UPDATE

Well, Mike Webb finally caught on and, after those rambling posts, seems to indicate that, indeed, he got caught enjoying pornography but it's okay because it boosted his social media engagement.

In his latest post, Webb says, "Lessons affirmed today include that we do expect our leaders to be examples of our highest ideals, but also, as we have seen for almost a year in non-traditional length posts, people are interested and motivated by truth and substance, not flash or even scandal."

He then notes his social media growth — 25% growth in Facebook page likes in just one day! — and adds, "Perhaps, what does not kill you does make you stronger."



By Tuesday morning, both original posts mentioned in the story had been deleted but we have screenshots below.

ORIGINAL STORY

Whatever kind of Monday you're having, you're still not having as bad a Monday as Mike Webb, candidate for U.S. Congress in Virginia's 8th congressional district.

That's because Mike Webb used a screenshot of his browser to illustrate a story in a Facebook post but forgot to close a few tabs sitting on porn sites before taking the screen shot, as noted by Gawker.

As of 7 p.m. ET on Monday night, more than seven hours since the original post had been published, the same screenshot sat on Webb's page with the tabs, "Layla Rivera tight body" and "Ivone sexy amateur" still on display.

And Webb had reposted the screenshot again on a different story, shortly after 6:15 p.m. ET that references "Layla" and "Ivone" and seems to indicate maybe he had a virus or was allegedly doing research about viruses, but it's really hard to tell because the thing is one, long incoherent stream-of-consciousness rambling post.

A screenshot of the first post is below and the second, long rambling one is at the end of the story.

A quick Google search of those phrases — purely for research purposes — shows the Layla Rivera post on several pages including the popular PornHub site, and the Ivone phrase cropping up on several porn sites, including RedTube and PornyLust.

Webb's website is down, but cached versions of the website as recently as last week show he's taking his role as a candidate seriously. There's also a section labeled, "Why I am a Republican," lest anyone wonder what party he represents.

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