Weinergate: What we know (Update: Weiner hires a lawyer)
4. After a public silence of 3 hrs, 24 mins, Weiner’s twitter account sends out the following public tweet:
@RepWeiner @(name redacted) http://yfrog.com/h25m3luj 13 hours, 59 minutes ago reply
This is the tweet with the lewd photo. No mention of TweetDeck, so it may have come from a cell phone with a camera that also tweets natively. The tweet went to the 21-year-old college student in Seattle, but not as a direct message (which is private). It went out on Weiner’s public twitter feed and remained there for about four minutes before it was removed, presumably by Weiner. One letter swap — a d in place of the second @ symbol — would have made the tweet a private direct message from Weiner to Cordova. (If Weiner took the photo and tweeted it to her and he happens to have had his computer running TweetDeck nearby, he could have accidentally sent the tweet publicly from his phone, and in a few minutes’ time seen it show up in his public feed, with mentions accompanying it).
5. Friday night, 3 hrs 28 minutes after his last public tweet, Weiner begins an hour of tweets saying that his facebook account had been hacked, that his DVR had malfunctioned while recording a hockey game, and speculating that his blender might attack him next. His facebook and twitter accounts are not linked.
6. After the tweets in step five, which spanned about an hour, Weiner tweets that his twitter feed had also been hacked, and salutes “Mr. Moriarty” for getting one over on him (Mr. Moriarty is the nemesis of Sherlock Holmes). Here, the recently married Weiner is apparently saluting the person who he claims hacked his twitter feed and sent a lewd photo to a young woman in Seattle in Weiner’s name on his public twitter feed. Both hacking and impersonating a congressman are criminal acts. Weiner makes no mention of referring the hacking or the impersonation of himself to any authorities, and as of this writing, no such referral appears to have been made. Most people do not report hacks of their personal online accounts to the police, but Weiner is a public figure and in this case the hacking, if it occurred, has allowed a person or persons unknown to impersonate a federal official in a way that threatens his reputation and his marriage, making it a more serious matter than your usual run-of-the-mill hacking of a personal twitter account.
7. The recipient of the lewd photo, Gennette Cordova, issued a statement about the incident on Sunday, denying any “inappropriate” direct messages between herself and Weiner, and denying being in a relationship with him. Some media took her statement to be an accusation against another twitter user as being the person who hacked Weiner’s twitter account and posted the photo. She has denied making that allegation. Her statement does not address several critical facts, including how it came to be that she and Weiner mutually followed each other. She also does not explain the tweet in step 8; she merely denies an allegation the she tweeted it twice. She denies having ever met Weiner in person, though no one has alleged that they have ever met in person. She also denies having ever visited New York or Washington, DC, though no one has alleged otherwise.
8. Cordova did, however, tweet “I wonder what my boyfriend @RepWeiner is up to,” on April 9, 2011. It is an open question whether she considers such a tweet about a recently married public figure to be appropriate or not.
9. Weiner has also direct messaged a porn star on twitter, according to the porn star. Weiner thus far has not denied her claim.
How did Cordova become one of the only 91 people Weiner followed? Neither has said. It could be something as innocent as she, a journalism student and by her own admission a “fan” of Weiner’s, followed his twitter feed and he, seeing an email notification of her following him, decided to follow her. But if that’s the case, then why, out of the 45,000+ followers he had, did he choose to follow her specifically?
With his “Mr. Moriarty” tweet, Rep. Weiner put himself in the role of Sherlock Holmes. That being the case, surely Weiner realizes that Holmes would want to question both of the people at the center of this mystery, about a great number of things.
Sources — Dan Riehl, DaTechGuy, Ace.
Update: Mediaite has a Photoshop expert examine the photo’s EXIF data. His review is inconclusive. And here’s another take on the EXIF data, which doesn’t conform with other photos Weiner has posted on his yfrog account, but which doesn’t rule out the cell phone possibility I mentioned above. It’s not at all improbable that he has more than one BlackBerry.
Update: R.S. McCain:
The belief that this mystery can be solved by analyzing the available online data, staring at the photo long enough until you spot the smoking-gun clue, is probably misguided. Wherever the answer to this enigma is to be found, I don’t think it’s in the photo itself, because the question is not whether the photo is “real.” The question is who sent it from Rep. Anthony Weiner’s Twitter account.
