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    William K. Wolfrum resigns after lurid but pathetic Craigslist encounter

    By William K. Wolfrum on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 6:36am | Politics, Humor & Satire

    Noted blogger and journalist William K. Wolfrum resigned today after the Web Site Gawker ran incriminating and racy photos and text that he had sent to an unidentified woman on Craigslist.

    "It has been a tremendous honor to serve the people of the world as a blogger. I regret the harm that my actions have caused my family, my staff and my readers. I deeply and sincerely apologize to them all. Seriously, I'm really, really sorry. Just terribly sorry. Wow. Let me reiterate my sorriness," wrote Wolfrum on his Web site.

    On the morning of Friday, January 14, a single 34-year-old woman put an ad in the "Women for Bloggers" section of Craigslist personals. "Will someone prove to me not all Bloggers look like Andrew Breitbart?" she asked, inviting "broke & Cheeto-stained" men to reply.

    Within minutes, Wolfrum replied, with a racy, shirtless photo:

    To: [redacted]@yahoo.com
    From: William K. Wolfrum
    Subject: Will Someone Prove To Me Not All CL Men Look Like Toads - 34 (DMV)

    Hi,

    Hope I'm not a Breitbart. :) i'm a very fit fun classy guy. Live in Brazil. 6ft 190lbs blond/blue. 39.. Blogger. I promise not to disappoint. Also, I'm a cowboy.

     

    Wolfrum's Craigslist correspondent — a government employee from Maryland who asked not to be identified—liked what she saw. She replied flirtatiously. The correspondence continued with Wolfrum sending more photos.

    To: William K. Wolfrum
    From: [redacted]@yahoo.com

    Wow. What a great photo.

    To: [redacted]@yahoo.com
    From: William K. Wolfrum

    Thanks! I'm also a Blackbelt in Karate!

    To: William K. Wolfrum
    From: [redacted]@yahoo.com
     

    Umm, great!

     

     

    To: [redacted]@yahoo.com
    From: William K. Wolfrum

    And I look great in lederhosen!

    To: William K. Wolfrum
    From: [redacted]@yahoo.com

    Err, yeah. Ok. Let me get back to you.

    The woman says she cut off contact when she searched for Wolfrum online and concluded he'd lied about his age, occupation, Karate ability and how he looks in lederhosen. Then she forwarded everything immediately to Gawker.

    It was not clear what Wolfrum was actually resigning from, however Wolfrum insisted that the resignation takes effect immediately.

    --WKW

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    Humor & Satire

    Comments

    I thought William K. Wolfrum was a girl.


    by Ramona on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 7:30am

    If you're going to walk around without a shirt like that you need to shave your chest, get a tan and buy either a big gold belt or a feather boa.  Whooo!


    by Michael Maiello on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 9:44am

    Luckily, there's a slightly used feather boa and big gold belt for sale. On Craigslist! (Tan not included.)


    by acanuck on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 3:14pm

    I simply cannot stop laughing.......oh god......please...........


    by cmaukonen on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 10:28am

    You tart. I thought we had rules!


    by Doctor Cleveland on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 11:42am

    God...if I had a penny for every time I heard a woman lament about the lack of hairy chested karate expert lederhosen wearing cowboy bloggers... 


    by emerson on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 12:39pm

    If only you'd have stuck your head on the new Old Spice guy's body you might not have had to resign from, um. whatever.

    Oh, by the way, there's been a Timmy Johnson sighting!   There's a report going around that he was seen sharing a Whopper with Elvis at the Burger King in Battle Creek, MI.   Just thought you'd like to know. Wink


    by wabby on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 1:31pm

    Tim lives on in all of us. In the laughter of a child. In the vitriolic spewing of conservatives. In the meandering unassuredness of liberals. In the blood-shot eyes of stoners.

    Look within yourself, and you shall find Tim Johnson.

     

    Tim lives

     


    by William K. Wolfrum on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 1:58pm

    Wulfie, you are one hot blogger. Don't you think you should have a pic of you in your PJ's just to go along with the stereotype?

    by CVille Dem on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 3:21pm

    Wolfy, that isn't real lederhosen. I know this for a fact.. because I go here every winter. And one thing for sure is, these people know real lederhosen from fauxhosen. And that is where you screwed up, had you been wearing the real leather shorts, you would have had her at guten tag.

    Hahahaha, thanks for the laugh!


    by tmccarthy0 on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 8:06pm

    I'm thinkin' it's not so much the lederhosen as it is the Steve Urkel-like pose that done him in, tmac.  Body language, you know.


    by wabby on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 8:32pm

    And here I thought it was just the big head.

     


    by LisB on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 8:39pm

    OMG, nice catch flower! Hahahahahaha.


    by tmccarthy0 on Fri, 02/11/2011 - 2:44am