Lee's sudden exit took many people by surprise. Hadn't other members of Congress admitted to worse than an unconsummated, PG-13 flirtation and managed to stay in office? It turns out Lee may have had good reason to step out of the spotlight so quickly: It wasn't just women that the Craigslist Congressman was hunting for on the Internet. In the past two weeks, two D.C.-area transgender women contacted us, each with a separate story about exchanging emails with the ex-congressman. One sent us an ad that Lee allegedly posted on Craigslist in search of trans women; the other sent us a never-before-seen photo that she says Lee sent her after they started chatting by email. Taken together, they present a possible explanation to those who have wondered why such a tame "sex scandal" forced Lee's hand so quickly.
Gawker also has some evidence that at least one of the trans women Lee pursued is a prostitute.
Gawker has published a man's anonymous account of a one-night stand with a hammered Christine O'Donnell on Halloween night 2007. But according to the author, he was too turned off by the sight of O'Donnell's unwaxed vah-jay-jay to go through with any actual sex. So as far as we know, she really IS still a virgin. She's a chaste Christian woman! Yeah, right.
NOTE: I totally HAD to steal the headline of this post from a Gawker commenter. Had to.
UPDATE: In the several hours since Gawker's post went up, the story has exploded across the internet, yielding both widespreadcondemnation of Gawker for running the story and fevered attempts to identify its anonymous author. Which has happened. I'd agree that it's a sleazy story, but in the Department of Giving-A-Fuck, I'm filing this under: Do Not. This is a woman who went on a years-long campaign of demonizing gay people, telling that them that they were sick and that she had the cure: Jesus Christ. No blow is too low for these repulsive creatures.
UPDATE II: O'Donnell campaign has posted a statement.
Classless Coons goons have proven yet again to have no sense of common decency or common sense with their desperate attacks to get another rubber stamp for the Obama-Pelosi-Reid agenda. Such attacks are truly shameful, but they will not distract us from making our case to Delaware voters -- and keeping the focus on Chris Coons’ record of higher taxes, increased spending, and as he has done again here, breaking his promises to the voters."
UPDATE III: O'Donnell appeared on Fox News tonight where she appeared to blame the Gawker story on her opponent (without commenting on it directly).
Today the above headline tops an article on Deadspin, the sports site owned by Gawker Media. According to author Drew Magary, NBA free agent LeBron James is a "goddamn cocksucker" for playing all the teams against each other in his bid to get the best deal. Homophobic language in sports is not surprising, but it IS a shocker coming from the otherwise gay-friendly Gawker empire, which employs many openly gay writers. Unbelievable.
Yesterday Gawker dug up an internal memo from American Apparel directing managers to send in photos of potential new employees so that anybody not up to their model-pretty standards could be immediately weeded out. One former manager tells Gawker about the kind of black girls she was instructed to hire: "None of the trashy kind that come in, we don't want that. We're not trying to sell our clothes to them. Try to find some of these classy black girls, with nice hair, you know?"
California police raided the home of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen on Friday after the tech blogger posted a story about the next generation iPhone. Chen had paid a source $5000 for the phone after it was accidentally left in a bar by an Apple researcher.
Gizmodo.com editor Jason Chen came home Friday to find cops in his house, looking for evidence of a felony linked to an online expose about the new iPhone. "They then made me place my hands behind my head and searched me to make sure I had no weapons or sharp objects on me," Chen wrote on his Web site Monday night. Chen said a detective told him it search stemmed from "a misunderstanding that could be cleared up if I answered some questions." He refused to be grilled. A search warrant signed by a San Mateo County Superior Court Judge indicated detectives were searching for evidence connected to lost Apple device. The warrant allowed sheriff's detectives to seize all records, "including digital photographs and/or video of the Apple prototype 4G iPhone."
Detectives seized Chen's computers, hard drives, and a digital camera. California's shield laws protect journalists from being forced to turn over their sources. Nick Denton of Gawker Media, Gizmodo's owner, asks: "Are bloggers journalists? I guess we'll find out." After Apple had acknowledged that the phone was theirs, it was returned by Gizmodo, but not before it had been disassembled and critiqued in a lengthy column by Chen. He faces possible felony charges.
Once again, Gawker has the scoop:
