[Vision2020] You have not tried to find Barack Obama’s drug dealer

[Paul Rumelhart]

Let me be the first to state that I don't care about the personal life 
of the First Lady (or the First Gentleman, for that matter).  Whether 
it's Cindy McCain or Michelle Obama, I don't care.  I don't even care 
whether or not the President is married.

Like I told Gary a while back, I'm not looking for a Jesus to be 
President.  It's a job, not a religious posting.

Paul

No Weatherman wrote:
> Dear Mr. Keller:
>
> I represent Cindy McCain. I write to appeal to your sense of fairness,
> balance and decency in deciding whether to publish another story about
> her. I do this well knowing your obvious bias for Barack Obama and
> your obvious bias hostility to John McCain. I ask you to put your
> biases and agendas aside.
>
> I understand that Cindy is in the public eye, but you have already
> profiled her extensively (Jennifer Steinhauer reported), written about
> her financial situation (including an editorial on her tax returns)
> and about her role at Hensley and Company.
>
> I am advised that you assigned two of your top investigative reporters
> who have spent an extensive amount of time in Arizona and around the
> country investigating Cindy's life including her charity, her
> addiction and her marriage to Senator McCain. None of these subjects
> are news.
>
> I am also advised that your reporters are speaking to Tom Gosinski and
> her cousin Jamie Clark, neither of whom are reliable or credible
> sources. Mr. Gosinski has been publicly exposed as a liar and
> blackmailer on the subject of Cindy McCain. Jamie Clark has very
> serious drug and stability issues and has failed in a number of
> attempts to blackmail Cindy. She is simply not credible.
>
> In 1994, Mr. Gosinski drafted a civil complaint for damages claiming,
> among other things, that Cindy had defamed him with prospective
> employers after he was discharged from AVMT. Those allegations were
> utterly false. He was unable to produce any prospective employers and
> Cindy had not discussed his deficiencies as an employee with anyone
> outside of AVMT. Indeed, his termination was demonstrated to be
> appropriate and when he was let go, Cindy gave him severance pay. When
> confronted with this evidence, his lawyer resigned. Gosinski never
> filed the complaint in Court and could produce no evidence to support
> any of its allegations. He attempted to have Cindy pay him $250,000 in
> exchange for not filing the complaint. Cindy refused and made his
> attempt to extort her public.
>
> Thereafter, he amended his complaint to allege that Cindy asked him to
> commit perjury in the adoption proceed involving Bridget McCain. The
> notes of Cindy's counsel and the official transcript of the adoption
> proceedings clearly demonstrate that Gosinski's was never asked to lie
> and did not falsely testify in the proceeding. His allegation was an
> utter fabrication. Gosinski further alleged that Cindy used his name
> to obtain pain killers for her own personal use. The records of AVMT
> show that Dr. Max Johnson, licensed by the DEA to order drugs,
> directed the use of employee names on the prescriptions. The drugs
> obtained using Mr. Gosinski's name were used and donated on an AVMT
> trip to El Salvador. They were not used by Cindy.
>
> These allegations and efforts to hurt Cindy have been a matter of
> public record for sixteen years. Cindy has been quite open and frank
> about her issues for all these years. Any further attempts to harass
> and injure her based on the information from Gosinski and Clark will
> be met with an appropriate response. While she may be in the public
> eye, she is not public property nor the property of the press to abuse
> and defame.
>
> It is worth noting that you have not employed your investigative
> assets looking into Michelle Obama. You have not tried to find Barack
> Obama's drug dealer that he wrote about in his book, Dreams of My
> Father. Nor have you interviewed his poor relatives in Kenya and
> determined why Barack Obama has not rescued them. Thus, there is a
> terrific lack of balance here.
>
> I suggest to you that none of these subjects on either side are worthy
> of the energy and resources of The New York Times. They are cruel hit
> pieces designed to injure people that only the worst rag would
> investigate and publish. I know you and your colleagues are always
> preaching about raising the level of civil discourse in our political
> campaigns. I think taking some your own medicine is in order here.
>
> I ask you to let Cindy McCain carry on in her usual understated,
> selfless and dignified way. The fabrications and lies of blackmailers
> are not fit to print in any newspaper but particularly not in The New
> York Times.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> John M. Dowd
> Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
> http://gretawire.foxnews.com/2008/10/18/you-have-not-tried-to-find-barack-obamas-drug-dealer/#comment-2506254
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