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Breaking News
Is America Ready for ‘WeinerGate’?
Lewd photo sent on New York Democrat’s Internet account.
Sunday evening, the New York Daily News took the unusual step of publishing a statement in which a 21-year-old college student from Seattle denied being the mistress of Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY). Gennette Cordova said she had never even met the congressman, explaining that an April message on her Twitter account describing Weiner as her “boyfriend” was intended as a joke. Yet it was not what Cordova said on Twitter that made her statement so newsworthy. Rather, it was what was sent to her late Friday night from the congressman’s Twitter account: a link to a photo showing the crotch of a man clad in gray underwear, quite visibly in a state of concupiscent arousal.
That Tweet (as Twitter messages are called) was potentially visible to the more than 40,000 people who follow Weiner’s Twitter feed, including his political enemies, who immediately interpreted this shocking message as evidence that the liberal Democrat was up to online hanky-panky. Employing the unfortunate double entendre to which the congressman’s name lends itself, the evident scandal was quickly classified by its own Twitter “hashtag” label: #WeinerGate.
Within hours, the story was reported by a pseudonymous writer on BigGovernment.com, a conservative website whose publisher Andrew Breitbart has become a bête noire of the American Left, and by Saturday afternoon that story had become the hottest meme on the blogosphere. By then, however, Weiner had sent several Twitter messages claiming that he was the victim of an Internet hacker, a claim elaborated Sunday in a statement from the congressman’s spokesman: “Anthony’s accounts were obviously hacked. He doesn’t know the person named by the hacker, and we will be consulting on what steps to take next.”
Can you guess what steps those would be? By Monday evening, Weiner had lawyered up, retaining an attorney to advise him on “what civil or criminal actions should be taken,” the congressman’s spokesman told Politico. Exactly why Weiner would need an attorney’s advice in this case is unclear. As one blogger who has followed the scandal observed, it should be an easy fee for any competent lawyer: “Call the police. That will be $1,000.”
Indeed, Weiner’s claim that he was targeted by a hacker amounts to a criminal accusation. If he is telling the truth, a federal crime has been committed, one which might have national security implications. If the online accounts of members Congress are vulnerable to hijacking, who is safe? Could the hackers who (allegedly) penetrated Weiner’s account also hack into the e-mails of members of congressional intelligence and defense committees? Yet the congressman’s office has said nothing about reporting this hacking to the FBI or other law enforcement agencies. According to CNN, neither the FBI nor Capitol Police are investigating.
Weiner, who is not camera-shy, waited until Monday to give his first TV interview about the incident, and seemed strangely dismissive. “I was hacked. It happens to people, and you move on,” the 46-year-old Democrat told CNN’s Dana Bash. “This is a prank — not a terribly creative one — and it’s a distraction.” If Weiner was the victim of malicious identity theft, why would he be so eager to “move on” from this “distraction”? That’s just one of many obvious questions provoked by WeinerGate, which is a scandal that will no doubt be confusing to many people not familiar with Twitter, the popular social networking site that permits people to send out short messages limited to 140 characters. Indeed, the scandal was confusing to Cordova, the Twitter user to whom the Tweet with the lurid link was sent from Weiner’s account.
In her 600-word statement to the Daily News, Cordova said she logged into her Twitter account Friday and was surprised to find an unusually large number of “mentions.” (A “mention” is when someone posts a message that includes your Twitter name. The congressman is @RepWeiner, while Cordova’s account — which has since been deleted — was @GennetteNicole.) Cordova said she recognized some of these mentions as coming from the account of someone who had “harassed” her after she first followed Weiner’s Twitter feed. “Since I had dealt with this person and his cohorts before I assumed that the tweet and the picture were their latest attempts at defaming the Congressman and harassing his supporters,” she said in her statement.
That statement was interpreted by several reporters (including media critic Howard Kurtz) as tantamount to proof that the whole story was “fake,” and that Weiner’s enemies had indeed hacked his account or somehow fabricated the offensive Tweet directed at Cordova. When she subsequently re-emerged with a new account on Twitter, however, Cordova said she had been misunderstood: While she had initially believed this was a phony smear created by the congressman’s enemies, she later “realized it was real” — the message had indeed come from Weiner’s account — although she “never once speculated about the alleged hacking.” Cordova is a student journalist who writes for the campus newspaper at her community college in Bellingham, Wash., but the media flubs prompted her to remark: “A lot of these journalists are incompetent hacks… maybe I should reconsider my professional aspirations.”