That really is what’s at issue: Was Weiner really hacked, or is he lying about that? The EXIF data is interesting, but not dispositive for either side.
Update: Doug Ross has also put a timeline together, which includes a detail I’d missed until a commenter pointed it out: Gennette Nicole did retweet the Seattle time hack from @RepWeiner that night. Additionally, as noted in Roger’s post, a high school girl claimed that she had a DM conversation with Weiner back on April 12.
Doug’s twitter timeline is the best and most complete I’ve seen so far. Check it out if you haven’t already.
Update: Weiner is lawyering up.
New York Rep. Anthony Weiner has retained an attorney to advise him “what civil or criminal actions should be taken” after a lewd picture was sent from his Twitter account.
Weiner, who has represented part of New York City since 1998, says online hacking led to a close-up shot of a man’s underwear being sent from his official Twitter account Saturday night.
He retains a lawyer before going to the authorities. Interesting. Weiner and his staff continue to treat the alleged hacking as a “silly prank,” but to the extent that such a hack would enable persons unknown to impersonate a sitting congressman, it’s far more than a prank. But calling it a prank diminishes the incident’s importance and absolves Weiner from calling in the FBI. Presumably their investigation would start on Weiner’s own computer, if only to determine if he had been victimized by any keyloggers or other malware a hacker might have used to get his passwords. Unless the hacker used social engineering to get his password. That would raise a whole set of new questions for Sherlock to pursue.
Thanks for the summary (and the link), Bryan. It’s very important, on a complex developing story like this, to occasionally summarize what we know, so that people who haven’t followed the story closely can be up-to-date.
I bet his wife would find this article interesting. It’s one thing to blame a hacker, but it’s another thing to try to explain away how he was already this woman’s follower and could have made this mistake just by a one-letter mistype. I’m sure she doesn’t know any of this from hearing him or the MSM.
On the other hand, I bet she recognizes those as being his underpants…….
Occam’s Razor anyone?
In America there’s a thing called “innocent until proven guilty.” However, there’s also a thing called “probability.” So… what’s the probability that a twitter account was hacked vs. the probability that a politician is having an improper relationship with someone half his age. Hmmm? .5% vs. 80% I mean, really. If I throw a guy out the window, what’s the probability of him levitating and floating away to safety vs. the probability that he went “splat” on the sidewalk?
If he WASN’T having an illicit relationship, that would actually put him in the miniscule minority of those in his disgusting profession.
When are we going to cut open the heads of politicians and figure out why they are so damned greedy and sex-crazed? Why do they think the entire world is their big buffet table of money and human toys?
Seriously: they need to be studied.
It’s a little bugaboo of mine: the proper phrase is not “innocent until proven guilty”, it is “PRESUMED innocent until proven guilty.” Note the parallel construction: presumed/proven. The distinction matters: a person’s true guilt or innocence is established the moment a crime is committed; it is only when the state attempts to punish a criminal that the presumption matters.
But it really doesn’t matter here anyway, because we’re not claiming that the posting of Weiner’s wiener is in itself a crime. Or at least, it doesn’t matter with regards to Weiner. If a hacker or prankster did it, that person might be guilty of a crime.
NONONONONO!!!
I want the weiner wiener to be guilty of something!!!
He’s such a nasty little pint sized smart ass.
.GUILTY!!! NOw TRY TO PROVE YOURSELF OTHERWISE!! TO MY SATISFACTION….
Really this man does not deserve my respect for any reason.
I much prefer your choice of descriptive nouns and adjectives to any I may have chosen. Years ago, a good friend from West Texas shared this comment with me, and I think it is very appropriate as to Congressman Weiner “We are gonna give this horse thief a fair trial – then hang him”!!! Others can give him any benefit of doubt they can scrape up; not me. He is scum.
I suspect there’s no scientific validity to your suggestion about cutting open politicians heads in order to better understand them. This is not to suggest that your idea lacks merit.
Not only is Weiner alleging that his Twitter account was hacked, he’s also alleging–indirectly–that his yfrog account was hacked so the illicit pic could be added.
Or is Weiner admitting that he has a lewd pic of himself or another man in his public yfrog images?
