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Breaking News
Weiner’s Week
Even liberals don’t believe the Democrat’s story.
Rep. Anthony Weiner finally called the police Thursday — but not to investigate the hackers who the New York Democrat claims hijacked his Twitter account to send a lewd photo to a coed last week. Instead, Weiner’s staff sicced Capitol Police on Marcia Kramer, a reporter for New York’s WCBS-TV who showed up in the Brooklyn congressman’s D.C. office and tried to get an interview. “All I want is for him to say something to his constituents, the people who have to vote for him,” Kramer told Weiner’s press secretary, who responded by saying that his boss had done all the interviews he intended to do about the so-called “WeinerGate” scandal.
Kramer managed to talk her way out of being arrested, but her experience Thursday in some sense symbolized Weiner’s problem: Every time he talks to reporters about last Friday’s incident, he digs himself a little bit deeper into a hole of implausibility. Even his staunchest political allies can see that Weiner is lying — or at least trying to hide some guilty secret — and so he finds himself increasingly at sword’s point with the media, which has gone into feeding-frenzy mode at the irresistible scent of an apparent cover-up. This is intensely ironic, given that the seven-term Democrat has long been one of the liberal media’s favorite members of Congress.
For the benefit of readers who perhaps don’t have a TV and who today logged onto the Internet for the first time, a brief recap: Late last Friday night, on the online social networking site Twitter, a message from Weiner’s account (@RepWeiner) was sent to the attention of a 21-year-old college student. The only content of that tweet (as Twitter messages are called) was a link to a digital photo of a man in gray underpants, shown only from the waist down, whose turgid phallus was bulging quite prominently. Within minutes, the offensive tweet was deleted, although not before being seen and copied by several of the congressman’s more than 40,000 Twitter followers. Weiner quickly claimed that he was the victim of computer hackers, but the incident was reported as a news story at Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com site, and by Saturday afternoon had become a major topic of conversation among bloggers. The intended recipient of the crotch-shot tweet was Gennette Cordova, a student at a community college in Bellingham, Washington. Ms. Cordova issued a statement Sunday evening to the New York Daily News in which she denied being Weiner’s mistress. (Weiner is married to a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.) Ms. Cordova said she had never met the congressman, and explained that her claim on Twitter of being his “girlfriend” was meant as a joke.
Because it was Memorial Day weekend — with Congress out of session and most reporters on holiday — there hadn’t been much mainstream media coverage of the story as of Tuesday morning when The American Spectator asked, “Is America Ready for WeinerGate?” That quickly changed, however, when Weiner met Tuesday with a small scrum of reporters in the Capitol and suffered perhaps the worst press-conference meltdown in political history. While the congressman now attempted to dismiss the offensive tweet as a mere “prank,” CNN producer Ted Barrett kept trying to ask the obvious question: If Weiner was the victim of an online identity thief, why hadn’t he reported this apparent crime to law enforcement? Weiner’s response was to call Barrett a “jackass,” ensuring that video of the press conference became a viral Internet sensation. Appearing the next day on CNN, Barrett said that because Weiner “didn’t appear to be forthcoming… our flags went up.”
Many other flags went up as well. The piranhas in the political press corps smelled blood in the water and, when Weiner scheduled a daylong round of TV interviews Wednesday — including Luke Russert of NBC News and Bret Baier of Fox News — he faced more questions to which he refused to give straight answers. Asked by Russert if the now-infamous photo was actually him, Weiner answered: “You know, I can’t say with certitude.” Referring to the claim that his computer had been “hacked,” Baier asked: “Do you have suspicions of who did it?” and Weiner answered: “I’m not an expert at this stuff.”
If Weiner was innocent, he was certainly giving a world-class imitation of a guilty man. And even in the friendliest media venue possible — Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC program — Weiner managed to make matters worse by trying to joke his way through the interview. As Andrew Breitbart said in a telephone interview late Thursday, Weiner’s appearance on the Maddow show was “Eddie Haskell hiding behind a lot of snark.” (Weiner’s tendency toward inappropriate humor was also noted by Washington Times columnist Emily Miller.) Some liberal bloggers seeking theories of how Weiner might indeed be a victim of hackers have openly accused Breitbart himself of orchestrating a smear, but the conservative Internet entrepreneur laughed off their speculation as demonstrating their deficiency in deductive logic. “They must not have watched ‘Murder She Wrote’ or read any Encyclopedia Brown mysteries,” said Breitbart, whose new book Righteous Indignation describes his one-man war against what he calls the “Democrat media complex.”
Members of that media complex, however, appear to be losing patience with Weiner’s increasingly desperate attempts to deflect questions about his online embarrassment. On Thursday, liberal pundit Jonathan Chait of the New Republic recalled previous accounts of Weiner’s womanizing reputation. “Understanding Weiner’s character makes it very easy to believe that he would tweet a lewd photo to a young woman,” Chait wrote, concluding that “it’s hard to generate much sympathy for the man.” Even those who felt sympathy for Weiner could scarcely resist the conclusion that he was in a mess of his own making. CNN’s Jack Cafferty said watching Weiner’s Wednesday interview with that network’s Wolf Blitzer “was sort of like watching one of those Buddhist monks set himself on fire. You feel bad for the guy, but it’s impossible not to watch it.”