Reporters trying to cover WeinerGate kept flubbing basic facts of the story, some reporting that the Tweet that started the scandal was sent on Thursday, others saying it was sent Saturday. Part of the problem was that the facts were strewn across the Internet, scattered among several different blogs, often mixed in with speculation and sarcastic commentary, so that locating the facts and synthesizing them into a coherent narrative was inevitably difficult. (Bryan Preston of Pajamas Media compiled a summary Monday evening.) Another part of the problem was that the blogs providing best coverage of the story — including the award-winning Ace of Spades HQ — are conservative, while most journalists are liberal and therefore unwilling to credit the suspicions these hostile bloggers voiced against a Democratic congressman who claimed to be the victim of Internet mischief. Joan Walsh of Salon went so far as to claim that the whole thing was ginned up by Andrew Breitbart, an accusation he angrily rejected Monday evening: “We are simply reporting the facts.”
Others have gone farther than Breitbart’s writers, seeing Friday’s “Twitter incident” (as Politico called it in their headline) as part of a pattern of Weiner’s online behavior. The congressman, who last summer married a longtime aide Hillary Clinton, appears to have exchanged private direct messages (DMs) on Twitter with more than one attractive woman, including porn performer Ginger Lee. While Weiner is followed by tens of thousands of Twitter users, he follows fewer than 200 accounts himself, among which conservative blogger Jim Hoft noted a number of young women of no particular political interest. Which may be significant, considering that Twitter DMs can only be sent between users who are mutually following each other’s feeds.
Of course, this pattern that aroused conservative suspicions may not signify any inappropriate intent on the congressman’s part, and there may yet be an innocent explanation for how his Twitter account was used to send that bulging underwear photo to a college student. But if Weiner was the victim of hackers, as he says, the sooner those culprits are brought to justice, the safer the Internet — and the congressman’s career — will be.
About the Author
Robert Stacy McCain is co-author (with Lynn Vincent) of Donkey Cons: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Democratic Party (Nelson Current). He blogs at The Other McCain.
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Appleby| 5.31.11 @ 6:44AM
We had exactly the same thing happen here! Rookie PC (Progressive Conservative, or slightly less socialist) George Lepp (google him for more details) had what appears to be exactly the same photo posted to his Twithead Account.
Someone with a wee-wee fixation is obviously out there using Twitter for just what you would expect from that crowd.
Alan Brooks| 5.31.11 @ 8:01PM
SEX IN AMERICA IS NOW A COMMODITY.
irish19| 5.31.11 @ 8:59PM
Is there a future's market for this? Where's the exchange?
The Big E| 6.1.11 @ 4:07PM
Are you buying or selling?
Just kidding, just kidding - I couldn't resist.
irish19| 6.1.11 @ 9:45PM
I'm thinking of going long so to speak.
John Galt| 6.2.11 @ 1:34PM
Better go short, it's Anthony 'Goldline' Wiener we are talking about here.
dee see| 5.31.11 @ 6:52AM
"I am not even going to talk about the
chickenfeed and rubbish that's put out
as news these days."
-ALAN WATT
(2 days ago)
We've long suspected that virtually the
entire Congress is being blackmailed in
this age of TOTAL cyber surveillance.
What else is new?
scythe| 5.31.11 @ 6:57AM
Aw com' on. Looked to me like he just yanked his undershorts over his head. With a mug like that, who can blame him? The man is one of the ugliest specimens to walk the halls of Congress and just as obnoxious. According to Chuckie U lil' Anthony is a man of integrity! He wouldn't even dream of doing anything like sending lewd photos! After all he helped to engineer shoving socialized medicine up the backsides of millions over their protests and outrage. That's moral and ethical right? Besides, that picture really wasn't what everyone thinks it is. It's just lil' Anthony and his Imperial signing his victory in the health care debate. We all felt it. Now we got a memento of the event.
irish19| 5.31.11 @ 11:26AM
"lil' Anthony and his Imperial"
ROTFLMAO!!!
That was great!!
NoBama| 5.31.11 @ 1:51PM
Little Anthony and his "imperial" should resign.
Darin| 5.31.11 @ 7:15AM
An investigation would be relatively easy. What is the source IP of the message? Is it the same as the IP of known legitmate messages? The Twitter servers should have this information readily available. If the IP is different, it could well have been a hack. If the IP is the same, is there any evidence it was spoofed or his home computer had a trojan horse or other malicious software?
When Sarah Palin's account was hacked, she notified the authorities who conducted an investigation and identified the offending party. If Rep Weiner doesn't initiate an investigation, there's no reason to believe he's innocent. Yes, you're innocent until proven guilty. However, in this case, the guilt has been established by the picture and the legitimacy of that evidence must be disproved for him to be considered innocent.
rightasrain| 5.31.11 @ 7:15AM
It's so deflating to find out that Weiner might not be the upstanding member of Congress we all knew him to be.
irish19| 5.31.11 @ 11:27AM
Oh dear, this thread is skipping merrily right off the edge of the cliff. I love it!
