/30/gore_case_reopened/index.html?source=newsletter

The decision came just after his accuser outed herself to the National Enquirer
BY STEVE KORNACKI

Former Vice President Al Gore in early June.
The big news tonight is that the Portland (Ore.) police have decided to take a fresh look at a masseuse's allegations that Al Gore sexually assaulted her in October 2006. The move seems to have been prompted by the decision of the woman, 54-year-old Molly Hagerty, to out herself in a National Enquirer story that went live earlier in the day.

"Consistent with our policy regarding open investigations, the Police Bureau will not be commenting on any additional specifics regarding this case at this time,'' a spokeswoman for the Portland police said.

Hagerty spoke exclusively to the Enquirer, which reported that she is in possession of "crucial DNA evidence" from her encounter with the former vice president, and that she also has a corroborating witness (a friend to whom she relayed details of the encounter hours after it happened) and a hotel surveillance tape to bolster her case.

Last week, when the Enquirer ran a story detailing Hagerty's police report (without naming her), the tabloid's executive editor said that she had asked for $1 million for her story -- but that the Enquirer had refused to pay anything. It is unclear whether any financial arrangements were made between then and now, although it appears that Hagerty provided the Enquirer with extensive cooperation in that time. After last week's story ran, the tabloid said that it had only conducted a brief interview with her.

Hagerty initially filed a complaint with Portland police through a lawyer in early 2007 -- several months after the supposed assault. She then refused to meet with police on three different occasions, only to step forward in early 2009 to make a voluntary statement to police. She then amended that statement in June 2009. Police declined to pursue the matter further, citing a lack of evidence.

Last week, Salon spoke with the executive editor of the Portland Tribune, a free weekly newspaper that learned of Hagerty's charges more than three years ago. The editor, Mark Garber, detailed the fairly exhaustive (and, at times, creative) efforts that the Tribune made to verify the story. Ultimately, after a two-year probe, the paper declined to print a single word on the matter.

“There were things that we discovered throughout our investigation that raised serious questions in our mind,” Garber told Salon.

Gore's spokeswoman, Kalee Kreider, released the following statement on Wednesday night: "Further investigation into this matter will only benefit Mr. Gore. The Gores cannot comment on every defamatory, misleading, and inaccurate story generated by tabloids. Mr. Gore unequivocally and emphatically denied this accusation when he first learned of its existence three years ago. He stands by that denial."

From Saul Alinsky's, Rules for Radicals, Adrianna uses Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.

Today, June 30, 2010, Rothschilds' shill, the communi$t Greek whore, Adrinna Huffington, posted side by side the two articles below, one on Edwards, the other on Gore. The communi$t$' use Huffingtonpost.com to get rid of competition. This time they are getting Al Gore by linking him to Edwards. Logic dictates, the communi$t$' have picked Barack "Boy Toy" Obama as their candidate in 2012, and Huffington comparing Edwards with Gore is being used to smear Gore out of 2012 contention.

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Adrianna uses More Saul Alinsky "Lie Baby Lie"

In this Huffingtonpost article on Elena Kagan, Kagan Takes Gun Off Table, Kagan leads us to believe she is a follower of Saul Alinsky.

In a separate chapter he suggests that the perennial question, "Does the end justify the means?" is meaningless as it stands: the real and only question regarding the ethics of means and ends is, and always has been, "Does this particular end justify this particular means?"
Alinsky continues by stating several rules of the ethics of means and ends:
The judgment of the ethics of means is dependent upon the political position of those sitting in judgment.
In war, the end justifies almost any means.
Judgment must be made in the context of the times in which the action occurred and not from any other chronological vantage point.
Concern with ethics increases with the number of means available and vice versa.
The less important the end to be desired, the more one can afford to engage in ethical evaluations of means.
Generally, success or failure is a mighty determinant of ethics.
The morality of a means depends upon whether the means is being employed at a time of imminent defeat or imminent victory.
Any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.
You do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral garments.
Goals must be phrased in general terms like "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," "Of the Common Welfare," "Pursuit of Happiness," or "Bread and Peace."
These rules of the ethics of means and ends are only one chapter of his book, totally distinct from his "clear set of rules for community organizing."