Among those watching Weiner’s self-immolation with obvious satisfaction was the award-winning conservative blogger known as Ace of Spades. His notoriously rowdy blog, whose commenters proudly proclaim themselves “AOSHQ Morons,” has been a must-read source on the WeinerGate scandal for the past six days. In the wee hours of Wednesday morning, after Weiner’s press-conference meltdown, Ace recounted the behavioral evidence of the congressman’s guilt. Early Thursday, after the congressman’s Wednesday round of interviews had done nothing to quell the media furor, Ace compared Weiner’s situation to that of rock singer Hayley Williams. A year ago, Williams similarly blamed hackers for sending out a topless photo of her via her Twitter account. That particular mystery was quickly solved when it was discovered the singer had made a simple mistake: Sending the photo as a public Twitter message, when she actually intended to send it as a private direct message (DM) to her boyfriend.
The evidence that Weiner might have made some such mistake has been accumulating for nearly a week. When the congressman’s office announced Monday that he had “retained counsel” to advise him how to handle the case (which most obviously could be solved by reporting the alleged “hacking” to the FBI or Capitol Police), it was Ace who observed: “Victims call cops. Perps call lawyers.” What remains to be seen is whether reporters for the mainstream press will play the role of hard-boiled detectives and continue interrogating the suspect until he finally breaks down and confesses.
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.
Larry| 6.3.11 @ 6:21AM
Weiner is a dick. Everyone knows that.
Such a big deal over something so small.
Alan Brooks| 6.3.11 @ 7:01AM
Now Weiner will look for the 'real killer', because the glove don't fit..
Melvin| 6.3.11 @ 7:41AM
Oh jeez, I can't resist, besides it Friday.
Maybe Weiner needs to file a legal brief.
SonOfSam| 6.3.11 @ 8:17AM
holy crap, Alan, Melvin, too damned funny! You just made laugh out loud, so now everyone here is looking at me....no, they hear me do that all the time, they're not paying the slightest small speck of attention at this point.
On a less funny note, I think it should be pointed out that Congressman Weiner is a fierce proponent of Big Government uber-liberalism. You know, the kind that says "we're the government, we know better than you do how to plan your life", then proceeds to dictate to you what light bulbs you can buy and the composition of your dishwasher detergent. Comrade Weinerschintzel is a perfect example of exactly what's wrong with that logic: he's too f*cking stupid to know how to use Twitter, but he wants to run my life? Puh-leeeaze!
Alan Brooks| 6.3.11 @ 8:34AM
Worse than you think: for instance even if every teachers' union ceased to exist, education would improve only marginally-- if that. Perhaps only the cost would be lowered.
The cause is that deep down parents care only about their own children, so charity is only a veneer; ecumenicism nothing more than emollient.
IMO progress is only based on science as of yet.
irish19| 6.3.11 @ 12:09PM
I think you may have the wrong thread here-although unions and pork do go together.
Harry| 6.3.11 @ 12:39PM
Don't forget the horseradish.
Jeremiah Smirking| 6.3.11 @ 8:38AM
We shouldn't be so hard on Weiner for his flaccid response to the press. He pulled a real boner.
Alan Brooks| 6.3.11 @ 9:04AM
Yes! he ought to stand firm, rise to the occasion, and discharge his obligation..
(But remember: this is a FAMILY site)
John Navratil| 6.3.11 @ 9:07AM
Methinks he stuffs his codpiece.
Alan Brooks| 6.3.11 @ 9:12AM
Weiner's ego has been stroked too much, it should be put back into his fruit of the loom-
and stay there until his wife and he retire for the night.
Bak Tun| 6.4.11 @ 10:50AM
Not a big prick. Just a little prick.
Cato| 6.3.11 @ 9:24AM
Since it is Friday, Weiner probably needs to resolve this issue in "small claims" court.
Get Judge Whopper, I mean Wopner, to make a ruling.....
rightasrain| 6.3.11 @ 9:25AM
Maybe his Twitter account was infected with the Trouser Worm Virus.
Ed| 6.3.11 @ 12:36PM
"Oh, I wish I was a Tony David Weiner
That is what I'd really love to be
'Cause if I was a Tony David Weiner
Everyone would send a Tweet to me.
Con Chef (NB) | 6.3.11 @ 1:12PM
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm now wiping Sprite off of my monitor & desk!
LarryK| 6.3.11 @ 9:21AM
The "Brooklyn Boner"
Jack in Wi.| 6.3.11 @ 9:51AM
Weiner Flashes his willie toward a young Phillipino Girl. This is just after he marries Hillary Calinton's Arab girlfriend, with Bill Clinton presiding.
Barney puts his frank between his honey's buns and then puts his fanny on Fannie Mae.
Strauss Kahn rapes a young African Muslim girl and has a long history of associating with prostitutes, sexual harrasment, and going to sex clubs. His rich wife stands behind him and spends millions to defend him.
Wolfowitz the, butcher of Bagdad, dumps his Jewish wife for an arab girl. He gives her special favors. He is fired from his job as head of the World bank.
Is all this kosher? Is something wrong here?
Teaghan| 6.3.11 @ 11:10AM
No, just men with power thinking they are above the law.
Occam's Tool| 6.3.11 @ 1:58PM
Are you slapping the Joos around again, Jack? Did you get your polio innoculation at one time? You know who invented both kinds, right?
Jack in Wi.| 6.3.11 @ 5:24PM
With all due respect these guys deserve to be slapped arounf. Are these your best and brightest?
John Navratil| 6.3.11 @ 6:53PM
Jack in Wi.,
You might recall that Wolfowitz disclosed his relationship (she was working there when he arrived) and recused himself from any personnel decisions regarding her.
