Gore cleared in masseuse case

Portland police say the masseuse failed a polygraph and the DNA didn’t match (because there was none).

Gore’s aides made a statement:

“Mr. Gore unequivocally and emphatically denied this accusation when he first learned of its existence three years ago,” spokeswoman Kalee Kreider said in a statement. “He respects and appreciates the thorough and professional work of the Portland authorities and is pleased that this matter has now been resolved.”

From KOIN TV in Portland the story

And another from the Associated Press

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John
July 31, 2010 10:14 am

Any time soon now the climate alarmists will fail polygraph tests too because their stories do not match the real world evidence.

Sam the Skeptic
July 31, 2010 10:16 am

Totally off-topic.
[snip – yes it is ~mod]

jtwigge
July 31, 2010 10:18 am

I am pleased to hear it but i suspect that one or two other cases of massaging figures may prove to be a bit more difficult to clear.

dp
July 31, 2010 10:24 am

One down, two to go.

H.R.
July 31, 2010 10:27 am

No evidence of sexual contact?
My impression is that if Al did get lucky, he’d call a press conference and brag.
(Hmmm…. I wonder why Tipper left Al?)

Leon Brozyna
July 31, 2010 10:36 am

Sad … so sad.
To have devolved from Gaia’s savior (in his own warped mind) to fodder for late night and stand-up comics. When the history of this era is written, he’ll be lucky to rate a footnote in an obscure tome that nobody will read.

nc
July 31, 2010 10:43 am

He had to see a masseuse because of the strain reaching for the top of his hockey stick graphic.

MattN
July 31, 2010 10:47 am

Clarification: Its not that the DNA didn’t match , there was no DNA evidence present TO match.
I’m no Al Gore fan, but you might want to clarify this. Sounds like a complete gold-digging wentch to me…

PaulH
July 31, 2010 10:47 am

Meh. It all sounded too crazy to be true anyway.

pat
July 31, 2010 10:48 am

Gore missed one bullet. But 2 more to go. And a divorce that now makes sense. But I am not sure this story merits our attention.

NC Skeptic
July 31, 2010 10:49 am

I am not an Al Gore fan, but, this does not belong on a science blog.

Jack Savage
July 31, 2010 10:56 am

This news item does not belong on this blog.

MarkG
July 31, 2010 10:59 am

Weren’t polygraphs debunked decades ago? Do American police really still use them?

July 31, 2010 11:05 am

The Chinese have Al Gore’s number.
Climate scam politicians are all alike.

Henry chance
July 31, 2010 11:09 am

Kennedy, OJ and now alGore.
The fact that this case is old and the physical evidence to support taking it infront of a judge was lacking, really doesn’t prove nothing happened.
This is like demanding satellite temp readings from 100 years ago. We do not have them but that doesn’t infer anything as regard to actual temperature.
If we apply extrapollation and get only one other complaint, he has to be guilty.
alGore needed redemption in the worst way. He is absulutely honest and he is as close to knowing everything as anyone has ever been.
I support the above by alGore claiming “several million degrees” at “2 kilometers or so down”.

dp
July 31, 2010 11:13 am

“NC”
July 31, 2010 at 10:49 am
“I am not an Al Gore fan, but, this does not belong on a science blog.”
Read the banner text at the top of this page – this site covers more than science. It covers news as well, and the Gore is in the news. Again.

J. Knight
July 31, 2010 11:14 am

“…but, this does not belong on a science blog.”
And neither should Al Gore have ever been an “expert” on climate science. But the fact that the media has made Gore a climate expert, and his position in the movement that has discredited real science to a huge degree, probably makes this newsworthy in a sense. Although it wouldn’t disappoint me if this man’s name was never mentioned again.

Jack Maloney
July 31, 2010 11:24 am

I’m sorry this kind of petty gossip is appearing in this otherwise worthwhile blog.

Henry chance
July 31, 2010 11:27 am

This does belong on a science blog. This vanguard of science also shows us that science has been hijacked by politicans and a political agenda.
Now we find his “investigation” was also a well controlled and protected incident.
The accuser was attacked and put thru a wringer. This is exactly why women have to think long and hard about reporting rape.

