OpEdNews - Page 2 of Article: New Anti-Obama Smears in Tabloids Owned by Staunch Clintonista

The murder of Young, who was openly gay, led to fears in Chicago's gay community that his death was an anti-gay hate crime. But the Enquirer, citing "a top Chicago private investigator" that the tabloid refused to identify, claimed that Young "was silenced" because of something he knew about Obama.

That something, the tabloid claims, were "rumors about Barack's personal life and his sexuality."

Minnesota Man Claims Having Gay Sex With Obama -- But Flunks Polygraph Test

In its own March 17 edition, the Enquirer's sister tabloid Globe ran a story claiming that a Minnesota man it identified as Larry Sinclair said he had a gay sexual encounter with the Illinois senator in 1999 and that Obama "smoked crack cocaine in front of him."

But Sinclair's credibility is highly suspect. He is a convicted felon who's spent time in prison in Florida, Colorado and Arizona for trafficking marijuana and cocaine and for smuggling illegal immigrants into the U.S. from Mexico.

Not only has Sinclair not come forward with any hard evidence to back up his claims, he also flunked a polygraph test. The independent Web site WhiteHouse.com reportedly offered Sinclair $10,000 in February to take a polygraph test about his claims against Obama.

According to the site, Sinclair accepted the offer and was asked two questions: Did Sinclair have sex with the Illinois senator? Did he witness Obama smoke crack cocaine? Both times, Sinclair answered "yes" -- but both times, the polygraph detected that he wasn't telling the truth.

"There was deception indicated in both tests," WhiteHouse.com reported on February 24, further casting doubt on the veracity of Sinclair's claims.

Young Wasn't Only Victim; Two Other Black Gay Chicago Men Murdered

The credibility of the Enquirer's claim that Obama had anything to do with Young's murder is also now highly suspect.

The 'Skeeter Bites Report has learned that Young wasn't the only openly gay African American man in Chicago to be murdered in recent months. On November 17 last year, 24-year-old Larry Bland was shot to death in his Chicago home. His family has voiced concern that Bland was possibly targeted because he, too, was openly gay.

Young's murder also came nearly a year after a third gay African American man was shot to death on New Year's Eve 2006 -- raising fears among activists in Chicago's African American gay community of a pattern of violence against black gay men in Chicago's South Side -- possibly by a serial killer.

Critical Caucus, a coalition of local African American gay organizations such as the Coalition for Justice and Respect, as well as black gay event planners and businesses, held a press conference at Chicago City Hall on December 27 to issue a community alert in response to Young's murder.

“We are calling on the police department to let the community know what's going on,” Mark Loveless, a spokesman for the Coalition for Justice and Respect, was quoted as saying by the Chicago gay newspaper, the Windy City Times. “We are here because we are scared.” He and others feel that the city and police haven't adequately responded to the killings.

Although police said they have no information linking the three cases, which are still under investigation, they could not rule out the possibility that they were motivated by either racial or anti-gay prejudice. Nor could they rule out the possibility that the murders could be the work of a serial killer.

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