Occam's Tool| 5.31.11 @ 1:57PM
Apparently another hard-headed Democrat, Irish.
Al Adab| 5.31.11 @ 2:58PM
Oh, the double entendre. LOL:)
irish19| 5.31.11 @ 9:22PM
Oh, the humanity!
Chris| 5.31.11 @ 1:29PM
barney frank would gladly have mr. weiner on his staff...
Intelligent Design| 5.31.11 @ 7:30AM
This Weiner is the same POS who says Supreme Court Justice Thomas should recuse himself from ObamaCare cases.
http://www.anthonyweiner.com/c.....encethomas
SonOfSam| 5.31.11 @ 8:57AM
He's also the same EEEEE-diot (sorry, had to channel Ren and Stimpy) who actually believed that somehow Glenn Beck had -- all by himself-- managed to scare the price of gold higher. Nope, gold going up had nothing to do with the Federal Reserve printing trillions in funny money; its all because of an afternoon talk show host on Fox.
Clint| 5.31.11 @ 7:35AM
They're Havin' A Wiener Schnitzel.
irish19| 5.31.11 @ 5:46PM
That was too easy and obvious. You can do better.
Larry| 5.31.11 @ 7:58AM
Weiner is a dick. Who doesn't know that?
JimH| 5.31.11 @ 8:05AM
As Bevis would say, heh heh, heh heh heh, weiner.
Larry| 5.31.11 @ 8:10AM
Heh. Heh. Heh. He's like a dick and stuff.
Clint| 5.31.11 @ 8:14AM
Has Weiner's been exposed ?
Michael Tomlinson| 5.31.11 @ 8:49AM
Weiner's got the "stuff" to "head" the IMF.
irish19| 5.31.11 @ 5:47PM
Gettin' there.
terryinlasvegas| 5.31.11 @ 8:19AM
This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. Its been obvious for some time that Weiner is a "dick."
Timothy L. Pennell| 5.31.11 @ 8:28AM
Weiner's weiner. Who cares? What I wanna know is, where did he get his WIFE? Have you seen the picture of them, that was in the New York Post, the other day? She looks like she was CLONED, from some of his Skin Cells. She is HIM, in every way.
In fact, maybe that was HER weiner, in that picture? Nothing that these Upper West Side Liberal Jews, surprises me.
irish19| 5.31.11 @ 11:29AM
That was disturbing.
NoBama| 5.31.11 @ 1:52PM
Tim, 8 o'clock in the morning is a little early to hit the sauce isn't it? lol
Occam's Tool| 5.31.11 @ 1:58PM
I feel sorry for Mrs. Weiner. She'll probably be taking this hard.
Occam's Tool| 5.31.11 @ 3:55PM
Oh my goodness, if the hacker goes to court, will he benefit from a "hung jury?"
beebop| 5.31.11 @ 6:32PM
I would like to posit that if she did, he wouldn't need to wag it all around.
Occam's Tool| 5.31.11 @ 2:05PM
She's part Pakistani and part Indian. Her mom lives in Saudi, apparently. Dad's deceased. And yes, she very STRONGLY resembles him.
Her wiki entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huma_Abedin
Occam's Tool| 5.31.11 @ 2:07PM
By the way, Tim, that was nicely played.
Clint| 5.31.11 @ 8:41AM
The Weiners are serving Whine & Weiners .
irish19| 5.31.11 @ 5:47PM
Now you're cookin'!.
alice moore| 5.31.11 @ 8:43AM
I agree with the writer of this article. Why hasn't an investigation been initiated on this? There should be one because he is a Congressman and if his account can be hacked and used with malice, then other accounts of Congress can be used the same way or worse.
BTW, what would happen if this had been a Conservative or a Republican? Just asking. It's that the mainstream media wants to bury this, that makes me put the worst possible interpretation on this.
SonOfSam| 5.31.11 @ 9:00AM
This would be a national security outrage if Weinerschnitzel had really been hacked. Where the hell is Janet Napolitano on this one? Oh that's right, she's making sure the 95 year old lady from Dubuque is being frisked.
Michael Tomlinson| 5.31.11 @ 8:50AM
Did he sent the twit to Barney Frank? I bet he'd like to see the Weiner.
Larry| 5.31.11 @ 9:03AM
Why does Barney Frank always sound as if he's got something in his mouth even when he doesn't? Could it be that he's just so used to it that it's his normal way of speaking now?
