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by Brent Kellogg
July 25, 2008

Addressing complaints about yesterday's Daze report - that the front page top story about Adam Wilson leaking the story about David Chow to the Financial News Network - was not actually covered in the Daze, please accept this explanation.

While writing the Daze, trying to cover all the other crazy things going on, it didn't occur to me that there was any importance of Adam telling Victor Newman that he'd taken care of the chore to expose David and that the story would break that evening. It was only later that it struck me that FNN would take what I assumed was an anonymous tip and run with it. I couldn't imagine that Adam would have given either one of his two names since surely FNN would have made the connection between Newman Enterprises and Jabot Cosmetics and seen the "tip" as a corporate hit to discredit Jabot. At the very least I assumed FNN would make an attempt to contact Chow for his side before running with the story. Silly me, FNN didn't do any fact checking, ran the story, and made no attempt to make it fair or balanced.

With David about to become toast, it won't matter who leaked the story or that one of Jabot's CEO's has an addiction. If the FNN needed a story, it could have dug into Jabot overseer Katherine Chancellor's past or executive Brad Carlton's for some really juicy scandals. The FNN story was a distraction designed to set the stage for Gloria Bardwell to buy up Jabot stock and for the power struggle with the Bardwells and Jill Abbott to begin.

So. The real news is what happened today at the Charity Gala. (Note: For fashion/style coverage see Liza Van Horne's fashion report) It's been written that Sabrina Newman and David wouldn't die at the same time, but now we learn Sabrina and David were riding in the same limo when it rammed head on. You can imagine this, right? You'll recall that Nikki Chow agreed to drive to the gala with David. So what happened? Car trouble at the last minute so they took a limo?

How Sabrina wound up in the limo with David after the gala made a lot of sense too. Leaving early to crack open a package named "Phillipe" waiting at the Ponderosa, Victor told Sabrina if he didn't make it back in time to drive her home he'd send a car for her. When Victor didn't come, when there was no apparent car, Sabrina hitched a ride with David because the Ponderosa was "on his way". Assuming David was going back to the Athletic Supporter, how the sprawling Newman ranch could be on the way to the city-centered AS, boggles the mind.

With David running around asking everyone if they'd seen Nikki after she drank the morphine, he must have assumed the jig was up which is why he didn't have any qualms with the limo driver being different than the one that drove him to the gala and was so panicked over what he'd done he didn't think to tell Sabrina that the ranch is nowhere near the AS.

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Brent's coffee courtesy of Speeder & Earls, Burlington, VT.