{"id":9591,"date":"2011-05-30T10:47:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T14:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=9591"},"modified":"2011-05-30T10:48:15","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T14:48:15","slug":"yet-another-politician-has-twitter-exposure-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/05\/30\/yet-another-politician-has-twitter-exposure-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet another politician has Twitter exposure issues"},"content":{"rendered":"

First, it was the turn of congressman Anthony Weiner to have his Twitter account hacked<\/a>. Now it’s an Ontario Tory candidate whose Blackberry was stolen, and a picture of his genitals<\/a> posted on his Twitter account:<\/p>\n

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Rookie PC candidate George Lepp says he\u2019s embarrassed that a photo of his family jewels was posted on his campaign Twitter account for about 20 minutes before it was quickly unzipped.
\nAlan Sakach, communications director for the Ontario Conservatives, said the photo was inadvertently taken by Lepp\u2019s BlackBerry when it was in his front pocket. The photo was posted after someone took it from the candidate for the riding of Niagara Falls, according to Sakach.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is pretty upset and embarrassed,\u201d Sakach said of a photo that was posted on Lepp\u2019s account Sunday. \u201cIt was removed as soon as it came to his attention.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Toronto Sun<\/em> obtained grainy copies of the Twitter page images before they were removed. <\/p>\n

The pictures — too graphic to reproduce in the newspaper — are of a man naked from the waist down, showing a close up of his penis and his crossed legs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As commenters on that article point out, it’s hard to believe the “official” story in this case:<\/p>\n

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Antinephalist<\/strong>:
George Lepp’s pockets are transparent, are they? And the photo was taken while he wasn’t wearing pants, that apparently have transparent pockets?<\/p>\n

jaysfan33<\/strong>:
so wait…this guy’s phone took a picture of his twig and berries from his pocket??!?! Then his phone happened to be stolen…then the thief looked through all the guys pictures on the phone found the shot in question and then uploaded it to twitter…yeah that sounds pretty likely. <\/p>\n

what probably happened: this prev took a shot of his junk when boozed up and then thought it would be funny to post it online, some time passed and he remember oh wait, im running for office, this might not look good, so he took it down…unfortunately for him the snake was out of the bag<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

H\/T to “Lickmuffin”, who posted this link in a comment on the original article about Congressman Weiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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