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I can explain porn sites on my screenshot, says politician – really, I can

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Dalek

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I can explain porn sites on my screenshot, says politician – really, I can

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An American congressional candidate wants you to know that the porn tabs he had open in a screenshot posted to his Facebook page are absolutely nothing to be concerned about.

Mike Webb, Republican candidate for Virginia’s 8th district, posted to his Facebook page on Monday, discussing an odd phone call he had had with a staffing agency in Alexandria, Virginia (don’t ask). Accompanying the post was an even odder screenshot:
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Those tabs in the top left-hand corner, in case you can’t make them out, read “LAYLA RIVERA TIGHT BO[OTY]” and “IVONE SEXY AMATEUR”.

A lesser congressional candidate might have hastily removed the images and apologised. Not Webb, however. Despite taking down the original post, shortly after he reposted it to his page alongside an explanation of where the images came from.

The explanation is 2,000 words long. It does not make a huge amount of sense, but apparently blames the pornographic images on an experiment Webb was performing to see whether or not someone was using malware embedded on porn sites to infect electoral candidates with malware that would prevent them from filing their candidacy before the deadline.
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From GAWKER:
http://gawker.com/close-your-porn-tabs-before-posting-screenshots-to-your-1776955238
Webb has a brand new Facebook post up that seems like it maybe addresses the porn tab controversy—though it’s impossible to say for sure. We’ve copied the relevant(?) portion below:

Curious by nature, I wanted to test the suggestion that somehow, lurking out in the pornographic world there is some evil operator waiting for the one in a gazillion chance that a candidate for federal office would go to that particular website and thereby be infected with a virus that would cause his or her FEC data file to crash the FECfile application each time that it was loaded on the day of the filing deadline, as well as impact other critical campaign systems. Well, the Geek Squad techs testified to me, after servicing thousands of computers at the Baileys Crossroads location that they had never seen any computer using their signature virus protection for the time period to acquire over 4800 viruses, 300 of which would require re-installation of the operating system. We are currently awaiting their attempt at recovery of files on that machine accidentally deleted when they failed to backup files before re-installation, a scenario about which Matthew Wavro speculated openly to me before we were informed by the Geek Squad that that had indeed occurred....

But, now let me tell you the results of my empirical inquiry that introduced me to Layla and Ivone. Around Powerball lottery time, January 9, 2016, I calculated the odds that my friend Rev. Howard John Wesley and I working independently arrived at the same prayer plan, and I was able to determine that there was about a one in a billion chance that that could have occurred in the way that it did. (https://www.facebook.com/search/top/…). Well, as much as folks like Duffy Taylor want to hope that the Devil is waiting for Christian candidates on a particular pornographic website to infect his or her FEC data file is even more improbable than my Paul and Silas story, and I know that Duffy Taylor is not a man of faith belief; so, I don’t know how he empirically arrives at his conclusion. I couldn’t see the probability or possibility without a RAND computer.

But, that is the news that will never be printed, but no matter. We found a few more “silent majority” worms today, but we also picked up a few more of the faithful. So, not a bad day, at all.
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Update 6:56 p.m.

Mike Webb offered the following comment to Gawker via email:

One commenter about a half hour ago told me that I needed to hire a new social media director, and others earlier were concluding that the candidate declared DOA in his press debut before Christmas in the local press—six months before a Republican challenger ever gets picked up—today is toast for sure. But, when I read that post about the social media director, we were up 42 likes on Facebook, and I don’t know how many on Twitter. Just now, I looked at Facebook, again, and we are up 75, far outpacing my rival who defeated me with establishment support in the nomination convention.