You seem to have confused Wolfowitz with the real "Butcher of Baghdad".
Jack in Wi.| 6.4.11 @ 7:50AM
I didn't confuse the liar wolfowitz with the butcher of Bagdad. He lied us into war. Aggressive war is a war crime. Wolfy and his whole gang deserve to be in the Hague being tried for their crimes. How come patriotic conservatives like Bob Novak, Pat Buchanan, Gen. Brent Scocroft, Joe Sobran, and me all knew Hussain had no weapons of Massdestruction? But Cheney, Bush, Powell, Rice and all these neo-cons didn't.
Wolfowitz also totally mismanaged the occupation. Even his hand picked overlord of the occupation Gen Jay Garner knew what was going on was a disaster. When he spoke out he was fired and replaced by one of Kissinger's lackeys. Hussain was the balance in the neighborhood. He was between the radical Sunni's of Saudi Arabia and the radicak Shia of Iran. 5000 american dead, 50,000 wounded and millions of Iraqi's killed wounded or displaced all so the shia freinds of Iran can take power in Iraq. What a disaster. what a mess. Bush and the neo-cons have almost destroyed the conservative movement and the Republican Party. They must be rooted out if the movement is to ever come back.
John Navratil| 6.4.11 @ 8:26AM
Jack in Wi.,
Wolfowitz lied? Please elaborate. I'm sure you disagree with him.
Aggressive war is a crime? What is passive war? What it the crime? Members of the U.N. are pledged to respect the sovereignty of all member nations, like Kuwait, bur war, as "kinetic diplomacy" isn't a crime, per se. Otherwise, we wouldn't need a Geneva Convention, would we.
What crimes did Wolfowitz commit which are under the jurisdiction of the world court, or even a U.S. court?
How did you know that Hussein didn't have WMD? While they were wrong, the Brits "knew" it, as did the Germans, and Hussein said he had them. He used gas on his own people (which was found) and mere days before the invasion, rockets were being towed through the streets on their way to destruction.
You speak of Hussein as the "balance" and cite 5000 American dead. What of the 100,000 or so dead Iraqis. How do they figure in the balance? Of course, Hussein was just another benign despot and if we'd left him alone all would be fine... unless you are Kuwait. He was a sociopath and the conflict was inevitable.
About all I can agree with is that is IS a mess and that Bush was tremendously damaging to conservatives.
Jack in Wi.| 6.4.11 @ 7:50AM
I didn't confuse the liar wolfowitz with the butcher of Bagdad. He lied us into war. Aggressive war is a war crime. Wolfy and his whole gang deserve to be in the Hague being tried for their crimes. How come patriotic conservatives like Bob Novak, Pat Buchanan, Gen. Brent Scocroft, Joe Sobran, and me all knew Hussain had no weapons of Massdestruction? But Cheney, Bush, Powell, Rice and all these neo-cons didn't.
Wolfowitz also totally mismanaged the occupation. Even his hand picked overlord of the occupation Gen Jay Garner knew what was going on was a disaster. When he spoke out he was fired and replaced by one of Kissinger's lackeys. Hussain was the balance in the neighborhood. He was between the radical Sunni's of Saudi Arabia and the radicak Shia of Iran. 5000 american dead, 50,000 wounded and millions of Iraqi's killed wounded or displaced all so the shia freinds of Iran can take power in Iraq. What a disaster. what a mess. Bush and the neo-cons have almost destroyed the conservative movement and the Republican Party. They must be rooted out if the movement is to ever come back.
beebop| 6.3.11 @ 6:42PM
Its a small, small WeinerWorld ....
Moe Blotz| 6.3.11 @ 10:32PM
Will Weiner let it drop or try to stick it out. He should, for once, be upright for his image.
alice moore| 6.3.11 @ 6:41AM
I predict that the media and the liberals will either circle the wagons or, if there is a strong enough D candidate in AW's district to stand for a special election now, quietly put him in a non elected position.
AW's fate, in any case would be much kinder than any conservative Republican's.
alice moore| 6.3.11 @ 6:41AM
I predict that the media and the liberals will either circle the wagons or, if there is a strong enough D candidate in AW's district to stand for a special election now, quietly put him in a non elected position.
AW's fate, in any case would be much kinder than any conservative Republican's.
Appleby| 6.3.11 @ 6:49AM
What is the big surprise about a man using his binkie to snap photos of his wee-wee? I bet you that 90% of men who have cameras have such photos and have probably sent them to somebody on the internet. Men are fixated upon the subject from the time they discover the only toy they will ever really need. Back in the 1970s when people were talking about video phones, that was the first subject that came up among the women in the typing pool: a whole new venue for flashers.
A couple of years ago one of the Toronto Maple Leafs sent a nekkid photo to someone who broadcast it to the world; he ended up being traded to outer space and nobody has heard from him since.
But at least while Washington is fixated on WeeWeeGate, it is not picking my pocket. So let the game continue.
Larry| 6.3.11 @ 7:19AM
How silly. You sound as if you're talking from personal experience when you state that 90% of men have snapped pictures of their johnson and sent it someone over the internet.
Speaking from personal experience and projecting it onto others? It sounds like it.
RustyG| 6.3.11 @ 8:08AM
What a ridiculous and sexist thing to say.
Two can play at that game. I would never sext an image for the same reason I would never cheat on my wife. You can never trust a woman to keep a secret.
Melvin| 6.3.11 @ 8:08AM
My dearest Appleby I have enjoyed your perusals for years now. You now delve into an area of the mysterious and unknown. Civilizations have risen and fallen, on this staff of life.
It is a wondrous creature, this thing of the male species, it has a mind of it's own, as accused by those of the female species. It's temperamental, it pouts, it smiles when it is happy, it is man's directional rod in life.
No single object on the face of God's green earth, has been the subject of scorn, hate, and female happiness and disappointment.
The United States Marine Corp during Boot Camp summed it all up beautifully. "This is my rifle, this is my gun, this is for killing, this is for fun."
Norman| 6.3.11 @ 8:11AM
Were it ever possible to resolve the matter, I would sure take your bet and give you big odds in the bargain. My first reaction to the Weiner stroy was, "What man would ever take such a picture.", and my second reaction was, "What woman would ever want to receive it."
I suspect the reaction of you typing pool friends to video phones says more about their fantasies than it does about flashers' interests in technology.
Steve A| 6.3.11 @ 9:17AM
Appleby, Not all men are your ex-spouse. It's obvious, I mean REAL obviuos, you have some not so supressed "issues."
Appleby| 6.3.11 @ 10:46AM
I have no ex-spouse. I have nephews and great-nephews, and have spent the majority of my life workingi in male-dominated fields and have heard and seen (and generally ignored) plenty of such behaviour. The topic of "sexting" is rampant in our newspapers and the subjecct is being discussed in schools -- and I even know two young men who lost the opportunity for high-level employment when the interviewer discovered sexting photos on the internet.
Perhaps all the men who post on American Spectator are pure as the driven snow. But this kind of behaviour is far more common than you obviously think.
By the way, the fact that everybody and her dog has a camera phone these days has decreased the prevalence of gropers and flashers on public transit here in Toronto; the girl simiply photographs the malfeasor and transmits the photo to Division, along with her location, and the police radio the bus driver where to pull over so they can carry the creep away.
Steve A| 6.3.11 @ 11:47AM
More common today, definitely, agree. All I am saying is for you to suggest 90% engage in Weinergate type behavior tells me that (A) You have a gender confusion of your own. (B) You have no grasp on reality. or (C) both.
Larry| 6.3.11 @ 12:00PM
More issues than The American Spectator has ever published.
Appleby, you're projecting your own personal experiences which may or may not be valid onto the rest of the world. It's ridiculous.
Occam's Tool| 6.3.11 @ 2:01PM
Never did it. I lived in the San Fernando Valley for 4 years, and I HAVE met people in the INDUSTRY, but never did it.
Steve A| 6.3.11 @ 2:17PM
Occam, Welcome to the 10% of non-perv males.
Sincerely, Appleby
PS: Appleby, 9-10 of your nephews send photos of their package to random chicks on the web. How does that make you feel??
beebop| 6.3.11 @ 6:47PM
No man with any self confidence, maturity and a smidgen of esteem needs to engage in this rather childish (think ass on the xerox machine) behavior. Giggling school boy antics.
Patrick| 6.5.11 @ 4:46AM
As sick, perverse, and otherwise un-chivalrous as modern man has devolved, ah... no.
No, I am not pure as the driven snow, though I pray for it. No I am not without fault, even grave fault, in my personal life. Even so, neither I nor my former girlfriends need or needed photographic reminders of my unit.
With that in mind, a little Monty Python:
"Isn't it awfully nice to have a penis?
Isn't it frightfully good to have a dong?
It's swell to have a stiffy.
It's divine to own a dick,
From the tiniest little tadger
To the world's biggest prick.
So, three cheers for your Willy or John Thomas.
Hooray for your one-eyed trouser snake,
Your piece of pork, your wife's best friend,
Your Percy, or your cock.
You can wrap it up in ribbons.
You can slip it in your sock,
But don't take it out in public,
Or they will stick you in the dock,
And you won't come back. "
Mimi| 6.3.11 @ 6:51AM
Nobody could think this stuff up....The story has 2 things going for it...Ruling class pompas come uppence,...and it's funny as "HECK" ! Such as Anthony Weiner's..weiner..WEINERGATE.
But folks, our attention this week should be on the NATIONS economy and watching " CNBC" Larry Kudlow Show!!
shipley130| 6.4.11 @ 6:09PM
Well, I think it's becoming pretty clear that our lawmakers don't seem to be very interested in our economy. They are just way busy with hockey and tweeting college girls.
Larry| 6.3.11 @ 7:09AM
Unfortunately Weeny boy will survive this just as The Great Stainmaker Bill Clinton survived suborning perjury as well as being a perjuror himself. The 4th branch of government, the lamestream media, the proganda arm of the socialist party will see to it. I fully expect an in-depth report in the next week that George Bush was behind all of this.
cuban pete| 6.3.11 @ 8:54AM
Larry,
Cheney did it.
Larry| 6.3.11 @ 12:01PM
No he didn't. It was Carl Rove. :-)
Steve A| 6.3.11 @ 12:17PM
This is one that actually could be Palin's fault.......
John Navratil| 6.3.11 @ 6:57PM
Steve A,
Palin arousing Weiner? It gives me hope!
NoLib| 6.7.11 @ 12:31AM
Pervert.
Chuck| 6.3.11 @ 7:21AM
As the truth closes in the "right wing" will be attacked and anti-semitism will be declared. Just waiting.
