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[pantryslut]

So here's a bit to note for that upcoming FOGCon "Lightning Wrath of the Internet" panel:

"[New York Republican Representative Chris] Lee experienced his fall from grace in a single afternoon, undone at the speed of the digital age. At lunchtime Wednesday, he was an obscure but promising second-term congressman. Then, at 2:33 p.m., the Web site Gawker posted an alleged e-mail exchange between a man who used Lee's name - but identified himself as a divorced lobbyist - and an unidentified woman. Gawker reported that the two had met through the personals section of Craigslist.

After that, the familiar cycles of a Washington sex scandal were compressed into a blur of tweets and news alerts. There was confusion, a hint of denial, then a pledge from Lee to "work it out" with his wife.

By 6 p.m., a clerk was announcing Lee's resignation in the House chamber."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/09/AR2011020906912.html

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[innerdoggie.livejournal.com]

It sounds like the woman was angry to find out he was a married man, and forwarded everything to Gawker. Sweet revenge!