So Why Is AshleyMadison Featuring Hillary Clinton in a Billboard, Anyway?

This time, affair site's newsjacking doesn't even make sense

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Should we expect better of AshleyMadison.com? Definitely not. But while this isn't the first time the adultery website has used a politician's past to promote its ideals (heck, it's not even the first time they've used someone in the Clinton family) this billboard is particularly questionable.

The tagline for it doesn’t even really make sense: "Harder Choices … lead to AshleyMadison.com." Oh hey, they're playing off her book title. Cheeky, but what are they trying to say? Hillary Clinton hasn’t cheated on Bill, as far as we know, which puts her in quite a different situation than most

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