Chalkdust| 6.3.11 @ 7:21AM
It's all so ironic for a idiot like Wiener, who loved to get his claymation like face on national TV, that it took a crotch shot to fulfill his late-night dreams.
oldfart| 6.3.11 @ 7:26AM
Are we sure it wasn't a cigar from the Oval Office?
Dan| 6.4.11 @ 8:32PM
Maybe is a cucmber wrapped in aluminum foil.
Patrick| 6.5.11 @ 4:48AM
Baby dill pickle maybe....but that's about it.
Old Soldier| 6.3.11 @ 7:46AM
I am shocked at what a terrible liar he is. It is what he does for a living after all.
Johnny Rebel| 6.3.11 @ 7:50AM
I think Anthony Weiner should sue the I-phone manufacturer, that thing should have had a warning label on it!
"Warning: use of this device to "sext" to
coeds may be hazardous to your career".
Can we come up with a suitable yellow and black "government required" warning label and slap it on an I-phone for Rep. Weiner? I always wondered why you need one, on a blender for instance you might see one that tells you "do not put hand in blender while it is running".
I never thought these were necessary, but maybe Rep. Weiner could have benefited. He should sue Apple, they are rich, and he is a congressman, he can do it.
From now on your I-phone will come with a "stupid sticker" to keep you from being stupid.
Denver Todd| 6.3.11 @ 8:05AM
...then how did he and people like him get elected? Why do voters like him and Wasserman-Schultz?
Larry| 6.3.11 @ 8:08AM
Because the socialist lib-scum count on the stupidity of individuals, of whom there are way too many.
RAMIII| 6.3.11 @ 10:36AM
Votes are cast at a moment in time and if at that moment the lies are perceived as the "truth" then the liars get elected.
Secondly, with the constant barrage of information, knowledge and retention of information diminish dramatically.
beebop| 6.3.11 @ 6:51PM
They get emails from their union leadership.
WRTolkas| 6.3.11 @ 8:19AM
A pride of lions
A gaggle of geese
A herd of zebra
A gang of hoodlums
A brood of chicks
A pack of dogs
And the new term:
A scrum of reporters
Nothing is going to happen to Weiner. He is the darling of obama, MSM, and the idiot-children-voters from brooklyn. Weiner didn't lie about his combat experience, cheated on his taxes, or kill a young woman in his car; so he isn't going anywhere. Ain't fair but that is life.
Everyone have a safe weekend,
WRTolkas
Larry| 6.3.11 @ 8:25AM
He's just a sick perv sending pictures of his teeny-weeny over the internet to college girls, that's all.
Oh yeah, and he's lying about trying to cover it up.
Melvin| 6.3.11 @ 8:23AM
Oh, the wondrous technological marvel of the cell phone. This question that I am to ask is more worthy to be asked by Jerry Springer, or Heraldo. Why would a politician send a picture of himself to someone other than his wife? Then why would a politician create something that is going to become part of the written word for all to see?
This Congressman knowing full well, that he is creating a picture that is going to be a permanent fixture for public view or national dialogue. Its like someone robbing a convenience store and then look up at the camera and smile on the way out.
It just doesn't make any sense for someone to create something of permanent record that will come back to haunt them.
LMajito| 6.3.11 @ 8:30AM
call me a jaded dude but we all know how this is going to end...in a late Friday evening he's going to put out a statement asking forgiveness for his 'indiscretion' and claiming that his wife is fully supportive of him and he had an error in judgement and blah, blah, blah and the voters in his district will in turn feel sorry for her and obligated to overlook this 'incident' and give more time in the house so can continue on with 'doing my work for the people of my district'.
Larry| 6.3.11 @ 8:50AM
You forgot to mention that he'll have found Jesus as well.
LMajito| 6.3.11 @ 12:21PM
he's jewish...that'll won't go down good in nyc
Larry| 6.3.11 @ 1:45PM
He's a Jew for Jesus.
Patrick| 6.5.11 @ 4:51AM
He found Moses?
rightasrain| 6.3.11 @ 9:09AM
There's a perfectly plausible explanation for Weiner's picture---it's art! Who needs The David when we now have The Weiner.
Mimi| 6.3.11 @ 9:34AM
He's got to change his last name... to something other than his " WHAT-SKI" !
John Navratil| 6.3.11 @ 6:59PM
Mimi,
Try Schwantz.
Cpm| 6.4.11 @ 9:47PM
Or Putz, or Shmeckle.
Bill| 6.3.11 @ 9:23AM
Where did Marcia Kramer the reporter get the misguided idea that people "have to" vote for Mr. Weiner? That kind of thinking is more dangerous than Weiner dangling his weiner out on Facebook or wherever it was done.
Bawney Fwank| 6.3.11 @ 9:23AM
We Democrats are good at dickering.
rightasrain| 6.3.11 @ 9:44AM
You said a mouthful!
Larry| 6.3.11 @ 9:59AM
Barney always sounds like he has a mouthful, even when he doesn't.
Teaghan| 6.3.11 @ 11:51AM
He looks as if he has no teeth! But isn't that what his kind like.
geeze, I can't believe I wrote that!
Larry| 6.3.11 @ 12:02PM
No teeth means that there's more room for his um... friend in there. Unless he's got a teeny weeny like Tony Weiner.
Bob Grant| 6.3.11 @ 6:54PM
His teeth have auto rollback.
Conservative View| 6.3.11 @ 9:42AM
Weiner may well find he is out of friends.
