Larry Sinclair, the Minnesota man who claims to have used drugs and had sex with Sen. Barack Obama in 1999 - and who has passed a computerized PolyScore test regarding his drug allegations - has come forward with a shocking revelation:

I was not living in Minnesota when I first contacted the Obama campaign about Obama’s meetings with me in 1999 for the purpose of taking cocaine and sex.

Between September 2007 and November 2007, I left a total of four (4) different cell phone numbers with the office of the Obama campaign. This was necessary because I had to adjust the telephone number to correspond with each new location where I lived in that period. I have explained in my blog how I slowly made my way north to Minnesota before settling there.

I have never said that I met Donald Young in any face to face meeting. But I did have contact with him several times. Each time Mr. Young instigated the contact. Nobody else, other than the Obama campaign, had a record of my constantly adjusted numbers. And I did not go public with my allegations until after Mr. Young was murdered.

So just how did Mr. Young know who I was? How did he know my cell phone number? (Please note that I have never said the exact number of times Mr. Young and I had contact. Nor have I stated the content of our exchanges. That and other information about the matter is reserved for the appropriate channels. I am providing this factual information to counteract the deliberate misinformation that a small army of Internet warriors are spreading on the net in an attempt to distract attention from Obama’s past).

Indeed, Donald Young was a choirmaster at Obama’s controversial church during a portion of the infamous Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s tenure. Young was a gay black man, and he was slain in cold blood just before Christmas 2007. His murder is yet unsolved.

That Sinclair may have communicated with Young before his murder raises some interesting questions, top among them: What was Young trying to tell Sinclair? Stay tuned…

Earlier: Sinclair Files $3 Million Defamation Suit Involving Drug and Sex Allegations Against Obama

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Larry Sinclair, the Minnesota man who has accused Sen. Barack Obama of illicit drug use and of having a sexual encounter with him in 1999, has been deceitful, according to results of a polygraph released on Sunday.

The polygraph was performed by Ed Gelb, a world-renowned expert in this arena, and is being examined by a second polygraph expert. Sinclair has already passed a drug test that proves he was not using any substances that could have affected the outcome of the polygraph.

“There were two polygraph tests administered by Dr. Gelb on Friday, the first polygraph asked Mr. Sinclair on his sex claims,” according to WhiteHouse.com, the site that paid for the test and oversaw its administration. “The second polygraph test asked Mr. Sinclair on the drug use claims. There was deception indicated in both tests.”

With such high stakes riding on the outcome, some have questioned whether polygraph results can be trusted. Many respected polygraph experts, however, say that lie detector tests are up to 95 percent accurate and polygraph results are admissible in several states. Polygraphs are also used by the U.S. government in carrying out certain security clearance procedures, as well as in determining parole for some criminals.

Others have questioned the motives of WhiteHouse.com, suggesting that the site’s owner may have sinister political goals. Dan Parisi, the owner, has adamantly maintained in statements on the site and in private conversations that this investigation has not been politically motivated.

WhiteHouse.com originally offered $100,000 to Sinclair if he took the test and the results were positive. Sinclair later agreed to a $10,000 payment and is in the process of donating the money to charities. Sinclair claims he did not come forward with the story for financial gain.

The mainstream media to date has been slow to cover the Sinclair allegations, although several respected journalists from newspapers including The New York Times are believed to be investigating. FOX News personality Bill O’Reilly, without mentioning Sinclair’s name, has hinted about possibly covering the story at a later date, and the Globe tabloid has already featured an interview with Sinclair.

Sinclair’s story first came to national attention via a video he posted on YouTube in January, but he has been making the claims in private for several months — and, possibly, for several years. Sinclair recently said in an online interview that he hadn’t revealed the story in a wide-scale manner previously because Obama had not been Sinclair’s own state or national senator. Now that Obama has the opportunity to be president of the United States, Sinclair says he believes that all American citizens should know about the alleged encounter as they make their voting decisions.

On February 11, Sinclair filed a lawsuit in a Minnesota U.S. District Court claiming that Obama, as well as his campaign adviser David Axelrod and others in the Democratic National Committee have been working behind the scenes to defame Sinclair’s reputation. A blogger posting on the official Obama campaign Web site and other Obama supporters have claimed that Sinclair is mentally ill.

