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http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/07/connie-schultz-sherrod-brown-reporter-email.php
A Bloggers Failed Attempt To Sandbag Connie Schultz
Sahil Kapur July 18, 2012, 9:48 AM
A conservative bloggers recent attempt to sandbag Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist Connie Schultz proved to be an epic failure and the only thing saving him from public embarrassment is Schultzs own grace.
The story begins on July 9, says Schultz, when she received an email from the inquiring blogger, who promptly misspelled the name of the author, former columnist for the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, and winner of the 2004 Pulitzer for commentary:
Dear Ms. Shultz,
We are doing an expose on journalists in the elite media who socialize with elected officials they are assigned to cover. We have found numerous photos of you with Sen. Sherrod Brown. In one of them, you appear to be hugging him.
Care to comment?
We are doing an expose on journalists in the elite media who socialize with elected officials they are assigned to cover. We have found numerous photos of you with Sen. Sherrod Brown. In one of them, you appear to be hugging him.
Care to comment?
Uh oh, you might think. Soon shell have to defend herself from allegations of being overly cozy with a subject she reports on. Well not quite.
On July 10, she replied with this:
Dear Mr. {Name Deleted}:
I am surprised you did not find a photo of me kissing U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown so hard he passes out from lack of oxygen. Hes really cute.
Hes also my husband.
You know that, right?
Connie Schultz.
I am surprised you did not find a photo of me kissing U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown so hard he passes out from lack of oxygen. Hes really cute.
Hes also my husband.
You know that, right?
Connie Schultz.
Brown and Schultz have been married since 2004, as even a cursory Google search or glance through either ones Wikipedia page would show. She recounted the amusing tale on Facebook and noted that as of Tuesday she hadnt received a response.
Reached by TPM, Schultz preferred not to name the blogger or publication.
I figure hes an intern, as his name didnt show up on the web site he represented, she wrote in an email. You know us liberal moms: I want to give him a chance to learn the right lessons from this, which isnt going to happen if I out him.
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A Conservative Blogger’s Failed Attempt To Sandbag Connie Schultz (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jul 2012
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randome
(34,845 posts)1. THAT is how you passive-aggressively kick a Conservative in the nuts!
Plus there is a small chance that they actually WILL learn something.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)2. Classy of Connie.