October 6, 2011
Louis Mensch
People like this delightfully baffle me, but I do wonder why they always seem to be British:
Then July brought Rupert and James Murdoch’s appearance before the culture select committee, from which she emerged a surprise star. Within minutes, however, Piers Morgan was taunting her live on CNN for misquoting him to the committee, and subsequently extracted a public apology. Somebody else evidently also took exception, because she received an email from a pseudonymous investigative journalist claiming to have proof that she took drugs and danced drunkenly with the musician Nigel Kennedy in a nightclub in the 1990s, in full view of journalists, while working as an EMI press officer.
Her response will probably be studied by students of political spin for years to come: “Although I do not remember the specific incident,” the MP wrote in a press release, after reprinting the allegations in full, “this sounds highly probable.” She went on, “I’m sure it was not the only incident of the kind; we all do idiotic things when young. I am not a very good dancer and must apologise to any and all journalists who were forced to watch me dance that night.”
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