A screengrab of Gawker's posting on Rep. Christopher Lee's alleged Craigslist gun show. So, maybe you've heard? A married congressman resigned Wednesday, barely three hours after he was caught purporting to be single in a cheesy shirtless Craigslist flirtation. It's a big story headed for the Post's front page. Poor Rep. Chris Lee (R-N.Y.), still so new to Washington he'd never had a chance to be in our column. He fell from grace "in a single afternoon, undone at the speed of the digital age," write our colleagues David Fahrehthold and Aaron Blake. "At lunchtime Wednesday, he was an obscure but promising second-term congressman." Then Gawker posted emails between Lee and an unidentified single lady. "By 6 p.m., a clerk was announcing Lee's resignation in the House chamber." Well, that's Thursday's A1 story. For a few hours, though, as we tried to make sense of this bizarre saga, it
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