Weiner is smart, no getting around that fact. He is powerful in Washington, no getting around that fact either. The fact that he knows it so well is his problem. Listening to the man you listen to unabashed arrogance, and biteing sarcasm. He is a master at offending others. You either agree with his God like pronouncements or you are stupid, or an A-hole, or both.
The man has offended too many. Not perhaps with crotch shots, but with his own image of self worth. And there in lies the underlying problem.
He said it himself. His name has been the butt of jokes all of his life. You can only be called a Weiner (refering to male parts) so many times in your life before you begin to believe it. To compensate he has become the most arrogant member of Congress that there is. To compensate he attempts to constantly show everyone around that he is the smartest man in the room. He has wrapped his A class brain in an Alpha Male persona. And inside, he knows he is no Alpha Male.
So, it is no wonder he sent a picture of his male parts covered in cotton shorts to someone. It is no wonder he is trying his best to dodge the question. And it is even less wonder that the scrum is at his door, and his "friends" in Congress are not standing at his shoulder.
It is not that the mighty have fallen, it is that the little guy has shown he is standing in the mud.
J.C.Eaton| 6.3.11 @ 2:05PM
10-4. The little smart-ass is full of himself. I get a little tired of even Conservatives keep referring to punks of Weiner's stripe[Clinton, both varieties,Obama,Rahmbo, et al.] as "smart." Brains...? Maybe.....Wisdom..? Don't think so. In all events, the little putz' fall from grace is a visual feast.
Morons of the World Untite| 6.3.11 @ 9:47AM
Yup. Best Blog evah. All hail the our Ewok King!
Winterhawk| 6.3.11 @ 9:59AM
Well, he's just unbelievable. Like all liberals. Lieing is their forte.
Bawney Fwank| 6.3.11 @ 10:02AM
If I told you I loved you, would you hold it against me, Weiner.
Patrick| 6.5.11 @ 4:58AM
He might put something against you, maybe even to you... but it's gonna cost you.
He is a Democrat after all.
Matthew Quigley| 6.3.11 @ 10:03AM
I suggest that the...er..."honorable" "gentleman" officially now be called Anthony's Weiner, in reference to his colleague, Barney's Frank.
Larry| 6.3.11 @ 12:02PM
Ewww. lol
Michael L. Hauschild| 6.3.11 @ 1:11PM
Hillary's Bill?
Roy Cobb| 6.3.11 @ 2:58PM
How the bloody bush oyster did you get that buxom sheila to say your name? You didn't by beauty have cell reception Never Never? Maybe tweet a shot of the old snag with a mozzie crack a fat in the grundies daks down? Fess up you tinny larrikin.
John Navratil| 6.3.11 @ 7:00PM
Matthew Quigley,
I'll never go to the ball park again.
JimH| 6.3.11 @ 10:25AM
I guess if we could get a reliable similar photo of the honorable members member we would then know whether the original picture was indeed his, though it would still be possible that he sent a photo that was not of himself. The word schadenfreude was invented for events such as this.
Flipside| 6.3.11 @ 11:45AM
He's lying and hiding something. Wasn't he supposed to be the guy stalking super models the last few years before getting married. He's the political version of Tiger Woods. He's messaging young girls, porn stars....turn in your crack-berry Wiener and let's see what you got....I suspect a hell of a lot more than a potato in his draws
ABNCP| 6.3.11 @ 11:48AM
These scumbag Pol's never seem to learn. It isn't the act that puts them into deep deep doo doo it's the attempted cover up....This guy has always been a smart ass punk. Someone who you would like to grab by the shirt front and just smack the sh*t out of. He is so full of hubris it does not seem to occur to him that everyone knows all he has to do is call for the FBI to check out the hacking claim to prove him not guilty.
Teaghan| 6.3.11 @ 11:53AM
But he is. Guilty, that is.
bitters| 6.3.11 @ 12:04PM
I don't believe him..and I do admit I don't like him..but, while his lips may say 'NO'..his body language indicates there is more to this story than he is willing to share..
Nothing will come of it though..he's a Democrat..
kissufim| 6.3.11 @ 12:42PM
This is perhaps the best reporting I have seen in a very long time. Great perspective.
Con Chef (NB) | 6.3.11 @ 12:44PM
Why does Weenie wear a necktie? So his foreskin doesn't suffocate him.
And here's his favorite joke:
A man walks into a clock shop. He walks to the back of the store, where there is a display case full of pocket watches. He drops trou & places his unit on the glass display case. The woman behind the counter looks at him in horror & says, "uh, sir, this is a CLOCK shop!" The man replies, "I know. Put 2 hands & face to THIS!"
irish19| 6.4.11 @ 11:46AM
/cue rim shot. Isn't he great folks?! Remember, he's here through the weekend. Try the veal and don't forget to tip your waitstaff.
lol
WilliamInWien| 6.3.11 @ 1:09PM
If you looked like Anthony Wiener, what would you send a photo of? Head shot or crotch shot?
Con Chef (NB) | 6.3.11 @ 1:12PM
What's the difference?
Occam's Tool| 6.3.11 @ 2:03PM
The truly hilarious part of this is when he couldn't confirm or deny that the shot was of him. At that point I knew he was doomed.
I have enough skeletons to KNOW to stay out of politics as an active force. Some people have no clue.
W| 6.3.11 @ 3:51PM
OT, it seems this does not measure up to a major scandal.
He could be telling the truth because there may be so many such photos of him he could not be sure.
