Does the Anthony Weiner affair mean anything? Some married congressman may or may not have sent a Twitter crotch shot of himself to a college girl on the other side of the country.
Snore. So what else is new? We all know that our male politicians – left, right, gay, straight, or whatever – suffer from overdoses of testosterone. It’s almost the sole distinguishing characteristic of a profession that otherwise has no specific qualifications. Weiner himself had the reputation of being quite the playboy before he married the half-Indian, half-Pakistani Huma Abedin in 2008. So what if it hasn’t really stopped, even to the degree he counts porn stars among the short list he follows on Twitter? How very French.
But wait. That’s the point, isn’t it? Is this really the kind of behavior we Americans want from our public officials? When they lie in public about sex, how do we know they are not lying about other things?
Yes, I know Weiner has not yet been proven to have done anything, but his evasive behavior in response to questions is reminiscent of a long list of public figures from Bill Clinton to John Edwards to Eliot Spitzer to Mark Sanford to… well, I could go on. Although these men were far from the first to commit adultery, they all have something in common that most do not. They lied about it to the American public while serving us as our elected officials. None of them could be honest until it was absolutely necessary, if they were then.
Weiner has all the earmarks of such a person, refusing to talk about what happened in a recent television interview while insisting on discussing the debt ceiling. Are we then supposed to take his comments on the debt seriously? Were we ever? Leaving aside that he is a ceaseless cheerleader for a political party that has yet to produce a budget — that, after all, is a partisan decision, disingenuous as it may be — Weiner is asking us to ignore one of the oldest of legal dictums, the Roman “falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus.” You lie about one thing and you lie about all.
What I don’t understand is why his Air Force One pic was swept under the carpet… http://www.dunningmarketing.com/moonbattery/weiner.jpg
Weiner like everyone else is entitled to his opinion. Given the Dems numbers in the house any Democrat expressing that opinion is a waste of their time and ours.
Weiner represents all that is wrong with ploitics and the culture.
You’ve got that right. Cronyism, lying, cheating, left-wing politics, a sense of entitlement, crude behavior, you name it.
I might add that the main problem isn’t Weiner himself, but the fools who put him into office.
See: Words of Wisdom from the Czech Republic
Weiner reminds me of form New York City Council President Andrew Stein, who also spent years believing he was destined for greater things in politics, and also ended up in a less-than-noble situation. In both cases, you had a politician who was so obviously planning to move on to bigger and better things, that a setback results in a loss of emotional control, because they can see the big picture game plan going out the window.
In the district he’s in, Weiner can probably be Congressman for Life if he chooses, even with the errant tweet. But he’s already run once for mayor of New York and failed, and has spent the last six years building up a resume to do it again two years from now.
You know in his mind he could already picture it being 1/1/14 and he’s busy cleaning all of Mayor Mike’s stuff out of the office at City Hall, andif he was only going to run against a Republican, he still might win. But Anthony’s not the only Democrat in the city who’ll be looking to run in 2013, so a scandal like this isn’t going to be a just partisan affair, but will be used by people in his own party against him down the line, even if those same people are keeping quiet right now.
I hear this Weiner guy has a big head. But to be fair, not all Weiners have big heads. Just this one.
Obama 2012, 2016, 2020, 2024, 2028…
alas, it’s not just Spitzer.
Here in the Philippines, we only get CNNInternational so I don’t know how Spitzer’s show is doing.
, but I wince every time I see a report by the guy arrested in Central Park in somewhat weird dress (or should I say undress?).And then there is the bigshot whose photo showing his beautiful pectoral muscles can be seen gracing the pages at various gay websites. All of this makes me wonder if the help feel safe or not, and if not, maybe the next scandal will be an expose on the news stars.
However, all of this doesn’t bother me as much as their ladies with multicultural skin tones and British accents who obviously dislike Americans. Better a cute but patriotic gay or heterosexual pervert who doesn’t mock the hoi poloi than a snobbish AngloIndian being snitty and looking down her nose when she reports on ordinary Yanks….
…..very well said, thanks.