From a faith based perspective and as a preacher’s kid, I probably would not be comfortable with “adult” topics, but politically, within certain parameters, as a conservative with many libertarian ideas, it can and should be discussed. In this campaign and in the exploratory phases we touched on dating sites and the song” that entraps many in Nigerian scams and we have on many occasions discussed the taboo topic of forcible sexual abuse that in 2014 in Virginia found young white girls below the ages of 17 exponentially more likely the victims than any other than victims of this crime, and, in our own Falls Church, we have some brave parents continue to break the silence with their “We Support the Girls” campaign. So, from that perspective, I do not really see a problem with the viewing of some tabs on a screenshot, even if it does show the scrutiny to which some candidates for office are subjected. In December one viewer blew up images from my social media page to suggest that I was engaging in subliminal messaging.
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Klocker

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... how these idiots get elected I'll never know.. oh wait, they are elected by people that buy this bullshit excuse.
 
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John Kowalski

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Couldn't he just be watching porn? Frankly the strangest thing is that the porn tabs are to the left. Personally i pull my porn tabs to the right.
 
BadAss2961

BadAss2961

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I have no idea wtf he's talking about.

Best way to squash this would just be to own it and laugh it off. It's just some porn.
 
Grizzlyjin

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Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
I read the original story and this followup, and I have no fucking clue what he is talking about.
 
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D4Danger

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he should've dumped his browser history and called on every candidate to do the same like their tax returns

see who can stand up to that scrutiny.
 
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neemmss

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Great marketing. Amateur soft porn on the screen, so he isn't seen as a big sicko and just your average joe. And now everyone knows his name without him having to spend any money.
 
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Deleted member 13876

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Just own it. No one's buying that crap.
 
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daveo42

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Even if he flat out said he was looking at porn and loves the booty, I'd still pause before voting for him. I mean, first rule of posting computer screenshots is to make sure nothing overly incriminating is included in them before posting. Unless he didn't care about showing his love of the booty. Then I would have commended him.

John Kowalski said:
Couldn't he just be watching porn? Frankly the strangest thing is that the porn tabs are to the left. Personally i pull my porn tabs to the right.
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Republicans aren't allowed to watch porn, because sex in unwholesome unless done within the confines of marriage and only for procreation. Otherwise, sex is a sinful, dirty act and it would piss off alot of fine, upstanding Christians that may reconsider voting for him.
 
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Valkerionseven

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Hahahaha what!?

Just say you fucked up man and be done with it. Even pulling the religion "i don't do that" moral high ground card. Just admit you like big booty chicks and rack up the fandom.
 
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Replicant

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He must be a GAF-fer.

Also, I didn't have sex with that woman!

But, now let me tell you the results of my empirical inquiry that introduced me to Layla and Ivone. Around Powerball lottery time,
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Deleted member 13876

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animlboogy said:
I wouldn't know how to buy this particular brand of crap even if I wanted to. Seriously, I don't have the slightest idea what he's even attempting to communicate in either response.

"I'm a Christian candidate, I got, likes, on Facebook I'm way ahead, white women under 17 are being exploited, disproportionately. I am the winning candidate, I am, a preacher's son, so I don't understand, or truly comprehend, adult topics. I am the most electable Republican, and this is a reasonable thing that I am looking for, when searching, on the, internet. To put in the time, and research, others have blown up images, my images, and found subliminal messages, that weren't there."
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The Geek Squad tangent confused the hell out of me as well.
 
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Imperfected

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So, his explanation is that he only goes to porn sites in hopes of getting a virus that will stop him from filing for election to public office?

I mean, it's not a virus, but it seems like he might have been successful in his quest in a roundabout manner.
 
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Deleted member 13876

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The more I try to comprehend it the more confused I become. Is it possible he is schizophrenic?
 
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To Far Away Times

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Something along the lines of "I forgot to close the tabs" would have been acceptable too.

What percentage of adult males haven't looked at porn? 5%? Maybe less?

LOL
 
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Speely

Banned
Just keepin tabs on the sinners, to be sure.

I am happy for Ivone and Layla. Great promo. Hope they make some sweet bank.

Side note: If you read his response aloud in Bane's voice it's a lot more entertaining.
 
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massoluk

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Son, those shits you just typed may have worked in the 1990s where people don't know how viruses, internet browsers, and computers work
 
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