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An Abstinence Video By a Politician and His Mistress

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U.S. Congressman Mark Souder announced his resignation today after admitting that he’d had an affair with a woman whom Fox News identified as Tracy Jackson, one of his staffers. Justin Elliott discovered that one of the videos on the soon-to-be-ex-Congressman’s channel was a plea for abstinence education, done in the time-honoured fake interview format. The person interviewing him about the importance of abstinence? Tracy Jackson, one of his staffers.

I don’t really know what to add to that. It’s just fun.

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