Other Obama supporters have maintained that Sen. Hillary Clinton is somehow behind Sinclair’s accusations. Sinclair adamantly denies this claim, and supporters close to the Clinton camp have told Big Head DC that the campaign is in no way affiliated with Sinclair and that he has made these claims on his own.

Obama has not denied the accusations to date, nor has the campaign responded to Sinclair’s lawsuit.

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Reports Page 6:

WASHINGTON Wizards’ Gilbert Arenas knows what real pain is. “When I was new in the NBA, the team veterans convinced me to shave, you know, down there,” the outspoken point guard tells next month’s Men’s Journal. “I used my girlfriend’s razor, which was rusty and gave me keloids. The doctor prescribed medicine to dab on, but I just poured it all over. Three days later I woke up screaming. The skin was burnt off . . . just raw flesh. I used a numbing spray for a month until it healed.”

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We’d have posted this earlier when our tipster first told us about this, but we tried to get 23-year-old Ezra Klein to comment on the issue. He wouldn’t, but apparently he’s telling others that it’s a joke. The question remains: Is it a good enough joke for NBC to keep paying him to appear on Tim Russert’s network as a political pundit?

Also! What are he and Matthew Yglesias plotting, kids?

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Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig, at the Capitol yesterday to discuss athlete steroid abuse, chose to stick it to lawmakers in an unusual way:

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Jill Biden, wife of Sen. Joe Biden, was involved in an auto accident this morning, and is now resting at home. This story is particularly scary, since Biden’s first wife, Neilia Hunter, was killed in a car crash some years ago.

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“Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell found himself in some unlikely company last week when a CNN promo for legal pundit Nancy Grace spliced an image of the Kentucky Republican between what appears to be convicted dog abuser Michael Vick and tabloid-frenzy missing woman Stacy Peterson,” Roll Call reports.

McConnell’s office reportedly had to alert the network of the error before the ad was pulled.

Big Head DC has the screen grab, at right.

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Verbal tirade alert. The following speech appeared on RoseanneWorld.com, the official Web site of entertainer Roseanne Barr, before the site was knocked off the Internet as a result of too many visitors:

barak obama

is an empty suit selling “hope” in lieu of Truth. Oprah Winfrey helped to elect Arnold Swartzenegger. I have no doubt that she voted her purse by doing this, as she is a large land owner in California, and that ilk fears Dems because they do not want to pay their “fair share” of Cali tax. Oprah has given us Swartzenegger and Dr. Phil. If that was not offensive enough to decent thinking people, now she brings us Obama. He has no ideas, no plan and nothing to add other than the cynical pacification of the masses with bedtime stories about hope, while calling Unions “special interest groups” that need to be done away with.

Obama votes with Bush constantly funding this terrible endless war. Oprah, you play the race card and the gender card too. You are a closeted republican and chose Barak Obama because you do not like other women who actually stand for something to working American Women besides glamour, angels, hollywood and dieting!

When Americans find out that Obama backs right wing corporate racist anti worker bullshit, they will not vote for him, and the victory will go to the most racist right wing republican ever…. Mccain, who is a fascist! That the culinary service workers in vegas have promised barak their vote,( he is anti union in his votes) over edwards, who is a pro-union man, just proves how stupid americans are and how they can be tricked so easily by the color of a person’s skin…exactly what MLK hated!

Obama doesn’t even back reproductive rights for any woman! It is historical that Oprah Winfrey, beloved of women, chooses a flashy man with small credentials over a seasoned woman politician with 35 years of experience…and sells that to the female demographic who look to her for inspiration!

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MSNBC’s Chris Matthews finally got a chance to ask Hillary Clinton a question this weekend — and, not surprisingly for the ego-maniac (despite his regular verbal attacks on her), he used it to beg her to come on his show:

MATTHEWS: “Please come on the show.”

CLINTON: “Yeah, right.”

MATTHEWS: “Is that an answer?”

CLINTON: “You know, I don’t know what to do with men who are obsessed with me. Honestly, I’ve never understood it.”

But then something shocking happened. After the verbal confrontation, Clinton walked over to Matthews, and he surprised her by pinching her cheeks. Hillary responded by saying, “Oh, Christopher. Baby” with Matthews mumbling back, “It’s not an obsession.”

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