Mensch goes public after email threatens to expose drug use {murdoch/hacking}

[xchrom]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/mensch-goes-public-after-email-threatens-to-expose-drug-use-2328636.html

A Conservative MP who questioned Rupert and James Murdoch about the extent of journalistic malpractice on Fleet Street yesterday suggested that she herself may have become a victim of a smear campaign.

Louise Mensch revealed she had received an email from a group called "David Jones Investigative Journalists" alleging she had taken drugs with violinist Nigel Kennedy in the 1990s, written a novel of a sexual nature while she was supposed to be working for the record label EMI and included derogatory references in the book to her line manager at the company.

The email suggested David Jones Investigative Journalists intended to publish the claims (although it did not say where) and asked for her response. That came yesterday – when Ms Mensch replied to the email, copying in Westminster journalists and Conservative chief whip Patrick Mcloughlin.

Her extraordinarily frank reply admitted some of the allegations, built on others and blew away any chance that those who sent the email could have an exclusive story on their hands.

[CJCRANE]

1. "David Jones Investigative Journalists" sounds fictional to me.

Mensch is a Conservative, I don't trust her little story, it seems like a PR stunt.

[JDPriestly]

2. Ms. Mensch handled this in an exemplary fashion. I hope that our

Democratic politicians will learn from this. Put an end to campaigns of innuendo by responding to them with utter honesty.

Politicians might be surprised at what people will forgive if they just admit they are human and have made mistakes.

[DavidDvorkin]

3. She's a mensch!

(As a kid, I only heard the masculine form used, so there it is.)

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Hard to think they could have embarrassed the wife of Metallica's manager with a story like that

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/8553011/Tory-MP-Louise-Bagshawe-secretly-marries-Metallica-manager-Peter-Mensch.html

[Uncle Joe]

6. I agree, that does seem like a reach, perhaps CJCRANE's post #1 is correct and this is just

a PR stunt in an attempt to give her more street cred to diffuse attention away from Murdoch's Minions' actions?

[Jefferson23]

5. K&R thanks for posting. n/t