Mosaad E-mail| 6.3.11 @ 4:00PM
Tool, please tell us that you have stopped black-marketing those foreskins to the Ron Paul for President Headquarters. Our mission there must not be compromised, surely they have stitched together enough of them to make campaign hats for everybody by now.
Clarice| 6.3.11 @ 7:36PM
You're confused about more than your spelling & gender, Buffalo Bill.
Bob Grant| 6.3.11 @ 7:11PM
Well, there needs to be a full investigation. No dicking around. His non-answers have aroused suspicions of his involvement in this sordid scandal. I'm sure whomever the DOJ selects to head up the investigation will be liberal sympathizers and thus taint the findings.
play nice| 6.3.11 @ 2:25PM
" The piranhas in the political press corps smelled blood in the water..."
a bloody weiner? - OUCH!
shipley130| 6.4.11 @ 6:03PM
LOL
Steve A| 6.3.11 @ 2:33PM
Such a shame. This Weiner guy just seems like such a nice guy. So sincere & caring, so reasonable.
Everyone knows chicks dig it when you Twitter a closeup of your package. It displays a personality rooted in tact, common sense & a high moral standard (as long as your wife permits). These really are the people we need making our decisions in high office. Lord knows us common folk, who are not savvy & hip enough to twitter our package to a non spouse chick half our age, need all of the guidance & moral direction we can get from such a fine congressman as Weiner boy.
wolflen| 6.3.11 @ 2:41PM
he didn't commit a crime so...his impression of bill clinton wont damage him much...now he has national fame and can run for national office...he can't do any worse than bama...and if gets a bit more creative he may top clinton...practice that finger wag and get a good southern drawl..."i did not have sex with that woman" ... didn't hurt clinton at all...and he was impeached!...so don't say it can't happen
Johnimo| 6.3.11 @ 4:34PM
Sarah in her underwear,
What we'd give to have seen her,
Instead of little Anthony's,
Twittered Miss-demeanor.
skip| 6.3.11 @ 5:52PM
there once was a very mad slick smirker
who slammed a real sad sick lurker
yet he created an image of such hobbing heat
there began a rising much throbbing beat
the thought caused many a bad dick jerker
DTCOFAZ| 6.3.11 @ 6:53PM
How about the severe and beyond stupidity comment from Jack **ss Cafferty "... watching Weiner interview on Wed just like watching those BUDDHIST MONKS set himself on fire...."
WTF? compare the monks with the low life politician winnie? Typical atheist left wing lib talks out from his buttock.
Bob Grant| 6.3.11 @ 7:01PM
Frankly, I wish someone would have the balls to put this to rest. I've spent a full week using double entendre's, pun's, and heck, I've even pulled out my dusty Truly Tasteless Jokes collection for inspiration. I can say I'm truly spent; shot the last wad so to speak. I have no more Anthony Weiner Jokes.
I wish he would just limp off into the sunset because this story has reached it's climax.
shipley130| 6.4.11 @ 5:59PM
LOL.
I want to see some knock knock jokes. It's just not complete without them.
FastJohnny| 6.3.11 @ 7:49PM
"Eddie Haskell hiding behind a lot of snark."
OMG, he does look like Eddie Haskell doesn't he. Actually, Eddie Haskell, although being a pain in the a##, was a maybe not likeable but fun character that added to the show. 'Whiner' comes off as the type of person that you just want to see standing in the pouring rain on the side of a 4 lane highway looking at his car's flat tire.
shipley130| 6.4.11 @ 6:00PM
I wonder who the Beaver is.......Nancy Pelosi, perhaps?
FastJohnny| 6.5.11 @ 9:01AM
John Edwards?
Truth to Power| 6.3.11 @ 8:43PM
The American Spectator site should be ashamed of itself. Showing the lewd picture at the front of the article was crude and unnecessary.
Norman Conquest| 6.4.11 @ 10:55AM
Weiner's organ recital is really nothing at all, not when compared to the real shocker: Sarah Palin and Donald Trump eating pizza with knife and fork! According to the deluded lib media that is.
Speedypete| 6.4.11 @ 2:06PM
If it had been someone like Congressman Souder he would have been played constantly in the media and every closing news segment would be the natives "media" are beating the drums of resignation. In this case, he's a Neuuw YOOrker, it's not like he used a credit card to pay for high priced hookers. Kiss My Grits.
Richard Baker| 6.4.11 @ 3:29PM
What a putz!
shipley130| 6.4.11 @ 5:58PM
This Weiner incident was a great birthday present. Thank you, Weiner-man for the gift.
shipley130| 6.4.11 @ 6:04PM
Is the Weiner's weiner been beat enough, yet? Is he ready to cum clean?
shipley130| 6.4.11 @ 6:12PM
I think Jack Cafferty should try setting himself on fire and then ask himself, "Is this the same as watching Weinergate?" Just guessing, but I think the answer would be No.
PCP Smoker| 6.4.11 @ 11:17PM
Don't blame the Weiner for wanting to show his hard on. Imagine being this demagogic hack, who has no class and no sense of history, being worshipped by 21 year old coeds, those lovely young things so tight and ripe. Imagine the constant flirting and adulation he gets from leftists. Imagine going home to Huma.
Walk a mile in his shoes and you, too, would be sending pictures of your raging, virile, potent self.
