Heads up: Daily Beast looking for women who've had affairs with pro-life congressmen

Brett T. | 5:22 PM on October 03, 2017

Gee, we wonder what The Daily Beast has in mind here?

If you had an affair with a pro-life congressman who encouraged you to have an abortion we at the Daily Beast would like to hear from you

— Sam Stein (@samstein) October 3, 2017

I defy anyone to beat this tweet today… https://t.co/3r7jVQXWzl

— Full Dissident (@hbryant42) October 3, 2017

There’s this crazy thing about journalism — it used to be that something newsworthy would happen, and then reporters would report on it. Now website editors have the story they want written in their heads — they just need some names and actual events to back up the premise, and they won’t even use the real names in print. And so we have fishing expeditions like the one The Daily Beast has set out on.

So, if you’ve had an affair with a pro-life congressman who encouraged you to have an abortion, give Sam Stein a call — because he cares.

https://twitter.com/Doug24Seven/status/915320658199969792

https://twitter.com/LukeGolf2012/status/915322479652085760

And the Edward R. Murrow Award goes to …

— Rob Dubnick (@robdubnick) October 3, 2017

Troll Level: Experienced Professional https://t.co/dAj9iQnawC

— DiscoPriest (@DiscoPriest) October 3, 2017

Imagining the phones lighting up.

— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) October 3, 2017

https://twitter.com/seanagnew/status/915319619757527041

What if you're a young staffer who had a pretty much coercive affair with a not-conservative Senator? Should they contact the Daily Beast? https://t.co/mOGE1hvv1E

— Crusty Gobblestein (@NathanWurtzel) October 3, 2017