5/1/08 Update: I'm not the only one interested in Wes Gullett's adoption of the other baby that Cindy McCain brought home from Bangladesh. Karl Rove spun the story in yesterday's Wall Street Journal.
Can Cindy McCain Really Be That Perfect? - CNN, 3/5/08
For years, the media have allowed the McCains to promote their version of their life stories without question. Take a closer look at the McCain legend and the McCains look, shall we say, less than noble.
Most of us know the McCains adopted a sick baby from Bangladesh and that Cindy McCain was a drug addict. Cindy is almost always asked about both events and her response hardly varies from interview to interview. The media seem quite happy to laud the McCains for adopting the baby and the story of Cindy's drug addiction is portrayed as one of redemption.
The media never, ever put the adoption in the same time frame as Cindy's drug addiction, the Keating Five scandal and John McCain's upcoming 1992 senate campaign but I did.
Let's take a look at the facts.
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