Michael Tomlinson| 5.31.11 @ 10:10AM
How do you know he doesn't have something in his mouth? Could be a "gumball" from a director at Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac.
irish19| 5.31.11 @ 5:06PM
"gumball?"
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!
skip| 5.31.11 @ 8:54PM
I've wondered why Bwtharthnthey Fthwathnthk doesn't take the weiner out of its mouth so a word it says can be understood every time a sound byte of it has been broadcast for years.
John Galt| 6.2.11 @ 1:42PM
I suspect that Frank had his teeth removed to better 'accommodate' his 'partner'. I have never seen teeth while he talks on tv, has anyone else? Perhaps a photo showing teeth? Like Ted Kennedy, Anthony "Goldline" Wiener, Chucky Schmerer, these leftist are ugly inside and out.
Teaghan| 5.31.11 @ 8:54AM
Alice is right. What if this had been a conservative. Wails for investigations, resignations and the like would be filling the airwaves! The democrats males are only following the lead of their "lion of the congress" old Teddy boy. They are above the law, above moral codes and can have any female they like. I bet in secret they wish they had the cojones of that frenchman busted in NYC for trying to rape a maid. God, Weiner is so unattractive, why would any woman want to do him anyway!
Seek| 5.31.11 @ 1:07PM
Sex is a part of life. There's someone for everybody.
Occam's Tool| 5.31.11 @ 3:51PM
Yes, Seek:
But so is Juvenalia! ;)
irish19| 5.31.11 @ 5:07PM
And Festivus-or so I hear.
Junius| 5.31.11 @ 9:30AM
Even if Weenie Boy is guilty of this sordid behavior the article misses one very important point: Nothing whatsoever will happen to him, no charges, no negative effects in the House, and he will continue to be re-elected by his constituents because he is a democrat. As has been demonstrated repeatedly, if you are a democrat caught in any kind of wrong doing (Rangel, Frank, Clinton, Conyers, etc) one is totally immune from any sort of punishment. In keeping with protecting fellow members of a very exclusive club, Congress, the Republicans in the House who now control the ethics committee (ethics! Ha!) will do absolutely nothing.
Doctor Right| 5.31.11 @ 9:35AM
"It happens to people, and you move on..."
Whenever a Lib uses the phrase "move on", it means they've been caught, pure and simple.
Not to beat a dead horse, but based on what we've...ahem...seen here, "Weenie" is your classic narcissist:
1. Sending his girlfriend a pic of his "manhood"
2. Vehemently denying he did anything wrong AT ALL...after he got caught.
3. Blaming someone else (some nameless, faceless "other", no less)
4. Sulking and demanding ("Move on!') that the negative attention now directed his way cease and desist.
This a-hole is, next to Schumer, the most obnoxious jerk in the Congress (and both from New York...imagine that!). Watching him squirm will be a pure delight that might even eclipse the downfall of John "Sissy-Boy" Edwards.
Gotcha', Weiner...and by the balls, too!
beebop| 5.31.11 @ 6:35PM
Dems love to try to convince you they are the victim.
Mutch Moore | 5.31.11 @ 11:32PM
Doctor Right, you are so right. Your enumerations 2, 3 & 4 defining a prevaricating, narcissist liberal are so spot on and universally true that your post is a cut&paste; for my repertoire. Next time (which is inevitable) a liberal lies to me I will invoke this. And in the case of this Weiner weasel, it is especially contemptible that his lies persist in the face of overwhelming evidence. It is actually quite Clintonesque. Thank you doc.
The Big E| 6.1.11 @ 4:29PM
Dr. Right, you hit the nail on the head. You've straightened out the whole salami. You've . . . well, maybe I better leave the double entendres to those who better endowed with a sense of humor.
Anyway . . . anytime a lib says we should all just "move on," it should be taken as a full confession. It is their standard mantra when caught. "We've got to get back to the business of the people. We've got to just move on."
If a conservative gets caught with his pants down and then oddly, the lefties want to hang around and watch for as long as possible.
da monk| 5.31.11 @ 9:36AM
This is important????? What a waste of space. How 'bout discussing more important topics than gossip an inneuendo. By the by: Can you answer how Weiner, from Brooklyn NY managed to have a liason with a 21 year old college student in the State of Washington. Publishing this tripe does your magazine ill and puts you along side the National Enquirer.
SonOfSam| 5.31.11 @ 10:17AM
like you give a frog's fat ass about the reputation of TAS. Go home, yo momma's calling you
Seek| 5.31.11 @ 1:09PM
When liberals want sex, it's a "scandal." When conservatives want sex, it's a non-story. You miss the larger point. Man is basically sexual. Everyone wants sex. Sex is the reason we're alll here. Sex trumps ideology. You can't avoid nature.
jothepro| 5.31.11 @ 5:27PM
Hey Seek,I believe you got that backwards.Where the hell you been man !!!!!!!!!!!