Either way, Occam’s razor is slicing even deeper into this cover-up.
This is what I have been saying all day. When are they (politicians) FINALLY going to wise up? They have a choice when they get elected: Power or crazy sexual behavior. NOT BOTH.
They don’t access to the “crazy sexual behavior” until they get the power, and in fact, getting that access may be a prime (or parallel secondary) reason for trying to get the power in the first place.
Anyway, in this case, its plain as day that Weiner is behaving like someone with something to hide (eg hiring a lawyer and hiding behind him) instead of someone who was a victim of a rather nasty and in fact criminal personal attack.
If *I* were a sitting US Congressman, and someone used MY personal “Twitter” account to send a 20 year old college student a closeup photo of someone’s “junk”, I’d have a pack of FBI agents so far up their @#$ that they wouldn’t need a colonoscopy for 15 years.
We also know that the EXIF data on the hacked photo does not match the EXIF data on other known photos that weiner uploaded himself on his yfrog account:
http://soupsoup.tumblr.com/post/6005285399/phone-data-on-weiners-previous-yfrog-images
http://wireupdate.com/joereport/news/breaking-congressman-anthony-weiner-x-rated-photos-internet-cache-files-recovered/
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/30/980617/-Breitbarts-Weiner-hoax:-New-photos-surface!-Analysis,-and-Surprise!?via=search#
Hashtag on undeleted picture tweet referenced here is #SolsTheOfficialTweeter. Was this a grab by someone else’s phone sent to him & then uploaded to his yfrog account?
If you intended a redaction, you slipped.
So in the lewd picture was Weiner tweeting the nut cracker suite? And wasn’t Clarence Thomas that black lawyer who was electronically lynched by democrats over his alleged sexual pictures presented to a female co-worker? Is Wiener’s nick name Long John Silver? Stud Muffin?
When are we going to cut open the heads of politicians and figure out why they are so damned greedy and sex-crazed?
Why? There’s nothing in there to begin with, just an empty cavity.
Power attracts the depraved.
I wonder why you won’t let my comment go through proving the EXIF data on the hacked photo doesn’t match the EXIF data on other know photos from weiner’s yfrog account?
http://soupsoup.tumblr.com/post/6005285399/phone-data-on-weiners-previous-yfrog-images
http://wireupdate.com/joereport/news/breaking-congressman-anthony-weiner-x-rated-photos-internet-cache-files-recovered/
Links in a comment flag them for spam review. That’s why your comments have been held up.
My apologies then for spamming the comments, didn’t mean to.
OK, what does THAT mean?
I have to admit I am almost wholly ignorant of twitter.
“Weiner is a New York Democrat. Why did he tweet out a time hack to Seattle about a television appearance of his? For whom was this tweet intended?”
Maybe you didn’t find this interesting but the woman he directed the lewd photo retweeted the #Thats545InSeattleIThink tweet…
I do find that interesting, and bits like that are the main reason I wanted to put up one big post on this — got a link?
It was reported here first I believe:
http://biggovernment.com/driehl/2011/05/28/rep-weiner-spokesperson-lies-to-new-york-post/
http://biggovernment.com/files/2011/05/Retweet.gif
I took my own screenshot from Google’s search engine cache and pasted it to this page… you may find more stuff your your listing there besides this retweet.
http://justpaste.it/weinerboner
http://postimage.org/image/znpmkih0/full/
It seems to me that the lynchin is the tweet about 5:45 in Seattle, which Wiener has not denied.
If Wiener was hacked, that must have been part of the scam, since it sets up the photo part. The same hacker would have sent both the 545 tweet and the photo tweet.
Surely, if Wiener was hacked and had the wherewithal to recognize it within 4 minutes and thereafter to quickly scrub his tweeter and myfrog acounts, then he would also have had the sense to review all activities for several hours back, and to notice and include that tweet in his public complaint that he had been hacked. Moreover, it’s clear that he was monitoring his tweets somehow, so if the 545 tweet was part of the scam, why didn’t he catch that and recognize a problem. It would have seemed awfully strange to Wiener to see a tweet supposedly from himself that mentionned 545 in Seattle on the public side of his account.