NoLib| 6.6.11 @ 4:34PM
You made me throw up in my mouth. Thanks for that.
andy| 6.5.11 @ 8:54AM
The man is arrogant and narcissistic, it's pretty obvious. Looks more like a mid-life-crisis.....leave this silly story alone.....His wife's pretty hot so I'd just go home and cuddle with her and try to forget about it.
Mike Hawk| 6.5.11 @ 8:53PM
Huma may have looks, but what kind of woman marries an ultra-dork like Weiner. Huma has allegedly been a main squeeze for Hillary. Who knows. None of it makes sense. But in the Liberal world not much does.
NoLib| 6.6.11 @ 4:33PM
Either this is an Obama machine push-back for Hitlery's presidential ambitions or payback for pushing Glenn Beck off Fox. Maybe both.
Mimi| 6.5.11 @ 10:32AM
This has got to be the most comical and hilarious reaction to any week-end article on American Spectator. Some raunchy but most in o.k. taste...leave it to Weiner and his foibles....The mouthiness of Democrats, to entertain us and renew our spirits with humor with the LAUGH-OUT-LOUD heartiness. Thanks Guys....These posts should be capsulated and saved for posterity....American Humor at it's BEST !!!
dee see| 6.5.11 @ 11:15AM
MEANWHILE, Fukishima is sending squads of the
elderly into the reactors on suicide missions into
the reactor ---as the 'depop op' bio-accumulates
MASSIVELY across the northern hemisphere.
PLEASE, more, more, more about Weiner.
Moe Blotz| 6.5.11 @ 12:16PM
You want more Weiner?? Can't get enough Weiner, I see.
Thom| 6.5.11 @ 5:48PM
A very long time ago a man in what is now known as the IT field told me two things about information security that have stayed with me ever since. The first was not to put anything you wanted secured on a computer system, the second was not to connect a phone line to said computer system. This was circa 1973 advice when a high speed terminal was a 7000 dollar PDP11 teletype paper printing terminal connected to a room sized “mainframe” system via a 300 baud line. This is ancient history to most reading this.
Today we not only put everything on computers and connect high speed physical or virtual “phone” lines to everything but we invite foreign programs to download and run on said secure computer systems. As a result there is not a week that goes by without a major security breach due to violating both of the above suggestions. The underlying reasoning of that man’s suggestions are just as valid today as after the ten years he had spent in the “IT” business before saying this to me. The reasons are too numerous to repeat here but this does bear on the Anthony Weiner case.
Given what is known, this case would have been an open and shut case the same day if Anthony Weiner had reported this as a “crime” to the proper authorities. Given he has not and apparently will not then he is either lying or covering up for someone else. Given he won’t deny the picture is of “him” reinforces that he is a liar for someone. If he files a case stating that he was “hacked”, a federal felony crime and is proven to be a liar then he faces criminal charges and jail time. Since he is a Democrat the odds are his first impulse was to lie. Overwhelming odds there.
I suspect the truth lies somewhere between this is a photo of “him” he took or allowed to be took and intended it for someone else (like his wife) or someone that he gave access to his Twitter account and they got something wrong and sent the wrong photo to the wrong person. Anthony Weiner’s only crime here may being that of a dumb ass with regard to using computer technology for things your mother would not approve of. This is why I do all my perverted online stuff under a pseudo account belonging to Bill Clinton. Who would care…….or be surprised.
A word to the wise, there is no such thing as a secure computer system connected to the internet without paying big bucks, way beyond what a smart phone or PC account cost you today. Ask Iran about computer security and the internet. Ask Sony, Ask the IRS, Ask Prviate Manning, Ask Secret Agent man Wiener who seems to be up to his neck in undercover work. The photo was stored on a computer connected to a high speed phone line……
Anthony Weiner is a liar, the only question here is to which of the lies is he the owner? No security program will protect you from you.
NoLib| 6.6.11 @ 2:09AM
I wish someone would protect us from liberal weenies like Weiner.
dee see| 6.6.11 @ 2:50AM
Along with their regular sports/wampum and porn
---time for Americans to hurl the POLI-porn
and find their balls.
Time to man up, one and all.
TIME FOR ---HUAC meets NUREMBERG 2012
SJC| 6.6.11 @ 1:24PM
Who cares about Weiner's wiener?
NoLib| 6.6.11 @ 4:31PM
Obviously a lot of people do--he's holding a presser about his wiener right now.
RCV| 6.6.11 @ 5:09PM
Now that he's admitted his lies as well as his sch0olboy behavior, Mr. Weiner should resign along with his many recent predecessors. Good riddance.
NoLib| 6.6.11 @ 8:41PM
Trust me--Weiner's idiot liberal constituents will re-elect the little horndog. Just like that rotten to the core tax cheat, Charlie Rangel.
Mimi| 6.6.11 @ 5:48PM
WELL ...WELL...WELL..He finally owns up when he was forced to ! He is refusing to resign...Your kidding... He can't get away with this, he's admitted to being a downright ,Bold-face LIAR...Who inGod's name could ever TRUST this moral weakling!
NoLib| 6.6.11 @ 8:43PM
Other braindead liberals. They have no morals.
Pete | 6.6.11 @ 11:47PM
What a ghastly man. Downright dirty and creepy. And lies about the whole thing. If he had a shred of decency in him he would immediately resign. What make me extra sick is what passes for a so-called public "apology" these days----you will see the same words pop up, over and over---"mistake", "innappropriate" ad nauseum. These transparent cop-outs only show the perp to be even more classless and bereft of decency than the initial offense revealed them to be.