Wienergate

[Edie Lindsey]

I tune in for the first time in a while,--not for wanting to-- figuring you guys would be talking about this latest news involving a twit doing a tweetering.  So I will be the first to touch this wiener thing, frankly speaking.  I like Ann Coulter's take on it, but what's yours.

 

Weiner's Penis Photo Dispute To Be Settled In Small Claims Court

by Ann Coulter
06/01/2011

Sometimes I wonder if Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., is too nice for his own good.

An evil swine hacks into Weiner's Twitter account and posts an embarrassing photo of spindly legs topped by a small erect penis draped in dingy gray briefs no male over the age of 11 would wear -- and Anthony just wants to forget the whole thing!

Instead of angrily demanding an investigation like anyone else would, Anthony has gone all St. Francis of Assisi on us.

He doesn't want an investigation! How big-hearted is that? Talk about a forgiving nature! He's almost too magnanimous. I wish I had that kind of forbearance.

Maybe he's ready to live and let live, but speaking as one of Anthony's biggest Twitter followers, I am not. Otherwise, Weiner's hacker is just going to go out and hack and hack again.

So while I admire Anthony's selfless refusal to be "distracted" by this issue, I would urge him to reconsider.

Only a full and complete investigation will show that he had absolutely nothing to do with that humiliating photo of the tiny stub of a male organ sent to a 21-year-old coed from his Twitter address last Friday night.

Anthony needs to remember that hacking is a serious crime. In fact, there probably will have to be a federal investigation whether or not our gentle Anthony requests one.

Another example of Anthony's amazing forbearance is how he has not retaliated against CNN for its malicious editing of Weiner's press conference on Tuesday.

CNN obviously sabotaged the tape to make it look as if he was refusing to answer the simplest, most direct questions. (I confess I did not see the entire conference live; I was too busy sending private messages to the hundreds of college coeds I follow on Twitter, just like Anthony.)

Through sheer trickery, CNN made it appear as if Anthony kept lurching back to the same irrelevant story about a heckler in an audience of 45,000 people.

Anyone could see there was something off about the video because no matter what reporters asked him, CNN kept looping back to that clip of Anthony telling his long, pointless parable about a heckler in an audience and how he'd respond and then demanding that he be allowed to finish, when he obviously had already finished.

This falsely suggested that he was stonewalling reporters. Perhaps the CNN tape was hacked, too.

It's time for Anthony to stand up for himself, if you'll pardon the expres -- Hey, wait a minute! Now my column is being hacked!!! -- and demand an investigation of both the hacker and CNN.

You don't need to apologize for anything, congressman. Your only problem is, you're just too damn nice.

But knowing Anthony, he'll probably forgive CNN. There's a reason why, year in and year out, Anthony Weiner has been voted Congress' most forgiving person.

I try to be a good Christian, but it took Anthony Weiner to show me what true mercy is. I salute you, congressman! ...

The preceding several paragraphs are what we call "irony," i.e. saying one thing while meaning the opposite.

What I meant to say is: OF COURSE ANTHONY WEINER DOESN'T WANT AN INVESTIGATION BECAUSE IT WOULD SHOW THAT HE HIMSELF POSTED THE PHOTO OF HIS SMALL ERECT PENIS.

The reason the congressman is so eager to forgive the hacker is that there is no hacker. He cannot have an investigation for the simple reason that it will show that he posted the photograph himself.

In a panic when he saw he had hit the wrong button and sent a private tweet of his pecker to his entire Twitter following, Weiner blurted out the hacker defense, quickly typing: "FB hacked. Is my blender gonna attack me next?"

Unfortunately, there was no lawyer in the room to tell him: "Don't say that! They'll have to investigate!"

On Sunday, his staff followed up with a press release, saying: "Anthony's accounts were obviously hacked."

So he can't now claim he didn't say it.

After hiring a lawyer, Weiner quickly backpedaled from the "hacker" claim and began insisting, in another press release: "This was a prank. We are loath to treat it as more."
If it was a prank, then why did he hire a lawyer?

Weiner isn't a celebrity: He's a CONGRESSMAN. Whoever can hack into his Twitter account may be able to hack into other congressmen's accounts -- or into Weiner's briefing files from, say, the Department of Defense.

(Indeed, unless the alleged hacker is arrested, who knows how many Anthony Weiner penis shots could start circulating on Twitter?)

But when one of Weiner's colleagues, Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., requested a congressional investigation into cybersecurity based on Weiner's self-proclaimed computer attack on his Twitter account, Weiner denounced and insulted Stearns.

The best Weiner can do now is try to take his utterly humiliating penis photo out of the realm of criminal law by eliding "hacked" into "pranked." Legally, it's not clear what the difference is.