But he wasn’t alerted by the 545 tweet, he didn’t mention it as part of his hacking explanation, and he hasn’t taken any action about it. Yet it is the most important evidence tieing him to the young woman. She has explained the “boyfriend” comment (not serious, she said), and they can plausibly explain the follower business (he was flattering a young admirer), but the 545 tweet is more difficult to explain. Without it, Wiener’s explanation of being hacked would be much more believable.
What we know? We also know that the EXIF data in the hacked photo doesn’t match the EXIF data from known photos from Weiner’s Blackberry/yfrog account.
Why not include that in what you know?
http://www.mediaite.com/online/exclusive-mediaite-analysis-of-weinergate-photos-supports-anthony-weiner-and-andrew-breitbart/
http://soupsoup.tumblr.com/post/6005285399/phone-data-on-weiners-previous-yfrog-images
Why not post it since we’re relying on facts?
Savoir Faire eez everywhere.
Thomas hired hack assassins to do a job on Tweety Bird. It was a pre-emptive strike for which I applaud him.
Weiner claims that he did see a puddy tat but I’m betting all he saw was the puddy.
in this article, a confusion occurs that particularly vexes me every time i see it. people outside of Washington state call every city in Washington “Seattle,” other than Spokane. the city in which Cordova lives and goes to school is Bellingham. it would take half the time to drive to Canada than it would to Seattle from there.
i guess what i’m saying is, if you’re going to REALLY emphasize the whole Seattle aspect of it, you should check out where she lives. because it’s not Seattle. unless it would count “against” Weiner just as much as if he had tweeted “545 in (insert city in Pacific Standard Time Zone),” in which case… you guys are reaching.
I’ve corrected it to note Bellingham, but you should be aware that in her twitter feed Cordova identifies herself as a Seattleite. So any confusion on this point starts with her.
http://ironicsurrealism.blogivists.com/2011/05/28/femme-fatale-gennettenicole-at-center-of-weinergate-twitter-scandal-i-wonder-what-my-boyfriend-repweiner-is-up-to-right-now/
weird… i was never confused. i knew within moments of this happening that she was a student at a college (that my daughter went to) an hour and a half away from Seattle.
i suspect that when Rep. Weiner is vindicated, most people who are waiting for him to go down will simply pretend that they never believed this nonsense to begin with. if the “see-saw” of political scandal were real instead of figurative, then the mascots of each party would be real as well… eventually conservatives will find something real to pin on a liberal that is truly scandalous, but in the meantime, there will be a thousand more verifiable conservative scandals that put this garbage to shame.
Bully for you. But why has an innocent man gone silent and lawyered up? And really, when Cordova identifies herself as a Seattleite in her own twitter feed, what’s the point of disputing that? It’s tangential to whether Weiner got hacked or not.
Bryan, he’s disputing that because that’s the only straw he has to grasp in this embarrassment of his hero WeinerMan.
It sure smells like Mediamatters has decided it’s time to help out a fellow marxist in his hour of need. Nicely timed Andrew.
Weiner’s behavior is inconsistent with being hacked. He has the power to engage the FBI faster than %99.999 of Americans if he believes he has been the victim of a crime. My bet is that he would not want the FBI investigating this “slip up” on his part.
It is not surprising to me in the least that Wiener has trouble with fidelity to his new wife. He certainly has difficulty squaring his political behavior with the Constitution…along with most of his Democrat fellow travelers…and, come to think of it, many of his Republican colleagues as well.
eventually conservatives will find something real to pin on a liberal that is truly scandalous
“Eventually”? Is that a challenge to us to list all the “truly scandalous” things which liberals have been caught at in, say, the last five years?
Awwww! Congressman Weiner just wants his name in the news. After all, if Sarah Palin can manage to get so much sound bytes on this Memorial weekend, why shouldn’t he? He can’t forever go on a rant to get the desired exposure, and he’s got a perfectly good Twitter account. Ergo… ;D
Weiner has hired a lawyer. People are asking why he hasn’t contacted the FBI.
Perhaps he hired a lawyer to see how he could contact the FBI (to maintain appearances) without making himself vulnerable to litigation himself. If so, good luck with that.
Thanks Will – I’ve noted this in an update.