I was convinced that Weiner was a closeted gay man. So if this scandal has accomplished nothing else…
I’m reading a great book right now called, “The President is a Sick Man,” by Matthew Algeo and it’s about a secret near-fatal operation President Grover Cleveland had during his second administration. Cleveland had a reputation for being a very, very, honest man, a rare thing for a politician in those days, and he got that reputation after he was accused of fathering an illegitimate child before he was elected president. You know what his response was to the charges? “Just Tell the Truth,” he said. And he did. He faced up to the fact that he probably WAS the father of the child and he ended up supporting financially both the mother and child. He got into trouble later on in life when he didn’t follow his own advice. For various reasons, he didn’t want the world to know that he had a near-fatal operation for the removal of a cancerous tumor in his mouth and tried to cover the story up. That’s when the troubles began, when he didn’t trust the American public anymore by just telling them the truth.
If I were Anthony Weiner, I’d read this book. He could learn something about how to deal with the press AND the American people.
I have watched Weiner with Kelly ,and in various interviews. He is rude, demeaning, arrogant, stupid…he will get what he deserves.
The pictures/texts should be made public!
If this were a republican…there would be poster size pictures plastered all over the US
This is a newly married man….So is the marriage in name only?..fishy
….also, what did he as a jewish man, have to say about Obama’s recent statements about israel> or did he say anything as his new wife is a muslim….
There were all of those rumors about Huma & Hillary back when they traveled everywhere together. The Clintons, however, would never ask a rabid lib fellow traveler to be a beard for Huma & Hillary. Right?!
Perhaps if Huma is in turn the beard for the rabid lib fellow traveler. Meow.
I wish someone in the media would ask Weiner why he has a picture of that homely, gawky girl on his Twitter page.
I wonder what they promised Weiner as a payback for this – aside from being able to chase other women for the duration of his “married” life.
If you will add the word “Pompous” to your opening sentence, we are ready to go to press. Good comments.
Couldn’t have happened to a “nicer” guy. Weiner is one of the most strident, leftist gas-bags ever (a “noxious anteater” as Ace of Spades refers to him). If it takes something like this to derail his political career, so be it.
Ace ought to get some kind of award for that moniker.
How about “a freeze-dried turtle,” as one of Ace’s commenters said?
Weinie, Weedie, Wiki—-
Won’t hurt him at all, politically. His constituency doesn’t care.
Sad to say but Weiner Scumbag is typical of the best that Democrats have to offer.. True to his party ethic there is nothing that he won’t say or do to keep his job. His only salvation is to “explore” his African roots and cry racism. Time for congress to call for a Weiner probe. Senator Craig had to go – so why not Weiner ? Oh I forgot – lower/no moral standards for Democrats.
A “crouch” shot? What is that?
…you beat me to it!….I should’ve read down further for the Comments before I posted, but, OK, we can share the glee…..right?
K, a crouch shot is any picture of Anthony Weiner you’ve seen since that picture of Little Tony went public. It’s not everyday you can see a man crouch while standing up.
why the surprise? Weiner is a New Yorker and New Yorkers find nothing strange about the behavior of their politicians. After all New York is the center of the porn industry, the sleaze and slut stratum of American society and the greediness most pompous politicians in the country. He and Elliot Spitzer represent the morals and values of the average New Yorker and his poltical establishment. I believe that he often lectures the rest of the country on his moral superiority when it comes to raising taxes and providing millions for the abortion industry.
Actually the true center of the porn industry -if it has one – is right here in the San Fernando Valley, a few mile from where I am typing.
Hey! Shut the door! We’re trying to make a movie here!
I really don’t care if Weiner sexted co-eds pictures. Running to the press and lying about it right to our faces – that I care about. It confirmed everything I suspected about him. I hope it costs him what little credibility he ever had.
Sadly, it doesn’t take credibility to get elected from Weiner’s district.
This story once again shows us the sad state of affairs in our political parties and our media. If Weiner was a Republican, he would be out by now, just as several of his former peers who were Republicans and rightly so. Since he’s a Dem, the MSM has left this alone and he will most likely keep his post and maybe even the higher office he seeks. This confuses many Americans who come to believe that the offense is greater if committed by a Republican than a Democrat.
Sad, sad, sad that so many Americans are more concerned with the latest movies or tech gadget than the state of our country. The moral issue is very important. Lying is a moral issue and no amount of excusing it can erase that.
Yeeeee Haaa! Gotcha!
This Geezer loves being didactic.
……your…”…Twitter crouch shot of himself …” should read “crotch shot’, right? ….hasty afterthought…maybe the subject in the picture was actually “crouching” at the time of that ‘shot”….