He's stuck angrily announcing that he wants to move on, there's important work to be done, and calling a CNN reporter a "jackass" merely for asking if Weiner sent the penis photo or not.

For a guy who's suddenly taking the position that this was all just a harmless prank, he seemed pretty bent out of shape at that CNN press conference. If that condition persists for more than four hours, congressman, consult your doctor.

[Lisa O'Brien]

Someone is Traverse City was arrested for taking a picture of themselves in their underwear and posting it to their twitter account???

[Sweater Cows!]

If any of us did that you ask?  Well, it would need to be determined as to whether there was a crime or not (and as far as I know --but I am no legal eagle--sharing racy pics isn't a crime among adults)so its a hard theory to debate. But I bet the CITY police and politicians would be trying to find some crime just out of spite.

[masonco]

J.B.

If it was the local politians, we would never hear about it.

A common citizen...JAIL TIME...cause you get to pay room and board and that's $$ to pay the umm (see above)

[Dave]

Just when you don't think there could be anymore weird twist in this story, there comes along a big twist... its being reported that Wieners wife is pregnant.

[Dave]

Just picking on the wiener :-)

[J.B]

Yea I see that it his wife's fault.   Not his.  Just ask The News Media.

[AQUAMAN]

I think what Dave said about John Edwards and his fiasco with his wife dying of cancer last year, and that is that Weiner is a Scumbag, period. On a lighter note, the part Lando brought to our attention about nudist beaches, well, I haven't thrown that idea out yet completely, just fyi girl, lol. I know a "strip" of north beach that might qualify too, rofl.

[Dave]

A new update from the USA Today website.... seems that the pressure is mounting on Wiener to resign. Apparently Wiener had chats with at least one teenage girl... to this point it remains to be seen what kind of content was in those chats, Wiener says nothing inappropriate was said but thanks to his lies at the beginning of this scandal, can he really be trusted? With Pelosi being one that is suggesting he resign and there's a rumor floating that Obama has even asked him to resign, you wonder if he'll give into the pressure and call it quits.

 

Top Democrats called on Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., to resign Saturday after he admitted to online contact with a Delaware teenager.

The 47-year-old lawmaker said Friday that he exchanged messages with the 17-year-old girl, but they were "neither explicit nor indecent."

National party chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz says Weiner's behavior is "indefensible" and his role in Congress is "untenable."

The Florida congresswoman says "this sordid affair has become an unacceptable distraction" for everyone.

House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California says Weiner "needs help" and he should get some "without the pressures of being a member of Congress."

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The admission comes on the heels of Weiner's 30-minute press conference Monday where the married lawmaker admitted to lying about Tweeting lewd photos to another woman and also engaging in "inappropriate" online communication with about six women.

Last year, Weiner wed Huma Abedin, a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Several news outlets have also reported that his wife is pregnant.

Contributing: Associated Press

[Dave]

And no sooner do I post that update and something else happens. Wiener is going to take a leave of absence from to get some professional help.

 

Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., is seeking professional help and a temporary leave of absence from Congress, the Associated Press reports.

A spokeswoman for the New York Democrat told the AP that he has left for professional treatment and will focus on "becoming a better husband and healthier person."

The Saturday afternoon announcement comes after top Democrats, including House minority leader Nancy Pelosi and Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz called for the married lawmaker to resign.

Spokeswoman Risa Heller says Weiner wants the leave of absence so he can be evaluated and work out a course of treatment.

The statement doesn't say what Weiner would be treated for.

[Willy]

He needs to get treated for the condtion called "stupid, and the professional who could help him the best would be a $500 hooker. This man does not need treatment. He's a horny guy using the internet as an outlet and he  got caught. He'll probably be paying child support before the baby is ever born.

[Dave]

It seems like I read or heard somewhere that he had told his wife about talking to the other women online before they was actually married. In hindsight, she's probably wishing she would of told him to discontinue such activities.

[AQUAMAN]

While Wienergate tones down after a leave of absence and treatment, his arrogance to keep office continues to stalk and haunt the rest of the Congress, and the entire nation looking on. Where's our Pelosi, Franks, and other leading D's on this matter of total unethical behavior? Silent........and mutually guilty of the same by not doing the right thing now, as they would so happily do if the roles of the party involved were reversed to a Republican Congressman. Again, this strongly shows and points out that party affiliation goes before leadership and honor, no matter the name or face. And BOTH parties heartily act accordingly most of the time. This is why the country can no longer afford to reelect and trust these same two parties, it's time a new party and faces from the grassroots take ahold of the reins of power, before all is lost, or is it already?