Somebody at the WaPo has a vigilante streak! Yesterdayâs paper featured a snarky piece about an over privileged yet tragically under civilized Washington intern named Paul Kelly Tripplehorn, Jr. Tripplehorn reportedly sent a crestfallen, erstwhile summer paramour an extraordinarily vicious email, creatively titled âyou suckâ and including the following illustrative excerpt:
"I was planning on ruining your career by making phone calls to all of my parentsâ friends and have you blackballed from the workplace as well as every prestigious law school in the country, but then (lucky for you) I decided not to do that because you are a sad sad person and I will just let your life self destruct right before my eyesâ¦. I am sorry, I don't care how big of [a] sadistic [expletive] crush you have on me but people like me simple [sic] don't date people like you."
And he was going to ruin her reputation! The Post, while chivalrously declining to name the wronged damsel, features the hurtful screedâs author prominently. Between Lexis-Nexis and Google, Mr. Paul Kelly Tripplehorn, Jr. will be explaining this one for the rest of his life. And in case you want to wait outside the Hart Senate Office Building with rotten fruit, the paper obligingly included his picture.
Courtesy of Hit & Run.
Update: Oh dear, this is rather funny.
Posted by Marie Gryphon on July 16, 2003This seems like a particularly appropriate form of public humiliation.
Posted by: Tim on July 17, 2003 11:28 PMive linked to you.
http://www.angelfire.com/ill/betterthanyou
Posted by: 3horn on July 22, 2003 2:51 PMThe eminent Mr. Tripplehorn's behavior is unbelievable. The scary part is that this guy will probably be a US Senator in 20 years.
Posted by: David H. Lippman on July 24, 2003 4:49 PMMr. Tripplehorn might want to consider two things:
1) Since evidently, he was one of those "children left behind" -- especially in matters of spelling, manners and elocution -- he might want to consider night classes at his local community college until he can get his spelling and grammar up to 12th grade standards.
2) Mr. Tripplehorn might want to consider switching teams and becoming gay. I think it's safe to say no woman in her right mind is going to date him. Then again -- even if you're gay, looks will get you only so far
Posted by: Steven on September 19, 2004 10:00 PM