Normally, we wouldn't be publishing a story like this. But a number of pretty respectable blogs are running with it, including (centrist Democrat) HillBuzz and (moderate Republican) No Quarter. Over the weekend, the story moved from fringe sites, to more mainstream sources. Our primary angle rests on the fact that a blog closely aligned with ours, the black libertarian-conservative (Tea Party) website Booker Rising appears now to be the very first to raise these questions way back in June of 2009:
You've surely seen him. He shadowed Barack Obama on the campaign trail. When you see President Obama, this guy is typically nearby. The Democrat even won Huffington Posts recent hottest White House employee contest.
Who is this tall glass of hot chocolate? The Charlotte, N.C. native is Barry's "body man", or personal aide. You remember brotha Charlie Young on "The West Wing"? Mr. Love is him in real life. The 6'5", 27-year-old politico's job is to anticipate President Obama's needs and wants. If Barry craves a protein bar, brothaman has it. He relieves Barry of items. When President Obama needs to call someone, Reg has his briefing book and the phone number handy. If Barry wants to play pickup basketball, Mr. Love is there...
Reggie, all these tidbits are why we won't hold those embarrassing college photos that white frat boys took teabagging you against you (careful, the last link is NSFW). How do you pass out drunk at a University of North Carolina frat party when you're an athlete at a rival school? Not to mention that drunk-driving charge (he didn't get a sentence as his blood alcohol level was slightly below the limit). No wonder you got kicked off the Duke basketball team...
Gay Sex photo, a College prank?
That last link Booker's Shay Riley talks of is a rather inexplicable photo of Love lying on a couch with a college boy holding his exposed genitalia over his face.
As other right blogs surmised over the weekend, the timing of Love's departure couldn't have been more curious. From the Larry Sinclair site:
Almost immediately after the PENN State board fired its President and revered football coach Joe Joe Pa Paterno over their failures in the child molestation allegations against former assistant coach Sandusky, the White House made the unusual move of announcing in a press release the departure of Obama Body man/personal assistant Reggie Love.
ESPN and ABC have to know of Reggie Loves past tea bagged incidents and the reports that there are home-made porn videos circulating from Loves days of drunken frat parties at University of North Carolina and Duke University...
And this from reporter Wayne Madsen as relayed by the Tea Party site Give Us Liberty:
The fallout from Penn State has universities and colleges across the nation checking their records for indications of child abuse and other sex scandals. The Citadel is now embroiled in a scandal involving child sexual abuse by a summer camp counselor. Past gay-oriented sex parties at Duke and the University of North Carolina involving then Duke basketball and football player Reggie Love reportedly cost him his job as President Obamas body man.
Editor's comment - A controversial sex photo clear as day, a possible drunk driving charge. The mainstream media's reluctance to follow up on these stories, in light of the massive media attention given to Penn State, Paterno and Jerry Sandusky is the real scandal. If it had been a Republican stafer??
WARNING: The college frat party photo is clearly X-Rated. We will not run it at LR. But Booker T. has the link. Photo credit - Democratic Underground.