…anyway, you’ve made my day, and now I’ll go on and finish your article. It’s a safe bet that that Pol Weiner is enjoying the publicity, who cares if it’s accurate, right?
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#17 Charlie Griffin made MY day. Too funny Charlie! Mental pict of Weiner a camera and his tiny crotch. Miniature manly parts. Wonder what kind of people keep putting him in office? Loved everyone of these comments here. Always a pleasure to visit. “Don Juan in Hell” no, “Don Juanette from Hell”. I am not through, BBC “small potatoes” Suffolk Va “Schnitzeled!! “Little Tony” I could go on and on, but the tears are running from my eyes and my nose is leaking.
I wonder if he had to use a zoom lens?
Anthony Weiner’s situation is perfectly understandable as an extension of his self-serving, bombastic little personality.
When interviewed, he seems to have no shame about making up stuff at will, similar to Blagovovich.
Given Weiner’s character(or lack thereof) it makes perfect sense that he would send such a picture to one of his Twitter admirers. Given his arrogance, it makes perfect sense that he goofed up and didn’t send it privately/direct message.
…quite the playboy before he married the half-Indian, half-Pakistani Huma Abedin in 2008
Weiner married Hillary’s personal dresser/assistant July 2010, Bill Clinton (!)officiating.
As for Spitzer, aka Client #9, when he announced a few months back that he was interested in running for Congress, former paramour Ashley announced she would run against him.
Bless her heart
I have far more respect for Ashley.
Yeah. She’s a pro. She knows how to handle things. We might as well elect the whores since their sons keep messing things up.
It looks like Anthony’s Weiner has been Schnitzeled!!
Ist das nicht ein Schnitzelweiner?
Ya das ist ein Schnitzelweiner.
The jokes just keep writing themselves!
Don Juan in Hell? Weiner is a weiner of not the Oscar Mayer variety or quality. The unmarried Jew who married the Hillary girl muslim. Give me a break. Don’t know who he has been Don Juaning, but in his private life I don’t think it was girls. His little twitter gives new meaning to coctail frank. Speaking of frank, let’s talk about Barney.
Does Weinny have an election cycle coming up? Everytime he seeks attention he looks like he should be in a mental institution. Oh, and heard not too long ago his marriage was not going well. Attention, attention, Weiney needs attention. Don’t give it to him. Arney and Barney already have enough.
Smoke screens and mirrors.
Blaming male behaviour on hormones. Tsk Tsk. Care to turn that around in your political critique and dare apply that to women? Thought not.
The problem is an adolescent and arrogant sense of entitlement and distain for the American people and cuts across the genders as well as sexual preferences that leads government people to believe they can do whatever they want whenever they want – and the people shall foot the bill.
As a sex scandal, this is small potatoes and doesn’t come close to the real damage done and being done by the extremely toxic Gentle Ladies Pelosi and Wasserman Schultz.
Care to comment on their hormonal motivations?
It’s not the sex, it’s the lying.
I wouldn’t have guessed that Weiner is someone who preys on young girls, but I would have bet the farm that he is a criminal of one form or another.
Along with every other progressive in congress and a high percentage of republicans as well.
We need a purge.
Anthony Weiner is one of my most disliked politicians. Anthony gets lots of free press with his rantings and ravings. Been waiting a long time for the Karma to pop him in his face. Could this be it.
Sorry folks about the cuts of the comments on this article, some are just too good to pass up.
“not all Weiners have big heads”
“noxious anteater”
“Weinie, Weedie, Wiki—”-
“call for a Weiner probe”
“extension of his self”(out of context I know but could not pass. We now have weeny extensions at play)
Thanks again guys for uplifting my otherwise hapless uneventful day.
Special thanks to Roger S. for the article and starting the ball to roll.
It’s simple, if a Democrat does it it’s not a crime, or scandal or even a temporary embarrassment. Maybe for Normal People, but not for the entity that keeps the Democrat Party alive, the media. This vicious and warped beast Weiner is betting on riding it out in the absence of any real media coverage. He’s right.
If Weiner had an ounce of integrity, he would resign like his upstate colleague in CD26, Mr. Lee. But Weiner doesn’t have that requisite ounce of integrity, just a motor mouth trying to be Chuck Schumer’s echo.