SonOfSam| 5.31.11 @ 6:49PM
Oh c'mon Jo, you know Seek can't help being so completely wrong. After all, what he needs to do takes TWO WHOLE STEPS:
A) he needs to pull his head out of his ass
B) he needs to clean the shit out of his eyes
only then will he be able to see the real world
Mutch Moore | 5.31.11 @ 11:34PM
touche' ! ! !
Drunken Sailor| 5.31.11 @ 2:05PM
Would that be the same National Enquirer that destoyed John Edwards career and made Monica Lewinsky a household name? Seems they are some of the only "Honest" journalist out there.
Flee| 5.31.11 @ 3:03PM
da monk, Was it worthwhile when the media forced out a Republican congressman named Foley over supposedly salacious IMs to adult males that willingly received and replied to them? He never claimed it was hacked when it could easily have been so. Weiner needs to fess up or open his account to the investigation. If he was hacked it can be proven. Getting a lawyer was a bad sign for Weiner. What does he need to defend? Simply open the account to the authorities and let them prove your innocence.
Maddox| 5.31.11 @ 9:39AM
Democrats reap huge benefits from scandals like this. I am sure he is happy to have the "exposure."
Kitty| 5.31.11 @ 9:47AM
Weiner's become the butt of jokes.
Michael Tomlinson| 5.31.11 @ 10:12AM
Barney Frank would like to see his butt too.
Larry| 5.31.11 @ 11:27AM
Just his butt?
Kitty| 5.31.11 @ 9:55AM
From GatewayPundit:
REWARD OFFERED For Arrest and Conviction of Weinergate Hacker
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Larry| 5.31.11 @ 10:05AM
This is BS. Anyone who knows anything about Anthony Dick knows that he's anything buy humble.
W| 5.31.11 @ 10:11AM
I believe Wiener's college buddy/roomate was Jon Stewart. What are the chances Stewart will make fun of Wiener?
Michael Tomlinson| 5.31.11 @ 10:13AM
If Weiner's weiner is small he might tell a small joke or two.
SonOfSam| 5.31.11 @ 10:19AM
Not a chance in hell. There will be deafening silence on this from Stewart and indeed all of Comedy Central. The only thing quieter will be their vigorous condemnation of radical Islam
Michael Tomlinson| 5.31.11 @ 10:17AM
Just saw the offending picture. It's a fraud. Not that Weiner sent it, but it is obvious he's got a "device" in his shorts no natural piece of flesh can bend like that and remain rigid. Still I bet Barney Frank would like to see more of Weine's "less."
Oldefarte| 5.31.11 @ 10:40AM
I wonder if Anthony's Weiner is KOSHER? Obviously, the little Weiner got caught WITH HIS PANTS DOWN! As I said earliar, no doubt Barney's Frank was exicted by the picture of Anthony's Weiner! Seriously though, folks, it's plainly obvious that this idiot is no doubt a serial twitter, and should be further EXPOSED. If possible, an investigation of his cell phone records etc should reveal additional occasions of improper activity, etc. This did not happen in a vacuum, and his deranged personae is [or should be] fairly common knowledge to those surrounding him, ie his fellow representatives/congressmen etc. Remember too that the similar knowledge of the Kennedys [ie JFK, Teddy etc] was all common knowledge by the MSM of their time, but same/MSM refused to print/expose same due to their typical liberal Democrat favoratism/biasness. The information is out there folks, it just a matter of who is willing to investigate enough to uncover same!!!!!!!!
The Big E| 6.1.11 @ 4:35PM
Further exposure? Haven't we seen too much already.
Michael Tomlinson| 5.31.11 @ 10:45AM
One of Joe Kennedy's lovers gave JFK a sympathy one and described him as being a little weiner.
Oldefarte| 5.31.11 @ 1:43PM
All of the Kennedy males were, as you say, 'little Weiners'. In essence, none of them were/are WORTH AN EXCREMENT!!!!!!!!
Doctor Right| 5.31.11 @ 10:56AM
BTW, Weiners "bulge" was pretty pathetic...His Muslim wife must be disappointed...
That brings up another point...A left-wing, obnoxious, New York Jew married to a left-wing Muslim...
Can you say "self-hating"..?
Michael Tomlinson| 5.31.11 @ 11:10AM
Doc didn't know that. Could it be his wife is actually Barack Obama in drag?
Oldefarte| 5.31.11 @ 1:45PM
Wait, now don't go disparaging MICHELLE MY BELLE like that, okay????????
