re: #89 wheat-dogg

I did not go searching into Dao’s past to find shit about him. And if anyone is suggesting I did, they can pipe down right about now. I wanted to confirm that Dao is a doctor in E-town where I have relatives. Along the way, I found about his troubles with the law and the medical board. So, should I have omitted that information here, and just said he was a doctor? It’s only a matter of time before the Louisville media positively identify the guy and bring up prior news stories about him.

I am really quite offended anyone is thinking I had some ulterior motive in bringing up his past. I’m a former reporter. I was reporting facts. That’s all.

And you are exactly correct:

#BREAKING David Dao, the Elizabethtown doctor yanked from the United flight, has a troubled past in Kentucky https://t.co/pzkLLonJLG pic.twitter.com/FuZYCaLOEl

— Courier-Journal.com (@courierjournal) April 11, 2017

@courierjournal Ah, the “He’s No Angel” defense. Classic. https://t.co/OG49l3dLQu

— Joel (@JoelNihlean) April 11, 2017