Well, if nothing else Weiner has really pi**d off all the folks in the congressional IT department responsible for network security. I’m sure those folks had a fun weekend looking into the alleged ‘hack’, rapid response teams first getting chewed out for the intrusion, then trying to find it and fix it. Or show their boss definitive proof there was no hack and therefore no vulnerability which had to be patched.
Don’t think his office is going to get their computer support in as timely a manner from now on…
Weiner can’t spell either. Conventionally, in proper names the ei diphthong is pronounced as if rhyming with whiner. ‘Wiener’ is the proper spelling of what we call a weenie.
There once was a guy named Weiner
Who said of himself no ones cleaner
When his pants he unzipped
Caught on camera he quipped
What the heck, she’s so hot, have you seen her?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVDahHOqe4Y
Make the most of it while the rumor lasts.
“…the Roman “falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus.” You lie about one thing and you lie about all…”
This is a principle in Talmudic law as well. A witness who lies under oath once is forevermore disqualified as a witness. (A convict’s testimony would probably be inadmissible under such a system.)
I don’t know the first thing about Weiner except for snippets caught on TV. On the attack, the guy is like a rabid rodent. It’s a manner guaranteed to win him no public sympathy, guilty or not and it hasn’t.
While we’re on the subject of truly obnoxious up-and-coming Democratic pols, how about that Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Obama’s Embassador to Jewish Voters and Contributors? How about a Weiner-Schultz Democratic ticket in ’06? Schultz-Weiner? No? F*#%$*#G anti-Semites!
This is a guy with a NoPoleonic complex.
He’s a pipsqueak bully and a tyrant, who tries to throw his wispy little weight around. He has an anger management problem and is a frothing mad dog leftist, who abandons reason every time he opens his mouth.
He is hyper-aggressive, a poor listener, irrational and unreasonable.
And, his base loves him for it. He will NOT be held accountable, because the lapdog media only holds one party accountable. There is no accountability for leftists, none.
Roman Polanski did much worse and they stood by him.
Having an affair with your stepdaughter is probably out of bounds for nearly a unanimous center-right America, not for the leftists.
So, Little Anthony and his Imperials in the media are going to sweep this under the carpet. The most despicable part of this for me is not that he is sexually tweeting a 21 year old, flirting back and forth with her as a married man and a member of Congress, following each other and sending coded messages and suggestive pictures back and forth. It’s his marriage and if his wife condones it or accepts it or forgives it, that’s up to them.
No, what I find despicable is that when the worm turned, when the Universe put his thumb on the wrong button and he sent it so that the public could view it…he immediately said he was “hacked”. THAT, changed the game.
He is trying to walk that back, without walking it back now. He is saying it was a “prank”. A distinction with no difference, by the way. I don’t profess to know how to do a forensic analysis of what it would take to “hack” his Blackberry, his yfrog and his facebook and twitter accounts. But, I do know this.
NONE of his story lines up with the truth. And, a REPUBLICAN named Lee took his shirt off and the lapdog media was all over that story. It is despicable that we allow disparate treatment to run amok, to be constantly so one-sided that it is an outrage. No rules, Lawlessness and anomie in our DOJ, our media, our halls of justice.
The French IMF…eye on the Presidency of France rape and Weinergate are signs of the times. Rampant, unchecked leftism is now completely unaccountable for any act. No matter how vile. No matter what lie is told.
Anthony Weiner is a pimple on the ass of humanity. But, the way this story is treated shows the terminal cancer. And that, is the saddest commentary of all.
All true. And there’s really no light at the end of the tunnel. Usually, when something is wrong, there’s at least the prospect that it can be changed and that better days are (potentially) ahead. But the Left’s iron grip on America’s (and for that matter, the world’s) institutions is now so thorough that it’s not going to be dislodged.
The problem is not so much the Anthony Weiners but their disfunctional constituents who keep electing them, no matter what.
NoPoleonic Complex? That’s a classic CFB…I hope you don’t mind if I quote you. Like other posters have said: the jokes just keep writing themselves…Ha!