Kagan Takes Gun Off Table, Calls Recent SCOTUS Cases 'Good Precedent' "Lie Baby Lie"

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan seems determined -- if not poised -- to take another Republican argument against her candidacy off the table, as she testified on Tuesday that she considers recent cases upholding Second Amendment rights to be "good precedent going forward."

Al Gore
THURSDAY, JUN 24, 2010 23:20 ET

How one paper tried, and failed, to confirm Al Gore sex allegations

A Portland paper did everything possible -- even posting Craigslist ads -- to verify the charges. And it couldn't
BY ELI SANDERS

Three years ago, a reporter at the Portland Tribune got a tip that led his newspaper to a potentially huge story: A massage therapist had accused Vice President Al Gore of sexually assaulting her in late 2006 inside his room at Portland’s Hotel Lucia.
But the Tribune never wrote a word about the incident.
The story of how the paper quietly but intensely explored the charges offers a timely cautionary tale, now that the explosive allegations against Gore have become widely known, thanks to their publication in this week’s National Enquirer.
Using a combination of sources and shoe leather, the Tribune spent a year tracking down the alleged victim, reaching out to associates of hers and of Gore, and learning about their habits and their accounts of the evening in question. The paper went so far as to take out ads on Craigslist searching for more potential victims in other cities that Gore had visited. But in the end, the Tribune could not put together a story that met its standards of journalistic responsibility.
“The truth is we very much wanted to report the story on Al Gore,” said Mark Garber, 54, executive editor of the Tribune, a 60,000-circulation free weekly that also publishes news every day online. “We worked on it for a year so that we could report the story. There’s nothing we would have liked more.”
On Thursday, after fielding a stream of angry e-mails from conservatives accusing him of both liberal bias and a mammoth cover-up (ironic, he said, because “in Portland we more often get accused of being the more conservative paper in town”), Garber outlined for Salon the timeline of events that led his publication to pursue, and then ultimately set aside, the story of the Gore accusations.
The alleged incident at the heart of all this occurred on October 24, 2006. That’s when, according to the most recent account from the alleged victim, Gore summoned her to his hotel room and then tried to intimidate her into having sex with him, drinking in front of her and trapping her in an “inescapable embrace,” fondling her, and causing her to fear she was about to be raped by a “crazed sex poodle.”
In early 2007, the Tribune found out about the allegations “through a confidential source,” said Garber, who was an editor on the investigative project that ensued.
The tip didn’t come from the alleged victim herself. “It was a source in the community,” Garber said. “It was not an anonymous call, and it wasn’t a letter that came out of nowhere or an e-mail with a fake address or anything. It was a source in the community who knew enough that we took it seriously enough to pursue.”
The journalist who received this tip was Nick Budnick, who at the time was the Tribune’s police reporter. (Budnick, who now writes for Oregon’s Bend Bulletin, declined to speak for this story, referring all questions to his former boss, Garber.)
According to Garber, after getting the initial tip, Budnick quickly turned up two reports -- one filed with the Portland police in December of 2006, close to two months after the alleged incident, and one that had been filed with the Oregon State Police. The reports, Garber said, “contained a lawyer’s vague allegations concerning an unnamed victim who refused to speak to the police.”
By early 2007, when the Tribune was first learning about all this, the allegations were months old. In the intervening period, the woman who made them had set up and then missed several appointments to speak with police about what happened to her. Because of this, the paper decided the story wasn’t breaking news. Instead, Garber said, “we decided at that time it was our journalistic responsibility to sort out whether there was any truth to the allegation before we went out and reported it.”
The first thing they needed to do was find Gore’s accuser.
“We sought her out, not the other way around,” Garber said. “We did quite a bit of work to figure out who this woman was. We eventually did locate her. She was a licensed massage technician.”
The woman declined to speak to the paper and, Garber said, “feigned ignorance of the police report.” That stalled things somewhat until, many months later, in 2008, the woman got back in touch with the paper.
“She contacted us, but she wouldn’t talk with us about her specific allegations,” Garber said. Still, she agreed to meet with the reporter on the story, Budnick, and eventually began talking to him.
“We interviewed the alleged victim repeatedly and extensively,” Garber said.
She never asked for money (and the paper wouldn’t have offered money for her story in any case, according to Garber), but she did have certain requirements. “She was making demands about how the story could be told, what information we could include, what we could not include,” he said.
At the same time, the Tribune had been learning all it could about the woman, Gore, and the evening in question. It interviewed employees of the Hotel Lucia; other licensed massage technicians in the Portland area, some who knew the woman; sexual assault experts, who told the paper it was not uncommon for victims of sexual assault to delay reporting attacks to police; friends and acquaintances of the woman; and friends and acquaintances of Gore.
The paper discovered that, among those who knew the woman, “there were a variety of points of view” about her character -- not uncommon for anyone. It also discovered that Gore often liked to have massages while on the road -- potentially important -- and so it placed ads on Craigslist in cities that Gore had recently visited, looking for massage therapists who might have had a bad experience with a prominent person. (The Tribune did not name Gore specifically in the ads.)
“That didn’t bear any fruit,” Garber said.
The paper also contacted Gore. “His responses all came through his lawyers,” Garber said. “They categorically deny that anything happened -- said that the story’s completely false.”
Because the woman had once told police that she was dropping her efforts toward criminal charges in order to pursue a civil suit, the Tribune searched for evidence of such a suit and, finding none, asked Gore’s people if there had been an out-of-court settlement in the matter. Gore’s lawyers said no, contending there hadn’t even been an incident that could potentially produce a civil claim.
Eventually, the alleged victim’s conversations with Budnick became difficult.
“She was only willing to go forward if she could have a certain amount of control,” Garber said. Some of information she didn’t want in the story, Garber felt, couldn’t be left out because it was essential to “a full and fair telling.”
And there was another problem. “There were things that we discovered throughout our investigation that raised serious questions in our mind,” Garber said. He wouldn’t specify what, exactly, those things were.
“In the end, we chose not to publish the story,” Garber said. “Our journalistic drive was to do something, but when you looked at all the evidence it was not responsible to move forward. If something else had developed, we would have taken another look at it.”
This week, after his paper found out about the alleged victim’s new account of the incident -- an account that was provided at her request to Portland police in January of 2009 and then updated at her request in June of this year -- the Tribune tried to get back in touch with the woman by stopping by her Portland home. She wasn’t there.

