Bloggers of the world: It’s quite possible that you can blame me for the fact that the Virginia GOP took down that lesbian soft-core pornography that was linked from their YouTube page. (And how exactly did it get there, anyway?)
Earlier today, it was discovered that the Virginia Republican Party’s YouTube account had selected as a favorite video to link to a soft-core porno video of what appeared to be two women speaking to each other in Russian, having a conversation over some marital aids and then making out. (Obviously, this is not safe for the workplace.)
After I contacted Virginia GOP chairman Gerry Scimeca and asked him who put this there, he looked into it for a bit and then got back to me a little while later. “The video has been taken down,” said Scimeca. “Apparently it was some kind of internet prank. So it’s down now.”
When I asked him how exactly this happened, or whether he knew who did it, he said that “from what I understand you would need a password. So whoever posted it somehow got ahold of a password.”
“This happens on occasions,” he added. “You see candidates’ Web sites or party Web sites will get pranked. I’ve seen it before. It’s unfortunate but there are enough depraved people out there who will do this.”
We’ve saved a screenshot of the old page.