Larry| 5.31.11 @ 11:29AM
He's so small that baby boy mosquitos laugh at him.
loulou| 5.31.11 @ 11:48AM
Can you say "beard"?
irish19| 5.31.11 @ 5:09PM
Maybe. But let's not, shall we?
Jack London| 5.31.11 @ 11:55AM
Oh dear - more Doctor Mengele than Doctor Right.
Doctor Right| 5.31.11 @ 12:42PM
"Doctor Mengele"? Do tell...
Oldefarte| 5.31.11 @ 1:47PM
WRONG! Doctor Right, as in CORRECT!!!!!!!
Occam's Tool| 5.31.11 @ 3:53PM
Jack,
WTF? I mean, WTF?
Where did you drag the Nazi reference in on this one?
Jack London| 5.31.11 @ 5:49PM
I guess I must have dreamt that above I saw:
'A left-wing, obnoxious, New York Jew married to a left-wing Muslim...'
Peppermint Tea| 5.31.11 @ 11:20AM
We need to get to the bottom of this...
Even though he is going thru a hard time...
Weiner should stand and be counted...
After all, we need to get all the facts uncovered...
Before we run him up the flagpole...
Once everything is out in the open, we can judge whether this is a hardly worth mentioning...
Or if this is a scandal of monumental proportions...
And if it is, Weiner should come clean...
Peppermint Tea| 5.31.11 @ 11:23AM
I agree with Mike above. Barney Frank, as mouthpiece of the dems, should be assigned to pay lip service to this scandal.
Bob Grant| 5.31.11 @ 11:32AM
Barney is very flexible. He's cool with either playing lip service or butting out...or in for that matter.
Al Adab| 5.31.11 @ 4:02PM
All this gives new meaning to the word, PUNdit.
Bob Grant| 5.31.11 @ 8:48PM
Heh, heh, I'm just trying to get to the bottom of it, which, I'm sure, Mr. Frank would appreciate.
loulou| 5.31.11 @ 11:46AM
I'm confused--all this time I thought Tony Dick was "effeminate" and had a beard. Gaydar is on the fritz.
Pzkfw| 5.31.11 @ 12:05PM
concupiscent???
Really? Why do I need to look this up...word not needed in that sentence.
irish19| 5.31.11 @ 5:46PM
It's a good word, though. Woody rather than tinny.
John Navratil| 5.31.11 @ 7:19PM
irish19,
T'would be seemly if the prodding sausage were gooorrrne?
irish19| 5.31.11 @ 7:24PM
Python or Firesign? Not sure of the reference, but it vexes me.
irish19| 5.31.11 @ 7:24PM
I hate being vexed.
John Navratil| 5.31.11 @ 8:47PM
irish19,
Monty Python...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T70-HTlKRXo
irish19| 5.31.11 @ 9:10PM
Thanks! The rrrrrrrr in your post threw me. What a great sketch that was.
chris haynes| 5.31.11 @ 12:59PM
Weiner is Lying
The evidence. He wont call the cops.
On his hacking, he figures this: "Lying to the public, that's legal, but a false criminal complaint to the FBI, that's a felony. You can do 5 years."
USC 18 1001.
whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Government of the United States, knowingly and willfully— (2) makes any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation.
Larry| 5.31.11 @ 1:26PM
You forgot one small thing Chris. Weiner's got a (D) after his name. He's allowed to lie and get away with it. His lackies in the press will blame his lies on the vast right wing conspiracy.
irish19| 5.31.11 @ 5:11PM
DING! DING! DING! DING! We have a wi(e)nner.
Bob Grant| 5.31.11 @ 8:52PM
Let Barney Frank investigate. Let him nose around and get to the bottom of things...I'm sure it wouldn't be the first time he's dealt with a mystery weiner, you know with all of his time spent in bathhouses. Ok. that was a low blow..Heh, Heh.
irish19| 5.31.11 @ 7:25PM
If it was just lying, there'd be nothing to take a picture of.
Joe D.| 5.31.11 @ 1:06PM
I agree Robert. No one is safe. We need to investigate thoroughly. He needs to step down while this investigation goes on just to be fare to others whom have been caught in this kind of things before.
Seek| 5.31.11 @ 1:11PM
In 1984 the Replacements recorded a song called "Gary's Got a Boner." Paul Westerberg needs to update that with "Tony's Got a Boner."
chris haynes| 5.31.11 @ 1:40PM
I disagree.
Put yourself in Rep Weiner's shoes. If he reports this as a crime, and he's found lying, maybe hids feinds wont cover it up. Then he's looking at USC 1001, a felony rap, and 5 years.