WEDNESDAY, JUN 23, 2010 22:01 ET

3 reasons to doubt the Al Gore sex assault story

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/06/23/al_gore_sex_assault_story/index.html

BY STEVE KORNACKI

Who knows what, exactly, to make of the news that Al Gore has been accused by an Oregon masseuse of making repeated, unwanted sexual contact with her back in 2006?
Early on Wednesday, the National Enquirer reported that the the masseuse had provided an account to Portland police of a hotel room encounter with Gore in October '06.  Apparently, Portland police were first made aware of her accusations back in late '06 by the woman's attorney. However, she declined to come forward herself or to press charges. But then, last year, she did go to police, providing them with a graphic account of the alleged incident. Copies of a police report from early '07 and of the woman's 2009 statement have now been made public.
For all we know right now, there might be validity to her claims. Still, three reasons to be skeptical jump out:
1) The Portland police declined to investigate the woman's claims any further after she made her statement, citing a lack of evidence.
2) The allegations were apparently known two years ago to at least one Portland media outlet -- the Portland Tribune, a weekly paper that declined to report on them. The paper's editor tells Ben Smith that the allegations didn't meet the "test points" that the paper uses to determine whether a story is likely to be true.
3) We have seen plenty of cases of baseless (if vivid) sexual allegations against celebrities before. Tucker Carlson was once accused of rape by a woman he'd never met, for instance. Something similar happened with magician David Copperfield last year, too. (Plenty of celebrities have been guilty of sex crimes, too, of course.)
Gore has yet to make any public statement on the matter.

