Hope this doesn’t spoil Thanksgiving Dinner.
“Smokey Joe” Barton caught sending, well, uh, lewd, uh, pics.
Popular video above features Hizzoner persecuting climate scientist Michael Mann, and swearing on a Bible that all that Tobacco money never affected any vote, ever.
and, for those that live in his district, Texas 06, he has a climate literate opponent.
Click here if you dare, for offending tweet.
Below, Barton badgers former energy secretary Steven Chu with incomprehensibly dumb question.
U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Ennis, released a statement on Wednesday apologizing for a graphic nude photo of him that circulated on social media earlier this week.
“While separated from my second wife, prior to the divorce, I had sexual relationships with other mature adult women,” he said. “Each was consensual. Those relationships have ended. I am sorry I did not use better judgment during those days. I am sorry that I let my constituents down.”
It is still unclear how the photo got onto social media, who put it there, or whether its posting would constitute revenge porn, which is illegal under Texas law.
Barton, who announced his re-election bid earlier this month, is navigating in a political environment charged with emerging stories of sexual misbehavior in politics, in business and in the media. The photo, which appeared on an anonymous Twitter account, set off speculation within Texas GOP circles about his political future.
In a phone interview with The Texas Tribune on Tuesday, Barton said he was deliberating that.
“You’re as aware of what was posted as I am,” he said. “I am talking to a number of people, all of whom I have faith in and am deciding how to respond, quite frankly.”
A spokeswoman for Barton said Wednesday that he had no plans to resign and had filed for re-election.
Texas passed legislation in 2015 making revenge porn a class A misdemeanor, defining the crime as posting sexual or nude images or videos of non-consenting adults. Images taken by consenting adults with a “reasonable expectation of privacy” constitute “revenge porn” when distributed without the subject’s consent, according to a blog post by Houston lawyer Brett Podolsky. Even threatening to distribute the material is illegal under state law.
Marge Gunderson says it better than I could.
But, delightfully, there’s more:
Congressman told woman he would report her to Capitol Police if she exposed his secret sex life
At least it isn’t porn — nobody want to see.
Family values guys that like to outlaw stuff for others seem to have a special penchant for this kind of hypocrisy.
What amazes me most is that these guys are such losers. There are a lot of ways you can build suspense with a woman, but dick pictures seldom are (especially when you have 60). True, men get excited by nude stuff. Projecting the same predilection onto women is sure fire proof you are a loser.
There are a lot of ways you can build suspense with a woman, but dick pictures seldom are (especially when you have 60).
Typo of the day.
Wait…60 dick pictures? Collect ’em all, I guess.
I’d assumed it was just the one pic, and that Smoky Joe is a GMO.
Yup. Especially when you have passed 60.