Larry| 5.31.11 @ 2:29PM
Comrade Golfer would pardon him post haste and he'd be back to work, if you want to call it that, the next day.
irish19| 5.31.11 @ 9:11PM
"Put yourself in Rep Weiner's shoes."
Wouldn't want to do that. Who knows where they've been.
chris haynes| 5.31.11 @ 2:59PM
Comrade Golfer?
What does the 'Golfer'part mean?
President Obama has played golf 70 times in 2 years. That's once every 12 days.
Are you saying that a person who plays golf every 12 days is lazy, inattentive, and negligent? Tell us, what's your point?
Larry| 5.31.11 @ 3:34PM
I'm saying that as with most everything else, he's a lazy, no-good, America hating, socialist, affirmative action recipient.
Have his golf score ever been made public? Or do they sit alongside his college grades and scores?
da monk| 5.31.11 @ 3:38PM
AND ARE YOU CLAIMING THAT GEORGE W'S TOURS ON THE GOLF COURSE NEVER HAPPENED?
Larry| 5.31.11 @ 3:43PM
I'm not sure that I understand that point you're trying to make, but GW stopped playing golf after a period of time in deference and respect to the military.
the refudiator| 6.1.11 @ 12:11AM
Relax, these guys aren't worth it. Read but don't post. You have entered a fact free zone here. A lot of heads full of bad wiring & hearts full of pain. You are seeing the real GOP here I think.
Al Adab| 5.31.11 @ 3:01PM
It's true, there's a pun born every minute.
Groan
irish19| 5.31.11 @ 5:49PM
Shouldn't that read, "There's pun born every minute."
Al Adab| 5.31.11 @ 5:58PM
Probably, but at least this proves what we knew all along, Weiner is a Putz.
Sorry.
irish19| 5.31.11 @ 6:04PM
Petzel (sp?) more like.
I once heard Buddy Hackett explain the entire declension of putz/schmuck, but can't remember all of it. Probably better that way.
Al Adab| 5.31.11 @ 7:02PM
I'll have to search that. Would love to see it.
irish19| 5.31.11 @ 7:26PM
Yes, you would. Language is definitely nsfw.
Al Adab| 5.31.11 @ 7:30PM
NRO has headline re his press conference,
"Weiner gets Prickly"
no joke.
Bob Grant| 5.31.11 @ 8:56PM
Now if you could fuse this story with the killer cucumber story, you'd be a literary genius.
DANSHANTEAL| 5.31.11 @ 3:28PM
I'm waiting for Andrea Mitchell to interview him.
Al Adab| 5.31.11 @ 4:58PM
Chris Matthews. Just think of the tingle up his leg.
play nice| 5.31.11 @ 3:39PM
Weiner should have shown up for the TV interview wearing a tinfoil hat claiming his brain was hacked. That would be more believeable.
irish19| 5.31.11 @ 6:05PM
One would actually need to have a brain to pull that off.
Mike| 5.31.11 @ 4:13PM
Hillary was neither his Aide, nor did she marry him.
slow down and write clearly. (second to last paragraph.)
You might also want to hire a proofreader.
Mike
Al Adab| 5.31.11 @ 4:58PM
He and Wasserman-Schultz deserve each other.
martin j smith| 5.31.11 @ 4:39PM
I really do not give a crap about the Weiny and his personal affairs, but since the Socialists do all kinds of nasty stuff to Conservatives I think its time to give it back to them--when they give us the opportunity.
chris haynes| 5.31.11 @ 4:41PM
Comrade Golfer.
The President plays golf every 12 days. Whats wrong with that?
Okay. youre "saying that as with most everything else, he's a lazy, no-good, America hating, socialist, affirmative action recipient" But you called him comrade golfer. What does golf have to do with it?
I play golf once a week. Does that make me lazy, or were you just being churlish and rude? Lets have a real answer.
Al Adab| 5.31.11 @ 7:01PM
Your schedule likely makes you a golfer. Perhaps the critic was borrowing a page from the Left's playbook, ridicule your opponant. Whether that qualifies as churlish (good word BTW) or rude we can leave to the voters.
The One Who Runs Like a Duck| 5.31.11 @ 6:07PM
Chalaque, Dred. Wow. All my gay trolls frequent this site and you're the only one to stand up and admit how much you like Weiner. Oh well. Remember this will be the summer of recovery just like the last one. The explosion of Chevy Volt sales and wind farm lawsuits will bring about a new recovery. While you are emphasizing these points I will be on the golf course preparing for the inevitable battle with John Boehner. Remember my solution to the budget crisis is to borrow money from the Chinese that will be paid back by children that haven't even been born in Mexico. Gitmo will be closed any day and we'll be out of Afghanistan in the next month or so. You can trust me, baby.
fancy free| 5.31.11 @ 7:22PM
Looks like he's padding his part.
chris haynes| 5.31.11 @ 8:32PM
Personal Affair?