Somebody should tell the good congressman that Sherlock’s nemisis was Dr. Moriarty not Mr. Moriarty. We Sherlockers are a picky bunch and a mistake like that will discredit Cong. Weiner forever. Besides even if Moriarity was an evil genius (perhaps the most evil genius in history) he deserves credit for becoming a Doctor.
Actually, it is Professor Moriarty.
But from the timeline and the previous tweets, its fairly evident that there was some inappropriate online conduct going on between the two, and he inadvertently sent out the photo on his public account. If someone was going to go through the trouble of hacking a congressman’s twitter feed, I’m pretty sure that they could come up with a more salacious photo and send it out to multiple people. Her denials are really non-denials: no one alleges that they ever met in person. They were evidently involved in online-only flirting (and probably more…)
Elementary, my dear Watson.
If he were in France he could be elected president.
Either he made a simple typing error of one character, which would render a putatively private message public by accident, or there is some nefarious plot by mysterious evildoers, one of whom is very proud of his johnson.
Occam says go with the simple typing error. Woopsie. Heh heh.
Sherlock Holmes (the greatest detective in history) had a simple principle of deduction. Eliminate all the things that were clearly impossible. Whatever remains, however unlikely, must be the correct solution. This bodes ill for Rep. Weener.
Weiner’s weiner got him busted…there is a God.
Having seen the offending photo, I believe he is more guilty of plagiarism.
And another thing we know…
Democrats and the White House pay people to comment on blog sites and spam propaganda, like dishonest comments with links to known left-wing propaganda sites claiming that the EXIF data “proves” something, even though at every one of those links they admits that it actually proves nothing.
It someone other than Weiner did this, he’d have already referred this to the FBI and would let them sort it out. But instead, Weiner’s already lawyered up and is desperately hoping that he can avoid anyone finding out what really happened.
I hope the Congressional Republicans demand an FBI investigation into this security breach of a sitting Congressman. That would cut past all this Democrat-sponsored media propaganda and let the law enforcement agencies get to the truth of what happened.
Yes. Congressmen should demand an investigation to “defend” their “fellow Congressman”. It is an “outrage” that a Congressman can be hacked like this. We need to get to the bottom of this. All we have to do is have the FBI go through Weiner’s electronic history and prove to everyone how virtuous he really is. We are sure there are no other sleazy things like this. We Congressmen have enough trouble without some punk “framing” us.
Or better, we can have Congress hold hearings on this. They can subpoena the records themselves then. Then we can hear about the definition of the word ‘is’, and how it’s “just sex”.
Or maybe the jackass could just ‘fess up to his titillation. When in a hole, quit digging. Imagine having to hire an expensive lawyer because you hit @ instead of d.
Congressional Republicans would never even consider doing something like that. Such a stunt would get them completely shut out of invites to Georgetown cocktail parties, and shunned from the Sunday morning network political shows. Not gonna happen. Besides, Democrats would almost certainly out some of the closeted gay Congressional/Senate Republicans in retaliation.
Am I missing something here or is the elephant in the room the fact that no one has contacted Twitter or YFrog to get to the bottom of this. Because as far as I can see, they may have egg on their faces if they’ve indeed been ‘hacked’ from their end. Of course it’s possible someone just guessed the Weiner-password. But it’s also very possible the Weiner is lying about the whole thing and we should then see if YFrog and Twitter are willing to fall on their swords and kill their reputations for the Weiner.
Weiner’s a sneaky little shit.
This is all for nothing, unless the Congressman pursues legal action. How does his behavior compare to President Clinton? Nothing. If Clinton could not get impeached after committing perjury, why should anything happen to this pissante? Will he even end up disbarred? I doubt it. He’ll be on the talk shows like Customer #9.
First there were Mafia wives, then Kennedy women. Next up, Clinton women. The wife is former Hilary aide. Leftist have no shame because they have no honor, no decency and no integrity.
Did you mean ‘time hash’ instead of ‘time hack’?
Bryan,
I’d like to know what Dan Wolfe (patriotusa76) meant by this May 11 tweet:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y156/stef406/Picture11.png
#10
“It seems to me that the lynchin is the tweet about 5:45 in Seattle, which Wiener has not denied.”
Did you mean lynching or lynchpin? I’m obviously being facetious (fastidious?
), but spelling is sometimes important. I was quite amused by Jennifer Rubin’s blog posts referring to “statues of limitations” and Tim Pawlenty’s “gravely” voice!
