Nude Tweet: Ontario PC Candidate George Lepp Says Pornographic Twitter Photo Not Of Him


First Posted: 05/29/11 10:55 PM ET Updated: 07/29/11 06:12 AM ET

Whose privates were shared with the world via a photo posted to the Twitter feed of an Ontario PC candidate?

The Ontario Progressive Conservatives denied a report in the Toronto Sun Sunday night that rookie candidate George Lepp was embarrassed to learn a photo of "his family jewels" was posted to his campaign Twitter account.

The Sun story says Alan Sakach, communications director for the Ontario Conservatives, told the paper the device was operating on camera mode in Lepp's front pant pocket when it went missing.

But Sakach quickly denied the report, telling the Toronto Star the image was not of Lepp and that he has no idea how it was taken. “This is crap journalism,” Sakach told the Star, accusing The Sun of misquoting him.

Sakach told The Canadian Press that Lepp is extremely upset that something was tweeted in his name and it was not from him.

He said the candidate from Niagara was leaving the party convention in Toronto and was jostled by people from another convention and the Blackberry was "pickpocketed." The candidate didn't know it was stolen until the next morning when his son spotted the post on Twitter.

The Sun described the pictures as "too graphic to reproduce in the newspaper" and depicts a naked man from the waist down, with a close up of his genitals and crossed legs. It appeared on Lepp's Twitter feed for about 20 minutes before it was pulled down, the paper reported.

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GreenCanadian
is mixing the new record
07:43 PM on 05/30/2011
First problem with this is that the source is SUN.

It's not news, it's SUN Media
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GreenCanadian
is mixing the new record
07:41 PM on 05/30/2011
Let's put the shoe on the other foot for just one moment. If this were a tweet from a Liberal MP's phone, how many people in Calgary would have purple faces from their outrage?
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john frodo
armchair expert
04:34 PM on 05/30/2011
Best shaggy dog story since GWB passed out on a pretzel.
12:24 PM on 05/30/2011
NowToronto has pix of the offending member:

nowtoronto.com/daily/news/story.cfm?content=180934
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john frodo
armchair expert
10:55 AM on 05/30/2011
Dick dialing even more deadly than butt dialing.
08:57 AM on 05/30/2011
Clearly what's called for herre is some kind of identity line up. Presumably there are... distinguishing features.
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Jezebelle75
American in Canuckistan
06:22 AM on 05/30/2011
When a man's own pen.is is able to take pictures of itself and post them on Twitter, I say it's time to make our smart phones a little less "smart".
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deweydecimal
@DeweyMai on Twitter
01:51 PM on 05/31/2011
Don't blame the smart phone, men routinely defer to the little brain.
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hollace
01:15 AM on 05/30/2011
he didn't know it was stolen till the next day? He had no messages to check?
12:09 AM on 05/30/2011
I HONESTLY don't care..
Although... I guess the people who vote P. Conservative are generally the type of people who would care??

But seriously, even if its a private photo of him that accidentally got posted, why should I care?
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hollace
11:20 PM on 05/29/2011
He sure isn't "My Litttle Pony'..
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Jake Thomas
elastic
11:16 PM on 05/29/2011
This really should be in the comedy tab. Hilarious. The question that begs to be answered is who took the photo?
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ThankGodhesgone
Always Progressive
11:06 PM on 05/29/2011
So, who took the picture and posted it?
cdnman
Still a free spirit...
12:46 PM on 05/30/2011
Ummmm Harper? Piggy Van Loan? Prince Edward?
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Smirk
Cake or death.
10:45 PM on 05/29/2011
mr. Lepp gave an odd and very unconvincing explanation.
07:56 AM on 05/30/2011
Can you imagine? Your phone camera manages to snap a pic through what must have been a hole in your pocket on the one day you decided to go commando? How embarrassing!

To be fair, it wasn't Lepp who gave that completely implausible explanation. It was reportedly offered by PC communications director Alan Sakach, who has subsequently denied it.