To what is Weiner referring?
“This was a prank intended to derail me or distract me, whatever it is. It is not a federal case. Now maybe it will turn out, maybe it will turn out, forgive me, maybe it will turn out that this is the point of Al Qaeda’s sword and that this is the effort that is going to, this is where it’s going to begin…”
Weiner said it is possible that the photo was “manipulated.”
“We don’t know where this photograph came from – if it has been manipulated, which is a possibility, as Jon Stewart alluded to last night,” he said.
“There are reasons to believe it might have been, and so I’ve asked someone who does this for a living professionally to try to get to the bottom of it.”
Weiner seems to have come up with a new strategy here: Make himself such a repugnant figure that we will all stop talking about him out of sheer disgust. That’s about the only strategy available to him that seems to be working.
Update: And here’s video of the aftermath of the only call Weiner has made to the cops regarding Weinergate: He called the police, not to help track down the “hacker,” but to chase a major New York City reporter away from his office.
We’ve been through this stupid dance so many times!
1.) “I didn’t do it!”
2.) “How dare you ask me about it!”
3.) “Shame on you for keeping this in the news! We have more important issues!”
4.) “I… um… may have done something LIKE this.”
5.) “I sort of did it.”
6.) “I didn’t technically do anything illegal.”
7.) (At podium with wife at his side) “What I did was wrong, and I’m deeply, deeply sorry for the damage I did to my party and, more importantly, to my family.”
Right now we’re at stage 3. If I was a reporter, I’d ask him, “Are you going to make us go through all the stupid steps of this idiotic dance?” And I’d add: “Because, if you are, I’m going to eviscerate you when you’re giving your stupid apology.”
Excellent.
Weiner seems to have come up with a new strategy here: Make himself such a repugnant figure that we will all stop talking about him out of sheer disgust.
If that’s the case, he’s many years too late.
“the point of Al Qaeda’s sword”
huh? Does it mean Al Qaeda have won?
It means this was the best he could manage as he was feverishly looking for something catchy the Media would latch onto. In this case, he managed to come up with a comment that was suicidally self-referential. Note to Weiner: either ‘fess up or shut up already.
DixPix – who fuc*in’ cares?
Demos like to throw Johnson’s “Patriotism is the last resort of a scoundrel” at Pubs. Seems to me that here we have a Democratic Party honcho who is wrapping himself in the flag to avoid being called a scoundrel.
Does anyone else wonder if Rep. Weiner’s behavior indicates some kind of mental disorder or breakdown? He seems to be acting increasingly bizarre and out of control.