Thursday, June 24, 2010
Mr. Stone
The Portland, Oregon Police Department has the full, redacted, report regarding the allegations of sexual assault a licensed massage therapist made against former VP Al Gore (the .pdf's are here and here). The allegations involve Gore's 2006 stay at a post Oregon hotel while on his global climate change tour. Gore, who allegedly registered at the hotel as "Mr. Stone" asked the hotel to send a masseuse to his room, to which "Jane Doe" got the call. From there the 73 page report documents an inappropriate "hug" when she walked into the room, an insistence that she massage his "privates", and her being tricked into his bedroom under the ruse of looking at his "Ipod."
So far the MSM is not biting on the story due to the numerous problems:
So far the MSM is not biting on the story due to the numerous problems:
- The woman refused to come and talk to the police in 2006, and waiting until 2009 to file the report;
- There are numerous problems with the story--chief among them are the several opportunities to leave the hotel room. For instance, she told the police that when she tried to leave, Gore blocked the door, pressed her close, "stuck his tongue" down her throat, and reached under her blouse. But then he retreated to the bedroom and somehow convinced her to come into the room and sit on the bedside, all by tricking her to look at his Ipod;
- The language she uses in the report seems coached or rehearsed. She refers to Gore as a sex-crazed "poodle" (?) and a "predator" among other terms that seem out of place in normal conversation, let alone conversation involving a traumatized sexual assault victim.
- The Police Department are not following up on the allegations.
- The coup de grace: She offered to sell the story to the National Enquirer for $1 million.
