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February 10, 2011 02:12 AM UTC
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That was a quick resignation!
e-mail forward to resignation. Another “family values” hypocrite bites the dust. And I’ve got news for him. He doesn’t look 39.
Er, I mean, bad ex-Congressman, no cushy position at an anti-abortion think tank for you!
And, by “that good,” of course, I mean the equivalent appropriate to my gender. Not like THAT, exactly. Just equally fit. But with more common sense. And less scumbag.
And when are we going to stop caring so much about what Congresspersons do in their marriages? This one happens to be a family values jackass, so it’s at least a tiny bit relevant to his political leanings, and it’s particularly funny, but he doesn’t really deserve to have to resign over this. It’s between him, his wife, and whoever convinced him that you should show your face in shirtless bathroom mirror photos.
Maybe people won’t point out hypocrisy when it occurs.
In the meantime, people will continue to care. They particularly care when their elected representatives lie to them, as Lee did when he said his Gmail account had been hijacked. At least he didn’t say the picture was photoshopped too.
I don’t think anyone said he had to resign; that was his choice.
Lying is pretty much par for the course when your boobs show up on the Internet, even if they’re man-boobs. Cassie did it, Haley from Paramore did it, so on and so forth. It’s in the script. But it ought to be deleted.
“Yeah. I was cruising for women on Craigslist. I should have been smarter about the photos and I shouldn’t have lied about my age.” And back to business.
It irks me when voters can’t be bothered to care that this guy wants to take away their basic human right to determine what they do with their own internal organs, but it’s a national scandal that he’s trolling for tail on the Web.
Of course, the bright spot is that we get to update the classic joke:
Q: Why does Chris Lee wear wool underwear?
A: To keep his ankles warm.
This is dedicated to former Congressman Lee:
A slow clap for you.
It’s really hard to convince people your Gmail account was hacked when the guy in the photo looks an awful lot like you.
I had one date with a guy I met online, who said, among other things, that he was six feet tall. When we met, I looked him in the eye and thought, “It must be because I’m wearing boots,” but even in stocking feet, I was almost his height, and I’m 5’7″.
Moral of Story: Don’t lie about something so easily fact-checked.
I mean, there are definitely ways he could spin this and retain plausible deniability. It could be an angry ex-intern. But then why did the intern have the photo? Disgruntled personal trainer? Who made him send pictures of his torso regularly to prove he was making progress in his workouts?
He could belabor the point, but it all seems to make him look worse in the end.
… with the empty “look I’m sexy” look on his face and half-flexing of his arm.
That is definitely Magnum. You can tell.
I think the public will always care about what their reps do with their private lives. In general we’d like to believe that our politicians are the best of us.
We’ll stop caring about a Mel Gibson rant before we stop caring about our politicians private lives.
when GOP candidates make a major issue out of their superior family values, how important religion is to them, how opposed they are to homosexuality, how gays shouldn’t be allowed to serve openly in the military, blah,blah,blah. JFK may have been an obssessive skirt chaser but you never heard him carrying on about his moral superiority and superior Christian values.
I personally love it when self righteous GOP adulterers and self loathing anti-gay voting GOP gays get outed. They are the ones who put their version of superior family values and religious faith center stage. When they get caught in the spotlight they have nobody but themselves to blame. And the rest of us deserve a good chuckle at their expense.
It’s the hypocrisy, stupid.
Not referring to you as stupid, of course, but the perp.
Somehow I think in the age of 24 hour cable news, he’d have been run out of town on a rail, too. A little skirt-chasing (or pant-chasing/suit-chasing/whatever you call it) shouldn’t kill your career. Just your marriage, unless you have a very tolerant spouse. I’m more bothered by the obsession with politicians’ sex lives than I am by the hypocrisy; I think the abhorrent “family values” views themselves should be enough to get someone voted out.
but that’s another issue. Today’s wall to wall 24/7 media and thirst for the next scandal has erased the old world where the press helped the respected high ranking pols keep their secrets. My point was that JFK wasn’t a hypocritical, self righteous blowhard.
