I link, you decide.

Considering that Cindy McCain’s history of drug addiction is old, old news, I suspect that Gosinski (spelling?) is a fake “whistleblower” employed by the McCain campaign to divert current and future media attention away from Sarah Palin’s performance in her series of interviews with Charlie Gibson of ABC.

Ha! I’m not much of a conspiracy theorist, but I’ll keep you in mind. If you’re right I totally owe you twenty bucks.

I smell a rat and I don’t think it is coming from the Obama camp. And I can also see McCain throwing his wife under the bus to generate press for himself, at the expense of imagined persecution from the other side.

I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who thought this!

Palin’s performance in the initial interview with Gibson was appalling and undermines her claim to be “ready to serve.” Given that Palin’s performance might not improve in future interviews, the McCain campaign would probably want to divert media attention away from the remaining interviews. I suspect Gosinski’s “revelations” were planted by the McCain campaign and represent the first of many attempts to distract media attention away from Palin’s poor performance.

By the time my comment clears moderation, the regular Feministe commenters might have already noted this, but I wanted to call attention to it just in case.

UPDATE: Background from this 1994 article.

What? Why should I?

It’s relevant if he used *state funding and force* to provide the enabling cover.

I know it is, I just don’t like that it has to be. Its an election year and all, but I still have trouble not feeling a lot of empathy for Cindy McCain. Its like the whole thing with Bristol: I know its relevant, I just really wish there was another way. At the end of the day John McCain is running for president and his past actions need to be closely, brutally, unflinchingly scrutinized. The stakes are high and we can’t afford to shy away from uncomfortable things. Just because I recognize that doesn’t mean I can’t have empathy for the collateral damage.