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“Anthony Weiner is a pimple on the ass of humanity.” The eloquence of this one sentence is to be savored for the future. Everytime MSM trots this cocktail weeny out to make some useless statement I will have my TV programmed to scroll a little banner beneath his picture to remind me of a quote that I could not formulate myself. I have aleays seen Red when Weiner has been used as some kind of legitimate opining buffoon. Thank you Cbleachers, there are no statements here better than yours. I will repeat and savor the words as they roll off my tongue. “Anthony Weiner is a pimple on the ass of humanity”. That’s a keeper.
Thanks Roger for the absolute delight of this article. It has given me many laughs over the last four days. Your commentors on here are grand but they always are. This is one of my favorite places to visit. Smart people with sharp minds. Smart, sharp people figure out a way to incarcerate all the politicians that have broken all the laws of the Constitution. That sould be a task of great multitude. An American I am, a Patriot I stand. There is also a saying “Last man standing” I hope I will not be alone.
Husband has a sayng “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it” It is broke and has been for a long time so let’s get together and fix it.
xschild
Term limits, please.
rinse the dirty bed-clothes in public has its positive side-the clothes become cleaner.That is the free society sign! In autoritarian(and worse) societies the leaders have not human smell and weaknesses.Then sudenly the become fetid and loathsome.
Think about the arrogance and pomposity of this man who has the temerity to go to this press conference but is unwilling to answer any questions, is exceedingly evasive, verbally scuffles with the reporters and calls one a “jackass”. I guess he believed he was such a grand figure he could somehow convince everyone into moving away from this story without even providing any conclusions to it. I think I would have a little more respect for him (albeit still extremely little to nonexistent) if he just stayed away and kept silent.
According to Wikipedia — which, I do realize, sometimes gets things wrong — Weiner married Huma Abedin on July 10, 2010.
Less than a year. Makes you wonder if theirs is the sort of marriage-in-politics-only that the Clintons practice.
Um.
Ew.
Personally I think the dichotomy between private and public life (behavior) is still a valuable boundary in a democracy: that is, what one does and thinks in private shouldn’t have any bearing on one’s public fortunes–unless the private behavior is criminal, which isn’t really private by definition. For the left, of course, there is no private boundary, all behavior and thought is political, significant, and relevant; privacy, like classical marriage, is just an archaic middle class leftover family value bias from the last century. Time to move on, we’re in the era of “thought crimes.” The irony is Wienerman is of the left and he got caught up in the left’s utopian public outcome.
Sometimes there is poetic justice in this world. I think Congressman Weiner’s fantasy of becoming the mayor of New York just self destructed. Case in point, John Stewart’s send-up of Weiner, which I warn is crude, but very, very, funny. Could anyone take him seriously after this??http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/06/01/daily_show_host_stewart_on_anthony_weiner_hes_just_not_that_big.html
I am just amazed at the number of famous men with a lot to lose who feel the need to send naughty pictures of themselves to women they do not even know. The sheer stupidity of it is just astonishing.
It was just an itsy bitsy teeny weenie tiny spiny little beanie… Certainly no weapon of mass destruction… stop picking on the poor man. He was trying to get a mercy date.
Never worry Roger. There’s a basic difference between Spitzer and Weiner. While they are both creeps (is twerp too hard a word?) and act like it, Weiner looks like one and Spitzer doesn’t. The article mentions Bill Clinton, another creepy twerp. Bill looked like Oliver Hardy to soften his creepiness.
“…he could end up joining his former colleague ex-Governor Spitzer.” Better yet, a guest appearance on the Good Wife as a counter point to the reemergent rogue Chris Noth.
Barney FRANK and Anthony WEINER both have things incommon. One’s a Frank and one’s a Weiner. Both misuse both. Both get away with it.
I see two scenario’s here. Each one would play out to a drastically different conclusion.
1. He ‘Did It’. ‘Fesses up and moves on. Maybe looses his job. Maybe looses his marriage. But in the end the immidiate problem goes away.
2. He sticks to his ‘I’ve been Hacked’ guns. If he, a sitting U.S.Representitive, was hacked, then a serious Federal Felony was commited. And there is no need for him to file a complaint. Or try to brush off the seriousness of the incident. And thereby Shortstop a potential FBI investigation. For all intents a Felony took place in public! And demands an FBI investigation.
And it may already be to late for option one.
Alas, he confessed before I could post my thoughts. I figured that perhaps Weiner’s twitter account was hacked by someone who posted a picture _intending_ to pose as the Congressman’s genitalia. You know, not Representative Weiner, just a representative weiner…