Obama Gave Italian Woman's Family "Gifts" After Leering at Her

| Fri Jul. 10, 2009 9:35 AM PDT

Jake Tapper tweets on what I'm calling Assgate:

heard more outrage from conservative tweeps today re: alleged POTUS once-over than about @johnensign, @davidvitter + mark sanford combined

And that's outrage over a photo that doesn't show what they say it shows. In other news, John Ensign's parents gave the family of the woman he was having an affair with a $96,000 "gift."

Now if my headline were true, you'd have a real story.

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Comments

Yawn.

Yawn.

Judging from the video he

Judging from the video he was too busy to notice. Shame... it was a fine ass.

seriously

Even if he was checking it out who could blame him. He is the President not a corpse.

seriously

Even if he was checking it out who could blame him. He is the President not a corpse.

Thanks

Thanks for giving me a chance to check it out.

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