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Molly Hagerty: Al Gore A 'Pervert And Sexual Predator'

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/30/molly-hagerty-al-gore-a-p_n_630382.html

06-30-10

FILE - In this Dec. 14, 2009 file photo, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore gestures as he joins cabinet ministers from Nordic countries for discussion on Greenland's ice sheet at the UN Climate summit in Copenhagen, Denmark. A Portland massage therapist accused former Vice President Al Gore of "unwanted sexual contact" at a hotel during an October 2006 visit, but no charges were filed due to lack of evidence, law officials said Wednesday June 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)
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The National Enquirer could be breaking open another sex scandal involving a former top Democratic presidential candidate.

On the heels of uncovering an affair by John Edwards, the weekly tabloid has been reporting on allegations that former Vice President Al Gore made "unwanted sexual contact" with a Portland massage therapist.

A healthy dose of skepticism greeted the claim made in last week's edition. The accuser waited more than two years to report the 2006 incident to authorities, who didn't feel they received enough information to press charges. A police report seemed to clear Gore, stating, "This case is exceptionally cleared as (the woman) refuses to cooperate with the investigation or even report a crime."

The simmering story could erupt in a full boil, as Radar Online has revealed that the previously anonymous masseuse will allow herself to be identified as Molly Hagerty in this week's National Enquirer:

She has now stepped forward and is putting her name to the accusations against Gore. "Al Gore is a pervert and sexual predator. He's not what people think he is. He's a sick man," she tells the Enquirer.
Radar also says that the article will include an interview with a friend of Hagerty who spoke with her shortly before and after the alleged incident.

Last week, National Enquirer executive editor Barry Levine told the Washington Post that they did not pay the accuser even though she asked for $1 million. Asked whether he had concerns about the woman's story, Levin "said he had former police officers examine the reports to make sure they weren't a 'forgery' and felt 'vindicated' Thursday when Portland authorities confirmed the authenticity of the documents."

The Associated Press previously reported:

An attorney representing the woman contacted police in late 2006, said Multnomah County District Attorney Michael Schrunk. Schrunk said the woman - who has not been identified - refused to be interviewed by detectives and did not want the investigation to proceed.

The woman, however, contacted police in January 2009 and gave a statement, saying Gore tried to have sex with her during an appointment at the upscale downtown Hotel Lucia, where Gore was reportedly registered as "Mr. Stone."
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A police report prepared in 2007 said the alleged incident occurred Oct. 24, 2006. Gore was in Portland to deliver a speech on climate change.

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The case reopened in January 2009. Detectives interviewed the woman but determined there was insufficient evidence to support the allegations, Portland police said in a news release.

In a transcript of the interview released by police, the massage therapist said she had an appointment with "Mr. Stone" at 10:30 p.m. but the hotel's front desk told her he wouldn't be available until 11 p.m. When she knocked on the door, Al Gore opened it, and when she asked what she should call him, he replied to "Call me Al," the woman told police.

She said she was doing requested abdominal work on Gore when he started to moan and demanded she go lower.

"I was shocked, and I did not massage beyond what is considered a safe, nonsexual area of the abdomen," she said. "He further insisted and acted angry, becoming verbally sharp and loud.

"I went into much deeper shock as I realized it appeared he was demanding sexual favors or sexual behaviors."

The woman said Gore grabbed her hand and shoved it toward his pubic area. She alleged he later tried to have sex with her and began caressing her before she squirmed out of his grasp.

"I did not immediately call the police as I feared being made into a public spectacle and my reputation being destroyed," she said. "I was not sure what to tell them and was concerned my story would not be believed since there was no DNA evidence from a completed act of rape. I did not even know what to call what had happened to me."

Detective Mary Wheat, a Portland police spokeswoman, said the woman contacted detectives this month and asked for a copy of her statement. The woman, according to Wheat, said she planned to take her case to the media.