Weiner says to the public "I was hacked" .
I say this. Lying to the public is unacceptable. So is piggish behavior.
And now he wont file a criminal complaint. Why?
1 his work in congrees is too demanding
2 he's afraid of felony charges (USC-18-1001) for making a false complaint.
Which do you figure?
Heres what I figure #2
prestonsbrooks| 5.31.11 @ 9:17PM
Man, all these commie/fascist guys are real perverts. Must go with the territory.
Bob Grant| 5.31.11 @ 9:29PM
Someone should hire a private dick and investigate this to the fullest extent...errr.
ティファニー 通販 | 6.1.11 @ 3:13AM
nice post
fancy free| 6.1.11 @ 4:27AM
Isn't there a gps thing that says where the picture was taken? Who hacked Weiner? The angle from which the picture was taken puts the hacker . . What means hacker anyway, ? - - someone sneaking up on you and taking your picture in your underwear from somewhere north of your belly-button? You'd think he would have noticed. Have we even established that that is Anthony's Weinerwear? We really need to get to the bottom of this and restore the good name of Weiner once and for all as someone who has nothing to hide.
This is not WeinerLeaks, but it is a federal offense. Sarah Palin might help him out. Her e-mail was hacked and she got the guy who did it put in the slammer. And Mr. Nice Guy is not going to look for the hacker? He's too busy with serious biz - like getting Clarence Thomas to recuse himself.....
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wolflen| 6.1.11 @ 2:12PM
Tony: wolf...can you help me out here, for old time sake...
wolf: sorry tony...but try this...wag your index finger and say.."..i did not have sex with that woman" i hear it works
Talman| 6.1.11 @ 3:43PM
This loudmouth, egotistical and narcissistic weasel is finally getting his due. And he can't seem to keep his stories straight b/c he's lying. Man up you sorry piece of shit and resign.
chuck jim fox| 6.1.11 @ 6:09PM
"Boney Tony" committed hung fu (sorry, that was David Carradine.) As Kripke said of Sheldon trying to rock climb "He hung there like a big sawami."
Richard Baker| 6.1.11 @ 7:33PM
My bone to pick with Weiner is that he won't take responsibility for his childishness and that his immaturity in the Congress shows that it's all about HIM. Just like the denizen of 1600 Pennsylvania.
Xanthippus| 6.1.11 @ 8:25PM
I didn't know that Paul Rubin, aka Pee Wee Herman, changed his name to Anthony Weiner and was elected to Congress! He's come a long way from exposing himself at an adult theatre in Florida to exposing himself on personal cyber-media! He could combine his old moniker with his current name and style himself as "Pee Wee Weiner"!
chuck jim fox| 6.1.11 @ 10:02PM
I assume that someone is going to blame Big Tony's problems on the American goys who made his forefathers start pronouncing Weiner(Vine-er) as Weener, back on Ellis Island.
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fancy free| 6.3.11 @ 2:55AM
Weiner deserves faint praise for not changing his name before going into politics - as Gary Hartpence did. What is it about politicians that they go for such artifices as comb-overs, toupees and odd hair dye with the obligatory little grey sideburns? And now taking pictures of themselves flexing pecs or in their skivvies?
One wonders why a guy would take such pride as to send a crotch shot to even one person, let alone cyber universe. I laughed at Ann Coulter's reference to his spindly leg. If he had really wanted to impress, he could have somehow photo-shopped that nose of his into a pair of briefs.
Whoever said, "Vanity,thy name is Woman" never wondered at the perfection of Trent Lott's hair. And speaking of, Mitt Romney, in the last election, lost my vote, if he ever had it, when he admonished a reporter, "Don't touch the hair." And Evan Thomas, in a book about John Kerry, noted that Kerry about went nuts when his hairbrush guy (yes, he had one) misplaced his hairbrush on the campaign trail.
But don't take any bets on this being a deal breaker for Weiner's career - it could be a resume enhancer, given that he is a Democrat. He only has to please his constituents. The electorate is not made up of intelligent TAS readers - - recall that MTV Clinton interview that got him the youth approval - - "the world wants to know, Mr. President, boxers or briefs?" And Bill answered.
The best we can hope for - without any "certitude" - is that this has taken the wind out of Weiner's sails. I don't see him going on Megyn Kelly's Show when she returns and trying to steam roll her in a conversation. She may say, "While I was on maternity leave I caught your tightrope act back over Memorial Day - - did I miss the part where you said whether or not the picture was of you?"