#24 Good catch, Josh. Is a time hash the same as a timestamp?
Also FYI:
Some Daily Kos user says she saw the tweet in question two days later at tweetcongress.org. http://www.dailykos.com/comments/980617/41776744
She also says someone has sent her a screengrab of the original yfrog pic. http://www.dailykos.com/comments/980617/41775709
Let’s see Weiner. If the shorts don’t fit you must acquit.
Now we know why it’s called twitter. Darn those pesky twits typing one wrong character, the nerve! Design feature, flaw, or user error?
This is a job for Shirlock Holmes’s smarter brother. And his wall-eyed sidekick.
WTF is up with Drudge? Normally he would be A L L over this story? The sound of silence is deafening…
Drudge has also said zero words about Schwarzenegger’s sex scandal — complete with an illegitimate kid. Who knows, maybe he’s taking a break?
Methinks the game is afoot. Perhaps an injudicious use of the 7% solution (a la firesign theater)?
All of you are missing the point. It doesn’t matter what the weiner did. He could have gone out to Washington State and raped the lady for all that. What matters is that he is a far left Democrat and thereby exempt from all criticism. If he were a conservative Democrat or a Republican??? Well, figure it out.
This article was the first time I’ve heard of “Weinergate” – I’m Canadian – so I was amused to see this article – http://www.torontosun.com/2011/05/29/pc-candidates-privates-appear-on-twitter – just moments ago. It describes a comparable incident involving a candidate for office in our recent federal election. There are some interesting parallels with Weinergate as well as some significant differences.
On re-reading the story I cited, I see that the candidate involved was not a candidate for the recent federal election but is actually an active candidate for the upcoming provincial election here in Ontario. My apologies for the mistake.
When are we going to cut open the heads of politicians and figure out why they are so damned greedy and sex-crazed?
Thats easy the why of it. Power is the best aphrodisiac.
What utter and total rubbish. I wonder if you will make a full apology when the hackers are identified. Doubtful. Your hit-and-run modus operandi is once again in play.
I wonder if you will make a full apology when the hackers are identified.
What evidence exists which suggests the existence of a hacker? Is there any at all?
Heh, “hit and run?” When do several posts stretched across several days — and a holiday weekend at that — constitute “hit and run?” And never mind the fact that now Weiner isn’t even directly claiming that his twitter was hacked anymore. He has climbed down off that perch. When will you and the other lib bitter enders out there do the same?
This was really sad. Another one of our more famous (though swept under the carpet Senatorial sexcapades) was Ted Kennedy’s recounting of how he and Mary Jo Kopechne(sp?) were involved in a car accident, falling off a bridge into some water. He managed to swim to safety, she drowned. They were at a staff “meeting” at some remote location on Chappaquidic(sp?). He was taking her “home?”
Teddy threw her “under the bus.” Seems to be a common thread of our Congressional representatives. If these bozos have immoral behaviour before, during and after their terms in office…what’s that say about protections and defense of our US Constitution they ALL took an oath to protect and defend? Not much, HUH!!!????
It’s “Professor Moriarty”. Not “Mr”.
If you’ve read or watched any Sherlock Holmes adventure, you should know that.
Here’s the best part of this story: I want everyone to pause and put yourself in Weiner’s brain the moment he realized the mistake he had just made. The immediate super-surge of adrenalin. The denial: “Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh noooo!”.
Sitting in the chair at his computer, his minding reeling in the minutes that followed, utter terror engulfing him as if he’d just stepped out of an airplane without a parachute — he knew what would follow and there was nothing he could do to stop it.
Then, his mind racing to come up with an excuse. It wasn’t me. I was hacked. No, there’s a digital evidence trail a mile long; I was tweeting with her for an hour before this. How can I hide that? I’ll destroy the computer. Where could I dump the hard drive? No, the picture’s on yFrog and my IP address is all over data trail. Is there a digital serial number encrypted within the photo that could link it to my cell phone? I’ve got to coordinate with her, get our stories straight, make sure she doesn’t freak and breakdown in front of the media.