Direct from Rees’ report:
“On July 22, 2010 members of PPB met with Mr. Gore and his attorneys in San Francisco for an interview regarding Ms. Hagerty’s allegations. Through a pre-arranged agreement, Mr. Gore’s attorneys were provided with 14 questions posed by PPB. The attorneys agreed the investigators could also ask additional questions. Although presenting questions in advance is not the best procedure from our standpoint, when a person does not have to submit to a law enforcement interview it may be an appropriate practice in order to gain an interview.

This is like telling a crook when you are coming by his house to see if he has drugs,
Now my observation of sexism. Why did the accuser take a polygraph? She hasn’t been shown to be a criminal. Algore is the one that would go under lie detector. He is the perp pervert.
Since this story is taking place on a planet and we claim this planet is toast, this reminds me of how women accusing males of rape get treated in Muslim countries. The men do not face trouble.
Now applying the approaches we use in following scientific methods on this blog, should this just be up for a vote like warming tipping point catastrophes are voted on?
All the warmistas have to vote saying alGore is innocent. Who needs facts or material evidence?
Poor little old me. I am among one of 5 professions I am trained in, experienced in psychoanalysis and deal from time to time with people that have problems and when we find repressed sexual abuse from childhood, can find a journey to healing and recovery. I am not a fan of Psychonanalysis but have applied it. It shocks me how many people that exist that have been violated, molested raped etc in their past.

Olen
July 31, 2010 11:40 am

This belongs in a science blog because Gore is attempting to promote a false science that would result in billions and maybe even trillions of dollars being spent at the cost of ordinary citizens and the enactment of laws and regulations and agencies to enforce recognition of his claim. The result if he succeeds would be a complete change in the life, freedom and security of the American people. The question here is integrity important to science and if someone lacks it should they be exposed?

KPO
July 31, 2010 11:40 am

If you crop his mugshot to just below the eyes, he does remind one of “all work and no play, makes Jack a dull boy” of the “The Shining” – Sorry Jack.

Henry chance
July 31, 2010 11:41 am

This was not rape rape.
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/steve_duin/index.ssf/2010/07/backing_al_gore_into_a_corner.html
More important people are protected from accusations and less important people are destroyed.
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/steve_duin/index.ssf/2010/06/the_al_gore_story_what_to_make.html

Yet for all that, I tend to believe Portland’s red-headed masseuse and her accusations about Al Gore. Though she does carry on in the 67-page play-by-play she finally dumped on police detectives in 2009, there’s the ring of truth in the breathless narrative about a politician coming on like Bill Clinton to a woman who has no interest in being Monica Lewinsky.
Share Late on an October night in 2006, the massage technician arrived at Gallery Suite 903 of the Hotel Lucia to meet the former vice president, fresh off his latest speech on the great moral challenge of our time.
That would be climate change, by the way, not the love-boat load of aging politicians — John Edwards, Eliot Spitzer and Mark Sanford among them — who will go to stupid lengths to have mindless sex with women who did not attend their weddings.
Gore and the masseuse disagree rather passionately on what transpired before “Mr. Smiley Global Warming” — one of her many terms of endearment — signed the $540 bill for services rendered.

John Edwards even paid an aid to claim to be the father of his baby.
alGore has a monster incentive to not need to register as a sex offender in his long list of locations where he has a cabin, hut or pitches a tent. It would be rather “inconvenient”.

Jim G
July 31, 2010 12:01 pm

A more dangerous person to science and, indeed, the American way of life, has not existed in the USA in my long memory. But, we should not waste too much time on algore. If he continues to grow in girth he will soon colapse into a singularity and no longer be with us.

David70
July 31, 2010 12:14 pm

I’m disapointed this story was posted on this site. Leave this stuff to the Enquirer. It’s not relevant. Nor would it be relevant if a renowned skeptic was caught up in some unfortunate sex scandal.

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