But I see it the same way I see Abu Ghraib, on a much, much, MUCH smaller scale: Just ’cause somebody’s a scumbag doesn’t mean that wrong things become right when they damage said scumbag. It’s wrong to make politicians’ private sexual choices an electoral issue, and I think my holding that opinion wouldn’t mean anything if I dropped it when the “victim” is a family-values Republican. Then I would feel like a hypocrite when, inevitably, I find myself verbosely defending the next woman who gets a media thrashing for (oh noes!) having had a sex life.
Rs have made espousing superior Christian values a requirement for themselves and a bludgeon for attacking their supposedly not sufficiently good Christian opponents.
He who lives by the sword… etc. So I will continue to enjoy R hypocrites getting smoked by exposure of their own sleazy personal behavior. When they promise to keep people’s personal sex lives and preferences out of it and stop parading their allegedly superior Christian family values, then we can call a truce. But even then, it won’t work.
The mass and social media being what it is now, it really isn’t realistic to expect a return to the era when anything was OK as long as you didn’t scare the horses. The best we can do is agree not to care as long as you don’t use your moral superiority as a reason for supporting you. If you’re going to get up on your high horse, you’d better not give anyone the means of dragging you down because you will get dragged down. Count on it.
Democrats are going to have to go back to picking on Ensign, and possibly Boehner, and…
Good on Rep. Lee for at least realizing when the gig was up and it was time to go.
There’s still a lot of mileage on the Appalachian Trail … just because someone’s out of office doesn’t mean they’ll stop being a punchline!
I’m sure I should know this, but I haven’t been around Pols that long. Explain?
(Great, now my coworkers are staring at me laughing my butt off at the screen)
http://coloradopols.com/showDi…
That’s amazing. I can’t believe I didn’t know about this before. OMG.
Props to him for his very chill response.
No props to society for the fact that the same photo of a woman would be a career-ender 🙁
Did any photos surface from Sarah Palin’s beauty pageant days?
Trying to think of other examples. Not succeeding.
Though when she was running, I worked for a social networking site that had a user whose wife happened to have competed against her in the pageant, who shared some gown photos. She didn’t look too bad, but not fabulous.
But think of the fuss over Michelle Obama showing her upper arms in her First Lady portrait. OH NO ARMS! How immoral!
OK, well, almost.
(I type this within the only family Republican household, in Austin.)
Dear _____ (man or woman’s name)
Do you ____ (verb) how I ____ (verb) my ___ (body part)? Let’s ___ (verb)!
n/t
Via Taegan Goddard, here’s something Lee wrote for a local paper in 2009:
Wise advice!
He just couldn’t help himself. This does seem to be a predominantly social conservative rightie trait.
That was too much. I want to feel compassion for him, but I can’t hold off the amusement anymore.
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He probably had politico junkies throwing themselves at him. Women in their mid-20’s, I’m guessing. Men, too. He’s the equivalent of a rock star to someone looking to make a career in government.
Is the CraigsList stuff more about the thrill of possibly being caught ?
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He claimed to be a lobbyist, divorced father of one
And now he will be.
Now he can add “Psychic” to his resume.
I always thought it was spelled psycho
hands down…
has to close the screen door on the submarine once in awhile. or something.
he’ll never be 39 again.
He was once.
He just left out the part about being 39 if this is 2004 — striving for brevity in his emails.
You’ll be happy to hear that Harry Baals made Morning Edition on NPR this a.m.
…gave me the most poignant observation on men:
“Men will follow their dicks into places they wouldn’t go with a gun.”
Right. Like Craigslist, I guess.
It never fails to amaze me the number of women who think Mom’s hard won advice doesn’t apply to them.
I bought my last telescope on Craigslist. Got a good deal too. It’s not ALWAYS about picking up chicks.
But I was armed when I picked it up. Actually, that’s most of the time. 🙂
The buyer said she was looking for “shabby chic.” Whatever. We called it trash, but we didn’t want to send it to the dump because even though it was old and worn (complete with chew marks from a certain house destroying dog), it was still usable. The best thing was we didn’t have to pay the dump to leave it there and we didn’t have to pay extra to our trash service for a large pick up. The buyer was the only person that responded to the listing and she picked up the table and four of the six chairs.
all bought and sold through craigslist.
Never had any problems, but you’ve got to know what you’re looking at. It’s all cash and no warranty.
I’m expecting this to show up as a sig line any minute.
the last time he ran for Republican Chairman.