Now fear is just washing over him in relentless waves. It’s been less than 10 minutes since he deleted the photo from yFrog. If this opens a can of worms, will the others talk? He’s been following young women for months and years, who knows what else he’s been up to? He does. And he knows this could be much much worse than a single lewd photo. He thinks of Elliot Spitzer. Hey, Spitzer survived, he’s got a TV show. But he destroyed his political career! Noooo! No no no.
I’ll get out of this. I was watching hockey, not tweeting with her. It wasn’t me. I didn’t do it. I’ll say Breitbart did it … or maybe that kid that did the Acorn sting, what was his name? I’ll say he set me up.
Huma will be cool. She’s from Camp Clinton, she’s gotta know this stuff goes on. And after all, I never even met this one, all we did was flirt on Twitter. Those other two better keep their mouths shut. And besides, what’s she gonna do, leave me? Leave Anthony Weiner? Doubtful. She’s gonna recognize those underpants, though, that’s for sure. I’m screwed. I gotta go change into boxers.
Now the adrenalin is waning. It’s been an hour. He’s been pacing around the computer room for an hour. Hope creeps in. Maybe nobody saw it? It was only up on yFrog for 3 minutes, and who the heck follows this stuff minute by minute? I was panicking for no reason. But I’m gonna start monitoring Drudge and Breitbart for the rest of the night.
Twelve nervous hours later: %^$# there it is! Some body saw it. Doesn’t matter, it wasn’t me. How could they even prove it? I was hacked. It was a prank. I’ll say that stupid new intern thought he was being funny. Maybe not; I don’t wanna *(&^ him off, he could talk about that other thing…
Delicious.
Maybe it’s the Giant Rat of Sumatra in his shorts. You never know. Let’s get Nick Danger for a brief investigation.
I love the thought that Weiner has to spend his money on an attorney. I hope its a $600 an hour fee and that hours and hours are charged to his billing record. Yet, does anyone really believe Weiner contacted a FEMALE? I can’t be the only person to recognize Weiner’s preference.
Here are some possible reasons for why this Loser Weiner now has a huge headache over a small bulge in grey underpants:
1. He is being warned by certain powers to whom he answers. Warned about what is the really big question. Maybe not to run for Mayor of New York City…….
2. He is being blackmailed–strangely enough publicly. There may be something going on of which the small bulge in the grey underpants is only the tip of the iceberg (wish I could think of a really good pun here).
3. He is now neutralized. He has been “taken out”, whether he hangs on to his Congressional seat or not. He is a laughingstock to whom the media won’t go for talking head talking points anymore. When one looks at him from now on one will always visualize the small bulge in the grey underpants.
He should resign ! This is what are elected politicians who rule us do on there spare time! The Pervert should Resighn!
Thank you for the summary. I was wondering, where is the part of the summary about “party X informs the media/authorities of lewd tweet”? I am just wondering which of the involved parties, Wiener or the young woman, broke the story to the media? If it wasn’t either of them then who is the person or persons which tipped off the rest of the world?
All of this is pretty easy to understand — I mean have you ever seen the thing that holds up Weiner’s head? Why wouldn’t the guy post his undies out there if he was trying to impress a young gal? If he sent a picture of his head, it would most likely have to include at least part of that thing that hold it up — on most people this would be described as a neck, but on Weiner, it looks more…well, more like a weiner. Most 2 year olds have larger, more impressive necks — which is quite surprising, considering that Weiner probably spent most of his HS years getting his head battered around like a punching bag. You’d think that sort of thing would build some neck muscle..eh? Maybe having that excessively skinny neck helps him with all his nauseating whinning. I doubt there’s any real proof of this, but I put it out there as worthy speculation. Come to think of it, I’m thinking maybe mother nature (or god to those of you who can’t imagine anything else) just figured that hey, this Weiner guy is going to spend most of his life shooting his big mouth off, so let’s fortify that area and forget about the neck.
Wow to the surprise of all Weiner is a liar!!! Now that he finally came clean about his perverted behavior, he should have to resign, and then be prosecuted like anyone else that lies to Congress! Also Weiner send back all those campaign millions because you will not need them to be Mayor of NYC! NYC does not like liars and people who are dishonest! I think this piece of garbage should do the right thing and resign and crawl back under the rock that he came out of.
Bye Bye Weiner
WeinerGate = another lying politician!!!!!!!! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!