al gore, crazed sex poodle?

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Not my words. Portland newspaper the Oregonian has just printed a story it landed in 2009 but elected not to publish (for reasons unclear): a masseuse called to Gore's hotel room one evening in 2006 filed a police report (in January 2009) accusing him of sexual assault:

Earlier that evening, Gore addressed a near-capacity crowd in the Rose Garden's Theater of the Clouds, telling the audience that man-made global climate change is the most important moral challenge of our time. She said Gore changed into a bathrobe, spoke of his grueling travel schedule and need to relax and told her to call him "Al." While giving Gore an abdominal massage, she said he demanded that she go lower and soon grabbed her right hand and shoved it under the sheet...She called him a "crazed sex poodle" and tried to distract him, pointing out a box of Moonstruck chocolates on a nearby table. He went for the chocolates and then offered her some, cornering her, fondling her and shoving his tongue in her mouth to french kiss as he pressed against her.

It gets worse. If it's true, it's deeply unpleasant. If it's not true, it's also unpleasant, albeit in a different way.

The only bit that made me wonder about her report was this:

She...described his "violent temper, dictatorial, commanding attitude" -- what she termed a contrast from his "Mr. Smiley global-warming concern persona."

Wait - his global-warming persona is dictatorial and commanding, isn't it?

(via Ben Smith)

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[bend]

"If it's not true, it's also unpleasant, albeit in a different way."
Unpleasant because a fame seeker lied briefly before thinking better of herself, or because of something more sinister?

[ashcash]

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at what stage will privacy be privacy. time to end the cults......or rather cull the cults.

[Ian Leslie]

bend - I meant the former.