Conservative blogger calls reporter Connie Shultz out for hugging politician Sherrod Brown

[cali]

Sherrod Brown Hugging His Wife In Photo Prompts Conservative Blogger's Conspiracy Theory

The Huffington Post | By Amanda Terkel Posted: 07/17/2012 6:38 pm Updated: 07/17/2012 6:50 pm

An eagle-eyed conservative blogger recently spotted a photograph of Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) looking cozy with a woman. And not just any woman -- a journalist, in fact.

The blogger, sensing scandal, then contacted the journalist, Connie Schultz, and asked her why she was hugging this elected official she is supposed to cover.

The only problem in this blogger's story? Schultz is married to the senator.

Schultz runs an active Facebook feed and on Tuesday, she put up an email exchange she had with a conservative blogger who was "doing an expose on journalists in the elite media who socialize with elected officials they are assigned to cover."

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/17/sherrod-brown-wife-blogger_n_1681169.html

[pinboy3niner]

1. Stop the presses!1!!

[cali]

2. did you read the email exchange? here it is:

Email from conservative blogger, dated July 9, 2012:

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?

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Response, dated July 10, 2012:

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. He's really cute.

He's also my husband.

You know that, right?

Connie Schultz.

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July 17: Waiting, I'm waiting....

[pinboy3niner]

4. "Damn! That was gonna be my Pulitzer-winning exposé!"

[ellenfl]

5. lol! excellent reply! eom

[malaise]

3. Delish

Everyone loves a stupid fugg

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

6. I think this is her own fault that anything else.

Clearly they shouldn't have cropped the book cover photo........... You know the book where she talks about being married to Sherrod Brown. Holy shit are these people stupid and lazy or what?

[CatWoman]

7. you can't make this stuff up!!!